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May 2017
Wonder Woman ‘11: Ill-conceived
There is nothing more frustrating than a squandered opportunity. In 2011, as the Smallville series was reaching its finale, Warner Bros. Television and DC Entertainment attempted to capitalise on the interest in its superhero brands… [more]
Wonder Woman: The Promise of Hope
Superheroes are often symbolic representations of any number of emotional, psychological, or behavioral traits. In them, we see highly exaggerated and stylized versions of ourselves. Taking an oath to wage a lifetime war on crime,… [more]
An Amazon and a Crime Writer Walk into a Wardobe: The Retconned Legacy of Dorothy Woolfolk
Last December, the UN decision to strip Wonder Woman of her role as Ambassador to Women and Girls felt a bit like the universe had been retconned. Again. It was ugly timing after the U.S.… [more]
Reflections in a Mirror: Wonder Woman’s Multiverse
Wonder Woman was the first to travel in the Multiverse. While The Flash is often credited with the first stories that not only gave birth to the Silver Age of comics, but opened up the… [more]
It’s Wonder Woman Week at Sequart!
Coinciding with this week’s release of Wonder Woman, the character’s first theatrical motion picture in her long history, Sequart is celebrating Wonder Woman Week! All this week, we’ll be running content focusing on Wonder Woman.… [more]
Better Call Saul Season 3, Episode 7 – Plans and Schemes
Hector Salamanca is the anti-Gustavo. Crude, boorish, selfish, egotistical and demanding of the lowest kind of personal loyalty, he’s the Trump of Mexican gangsters. One would like to think that people like that can only… [more]
Better Call Saul Season 3, Episode 6: Saul
New realities hit Jimmy McGill hard in “Off Brand”, the sixth episode of this season of Better Call Saul. After the previous episode’s explosive climax, which saw Chuck McGill finally “outed” as deeply mentally ill… [more]
Smorgasbord #65: The Allred Family Tree
The highs and lows of media adaptation are explored as we face future TV adaptations of Judge Dredd and Wayward, plus a Hellboy movie reboot by some guys Tom’s rather excited about. In the wild… [more]
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously Now Available on STARZ On Demand
Sequart Organization and Respect Films are proud to announce that Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously is now available to watch on STARZ On Demand. (Once you’ve gotten your fill of STARZ’s American Gods, watch the documentary… [more]
Until the End of the World – A Guide to Garth Ennis’s Comics: Battlefields: The Night Witches
The war story is one of the most convenient nationally defining narratives because it relies on an immediate opposition between nations: Nation A sends its soldiers to destroy those of Nation B, with the success… [more]
Mythic World Rewriting: Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’ Providence
“All countries and all cultures, in the first few centuries that follow their inception, seem to naturally produce their individual supernatural mythologies and webs of folkloric belief. This much we can deduce by looking at… [more]
Samurai Jack: Can He Go Back?
It’s always a challenge writing about a series in progress, especially when you know that by the time your article comes out, it may already be a fairly moot point or some development occurs that… [more]
Smorgasbord #64: The Dangers of Chris Inflation
The Eisner Awards (A.K.A. Brian K. Vaughan’s shelf holders) season is upon us, as well as a new Marvel movie, the first trailer for The Defenders, a TV show being cancelled with no one noticing,… [more]
Better Call Saul Season 3, Episode 5: Hermanos
The reference is so obvious that it must be an influence, but it’s worth mentioning: this week’s Better Call Saul (“Chicanery”) borrows heavily from another text about feuding brothers, namely The Godfather, Part II. In… [more]
Colossal: A Strikingly Original and Fresh Film
(This review is spoiler-free.) Colossal is not a perfect film, and it won’t be to everyone’s taste, but it has several very important virtues that allow it to stand apart from most of the film… [more]
Better Call Saul Season 3, Episode 4: Damaged or Destroyed?
Those of us who were (and are) rabid fans of Breaking Bad will no doubt enjoy the latest Better Call Saul, “Sabrosito”, even more than usual. Just about half this instalment is essentially an episode… [more]
The Framework in Agents of HYDRA
Where do we even begin? This is yet another article that I hadn’t been planning. Well, I’m sorry: that is just an alternative fact. You see, I had been thinking of writing about this arc… [more]