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NOTE: The following interview contains spoilers for Black Adam #12, out in stores and digitally today. You’ve been warned! After a long absence of writing mainstream comics, Christopher Priest made a grand return back in 2016 with the Deathstroke ongoing series as part of the Rebirth initiative from DC Comics. Since then, Priest has brought his idiosyncratic writing style to numerous comic projects at DC, including the Justice League. When a Black Adam 12-issue limited series penned by Priest debuted last year, the…

Dynamite is gearing up for a new series with Christopher Priest leading the charge. Vampirella/Dracula: Rage is set to hit stores this summer and will feature Christian Rosado on art. Read details from the publisher below: Vampirella/Dracula: Unholy chronicled the complex and literally cursed relationship between the alien vampiress and her late lover Matt Ecsed, believed to be a carrier of the fabled Dracula virus. It turned out the true Dracula was around all along, but that didn’t stop the ill-fated marriage of Vampi…

Vampirella/Dracula: Rage #1 by Christopher Priest and Christian Rosado continues the radical retelling of Vampirella from Dynamite Comics.Vampirella/Dracula: Rage #1 by Christopher Priest and Christian Rosado continues the radical retelling of Vampirella that Priest has been telling in recent years, under the noses of the kind of Fox News snowflakes who are triggered if it were Archie, the Punisher or the Joker, with Vampirella losing her baby to an obsessed cult, an bringing the more monstrous maternal side to the fore.…

Evil Dead Rise Might Get A Prequel In John Wick-Like Style As Hinted By The Film’s Director ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia; Movie Poster ) The new horror movie Evil Dead Rise has been declared a blockbuster by the fans as they have been swarming to the theatres to get the jitters. The movie has been getting such a positive response that its Lee Cronin has teased possible sequel and prequel ideas. In one of his latest interviews, Cronin also shared that a prequel of Evil Dead Rise might be just like Keanu Reeves starrer…

Alongside Renfield, There’s a handful of films out this week, including The Pope’s Exorcist. Similar to Warner Bros. Conjuring series, the movie stars Russell Crowe as a fictional version of Father Gabriele Amorth, who served as the Vatican’s Chief Exorcist. And in this case, “fictional” means “a priest who also has a shotgun when the situation calls for it.”Spoilers of the Week | June 3rdBeyond Crowe, the other big draw of the film might be director Julius Avery. Best known for 2018's Overlord, Avery spoke to The…

Harshness is transformed into beauty and then terror by this extraordinary film from Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason about a 19th-century Danish pastor sent to establish a new church on Iceland’s remote south-eastern coast. I left the cinema dazed and elated by its artistry; it is breathtaking in its epic scale, magnificent in its comprehension of landscape, piercingly uncomfortable in its human intimacy and severity. There is such superb compositional sense in the still life tableau shots and the almost archaeological…

Photo: Peter Macdiarmid / Staff (Getty Images)In a witch hunt to out gay priests, a conservative Catholic nonprofit in Denver has poured $4 million into buying data it claims is primarily sourced from Grindr and other gay dating apps, according to the Washington Post.The group, Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal, claims to have purchased location and usage data from apps including Grindr as well as Growlr, Scruff, Jack’da and even OkCupid from 2018 to 2021. Cross-referencing that information with church residences…

Joseph O’Connor’s earlier work was instrumental in demonstrating that modern historical fiction can mean novels of ideas and the state of the nation rather than works of populist nostalgia. Writing about second world war espionage and resistance is brave in this context – there are so many gold-lettered tales of homosocial derring-do sold to men in airports – but anyone buying My Father’s House with this expectation will find themselves expected to think as well as fantasise.Like 2019’s Shadowplay, My Father’s House is…

This February, Dynamite is hosting the “family reunion from Hell,” featuring new bloodthirsty characters in the Vampirella Universe. Draculina: Blood Simple #1 written by Christopher Priest (Black Panther, Deathstroke) and drawn by Michael Sta. Maria (Vengeance of Vampirella) will introduce and flesh out even more of Drakulon’s finest (or most frightening?!).    Priest chatted with us about the upcoming title and how much fun the writer has been having in this bloody sandbox.     Deanna Destito: How has it been…

Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images)The Vatican removed anti-abortion activist, Frank Pavone, from the priesthood after he made incendiary posts on social media. The decision to defrock the Florida-based priestwas made on November 9 with no chance for an appeal, U.S. Archbishop Christophe Pierre said in a letter obtained by several news outlets.Pavone’s removal from the church is called laicization, part of the canon law of the Catholic Church, meaning a bishop, priest, or deacon is removed as a clergy member. It is one of…