This article focuses on what it’s like to play Rare’s multiplayer pirate simulator Sea Of Thieves all by your lonesome. Next week, we’ll be following it up with a roundtable discussion based on the A.V. Club staff’s multiplayer sessions.
Every two weeks, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s Deathstroke #23. Written by Christopher Priest (Black Panther, Inhumans: Once And Future Kings) with art by Diogenes Neves (Demon Knights, Green Lantern: New Guardians), inker Jason Paz (Convergence, Batman & Robin…
In 100 Episodes, The A.V. Club examines the shows that made it to that number, considering both how they advanced and reflected the medium and what contributed to their popularity and/or longevity. This entry covers Ally McBeal, which ran for five seasons and 112 episodes from 1997 to 2002, premiering 20 years ago on…
Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009)
My mom got a stomachache almost every time it rained. Considering we lived in Houston, with its humid, storm-happy climate fed by the Gulf Of Mexico a mere 45 miles away, she had a lot of stomachaches. The rain usually came, not with a gentle patter, but in torrents shot like rifle rounds from deep gray, almost black…
As a plot device, the apocalypse is as old as fiction itself. Old enough to appear in the epic poems passed around Mesopotamia, where tales of great, world-destroying floods were shrugged off as just a bunch of liberal hand-wringing. Old enough to inspire countless myths, murals, and Kirk Cameron movies—an entire…
Note: This article touches on plot points from Game Of Thrones’ seventh season.
