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Debuting in the X-Men: Evolution animated series before eventually transitioning into comics, Laura Kinney, better known as X-23, the female clone and later adoptive daughter of Wolverine, has become a fan-favorite. She’s had her own solo series sporadically over the years including taking over the Wolverine mantle in the All-New Wolverine title. Moreover, the character made her big screen debut in 2017’s Logan played by Dafne Keen. Today Marvel unveiled details for X-23: Deadly Regenesis, a new 5-issue miniseries,…

Getting a text from your friends can, in some cases, make a good day into a great one. No one knows this better than writer/director Edgar Wright, who recently revealed that he received what he considered to be a “dream text” in the recent past. All it took was a moment in Top Gun: Maverick, one of 2022’s new movie releases, to send Wright off on a joyful quest to make one of the film’s scenes absolutely perfect.Wright revealed this story while promoting his BBC Maestro class in an interview with THR. Recalling a moment…

LuteImage: Tor NightfireThis month’s new sci-fi, horror, and fantasy books bring authors you’ll recognize—including Veronica Roth, Alan Moore, Terry Brooks, and George R.R. Martin (no, not that book). But there are also plenty of potential new favorites among these 56 titles. It’s spooky season this month, but it’s always reading season!Image: Sourcebooks CasablancaA Curse of Queens by Amanda BouchetThe Kingmaker Chronicles series continues as the king’s younger sister seeks a legendary island to find the antidote to…

| Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter Of Death is a regular comedy horror anthology now published by Ahoy Comics, now collected in an even bigger anthology being published next week, on the 28th of September, 2022. And Bleeding Cool has been given one of them to share with you all now, free, gratis and for nothing. The ten page story Edgar Allan Poe's Gore of Frankenstein by Tom Peyer and Gregg Scott. Look, she's been buried, we can show this sort of thing now, okay? And if you have any such stories you would like to share with…

Last year, comic creator Brian Michael Bendis found a new home for his Jinxworld line of comics at Dark Horse. The move saw reissues of previous Jinxworld titles, including Powers as well as the release of an all-new title, Joy Operations. Today happens to be Bendis’ birthday, so fittingly IGN has revealed details about The Ones, his all-new superhero comedy with artist Jacob Edgar. With the multiverse in the pop culture zeitgeist, The Ones is “a story about every hero who was ever told they were ‘the one’ of their…

Via Universal Pictures Aubrey Plaza may have won hearts as the deadpan April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation, but that hasn’t stopped acclaimed director Edgar Wright from envisioning her as the next Lara Croft.  Plaza revealed the news while on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, sharing that the English filmmaker spotted her looking very similar to Lara in a promo shoot for her upcoming crime drama, Emily the Criminal.  “My friend Edgar Wright actually saw that and texted me and said, ‘Oh my god, you’re the…

Screenshot: The CWIn what was arguably the great flex ever seen on a CW show, Percival sent a series of biblical plagues upon the town, including killing every first-born person in Riverdale. Sons, daughters, the elderly, etc.—all of ‘em. Archie, Jughead, Toni, and Fangs all died, leaving Betty, Veronica, Tabitha, and Cheryl wondering what the hell to do next. Please note that I almost certainly have done a “22 Insane Things That Happened on Riverdale” list on the last five episodes of season six alone. (s6, ep18)…

A group of ill-equipped kids is forced to come together and battle unthinkable evil. It’s a sentence that describes two films that were released within two weeks of each other 35 years ago: Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys on July 31, 1987, and Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad on August 14, 1987.Read more... A group of ill-equipped kids is forced to come together and battle unthinkable evil. It’s a sentence that describes two films that were released within two weeks of each other 35 years ago: Joel Schumacher’s The Lost…

Olivia Newman’s mystery film Where the Crawdad’s Sing has arrived in cinemas and the reviews aren’t so positive. The film, which follows the story of a girl named Kya, features Daisy-Edgar Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, and David Strathairn.Set in the 1950s and 1960s in rural North Carolina, the narrative blends elements of murder mystery, romance, and nature writing with a coming-of-age story about Kya, who grew up alone in the marshes.The film is based on the bestselling book of the same name which sold…

Innocent changes to RL reward functions produce surprising behaviorsImage by Stefan Keller from Pixabay.Problem SettingReinforcement Learning is a popular branch of AI/ML that tries to learn optimal behavior by interacting with the world and maximizing a reward signal. For example, when playing games the agent will make a decision on how to interact with the world, and the environment game will reward accordingly.Atari Breakout. Here the agent’s reward signal is the score of the game. Environment from OpenAI…