The Best Made-Up Worlds Are Made Up of Real Parts
At Disneyland, though, most of the weird historical details are also made up. In Disney parlance, topic-delimited sections of theme parks are called “lands” (like Tomorrowland), and the new one…
Falcons, Lokis, Nerd Canons, and Why You Don’t Have to Care
One question might occur to anyone watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a good show so far, shaping up into a look at race politics in America, and also…
‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Is Just a Movie
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. A quick (as possible) history lesson: Back…
Nation Infuriated Sunday Comic Strips Still Wildly Unsynchronized With Weekday Storylines
WASHINGTON—Bristling with anger as they paged through the news over breakfast, the nation was reportedly furious this weekend that the narratives of the comic strips in their Sunday papers remained…