Of the all the games, Yar’s Revenge is about the only that has real potential. The original game came with a little comic book that becomes the foundation for a story. Do it as an animated movie, and it could be a hit.
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Granted, we probably would have had to wait three years for a handful of episodes.
‘Wonder Man’ Not Returning for Season 2 at Disney+
“Wonder Man” has been canceled at Disney+, Variety has learned exclusively.
The news comes despite the fact that Disney announced a Season 2 renewal for the show back in March, roughly two months after it debuted. According to sources, a writers’ room for Season 2 was never opened and the show’s writers have been released to pursue other projects.
Yahya Abdul Mateen II and Ben Kingsley starred in the series as Simon Williams and Trevor Slattery, respectively. The Season 1 cast also included X Mayo, Demetrius Grosse, Zlatko Burić, Arian Moayed and Olivia Thirlby. It was created by Destin Daniel Cretton and Andrew Guest, with Cretton also directing the first two episodes. Guest served as showrunner.
“Wonder Man” debuted to strong critical acclaim upon its premiere, with the first season holding a 91% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In her review for Variety, Alison Herman wrote, “Abdul-Mateen and Kingsley make their characters equally ridiculous and romantic, urged on by a motivation more intimate and individual than saving the world.”
Abdul-Mateen earned an Emmy nomination for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for his work on the show, making him the only live-action actor to get an Emmy nod for both a Marvel and DC project following his win for work on HBO’s “Watchmen.”
Disney did not release any viewership data for the show, though it did make a single appearance in the Nielsen streaming top 10 charts the week of its release. The show managed to crack the number eight position on the streaming top 10 originals chart for the week of Jan. 26-Feb. 1, but fell off the chart the following week.
According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, while “Wonder Man” is not proceeding with Season 2, the characters featured in the series could still appear in other Marvel projects in the future.
The official logline stated, “Aspiring Hollywood actor Simon Williams (Abdul Mateen) is struggling to get his career off the ground. During a chance meeting with Trevor Slattery (Kingsley), an actor whose biggest roles may be well behind him, Simon learns legendary director Von Kovak (Burić) is remaking the superhero film ‘Wonder Man.’ These two actors at opposite ends of their careers doggedly pursue life-changing roles in this film as audiences get a peek behind the curtain of the entertainment industry.”
The renewal for “Wonder Man” was an anomaly for Marvel, as virtually all of the live-action series they have launched on Disney+ have been single seasons. Those include shows like “WandaVision,” “The Falcon and The Winter Soldier,” “Hawkeye,” and “Moon Knight.” “Loki” starring Tom Hiddleston did air for two seasons, while the “WandaVision” spinoff “Vision Quest” is currently in the works. “WandaVision” also spawned the spinoff “Agatha All Along” starring Kathryn Hahn. Disney+ also relaunched the Marvel-Netflix series “Daredevil” under the title “Daredevil: Born Again” in March 2025, with the second season of that show debuting on March 24. A third season is slated to debut in 2027.
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Sometimes I think there is a deliberate attempt going on to destroy this country by some of our own people. I mean obviously Russia is working to destabilize Western Europe, but I think there is more going on. I mean just the fact that there are schools, financed by our government, that are spreading all kinds of hatred, hatred of other people, but also hatred of this country. They know this and it still goes on.
That’s conspirational of course. But more likely it is just the consequences of this soulless kind of liberalism, where all opinions are equal and the government can’t position itself as a moral arbiter or teacher. The neutral state. It gives all sorts of bad actors the opportunity to push their bullshit.
That said, the opposite is probably worse. A government that tries to control people’s opinions. Or other powerful authoritarian structures, like the church.
While China, Russia, North Korea, and other countries definitely perform disinformation and misinformation campaigns, it is not really a left-vs-right horizontal culture war.
Think vertical. This is definitely a class war disguised as a culture war by the wealthy on everyone beneath them. I know you want to blame the left for a lot of things, but that is misplaced. The left and right are being manipulated by the rich to distract everyone from their power and wealth grabs. The rich bend government to their will to meet their ends.
Think class, not culture.
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With the pills, I would choose 5 and 6.
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10. Obsession (Foc)
What’s wild is that Obsession is now available on the Peacock streamer.
