As 2025 draws to a close, it feels…catastrophic. The news of the last month in the entertainment industry has been demoralizing. The U.S. political space is a fascist nightmare. AI and corporate ownership are teaming up to transform the media to something complacent, useless, and untrustworthy. Things are…
On Tuesday, November 18th, ECV Analog will release Everyone You’ve Ever Met is Beautiful: Essays on James Gunn’s Superman, a compilation of writings about the 2025 Superman film starring David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan. The collection will represent the first issue of the ECVZine, a square-bound, quarterly publication
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This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Elf on the Shelf phenomenon, and The LumiStella Company is teaming with Swarovski to offer a “luxury edition” Elf on the Shelf that features 4,500 hand-placed crystals.
Originally published on Patreon. Tracks II, a long-awaited collection of rarities from Bruce Springsteen's vault, is finally coming in June. And while Tracks, originally released in 1998, was a fan-favorite collection of B-sides, unreleased tracks, and other oddities, Tracks II: The Lost Albums will be...something else. As
Originally published on Patreon. Just yesterday, I was talking to an old friend and fellow veteran of the comics press. We discussed how ComicBook's recent shift from a news-forward organization that published dozens of stories a day, to a features-first site that prioritizes longform content, had left a
Major League Baseball's Cleveland Guardians have announced Superman Night in the Park, an event which will celebrate the release of James Gunn's Superman in July. Superman – billed in the Guardians' press release as DC's Superman – is set to release in theaters on July
Fans of the late, lamented DC's Legends of Tomorrow are set to host a fan convention in September – with a twist! The convention, overseen by a group called UnConventional Fanmilies, will take place exclusively online, featuring digital hangouts with cast and crew members, virtual panels, and more. Per
Extremely niche pop-culture nonfiction.
I don't remember when I first encountered Maggie Phipps, an artist and influencer, but after she appeared in my Instagram feed a few times, I started to follow her work. Maggie is an artist who became widely followed on Instagram and TikTok because of her paintings, her informative
Hey, kids! It's time to eat the rich!
I stole this headline word-for-word from a Medium post that was pushed into my feed recently, because it felt cheeky and I can interact with it directly when I export this story over there. Medium will likely be the topic of an upcoming post. If you have been around for
In the last month or so, I have written pitches for two short book projects. Neither is officially a “go” yet, but if they are — and at least one is incredibly likely to be — they will be official companions to a pop culture thing. Both are fairly niche properties, but
This is ECV Analog, the new home for Russ Burlingame's publishing company. Russ is a veteran entertainment journalist with bylines at places like Wizard: The Comics Magazine, ComicBook, and Screen Rant. He writes books about extremely niche pop culture stuff, and is set to work with a number