December 2020 - Page 2 of 4

21DecDecember 21, 2020

DC Slashes Production

From CBR (sorry about that): "By the end of December, DC will have published 50 one-shots, miniseries or ongoing titles across the main DC Universe and Black Label for the month, including several Dark Nights: Death Metal and Endless Winter tie-ins and one-shots. In February -- during Future State -- that number drops down to 40. Both of these counts include several double-shipping titles, a scheduling tactic DC has been utilizing for several years, now. However, in March, DC is publishing just 34 single...

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20DecDecember 20, 2020

Comics Should Be Fun

It seems a very simple premise, but for some reason an entire industry forgot the four words of the title of this post for the last 30 years. I just watched an interview with X-Men creator, Chris Claremont, in which he laments the direction the comic industry's gone. He regrets being a part of "the epic crossover" which turned books into marketing gimmicks for other books and away from their own individuality, their own storytelling. This is something we've talked...

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17DecDecember 17, 2020

Bob Iger to be the Next Ambassador to China!?!?!

I realize this is old fashioned of me, but shouldn’t an ambassador represent the interests of the country that is sending him to the host country? And not the other way around? Silly of me I know. There is no way in hell the Middle-Kingdom would tolerate such impudence from a bought and paid for vassal. Just to be clear I’m referring to Joe Biden here. Bob Iger is more of a political catamite so far as the People of the Han are...

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15DecDecember 15, 2020

Disney Magic

“This will enable us to tell great stories inspired by the perfect mix up creative excellence enhanced by data driven audience insights delivered in ways consumers want.” - Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s speech at Disney Investor’s Day. If Shakespeare had listened to “data driven audience insights,” Juliet would have woken up in time. And her play would have been forgotten by 1598. Data driven audience insights, is how you get a complete mediocrity like The Mandalorian. Like I said before, “an accountant with the soul of...

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14DecDecember 14, 2020

Blogs and Ends: Disney’s Other Investor’s Day Announcements

A remake of Shogun? Seriously? There were quite a few other announcements I didn’t get to on Friday’s post because I don’t care about them, but a few of my readers do, so here we go. Let’s get the minor stuff out the way. There were a few hurried announcements for stuff that Disney apparently forgot they owned now. FIRST F/X is going to be doing an Alien series that is rumored to be set on Earth and is allegedly retconning everything that happened after Aliens. So,...

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14DecDecember 14, 2020

Marvel: Everyone’s Gay Now!

Last year Marvel changed another character, claiming Kitty Pryde is "bisexual." None of this stuff gets into the movies yet, as the comics can get away with altering characters into a hack writer's perverted sexual fantasy, but the film-going audience still mostly relies on families. But now Marvel writer Al Ewing, infamous for making his Bruce Banner rant against capitalism in a bizarre communist tirade, has determined fan-favorite Guardians of the Galaxy character, Star Lord, is now "bi and poly"....

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14DecDecember 14, 2020

Tears of the Cyberclown: UPDATE

In my first post on this game, I said: "Not only did CD Projekt Red produce a game where you couldn’t play as a lesbian trans-poli-sexual bipoc if you felt like it." I was wrong, that's totally doable. AND IT STILL WASN'T ENOUGH TO KEEP SJWS HAPPY. This is why you never give them anything. Even if you give them everything they wanted, it will NEVER be enough!

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13DecDecember 13, 2020

Clobberin’ Crowdfund Comics – 12/13/20

Happy Sunday, true believers! It's near-Christmas time, which means there's not a lot of crowdfunds being launched. There's still a lot of good content that's been catching the eye of the Arkhaven blog which is worth highlighting, so let's dive into the books below: Lonestar: Mind Of The Monster Former DC Injustice artist Mike S. Miller returns with his third installment of the Lonestar saga. A mysterious band of powered heroes faces off against vampires and more....

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11DecDecember 11, 2020

SO MUCH S-T-A-R W-A-A-A-A-A-A-R-RS!!!!

At the Investor's meeting yesterday Disney announced that they were turning Disney+ into the Star War/Marvel Channel. Lucasfilm and Marvel looks like they are going to be providing damn near 100% of the original content starting next year. Lets get this out of the way. I will not be watching all of these damn things. I may watch the first episode of few of them just to make make fun of them. But that's it. Here is a list...

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11DecDecember 11, 2020

Disney Backs the Hollywood Swamp!

The Hollywood Swamp creatures are dancing in the street tonight. Disney has come through for them. Mostly because Bob Chapek is an accountant with the soul of an accountant. There isn’t the slightest gram of creativity in the man. Disney made some major announcements at the investor’s meeting today. They are going to be making ten Star Wars series and ten Marvel series for Disney+. Kathleen Kennedy is firmly in the saddle at Lucasfilm. Star Wars is going to be very, very feminist from now...

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