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The Strange, Hidden Story of Harley Quinn The character was on her way to becoming DC Comics’ most successful villain well before she was stealing scenes in Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey .
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The Stan Lee Myth Is Safe — for Now Disney’s hagiographic documentary promotes a myth. But someday that myth will fade into history, and maybe then we can remember Stan Lee objectively.
How Bret Hart Wrestled Back Into the Story The WWF icon had his legacy buried for years —until he decided to play Vince McMahon’s game.
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The Wild True Story of Stan Lee and the Dot-Com Disaster In the late ’90s, the Marvel legend decided to strike out on his own — with an alleged con man as his business partner.
Art Spiegelman Loses His Glasses As the latest fight over Maus erupts, its artist-creator searches for his spectacles.
My Grandfather the Zionist He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?
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The Story Behind the Winter Soldier’s Unprecedented Creation It’s one of the greatest transformations in superhero comics history.
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WandaVision Recap: Neighborhood WitchWestview’s Halloween celebration speedily shifts from sitcom-sweet to truly terrifying.
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What Do We Want Out of WandaVision , Anyway? What most appeals to some of the show’s viewers is exactly what most annoys others, but we can all at least agree on one thing: more Kathryn Hahn.
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WandaVision Recap: Come On, Get HappyWe jump ahead to the 1970s in an episode that dials up the weirdness and confusion, for better and worse.
WandaVision Recap: Use Your IllusionTrouble is clearly brewing in Westview.
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How Wonder Woman Changed DC’s Entire Movie Strategy Can DC Entertainment bring its success in comics, TV, and games to the multiplex?
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Valley of Tears Is Historical Fiction for Today’s Grim RealityThe timing of the Israeli drama series, now on HBO Max, feels unsettlingly ironic, for Israeli and American audiences alike.
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The Boys Is the End of the Superhero As We Know ItThe dark satire’s second season has illuminated the rotten core of superheroism, and cast our collective obsession with it in an unflattering light.
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The Making of Superman’s Brief Flight on Broadway And how Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa almost got him back off the ground nearly 50 years later.
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Why Cops and Soldiers Love the Punisher Understanding the controversial fandom of a violent Marvel antihero.
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What Hath the Snyder Cut Released? In retrospect, Warner Bros.’ decision to rerelease Zach Snyder’s Justice League was inevitable. It’s also consequential.
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12 Monkeys Is the Apocalypse Movie We Need Right NowIt’s less about surviving a plague than it is about making a meaningful life on the eve of a crisis.
I Hated the New Star Wars , So I Talked to My Rabbi About It My spiritual guide was a big fan of The Rise of Skywalker and had wisdom to bestow.
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The Forgotten Story of Watchmen ’s Unsung Hero Watchmen writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons are legends. Why not colorist John Higgins, too?
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Like It or Not, Damon Lindelof Made His Own Watchmen And he’s pretty sure that Alan Moore put a hex on him for doing it.
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Why You Should Be Reading the X-Men Right Now Writer Jonathan Hickman is doing something magical.
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The Hardest Effect I Ever Pulled Off 42 filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists on making the impossible happen.
How Our Boys Painstakingly Re-creates an Israeli-Palestinian Tragedy A new HBO miniseries looks back at the kidnappings and murders that sparked horrifically bloody battles in the summer of 2014.
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David Berman Struggled to Feel the Joy He Brought Us The singer-songwriter passed away yesterday. He leaves a legacy of spiritual longing and fighting the darkness.
How Batman’s Alfred Went From Clueless Sidekick to Special Forces Stud Over time, and through various reboots, he was given more gravitas and a skill set that comes in handy when your boss is a billionaire vigilante.
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‘With a Box of Scraps!’: How an Iconic Marvel Cinematic Insult Came to Be Spider-Man: Far From Home actor Peter Billingsley (of A Christmas Story fame) explains what it was like to get screamed at by a shaved Jeff Bridges.
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The Six-Year Struggle to Regain Ownership of the ‘This Is Fine’ Dog After the internet claimed the popular meme, its creator had to figure out how to take it back.
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How Vertigo Changed Comics Forever The influential DC Comics imprint just got canceled.
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Marvel on Netflix: What Went Wrong? The superhero TV experiment that was a victim of its own success.
Let’s Talk About the Ending of Dark Phoenix The fizzling out of the X-Men franchise tells us a lot about superhero movies and Hollywood.
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How Magneto Became Jewish As the X-Men movie saga comes to an end with Dark Phoenix , it’s worth remembering how it began — with the darkest chapter in Jewish history.
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