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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 Although I’ve long been more of a Star Wars fan than a Star Trek fan, there is something undeniably extraordinary about a television show that broke barriers by casting minorities in important roles long before such a thing was the norm. Or, to some, before such a thing was even deemed “acceptable”. And yet, the first, iconic Star Trek series gave us Nichelle Nichols, a Black woman, as Lieutenant Uhura and George Takei, a Japanese man, as Lieutenant Sulu all the way back in 1966. These weren’t secondary characters or the stereotypical portrayals of race that...

Written by Angela Rairden Trish Stratus is widely regarded as one of the greatest female professional wrestlers in the history of sports entertainment. A seven-time WWE Women’s Champion and one-time Hardcore Champion, Stratus was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013. Hailing from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Stratus began her career as a fitness model before signing with WWE (then WWF) in November of 1999. She would make her TV debut in 2000 as a valet for tag team T & A as a heel, which would soon lead to her in-ring debut in a mixed tag match where...

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...