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Category: Online Essays

Superheroes For Super Hire: Fandom, Ownership & Knowing When To Pass It On

Are We In A Crisis Event? You know that bit in every Batman film where Bruce Wayne goes inwardly moody … More

Comics, Film, Late Reviewer, Oct 2021, Online Essays, Video Games

In Space, No One Can Hear You Waka Waka Waka – ‘Alien’ for the Atari 2600

While the movie Alien was released in 1979, the first video game adaptation of the science-fiction horror experience came three years later … More

Apr 2020, Film, Online Essays, Video Games

Fundamental Comics: Back to Earth for Ripley, Newt, and Hicks in the Alternate ‘Aliens’ Trilogy: ‘Outbreak,’ ‘Nightmare Asylum,’ and ‘Earth War’ and the Study of Humanity

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

Apr 2019, Comics, Fanbase Press, Film, Online Essays

‘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

Comics, Fanbase Press, Film, Nov 2018, Online Essays

‘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

Comics, Fanbase Press, Film, June 2018, Online Essays, Television

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

Apr 2018, Comics, Fanbase Press, Film, Online Essays

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

Comics, Dec 2017, Fanbase Press, Film, Online Essays

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

Dec 2017, Fanbase Press, Film, Online Essays

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

Comics, Fanbase Press, Online Essays, Sep 2017, Video Games

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

Comics, Fanbase Press, Online Essays, Sep 2017, Video Games

The Society of the ‘Fight Club’ is the Society of the Spectacle

When Jack, the lead protagonist and narrator of Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999), is at work, he monologues that “with insomnia, … More

Film, July 2017, Online Essays, PopMatters

Navigating the Hollywood Monsters of the ‘Resident Evil’ Videogame Franchise

Following an arc from the haunted house terror of the original release in 1996 through to an explosive apex of … More

June 2017, Online Essays, PopMatters, Video Games

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