I really thought it was something 4chan came up with. But it’s real. Marvel Comics utterly beclowns itself again. These are the new New Warriors. I can’t believe this is Marvel’s swan song. Quick trip in the wayback machine. In the Nineties there was comic book title called Gen 13. It was pretty popular with […]

Read More I Thought This Was a Joke

How fast things can change. In 2019 Disney Entertainment was a colossus that bestrode the world. The world’s very best amusement parks. Movies that made billions. Two massively successful streaming services. The premier sports reporting network. The planet’s two biggest movie franchises were both wholly (for the most part) owned by Disney. * Two and […]

Read More What’s Next For Disney

Welcome to the Dark Herald’s new Living Vicariously series. Remember the good old days when we could go outside? Yeah, that was so long ago it feels like last week was another world. Nostalgia is by it’s nature bitter-sweet. When I was a very young man my only real means of traveling was by bus. […]

Read More Living Vicariously 1: Buses from Worst to Best

It doesn’t take a lot of stupid people to wreck something. I learned that one when I was a Marine. I relearned it when I was trying to stock up ammo during the Obama years. The chronic shortages were the result of a small amount of people breaking the supply system with individual bulk purchases […]

Read More Where We At

The last acceptable (which is not to say good) season of Doctor Who was season 8. It had some major problems. But I could wade through it. Also I did like Missy. Moffat’s last decent creation for Doctor Who. In fact Missy provides what is arguably the last decent scene in Doctor Who. On the […]

Read More The Death of Doctor Who: The Last Good Scene

But it’s West Michigan and you don’t do that to strangers. I dropped by the local ultra-mart at 6:00am this morning, foolishly hoping to pickup a 2-liter of Diet Pepsi. The parking lot was full, so I nearly left right there and then but morbid curiosity compelled me to look inside the store. This is […]

Read More I Should Have Taken Pictures

This is the worst case scenario for the House of Mouse. All of the parks are now closed. All of the cruise ships are beached. The tentpole movies (such as they are) are delayed. Onward is dead at the boxoffice since no one in their right mind is going to the movies for the next […]

Read More The Mickey-pocolypse is Upon Us!

Disney just had a brutal shareholder meeting. Iger and Chapek looked like they were shell shocked. Now admittedly, this is going to be a brutal quarter particularly for an entertainment company. But Disney is going to take it in the teeth. Disney Cruise lines are probably going to be ordered into ports. The parks are […]

Read More The Fall of Disney

The two on the left are leaving after this year’s Christmas/New Years/Saturnalia special. “According to the Radio Times, Cole and Walsh may have an “open-ended departure,” meaning the door is open for them to make guest appearances in future episodes. This is similar to the exit of previous companion Freema Agyeman, whose Martha Jones left […]

Read More And the Rats Are Leaving the Sinking Ship