Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2022 Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Carl Wilson In answer to the evolutionary portrayals of superheroes in our … More
Tag: Film
Of Selina Kyle and Harley Quinn: Branding and Controlling Women in Batman Video Games
In the collective Batman multiverse, nothing stays static for long. Over the eighty-years since Batman was created by Bill Finger … More
#Alienday 2022: Game Over, Man? ‘Aliens: Fireteam Elite’ And The Direction Of The ‘Aliens’ Video Game Franchise
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single xenomorph in possession of a good brain, must be shown in … More
This Year, I am Thankful for … Superman
It’s been a struggle, hasn’t it? I think it has been. Remember Joaquin Phoenix’s wheezy, scratchy laugh in Joker? That’s been … More
Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video Games
According to the online video game database Moby Games, Batman has starred in 105 titles, inclusive of downloadable content episodes, … More
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
Branded a Tyrant: Rescuing Superman Video Games with the ‘Injustice’ Series
In 2017, with the release of video game Injustice 2, published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Guinness World Records recognised … More
“We’ll always have Iceland, Indy”: Indiana Jones and His Adventures in Video Games
Founded by George Lucas in 1971, Lucasfilm is the production company famously behind the Indiana Jones and Star Wars movie … More
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
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
‘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
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