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Much like Darth Shaa, Darth Momin makes his "Star Wars" franchise debut in the pages of the "Darth Vader" comic series. During the time of the Galactic Empire, the titular Sith Lord is given Momin's helmet by Darth Sidious, soon realizing that the artifact is possessed. Momin's spirit communicates with Vader, aids in the construction of his castle on Mustafar, and even uses the dark side of the Force to reform his original body and unsuccessfully attack Vader. While this is all noteworthy, it pales in…

Image Source : FILE Delhi journalist trapped in dating scam, lost more than Rs 15,000 Scammers and cyber fraud are upscaling with every passing time, and recently, a news surfaced where a Delhi-based journalist met a woman via Bumble dating app. He stated that they started talking because the woman claimed to be looking for a ‘meaningful connection’. When they met for…

Police officers found Sinéad O’Connor unresponsive in a London flat on Wednesday just weeks after she had moved to the city, it has emerged.The Metropolitan police said in a statement on Thursday that officers were called at 11.18am on Wednesday to reports of an “unresponsive woman” at a residential address in the Herne Hill area of south London.“Officers attended. A 56-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Next of kin have been notified. The death is not being treated as suspicious. A file will be prepared for…

On a Wednesday night in a basement karaoke bar in east London, Irish singer Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, who performs as CMAT, is kneeling on a small stage performing a dramatic rendition of Shakespears Sister’s gothic ballad Stay. Lying in front of her is a friend pretending to be dead (as in the original music video), while the pianist from her band, Colm, provides backing vocals. It’s a display of brilliant theatricality, exaggerated, camp and chaotic. In other words, it’s pure CMAT.Skills like these don’t arrive…

Meta's Threads gained over 30 million sign-ups within 18 hours of its release, which has sparked a rivalry between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. Musk humorously responded to a tweet mocking Meta's logo, while Zuckerberg aims to establish Threads as the preferred platform for people.…

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: venomGet your tissue box ready as our hero Eddie gets a blast from his own past in Venom #22. Apparently, even symbiotes can't escape a mid-life crisis!Published Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:26:08 -0500 by Jude Terror | Look, we all know the lengths some people will go to for a dose of nostalgia. Retro tech, embarrassing fashion trends, bad hairdos, it's all making a comeback. But it seems Eddie Brock, our dear Venom, isn't one to be outdone. Instead of embarrassingly skimpy neon…

Posted in: Comics, Comixology | Tagged: george santos, John D. RobertsJohn D. Roberts, co-founder of Comixology, found himself in the offices of US Representative George Santos this week, with questions.John D. Roberts is the co-founder of Comixology, who exited the company after 12 years, after its purchase and more recent forest destruction by Amazon. After a stint at Amazon Advertsing, he has been footloose and fancy free for a couple of years. Which is how he found himself in the offices of US Representative George…

The Metropolitan police have admitted downloading the sim card from the phone of a radical French publisher who was arrested by counter-terrorism police at St Pancras station in April, his lawyer has claimed.Officers returned the iPhone and laptop it had seized from Ernest Moret, 28, to his London lawyer on Tuesday after the Met announced late on Friday that no further action would be taken against him. He had been arrested on his way to the London book fair and held for almost 24 hours under schedule 7 of the Terrorism…

Lauding the Institute community’s “signature ability to foster the very best in fundamental research and harness it to confront society’s hardest problems,” Kornbluth noted that many of those challenges will require new research, new forms of collaboration, and renewed efforts to take timely action in society. “As humanity struggles with so many interlocking global crises, it has never needed the people of MIT more than it does now,” she said. Envisioning MIT in 2033 Valerie Sheares Ashby, president of the University…

In the popular imagination, Bollywood in the 1980s was all about garish aesthetics, frenetic editing, double entendres, and melodrama underlined by blaring sound effects. You might think of Sridevi wearing shiny outfits and shimmying amid matkas or Mithun karate chopping goons. The overwhelming feeling is that of cinematic flash and trash. As Baradwaj Rangan has noted in an essay “ perceived wisdom is that Hindi cinema in the 1980s sucked”.  Mithun Chakraborty in Disco Dancer (Film still) 392pp, ₹599;…