This is not a joke okay. I am not quoting the Babylon Bee here. This is real. This is a thing. This is happening. (*barrel chested sigh*) Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing J.J Abrams Superman movie for Warner Brothers. No word or not on whether Kal-El has been race-bent. I now know why Henry Cavel was suddenly so hellbent for leather to get a Mass Effect project off the ground. Developing. I'll have more on this after I stop laughing in shocked disbelief. UPDATE: The...
Hasbro has finally gone full converged by canceling Mr. Potatohead. His crime? Being a Mister, of course: The Associated Press reported earlier today, “Hasbro, the company that makes the potato-shaped plastic toy, is giving the spud a gender neutral new name: Potato Head. The change will appear on boxes this year.” They would later add, “Hasbro said Mr. Potato Head, which has been around for about 70 years, needed a modern makeover.” Looks like we need to add "modern makeover" to...
“What is going on here?” My wife asked in a deeply troubled voice. “I think we just watched something…g-o-o-d?” I carefully sounded out the unfamiliar word. “But this is a Superman show?” She said whirring in confusion. “I know,” I said blankly. “It’s on the CW,” recoiling in fear at the words that came from her mouth. “I know,” I whispered back in bewildered terror. I admit there were positive signs about the show during its development. One of the writers had demanded that Jonathon and Martha...
Beloved Readers: And water is always wet, oh insightful one. What’s your point? Today, I’m taking a dive into why it sucks. What makes it so reliably bad? How come even the best Woke fiction never rises above mediocre? What exactly is wrong with it and is it possible to fix Woke fiction? First, we need a functional definition: Woke fiction is a story whose primary purpose is not to entertain but indoctrinate an audience into current Feminist ideology by utilizing feminist critique. Elements...
Months ago, former Green Lantern artist Ethan Van Sciver became the first to talk about AT&T shutting down DC Comics publishing division with talks of the company being sold off. At first, many were dubious because the claim seems so wild, people could hardly imagine DC Comics taking such a tumble. News of firings came out of DC in December, slashing more than one third of their staff. News of their line being reduced by about a third from last...
Anime truly arrived in America in 1989. I still remember where I first saw the real thing. I was laying in my rack aboard a tub of a ship that was shortly going to scrapped. The air conditioning failed constantly. As did the lights. The plumbing howled in agony when it wasn’t vomiting sewage onto the deck. The skipper had accidentally beached her so many times that the entire crew called him, “Captain Crunch.” We, the Marines aboard her, kept hearing...
Not only was comic book storytelling much better in the 1950s-1970s than today, but the style in which the artists had to work, often known as the "house style" of publishers is what made for consistency, quality, and an aesthetic choice in which we all loved. No one exemplified this quality more than artist John Buscema, whose work is memorable and beautiful in that it defined what every artist in Marvel was working toward in the 1970s. Here's an example...
The absolute state of Blizzard Why did they even have a Blizzcon event? They could have gotten away with pulling the plug completely this year. All of the virtual conventions have been busts. Sure, it was their thirtieth anniversary but frankly, that’s not an important number. Twenty and Twenty-five, sure those are milestones. Thirty years is just something that happens along the way to your fiftieth anniversary. Also, Blizzard doesn’t have a hope in hell of making it to their fiftieth anniversary. The company strongly appears to have...
First Impression: Oh my crap, Ben Shapiro has an annoying voice! High, reedy, plus nasally to boot. It’s a fingernails-on-a-blackboard, punch-a-nerd-voice. No wonder he hated Trump so much. Shapiro is everything masculine isn’t. Second Impression: Gina is tired. Really tired. She has been under a lot of stress for a long time. This was not an angry person’s interview. This is someone who has been dragged across asphalt for months. She had been living the life of a condemned prisoner who knew that one day she would...
You know how there was supposed to be this huge reveal on this week's WandaVision? That it was going to be up there with the Return of Luke? Was it going to be Magneto? Maybe there would be a walk-on by Chris Evans or RDJ? Could it be the first manifestation of Galactus? Yeah, not so much. Since episode freaking one, ALL of the long-time Marvel Comics fans instantly identified the character of Agnes as the witch Agatha...
