ā€˜Ice Cream Man: Quarantine Comix’: Exciting. Scary.

ā€œI’m so excited. I’m so scared. I’m so, I’m so…scared!ā€ Poor Jessie Spano’s ā€œSaved by the Bellā€ lament came almost 30 years ago; her heart kathumping on account of her reliance on ā€œKeep Alertā€ caffeine pills to keep up with both school and her singing group, Hot Sundae. (The episode ā€œJessie’s Songā€ is much goofier…

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Darkseid is … Not a Spear Guy. What That One Still from the Snyder Cut Gets Wrong about the DC Big Bad

The first weekend of the DC FanDome — a 24-hour, multiplatform, virtual hype fest that continues this weekend — included among its many trailers, featurettes and celebrity interviews an image of Darkseid wielding a spear from the vaunted ā€œSnyder Cutā€ of Justice League.  It gave me pause. The spear is a versatile weapon. It can…

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Assigned Reading: ā€˜Andre the Giant: Closer to Heaven’ gets (mostly) good marks

Howdy, y’all. Professor (seriously) Will Nevin here. When I came on board to Xavier Files, I was coming from a mostly three-man operation at WMQ Comics to a family of 30+ contributors, and I figured it would be neat to get some folkx together on occasion to talk about something we’d all read. You know,…

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