Horror comics are at the forefront of many cultural conversations today, and Image Comics' Killadelphia is no exception. Written by Rodney Barnes with art by Jason Shawn Alexander and colors by Luis NCT, Killadelphia blends the vampire and crime genres together in order to tell a deeply personal story about the machinations of power in American history, focusing on the intersections between race, gender, and class. As such, Killadelphia is truly unlike any other vampire story in comics today, its vampirism working as an extended metaphor for the dehumanizing effects of American politics and capitalism.
One of CBS' newest sitcoms, Ghosts , features a cast full of spectral characters that each hail from a distinct time period and come with their own unique backstory and death. Though each of the eight ghosts has a wildly different perspective based on their different experiences throughout history, they nonetheless form a sort of family, which is one of the show's greatest charms. After all, being stuck with the same people for all of eternity allows for plenty of time to get to know each other. Ghosts , which is an adaptation of a BBC show of the same name, stars Utkarsh Ambudkar and Rose McIver (who played Liv Moore on five seasons of iZombie ) as Jay and Sam, a young couple who inherit a mansion in upstate New York. To their surprise, however, the house also comes with several ghostly inhabitants, who Sam is able to see after a near-death experience. These are Thorfinn (Devan Long), Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky...
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