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Physical Free Comic Book Day is over, but Substack is continuing the giveaways TODAY tomorrow with one day only of free comics. It’s also the debut of Phenomenocity from writer Tini Howard (Catwoman, Excalibur, X of Swords) and artist Phillip Sevy (Triage, The House, Tomb Raider), a near-future, science-fiction noir in a world that joyfully accepts that not all of our questions have answers. “This story has been living in my head for some time, but it never fully gelled until I got the idea to bring in my comics brother…

Today marks the official launch of the Standard Comics Script (SCS), which was built by cartoonist, editor, and educator Steenz and writer, artist, and Z2 Comics Senior Editor Camilla Zhang.  The SCS template aims to demystify the mechanics of the comics industry, provide a foundation that can be customized for the needs of each individual creative team, and help facilitate the establishment of an industry standard for scripting that will eradicate miscommunication. Best of all, it’s available for everyone to use at no…

Fans may have to wait until next summer until the highly anticipated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the to Oscar winning Into the Spider-Verse animated film, but fret not because Marvel has you covered. Courtesy of a Polygon exclusive, Marvel has announced a five-issue Edge of Spider-Verse miniseries this August that will serve as an appetizer for what the publisher is billing as the final Spider-Verse story with End of the Spider-Verse, coming later in 2022. Since writer Dan Slott ushered in the original…

Wotobeus USB-C Charging Cable It may sound odd to get excited about a charging cable, but that's only the case if you haven't seen this cool USB-C cable from Wotobeus. Unlike most other options, it features a tiny display embedded in the connector, which shows how much wattage is currently being passed through to your device. It's helpful if you want to know if your laptop or another device is receiving the…

by Sarah J MacLean, Helen Lee, Kathleen Maltzahn and Mary Whiteside, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock Bingo, with its familiar rules, novelty number calls ("legs 11," "two ducks swimming") and social setting, has long had a…

The Sony PlayStation Store turned 20 this week, revolutionizing the gaming industry and bringing us legendary titles like Gran Turismo, Tekken, and Resident Evil. The machine was released in Japan on December 3, 1994, only a week after Sega’s Saturn system. However, the Sony machine succeeded because of its robust technology tailored for real-time 3D graphics and creative marketing. Here are some facts about the original PlayStation store that you may not know to start a week of coverage. Enjoy! From The…

Beware of dog...and robot. (OK, neither are particularly scary.) Photo: GABBY JONES FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL…

Ghostbusters: Afterlife — out Friday in cinemas — is a movie rooted in the past and created in the image of its contemporaries. There's a huge Stranger Things spectre hanging over Ghostbusters: Afterlife. After all, the Netflix series is the current pop culture gold standard for kids fighting evil supernatural creatures. Ghostbusters: Afterlife not only abandons the adults-teaming-up formula which the Ghostbusters film series has used so far, director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) has even plucked a Stranger Things actor…

I am admittedly not the smartest guy, and as such, I really don’t like puzzles. If there’s a puzzle in a game, I’ll probably just look up how to solve it. They’re not my thing, and I gravitate more toward straightforward games as a result. So it may surprise you to hear that Lego Bricktales, which is entirely made up of physics puzzles, was one of my favorite games at PAX East 2022. I can’t make that make sense, but I’ll explain it to the best of my abilities. Piece by piece Lego Bricktales is, on the outside, a…