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Sam Barsanti
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Sam Barsanti is a Staff Writer at The A.V. Club and has covered pop culture news for a decade. He will happily talk to you about superhero movies and mecha anime, whether you want him to or not.

I’m not saying if any of that is relevant to WandaVision, but it is a good primer on some ridiculous nonsense. Read more

While I’m here this week: Is anyone playing Apex Legends on Xbone? I’m always looking for teammates who aren’t A.) terrible and B.) annoying. Warning: I generally playing in the morning and without a mic. Hit me up if you’re cool: MrLightningB01t. Read more

Nice catch. That was just to make sure people weren’t just skimming past the numbers... Yeah, that’s right... Read more

If only someone had told Andie MacDowell I was interviewing a McElroy brother, she could’ve picked that as her 12th question. Read more

My understanding is that everything that doesn’t have the Solid name is technically not canon, so a MGS6 could’ve hypothetically overwritten anything in Rising if it wanted to (kinda like old Star Wars EU stuff being contradicted by the prequels), but that’s really all irrelevant with Kojima gone. Read more

Let me know when Hellboy 3 starts breaking YouTube records, and maybe I’ll go back to making jokes about it! Read more