November 2020 - Arkhaven Site

29NovNovember 29, 2020

RIP Darth Vader Actor David Prowse

Darth Vader actor, David Prowse passed away in a London hospital on 28, November after a brief illness. His family has not stated what the cause of death was. "Though never formerly politically outspoken, Prowse publicly declared his support in 2009 for Ukip, the UK Independence party. Asked in 2014 what he would do if he ruled the galaxy, he said he would “reintroduce capital punishment”. He briefly managed the Welsh musician Jayce Lewis and wrote an autobiography, Straight from...

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29NovNovember 29, 2020

Girls Are Not Their Target Audience

It's interesting to try to pinpoint exactly who these mega-corporations in entertainment are trying to sell to. Back when the first feminism craze really hit in the 90s, it made a little bit of sense with attractive girls doing awesome things. Maybe it didn't make physical sense that a little blonde girl could beat up all these dudes, but from an audience perspective, one can clearly see why everyone would want to tune into it. Pretty girls sell. Always have, always...

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26NovNovember 26, 2020

The Return of Captain Jack

If prayer is the last refuge of the scoundrel, then turning to a man is the last refuge of a feminist. The last acceptable (which is not to say good) season of Doctor Who was season eight. It had some major problems. But I could wade through it. Also, I did like Missy. Moffat’s last decent creation for Doctor Who. In fact, Missy provides what is arguably the last decent scene in Doctor Who. https://youtu.be/D-1bfXFmUmc On the face of it this shouldn’t have been a...

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24NovNovember 24, 2020

Zoomers Know They’ve Been Robbed of Something

When I was a kid there were still a few dime stores around. Nothing in them cost a dime by then but they still existed. What didn't exist was dime-store culture. That lost bit of Americana where a bunch of bare foot boys wearing coonskin caps and carrying their bb-guns would wander into one to buy pop, candy and comic books with their paper route money. And honestly, it never even occured to me to miss it. So, why bring it up? Because...

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23NovNovember 23, 2020

Marvel Does a Brutal Take Down of Its Own Lead Writer

Human potato Dan Slott was the center piece of SAVAGE hit piece by… Disney Plus?!?! There is a new documentary series on Disney's premier and unwatched streaming service called Marvel 616. The title refers to their main timeline of Earth 616, as opposed to DC's more solipsistic, Earth One. Mostly, this docu-series is about things like cosplay, Marvel Comics' impact on other cultures, and the 1970s Japanese Spiderman TV series. (Which I thought was going to be the only interesting thing on the whole...

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21NovNovember 21, 2020

Wonder Woman Dumped on HBOmax

The studios are now making strategic business decisions on the basis of a projected Biden bailout. Wonder Woman 1984 is going to begin streaming on Warner Media's HBOmax on Christmas Day. This will be in conjunction with a simultaneous release to whatever theaters are open to show it. If you take the No Time to Die asking price tag of 600 million as a benchmark for what a modern tent pole film has to make at the box office to turn a...

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20NovNovember 20, 2020

Rob Liefeld SAVAGES Former DC Publisher Dan DiDio

Hyper-successful artist Rob Liefeld has a podcast where he talks about the past of comics, and nothing's been more interesting to watch than the trainwreck of DC Comics which started around the New 52 more than a decade ago, through the present where they are on one of the biggest collapses of history. On his podcast, he talks about how Dan DiDio took over publishing as Editor in Chief of DC and used a bombastic personality in order to give...

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19NovNovember 19, 2020

The Holiday Torments of Disney Plus

If you are paying nothing for Disney's Premier streaming service, it's still worth it. Otherwise not so much. We are rapidly coming up on the holiday season. The time we will celebrate the greatest gift of all. The end of 2020. But before we get to that joyous moment, we're going to have to wade through a bunch of godawful holiday specials. The following is a quick overview of three holiday specials, currently on Disney Plus. Or to be exact two holiday specials...

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19NovNovember 19, 2020

Blogs and Ends: The Hump Day Dump

I use these Blogs and Ends posts when I need to do a roundup of smaller stories that don't really rate a separate post of their own. FIRST Bad news for Square Enix, they did business with Disney. Their new Avengers game is probably the biggest bomb for that company in twenty years. They're reportedly out $74,000,000. The last time Squaresoft had a flop this bad they had to merge with Enix. I don't know who they'll have to merge with to survive this one....

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18NovNovember 18, 2020

The Womandalorian: Genocide and B-e-e-e-w-b Armor

Baby Yoda devours the unborn!!! Proud Mandalorian women forced to dance on the pole!!! And I thought this season was going to be dull. I honestly hadn't planned to revisit the Mandalorian before this season was over. After all, these days people tend to binge something like this, all at once, instead of watching it show by show. So, it makes more sense to wait until the season is in the can. In this case, I don't think I can do that and stay...

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