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October 17, 2026 9:13 am

Dani Danger #1: And So It Begins (Review)

Neil Raymundo October 17, 2026 No Comments

Writer: Tracey Wheeler Noonan Artist: Ricardo J. Silva Danger Studios, October 2026 There is something particularly and recurrently amusing about the idea of having to deal with bureaucracy after death. One would think that dying would at least get you out of administrative procedures, but apparently even the afterlife isn’t free from the sort of institutional nonsense we have to put up with in the living world. We have seen it most recently in popular culture in Marvel Studio’s Loki (the TVA begins with a 1950s ticket dispenser and a queue, and gets worse from there), and most memorably in cinema, in Beetlejuice. It is a common enough plot for it to be listed on the TV Tropes website: see https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CelestialBureaucracy. So why does Dani Danger #1: And So It Begins seem so original? The comic is a creator-owned dark fantasy comedy written by Tracey Wheeler Noonan, with illustrations from

60 Years of Galactus

Neil Raymundo October 15, 2026 No Comments

Created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee Marvel Comics, 1966 The American superhero genre of comic books is rife with conquerors, petty criminals, and megalomaniacs obsessed with political power. One of the most enduring threats that has plagued Marvel Comics’ over-crowded roster of superheroes is one that can’t be classified as evil. He does not care about ruling the cosmos, amassing wealth, or satiating his ego. When Galactus appears in a comic, he (usually) has one simple motivation: like the teenage boys who were his initial audience, he is always hungry. Galactus first stomped into the pages of comic books in 1966, along with his herald Silver Surfer, in Fantastic Four #48. A creation of American comic book luminaries Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, this colossal creature represented something far grander than standard costumed villainy. With a giant letter G on his chest, this was, for teen readers, the inscrutable