From executive producers Alfonso Cuarón (Academy Award-winning director of Gravity and Children of Men) and J.J. Abrams (Emmy Award-winning producer of two or three new shows a year) comes Believe, a new speculative fiction drama on NBC. Believe centers around a young girl (Johnny Sequoyah) Read More …
Deadshirt Is Reading… is a weekly feature in which Deadshirt’s staff, contributing writers and friends-of-the-site offer their thoughts on a diverse array of comics, from name-brand cape titles to creator-owned books to webcomics. Christina Harrington is reading… Captain Marvel #1 Written by Kelly Sue DeConnick Art Read More …
Lifelong wrestling fan and storytelling enthusiast Dominic Griffin explores the hot new media drug on the streets, the WWE Network, and its relationship with nostalgia. Read More …
Taking a break from committing suicide with food, Mike Pfeiffer will absolutely answer your questions on anything you put in the digital mailbag of justdandy@deadshirt.net. Regardless of whether or not you think Mike is a mature adult, this column is probably best for Mature Adults. As a Mature Read More …
This season of FX’s Archer is a bit different. One of this season’s main storylines follows Cheryl’s quest to become American’s number one country music star. One mind control chip later and she adopts the moniker Cherlene – same Cheryl, only countrified. This storyline was Read More …
So those of you who have been following “Dark Cybertron” (if not, check out my review of chapter 8) know that we have had three plotlines running simultaneously: Optimus Prime vs. his corrupt antecedent Nova in the Dead Universe, the crew of the Lost Light Read More …
One of the things that’s really distinguished Dark Horse from their competitors is their strong focus on horror comics; between books like the ever-expanding Hellboy franchise, Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic spin-offs and Eric Powell’s The Goon, it feels like the first time since EC Read More …
Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket. -W.H. Auden That epigram adorns the script to Alien, a single-sentence summary of what makes great science fiction work. While we Read More …
The world of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen gets a dark and dystopian twist in Top Shelf and Knockabout’s Nemo: The Roses of Berlin, the second 56-page hardcover spin-off, following last year’s Nemo: Heart of Ice. Captain Nemo leaves the sea for a journey into the dark Read More …
Deadshirt Is Listening… Bringing you a rundown our staff and guest contributors’ favorite new tracks released in the past week after they’ve had the weekend to blast them in their cars, in a club, alone in their rooms, etc. Dominic Griffin is coolin’ out to… “Babylon” Read More …