Monthly Archives - August 2023

04Aug

Arktoons Spotlight: Phillip the Evangelist

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...

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03Aug

Is Barbie So Woke It’s Based? 

That is what I keep hearing from younger guys.  Okay, obvious baseline statement: Barbie. Was. Not. Made. For. Me.  Also, the sky is blue, water is wet, and poop smells like poop.  That doesn’t change the fact that by any objective standard Barbie is a substandard story and is heavy handed politically. Starting with little girls apishly smashing their baby dolls to pursue the influencer lifestyle of the very first influencer, Barbie (We don’t talk about Lilli, no, no, NO!). We get these ghastly...

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02Aug

Why Is the Market Excited by Disney All of a Sudden? 

ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!!! Yesterday, Disney’s stock price almost broke the $90 barrier, it might still be sometime today. That will give Bob Iger one thing he can claim which is all sunshine and puppies at the earnings call on August 8th. It’s pretty much the only thing, but at the end of the day, it’s the only thing stockholders care about.  So what happened? It’s not like Haunted Mansion blew it out of the water. The parks are doing...

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01Aug

Comrade Mickey’s Funtime Struggle Session Workbook

I know a lot of you have to have wondered, how on Earth did Mickey the Great and Terrible destroy his own phanes and temples so thoroughly and so completely? Well, he had a lot of help. Bob Chapek deserves a lot more credit for this disaster than he ever gets. There are still a bunch of people convinced he was a good man trying his best. Yet the worst of the damage done to Disney was under...

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