Despite being a continuation from the Aliens movie storyline, once Alien 3 was released in 1992, the comic-created world became distinctly non-canon. In the … More
Author: Carl Wilson
Aliens in Popular Culture: ‘Half-Life 2’
Half-Life (2004), a game designed by David Speyrer, opens with a transdimensional alien invasion of the Black Mesa Research Facility … More
Aliens in Popular Culture: ‘Firefly’/’Serenity’
Prior to Firefly (2002–2003), creator Joss Whedon had written demons (in the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer), mutants (in … More
Geeky Love Letters: A Love Letter to ‘Fallout 4’
Dear Fallout 4, From January to December 2018, we enjoyed a whirlwind relationship in a lamp-lit room with the curtains closed … More
‘The Ghost in the Shell’ and the Anxiety of the Machines
Shirow’s The Ghost in the Shell, together with titles such as Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1982-1990) and Yuzo Takada’s 3×3 Eyes (1987-2002), represent the cultural … More
‘Serenity: Leaves on the Wind’ and Developing the ‘Firefly’ Family
Leaves on the Wind has one central theme that stretches throughout its galactic core and on towards its border planets: Family. … More
Remembering ‘Alien’ Differently with ‘Alien: The Illustrated Story’
The 1979 story of Alien begins with a quote from Joseph Conrad. Not the mining ship Nostromo, named after one of Conrad’s novels, … More
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Comic Book Movie Women of 2017
With the full force of both Marvel and DC movie campaigns raging with their spectacular, firework-laced steam, comic book women … More
Creative Failures and Failing to be Creative: Sci-Fi Cinema in 2017
If the Hollywood sci-fi movies of 2017 have one unifying special effect that will come to epitomize the collective output … More
Playing With Harley – A Guide to Harley Quinn’s Character in Video Games (Part 2)
The first game in Rocksteady’s Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) uses the same voice cast as Batman: The Animated Series (including Arleen Sorkin as Harley … More
Playing With Harley – A Guide to Harley Quinn’s Character in Video Games (Part 1)
In the comparatively short period of 25 years that Dr. Harleen Quinzel has been dressing a certain way, following a … More
Video Game Franchises: Bioshock
As a spiritual successor to Ken Levine’s cyber-punk classics System Shock (1994) and System Shock 2 (1999), the BioShock franchise … More
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