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Afropantheology seeks the freedom of the artist to express stories unbridled by Western labels and terminologies and the need for conformity to defined (often limited) literary standards.

Once a narrowly defined genre—set in the American frontier of the 19th Century—the definition of Western has expanded with contemporary takes from such authors as Cormac McCarthy, Ivy Pochoda, Alma…

It seems like elves and wizards have been around forever. But one man is responsible for book publishing’s commitment to the fantasy genre.

The recent scuttlebutt pie fight on Twitter between the blue checkmarks of puppydom has begun to generate the kind messages of that I was hanging around waiting to see in the first place: folk vers…

I cannot tell you how exhausted I am of user reviews for projects like this. This keeps happening over and over where some established IP includes some characters of color or different orientations and the knives come out.

The only areas where AI is flourishing are shamming, spamming & scamming

Pathfinder. I’ve talked about some of their work over the last few years, with reviews of its Lost Omens: Mwangi Expanse and Travel Guide books, and a few episodes of Lore Diver. [1][2][3][4] Broadly, these have been positive, so it’s probably time to talk about how this evolution of 3.5e D&D has handled representation and how their approach has positioned

With more streamers returning to the old fashioned week-by-week release of shows and those that don’t often paying the price, it might be the end for the all-at-once drop

The Super-Team, A Pulp Creation looks at where the idea of the gang of super-powered heroes came from. Before the comics, there was Pulp.

Evil Genius Games--creators of the d20 Modern-inspired Everyday Heroes RPG, with its licensed settings such as The Crow, KingL Skull Island, Pacific Rim, Highlander, and more--was all set to release a tabletop RPG based on Zack Snyder's upcoming movie Rebel Moon until the contract was cancelled...

The system is broken across the entertainment industry, but more so than anywhere else, in the comic book industry. It'…

Horror films have always been the quiet steady earners for Hollywood. On the slow road to recovery, studios are relying more than ever on horror films performing well at the box office.

Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey's transgressive horror belies a more terrifying truth about capitalism and the endless churn of IP.

Allegorical readings of The Lord of the Rings vexed Tolkien. In the Foreword to the second edition of the books, he wrote of his distaste for allegory altogether: “I much prefer history, true…

Today, The Authors Guild and seventeen high-profile authors filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.

This week on The Recap, Marty, Frost and Darren discuss the first two episodes Ahsoka.Join YouTube Memberships and support our content for Early Access to ne...

Robert Kirkman was dead broke. Then he changed the entire entertainment industry.Links and Reading GuideThe cheapest way to read Invincible and the Walking...

Instead of encouraging people to read what they want, when they want, BookTok is increasingly pressuring users to treat reading like a competitive sport

There are actually more genre magazines being published today than decades ago. Along with the magazines mentioned earlier, other famed titles currently being published include Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld Magazine, The Dark, Escape Pod, FIYAH Literary Magazine, Interzone, khōréō, Lightspeed, Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Uncanny Magazine.…

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, /Film spoke with several of the people behind the beloved film to learn how it was made.

Hit Man, we hardly knew you.

'Batman: Mask of the Phantasm' leans hard into the retro-future aesthetic of 'Batman: The Animated Series.'

Stray, the hit Annapurna Interactive game starring a cat, is getting a “feature adaptation” from Annapurna Animation, according to a press release. Annapurna didn’t share much else about the movie — we still don’t know when it might come out or what it might look like — but if you were a fan of the game and looking for another way to experience the game’s universe, now you can look forward to this upcoming film. > > In the press release, Annapurna also said that it plans to adapt more Annapurna Interactive titles in the future, though it didn’t specify which games might be turned into movies or shows.

Netflix and Sonia Friedman Productions have revealed the full cast for the world premiere of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, a live stage show that’s based on the Netflix hit. Stranger Thi…