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Superheroes thrive in animation. The medium is uniquely positioned to capture the visual possibilities and sheer imagination of comic books without having to compromise anything. It's the reason the highest-rated superhero show of all time on IMDb is a cartoon. As we have seen time and time again, from the masterpiece that is "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" to the gripping drama of "X-Men '97," animation can serve these stories in a way that live-action can't.

Still, that doesn't mean every effort is a home run. For every "Batman: The Animated Series," there's a "Batman Unlimited." While the '90s saw plenty of masterful cartoons based on superheroes, even Marvel ones with "X-Men: The Animated Series" and "Spider-Man," there was still something missing — The Avengers. So, in the late '90s, Fox Kids decided to fix this grave mistake and create an Avengers cartoon. Before the show could get greenlit, however,...

This article contains spoilers for Moana 2.

Disney has been a trusted brand for producing family-friendly all-age films. From original stories to classic fairy tales, many Disney movies are widely loved and long celebrated. Magical creatures and friendly animals make most stories less frightening despite tackling dark themes. The promise of love between a princess and a prince is also able to gloss over the disturbing truth underneath their union.

In fact, many classic Disney movies are more problematic than fans noticed. The portrayal of romance goes wrong in many movies. From Snow White to Moana 2, what seems like a magical journey about empowerment and adventure might have some very disturbing details lying in between the lines.Most Love Is Instant

Disney loves an instant love story. From Snow White to Cinderella, love at first sight is Disney's style. What's gluing two characters together is rarely explained in a Disney movie,...

Ki-Adi-Mundi's controversial cameo in The Acolyte sparks debate over retcon history in Star Wars lore. Jedi rules against attachments changed with Attack of the Clones, impacting Ki-Adi-Mundi's backstory. Legends retcon explains Ki-Adi-Mundi's multiple wives due to Cerean race, showcasing evolving Star Wars story.

Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi has become incredibly controversial after his cameo in The Acolyte episode 4, but he has always been subject to retcons - including one by George Lucas himself. Essentially a background character in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Ki-Adi-Mundi has never exactly had a vocal fanbase. His greatest canon achievement, in John Jackson Miller's The Living Force, is being dull enough to order a flavorless slushie - leaving the poor vendor utterly bewildered.

Remarkably, Ki-Adi-Mundi has become incredibly controversial over the last week. It's because of a debate over Ki-Adi-Mundi's age, with claims an unexpected cameo in The Acolyte was a continuity-breaking retcon. But, although...

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The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Acolyte Episode 4 "Day," now available on Disney +.

Ki-Adi Mundi's cameo in The Acolyte has sparked controversy, as it potentially contradicts the series' canon. Mundi's appearance in The Acolyte suggests that he is older than previously established and brings his Jedi rank into question. The biggest issue with Ki-Adi Mundi's appearance may lie in a potential plot hole surrounding the existence of a Sith Lord in The Acolyte.

The fourth episode of Star Wars: The Acolyte surprised fans with the bizarre cameo of Ki-Adi Mundi alongside a group of Jedi discussing the murders committed by Mae Aniseya.

Although Bib Fortuna’s story has a dark ending in the Star Wars canon universe, his fate in Legends is pure nightmare fuel. Debuting in Return of the Jedi, Bib Fortuna is Jabba the Hutt’s majordomo, and while he appears aboard Jabba’s sail barge shortly before Luke Skywalker leaps into action to rescue Han Solo, Fortuna’s fate is left ambiguous by the film. In the post-2014 canon universe, the rest of Bib Fortuna’s story is shown in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, but Legends reveals his fate via a short story and a Rogue Squadron story arc, and it is far darker than canon’s version.

In both canon and Legends, Bib Fortuna survives the rescue of Han Solo, escaping Jabba’s sail barge before it explodes. In canon, Bib Fortuna takes over the remainder of Jabba’s criminal empire, remaining in power...

At the end of last week we received the news that another highly influential artist pulled up a seat at the great drawing desk in the sky. On the 2nd December Richard Corben passed away at the age of 80. Another talent gone too soon. I had to take a bit of time to put this one together as the bulk of his career is out of my wheelhouse. Upon doing my research I found a large quantity of work for the big two, so I thought by talking about this portion of his career with be a gateway for the readers to discover his larger body of work. Being a big fan of the Cartoonist Kayfabe Youtube channel, not a week geos by when Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg don’t talk about Corben’s art. I don’t think I would be able to write this one without their education.

As we’ve seen in the previous installments of “Clive Barker in Comics,” the author’s short story collection Books of Blood provided a lot of fertile ground for comic book creators. Eclipse published several volumes of comics adapting those short stories, getting a lot of mileage out of one corner of Barker’s overall body of work. It’s interesting, then, that one single novella of Barker’s has gone on to generate much more in the way of adaptations and extensions than the entire contents of Books of Blood. The Hellbound Heart originally appeared in Night Visions 3 (1986), one of a series of collections edited by George R. R. Martin. It’s since become arguably the defining work of Clive Barker’s career: it’s been reprinted in a multitude of mass market and limited stand alone editions, spawned the Hellraiser film series, and became the basis for that...

You may have seen that we’ve been covering Fatale on Daily Dead for the last couple of months. I’m more of a casual comic book reader, so although I’ve been hearing good things about this book when it was first released, it wasn’t something I picked up until recently.

Without going into too many details, Fatale is a horror noir tale that should especially appeal to fans of Lovecraft and the first eight issues have been a huge success for Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.

I wanted to learn more about the series and where it is headed, so I got in touch with Ed Brubaker and sent a number of questions his way. For those that haven’t read Fatale, you’ll learn a bit more about how it all got started. If you’ve been a fan since the first issue, you’ll be...

I was trying to think of a way to start off this review and couldn't really think of anything except that I would consider Ragemoor an “old school” horror comic. To which I thought, what does that even mean? So, I started to ponder what it means for something to be “old school”. Does it mean something that harbors the same tropes and story beats as older horror stories? Does it mean a story that takes place in an “old” setting, so it doesn't function as a present day counter part would? What about a story that is a knockoff or a re-imagining of an older story? If I were to harbor a guess, I would say it could be all of them.

As my mini-rant does suggest, Ragemoor has an old school sensibility and style to it. It is also the product of long time collaborators Jan Strnad and Richard Corben.