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“We—and the convention-going community as a whole, especially our fellow artist alley peeps—hoped that things would be okay come summer, then fall, then winter. Deep down, though, I knew that the season was over for 2020. Having that many people gathered in a space for a weekend was too risky, so the question became, ‘What about 2021?’” Read more at The Mary Sue. If you botch your turkey from Whole Foods this Thanksgiving, you may be one of a thousand people eligible for a free $35 gift card....

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But. What Are Tolkien’s Posthumously Published Works? Thanks to the work of Tolkien’s son Christopher Tolkien, who was his literary executor until his own death in 2020, Tolkien managed to be even more prolific after his death in 1973 than before it, racking up an impressive 35 posthumous publications. These include some of his best known works, such as The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The Father Christmas Letters. Academic Works And Non-Fiction Letters of JRR Tolkien (1981), The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (1983), Tolkien On Fairy-Stories (2014)and A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (2016)....

We meet young Emmett Till in episode three of Lovecraft Country, “Holy Ghost.” Till, referred to as “Bobo” and portrayed by Rhyan Hill, is seen using a Ouija board in Leti’s basement the night of her housewarming, alongside Diana (Jada Harris), and Gil (Scott-Heron, played by Maceo Smedley). The kids take turns asking questions, which the board answers, and when Bobo asks if he’ll have a good time on his trip, the board says no....

Throughout three seasons, we’ve watched the passengers struggle to adapt to their new reality, which has changed their relationships with their families, made them garner often-unwanted attention, and put them in difficult and dangerous situations as their return gave them prophetic visions and thoughts known as “Callings.” But that’s not all, so before things get rolling again, let’s look back at where the show left us… What Happened on Flight 828?...

Manifest Season 3 Episodes 5 and 6 It was a smart move to air these two particular episodes of Manifest back-to-back, as it brings the meth-head arc to a close in an unexpected manner and pivots to a whole new way of looking at the death dates and the callings. There were plenty of big moments in “Water Landing” and “Graveyard Spiral” that made the two-hour event worth tuning in for, and the satisfying revelations glossed over some of the flaws that, as usual, come from character motivations that lack believability because of the prophetic compulsions that act as their only explanation....

No, Mario won’t actually die anytime soon (except for the many times that we’ve accidentally killed him in video games), but the fact that Nintendo has decided to discontinue their support of so many Mario projects on the same day is certainly a bizarre way to treat one of their most beloved characters. Mario may not be dying, but Nintendo’s management of digital games (along with Sony’s recent digital distribution decisions) does raise serious questions about how we’ll be able to access new and retro Nintendo games in the future....

This is one of the many provocative images percolating in Noah Baumbach’s sweet and unexpectedly warm film about the end of a marriage, but not entirely the love it was built upon. Forty years after Robert Benton essayed the struggles of divorce with the solemnity of a war crime in Kramer vs. Kramer, Baumbach crafts a more complex, intimate, and funnier film that makes the pain of truly irreconcilable differences all the bitterer....

Marvel has just concluded their 8th show on Disney+, rounding out the Phase 4 experiment in a definitive way. While fans await the next stage of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s plans for the streaming service, it’s a great time to reflect on the tropes and trends that are beginning to emerge as Kevin Feige’s studio grapples with a slightly different medium. The need for a big bad has driven every series in the superhero genre....

But that might change with the Fantastic Four. Ever since No Way Home director Jon Watts stepped down from the project to work on Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Feige has been hunting for a replacement. No news has been yet released regarding who will take on this highly anticipated Marvel picture, but Deadline reporter Justin Kroll indicates that Feige has high expectations for whomever he chooses. In a Twitter thread, Kroll posted news from an anonymous source that although the search is a priority for Marvel, “don’t expect it to be filled anytime soon as they are not even close to cutting down long list of candidates....

