Cautionary Women

Remember when we half-jokingly voted Sabrina Spellman for Supreme ? We take back the laughs. Archie Comics is readying a darker, more mature iteration of everyone's favorite adolescent magician in time for Halloween 2014. Titled Chilling Adventures of Sabrina , the new series will track her rise to power in the 1960s, as she dodges the forces that seek to check it and the ever ominous threat of being outed. She will do battle with Madame Satan, among many other malevolent characters, and fend off the most potent hexes this side of Greendale.  Chilling...Sabrina will be set in the 1960s, the era of Nancy Drew and  Rosemary's Baby . See what they did there? Chilling Adventures comes on the heels of Afterlife with Archie , which warps Riverdale and its famous occupants in a zombie apocalypse. The writer of that series, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, is on hand for Chilling .  Doctor Who 's Robert Hack joins him for illustrating duties. We've...

They say there are two sides to a story, so Disney created Maleficent , a multimillion-dollar attempt to find a reason for the Sleeping Beauty villain's grudge besides not receiving a party invite.  As it turns out, Disney had already revised Maleficent's story in 2004, in a children's book series called My Side of the Story . It features Disney's animated movies as told from the point of view of the heroes, and when you flip the books, their antagonists. Literally the other side of the story.  Reading from the perspective of the heroes is barely half the fun. You've heard it all before, haven't you? What really gets the party started is when you leaf through the villain's hilarious efforts to clear their names.  So you have Snow White's tale on one side, the Queen on the other ; Cinderella and her stepmother each making their cases; Peter Pan and Captain Hook getting their turns to speak; Ariel and Ursula sharing contradictory stor...

So you figured you're fairy enough to wear Angelina Jolie's costume from Maleficent . The question is, which costume?  Angelina Jolie went through no less than nine costume changes to portray Disney's most famous gatecrasher. While the original Maleficent got by with her literally flaming robes, the Angelina-Jolie Maleficent pulled out all the stops in dressing up, slipping into everything from faux-fur-lined suede capes to pants. In all these, one thing—or two—remains consistent: the horns. Horny all night long In Sleeping Beauty, viewers couldn't wrap their heads (no pun intended) around Maleficent's horns. Were they really part of her head? Or were they really  just kickass hennins typical of Medieval folk ? In Maleficent , you are as certain of the horns' anatomical profile as you are confounded by the owner's rectitude. In any case, Jolie wore a total of six Maleficent headpieces. Horn-ily enough, milliner Justin Smith built them...