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New CFP – The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies

Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2022 Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Carl Wilson In answer to the evolutionary portrayals of superheroes in our … More

Comics, Film, Television, Video Games

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

Comics, DC Comic Universe, Film, June 2022, Print Essays, Video Games

#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

Apr 2022, Fanbase Press, Film, Online Articles, Video Games

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

Comics, Fanbase Press, Film, Nov 2021, Online Articles, Video Games

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

Comics, Film, Nov 2021, Print Essays, Superhero Multiverse, Video Games

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

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

Adapting Superman, Film, June 2021, Print Essays, Video Games

“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

Excavating Indiana Jones, Film, May 2020, Print 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

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

Aliens in Popular Culture, Film, March 2019, Print Articles, Television

‘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

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