But don’t let us spoil it for you…take a look at this trailer first, and then we’ll get into the history of the TVA. The TVA was introduced in the legendary Walt Simonson Thor run back in 1986. In Thor #372, an officer from the distant future named Justice Peace showed up in the present to work with Thor in preventing a killer from unleashing a terrible outbreak. Basically, 12 Monkeys only Thor’s there, so the good guys win....

It feels worthwhile remembering this aspect of the character nowadays. After all, the most popular modern image of Spider-Man—Tom Holland’s affable nerd in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—has largely abandoned this fundamental element of the comic book character in favor of becoming the MCU’s most happy-go-lucky hall monitor. While creative liberties in adaptations are always necessary and should be encouraged, it still feels like a vaguely missed opportunity that such a great performance has been tasked over the course of three films (or six when you count all the Avengers movies Holland has appeared in) with ostensibly playing Tony Stark’s sidekick....

Mike Flanagan, the maestro of horror responsible for Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and this spooky season’s entry, Midnight Mass, has always taken a novelistic approach to storytelling. The man knows his way around a jump-scare, sure, but he excels in crafting deep, rewarding themes, richly drawn characters, and ornate dialogue. It’s what has drawn him toward adapting novels from horror legends like Shirley Jackson, Henry James, and Stephen King....

Ms. Marvel episode 2 Ms. Marvel episode 2 is every bit as charming as the first one, although perhaps slightly less packed with countless MCU references. There’s still a whole lot of ’em, though, and we’re doing our best to break them all down for you. Here’s everything we found so far… Ant-Man Kamala tries a bunch of Ant-Man related tests (shrinking, flying, talking to ants) and none of it works....

While that’s hardly unusual for fighting games, I was a bit surprised to see that some Multiversus characters are noticeably more complex. Don’t be fooled by the title’s crossover cuteness; there is a real platform fighter at the heart of this game, and that means having to learn and master various fighters in order to get ahead. Before we dive into that, though, here are a few things you should know about these rankings....

My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 13 “It was the prologue to a tragedy…” It’s Christmas in July for My Hero Academia! My Hero Academia knows how to have fun and there are several one-off installments that are odes to silliness and the lighter side of these heroes-in-training’s lives. It’s been a difficult year for U.A. High’s students, not because their lives have been endangered by villains, but because of the grueling tests that they’ve applied to each other and the major revelations that characters like Midoriya, Shinso, and Todoroki have made about themselves....

Mostly, the answer to these questions cannot be found in the canonical 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Instead, the tapestry of the Holmes family tree has been woven over the years, almost exclusively by fans. Because Sherlock Holmes fandom is so much older than most other fandoms, it’s tough to find the line between amateur fanfic and professional pastiches. Sherrinford Holmes, the Eldest Holmes Brother So, when I say that fan theories about a secret third Holmes sibling began in 1962 with the publication of Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street by William S....

While production on The Forest was mostly completed in Serbia, there was a week of shooting in Japan that allowed Dormer the chance to venture to the actual Aokigahara where hiking and greenery is punctuated by signs urging the distressed to seek suicide hotlines. In a beautiful wood supposedly haunted by Yurei, wrathful spirits seeking to haunt the living, it is a jarring juxtaposition. It is also a main draw for The Forest, a thriller in which Natalie Dormer plays two twins, Sara and Jess....

Perhaps the biggest breakout candidate for Netflix this month is The Sandman on Aug. 5. Though Neil Gaiman’s classic comic has long been thought to be unadaptable, the folks behind 10-episode series are betting they’re the ones for the job. Get ready to meet Morpheus, the king of dreams and the ruler of The Dreaming. August 2022 is full of many other Netflix original series of note. Locke & Key premieres its third and final season on Aug....

Like every other part of the MCU, Yelena Belova has her roots in the comics. First introduced in 1999’s Inhumans #5, Yelena was created by writer Devon Grayson and artist J.G. Jones as an antagonist and eventual ally to Black Widow Natasha Romanov. Given the important role that Belova played in Black Widow and Hawkeye, and one that she is also poised to play in phase five, one would think that her creators would be fairly compensated....