Charles Battersby

My review of the Broadway musical Kimberly Akimbo, for Chelsea Community News: Over the last decade the “Sick Lit” genre of young adult fiction has

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If you were raised on Sailor Moon, your kids are watching a thing abut a guy with a chainsaw for a head. This was abundantly clear

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Each October, New York’s Jacob Javits Center becomes a nerd mecca for comic book enthusiasts. As with many large gatherings, New York Comic Con 2022 (NYCC)

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Over the last 20years it has been a joke at Comic Con that the comics themselves were becoming increasingly irrelevant. Movies, TV shows, and video

https://charlesbattersby.com/ny-comic-con-goes-on-with-covid-waning-without-major-companies/

Tonight on PBS they’re running a documentary on NFL Cheerleaders. I caught this at the Tribeca Film Festival last year. Here’s my review: Being a

https://charlesbattersby.com/review-a-womans-work-the-nfls-cheerleader-problem/

Charles Battersby is a Game Designer, Journalist, and actress. I wrote an Interactive Fiction video game for Choice of Games. You can play a

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I created a blog about being a Background Actress, or “Extra” in movies and TV shows. Have a look at Woman Number 2 on Substack.

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I helped write this mod for Fallout 4. Here’s a full run through it:

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I wrote most of the dialog and Narrative Design for this Fallout 4 mod by Shoddycast. It features voicework by Mark Meer (Commander Shepard from

https://charlesbattersby.com/fallout-brotherhood/

Here’s an article I wrote about the time I went on patrol with the Guardian angels! It’s the sunny Saturday afternoon of Oct. 10, and

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