If you saw the 2018 Venom movie, you may remember that the post-credits sting was a little puzzling. The scene showed journalist Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) visiting a prison where he meets a murderer played by Woody Harrelson, with a distinctly Ronald McDonald-looking hairstyle. This guy is Cletus Kasady, and hell have a much bigger...
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This is a preview of our pop culture newsletter The Daily Beasts Obsessed, written by senior entertainment reporter Kevin Fallon. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox each week, Kristen Bell Is So Good in The Good Place The Good Place you fat dink. But the series managed to reveal humanityin all its moral...
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Furries to the rescue! A pack of attendees who had just left the annual FurCon convention in San Jose on Friday pounced on and subdued a man they say was assaulting a female victim in his car. According to NBC Los Angeles, the event at the convention center had just ended when furry Kin Z....
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At the start of the documentary Feels Good Man, cartoonist Matt Furie bends down in a marsh and scoops up a small green frog no bigger than his thumb. He looks like a dad who probably owns a skateboard—shorts, patterned shirt, yellow ball cap, California chill. Furie smiles as the frog settles on his outstretched...
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Last fall, a prolific photographer who asked not to be named noticed a sharp, unexplained drop-off in earnings on his Patreon page, where fans shell out cash for tiered subscriptions to his photos of well-lit nude models. Then, in December, he received an anonymous email with a link to a website called Yiff.Party. When he...
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Hannah Gadsby made butchness cool again. Now a crop of queer comics are getting back to boots, quiffs and taches Sarah Keyworth has, she says, a weird kind of relationship with masculinity. She appears confident in her dapper, boyish looks, with her short quiffed hair, but behind that handsome veneer are insecurities. I almost have...
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A heartbreaking wartime tale of a Korean comfort woman stands out in an excellent year in which stalwarts Seth and Chris Ware continued to expand the horizons of the form This would have been an extraordinary year for graphic novels even had no other comics save for Seths Chris Wares Sensible Footwear (Myriad), Kate Charlesworths...
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Reports suggest director set to make followup to box office hit Last weekend, Joker Todd Phillipss origins story about Batmans nemesis passed $1bn at the global box office, having already beaten Deadpool to become the highest-grossing R-rated film ever. Talk of a sequel has been rife since the films article in the Hollywood Reporter suggests...
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PHILADELPHIAFive teen boys sit around a long, wooden table after school on a Tuesday night. Each has secured a slice or two of pizza as a much older man writes on a white board in a room that resembles the childrens section of a library. On the wall directly above, hangs a photo of Barack...
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Well, not to worry, because artist John Atkinson of ‘Wrong Hands’ has you covered. The illustrator created a series of cartoons that will help any lover of the written word catch up on the literature they missed out on. Whether it’s the classics or popular modern hits. Scroll down for the rest of our interview...
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