Marvel Does a Brutal Take Down of Its Own Lead Writer

Human potato Dan Slott was the center piece of SAVAGE hit piece by… Disney Plus?!?! There is a new documentary series on Disney's premier and unwatched streaming service called Marvel 616. The title refers to their main timeline of Earth 616, as opposed to DC's more solipsistic, Earth One. Mostly, this docu-series is about things like cosplay, Marvel Comics' impact on other cultures, and the 1970s Japanese Spiderman TV series. (Which I thought was going to be the only interesting thing on the whole...

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Wonder Woman Dumped on HBOmax

The studios are now making strategic business decisions on the basis of a projected Biden bailout.  Wonder Woman 1984 is going to begin streaming on Warner Media's HBOmax on Christmas Day. This will be in conjunction with a simultaneous release to whatever theaters are open to show it.  If you take the No Time to Die asking price tag of 600 million as a benchmark for what a modern tent pole film has to make at the box office to turn a...

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Rob Liefeld SAVAGES Former DC Publisher Dan DiDio

Hyper-successful artist Rob Liefeld has a podcast where he talks about the past of comics, and nothing's been more interesting to watch than the trainwreck of DC Comics which started around the New 52 more than a decade ago, through the present where they are on one of the biggest collapses of history. On his podcast, he talks about how Dan DiDio took over publishing as Editor in Chief of DC and used a bombastic personality in order to give...

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Blogs and Ends: The Hump Day Dump

I use these Blogs and Ends posts when I need to do a roundup of smaller stories that don't really rate a separate post of their own. FIRST Bad news for Square Enix, they did business with Disney.   Their new Avengers game is probably the biggest bomb for that company in twenty years. They're reportedly out $74,000,000.  The last time Squaresoft had a flop this bad they had to merge with Enix.  I don't know who they'll have to merge with to survive this one....

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The Womandalorian: Genocide and B-e-e-e-w-b Armor

Baby Yoda devours the unborn!!! Proud Mandalorian women forced to dance on the pole!!! And I thought this season was going to be dull.  I honestly hadn't planned to revisit the Mandalorian before this season was over. After all, these days people tend to binge something like this, all at once, instead of watching it show by show. So, it makes more sense to wait until the season is in the can.  In this case, I don't think I can do that and stay...

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DC to Pull Out of Comic Shops?

This one is going to have to be brief, I'm off to DC for the MAGA March as soon as this posts.   A new article has just been posted by Bleeding Cool, more or less confirming what I had posited in my Red Honeymoon piece.  That DC is Getting out of the monthly pamphlet business. And that means abandoning the comic shops.  “That the Warner Bros firings of yet more DC Comics senior staffers, and the subsequent fallout across the company is part...

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Does Continuity Matter?

With DC Comics’ change in Editors, they’ve also announced they’re going to be switching to something called “Omniverse” where there isn’t a single universe, but continuity will not be maintained between books. If it sounds more confusing than simply admitting “there is no continuity,” it’s because it is confusing. Comic have struggled with continuity ever since the events rush of the 1990s. There’s simply too many books flooding the stands and too much of a back history for editors to keep track...

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The Red Honeymoon at DC Comics

The Red Wedding massacre at DC Comics was three months ago and it was pretty brutal.   A few of the more overly optimistic comics fans thought it was going to be the start of a turnaround, where DC would abandon its pursuit of all things Woke and go back to sensible basics.  Others thought that it was the start of a focus on graphic novels and Young Adult engagement in the hopes of attracting Zoomer's interest in DC’s characters.  Then Daniel Cherry III...

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Long Suffering LolKotaku

Gamer Gate got its start in the 1990s.   When gaming mags were first taking off they had a major problem.  A typical review usually read something like, "This is a good game. I like it very much."  There would follow two or three pages of technical prattle and that would be it. The average gamer was left in a daze still uncertain if they wanted to shell-out sixty bucks for the game.Editors decided that they could either teach gamers how to write or...

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