Category: Opinion Essay

4 Amazing Character Tropes

So, everyone’s heard of ‘character tropes’ at this point. It’s the situations, archetypes, and plot lines that you see repeatedly with different flavors. After what, the dawn of civilization people have been creating stories based on what they have read or experienced before. There is no escaping tropes, there is only becoming one. Or you […]

Christopher Knighton

June 29, 2024

How To Break Your Characters

Now, one of my favorite things to do as a writer is to break my characters, and by that I mean I like to kind of crack open a character, figuratively speaking… sometimes literally. Okay, a lot of times literally, but we’re strictly talking figuratively today… mostly. When I say break your characters, I mean […]

Christopher Knighton

June 2, 2024

Why You Should Read DC Pride 2023

“Love is Lightning” by Grant Morrison, Hayden Sherman, Marissa Louise and Aditya Bidikar “And Baby Makes Three” by Leah Williams, Paulina Ganucheau and Frank Cvetkovic “Hey, Stranger” by Nadia Shammas, Bruka Jones, Tamra Bonvillain and Frank Cvetkovic “Subspace Transmission” by A.L. Kaplan and Aditya Bidikar “Anniversary” by Josh Trujillo, Don Aguillo, and Lucas Gattoni “Lost […]

Christopher Knighton

May 30, 2023

Top Ten Comic Books of 2022

If you know me and what I read, you should not be surprised to learn that SomethingCentral’s top ten favorite comic books of 2022 are still DC and Marvel-dominated, X-Men-dominated specifically. While there wasn’t anything not from the Big-two last year, you may be surprised by this year’s best spots. I expanded my horizons this […]

Christopher Knighton

January 4, 2023

MCU Retrospective: Rewatching the Phases of the MCU

The Marvel Cinematic Universe started in 2008 with the release of Iron Man 1. We had Marvel movies before that with the Raimi Spider-Man Trilogy, the Blade duology, and a series of X-Men movies. But the MCU was the first time anyone had attempted to replicate what only the comic books had ever achieved… an […]

Christopher Knighton

April 20, 2022

Top Ten Comic Book Movies of 2021!

The year is ending, and no more comic book films are coming out. Last year, I only managed to review the top ten comic books, but this year, I want to do more. I want to get the top ten comic book series I read, comic tv shows, and comic book movies. Here’s hoping I […]

Christopher Knighton

December 28, 2021

Top Ten Comic Book TV Shows of 2021

Last year, I only did a video about the best comics of 2020, but now I want to do more. There were a lot of comic book shows to come out this year as the pandemic slowed down. Some were about superheroes and some weren’t. Unlike with the movie list, there were a lot more […]

Christopher Knighton

December 22, 2021

Dragon Ball: The Merits of Fanfiction

This is typically a comic book site, and Dragon Ball isn’t technically a comic book, I know. But I wanted to talk about a topic that’s been an important part of my life for the past few weeks. Fanfiction is almost a dirty word in some circles. It’s when fans take time out of their […]

Christopher Knighton

November 23, 2021

Batman: The Liberation Theology Behind the Caped Crusader

Liberation Theology is, and I quote, “a movement in Christian theology that emphasizes liberation from social, political, and economic oppression as an anticipation of ultimate salvation.” I took a class about this in college, a strange thing to say I’m done with. But in that class, I was able to write a paper about any […]

Christopher Knighton

October 17, 2021

Five Characters Marvel Midnight Suns Should Add

So with Marvel Midnight Suns, we have another great-looking Marvel game. It’s made by Firaxis, the developers behind XCom, the popular tactical sci-fi role-playing series. They’re known not only for their deep turn-based strategy combat but also for their punishing permadeath and RPG mechanics. While we shouldn’t expect to see permadeath with Marvel superheroes, we […]

Christopher Knighton

September 1, 2021