When I was a kid there were still a few dime stores around. Nothing in them cost a dime by then but they still existed. What didn't exist was dime-store culture.That lost bit of Americana where a bunch of bare foot boys wearing coonskin caps and carrying their bb-guns would wander into one to buy pop, candy and comic books with their paper route money.And honestly, it never even occured to me to miss it.So, why bring it up? Because...
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...
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...
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...
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.FIRSTBad 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....
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...
The answer is yes, yes they can. I'm sure this convinced so many people that the voter fraud tactics perpetuated by the Democratic party are fine. It's just reparations, letting a dead black person vote 15 times in a swing state, right?
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...
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...
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...