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I remember when Robert Kirkman wrote Ultimate X-Men years ago. You could see how heavily 1990s X-Men influenced his run.
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I always liked him. RIP
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New ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ Movie in the Works From Paramount (Exclusive) – Hollywood Reporter
This is a pointless move. Regardless of improvements in SPFX, CGI, sound technology, etc., a remake of NIGHTMARE just can’t improve on the original. It just can’t, so why bother?
Because studios are creatively bankrupt and risk-averse to the point they only feel safe recycling existing IP.
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Yeah, it seems like the entry-level IT jobs are going to be hit hardest of all.
Entry-level jobs everywhere are getting messed up.
It used to be that you could would take a high school or college graduate and train them on the job to develop them. Nowadays, a surprising amount “entry-level” jobs require a few years of experience. How is someone supposed to get experience if they can’t even get a job? This is compounded that what were essentially “first jobs” (working at fast places, store clerks, etc.) are now occupied with adults who need the work because they can’t find jobs anywhere.
What should have been the initial steps into the work force are being denied or at least made more difficult to young people starting out.
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Could this be our Legion of Super-Heroes loving Dave Meadows?
We had another David Meadows, didn’t we?
Yes. He was in the Army.
American DM was rebooted as British DM. There was a new #1 and everything.
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Yoko Taro is one of a handful of creators I would trust to not fuck up a new Eva right out of the gate.
But still.
This news is… interesting?
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I think it’s probably a Greek island, or the Greek coast. Everything is white and blue there. (well not everything but they’re popular colors)
It looks beautiful.
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Too accurate?
On the nose.
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I wish I was there!
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The second hand market? Dies in Jan 2028.
So does letting your friend borrow one of your games and vice versa.
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something something liberals will side with fascism against socialism.
And these people aren’t even socialists! They’re mostly just social democrats!
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Interesting button to put on a shirt:
I want that shirt! :D
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I often feel people put on fake accents to make some sort of impression. I remember Christopher Hitchens saying in some interview he taught himself to sound more “posh”. Russel Brand did the opposite I think, I feel the way he talks sounds inauthentic and he taught himself to speak more “working class”. I also hear it in Dutch speakers, but their names won’t mean anything to you. There is one Dutch podcaster who kind of switches between different codes, sometimes I think he catches himself speaking too refined, and he changes his voice and vocabulary to sound “tougher”.
Elizabeth Holmes, an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection with her health technology company Theranos, intentionally spoke in a deeper voice. Per Wikipedia:
During most of her public appearances, she spoke in a deep baritone voice, although a former Theranos colleague later claimed he heard her speak in a voice stereotypical of a woman her age to welcome him when he was hired. Gardner of Stanford also denies that Holmes has a naturally deep voice. Her family, however, has maintained that her deep voice is authentic. In a 2023 New York Times interview, Holmes spoke in her natural, higher pitch voice, and confirmed that the low voice was an affectation.
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On the other hand, it is absolutely true that Narbonne is one of the French cities that are going to start fining men 150 Euros if they remove their shirts on a public street. No mention about what happens if a woman takes off her shirt…
She gets paid 150 Euros?
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Is using witch doctors to hex your opponent OK in the FIFA rulebook?
This is FIFA. Everything is okay by them.
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https://pixelframe.design/doctor-who-font-logo-generator/
Potentially dangerous.
Isn’t DeForest Kelly dead, or is this a call for Karl Urban?
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That was a lot of words to say “the actual writing on this show is pretty shit”.
I gave up on it after Season 1. I never could connect with it. All the characters are terrible humans, and it was difficult to root for any of them.
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I have a vague memory that I joined the Millarworld board January 2004.
I think the board launched at the same time Mark launched the MW brand across multiple publishers. That was in 2004.
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In a shocking turn of events, Israel’s need to bomb everything around them is fucking up the US/Iran deal😱😱.
Can we just have regime change in Israel?
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I’m cautiously optimistic now there really is a peace deal with Iran and it isn’t just smoke and mirrors to keep the market going. I really really hope it works out. And hopefully Lebanon is included in the agreement.
Seriously, if you want to know how the deal is actually going, pay attention to what is coming out of Iran. If they say it’s legit and things are progressing, that’s a positive indicator. Anything coming out of Trump administration should be treated as highly suspect.
