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“Stranger Things” Season 2 Adds a Comedian to its Cast
Comedian Brett Gelman has signed on to star in the second season of Netflix’s hit show “Stranger Things“, according to THR. He will be played Murray Bauman, “…a disgraced journalist-turned-conspiracy theorist who is investigating a cold case in the small Indiana town [of Hawkins].”
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Confirmed to appear in the second season are Sean Astin, Paul Reiser, Linnea Berthelsen, Dacre Montgomery, Rob Morgan, and Sadie Sink. They will be joining Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, and Charlie Heaton.
Arriving sometime in 2017, Season 2 picks up in the fall of 1984, about a year after the events in the first season, and will delve into “bigger mythology” behind young Will Byers’ disappearance, Matt Duffer previously teased.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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