by Patrick Ehlers This article contains SPOILERS. If you haven’t read the issue yet, proceed at your own risk! Ridley Scott's 1977 sci-fi horror masterpiece Alien works because it is slow, atmospheric, and truly terrifying. Much of that terror comes from watching the various forms of an unknown alien species wreaking havoc on the crew of the Nostromo,…

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Middlewest 1 Hides Magic in Plain Sight | Retcon Punch

by Patrick Ehlers This article contains SPOILERS. If you haven’t read the issue yet, proceed at your own risk! I regularly make the claim that I "don't believe in spoilers." And that's like 90% true - if a work can be "spoiled" by learning one detail of what happens in it, it's probably not going to…

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Colonialism, Manipulation and Art in Darth Vader 23 | Retcon Punch

by Michael DeLaney This article contains SPOILERS. If you haven’t read the issue yet, proceed at your own risk! I have very little love for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story -- many things come off as arbitrary, but nothing more so than Darth Vader's "lava castle" on Mustafar. But as he has done since the beginning…

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Redefining Archie in a Post-Riverdale world in Archie 700 | Retcon Punch

by Spencer Irwin This article contains SPOILERS. If you haven't read the issue yet, proceed at your own risk! When Mark Waid and Fiona Staples relaunched Archie a few years ago they had the daunting goal of modernizing the franchise without losing its classic charm, but one thing they didn't have to contend with was the influence…

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