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22AprApril 22, 2021

The Dark Herald Recommends: Resident Alien

Just the right amount of cringe.It’s almost impossible to do.Remember when SyFy Channel was The Sci-Fi Channel and it didn’t suck? No, I’m not joking there really was a time that that was a thing. I admit you have to go back a ways to find that time. Fifteen years is a decent medium for when the Sci-Fi channel was at its peak. On Friday nights you would have Battlestar Galactica (when it didn’t suck), Doctor Who (when it really didn’t suck), and Stargate...

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21AprApril 21, 2021

Arktoons Launches in Seven Days

Today, Arkhaven Comics formally announced the upcoming launch of our new and revolutionary service; Arktoons. When the platform launches a week from now at Arkhaven.com, it will feature thirty-two original comics from Arkhaven Comics, Dark Legion Comics, Jon Del Arroz’s Rislandia, and the Brazilian comics powerhouse: Superprumo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFa1m1f1DTk This is the biggest moment in comics for decades.It changes how you, the reader, in a word, reads the comic book.Anybody who has tried to use a system like Comixology’s knows how bad it is. It loads the...

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21AprApril 21, 2021

Jeff Kaplan is Out at Blizzard

Not certain what this means.Jeff Kaplan is suddenly leaving the company after nearly twenty years. And he is doing so with no real explanation. I haven't heard about him getting Canceled for a ten year old tweet or accidentally calling a Trans-woman,"dude." Kaplan started off at Blizzard doing lowly QA work for Warcraft III. From there he worked all the way up to lead developer on the super MMO Titan. Which failed and then the pieces...

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20AprApril 20, 2021

RE:View -The Last Starfighter (part 2)

Picking up where we left off.When Alex got into Centauri’s car, he shook hands with a stranger whose face was shaded out. There was a static shock and then the stranger got out just as the door closed in and Alex. That was a robot named Beta. He had two purposes in the story. One a touch of comic relief as he tried to imitate Alex in his daily life and two he gave Catherine Mary Stewart more screen time. It fleshed out her...

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19AprApril 19, 2021

Shang-Chi Trailer Drop

Here you are. The long awaited trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPjz6LoiQQo I still don't have an answer to the question, who the fuck is Shang Chi?Look I do know a little something about comics. I've bought a couple in my life. I had actually run into obscure characters like Defensor and Bouncing Boy. I have not the slightest idea who Shang-Chi is. I could feign knowledge by googling him but I refuse.This is one more of Disney's attempts to get their hands...

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19AprApril 19, 2021

I’ll Believe It When I See It

That said, there is more than just gossip that Kray-Kray Kay-Kay’s reign of destruction at LucasFilm has ended.Frankly, I’ve heard these rumors so many times that my reflexive reaction is dismissal as more fanboy wishful thinking.However, these rumors have come on the heels of several events in a sequence. First, the firing and canceling of Gina Carano blew up in Disney and Lucasfilm’s face. The second event was the stockholder call-in, where instead of getting asked if the Adventurer’s Club will ever...

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17AprApril 17, 2021

Cheap Thrills: Dead Gentlemen Productions

We are hitting an intriguing popculutre crossroads. The major studios have reached the crest of a wave. Given the size of the budgets for major releases (typically nine figures), they have to try to minimize risks, they do this by data-driven audience feedback which results in a homogenized entertainment product instead of a movie. Blandness is built in. On top of that there is the more important fact that once anything hits the internet it's free. ...

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14AprApril 14, 2021

Release the JJ Cut

I vote no. Also, don't do it. Please!There is enough chatter on the web about this subject at the moment that I thought I needed to address it.The shill media is pretending that this Astroturf campaign by Bad Reboot is an actual thing. As far as I can tell it started with a lengthy Reddit post. And it came from the offices of Bad Reboot.J.J. Abrams is first and foremost a politician. That is his primary talent set. His secondary talent is...

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13AprApril 13, 2021

First Impressions: Joss Whedon’s The Nevers

B-O-O-O-R-R-R-E-D!!!That’s my first impression in a nutshell. It’s incredibly boring.The Nevers is a new show on HBOmax that premiered this weekend. And it’s Joss Whedon’s first since Dollhouse, eleven years ago.* And this is absolutely a Joss Whedon show. It’s got it all.Women beating up strong men? You bet!Sassy comedic dialog? Of course!Vague sexual tension between all the women on the show? Naturally!Good looking women fighting in their underwear? What did you expect from a feminist?!Spidery, cold, creepy feeling as if you now have thin layer of oily...

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12AprApril 12, 2021

REPOST: The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend Enola Holmes

For reasons that will shortly become obvious, I need to get some articles written well in advance of their publication date on this blog. Which means you get to read a review from my old blog today.REPOST:There are two rules if you’re going to be playing in some other writers’ backyard. First, you have to respect the rules of the game they invented. Second, you need to clear the bloody rights. Both of which Enola Holmes failed to do. The Arthur...

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