Column Mandalorians Have Always Lived at the Gritty Edge of Star Wars It’s 2019, and there is suddenly value in knowing what the heck a Mandalorian is. For fans of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, ... By Kenneth LoweNovember 16, 2019
The New Mythology How the Space Western Evolved from Star Trek to The Outer Worlds Space Western: A pernicious form of used furniture where every Martian or Jovian town looks and sounds like Dodge City. – author Lewis ... By Kenneth LoweNovember 2, 2019
Column Studio Ghibli’s Movies Are Going Digital Just When We Need Them Most I think I’ve been lucky because I’ve been able to participate in the last era when we can make films with paper, pencils, ... By Kenneth LoweOctober 26, 2019
The New Mythology The Legacy of Redwall Lives on in Root, D&D, and Other Fantasy Games There are franchises and then there are phenomena, and the difference is the latter can be a lot harder to explain. To properly ... By Kenneth LoweSeptember 28, 2019
Column Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Used the Macabre to Teach Kids About Storytelling There’s an eerie and fascinating power to stories that are so old that we don’t know whom the muses first whispered them to. ... By Kenneth LoweSeptember 7, 2019
The New Mythology Metal Wolf Chaos Skewers the Fighting President Trope and America Itself “Did anybody ever see Washington naked? It is inconceivable. He had no nakedness, but, I imagine, was born with clothes on and his ... By Kenneth LoweAugust 23, 2019
The New Mythology Barbie: How a Sex Worker-Inspired Doll Transformed the Way Girls Play Here’s the power of Mattel’s first lady: I was hiking up a mountain in Colombia when I encountered a motley crew of European ... By Kenneth LoweAugust 12, 2019
Column Can a Video Game Really Capture the Tragedy of Gollum? “And even Bilbo’s story suggests the kinship. There was a great deal in the background of their minds and memories that was very ... By Kenneth LoweJuly 26, 2019
Column Wolfenstein: The New Order Made Nazis Terrifying Again It had taken two hundred years to dispose of the American aborigines, and Germany had almost done it in Africa in fifteen years. ... By Kenneth LoweJuly 25, 2019
Tabletop From Tolkien to Drizzt, Elves Remain Key to Dungeons & Dragons’ Fantasy In the 45 years since its first publication, Dungeons & Dragons has only widened its options for players to create any protagonist imaginable. ... By Kenneth LoweJuly 5, 2019
Column Knights of the Old Republic Forged a New Path for Star Wars The latest news out of the galaxy far, far away has confirmed that a script for a Star Wars movie based on the ... By Kenneth LoweJune 28, 2019
Column Kitana Fulfilled Her Destiny but Mortal Kombat 11 Erased It Mortal Kombat 11 marks 27 years of the series. An entire generation of gamers has grown to adulthood and had kids of their ... By Kenneth LoweMay 24, 2019