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Chrisley Knows Best Stars Indicted on Bank Fraud Charges

Bill Casticart · August 14, 2019

It seems no reality show goes on for very long without one or more of the stars making news for reasons other than the show. HOUSEWIVES OF BEVERLY HILLS went through the drama of Joe and Theresa Giudice having to serve sentences for financial fraud.

Not All Parody is Created Equal. Trump's Titans Volume One

RJ Carter · June 29, 2019

"You want superheroes? I'm a superhero. People tell me all the time, 'President Trump, you're better than a superhero because you're real.' I should have a comic book. It would be the best selling comic book of all time, believe me."

    -- not an actual @realDonaldTrump tweet

Macri and Zanotti's The Wall Well-Intended, But Problematic

RJ Carter · June 24, 2019

In a colorful kingdom, the king takes a walk with his advisor, and discovers there are many people in the land who do not look like him. Wishing not to see them, he orders them banished, and when that is not enough, he calls for a wall to be built.

Capes, Cowls, and Coming Out: History of the Batwoman

RJ Carter · May 21, 2019

When the superheroes became popular, lo many decades ago, an attempt was made to draw in more readers by adding characters that would be (or so the theory went) relateable to girls. There was already Wonder Woman, Phantom Lady, and others, but none of them had quite the popularity of a Superman or a Batman.

Cyberfrog is Officially Late. Or Is It?

RJ Carter · May 20, 2019

To date, there's only one comic book hero who, at the mere utterance of his name, has the ability to evoke either dreamlike awe or cold fury from the comics fan who hears it. His name is CyberFrog, and he's the creation of comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver.

Dangerous Opinions: Facebook Disconnects 250K Fans from Bounding Into Comics

RJ Carter · May 8, 2019

The landscape of opinion is a shifting mass of quicksand these days. The Internet, once a bastion of free speech -- and all the ugliness that comes with that -- has undergone a transformation to rein in opinions, protecting the eyes and ears of the many from anything that might be deemed offensive by the few.

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