How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Star Wars Archive

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    Live Through This: Buffy’s Season 9 (And Angel & Faith)

    The Buffy franchise had a big problem after the Season 8 comics ended: the ending had grown out of control and alienated some of the fans.  Even Joss Whedon came out and said that the end of Season 8 didn’t quite work because it tried...

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  • If you'd ended right here, Dragon Age 2, I would've said "Well, not great, but not too bad." But NO.

    Benton’s Best of 2011

    It’s that time of year again, when gifts are opened, snow falls on the ground, and year-end lists take up bandwidth.  I’m sure you’re sick of seeing lists all over the Internet, so I’m going to keep this one short.  Feel free to tell me...

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    How Miles Morales Got Me Back into Superheroes

    What makes a good reboot? That’s the big question for comic book fans right now.  DC’s New 52 is in full swing, doing a (mostly) full reboot of all of their books.  A reboot is intended to distill a comic book to its essence, its...

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    Portal 2: The Part Where He Reviews You

    The seminal gaming experience that shaped me as a young nerd was receiving Myst as a birthday gift when I was 12.  The artistic style, the veneer of interactivity, the emphasis on thinking through complex ideas and puzzles was a huge influence on my approach...

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    Long Live the Queen: A Buffy Season 8 Retrospective

    So what do you do AFTER you change the world? If we analogize every season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to a phase in a young person’s life (high school, college, etc.), Season 8 is that time when you step out of the protective world...

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    The Hutt Eating Its Own Tail: Star Wars Clone Wars Season 3

    Pop quiz: How many episodes of the first half of Season 3 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars are standalone episodes (i.e. not prequel or sequel to any other episode)?  Only one: “Sphere of Influence.”  Every other episode is either part of a two-part story...

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