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Alex Ross‘ Fantastic Four – Full Circle wastes no time blowing minds. From the first panel, it’s clear that Ross’ grip on comic book storytelling is stronger and more assured than ever. There’s a twist, though. The artist, known for his realistic style, instead commits to an aesthetic that pays homage to a time when the superhero genre was much younger and the greats were just getting started. Full Circle returns to an early Jack Kirby/Stan Lee FF story, this time with Ross pulling double duty as both artist and writer.…

Apple's Dynamic Island feature which is currently available only on its iPhone 14 Pro models is now said to be coming to more iPhone models next year. Dynamic Island is a software feature which not just covers up Apple's new pill and hole TrueDepth camera system, but is also well integrated into UI elements making for a new way of displaying notifications and status indicators and also interacting with them. However, the company's ProMotion displays, which feature a 120Hz refresh rate, will be limited to the Pro models,…

Apple recently released the iPhone 14 series of phones, and there's an interesting differentiation for the Pro models this time around. It's the new notch-replacement pill-hole cut-out, which Apple is calling Dynamic Island. Dynamic Island is bundled with a whole UI built around it, too, making the Pro models a different experience overall this time. However, it looks like that may change with the next generation of iPhones.Display industry analyst Ross Young recently tweeted that Dynamic Island is epxected to become a…

Bonnie Ross, founder and head of Halo developer 343 Industries is stepping down. Ross, who worked with the Halo franchise for 15 years, cited a family medical issue as the reason for her departure. In a statement to Windows Central, publisher Microsoft said that the vacant position will be effectively taken over by Pierre Hintze, the current head of production at 343 Industries. The development comes in the wake of Halo Infinite delaying all its upcoming content, including the long-requested co-op mode to November.“I am…

The longtime Halo lead is leaving due to a family medical issue 343 Industries founder and lead Bonnie Ross is leaving the Halo Infinite studio. After 15 years leading 343 at Microsoft, Ross has officially confirmed her departure. The studio head has said she will be leaving the company to attend to a family medical issue. Here’s the statement in full, via social media: While I had hoped to stay with Halo until we released the Winter Update, I am letting you know I will be leaving 343 and attending to a family medical…

Bonnie Ross, the corporate vice president of Halo developer 343 Industries, will be leaving the studio, Ross announced on Monday. “While I had hoped to stay with Halo until we released the Winter Update, I am letting you know I will be leaving 343 and attending to a family medical issue,” she said in a tweet. “I am incredibly proud of the work everyone at 343 Industries has done with Halo Infinite, the Master Chief Collection, the Halo television series and so much more.” Ross is departing amid widespread unhappiness…

Considerations to reduce recurring bills for EC2, Lambda, and S3Having worked extensively with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the past four years, one topic that surfaces frequently within my circles is the cost of running applications and databases in the cloud. Whether that be the price of storing data within the Simple Storage Service (S3), retaining snapshots of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes, or running Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, it’s easy for charges to accumulate and grab our attention when we…

Image: NetflixNetflix is catering to the goths again with Wendell & Wild, its upcoming stop-motion tale directed by Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline), co-written by Selick and Jordan Peele (Nope), and co-starring Peele and his longtime Key & Peele collaborator Keegan-Michael Key. We’ve been wanting to see more of this one, and the painstakingly years-long process of shooting stop motion finally pays off with this new teaser. We meet Kat (Lyric Ross), a teen who can see demons, as her backstory…

| Today sees the publication of Amazing Fantasy #1000, for the 60th anniversary of Amazing Fantasy #15, the first appearance of Spider-Man by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee. I first came to Marvel Comics through the Marvel UK reprints, published by the likes of Dez Skinn and Neil Tennant, and sold in British newsagents, reprinting the American comic books, in a variety of black and white and offset colour schemes. But Neil Gaiman is of the half-generation before mine, when there wasn't a Marvel UK, and rights were licensed to…

Over the last 30 years, comic artist Alex Ross has redefined the Marvel and DC hero pantheon through hyperrealistic painting. From his acclaimed work in the graphic novel Kingdom Come to countless iconic covers (including a recent run on Immortal Hulk) and illustrations that gave Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy a soul, Ross’ style ties the past, present, and future of comic characters through works that could easily fit alongside fine art. But in his new graphic novel, he steps outside his comfort zone into the…