Gene Luen Yang may well be one the most innovative voices in the modern world of comics. The California-born author and artist has published a range of graphic novels featuring original characters and plots during his career, including American Born Chinese, Level Up, Boxers and Saints, and Secret Coders.
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Think about every movie you’ve ever watched. How does it end? Does the lead character fall in love or do the two main characters end up together? Is the character motivated by someone they love and subsequently become harmonious before the movie is over? Movies are exhausting the use of love as a motivation, and it is time for a change.
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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was first detected in China in late December of 2019 and was later declared an outbreak on January 30, 2019.
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Two-headed deer, mountain men torturing people, a viral city to house people’s consciousness, a radiation death wave, body snatching and a green fog that seems to exist outside the realm of possibility. Each season of the CW’s post-apocalyptic show “The 100” delivers more and more unexpected things for the characters to face and overcome — surprising the audience left and right since its start in 2014. The series is based in a future where Earth has been destroyed by nuclear bombs, leaving the radiated land uninhabitable and the last of the human population living in space. But, when their spaceship
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COVID-19 has taken over not only our physical world, but our virtual one. I go to the grocery store and see shelves empty. I drive past my university’s campus and see the once packed parking lots now full of available spaces. I pass houses with college students moving out and moving back home to their families.
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Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19, otherwise known as the novel Coronavirus, my college education has moved online and I was forced to leave my self reliant life behind.
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An opinionated essay by Daily Planet Reporter, Clare Cade. On July 20, 1969, at approximately 20:17 UTC, two Americans made history by becoming the first men to step foot on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin turned President Kennedy’s space mission into a reality with this voyage—but some conspiracy theorists believe that it was all a lie.
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In the new Warner Bros. direct to DVD/Blue-ray feature film “Justice League vs. The Fatal Five,” earths greatest heroes face off against power hungry villains from the future. From legendary animator Bruce Timm comes this thrilling adventure slated to excite fans of the DC Animated Universe (DCAU). Before there was the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe, there was Bruce Timm’s DCAU. Fan favorite shows like “Batman: The Animated Series,” “Batman Beyond” and “Justice League Unlimited” were just a few major building blocks for this universe and are responsible for introducing iconic DC characters to a new generation
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Sacrifices come in many forms. Many times people recognize them as someone choosing to die in order to save the greater good. However, a character can also sacrifice their time and comfort in order to help others. The media represents these different types of sacrifices all the time in TV shows, comic books, movies, and books. Today, the Daily Planet team came together to celebrate and share some of their favorite and memorable sacrifices in the media for Supreme Sacrifice Day. The remainder of this article may contain potential spoilers.
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Bruce Wayne has a healthy ego. We know this from his many exploits from “Year 1” to “Knightfall,” a myriad of conversations with his many mentees, Justice League leadership banter over the decades, conversations with Alfred over late dinners and of course all the Wayne women. But it is in his Hall of Trophies that we see the real Bruce Wayne, through the physical evidence he has chosen to collect and showcase in The Hall. Dressed as a Bat at night, he hides his true identity as he strives to take down those with evil identities all around him, to
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