Yearly Archives - 2021

Good News for Doctor Who?!?!

Yeah, I know. Trust me, I know. Chinballs reign of terror over the franchise has resulted in such complete and utter devastation of sixty years of canon that there really can't be any genuine hope to be found anywhere. How can there be any good news for the most broken franchise in all of pop culture (and that's saying something)?Regardless, I am obligated to report this news to you. Russel T. Davies is returning to the show to...

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EX-MARVEL ILLUSTRATOR JOE BENNETT JOINS ARKHAVEN

September 22, 2021Longtime Marvel illustrator Joe Bennett is announced as the lead artist on two comics to be published by Arkhaven Comics.Earlier this month, Marvel Comics dropped longtime Marvel illustrator Joe Bennett from its Timeless comic for the thought crime of having drawn an illustration in support of a popular Brazilian politician, Jair Bolsonaro, in 2017, two years prior to Bolsonaro’s election as Brazil’s 38th President. It was widely reported that Bennett had not only been removed from the December one-shot, but was entirely cancelled by Marvel Comics...

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Book Discussion: Monster Hunter Bloodlines

Larry Correia is the last of his kind.He started his career with an old fashioned vanity press publishing in 2008.  Larry had tried the usual route of sending his manuscript to everyone and getting rejected by everyone.  So, he decided to go with the court of last resort, self-publication. An accountant by day and a writer by night, Correia had made a name for himself far and wide in the gun-nut community, he contributed to several gun magazines.  He had been the owner...

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K/S To Be Made Kurtzman Trek Canon?

The OG of the slash fiction, Kirk/Spock gay porn, looks like it may well become a reality. The rumor, and it looks pretty reliable to me, is that Spock is going gay in Strange New Worlds. The unrepentant Kurtzman Trek shill site; Inverse.com posted a "testing the waters" piece declaring that gay Spock is not only workable in future stories but if you really, really think about it, his secret fabulous life has always been canon. Always.If they do...

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Pivot to Video is the New Learn to Code

“Pivot to video” has officially been declared Hate Speech.Vice Media is a blog.  That is all that it is or ever was.  However, it was a pretty sweet gig you could get a job writing for what is, and always has been, just a blog.  A six-figure salary plus benefits to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7fUQXskvA Although, it turns out that Vice has an app that does that and I’m not kidding.But it appears that the gravy train has inevitably run out of coal.  Layoffs have begun as...

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Wow This Looks Cheap

The trailer for the new season of Picard has dropped…And.It.Looks.Awful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUhBOmtFYr8 I don't watch Kurtzman Trek. A few YouTube masochists do so, but I don't see the point myself.It’s not meant to be entertainment at all.  It’s certainly not meant to be a Star Trek and it is absolutely not for Star Trek fans. The purpose of Kurtzman Trek is to raise Alex Kurtzman’s status within The Club and enrich himself personally while providing a content farm for Viacom.  Forget storytelling, forget entertainment.Content is all...

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Hats Off to the Guys at Bounding Into Comics

I'm impressed by my editor.One of the comics I mentioned on my Arktoons Roundup was Chuck Dixon Presents - Charlie Chan."So how did the Chinese feel about Chan? Well, when actor Werner Oland – who portrayed the Chinese detective across over four dozen films starting in 1926 – visited Shanghai in the 1930s, he got a hero’s welcome from the Chinese.In fact, Chan films were so popular in China that an industry of Shanghai-produced, Charlie Chan knock-off films thrived...

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