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I maintain if JMS was to take over a beloved UK SF classic it should be Blake’s 7 or Quatermass rather than Dr. Who. I wouldn’t say no to him being given the reins, just there are others that suit him better.
Give JMS Quatermass and put Tony Gilroy on Blake’s 7.
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Gotta make it look like an electrical thing
My late sister and her husband would go to the Bahamas frequently and got to know several locals. On one trip back in the 1980s, they learned that a popular restaurant had burned down. They were then calmly told that it was for insurance purposes only and that it would be rebuilt even better. Everyone, including the police, knew exactly who did it. It was some Greek guy that flies in, burns the place down, then leaves. No one stops him because he’s very good at his job and makes sure the fire won’t spread and damage other buildings. The cops “investigated” and determined it was an “electrical” fire. The police department would get a slice of the insurance money. At the time, this was the Bahamian version of “urban renewal”.
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I would als question the common mantra that we need immigration to save the economy. Poland’s population has been shrinking for years, and their economy is booming. They’re doing something right that we are doing wrong.
You are looking at the short term. The problem is in the long term.
As the population ages and leaves the workforce, the younger generations enter and generate the tax revenue that supports and maintains the infrastructure. They also care for the older population. When the younger population is gradually getting smaller, the necessary revenues are not being generated to support everything. Smaller populations also produce less children, so eventually the system collapses.
Will every population decline. No, some will actually increase. But those changes will impact global dynamics.
This is a good video on population collapse:
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‘I knew it was over for us’: the bands who got left behind when punk exploded
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But, to be honest, I can’t remember the last time I LOVED one of his books. Maybe the first HUCK series?
I remember reading the first volume of Chrononauts and thinking this was one of the most vapid and superficial comics I had ever read. There were some later series I tried the first issue and dropped immediately. I pretty much stopped buying his stuff. I still have a stack of MW comics that I haven’t read yet. (To be fair, I have a LOT of unread comics!) I just don’t feel any urgency to read them.
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With the Carrier setting to shut down in August, I got to thinking about Mark Millar.
I know I’ve said this before but at one point in his career, he was steps ahead of every creator in the business and his books sold very well. He went full-on into creator owned before most. He was getting movies based on his works made. He was riding high. I think his peak was when he sold Millarworld to Netflix. And I believe that’s when things slowed down for him.
He had only three projects made into series, but they never seemed to catch on. I know he was supposed to be an “IP generator” for them, but it looks like he’s fizzled out there.
He has been doing some projects on Kickstarter that are also being developed into movies. This could be a way for him to get around his Netflix contract. Still, going that route really felt… slimy. He could have gone to Image or some other publisher. But by going the KS route and looking at the pricing at some of those tiers, it just came across as pure greed. I know he has associated with some of the less desirable folk in comics and his beliefs are… out there.
Mark’s style has always been over the top, and I do wonder if the majority of his readers simply outgrew him? I know I did. He could do spectacle well, but it seemed like a lot of his work lacked depth. Looking at his KS projects, they are just high concept action movies.
I find it interesting to look back on his career and watch it just kind of fade. He’s still working, but his profile isn’t as high as it used to be.
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There are community centers here in the US. A lot of them are tied to athletic fields and play areas. My sister has utilized one that offered free tax return preparation services during tax season. I would say that the majority of community centers are woefully underfunded. I think if they were better funded, they would be used by more people.
Maybe we could fund these community centres by inventing an imaginary powerful being who watches over us, must be worshipped by attendees to the community centre, and will be upset if we don’t give the community centres lots of money
Those places do exist. They’re called mental hospitals.
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beloved fantasy franchise
Isn’t that the song from Sense8?
Sense8 got that song from a beloved fantasy franchise.
MTV is a beloved fantasy franchise?
Jersey Shore, specifically.
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Isn’t that the song from Sense8?
Sense8 got that song from a beloved fantasy franchise.
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Well you could say a pub serves a community purpose. I would be OK with that. Or a cafe. Or something like a soup kitchen, for people on a low income to have a healthy meal.
I actually have a vision where all of this is concerned: Community Centers.
As churches close down, it’s also clear that they don’t fulfill the vital function they once had: Bringing the people of a community together to see each other once a week, to have a chat, to feel closer to the people living around you. This was a very important thing, and apart from a few very old people, it’s pretty much gone.
