Monthly Archives - August 2024

08Aug

Deadpool Drama

You've probably been hearing something about a lot of behind-the-scenes shrieking and screaming due to an extended version of Deadpool and Wolverine. Here's what's going on. Deadpool started shooting in early 2023, was interrupted because of the SAG strike but resumed and was finished in November of 2023. Those dates are important. Because of the strike, there were several actors who had been signed but became unavailable. So their characters had to be cut. Patrick Stewart for instance was set...

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07Aug

The Seige of Nerdrotic

From the Land of Unsurprising News comes this, well-known YouTube comic culture commentator and former comic shop owner Gary Buechler better known as Nerdrotic is under an organized assault. It started last week when this complete UFO of an account on X.com posted this. There was nothing remotely clever, innovative, informative, insightful, useful, intelligent, simply nothing at all interesting about this tweet, but it went through the roof.  Then MinuteNerdNews turned his account private. Yeah, that's not suspicious. This was very clearly and...

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06Aug

Harddrive-by: Fallen Aces

I love this game. We’ll start there.  If this game wasn’t made with me in mind then it was made for Razorfist. It plays to most of my major weaknesses. Golden Age Comics, Imm-sim Boomer shooter, pulp fiction, crime noir with a Chanderleresque private dick walking down these mean streets, it’s all there. Like the classic Theif, it’s an imm-sim. But it’s quite a bit more than that. The game is published by New Blood Interactive which is a pretty big point in...

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06Aug

Mickey is Having Kittens About This

Way more gossipy than is my usual want, but it is part of my beat. Yeah, he was always holding hands with Gina Carrano. If you look at the body language from the rest of the panel it's obvious. This is not a casual friendship. And Mickey is not going to be cool about it. Husband and wife team, fine, but they aren't married and probably aren't going to be, and given Pascal's dating history they aren't going to...

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05Aug

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend: Batman The Caped Crusader

I knew it was going to be bad but I didn’t think it could be this bad. Between the years of 2015 and 2021 a wave of stupidity unlike anything that has come before swept over Hollywood.  Largely it was Bob Iger’s doing. Disney was the industry leader, largely because Bob had bought successful franchises and hadn’t ruined them… Yet.  Although he had totally trashed Disney Live-Action but Hollywood preferred to ignore that due to the size of the box office...

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02Aug

First Impressions: Netflix’s Sandman

UPDATE: 8/2/24 (At the end of this post I predicted that Gaiman would one day be torn apart by his fans for a failure in political fashion. I now feel rather foolish for not suspecting that the creepy-looking dude who looked and dressed like the owner of a windowless van, and frequently wrote about sexual violence would turn out to be sexually abusive to a number of women. Gaiman as it turned out, was very good about selecting...

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01Aug

Tubi Defeats Disney+

It’s official! Disney+ has now fallen behind Tubi. The little service that could has climbed over the multi-billion dollar zombie that is Bob Iger’s legacy.  The dream of his career as CEO was to make Disney’s content digital. Well, he’s done it and nobody wants it. His solution is to merge Hulu with Disney+ and then kill Hulu completely. Brilliant. Iger doesn’t have a clue why Hulu worked in the first place because his head is fundamentally wrapped around a Boomer’s view...

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