darkly

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The topical, darkly funny, whip-smart series from Eric Kripke follows a band of vigilante misfits who fight to expose the all-powerful, corrupt conglomerate Vought International and its stable of villainous superheroes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Cavalcanti’s, no less brilliant in its execution, looks through the glass darkly, with painful scenes of long-ago squalor and depravity that sadly echo our own.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

While darkly amusing, this is genuinely dangerous; movements that believe themselves to be comprehensively infiltrated tend to radicalize further and faster.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

I often joked darkly that I was a cat with only so many lives left.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

She rests uneasily in the silence, watching ants boil darkly over the crumbs of what seemed, to begin with, an impossibly meager lunch.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver