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Robin Hood has returned to our screens With a brand-new series from the streaming service MGM+. Once again, the arrows rain down from Sherwood Forest. This one is a grounded, origin-tilted retelling set in the tense years after the Norman Conquest. So what is it about the legend of Sir …

T’Challa and Killmonger of the hit film Black Panther have been compared to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. This is an unsurprising lens through which to view the relationship between black leaders given their distinctive philosophies and hold on the popular imagination. The idea is that both have noble …

It’s become part of the annual San Diego Comic-Con (AKA SDCC) landscape. Starting the evening before the official start of the five days of controlled chaos that is SDCC, Conan O’Brien brings his TBS talk show to the venerable Spreckels theater in San Diego’s historic Gaslamp District. Last year, I …

Tune in each night as the Blogcritics Comic-Con team checks in with Comic-Con Daily Dose on the BlogCritics Radio Network hosted by BlogTalk Radio

Midwest fans of The Walking Dead are in store for a great opportunity to meet the cast and schmooze with other fans this February at Walker Stalker Con.

The world might be going to hell, but at least no one’s ambling (or shambling or running) to devour your brains. Not yet.

Science fiction is metaphor for a troubled world and a medium to give expression to the apprehensions we all feel as we advance into the unknown.

My bags are packed and I'm ready to go...to Comic-Con 2013.

Essays examine how comic books helped shape American youth during the Cold War.

Comic-Con day one. An almost-overwhelming bombardment of the senses.