We need something like this. We need community centers where, on Sundays, there’ll be somebody giving a short lecture on a current topic, and afterwards you can have a cup of coffee and talk, and the kids can play on a playground/in playrooms. And it would be inclusive for everyone, not just exclusive to people of one faith.
We desperately need something like this. If I was to found a new political party, this would be one of the cornerstones. This, and 16 months obligatory civil service (which you can do in these community centers). And it’d all be paid for by taxing the rich.
There are community centers here in the US. A lot of them are tied to athletic fields and play areas. My sister has utilized one that offered free tax return preparation services during tax season. I would say that the majority of community centers are woefully underfunded. I think if they were better funded, they would be used by more people.
A hospital near my house offers free seminars on various topics every few months. I’ve been to two: one on neck and back pain and the other on joint pain. They last about an hour, and the run is packed of about 30-40 people, mostly seniors. They are interesting talks.
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“Before hockey pucks were made of rubber, players often used frozen cow dung during outdoor games on ponds and lakes. As the sport moved indoors, players initially used lacrosse balls, but rink owners soon found they worked better when sliced into thirds and the flat middle section was used. By 1885, this design had evolved into the basic rubber puck we recognize today—much to the relief of modern players, who probably have no interest in returning to hockey’s original equipment.”
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I saw that new He-Man, sorry, Masters Of The Universe film today. Overall, I thought it was pretty rubbish.
A lot of the criticisms that you raised are the same ones I’ve seen in reviews of the film.
I’m curious to see how it does against Obsession and Backrooms. Those two movies are smoking hot now. As someone who watched He-Man when it first aired in the 1980s, I have no sentimentality towards it. I would rather go see Backrooms as that sounds far more interesting to me.
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Too many old, retired people and too few babies.
Based on what I have seen, immigration is only a short-term solution to declining birth rates. After about three generations, they have fully assimilated into the local culture, and the birth rates begin declining again.
Yes, and if we work under the assumption that Capitalism is meant to rise everyone to prosperity, as we are so often assured, then eventually all nations will have standards of living that reduce the need to have large families. And then where will the cheap, disposable labour come from?
Boy, I sure hope nobody’s lying about that constant rise in prosperity, or that there are parts of the world that are deliberately kept poor and war-torn in order to keep our lives comfortable and OH WAIT OH SHIT WHAT’S THIS
Let’s also talk about the “Permanent Underclass”:
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Too many old, retired people and too few babies.
Based on what I have seen, immigration is only a short-term solution to declining birth rates. After about three generations, they have fully assimilated into the local culture, and the birth rates begin declining again.
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Heh. Looks like Backrooms might overtake Mandalorian and Grogu, which would be very funny indeed (as we’re talking a 10 million vs. a 300 million budget).
God, I really want to see Backrooms, but I probably won’t be able to catch it in the theatre.
I really want to see Backrooms myself. I didn’t make it over the weekend but hope to very soon.
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And at no point does this supposedly professionally written article contemplate that Disney training its audience to wait for its films on D+ might impact their films’ cinema performance.
They do say the following, but I understand where you’re coming from:
So far, the “Star Wars” installment has generated $137.4 million domestically and $246.6 million globally. It’s found money in the eyes of cinema operators, who knew Disney could have dropped “The Mandalorian and Grogu” on its streaming service. For the studio, which produced the space opera spinoff for $165 million, movie theaters represent another revenue stream before the movie lands on Disney+ — not to mention the hordes of Grogu toy sales.
I haven’t seen the movie, but from reviews and viewer comments, this really should have been Season 4.
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I saw a Lorcan in the wild today.
You survived the encounter, which is better than most.
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I finished it last night, and this show is amazing and spectactular!!! Sony got it right!!!
First off, if you’re not watching this show in black and white, you’re watching it completely wrong. Normally, iffy CGI can be a distraction and take you out of the show. But here, it helps give it an actual 1930s-made movie feel. There’s a lot of cinematography and shots that are very period and it enhances the experience. I only wish this show could have been shot on B/W film with period practical effects, or they could have given it a lo-fi filter to take some of the sheen off of it. Black and white gives it its period feel.
