Month: June 2018

Amazon is launching four new titles through its digital comics platform ComiXology.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new projects are Savage Game, a sci-fi Dr. Moreau style story created by NFL player Ryan Kalil, co-written by Shawn Kittelsen, with art from Chris B. Murray; Superfreaks, a tale of teenage superhero sidekicks written by Elsa Charretier and Pierrick Colinet, and art from Margaux Saltel making her series debut; the continuation of long-running series Elephantmen 2261: The Death of Shorty, created and written by Richard Starkings with art by Axel Medellin and Boo Cook; and Ask For Mercy, also from Starkings but art this time coming from Abigail Jill Harding.

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June brings us BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, Sushi Striker, Jurassic World Evolution, Mario Tennis Aces, and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus.

Want to be in Japan? These games are the next best thing.

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow…

“I don’t think God rested on the seventh day.”

It’s so great to have Anthony Hopkins back on the show!

Season 2 has been purposefully untethered. Because it’s about the entire park being in the throes of bloody chaos, these episodes are an unhinged collage, sometimes a bit of a mess, with no real center, with everyone’s stories sent spiraling in the wake of Dolores killing Ford at the end of the Season 1 finale.

This isn’t to say that Hopkins’ Ford is naturally a “beacon of answers,” but us just knowing that he knows things he’s not sharing, that he has a plan that hasn’t been fully revealed to us, always gave the series an undercurrent of confidence. “Les Écorchés” was the biggest episode of the season, with violence on par with some of the opening chapters that showcased the hosts’ rampage through the park terrain.

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When Star Trek’s Original Series first aired in the 1960s, one theme was a constant – the theme of looking to the future. Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the future centred itself around the philosophy of working to better oneself and the rest of humanity, about looking ahead to the future, rather than languishing in the mistakes of the past. Of course, it wasn’t about forgetting those mistakes – it was about learning from them, and moving onwards.

This theme was carried right through The Next Generation (TNG) era shows and films. They all looked to the future; to the continuing evolution and betterment of humanity.

Things changed upon the release of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2001, which began a trend of producers and writers choosing to focus on a period of time before The Original Series (TOS). Enterprise and the currently airing Discovery are both set in the Prime timeline, before the events of TOS, while the J.J. Abrams produced films are all set parallel to the Original Series, but in the entirely new Kelvin timeline. The chance of a series or film that is set in the post-TNG time period being produced is beginning to look very slim indeed.

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