adventures

| Following the success of GI Joe: Saturday Morning Adventures, IDW has announced a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic bringing that same 80s cartoon spirit to the TMNT. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures captures the "radical retro vibe" of the original TMNT cartoon series, according to a press release. The comic will be written by Erik Burnham with art by Tim Lattie and, like the GI Joe version, will run for four issues. The press release contains more details: Cowabunga, dudes and dudettes! The…

PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium The adorable cat adventure is setting out very soon. The sci-fi action-adventure Stray from BlueTwelve Studio will launch for PC, PlayStation 4 and PS5 on July 12, 2022. Seen in today’s Sony State of Play, the little cat adventure has been popping up here and there in various PlayStation streams. We had confirmation of a summer window for it, but now it seems the lil’ guy is setting out very soon. Alongside news of its release, Annapurna Interactive also confirmed Stray will be…

| Best remembered historically as a magazine publisher and currently, as the owner of digital properties ranging from Mashable to Humble Bundle, Ziff-Davis was also briefly a comic book publisher of note.  The company published over 50 comic book titles, mostly from 1950-1952, and mostly very short-lived.  Many of their titles are best known for painted artwork from artists who were working on their pulp magazine line.  The Ziff-Davis line is often overlooked by comic book collectors due to the fact that was so…

Should one spend one’s brief time on Earth guided by hedonism and pleasure, or by morality and responsibility? The second instalment of Elif Batuman’s chronicle of Selin, a student of Russian literature at Harvard in the 1990s whose biography corresponds fairly closely to the writer’s own, takes as its title Søren Kierkegaard’s first book, which suggests that one must choose whether to live according to ethical or aesthetic principles. For Selin, now in her sophomore year and with an unsatisfactory, perplexing…

Jason Momoa has been riding high as of late. The fan-favorite actor has been cast in the highly anticipated Fast X, has been working in Rome as a result of the gig and is even reportedly dating Eiza González after his split from Lisa Bonet. Momoa wrapped filming in Italy on the latest Fast and Furious entry this past weekend, and it seems like his time in the European country was more than eventful. His international adventures included a variety of things, from a Sistine Chapel apology to the Hells Angels. The Fast…

On 20 October, 1966, 10-year-old Eryl Mai Jones, from Aberfan in south Wales, told her mother about a dream she’d had the night before. “I dreamt I went to school and there was no school there,” she said. “Something black had come down all over it.” The next day, at 9.14am, a colliery waste tip came crashing down the hillside, smothering the village school and the surrounding houses. Eryl Mai was among the 144 dead.Visiting Aberfan in the days after the tragedy was John Barker, a 42-year-old psychiatrist and…