ā€˜Ice Cream Man: Quarantine Comixā€™: Exciting. Scary.

ā€œIā€™m so excited. Iā€™m so scared. Iā€™m so, Iā€™m soā€¦scared!ā€ Poor Jessie Spanoā€™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€œJessieā€™s Songā€ is much goofier…

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Darkseid is ā€¦ 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 Heavenā€™ gets (mostly) good marks

Howdy, yā€™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 weā€™d all read. You know,…

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