Have you ever walked into an old place and just knew it was wrong somehow? Everybody around you feels the same way, don’t they? Whether it’s a shuttered prison, an unnaturally still place in a dark forest, or a cold basement in a large old house. Of course, you have felt that way. Because that place has a loci. A spirit to the place, and even the most sciencey types will get out of that spot quickly. The concept of a...
Welcome to the Arktoons Spotlight, a regular feature at the Arkhaven Blog. The Spotlight is where I take a look at one title from the amazing world of Arkhaven’s webtoons. If you aren’t familiar with Arktoons, this is meant for you. I am the Dark Herald; I do the blogging here at Arkhaven.com. The blog is mostly pop culture news, reviews, and opinion, in short, the usual. And you aren’t here for the blog. You’re here for the webtoons. Arkhaven is different from other webtoons publishers. While...
UPDATE: There is, I am very worried to say, a sequel to Good Omens that starts tomorrow. They used the entire book in the first series. There was no material OG material that supports a sequel. This is concerning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GljnUA6Ll0 The following discussion took place in Cataline’s car back in late 1980 something. Buddy (holding up a cassette tape): Dude, I didn’t know you were a Queen fan. Cataline: Dude, I’m not. Buddy: Then where did this come from? Cataline: I have...
I am very reluctant to report on rumors of Kathleen Kennedy’s impending demise as CEO of LucasFilm for the same reason everybody else it. That rumor has been sailing around since The Last Jedi and that franchise trainwreck is coming up in its seventh anniversary this year. Every time some new Star Wars-related disaster strikes, the rumor mill gins up again. No one could believe her contract would be extended in 2021 but the expiration date came and went with no sign...
BUMPED 7/26/2023 Have you ever thought about how hideously disastrous it would be to undo the Thanos Snap? In this week's episode, we see “Geraldine” (it’s actually Monica Rambeau) being reverse-dusted back into existence in a hospital room. She looks around in confusion and then heads out into a corridor that is suddenly packed with frantic people running about aimlessly in shock and confusion. One man says, “I have to call my wife!” And that is when it hit me. Just how bad undoing The Snap...
Yeah, shocking I know. A Marvel character that was just killed off will be resurrected before her $250 million (allegedly) budget movie comes out. It’s not why this is happening that’s important, that is pretty much self-evident, there’s a movie coming out that Marvel is hoping won’t bomb. So I’ll take a quick look at how her raise-dead spell was performed. Marvel Studios is finally after five years trying to incorporate some of the characters they picked up from the Fox buyout....
Barbie started life as a call girl. No, I’m not joking about that. Meet Bild Lilli: Her Bild Magazine comic strip was rather worryingly popular in post-war West Germany. Enough so that she inspired a rather evil looking collectable doll. Now in fairness to the Germans, the doll was meant as a gag-gift. However, Mattel executive Ruth Handler saw something more in her than that. How boys play with their action figures is a lot different than how girls play with their...
No. It's not about the wife of Leonidas of Sparta. Go away, you make me sad. For some peculiar reason Godzilla is only popular in Japan and America. Other countries are aware of him but they never took the interest in him that America did. Japan is one of those countries the US has a special relationship with, it pretty much began with Commodore Perry. It was a relationship that definitely had some love/hate vibes going on. We...
I might get a review up tonight but I doubt it. It will likely be Monday. Regardless, if you had any plans to take your little girl to see the Barbie Movie, cancel them now. This is just a little Woke, it's a Woke Dumpster fire filled with burning tires.
Pixar was at the time an excellent acquisition for Disney. Sure computer animated characters were new but there was no real problem fitting them into Disney's existing pantheon. In the last Wreck-It Ralph movie there was a gag with a Disney princess's green room and no one could understand Merida's accent because "she is from the other studio." But Merida, Woody, and Lightening have no trouble fitting into the Disney-shared universe. And there effectively is a Disney-shared universe....
