Former reporter, NOW: Senior Writer @CBR. Dad. Veteran. #Yinzer. Storyteller. Hermit. He/Him. #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights @joshuampatton.com
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Nothing I write starts with the thought, "Oh, I can SELL that." (Though, that may explain a lot.) Whether short fiction, nonfiction, or even poetry, they all begin something I'd like to read. And I hope you might, too.
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ALT Joshua M. Patton’s paperback books with current prices (all personally signed):Tales of Adventure & Fantasy: Omnibus – $21.99 (was $25.99) Divided Allegiance: The Third Waves of Star Wars and Star Trek – $13.99 (was $15.00) What I Learned: Stories, Essays, and More – $12.99 (was $15.99) Tales of Adventure & Fantasy, Book 2: Giant-Sized! – $11.99 (was $13.99) Tales of Adventure & Fantasy: Book One – Captain Shock vs Titanor! – $8.99 (was $10.99) Personalized inscription available for an additional $2.00.
With #VisionQuest and, now, #Cupertino, there's a lot of stories about synthetic intelligences on TV Right now. Which is why it's worth sharing my recently re-published retrospective about #PersonOfInterest, one of the best tech-based sci-fi shows ever.
cbr.com/jj-abrams-person-of-…
ALT Finch and Root standing outside from Person of Interest
If you think this show didn't like Rorschach as a guy, wait until you find out what Alan Moore thinks of his deeply problematic ass. Hashtag Rorschach was NOT a hero
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She's adorable. 😂🤍
There is a lot I loved about #VisionQuest's first two episodes, but this @emilyhampshire bit legitimately made me laugh out loud very hard when she dropped down out of nowhere. 😙👌
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SO EXTRA
There is a lot I loved about #VisionQuest's first two episodes, but this @emilyhampshire bit legitimately made me laugh out loud very hard when she dropped down out of nowhere. 😙👌
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Physical comedy, man, just nothing like it.
There is a lot I loved about #VisionQuest's first two episodes, but this @emilyhampshire bit legitimately made me laugh out loud very hard when she dropped down out of nowhere. 😙👌
There is a lot I loved about #VisionQuest's first two episodes, but this @emilyhampshire bit legitimately made me laugh out loud very hard when she dropped down out of nowhere. 😙👌
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Mindspacing with a brilliant and exhausted writing staff. Cindy Appel, Chris Monfette, Matt Okumura. #VisionQuest
One thing that irks me about some #VisionQuest reviews is when critics conflate synthetic lifeforms with modern natural language processing chatbots because their techbro founders call them "A.I." If the story doesn't go full SkyNet, they think it's some kind of weird endorsement
At least it's still "Certified Fresh," which means that most critics get it. But it bums me out about the state of criticism as a profession/art form that so many take this elitist position while also thinking so very, very small.
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More from my interview with #ToyStory5's Jason Katz. In this piece, we talk about why there have been some pretty good #Pixar movie ideas we've NEVER seen. An interesting look at the storytelling process
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ALT Woody and Buzz sprawled on the floor looking concerned from Toy STory 5
So, we've done a lot of TV and Movie criticism over at Fandom Rising, but of course comics are on the radar, too. Check out this review of the first #MarvelMidnight title, and let us know at the site which comics you want to see covered!
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Reviews are all just we writers' opinions, and they are all usually valid. When weighing them, though, one should look to how well a critic clocks the specific narrative details. If one thinks Tommy was Evan Peters' WV character not Vision's son, then yeah this show plays WEIRD.
REVIEW: Marvel’s “VisionQuest,” like its protagonist, struggles to connect emotionally.
“The show plays with some clever concepts, particularly in its visual presentation,” writes Variety’s Alison Herman. “But this imagery is larded with so much convoluted backstory and abstract concepts that ‘VisionQuest’ ends up in the exact same predicament as Vision himself, a synthetic being trying and mostly failing to connect with his emotions.”
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Though, I'd never write about actors' bodies negatively to describe a character like this. That's firmly in the "not cool" column for me. But everything else in this review is like mine for CBR. To give YOU context about whether YOU might like it or not. Anyway, be kind MCU fans.
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Absolutely a MUST-read for any fan of #12Monkeys!! Or a MUST-save for anyone who enjoys #VisionQuest and decides to check out this series because of it. You won’t be disappointed, I promise! And you’ll want to hear all these behind-the-scenes stories about how it came together.
This image from the #12Monkeys series finale is a hilarious payoff to a Season 1 joke, but it goes even deeper than that. Find out how & other insider secrets in my sprawling interview with the co-creator and key cast before watching them in #VisionQuest!
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ALT Jennifer Goines on TV next to a unicorn with a caption from 12 Monkeys
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This image from the #12Monkeys series finale is a hilarious payoff to a Season 1 joke, but it goes even deeper than that. Find out how & other insider secrets in my sprawling interview with the co-creator and key cast before watching them in #VisionQuest!
fandomrising.com/2026/10/09/…
ALT Jennifer Goines on TV next to a unicorn with a caption from 12 Monkeys
This image from the #12Monkeys series finale is a hilarious payoff to a Season 1 joke, but it goes even deeper than that. Find out how & other insider secrets in my sprawling interview with the co-creator and key cast before watching them in #VisionQuest!
fandomrising.com/2026/10/09/…
ALT Jennifer Goines on TV next to a unicorn with a caption from 12 Monkeys
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My in-depth but spoiler-free review of #VisionQuest! @TerryMatalas & collaborators have achieved something truly special, and it is the peak of the kind of storytelling the #MCU makes possible. It is beautiful, sad, hopeful, funny, and action-packed.
cbr.com/visionquest-review/
ALT Ultron and Vision in human form sitting a theater under blue lights from VisionQuest