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A look at some of my favorite books I checked out over the last year. Over the last decade or so, most of my reading has been has been almost exclusively comic books and graphic novels. I really got into collected editions and fell in love *hard* with the medium to the point that it…
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A quick look at the coolest things I watched during the past year – not *just* from this year though. The two mediums of art I spend the most time with are the written & drawn word and the interactive. Books, comics, and video games have been my leading artistic passions for most of my…
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My personal best of list for games I played in 2025 2025 has been considered yet another banner year for game releases. From massive RPGs like Kingdom Come: Deliverance II to hugely awaited sequels such as Hollow Knight: Silksong and Death Stranding 2, this has been a year of incredible variety and quality with successes…
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A look into an entire subset of the reading world stays so popular, and some personal picks from the Jackals library. In the world of genre fiction, one of the main objectives of a writer is to immerse the audience in the world they have created. In some stories, that can mean making a story…
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Why Alien is such a “Perfect Organism” of thematically rich sci-fi horror. The marriage of science fiction and horror began as we know it with Ridley Scott’s Alien. A fusion of Lovecraftian cosmic horror, H.R. Giger’s sexually charged biomechanical nightmare vision, and Dan O’Bannon’s thematically rich writing, Alien is a landmark of multiple genres with…
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Jumping headfirst into one of gaming’s most iconic and intimidating genres I’ve actually long held the belief that fighting games are objectively the coolest genre of video game. As much as I love great RPG’s and shooters, no other style of game aside from insane character action games embodies the adage of “hit button, make…
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How Rockstar’s magnum opus stands as the final statement from one of America’s most famous genres Spoilers for Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2 Ahead Seven years after its release, there’s no denying that Red Dead Redemption 2 is Rockstar’s finest work. The sequel to their also excellent Red Dead Redemption (2010) builds upon and…
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How the Doom franchise’s constant evolution has kept us playing for over 30 years. No matter how many titles have come out over the years, no series is more synonymous with the first-person shooter genre than Doom. From the 1993 original that created the genre to the newly released Doom: The Dark Ages, Doom has…
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The studios may be lost, but not the battle. Though it pains me to say so, I’ve been a bit burned out on Star Wars for a couple years now. Ever since the utter embarrassment that was Rise of Skywalker, few releases from Disney’s stewardship of the Galaxy Far, Far Away have done anything to…
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The surprise rebirth of a legend. Back in August of last year, I was writing about how my favorite publication in the gaming space was being shuttered. After more than 30 years printing kickass magazines full of insider news and sharp games criticism, Game Informer was shut down by their *ingenious* overlords at GameStop –…
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