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Posted in: Comics, Dynamite, Preview | Tagged: elvira, hp lovecraftSpectral shenanigans ensue in Elvira Meets HP Lovecraft #1 as our Mistress of the Dark tackles tentacled terrors and tired tropes.Published Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:26:07 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Elvira tackles cosmic horrors in "Elvira Meets HP Lovecraft #1," out 2/21/2024. The comic has Elvira hunting the Necronomicon with Lovecraft's ghost in tow. Created by David Avallone and Kewber Baal for some necronomi-fun! LOLtron…

Posted in: Comics, Dynamite, Preview | Tagged: elvira, hp lovecraftExplore comedic chaos as Elvira Meets HP Lovecraft #1. Will she snag the Necronomicon or get entangled in tentacles?Published Wed, 24 Jan 2024 15:26:08 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Elvira and HP Lovecraft team up in a cosmic comedy hitting shelves on 2/21/2024. David Avallone and Kewber Baal bring this horror-host meets weird-writer tale. Pre-orders are crucial before the Final Order Cutoff on Monday, January 29th. …

While the Spider-Man movies might just now be dipping their toes into the multiverse, it’s a concept that’s been long established in the comics and shows for over 30 years now. As such, you can imagine all the pure weirdness the webhead has been involved in. Marvel, compared to the other titan of the comics industry, DC, likes to dabble in the bizarre. With Santa Claus himself being an omega-level mutant, it can’t be that shocking that old gods like Dagon also share space among the various universes. However, it’s…

Illustration by Elham AtaeiazarArtificial intelligence is scary to a lot of people, even within the tech world. Just look at how industry insiders have co-opted a tentacled monster called a shoggoth as a semi-tongue-in-cheek symbol for their rapidly advancing work.But their online memes and references to that creature — which originated in influential late author H.P. Lovecraft's novella "At the Mountains of Madness" — aren't quite perfect, according to the world's leading Lovecraft scholar, S.T. Joshi.related investing…

Kevin Roose / New York Times: How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs' inner workings — The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment. Kevin Roose / New York Times: How the Shoggoth, a character from a 1936 H.P. Lovecraft novella, became a meme among AI workers as a metaphor for not fully understanding LLMs' inner workings …

Giving us gothic vibes in early 1900s Boston, Relentless Melt follows Artie Quick, a crossdressing young woman who disguises herself as a man in order to further her education, and her friend Theodore, an up-and-coming high society magician, as they investigate claims of abductions on the Boston Common. As Artie works to keep her double life disguised, Theodore must explore the darker side ofhis upper-crust upbringing. Twitter Is Shifting Right | Future TechDescribed as H.P. Lovecraft meets Agatha Christie, Relentless…

Returnal might have struggled to wow gamers after its initial reveal as a PS5 exclusive, but it amassed a niche following when some gameplay emerged online. Finnish developer Housemarque faced a few challenges: for one, it was a less-known studio trying to sell an original IP for a full $70 — competing against a pool of well-established AAA creators that anyone could blindly trust. Furthermore, in its original marketing campaign, Sony portrayed the game as a generic action shooter, where all you do is run around and kill…

Image: WB Animation/DC ComicsOver the decades, animation featuring Batman has taken the Dark Knight down some interesting avenues. Beyond seeing him at best and most green, we’ve seen him get out of his relative comfort zone by singing or becoming a ninja. For his next animated venture, he’ll be winding back the clock all the way back to the 1920s.Revealed earlier in the week, Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham will see an alternate version of the character (as voiced by David Giuntoli, returning from 2020's Batman:…

Guillermo del Toro brought a decades-long dream and a little wooden boy to life this year with his stop-motion animation of the classic fairy tale Pinocchio. It has been met with overwhelming praise and now, looking forward, the director is wondering what else he can pull off in stop-motion form. Del Toro is a director who loves fairy tales, but unlike many retellings of such well-known stories, he doesn’t shy away from the macabre, in fact, he leans in. Despite being known for his live-action films such as Pans…

The MCU fandom quickly became concerned when Blade landed itself in hot water after swiftly losing its former director Bassam Tariq mere weeks before production was set to begin, with the film rapidly looking like it was going to enter development hell. Thankfully, just over a month after this all went down, the film appears to have bounced back onto its feet and found a new captain to steer the ship in the director of Lovecraft Country‘s first episode, Yann Demange. Demange turned out to be a fairly unexpected name to…