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Aquaman Has the Best Rogues’ Gallery, Actually
While much ado is made about Batman’s iconic enemies being clever inversions of his own neurosis, or how the Flash’s rogues are everyday career criminals who’ve deliberately rebranded themselves with a fun gimmick, it seems Aquaman’s are rarely discussed in the same positive breath. We’re here to make the case that a pantheon of ocean-themed…
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Everything You Need to Remember About Aquaman Before The Lost Kingdom
When people think of the DC films of the past several years, they mostly think of the failures. The controversies. What they don’t usually think of are the successes, of which there were many, and none more so than Aquaman. James Wan’s 2018 film starring Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson,…
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An Opera Written in a Concentration Camp Is Being Turned Into a Genre-Bending Graphic Novel
Eighty years ago Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann, imprisoned in the Nazis’ Czechoslovakian ghetto at Terezín, wrote Der Kaiser Von Atlantis, a one-act opera that imagined a world where the famous underwater kingdom never actually sunk. While the two didn’t live to see their work performed, now it’s been transformed into a genre-mixing graphic novel.
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9 Iconic NASA Stamps Issued by the U.S. Postal Service
The U.S. Postal Service just released a majestic, glittery, and fabulous new stamp to commemorate the Webb Telescope, the most powerful space-based observatory ever built. The new addition is a reminder of the many striking stamps that have celebrated U.S. achievements in space over the past seven decades.