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Detail of a red brick wall hand-drawn in colored pencil.

What to Do for Dinner

By Sara Clemens • June 7th, 2022

Some people make decisions like *that.*

Two panels of a larger comic strip in which a rich man is served a plate of ice cream while a fool takes notice.

A Fool’s Cap and a Plate of Ice Cream

By Peter Newell and Sara Clemens • May 11th, 2022

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit!

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A line drawing of a girl in cutoff jean shorts and sneakers hanging upside down from a large tree branch. She is beaming.

Extra Lives

By Sara Clemens • April 5th, 2022

I can hunch over Electronic Gaming Monthly in the magazine aisle and pretend to be another angsty videogame geek. Everyone knows those are boys.

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I Know You Are but What Am I?

By Sara Clemens • January 10th, 2022

Little Sara sends a message to an old pal.

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A bird's-eye view of the 2021 New York Comic Con show floor.

Return with the Elixir

By Sara Clemens • November 10th, 2021

Dispatches from a post-pandemic New York Comic Con.

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Text that reads "Medusa" in Greek.

Medusa

By Sara Clemens • September 30th, 2021

A retelling.

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A dog on a green blanket.

Little Brother

By Sara Clemens • August 25th, 2021

A story about a dog, a brother.

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An illustrated Gillian Anderson in bed with David Duchovny and Chris Carter based on the iconic photo.

Creep

By Sara Clemens • May 14th, 2021

Whatever makes you happy. Whatever you want.

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Christmas Time is Here

By Sara Clemens • December 1st, 2020

Fact: There is one single, perfect, perennial Christmas album.

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With Friends Like These: A Wasteland Verse of TrickyPixie83

By Sara Clemens • October 6th, 2020

“I take damage, I take damage!”

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Buddies

By Sara Clemens • August 12th, 2020

Social distancing can be lonely. Animal Crossing makes it a little less so.

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Journal of a Plague Spring

By Sara Clemens • July 15th, 2020

The world’s on fire, might as well write.

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This Time It’s Personal

By Sara Clemens • November 6th, 2019

Sara got to meet Pee-wee Herman at this year’s NYCC and only freaked out a little.

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You’ll Float Too

By Sara Clemens • October 11th, 2019

Sara muses on the weirdly seductive quality of clowns. Exhibit A: Pennywise.

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Faking it to Make It: GLOW and the Power of Performance

By Sara Clemens • September 5th, 2019

GLOW is a love letter to performance and the way it intertwines with work and life.

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Performing the Play

By Sara Clemens • July 2nd, 2019

Sara gets hype over E3’s Dying Light 2 demo, glorious goofs and all.

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Into the Mystic

By Sara Clemens • June 10th, 2019

If you’re one of the rare few terrified by horses, they’re pretty easy to avoid. Unless you play videogames.

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A Subtler Magick Filled the Air: Exploring The Sinking City

By Sara Clemens • May 7th, 2019

Traversing the flooded streets of The Sinking City left a lasting impression on Sara.

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Nick Fury is Doing the Dishes

By Sara Clemens • April 5th, 2019

Vulnerability as strength is something Fury understands. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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Beat It

By Sara Clemens • March 12th, 2019

You know what makes an otherwise interesting game unplayable? Casual racism.

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Get Your Kicks at the Cosmic Horrorshow: A True Story

By Sara Clemens • January 9th, 2019

On a Route 66 roadtrip, Sara asks: “What am I doing in the middle of this godforsaken desert?”

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Sucking Blood from the Earth

By Sara Clemens • November 30th, 2018

Between the nightmare of daily news and the ethical quandaries of playing games by any triple-A developer, it’s hard to be assed to play games these days.

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New Gods

By Sara Clemens • November 2nd, 2018

New York Comic Con is a monument to hype with amusements deliberately designed to part fans from their money and/or time, but Sara would hate to miss the fantasy.

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Station to Station

By Sara Clemens • October 2nd, 2018

When stuck sweaty on an overheated subway platform, it’s hard for Sara not to think that she could do a better job managing things. With Mini Metro, she can give it a shot.

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Death Rattles

By Sara Clemens • August 17th, 2018

AMC’s The Terror understands that, sometimes, the Arctic’s silence haunts most of all.

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Our Town

By Sara Clemens • July 13th, 2018

Nothing says summer like mystery, and the point-and-click adventure Unforseen incidents stirs up half-remembered recollections of murder cases and childhood towns.

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Hell Hath No Fury

By Sara Clemens • May 14th, 2018

The anger at the heart of A Wrinkle in Time.

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It’s the Little Things, Kiddo!

By Sara Clemens • March 27th, 2018

Thankfully, simple pleasures aren’t hard to come by.

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Let It Snow

By Sara Clemens • January 4th, 2018

Suddenly memory merges with the present and I break away from the slow lane to run at full speed in the middle of the path.

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More Like RAD-narok

By Sara Clemens • November 30th, 2017

Thor Ragnarok taps the best kind of nostalgia – for a time and place, rather than for a piece of merchandise.

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Demon Days

By Sara Clemens • November 2nd, 2017

Sara lets the devil in.

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Who Needs the Devil When You’ve Got the Lord?

By Sara Clemens • October 6th, 2017

Is Agent Dale Cooper still the hero of this story?

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