Last week The News-Letter introduced you to the visual novel; this week, Alex Mui continues by covering the history and creation of the medium. The visual novel traces its roots back to the 1983 detective video game, The Portopia Serial…
Alan Moore, regarded as the greatest writer of comics, has proclaimed the age of creative storytelling over. He noted how storytelling is still clinging to the works of the Victorian Era — with all proceeding stories simply being rehashed ideas…
First, forget all your previous notions about My Little Pony. This is not your mother’s show. The phrase “never judge a book by its cover” has never been truer for Friendship is Magic. The show was created Lauren Faust, the…
South Park fans anxiously awaited the first new episode of the autumn mid-season since the downer ending of the spring mid-season finale. In “You’re Getting Old” the creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, left viewers with an ambiguous episode which…
Hopkins hosted JohnCon, its annual science fiction and fantasy convention last weekend. The event, which was run by the Hopkins Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (HopSFA), was held in Levering Hall and lasted for two days straight, from 5 p.m….
In the second installment of the Voyage and Discovery lecture series, Dr. D. A. Henderson, one of the doctors credited with eradicating smallpox and now a professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke about his experiences fighting epidemics….