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Marvel’s New X-Men Cast Confirmed Without Sydney Sweeney, After Months of Fans Campaigning Against Her Over Her Politics
Marvel’s X-Men reboot cast, confirmed at D23 this weekend, does not include Sydney Sweeney in any role, closing out months of casting speculation that had turned unusually political for a superhero movie rumor cycle. Samara Weaving landed Emma Frost, the role most consistently linked to Sweeney’s name since a scooper account first floated her for the pa…
Star Trek Novelist Kristine Kathryn Rusch Says She’s Done With Strange New Worlds, And Her Former Editor Explains Why The Show Fell Apart
Hugo winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch has watched Star Trek television and written Star Trek fiction for decades. This week she announced she is done with Strange New Worlds, and she picked the show’s puppet episode as the moment she stopped caring.
Maus Creator Art Spiegelman Calls For “Counter-Revolution,” Compares Republicans To Mafia
Art Spiegelman wants a revolution. That’s the word the 78-year-old cartoonist used in a new Guardian interview published August 15, telling reporter Sophie McBain that “the US needs a counter-revolution,” and that he does not “know where to look for it because the Democrats are so timid.”
Lanterns Premiere Review: HBO’s Green Lantern Show Buries a Solid Mystery Under James Gunn’s DCU Baggage
“Lanterns” premiered on HBO Max this week, and the verdict on the first episode comes down to one pattern that has now defined nearly everything to come out of James Gunn’s DC Universe. The premise works. The execution carries just enough poison in it to ruin the whole thing. “Lanterns” follows that formula exactly.
Hayden Panettiere Died at 36, And She Told Us How She’d Get There
Hayden Panettiere is dead at 36, five days short of her 37th birthday. Greenville, South Carolina police responded to a 911 call reporting an unresponsive woman on Sunday afternoon. Dispatch audio obtained by People captured officials discussing an “overdose” and “cardiac arrest.” Paramedics administered advanced cardiac life support at the scene. It di…
A Star Trek Novelist Tried To Force An Anti-Trump, Gay Romance Into Officially Published Work And Got Rejected
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Delilah S. Dawson Wrote That Her Books Had Too Many White People, And Now She Owns Shannara
Delilah S. Dawson takes over Terry Brooks’ Shannara in nine days. Brona: The First Druids of Shannara hits shelves August 25 from Del Rey, the second book in the handoff and the first written primarily by Dawson rather than Brooks. Before that release lands, readers picking up a 48-year-old fantasy series under new management deserve to know what its new steward has said about her own creative process.
Blaine Pardoe's Land & Sea Books 2-4 Review
Continuing with my review of Blaine Pardoe’s Land & Sea series, I’m lumping books 2, 3 & 4 together, as they really do come together well enough to add up to a solid block of the opening act of the Land & Sea series. Book 4 is an anthology, so it counts more as a bookend element than an integral part of the progressing story. The book 1 review was a me…
"The End Of Oak Street" Is A Bait And Switch And I Walked Out Of The Theater
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Marvel’s New X-Men Cast Skews Female, Reviving “M-She-U” Complaints After a Two-Year Build-Up
Marvel Studios revealed the first wave of its rebooted X-Men cast at Saturday’s D23 showcase, closing out a mutant rollout that’s actually been unfolding in pieces since 2024. The new team: Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Kit Connor as Cyclops, Christopher Abbott as Professor X, Inde Navarrette as Rogue, Maya Boyd as Storm, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, and Ad…
Fan Fiction Has Quietly Taken Over Science Fiction and Fantasy And It's A Disaster
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