Writer Jordie Bellaire and artist Vanessa R. Del Rey’s story reveals itself in the chewed-up town of Redlands, Florida, circa 1977. Now, a coven of witches wants to hear what it sounds like when powerful men have their necks snapped. Redlands has yet to make entirely clear why these witches have specifically chosen this Floridian enclave, or what exactly drives them (sex? Suffice to say, most of them don’t have the same moral baseline the witches do. Throw in the natural horrors of their vision

A third was to Rebecca Lewis’s new Data & Society report mapping the rise and functioning of YouTube’s “reactionary right,” which I described as “one of the must underestimated forces in politics right now.”It was that third one that attracted some controversy. The intellectual dark web, the reactionary right, and the difficult work of mapping new ideologiesLet’s start in familiar territory. Reactionary movements, then and nowThis brings us to Rubin’s challenge: How can he, or anyone, support sa

Imagine that you’re a MoviePass user with a monthly subscription whose billing cycle runs until the 25th of the month. Or maybe you opened your MoviePass app just to see if any movies were available at all, or to check on the status of your cancellation. Some people have subsequently had trouble canceling or re-canceling their accounts as well:I cancelled MoviePass two weeks ago and it … didn’t cancel? In the meantime, if you think you’ve canceled your MoviePass account, you may want to double

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, an adaptation of the 2011 novel of the same name by Ernest Cline, is about to debut. “Ready Player One is a terrible book and it will be a terrible movie,” the Outline proclaimed. In 2015, Cline released his second book, Armada, to a reception that looked a lot closer to the consensus on Ready Player One today than the consensus on Ready Player One in 2011. When Ready Player One came out, it felt like an escapist fantasy for gamersBack in 2011, it was almost

Video game fans — including some of Trump’s earliest and biggest supporters, many from the Gamergate movement — are furious. As one poster commented on Reddit’s biggest Gamergate-themed message board: “Congratulations Trump supporters, the next push to censor videogames is your fault.”The political elements of Gamergate helped contribute to the rise of the alt-right. Many of Trump’s biggest online supporters came into pro-Trump activism from Gamergate. Some Gamergate supporters have found a way

It wasn’t quite how tech companies wanted to ring in the new year: Earlier this month, computer security researchers revealed massive security flaws that potentially affect the vast majority of personal computers and smartphones ever built. There is no evidence yet that hackers have taken advantage of the security flaws. Meltdown and Spectre are beyond the norm, however, because they allow exploits at the hardware level, the silicon in your machine. That makes fixing the problem much more challe

The TV shows critics went nuts for, from Twin Peaks to The Leftovers, boasted truly minuscule audiences. (This is, yes, a cue for Caroline to gently rib me about Twin Peaks.) Caroline Framke: To be fair, if I had heard more about Twin Peaks along those lines, I doubt I would’ve had any problems with hearing more about Twin Peaks. I do wonder and worry sometimes whether, by putting everything up on giant servers, we’re creating a sense that completism is the only way to watch TV. Julia Alexander:

In this installment, Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff, Alissa Wilkinson, and Genevieve Koski; The Verge’s Tasha Robinson; and Polygon’s Julia Alexander talk about the movies of 2017. What were the movies that let you forget it was 2017 for a few hours? My favorite movies of 2017 fell into a pretty predictable pattern for me: I love movies that keep me guessing and make me feel strong emotions along the way. What are two or three under-the-radar 2017 movies worth checking out, especially ones available for

The episode of the week for December 24 through 30 is “Twice Upon a Time,” the 2017 Christmas special of BBC America’s Doctor Who. Indeed, the four men who’ve played the Doctor since the series rebooted — Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, and Peter Capaldi — have all enjoyed incredibly healthy non-Doctor careers. Moffat is also obsessed with the way the Doctor can think their way out of any problem. The real crisis is whether the 12th Doctor will allow himself to become the 13th Doctor. Ever