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Today on the 5: Sony seems to have turned their comic book movie fortunes around with Venom and Into The Spider-Verse. I'm happy to see that, since it might be good to have someone other than Marvel able to make good comic book films.

Today on the 5: The CW DC shows recently had latest crossover event, Elseworlds. Here's my thoughts on how this latest multi-show endeavor played out.

Today on the 5: The Venom movie was released to home video recently, and I just had to see it for myself. If nothing else, it's quite a wild ride.

Today on the 5: Apple recently announced that Apple Music will be coming to the Echo devices starting today. This news, along with some older Amazon news, has me hopeful that the fractured service landscape could be smoothing out.

This week we're talking parenting, Fallout 76, Rust, marketing, and Custer's Revenge. Show music by Reed Love and OGRE. Support the show!

Today on the 5: Punisher War Zone is 10 years old, and many websites dedicated articles to the unique Marvel entry. It remains one of the best comic book adaptations ever filmed.

Today on the 5: Netflix recently announced a range of new content specifically within the anime category. This is just the most recent example of Netflix targeting content to niche audiences.

Today on the 5: Over the weekend I watched a 2016 movie called Dog Eat Dog. I was left wondering what this movie wanted to be.

Tonight is part 2 of my Adobe MAX series. In this episode I'm talking to Dan Rhatigan, Senior Manager of Adobe Type Development. We're chatting about fonts and typefaces, variable fonts, the constantly changing nature of graphic design in an increasingly digital world, and working for Adobe.

Dan's recommended links:

Getting started with variable fonts on the web by Oliver Schöndorfer  

Amazing tutorial videos for web-based typography and design by Jen Simmons.

Fonts in Use is a pretty incredible resource for both identifying typefaces and finding inspiration and background information on what people do with them.

Rich Rutter’s web-centric adaptation of Robert Bringhurst’s essential book, “The Elements of Typographic Style.” 

Lessons from the Adobe Type team about working with type and text.

Adobe Font Packs making it easy to jump-start design projects with curated sets of fonts from the Adobe Fonts library.

Music for the show provided by OGRE.

This week we're talking Fallout 76, Brain Dead, and Ralph Breaks The Internet. Show music by Reed Love and OGRE. Support the show!