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Posted in: Comics, Dynamite, Preview | Tagged: Wheel Of TimeDesperate to escape and emotionally sabotaging friendships, "Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt #3" takes brooding to heroic levels.Published Tue, 16 Jan 2024 09:26:07 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Wheel of Time: The Great Hunt #3 hits stores on January 17th, featuring angst and drama. Rand al'Thor's plan: drastic measures to protect friends, including emotional isolation. Discover what dark secrets Padan Fain reveals from his cell in this…

Posted in: Comics, Heritage Sponsored, Vintage Paper | Tagged: Fiction Press, monster, pre-code horrorThe stories in Fiction House's 1953 classic Monster #1 center around themes of combining science and the supernatural with terrible results.Monster #1, a Fiction House publication from 1953, has one of the more unique covers from this pre-code horror auction that has been going on at Heritage. Maurice Whitman is responsible for the cover, which features a green monster taking hold of a damsel in distress while also…

Image via Matt Kennedy / Disney Enterprises, Inc. Soon there will be as many movies in the Hocus Pocus franchise as there are witches tormenting the sleepy town of Salem. Walt Disney Pictures President Sean Bailey recently confirmed that a threequel is in development, no matter how sick poor Billy Butcherson is of having to crawl out of his grave. In an interview with the New York Times, Bailey teased several live-action continuations and “reimaginings” in the pipeline, including live-action versions of Moana,…

We’ve reached the late baroque stage for found-footage horror movies; the signature moves of the genre have become so familiar that directors are reaching for new extremes. Jump scares are even more abrupt, and the gore, often just glimpsed for microseconds, is so horrible it verges on ludicrous. The cinematography is so verité-shaky, the storytelling so eerily elliptical, that you get a film like this – entirely abstract in its last act. Be warned: the end of The Outwaters is mostly just darkness pierced by a wee spot of…

I smell… a sequel that should have never made it past the gates of Walt Disney Studios. Yes, yes, Hocus Pocus 2 is here, and the Sanderson sisters are back to exact revenge on Salem. But while the witches do manage to put a spell on us, their bewitching skills have taken a serious hit courtesy of a plot that doesn’t even try to find its footing. Mired in a storyline that waters down what made the original flick a Halloween classic, Hocus Pocus 2 takes place in current day Salem, almost three decades after we last visited…

Sure, relationship drama—but check those cute Starfleet-issue pillowcases!Image: ParamountAny good episodic TV series knows how to deal with often dramatic tone shifts that, in our era of heavily serialized programming, might seem tone-deaf or jarring. Star Trek, of course, is no exception to this having been episodic for so much of its 50+ year history—some weeks you fight god, some weeks the holodeck’s Moriarty replica is trying to gain sentience and break free. That’s Star Trek, and Strange New Worlds is more than…