The Shared Universe https://www.theshareduniverse.com/ The Internet's Bay Bridge connecting the Bay Area's comic fandom. Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:13:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Unfortunate Return of the Pandemic Panic Film Festival https://www.theshareduniverse.com/the-unfortunate-return-of-the-pandemic-panic-film-festival/ Thu, 30 Sep 2021 04:12:34 +0000 https://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=3261 Last year I came up with the idea of the Pandemic Panic Film Festival. One of the few good things to come out of the pandemic was the at-home accessibility of film festival screenings. The Telluride Horror Show and Nightstream Film Festival aligned in such a way that their virtual screenings meant two weeks of […]

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]]> Warner Bros. Pictures provides cinemas a long runway for reopening https://www.theshareduniverse.com/warner-bros-pictures-provides-cinemas-a-long-runway-for-reopening/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 21:33:29 +0000 https://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=3219 Warner Bros. Pictures is saving cinema.  In early December of 2020, I first sat down to write this article. That first line was going to be my headline. The same day HBOMax/theater release strategy felt like the best possible decision considering the state of the world. Not every theater in the country was closed. Those […]

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]]> Future State: The Green Lantern Timeline https://www.theshareduniverse.com/future-state-the-green-lantern-timeline/ Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:18:03 +0000 https://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=3204 The two Future State: Green Lantern issues contain a total of five stories. Combined, the five stories each provide a puzzle piece in the timeline of Future State. According to the official Future State timeline the main Green Lantern story, Last Lanterns featuring Earth Lantern John Stewart, takes place in the year 2035. We join […]

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]]> Nightstream Review: Ema https://www.theshareduniverse.com/nightstream-review-ema/ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:41:53 +0000 https://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=3179 In no particular order: intoxicating, boring, horny, punk rock, hilarious, horrifying, bewildering.  Those are all of the adjectives that passed through my brain during the viewing of this delicious puzzle of a film. Intoxicating: A visually stunning piece of filmmaking with a perfectly paced score weaving everything together. Boring: I mean, I think? At times, […]

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]]> Telluride Horror Show Review: 12 Hour Shift https://www.theshareduniverse.com/telluride-horror-show-review-12-hour-shift/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:07:19 +0000 https://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=3175 In this day of age, Internet misinformation is just something we expect. We’ve almost reached a point where if something lands in front of you on a website or social network the instinct is to disbelieve. That hasn’t always been the case. One of the very first Internet rumors to take hold on a mass […]

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]]> Frankensteining a pandemic horror film festival https://www.theshareduniverse.com/frankensteining-a-pandemic-horror-film-festival/ https://www.theshareduniverse.com/frankensteining-a-pandemic-horror-film-festival/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:26:14 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=3141 The last time I was in a movie theater was March 13, 2020. COVID-19 had finally arrived on the U.S. shores, and we weren’t quite sure what it would mean, but everything was starting to shut down. I figured it would probably be one of my last opportunities to visit the cinema for a couple […]

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]]> https://www.theshareduniverse.com/frankensteining-a-pandemic-horror-film-festival/feed/ 1 Deep Dive: The Green Lantern #10 (2018) https://www.theshareduniverse.com/deep-dive-the-green-lantern-10-2018/ https://www.theshareduniverse.com/deep-dive-the-green-lantern-10-2018/#comments Sat, 31 Aug 2019 18:41:17 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=2947 The Green Lantern #10 is another issued packed to the gills with characters from the Multiverse and beyond. It establishes that a group of Green Lanterns from multiple Multiverses has been meeting in secret to monitor the Multiverse. They call themselves the Guardians of the Multiverse. Amusingly, they appear to have never bothered inviting Hal […]

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]]> https://www.theshareduniverse.com/deep-dive-the-green-lantern-10-2018/feed/ 3 Deep Dive: The Green Lantern #9 (2018) https://www.theshareduniverse.com/deep-dive-the-green-lantern-9-2018/ Fri, 16 Aug 2019 04:01:31 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=2945 Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s ninth issue of The Green Lantern features a cast of dozens. We’re introduced to a new cosmic superteam called “The United Planets of Superwatch,” Hal Jordan takes us on a recreational swords and sorcery adventure with his D&D group on the planet Atmoora, we get our first glance of the combined Green Lanterns of the Multiverse […]

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]]> Deep Dive: The Green Lantern #8 (2018) https://www.theshareduniverse.com/deep-dive-the-green-lantern-8-2018/ https://www.theshareduniverse.com/deep-dive-the-green-lantern-8-2018/#comments Sun, 04 Aug 2019 16:37:29 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=2941 There are few team-ups more iconic than that of Green Arrow and Green Lantern. The odd couple team-up, a moralistic space cop and an anti-establishment vigilante, was defined by the creative team of Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams. The relationship was fleshed out in the pages of the Green Lantern series, which became Green Lantern/Green […]

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]]> https://www.theshareduniverse.com/deep-dive-the-green-lantern-8-2018/feed/ 4 Who Are The Multiverse Green Lanterns? https://www.theshareduniverse.com/who-are-the-multiverse-green-lanterns/ Fri, 02 Aug 2019 18:32:28 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=2891 Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s The Green Lantern issue 10 cracked open the Multiverse and introduced as to the “Guardians of the Multiverse.” This team is a collection of Green Lanterns from different Earths (perhaps more correctly Universes because they aren’t all from the Earth in their Universe). Thanks to the solicitation for issue 10 we know […]

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