Nicolas Cage is absolutely perfect as Reilly. He is giving you the full Cage experience. I do want say this series has some of the best casting ever. There have been no miscasts. Special shout out to Cary Christopher as the kid Frankie. He is wonderful as the smart aleck kid who, while running with the adults, still feels like a kid. The performances really feel like they’re from an old movie and I mean that as a compliment.
They story holds together and sticks the landing. While I hope there’s a Season Two, they tell a complete story with no annoying cliffhangers but leave you wanting more.
This show has exceeded all my expectations. I give it the highest possible recommendation.
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Very much in-character for Lee though.
Funky Flashman lives!
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You’re assuming people remember the books being cheaper.
I’m just trying to imagine someone, especially a parent, picking up a comic for the first time and seeing the $4.99 price tag, then looking at necessities that have gone up in price. A five-dollar comic is a huge ask.
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Full August 2026 Marvel Comics solicitations: Spider-Man #1000, Midnight X-Men, and more – AIPT
Spider-Man #1000, Midnight X-Men, Queen in Black, and more headline a massive month of Marvel comics packed with new launches, major milestones, and universe-shaking stories.
________________________Marvel Comics August 2026 Solicitations – League of Comic Geeks
______________________Marvel August 2026 Solicitations: MIDNIGHT X-MEN #1 and more debut – Comics Beat
Damn, Marvel Comics have really gotten expensive! Generation X-23 is the only book priced at $3.99. The base price for a Marvel title now is $4.99. There are some 32-page books priced at $5.99. That is insane! I honestly can’t imagine buying every Marvel comic they put out anymore. I can see people picking and choosing which ones they will buy and skipping the rest. Hell, people are probably spending their money on DC’s Absolute line. I’ve already dropped indie books when they hit $4.99. I guess it only takes a few hits to subsidize the rest of the line.
Generation X-23 #7
LOGAN CARVES A PATH FOR THE NEXT GENERATION! Meeting X-23 was shocking enough — don’t miss it when the Generated cross paths with the OG WOLVERINE! But LOGAN’s in a bad way — and only this crew can help him!Comic · 32 pages · $3.99
Captain America #14
A SOUL FOR A SOUL… Bound together in an unfamiliar war zone, Captain America and Victor Von Doom are after the ANTIDIVINE — a sword powerful enough to destroy MEPHISTO. But someone else also has their eyes on the weapon! Can Steve stop Doom’s first love from destroying Victor as his own soul hangs in the balance?Comic · 32 pages · $4.99
Spider-Man / Hulk: Fire and Brimstone #1
THWIP-SMASH!Legendary writers KEVIN SMITH and ANDY McELFRESH team up with superstar artist R.B. SILVA for the newest high-octane adventure for Spider-Man and Hulk! It’s nonstop action! Side-splitting quips! And… the exorcism of Bruce Banner?!
Comic · 32 pages · $5.99
65th ANNIVERSARY SPECTACULAR! It’s the 65th Anniversary of the Fantastic Four, and to celebrate, we’ve got an extra-large, extra-fantastic adventure for you, starring everyone’s favorite adventurers, spanning centuries of history and a universe of scientific progress! The Fantastic Four have been defeated: With their personal arrows of time reversed, they’re careening into the past with no hope of salvation – unless a complete stranger can find out what they need. But even if she does, that will only get them halfway home, because there’s still a threat in the present that’s waiting to kill them – and that’s IF they can arrive there alive! This is one issue you won’t want to miss – because you’ll have to wait 65 years for ANYTHING like it.
PLUS: Johnny’s mustache saves New York City?!
FEATURING CLASSIC IMAGES BY JACK KIRBY, JOHN BUSCEMA, JOHN BYRNE AND STEVE EPTING SEEN IN AN ENTIRELY NEW WAY!
Comic · 40 pages · $5.99
The Mortal Thor #14
AN ASGARDIAN MILESTONE: THOR #800!The Serpent has trapped Sigurd Jarlson in the worst of all possible worlds for his greatest trial. Now, without even a weapon in his hand, he must prove himself worthy to enter the Realms of the Gods. Somewhere in the city, a man without even a hammer begins the ultimate quest…the quest for Thor!
Plus: Bonus stories, including a thrilling new tale by Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine) & Jesse Lonergan (Drome)!
