Marvel Artist Medical Troubles, The Boys Season 5 Cringe, Mark Hamill Backs Dave Filoni- Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
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Force Works Co-Creator Tom Tenney Faces Medical Crisis as Comics Industry’s Broken Safety Net Fails Another Veteran Artist
Tom Tenney, the artist who co-created Marvel’s Force Works in 1994, is sleeping in a car in Florida with his family while battling advanced COPD that leaves him unable to walk ten yards without oxygen support. A GoFundMe campaign has raised $3,580 of its $5,000 goal - a modest target that underscores just how little the comics industry does for the crea…
The Boys Season 5 Premiere: Eric Kripke’s Superhero Satire Has Become the Thing It Mocks
The Boys debuted on Amazon Prime in 2019 as one of the most genuinely subversive pieces of superhero television ever produced. Eric Kripke’s adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic book series ripped apart the superhero industrial complex with vicious precision, presenting a world where corporations weaponize caped figures for profit, pub…
Mark Hamill Backs Dave Filoni as Star Wars Boss, But Fans Aren’t Convinced
Mark Hamill has thrown his public support behind Dave Filoni as the new creative force steering Lucasfilm following Kathleen Kennedy’s departure, calling the longtime Star Wars animator and producer the ideal person to lead the franchise forward. Fans aren’t exactly celebrating.
Anne McCaffrey’s Federated Sentient Planets: A Complete Reader’s Guide to Her Shared Universe
Most readers discover Anne McCaffrey through the Dragonriders of Pern. It’s one of science fiction and fantasy’s most beloved settings, and it’s where the majority of her readership begins and ends. What those readers often don’t realize is that Pern exists within a much larger framework, a shared universe called the Federated Sentient Planets that conn…
IDW Publishing Hires Gay Klingon Actor Karim Diane To Write A Gay Klingon Comic
Leave it to IDW Publishing to boldly go where no cringe has gone before. In the wake of a failing TV series, they’re doubling down on their Star Trek Pride Month comic “Celebrations,” and now adding a gay Klingon story written by the gay Klingon actor himself, Karim Diane.