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Spoiler disclaimer: this post discusses certain events in The Sandman (although it doesn’t divulge the ending). The Sandman, Neil Gaiman’s seminal dark…
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Hannibal: What do you see?
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Sight is the key to appreciating the design behind Bryan Fuller’s three seasons of Hannibal. Television is first and foremost a visual…
Ex_Machina – I am become Death
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Somewhere in the wilderness of Alaska there is a house, and inside that house are four people. At least one of these…
Jessica Jones: It’s Time to Learn Her Name
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When Marvel announced that it would be putting out several series on Netflix about street-level heroes, they told us who we’d be…
The Flash Season One: “Run, Barry, Run!”
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“Life is locomotion… If you’re not moving, you’re not living.” So begins the famous motto of the comic book hero the Flash,…
Almost Human: Synthetic Soul
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Image from yvrshoots.com ? Created by J. H. Wyman and J. J. Abrahams, Almost Human was a science fiction television show that…
Sandman : Handful of Dust
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Image from empireonline.com ? When a young Neil Gaiman first approached Vertigo comics about The Sandman, he was pitching a simple revival…
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
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Image from amazon.com “Billy Pilgrim has become unstuck in time.” These are the words that begin Kurt Vonnegut’s great 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five,…
Imagine Magic! In Defense of Fantasy Literature
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” ― Dr. Seuss Illustration by Dorothy…
A Good Land for Myths
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Throughout Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel American Gods, many different characters state that “America is a bad land for gods.” The novel argues…
