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

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

‘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