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
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
Extremely niche pop-culture nonfiction.
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