August 2022 - Arkhaven Site

31AugAugust 31, 2022

The Feminist Heroine’s Journey

Last night I found out about the now-required steps for properly representing a feminist heroine in movies and TV. It makes a lot of things very clear to me. Including how otherwise talented writers are so consistently ruined by these rules. First. The patriarchy is real and must be treated as such. The female protagonist is oppressed by it. This is not optional. Second. She is already the key to a better world. She has all the skills she’ll need, inherently. She’s the Avatar, you just got to...

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30AugAugust 30, 2022

The Sons of Sinon – The Spy Heroes

A tall man in black-tie stalks into a smoke-filled casino. His clothes are as immaculate as they are expensive. His watch is a Swiss luxury model and is guaranteed to withstand depths of 100 meters. His custom-tailored jacket doesn’t quite conceal a bulge beneath his left armpit. Arrogance is a part of him. His eyes are cold and hint of cruelty. He listens to the room with those eyes categorizing and dismissing every threat he detects. Everyone watches him covertly. All...

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29AugAugust 29, 2022

Arktoons Roundup August 28th 2022

Welcome to the Arkhaven Roundup, a regular feature at the Arkhaven Blog on Mondays. Where I will be taking a look at stuff that is new and interesting in the world of Arkhaven’s webtoons. If you aren’t familiar with Arktoons, this is meant more for you. I am the Dark Herald, I do the blogging here at Arkhaven. This blog is mostly pop culture news, reviews, and opinion, in short, the usual. But you aren’t here for the blog. You’re here for the webtoons. Arkhaven is different...

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26AugAugust 26, 2022

How Much Trouble Is Warner Brothers In?

It’s a bunch of little things that are adding up to bad news for Warner. The first thing was the cancelation of Batgirl, even the filmmakers admitted it needed some work, but they were pretty sure they could fix it. But then Batgirl was canceled along with $850 million worth of other things that got shitcanned. Now I understood part of that. When Warner and Discovery merged a new entity was created and the “new” company Warner Brothers Discovery had a limited...

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25AugAugust 25, 2022

New Batman Animated Series Canceled

This was supposed to be the Batman animated show that we really wanted. It was going to be roughly set in a 1940s-like world. Sure, it had the prince of Darkness Jar Jar Abrams and his devoted acolyte Matt Reeves (The Batman AKA Sparkly Batman) as the executive producers. BUT it had Bruce Timm... BRUCE TIMM!!! On board as showrunner. Bruce Timm of the beloved Batman the Animated Series was making another Batman cartoon and this one is on HBOmax. This is the guy who...

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24AugAugust 24, 2022

And Now For Something Completely Expected

Lesbian-wheelchair-Spider…man(?). Or is it Spider-Wheelchair-Gay-Woman? Or SpiderTransMasculineFemale? Oh, who the fuck can knows? They sure don't! I honestly, thought somebody was goofing on the fabulous Gay Spiderman but no, zhe’s real alright. Zhe swings into action with her wheelchair webbed to zhr back, (I’m using English language pronouns from here on *out). And her web shoots from her walker crutches instead of her wrists because webs can be empowered too. The creator of this Woke Frankenstein’s Monster of a Spider-Man is, naturally, a Woke Doctor...

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24AugAugust 24, 2022

First Impressions: For All Mankind

The first episode was good. I have to give it that. I had subbed to Apple TV+ to watch *Luck, since I was pulling the plug again at the end of the month, I decided to look around. There was a Tomm **Moore Irish folklore animated movie; the Youngest Dark Spawn adores those things. There was also a Dinosaur pseudo-nature documentary hosted by Richard Attenborough. Which was every bit as exciting as a real nature documentary by Richard Attenborough. After I woke up from that...

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23AugAugust 23, 2022

Arktoons Roundup August 22nd 2022

Welcome to the Arktoons Roundup, a new (sort of) regular feature at the Arkhaven Blog on Mondays. Where I will be taking a look at stuff that is new and interesting in the world of Arkhaven’s webtoons. If you aren’t familiar with Arktoons, this is meant more for you. I am the Dark Herald, I do the blogging here at Arkhaven. This blog is mostly pop culture news, reviews, and opinion, in short, the usual. But you aren’t here for the blog. You’re here for the...

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21AugAugust 21, 2022

The Dark Herald Recommends Battle Angel Alita

REPOST 8/21/22: It had looked like there would be no sequel to this film but I'm getting some strong smoke signals that it will get green lit IF Avatar: The Way of Water blows the doors off at the boxoffice. Bob Chapek is secure on this throne now but he needs new franchises. Star Wars is dead. Pixar is dead. And Marvel while still profitable is trending downward. The golden goose is running out eggs, when...

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20AugAugust 20, 2022

First Impressions: Shulkie McBeal

The Incredible Hulk is one of Marvel’s longest-standing A-list heroes. Consequently, when licenses were getting farmed out to various studios by Marvel in the 1990s, Hulk was in demand and was snapped up by Universal. The licenses stated that ancillary characters went along for the ride. So, when Sony got Spiderman, they also got Venom, Morbius, Miles Morales, Gwen Stacy and you have figured out the rest. The Hulk got the same treatment, so She-Hulk went to Universal along with her top-shelf cousin. Marvel had...

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