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Otaku Corner: Devil May Cry Ep. 3 & 4

Devil May Cry Ep. 3 & 4 ratchet action, manipulation Welcome back to another edition of Otaku Corner! As GI gets ready for Hollow’s Eve ’25, I thought that this would be the perfect time to return to Netflix’s animated … Continue reading

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Strip Talk #44: Seeing familiar faces in media should be standard

Listen, representation matters. I don’t know how many times I can stress this in Gaming Insurrection and elsewhere, but it’s a big deal for someone of color to see folks who look like them in media and entertainment. Whether it’s … Continue reading

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Anime Lounge: Tomo-chan is a Girl!

Series: Tomo-chan is a Girl! Episodes: 1-13 Premise: Junichiro (Jun) Kubota and Tomo Aizawa are childhood best friends who hang out together and walk to and from school every day. Tomo is a tomboy who fell in love with Jun … Continue reading

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Top 5 List: Our Favorite Monsters Edition

Frankenstein & Igor – Castlevania The gruesome twosome is all over this issue and with good reason: They are one of the earliest hard boss battles in video games. Facing them as the fourth boss in the 1986 classic Castlevania … Continue reading

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Property Review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

New chapters arise from ashes of grief in Wakanda Grief is a wonderous thing. Despite knowing the stages intimately, we are sometimes still in the throes some days. As it were when Black Panther’s sequel, Wakanda Forever, arrived, we were … Continue reading

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Marvel Character Highlight #42: Dormammu

(All information courtesy of the Marvel Database and Wikipedia) Name: Dormammu Alias: The Dread One, Dread Dormammu, Eater of Souls, He-Who-Waits, Lord of Darkness, Lord of Chaos, Lord of the Dark Dimension, Keeper of the Mindless Ones Affiliation: Hell Lords, … Continue reading

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Top 5 List: Marvel Characters Who Do Too Much Edition

Lucas Bishop (X-Men) Don’t get us wrong: We love Bishop. We love him for his tenacity and his love for the X-Men ideology. However, when it came to mutant messiah Hope Summers, he did entirely too much and was absolutely … Continue reading

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Strip Talk #43: Man of Steel looking fragile in tired reboot

Superman isn’t looking, well super. I admit, I’m highly biased. I’m traditionally not a Superman fan. I don’t acknowledge anyone in the big screen role except for Christopher Reeve and Henry Cavill, and I don’t like this push for reboots … Continue reading

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Property Review: Kill Bill Vol. 2

Kill Bill Vol. 2 Miramax, 2003 A conclusion best served cold Kill Bill Vol. 2 continues the Bride’s rip-roaring tale of revenge, and it’s a good ride. In the second volume, the Bride reveals her name – Beatrix Kiddo – … Continue reading

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Otaku Corner: Devil May Cry Anime Ep. 1 & 2

Devil’s in the details with fantastic DMC adaptation In previous issues of GI, I covered various Devil May Cry games and the manga tie-ins to DMC 3. The Netflix adaptation of DMC is Capcom-approved but created by Castlevania director Adi … Continue reading

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