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28FebFebruary 28, 2023

Appendix N Heroes: Holger Carlson

Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson is the most influential book you’ve never heard of. Okay, given my readership that’s probably not true but for the gen-pop audience it certainly is. This book is vitally integral to the Dungeons and Dragons canon.* It’s not the backbone of it, that is still The Lord of the Rings. But it is, however, the very heart Appendix N. I’m quite serious about that. The spirit of this book is present in every player who has...

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27FebFebruary 27, 2023

I Don’t Owe Them a Chance

What little patience I ever had with Ya Boi Zack is exhausted. He used to be a reasonably good source for keeping up with everything wrong with the comic book world. He was always a Gamma but lately, he’s been cucking out completely. He only attacks people on the Right for pursuing the culture war. Never the Left. He’s pretending that executives at Woke corporations like Disney, don’t care about fans criticizing their propagantastic entertainment products. That it is the Right that is just too political. Uh-huh,...

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27FebFebruary 27, 2023

Antman 3 or Cocaine Bear, Which Blows More?*

I originated the role! How was I not cast?! While Cocaine Bear did just barely beat out Antman 3 in the domestic box office take on Friday, Antman 3 pulled ahead on Saturday and Sunday but Cocaine Bear was nipping at his heels the whole way. Weekend take for the third and now final Antman movie was a cadaverous $32.4 million on its second freaking weekend! The first movie in Marvel’s Phase V was down 70% from last weekend. That is not...

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24FebFebruary 24, 2023

Warner Brothers Discovery Earnings Call

CEO David Zaslav just held Warner Brothers Discovery’s first quarter earnings call for 2023. This was the first earnings call that was mostly the fruits of his labors. There is still about a year’s worth of inertia from the pipeline setup by the previous regime. However, this is the first time that Zaslav was expected to show positive results of his regime. Keep in mind this is an investor call, not a media event. There are some facts that it is illegal for Zaslav to misrepresent. There...

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23FebFebruary 23, 2023

Is There a Spiderman Deal?

This week there was a flurry of reports about a new Sony/Marvel Spiderman something starring Tom Holland being in the works. It’s been all over the fan sites and Polygon (which is more of an anti-fan site). Except there hasn’t been an announcement. It has been better than a year since Spiderman: No Way Home was released. The third of Holland’s Spiderman outings raked in nearly two billion in box office receipts worldwide, and easily shot past that line when you factor in the...

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23FebFebruary 23, 2023

Captain Harlock Creator Leiji Matsumoto Passes at 85

Matsumoto's work was Generation X's entry drug into the world of Anime. The body of his work is some of the most legendary in the field. It's fair to say that he is up there with Osamu Tezuka. Matsumoto's work includes such epics as Space Battleship Yamato, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, and Galaxy Express 999. From Clownfish TV: Leiji Matsumoto was born as Akira Matsumoto on January 25, 1938 in the city of Kurume Fukuoka, which is in the southern part of Japan....

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22FebFebruary 22, 2023

The Dark Herald Recommends: Lockwood & Co

This one was nowhere on my radar. I just saw an interesting thumbnail on Netflix Trending and decided to give it twenty seconds before surfing on. The opening scene started with tense music setting the tone as a London taxi stopped in front of a private residence. Two teenagers, a boy and a girl get out and are clearly repeating battleplans they have memorized but are going over one last time. They are walking quickly, the camera cuts to a waist-high shot and both...

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22FebFebruary 22, 2023

Paramount’s Body Positive Superheroine

No, I'm not making this up at all. The heifer heroine is called Zephyr. I thought Zepplin might have been more appropriate. This comic book that you have never heard of is called Faith. It's published by Valient and I had go check to make sure they were still in business. Yeah, they are again, at the moment, but it's the usual thing these days of using comic books as a pitch for movie and TV projects. I'm a...

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21FebFebruary 21, 2023

Was All of The Rings of Power AI Generated?

"The orcs’ response was a deafening onslaught of claws, claws, and claws; even Elrond was forced to retreat. “You are in good hands, dwarf,” said Gimli, who had been among the first to charge at the orcs; it took only two words before their opponents were reduced to a blood-soaked quagmire, and the dwarf took his first kill of the night. The battle lasted for hours until two of the largest Orcs attempted to overwhelm Aragorn. When they finally stopped,...

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20FebFebruary 20, 2023

That’s a Dude

You are forbidden to find women atractive. Okay, I admit Nebula really isn't there to be easy on the eyes for guys but Karen Gillan can still manage it even through the makeup. That is NOT Karen Gillan's body. That is a dude's body that her head has been photoshopped on to it. There is a straight line going from the armpit to the knee. For reference here is Karen in Jumanji. Discuss on Social Galactic You will note that...

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