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Written by Angela Rairden As a child growing up in the 90’s, I absolutely loved the original Quantum Leap, which ran from 1989-93 but aired on tv for much longer. The hope that each leap would be Dr. Sam Beckett’s eventual leap home was a huge appeal, and watching him “put right the things that went wrong” in each episode was always intriguing. When I learned that NBC had created a sequel to the beloved classic, I was a little on the fence about watching it at first. This was mostly because, to be honest, most of the special effects...

Written by Angela Rairden I recently picked up four new comic series and found all of them to be unique, interesting, and intriguing. Dealing with subject matters ranging from magic to religion to PTSD, these are four not-to-be-missed comics that you should run, not walk, to your local comic book store to gobble up the first issues of before they sell out! EIGHT BILLION GENIES (Image) – Written by Charles Soule, Art by Ryan Browne In issue one of Eight Billion Genies, every person on Earth is unexpectedly gifted a genie of their own and told that their genie will...

Written by: Angela Rairden In a sense, Marvel’s latest installment in the MCU, Thor: Love and Thunder is a call back to the very first Thor film. In that movie, released all the way back in 2011, audiences were first introduced to Chris Hemsworth’s god of thunder – young, brash, and not entirely aware of what life had in store for him. That Thor was one who needed to do a lot of growing up in order to reach his full potential.   Now, in 2022’s Love and Thunder, we are reacquainted with a Thor has been through a lot...

Written by Angela Rairden Poison Ivy finally has her own title again and I couldn’t be happier about it! Written by G. Willow Wilson (the same writer who created Marvel’s Kamala Khan!), this is a deadlier version of Pamela Isley than we’ve seen in a long time. After obtaining god-like powers, only to have those powers stripped from her, Ivy’s feeling less like herself than ever before. Add to that the fact that she’s still processing her complicated break-up from Harley Quinn, and we have a version of Ivy that just wants to watch the world burn. Except, it isn’t...

Written by Angela Rairden Boom Studios’ Grim is exactly my type of comic. It’s horror with a splash of humor, a dash of sexiness, and an unexpected plot twist right in the first issue. Written and created by Stephanie Phillips, who’s currently doing a bang-up job writing Harley Quinn over at DC, with truly gorgeous art by co-creator Flaviano (Power Man and Iron Fist, I Am Groot) Grim is the tale of grim reaper Jessica Harrow. Tasked with ushering the newly dead across the River Styx (if that’s what you want to call it), Jessica’s boredom and disillusionment about her...