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VisionQuest Episode 1 Review: Terry Matalas Delivers the Best TV of the Year
VisionQuest, Marvel’s new Disney+ series about the android Avenger Vision, opens with an episode called “No Strings,” and it is the best TV I have watched this year. Terry Matalas took over a corner of the MCU that fans had stopped trusting. WandaVision, the show this one continues, opened with an interesting hook and never stuck the landing. Its spinof…
Fantasy Fiction: The Silver-Haired Heiress Hates Me (But She Keeps Saving My Life) Chapter 3
Once again, thank you all so much for the subscriptions and for making this a huge success! I’m floored by the level of love for this book. I’m slow-rolling the opening for some good character moments, as we’re about to have a big change for Wes, and I know you’re all itching to meet our Silver-Haired Heiress. Soon, soon.
Marvel Has Johnny Storm Flirting With Nova in Queen in Black #4 as Another Classic Ladies’ Man Is Rewritten As Bi After Iceman
Marvel’s Queen in Black #4, written by Al Ewing, has Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, trading flirtatious lines with Nova, and coverage is already treating the exchange as another step in turning one of comics’ best-known ladies’ men bisexual. Marvel has not formally announced a change to Johnny’s orientation, and that is how it works: a wink in one issue…
Catalyst Game Labs Lays Off Woke Activist Editor-at-Large Jennifer Brozek
Catalyst Game Labs, publisher of the BattleTech and Shadowrun tabletop lines, has laid off editor-at-large Jennifer Brozek. Brozek announced the cut Wednesday on her website and on Bluesky.
UPDATE: Sanderson’s Dragonsteel Books Makes Things Right
Yesterday, I reported on the rough customer service I received after a return of my Eye of the World leatherbound edition from Dragonsteel.
Avatar Creator Says Korra Critics Are Misogynists and Homophobes While His New Show Makes Korra the Villain Who Ended the World
Avatar co-creator Bryan Konietzko told Teen Vogue that criticism of Korra comes from misogyny and homophobia, in the same week that Avatar: Seven Havens, the Paramount+ sequel he made with Michael Dante DiMartino, introduced Korra as the Avatar who ended the world. Fans who wanted to know how a show can blame its own heroine for an apocalypse and then a…
Kevin J. Anderson Shatters His Own Crowdfunding Record With The Complete Saga of Seven Suns as the 13-Volume Collector Set Sells Out
Kevin J. Anderson has broken his own crowdfunding record with a BackerKit campaign for The Complete Saga of Seven Suns, the space opera he has built over 25 years and 13 volumes. The campaign went live on October 14, and by the time of writing it had raised $164,413, more than double the $81,918 his previous best, the