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Books and Periodicals, Pop Culture

Sabrina the Teenage Witch Meets Vampirella in a Spellbinding New Comic Book Crossover

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What happens when a teenage witch craving a beach vacation crosses paths with a legendary vampire heroine? Expect magic, mayhem, and a delightfully spooky team-up! Two iconic comic book characters from very different supernatural worlds are joining forces in Sabrina the Teenage Witch X Vampirella, a new crossover series from Archie Comics and Dynamite Entertainment arriving this December. Written by acclaimed comics writer Tini Howard, the series promises a playful blend of classic Archie charm and darker supernatural adventure.

Sabrina Spellman may be a witch, but she’s also a teenager who dreams of a perfectly ordinary summer vacation, complete with sunshine, sand, and all the usual beach-town comforts. When her aunts finally grant her wish, there’s just one small catch: she has to housesit. Accompanied by her ever-adorable feline companion, Salem, Sabrina settles into an idyllic seaside community, hoping to keep her magical abilities under wraps. Unfortunately, one of her neighbors is anything but ordinary.
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Books and Periodicals, Pop Culture

Black Widow and White Widow Return in New Marvel Comic Series

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Marvel is bringing back its Black, White & Blood format with a new four-issue limited series, Black Widow: Black, White & Red Room, arriving in December 2026. The series puts Natasha Romanoff, Black Widow, and Yelena Belova, White Widow, in the spotlight while exploring the sinister Red Room program that helped turn them into deadly operatives.

Each issue will feature three stories: one starring Natasha, another featuring Yelena, and a third exploring the Red Room and the characters whose lives it shaped.

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Food and Drink, Lifestyle

Yes, It Exists: Comics on Coffee!

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Coffee and comic books? Now that’s a crossover I can get behind. I spotted these ridiculously cool bags of Comics on Coffee at Anime NYC, featuring two of Gotham’s most famous residents: Batman and the Joker.

The Dark Knight Roast is a dark roast inspired by Batman, with chocolate and subtle fruit notes, while the Joker’s Blueberry Blast combines dark-roasted Nicaraguan espresso beans with a hint of sweet blueberry — my favorite! (and bonus points for the tagline: Insanely Good!)

Comics on Coffee (now apparently DBA as Heroic Coffee and Tea) has an entire DC-inspired lineup of flavors matched with your favorite heroes and villains including Superman, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow and more. Because sometimes, saving the world — or just surviving a day at a comic convention — requires caffeine.

Arts and Culture

My Lame Cosplay Photos From Anime NYC, 2026!

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Izumi Konata Schoolgirl from Lucky Star Cosplay (All Photos By Gail)

We’ve been over this before. When I’m covering a fan convention like New York Comic Con, Flame Con or Anime NYC, I  just don’t really have the bandwidth — mentally, physically or creatively —t o do the kind of serious cosplay photography that most  of my fellow photographers do. You know the drill: stop someone, ask them to pose, find out exactly who they’re dressed as, photograph all the intricate details and then move on to the next character. Admirable, certainly, but it’s not my strength. My coverage takes much more of a hit-and-run approach.

This is directly related to the reasons I abandoned Halloween costume parties about 20 years ago: my costume ideas are lame and my competitive streak tells me that if I can’t be the best at something, I’d usually rather not play at all. While I have an enormous amount of admiration (read: jealousy) for the cosplayers who pour so much time and creativity into their costumes, I’m perfectly happy to remain an observer and leave the documentation to the experts.

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Arts and Culture

Modern Art Monday Presents: Roy Lichtenstein, I . . . I’m Sorry!

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Though Roy Lichtenstein’s style of comic-derived pop art is now well known, it was radical in the early 1960s. Appropriating the visual language of American mass culture, such as Mickey Mouse, Coca-Cola, and the “funny pages,“ Lichtenstein found his artistic voice by making paintings that at first did not appear to be art. This was his cover – part camouflage, and part red herring – that allowed him to insert his own practice into the art historical milieu; he was in dialogue with the grades, reprising themes from antiquity. I… I’m Sorry! (1965 – 66) is a portrait of Eve as a modern-day woman. Lichtenstein renders her apology unclear, revealing layers of interpretation: is she apologizing for eating the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge? Is she breaking our hearts? Is she sincere with her stammering words? Her simplified features belie the nuanced complexities of her declaration.

Photographed in The Broad Museum in Los Angeles.