Comic · 48 pages · $6.99
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The 4K restoration of the TVM came out yesterday, which I completely forgot about. The Beeb’s put the restored titles on YT and man, that ominous last line of the voice over and that version of the theme tune still gets me, like I’m 9 years old again.
And they got McGann to do the subscription beg for the end of the YT upload too.
I still remember watching this when it first aired.
I will always have a special place in my heart for the Eighth Doctor.
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It’s pretty incredible that in the 50s, 60s and 70s most women didn’t have any job and yet people could afford to live in houses.
Back in the day, there was a nice equilateral triangle between the shareholders, company president, and employees. Shareholders got good dividends, the president was compensated well but not outrageously (the average was 16 to 1), and employees received good compensation with pension benefits. Overall, cost of living was lower as well. All parties benefited. Beginning in the 60s and 70s, women started entering the workforce in greater numbers as a way to establish independence and control of their own lives.
Then came Jack Welch and him becoming CEO of General Electric in the 1980s. He pushed for “maximizing shareholder value” and getting compensated greatly as a reward for doing so. This came at the cost of employees’ jobs and benefits. Sadly, this became the model we see today.
The fundamental problem of capitalism is that it pushes for growth at all costs. Unfortunately, this all happens in a closed system. Unchecked growth in a closed system has a name: Cancer.
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Streamers are really short-sighted with their own series.
People will binge decades-old series with hundreds of episodes over a brand new series that has a fraction of the episodes. Why? Because I think streamers don’t know how to do a series. They don’t give moderate successes a chance to grow – Shows get cancelled after one season. If it goes on for a bit, they start cutting the budget, which impacts the quality. Or, they’ll milk a show way past its expiration date (I’m looking at you, Squid Game and Stranger Things). Streaming series are also hurt by erratic release schedules. Having to wait two or more years between seasons is ridiculous. Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager released 26 episodes every year, and they were loaded with special effects in every episode.
At lot of streaming series don’t have a rewatchable quality to them. You may watch them once, and that’s it. I think if they made better series, I think they wouldn’t have as much churn as they do.
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Christel was shocked that I had no urgency to see TM&G. I told her the series this stems from was decent during its first season, but really went downhill with each subsequent season. This movie I can genuinely wait till it hits Disney+. I think Disney was so desperate to have a Star Wars movie in the theaters that they repacked what should have been The Mandalorian Season 4 as a movie and released it on the big screen.
I’m more eager to see RuPaul’s “Stop. That. Train!”. That looks like a stupid, funny movie that doesn’t take itself seriously at all.
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Something I really think that hurt the show was that Amazon cut the budget in the final seasons, and it shows. We are told the scale of Homelander’s plans, but we never truly see it. I never truly felt the stakes. The final confrontation between Butcher and Huey felt rushed.
I don’t think the end was great, but I can’t say it was horrible. I thought it was okay.
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Obesity kills almost as many people as smoking. Are we going to ban cookies next?
Your burgers and milshakes are burdening the NHS!
I huge issue is that a lot of foods, especially junk ones, are designed to not provide a feeling of being satiated. Therefore, you eat more than you really should and continue to buy more.
Throw in the fact that in the US, there are “food deserts”, where there are no nearby well-stocked grocery stores but there are an abundance of fast food places. This occurs in poorer areas, which are mostly minorities. They can’t help but to eat poorly, and then suffer from resulting health issues.
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This looks terrible in all the right ways
That looks fun.
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The First Age, Millarworld, ended.
You’re forgetting the Authority forum! That was the first phase.
That was The Before Time!
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In the Support the Carries thread, Gar talked about potentially shutting down The Carrier due to cost and maintenance issues and looking for a free alternative. (The thread is locked so only mods can post.)
I have no issue with this course of action. Lorcan mentioned that we already have a setup on Discord (The Loveland Arms). There are so few of us left, I don’t see the sense in throwing money away when there are perfectly servicable free options that already exist. The Loveland Arms on Discord is already set up. We wouldn’t have to start from scratch.
Like I said there are not many former Millarworlders left. Even before Mark sold to Netflix and MW was shut down for good, there was already a decline in membership. While The Carrier has been a welcome home, the end of MW scattered so many in different directions but not here. Some will return on occasion, but it’s not the same, nor will it in all probablity ever be again.
I appreciate everything Gar has done, but it may be time to end this era.
