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Multiversity: The Marvel Cinematic Multiverse And The Power Of Redeeming Continuity

Multiversity: The Marvel Cinematic Multiverse And The Power Of Redeeming Continuity

Solving the grand calculus of the multiverse.

thegamp4 July 25, 2024July 25, 2024 Analysis, Comics, Movies & TV No Comments Read more

The Writing Lodge: How A Great Spider-Man Story (Almost) Solved The Worst

The Writing Lodge: How A Great Spider-Man Story (Almost) Solved The Worst

Don’t deal with the devil unless you’re prepared to dance with demons.

thegamp4 October 26, 2022October 26, 2022 Analysis, Books, Comics, The Writing Lodge No Comments Read more

Lores Of Yria: Haunter Of Dreams review: Passages Through Realms Of Unreality

Lores Of Yria: Haunter Of Dreams review: Passages Through Realms Of Unreality

Don’t stop dreaming, and fight through your nightmares.

thegamp4 June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Books, Comics, Reviews No Comments Read more

Dark Souls/Bloodborne Graphic Novels Review: The Fire Fades, The Nightmare Writhes

Dark Souls/Bloodborne Graphic Novels Review: The Fire Fades, The Nightmare Writhes

From the libraries of Yharnam and Lordran, more journeys await.

thegamp4 February 15, 2020June 8, 2020 Books, Comics, Reviews 1 Comment Read more

Chronicles Of Yria, volume I: Myre: review – Taking In The Journey

Chronicles Of Yria, volume I: Myre: review – Taking In The Journey

Visual storytelling and a true labour of love make this the best graphic novel I’ve read in a long time.

thegamp4 February 5, 2020June 12, 2024 Books, Comics, Reviews No Comments Read more

Sliding Off The Fringe: Why Stories That Use Sliding Timescales Are In Trouble

I’m here to talk to you about fictional universes that use a ‘sliding timescale’. For those of you who just pictured a clock being placed on a diagonal bathroom scale, how do I even begin to explain a concept as

thegamp4 November 5, 2015November 5, 2015 Analysis, Comics No Comments Read more

Amazing Spider-Man: Graveyard Shift review

(Cross-posted from Goodreads!) What a fitting title: the Graveyard Shift trade paperback collects what would be the final issues of Amazing Spider-Man before Marvel decided to revamp their entire canon with Secret Wars, the event that collapsed the Marvel Multiverse

thegamp4 September 13, 2015 Comics, Reviews No Comments Read more

Spider-Man: The Other review

The Other reads at times like a surreal, gruesome fever dream. Though compelling in a strange way, the story’s numerous disjointed plot points and flat-out bizarre narrative tics make it a less satisfying read than it could have been, offering

camaclean May 29, 2014September 1, 2015 Comics, Reviews 1 Comment Read more

The Sacrificial Spider: A Looking-Glass Follow-up

Note: This is the first entry in this blog that has nothing to do with the school project that originally prompted this blog. As such, I wouldn’t expect the intertwining with American narrative genres present in the previous entries. It

camaclean April 25, 2012 Analysis, Comics 2 Comments Read more

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