Obligatory Oscar Post

The most boring night on television hit an all-time low of 9 million viewers.  In truth, I’m surprised it was that many.  I suspect it’s mostly very old liberals who are still watching it.  The Joe Bidens still left in America are the Oscars' primary audience.  The 18–49-year-old market has collapsed completely, dropping by 64%.  Which will knee-cap the ad money that ABC can charge for this abortion next year.  BTW they are stuck with the Oscars until 2028. Another win for Disney!While I haven’t watched...

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Gina Carano Has Been Politically Rehabilitated

Or at least I assume she has been.The former Star Wars actress and political exile appears to have been restored to favor by Dear Leader Mickey.Her episode of Running Wild with Bear Grylls has been fished out of the Memory Hole and will soon be streaming on Disney Plus.Perhaps more significantly, Cara Dune action figures are for sale at Walmart again.Disney is making no official announcements because they are in no position to do so. All of the speculation...

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Do Better? We Done That At Arkhaven

Normally, I really couldn't care less about the ComicsGate guys. There is way too many of them that virtue signal to the Left. And EVS is a known backstabber. That said, there are exceptions.I did like Rippa's fairly epic take down of Captain Sammy's rant at the end of Falcon and the Winter Solider. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zop4xi7fx10 UPDATE:The Critical Drinker watched the whole thing for me. I deeply appreciate it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0B_7es0_g

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China Gives a Thumbs Down to Shang-Chi

As I predicted, they hate it on general principle.For those not in the know, The Global Times (.cn) is China’s international online daily tabloid.  It is published under the auspices of the People’s Daily which is, shall we say, sensitive to the desires of the Communist Party.This is not to say that it doesn’t have a certain degree of journalistic freedom, (at this point arguably a lot more than is in the US media).  At least you know the monster you are dealing with in the...

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The Dark Herald Recommends: Resident Alien

Just the right amount of cringe.It’s almost impossible to do.Remember when SyFy Channel was The Sci-Fi Channel and it didn’t suck?  No, I’m not joking there really was a time that that was a thing.  I admit you have to go back a ways to find that time.  Fifteen years is a decent medium for when the Sci-Fi channel was at its peak.  On Friday nights you would have Battlestar Galactica (when it didn’t suck), Doctor Who (when it really didn’t suck), and Stargate...

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Arktoons Launches in Seven Days

Today, Arkhaven Comics formally announced the upcoming launch of our new and revolutionary service; Arktoons. When the platform launches a week from now at Arkhaven.com, it will feature thirty-two original comics from Arkhaven Comics, Dark Legion Comics, Jon Del Arroz’s Rislandia, and the Brazilian comics powerhouse: Superprumo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFa1m1f1DTk This is the biggest moment in comics for decades.It changes how you, the reader, in a word, reads the comic book.Anybody who has tried to use a system like Comixology’s knows how bad it is.  It loads the...

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Jeff Kaplan is Out at Blizzard

Not certain what this means.Jeff Kaplan is suddenly leaving the company after nearly twenty years. And he is doing so with no real explanation. I haven't heard about him getting Canceled for a ten year old tweet or accidentally calling a Trans-woman,"dude." Kaplan started off at Blizzard doing lowly QA work for Warcraft III. From there he worked all the way up to lead developer on the super MMO Titan. Which failed and then the pieces...

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RE:View -The Last Starfighter (part 2)

Picking up where we left off.When Alex got into Centauri’s car, he shook hands with a stranger whose face was shaded out. There was a static shock and then the stranger got out just as the door closed in and Alex. That was a robot named Beta.  He had two purposes in the story.  One a touch of comic relief as he tried to imitate Alex in his daily life and two he gave Catherine Mary Stewart more screen time.  It fleshed out her...

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Shang-Chi Trailer Drop

Here you are. The long awaited trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPjz6LoiQQo I still don't have an answer to the question, who the fuck is Shang Chi?Look I do know a little something about comics. I've bought a couple in my life. I had actually run into obscure characters like Defensor and Bouncing Boy. I have not the slightest idea who Shang-Chi is. I could feign knowledge by googling him but I refuse.This is one more of Disney's attempts to get their hands...

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