NS: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse wins Best Animated Picture

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I didn't see this coming (especially given how most Academy voters don't watch animated films and just vote Disney).

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George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards #5

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"I'm a skeptic about the virtues of "dark and gritty." I think that there was a time when that was revolutionary and exciting and really really interesting, but that time was 1987. Since then, it's been done. Done well, done poorly, remade, replayed, and flogged to death. In this context, "darker and grittier" isn't revolutionary or exciting or interesting; it's desperate and tapped out.

"What I want to do with the comic book -- and with the novels and short stories for that matter -- is move away from the impulse that equates bleakness with realism and try for some actual realism and complexity, only with superpowers. The six-issue arc that I'm working on right now has fights and deaths and Croyd Crenson and all that kind of good stuff, but it's at heart a story about survivor's guilt. If I get another shot after this one, I'd like to do a comedy in the Wild Cards universe. Maybe a few very small, personal stories that don't require the grand epic sweep. Brian Wood put out a series called Demo that I think is really great work along these lines. I would love to see the Wild Cards universe have room for a story about the boy with X-ray vision going to his first day of fifth grade at a new school or telepathic girl coming home for her first Thanksgiving after moving away to college.

"Humane is the new gritty. I think we should go there."

- Daniel Abraham

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Jessica Jones: Purple Daughter #2

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