18Feb
The New Aquaman Cartoon Promo Reveals Another CalArts Dumpster Fire
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. These people destroy everything they touch. It looks like they're not merely content destroying DC Comics publishing.
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17Feb
RE:View The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
America invented the comic book and gave it to the world. Which is a good thing because we kinda suck at it now. There isn’t a lot the traditional publishers can do about it at this point. Fredric Wertham came along just as American comics were finding their way out of the it’s- just-kid-stuff ghetto in the 1950s. Admittedly, EC Comics were shlock garbage but you gotta start somewhere. Thanks to the Comic Book Code, the kid’s stuff ghetto was where American comics...
17Feb
Top 5 DC Characters For Arkhaven To License!
If DC does shut its doors and start licensing out characters, Arkhaven has a real opportunity as one of the only major competitors out there to potentially license some of these classic characters. There’s a lot of great ones to choose from, but I’ll give a top 5 and try my hardest not just to list characters created by Steve Ditko, as tempting as it would be to do a Watchmen with Charlton heroes only not a cynical parody, actually...
16Feb
Ma Bell is Pulling the Trigger on DC
Where there is smoke there is not necessarily fire but that said, there is a LOT of smoke here. However, be advised we are entering the rumor zone. I do not have direct contact with any of the players. But these rumors do make sense, the sources have been reliable in past and the word is that… …Diamond Distributers is buying DC Comics. Beloved Reader: What is Diamond Distributors? You ask and the Dark Herald answers: When I was a kid there was no such thing as...
14Feb
Originality Is Not Quality Storytelling
Tropes work for a reason. Story structures that are tried and true also work for a reason. It comes down to heroism and what makes a compelling character. All too many comic books in the last thirty years have tried to peddle nonsense like "evil is not truly evil, it's misunderstood!" and "there's no such thing as a true hero, everyone is flawed!" The problem with these storytelling structures is it objectively rings false. I hate giving Star Wars as examples,...
13Feb
The Gamma Boss: Joss Whedon
Apparently, the Non-Disparagement Agreement clauses on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s contracts expired this week, because everyone is talking all at once about how toxic Joss Whedon was to work for. You only have to look at the chubby little goblin and you see Gamma face. Puffy and pinched with sunken piggy eyes. The Germans have a word, Backpfeifengesicht, a face in need of a fist. Just looking at a picture of Whedon and any normal man feels his fingers instinctively start to...
11Feb
Blogs and Ends: The Black Swan Edition
I was in the middle of writing a post on Joss Whedon and what a ripe slice of hell it must have been to work for him when a family emergency came up. Nothing bad but I still had to take care of it. Hopefully, I can get the Whedon post tacked up tomorrow. FIRST I won’t know for sure until a couple of months pass by, but I have begun to suspect that the firing of Gina Carano is the Black Swan event...
11Feb
Gina Carano Fired!
The Okay-Boomers who run Disney have finally bowed to the Twitter mob and fired Gina Carano. The twerps that run LucasFilm social media were at last let off their leash. “Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future. Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.” All of the goodwill they built up with the return of Luke just went...
09Feb
Disney Rumors
Bob Iger must not have gotten the job of ambassador to China. The reason I’m saying he didn’t get the job is because of the newest rumor out of Fort Mickey. That Disney is looking to buy out MGM Studios. As bad a shape as Disney is in, they are looking at yet another spending spree. And that reeks of Iger. Although, it’s not the absolutely absurd price of $70 billion that he paid for Fox. No, MGM is going for the bargain basement price...
06Feb
Question for My Readers
I was looking at starting up an RPG campaign with a few friends. The modern D&D rules have gotten ridiculous and I hate Wizards of the Coast. I had heard some very good things about Basic Fantasy. Then I looked at the writer, Chris Gonnerman's Twitter feed. I will not give this guy my money. That will not happen. So, do any of you, know of any Eighties style Dungeons and Dragons RPG systems that aren't Woke AF?