Today marks one year since we opened our proverbial doors here at Deadshirt.net. Our first year has been an eventful one, as we expanded from a handful of friends to a team of nearly two dozen writers and editors across the United States, working to bring Read More …
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. closed up its tumultuous first season this week with a crowd-pleasing, action-packed finale. The series, which began with a string of poorly-received episodes that left the excitable Marvel fandom shaking its head, enjoyed a sizable spike in both viewership and quality Read More …
Filmmaker and geek culture icon Joss Whedon made waves last week with the stealth on-demand release of In Your Eyes, the latest production from his and Kai Cole’s Bellwether Pictures. Whedon, who wrote the screenplay, enjoys top promotional billing over the relatively unknown director Brin Read More …
Deadshirt Date Night is a monthly event on Twitter where the Deadshirt.net staff and friends sync up a movie on Netflix and try to entertain each other. This time, we set our sights upon the first Spider-Man feature film from director Sam Raimi. A lot Read More …
BOOM! Studios’ Adventure Time comics are an exceptional example of an animated world translated perfectly into sequential art. Rarely has a licensed comic so faithfully captured the spirit of its source material. Today sees the release of Adventure Time: Sugary Shorts, a new trade paperback Read More …
Two mighty forces ensure the immortality of superhero characters. On the one hand, you have the massive corporations who own the characters, who profit from keeping them alive, successful and popular, but frequently misinterpret the appeal of the characters. On the other, you have Read More …
Since the site first launched in June 2013, Deadshirt.net has been your source for thoughtful, substantive commentary on popular culture. We’ve dedicated ourselves to thoughtful reviews and essays of big name and up-and-coming entertainers and artists, and avoided cheap, gimmicky clickbait. In essence, we’ve tried Read More …
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 …
It’s the inaugural episode of Deadshirt.net’s first podcast, Supers On Screen, where Editor/Publisher Dylan Roth (@DylanRoth) and a rotating panel of experts and fans explore a different superhero movie each week. First up, it’s the movie credited with kicking off the superhero movie boom that’s Read More …
JoJo Seames, known for her work on webcomics like The Makeshift Man and Monster Plus, is embarking on a months-long effort to adapt The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, credited as the original Gothic novel, into comics form. Otranto is the story of Manfred, Read More …