This one is going to have to be brief, I'm off to DC for the MAGA March as soon as this posts. A new article has just been posted by Bleeding Cool, more or less confirming what I had posited in my Red Honeymoon piece. That DC is Getting out of the monthly pamphlet business. And that means abandoning the comic shops. “That the Warner Bros firings of yet more DC Comics senior staffers, and the subsequent fallout across the company is part...
With DC Comics’ change in Editors, they’ve also announced they’re going to be switching to something called “Omniverse” where there isn’t a single universe, but continuity will not be maintained between books. If it sounds more confusing than simply admitting “there is no continuity,” it’s because it is confusing. Comic have struggled with continuity ever since the events rush of the 1990s. There’s simply too many books flooding the stands and too much of a back history for editors to keep track...
The Red Wedding massacre at DC Comics was three months ago and it was pretty brutal. A few of the more overly optimistic comics fans thought it was going to be the start of a turnaround, where DC would abandon its pursuit of all things Woke and go back to sensible basics. Others thought that it was the start of a focus on graphic novels and Young Adult engagement in the hopes of attracting Zoomer's interest in DC’s characters. Then Daniel Cherry III...
Gamer Gate got its start in the 1990s. When gaming mags were first taking off they had a major problem. A typical review usually read something like, "This is a good game. I like it very much." There would follow two or three pages of technical prattle and that would be it. The average gamer was left in a daze still uncertain if they wanted to shell-out sixty bucks for the game.Editors decided that they could either teach gamers how to write or...
Daniel Craig is the only man on Earth who doesn’t want to be James Bond. For the past three movies every time his James Bond comes on screen you see a guy who seems to feel like an old man who has failed at all of his dreams in life and is secretly hoping that this will be the mission where he ducks too slow. And then somebody else will be handed off this cover ID that has been bouncing around...
Hey there, True Believers, As you know, we're big fans of The Legend Chuck Dixon's work around these parts, and he's very well known for his take on Batman, along with artist Graham Nolan. He is one of the most prolific writers on the Bat-titles, and not all of his work is available in collected editions as of now, but a lot of it is, so I'll give a nice overview of Dixon's work in Collected edition. His first Batman work in...
The long expected mass executions at Marvel Comics appear to finally be getting underway. From Bleeding Cool so please don't click on the link. "... this includes John Nee, the publisher of Marvel Comics who, amongst other things, brought League Of Legends and Warhammer to the comic book publisher, as reported by Comic Book. He had been placed on furlough, and it appears that all the affected staff had been previously furloughed as well. Formerly, John Nee had set up Cryptozoic Entertainment, had been a VP at...
If you missed the shameless attempt at attention comic book news yesterday, DC Comics writer Grant Morrison came out as "non-binary" -- whatever that means. Grant Morrison is one of DC's late 2000s writers, known for crafting confusing, overly-complicated storylines which "reimagine" characters, much like his predecessor Alan Moore, but with far less talent than the Watchmen creator. He gained credibility with a British accent, as many of these "literary" writers do, and has dwindled from the public eye over...
The Big 2 companies love their crossover events, even though the business model of them has frustrated many comic readers for decades, since it makes it impossible to follow the storylines of beloved characters. With DC's next event, Future State, not only are they continuing the spiral trend of the collector's market, but they're doing so by replacing said beloved characters: Introducing: The Justice They/Them! Much like Marvel tried in 2015-2016 with its "Marvel Now", DC is using the same...
***SPOILER ALERT*** Lots of spoilers below. You’ve been warned. Mandalorian Season 1 was generally speaking; “okay, I guess.” It was certainly better than the last three movies. It wasn’t the Breaking Bad of Star Wars but it wasn’t the Last Jedi of Star Wars either. There was certainly more respect for the OG trilogy than was seen on the silver screen a month later. There was more world-building too, and there was more respect for the Star Wars fanbase. There was even something cute for nerd girls...
