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This installment’s question comes from A.V. Club contributor Zack Handlen:

In the first episode of Penny Dreadful, an American gunslinger is recruited to help fight monsters in Victorian-era…

In Gameological Unplugged, Samantha Nelson looks at trends and new developments in the vast world of tabletop games.

Erik Larson has spent much of his career writing about history’s unlikely intersections, but none of these have been…

On Bastion’s official soundtrack, Rucks, the carburetor-throated narrator, muses that one of the worst things about…

The problem with prequels is how to tell a satisfying story when the ending is already a foregone conclusion. The…

This question was inspired by a submission from Gameological (1.0) commenter EmperorNortonI and our recent…

The back jacket of Love In The Age Of Mechanical Reproduction compares Judd Trichter’s debut novel to Blade Runner.…

Sequels to comedy films are rarely as funny as their originals. An entertaining concept—like The Hangover’s group of…

Perhaps no other superhero is involved in as many “what if?” scenarios as Superman. Comic writers have posited how…

Nostalgia is a powerful force. Old video games seem to be constantly finding new life through reboots or re-releases…

Every December, instead of searching for a group consensus, Gameological looks back at the year in games through…

Welcome back to AVQ&A (Gameological edition), where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

This was an odd year for books, usually the quiet introspective cousin at the pop culture family gatherings. But the …

In a 2002 episode of the Justice League animated series, the supervillain Vandal Savage uses time travel to give the…

Seinfeld has often been called “a show about nothing,” and even fans wondered how it could be so successful with so…

Crossovers can be a dicey proposition. Whether in comic books, movies, television shows, or video games, they have…

The 1999 animated series Batman Beyond took place in Gotham’s dark cyberpunk future, where old age forced Bruce…

Talk about facing death with dignity, these 13 shows fully acknowledged their final chapters.