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15AugAugust 15, 2023

Arkhaven Spotlight: My Sister Suprema

UPDATE - My Sister Suprema is now available from Arkhaven in a bound deluxe sixty-page format. 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...

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15AugAugust 15, 2023

Monday Box Office Post Mortem: Snow Blight

Not a great opening weekend for TMNT and The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem has had a very bad drop on its second weekend. It is now standing at a gross of $70 million against a budget of $75 million, it’s going to leg out before it turns a profit. And it’s not going to matter in the least because this thing was all about Paramount maintaining a license. They have a real TMNT that is...

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10AugAugust 10, 2023

Totally Eclipse

Generation X is the last comic book generation. Don’t get me wrong, storytelling by sequential art will be a thing so long as humans are humans but an adolescent boy sitting on the basement steps immersed in a pamphlet reading stories of the fantastic and superhuman will not happen again. The comic book industry could have planted seed corn in the 1990s but chose to eat it instead. The culture has been skipped for two generations and that is more than...

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09AugAugust 9, 2023

The Dark Herald Recommends: Kantaro the Sweet Tooth Salaryman

BUMPED: (8/9/23) The Disney earnings call wasn't as earth-shaking as the stockholder meeting. Nonetheless, I'm going to need a little time to dig through Iger's fog machine. So enjoy this classic. This one is really more for fans of the original version of Iron Chef. It's Bizarro Food-Porn. Kantaro has a kind of all-encompassing, Mister Spock-like obsession with desserts, which in and of itself totally makes sense if you have ever known a high-end Chocolatier. Seriously, those guys are like...

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08AugAugust 8, 2023

Is Star Wars The High Republic a Wrap?

If true I'm going to miss the High Republic rather badly. It was a source of intense amusement for me. "I can’t fathom the approval process here. The navigator is a rock. I loved the tableau with the rock striking a heroic pose with the rest of its intrepid nekama in their action poses. I mean, the vessel is named; “The Vessel.” I’m sure that Claudia Grey thought that this was vastly more clever than naming the ship, “The Ship,” but I’m not seeing...

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07AugAugust 7, 2023

Billion Dollar Doll

This weekend Barbie did the impossible and crossed the $1 billion mark. The question all of Hollywood is asking now is; HOW? Barbie is the kind of movie that film executives adore, the kind with a restrained budget that results in unrestrained profit. Barbie isn’t the kind of Disney budget monster where raking in a billion bucks is barely making up for the outlay. The very highest estimate I’ve seen for Barbie’s budget is $150 million. Okay, since the theaters get a...

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04AugAugust 4, 2023

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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03AugAugust 3, 2023

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...

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02AugAugust 2, 2023

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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01AugAugust 1, 2023

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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