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27JulJuly 27, 2022

Star Wars News – It All Sucks But Here It Is

I’m getting this one out of the way fast.FIRSTObi-Wan is now canonically bisexually asexual. Why?Because his latest book is being written by Young Adult female author. These days that all but guarantees a plot-line that consists of girls who like boys… Who like boys. Girls of Blue state America, you should really look into the love lives of Judy Garland and Liza Minelli. This will not work out for you.NEXTThe Acolyte is officially green lit. Yeah, it’s been green lit for a while, but resources...

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26JulJuly 26, 2022

1960s Creepy Comedy Reboots

The post WWII pop culture is mostly notable for its staid conformity with the occasional anti-Communist diatribe thrown in on the side. But aside from Ozzie and Harriet plus sporadic Commie bashing, there was also some distinctly macabre humor going around. I strongly suspect that this eerie comedy was the result of the PTSD riddled psyche of the Greatest Generation blowing off a little steam. There is precedent for it. European art during the Black Death frequently featured dancing skeletons.The children of...

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26JulJuly 26, 2022

RIP David Warner

1941-2022Legendary screen villain David Warner has taken his final bow at the age of 80. For those of you who are asking who is "David Warner?" I'll show you:Time After TimeTronTime BanditsCast A Deadly SpellThe Star Trek we don't talk about.Star Trek: The Less Embarrassing SequelStar Trek could not get enough of this guySOS TitanicA better known TitanicHogfather: He did a better job with Lord Downey than Pratchett himself.This doesn't even begin to cover his voice work. He has...

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25JulJuly 25, 2022

Comicon Announcements

This makes me so tired.Here’s a shock, there weren’t any that I cared about in the least.MARVEL:Marvel Phase V was announced and clearly, Feige sees no reason at all to make a course correction. Or possibly he did and discovered the rudder has rusted into place.Regardless, Marvel is staying on the Woke Wagon. They can’t change how they do business at Marvel Studios. They just can’t. Truth be told if they just adjust their budget downward they can still keep making pablum...

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23JulJuly 23, 2022

Who The Hell Is This Even For?

And I thought I wouldn't be interested in anything announced at Comicon this year.I am reasonably, if not absolutely certain that gemstones can't be embarrassed but these have reason to be.Marvel is going to be selling a $25 MILLION collection of six gems called the Infinity Stones Collection.It's too stupid to be real, yet it is.The Time Stone is a Colombian emerald is rare and brilliant in color. Untouched by human hands, straight from birth to be faceted for brilliance,...

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22JulJuly 22, 2022

The X-Men Are No More

Well, I knew it was coming.The golden X-Men brand is being retired by Marvel Studios. San Diego Comicon is underway. Not that it has anything to do with comic books these days. Comicon is all about the movies and TV shows now. It’s where people “get excited for next product.” In truth, it is why those people go there now.A new X-Men project was announced but of course, it’s 2022 and the very idea of a show with the word “Men” in the title is...

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20JulJuly 20, 2022

God of Thunder Blunders

The trade press is going on at great length over how mega-super-great Thor: Love and Thunder is doing at the box office. Despite a 68% second weekend crash.Yeah, it has hit the $500 million mark. Good for them. But it had a budget of $250 million and it was shot pre covid, so it has been racking up obscene amounts of interest for years. This film needs to pull down somewhere in the neighborhood of $750 million before it crosses into the black.It will...

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19JulJuly 19, 2022

Guess Who Is Not Welcome at Disneyland Anymore?

Well, we all knew this was coming.Disneyland celebrated the 67th anniversary of its opening on Sunday.Every year this speech is played. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uuC3kS9kxk This is blocked?!?!?!!? Are you shitting me?Well, this isn't the only place it's blocked because Walt Disney's innocuous cheerful 37-second speech no longer has any place in Disneyland's official celebration of its own anniversary.The guy whose name is on the damn park is now an unwelcome figure. Walt Disney's opening day speech was very conspicuously absent.The Woke left...

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15JulJuly 15, 2022

Rewriting the History of Covid Disney

The business news world is all abuzz today over an article in Business Insider that claims that Bob Iger is trash-talking Bob Chapek. Anybody who is genuinely familiar with the inner workings of Disney these past couple of years would have to be startled by the portrayal of some of the events listed in this article. Because they have only the most tangential connections to reality. The original is behind a paywall but everyone is copying it. Here is the NY Post’s version,...

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14JulJuly 14, 2022

The Dark Herald Recommends Ms. Marvel

Ms. Marvel has just finished its first and likely only season. I’ve stated before that it was kind of a hard show to review due to the fact that I had no interest in it, and that hasn’t changed. But since the episodes were only a half-hour long, I was able to power my way through it.I can give it this much. I didn’t hate it.The Ms. Marvel character is a derivative, of a derivative, of a ripoff. In 1939, Bill Parker was...

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