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Self-Insert
In a still from NBC's Hannibal, Hannibal Lector holds the back of Will Graham's neck, the two men's foreheads almost touching.

Hurt/Comfort

By Amanda Hudgins • August 2nd, 2022

Hurt/Comfort is what it says on the tin – a character is hurt, so they must be comforted.

The Beat Box
A pixelated demon with red eyes and gaping maw from the videogame DOOM.

The Beat Box – DOOM

By Noah Springer • July 29th, 2022

Bouncing around microchips as a micro-man or walking around a 2D dungeon, rolling hits on a gelatinous blob felt like child’s play to the splattering gore of Doom.

Revving the Engine
In a screenshot from the videogame Snacko, a small purple cat tends to a garden of vegetables that's part of a larger farm. In the background is a stone well, a small farm house, a barn, and several farm animals like cows, goats and chickens.

Happy Place

By Melissa King • July 28th, 2022

The co-founders of Bluecurse Studios, wife and husband Erisa Liu and Jordan Gonzalez, want to give you a cozy digital getaway – their upcoming game, Snacko.

Feature Excerpt
A drawing featuring the main protagonist in DOOM. A muscular soldier in a helmet holds a large gun.

Misremembering DOOM

By Ben Sailer • July 27th, 2022

In this revised reprint from 2018, Ben revisits the SNES version of DOOM, and destroys part of his childhood in the process.

Feature Excerpt
A hi-res telescopic image of the red planet Mars.

Blue Keys on a Red Planet

By Hilver • July 26th, 2022

An excerpt from Hilver’s cover story for our special all-DOOM edition of Unwinnable Monthly.

Feature Story
On the Doom cover art, the game's protagonist is standing on a ridge using a machine gun to fight off hellish monsters.

DOOM Retrospective

By David Shimomura • July 25th, 2022

DOOM didn’t invent the first-person shooter. But DOOM did invent the Doomclone. Without DOOM are we certain we’d see the advent of so many imitators?

Letter from the Editor
A narrow view of the Doomslayer in a hallway full of dead demons with a cacodemon looming behind.

Unwinnable Monthly – July 2022

By David Shimomura • July 17th, 2022

We ripped and tore and this is what was done.

Nonhuman Meditations
NOS-4-A2, a robot character from the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command tv show, extends bat-like wings made of energy from his back.

Do Robots Feast on Electric Sheep?

By Alyssa Wejebe • July 8th, 2022

Alyssa looks back on robotic energy vampire NOS-4-A2 from Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.

Here's the Thing
The midsection of an ornamental "X," representing the number 10.

It’s Been Ten Years

By Rob Rich • July 7th, 2022

Rob thinks back on how he got started writing, and where it’s gone over the past decade.

Forms in Light
A black and white photograph of a man standing in the center of sunlit Grecian ruins.

Body and Mind

By Justin Reeve • July 6th, 2022

Similar to colleges around the world today, gymnasiums in ancient Greece were public institutions where young adults were offered various forms of training.

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