Jack Richardson

Jack Richardson You know that feeling when you discover a new show, and it’s everything you love? Smart, funny, creepy, wildly imaginative, and it slams you in the feels like a heavyweight champion? You know that feeling when a show sets your imagination alight? And you devour every theory...

Jack Richardson With everyone spending more time inside, interest in videogames has soared. But how do you sustain such a notoriously expensive hobby on a student budget? The most basic advice is to buy games you’ll get hours of content from (Red Dead Redemption 2, The Witcher 3, Minecraft...

Jack Richardson On the first day of Freshers, Jack looks at how accurate our favourite uni-based video games are… With COVID hanging around and a good chunk of teaching moving online this year, your regularly scheduled Fabled University ExperienceTM has gone out of the window. Truth is, the closest...

Disney+ is hard at work on a slew of shows set in the MCU that expand on existing characters (WanadaVision, Hawkeye) and introduce new ones (Moon Knight, She Hulk). With most of these shows years away (or longer. Thanks, COVID) I thought I’d recommend the comic runs that inspired...

Jack Richardson In this final part we look at the House of Mouse’s long, problematic road to good representation in its shows, and how TV animation like the Owl House is now setting an example for Disney’s big screen projects to follow. Disney Animation The Owl House, Gravity Falls,...

Jack Richardson After Netflix’s screw ups in Part 3, Part 4 covers how they moved forward after Voltron Legendary Defender and redeemed themselves, by becoming home to one of the biggest queer success stories in animation in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Netflix (Part 2) She-Ra and the...

Jack Richardson Netflix is home to some quality cartoons, but not all of them can stick the landing. Part 3 covers the unfortunate story of how not to handle representation, and the toxic fallout that can follow. Netflix (Part 1) Voltron Legendary Defender Dreamworks’ Voltron Legendary Defender (2016-2018) was...