Dailyposts

Larson didn’t do deep . He didn’t do inspirational. Many of his cartoons required you to think, but not because they were thoughtful in the lofty sense. They required thought because Larson’s work was brilliant, and you sometimes had to figure out what the punchline was. For example, this comic strip where an artist is painting a woman as a half-fly creature. You likely see the woman or the painting first, and you wonder why the artist is painting her that way. Only after inspecting the comic more closely do you see the dead fly on his glasses. Larson’s work often requires the reader to investigate something, but usually not in any kind of overly deep way. source https://www.polygon.com/best-far-side-quote-ever/

Every once in a while, I come across a line that feels bigger than the book that birthed it. Of course, there are classics with years of literary study behind them that speak volumes on the nature of society, technology, or the world writ large. But few are quite as elegant or as profoundly humanistic as the final moments of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic . The 1972 novel offers a very different kind of sci-fi ending than its myriad predecessors and successors. source https://www.polygon.com/best-scifi-book-closing-line/

Steven Soderbergh is stepping in to help finish filming The Batman Part 2 while director Matt Reeves attends to an ongoing family matter. source https://www.polygon.com/the-batman-part-2-steven-soderbergh-production-update/

The legendary science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” The lines between sci-fi and fantasy blur in some of the most popular entertainment franchises like Star Wars , Warhammer 40,000 , and the Marvel Cinematic Universe , along with classic book series like Dune and Dragonriders of Pern. If you’re looking for a new world to explore and can’t decide if you want it filled with spaceships or dragons, you don’t necessarily have to choose. Just pick something from this list of the best science fantasy books of the 21st century. source https://www.polygon.com/best-science-fantasy-books-21st-century/

There’s something about the RPG genre. These games tell amazing stories players want to experience time and time again, are populated by memorable characters, and often explore deep themes — even if their heroes do tend to have memory problems, spiky hair, and swords the size of New Jersey. source https://www.polygon.com/best-rpgs-underrated-last-decade/

Not all heroes wear capes. Nor do all of them have arms and legs or even a physical form altogether. source https://www.polygon.com/visionquest-jarvis-death/