There’s plenty to love about Star Trek: Prodigy, which is already living up to its name after just ten episodes. Between the return of our favorite Star Trek: Voyager characters, the introduction of an irresistible new cast, and a rich exploration of some of the themes and core concepts that are universal to all Trek shows, Prodigy has really hit the ground running. One example is the introduction of the concept of M-Class Planets in “Dreamcatcher,” and another is the exami

Before there was a queer comics shelf, there was P. Craig Russell, drawing Mahler and Wilde like it was the most natural thing in the world. Now, at 75, he's reviving Night Music, the anthology he launched at Eclipse Comics in 1979. Wayne Alan Harold, Russell's longtime art agent and publishing partner, is running the campaign, billing the book as an all-new hardcover graphic album. Russell is adapting Oscar Wilde's The Fisherman and His Soul, the last and longest story in th

Female characters are getting scarcer in kids' animation — and the data says it's a slide, not a blip. The Geena Davis Institute's “2026 Report on Children's TV Representation,” produced in partnership with Nielsen, delivers the gut-punch: just 40.6% of animated characters in 2025 new programming were female — the lowest share since 2020, and down from a record high of 44.2% in 2023. The Institute flagged animation as a particular trouble spot, noting that female representati