The First Age, Millarworld, ended.
The Second Age, The Carrier, appears to be drawing to a close.
The Third Age, The Loveland Arms, just may be the future for us.
One thing I don’t want to do is lose contact with y’all. I am connected with some on other social media platforms, but there is a commeraderie, energy, and history I want to keep going in some form.
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Nah man, it couldn’t possibly be that Lupita Nyong’o and Eliot Page are the best choice for the roles. It’s gotta be wokeness
And yet, he casts Matt Damon…
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First three of King’s Wonder Woman are on amazon unlimited now, so I’m reading them.
They’re pretty damn great.
It gets better from there. It’s a brilliant run.
Aris, formerly of this parish, is a big fan of this run of Wonder Woman.
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I was pretty meh on series 2 and this is literally the first thing that has me considering watching the finale
It’s 1 hour 39 minutes, so it’s not a huge time commitment. You can tell they had to compress down a potential six-hour story to a bit over 1.5 hours. I’m sure what would have been a bunch side stories that would have been tied to the main plot were completely removed and all we got were a couple of characters with a couple of lines. You can see where there was going to be more but were cut for time.
It still has a lot of fun and whimsy that lifts the material. You do feel the spirit of Sir Terry Pratchett in it.
For something that really shouldn’t have gone past the first season, Season 3 does bring it to a nice conclusion.
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Good Omens “Season 3”
It’s always fun seeing Sheen and Tennant chewing the scenery together.
When it was announced that Season 3 would be a movie instead of 6 episodes due to Gaiman and his controversies, I was disappointed and apprehensive as to the results that would be generated. Having watched it, I think that was the right choice.
I have complained that some streaming shows really should be movie. They will stuff so much filler in them, they end up dilluting the finale product. Could the story have been told in six episodes? Yes. And yet, GO S3 told a complete story. It had good character bits and funny scenes. I think it could have used an extra 20 minutes to flesh out Jesus’s story a bit more. He really seemed a bit extraneous. Overall, I felt I got a satisfying conclusion to the story.
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I don’t know why, but the guy on the right look far more competent and trustworthy.
It’s because he is, isn’t he?
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Iran has a terrible human rights record and I sympathize with Iranians who want regime change, but it’s an interesting country. It’s a sort of mix of theocracy and democracy. All the candidates and laws have to be approved by a council of religious leaders. (Although some people say the military has the ultimate power in the country. I don’t know about that though) Something I wonder about is if you have such a council who have to approve of the candidates, wether you would still get leaders like Trump, or Hitler. That said, maybe Khomeiny isn’t much better.
Oh yeah, Iran is not a good place. And you can thank the US for this.
The US performed “regime change” in Iran and installed the Shah. To absolutely no one’s surprise, he turned out to be a bad piece of work. Cue the religious uprising that put the Ayatollah and his ilk in charge. And that’s where we are today.
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Bob Kagan, perhaps the most prominent neocon is American academics, has written an article in the Atlantic saying the US and Israel have utterly lost the war in Iran.
And in other news, water is wet. ;)
In all seriousness, that was always going to be an unwinnable war. Benjamin Netanyahu has been wanting this fight for decades. Previous, US leaders always said no to him. Trump was finally in a susceptible enough state to say yes. Trump was told this was a bad idea, but he ignored his own military and intelligence people and pushed ahead with it. I saw something this morning where Bibi might leave Trump in the cold with the fight.
Meanwhile, Iran has been preparing for this fight for 47 years. And here’s the thing about Iran: They don’t have to have an outright military victory to win. All they need to do is endure and maintain pressure. Either the US taps out or the whole world collapses. Either is an acceptable outcome to them. Hell, they could have a fishing boat drag its anchor on the seafloor and destroy an underwater internet cable and several Middle Eastern countries lose 80% of their internet. The aftershocks from that would be global.
Make no mistake, Iran is in the driver’s seat.
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Like with Uncanny X-Men 150, what the 200th issue does is not without precedent.
I didn’t come onto Uncanny X-Men until much later. While I started around Gambit’s first appearance, I got back issues to 244.
The Claremont era of the X-Men titles was truly groundbreaking. It not only defined an era of comics, but it also influenced the medium for decades to follow. Due to the nature of the industry today, we will never see a run like that, or many others, again at the Big Two.
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