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A recent Forbes article dug into Disney Star Wars’ financial performance. Disney appears to still be in the hole on the Lucasfilm purchase.

Twilight Sparkle recites poem about Gil-Galad from The Lord of the Rings.

Funimation has ceased operations.

I was looking forward to the new The Crow until I saw the trailer. Here’s hoping it’s better than it looks, I guess.

@BikerDash
Yeah, that’ll be weird to write around.

@Dex Stewart
Bummer that Palicki appears to not be returning.

Considering how much the left’s views have shifted since the Last of Us 2 released, will the show include the synagogue tour?

The response to Southpark’s Panderverse special has been interesting. The number of articles and reviews claiming that it’s not anti-woke, but instead is bothsides-ism, makes it feel like it’s a coordinated message. I’ve even seen some Twitter cope claiming that it “owns the chuds” and is actually theirs.

@Fleur de Lis
How so? I saw neither and don’t really get what this “Barbenheimer” thing is about.

@ANoobis
Barbenheimer was both funny and a perfect reflection of the western Zeitgeist in year 2023.

You can’t force either of those things.

I think my favorite thing in pop culture this year has been the faceplant that is Saw Patrol. It was an obvious astroturfing campaign that kicked off right after Barbie and Oppenheimer had their big combined opening weekend. Everyone saw through it immediately, and it got almost no traction. Much of the traffic it did get was people making fun of the studios for trying to force a repeat of the Barbenheimer phenomenon. The only people still talking about Saw Patrol are the mainstream outlets desperately trying to spin their uninspiring box office performances as a triumph.

IDW lost the Transformers license and now Image is the new holder.
So Image launched a new Tranformers comic that is very loosely based on the G1 cartoon, except that Starscream is the current Decepticon leader (On account of nearly all other Decepticons still being deactivated inside of the Autobot’s Ark) and so far the guy has been doing a decent job, in fact the first thing he did after being reactivated was blasting a hole through the still deactivated Bumblebee’s head. and after that he (begrudgingly) accepted to explore Earth to forage for Energon or it’s equivalent on account of being the only Decepticon with enough Energon reserves to move around.
If anything, looks like the new TF continuity is going to be a rollercoaster of surprises.

Vanguard is starting the process of backing away from ESG initiatives, alongside BlackRock. In four or so years, the current pipeline of projects should be cleared out. We may see a shift away from identity politics in pop culture after that.

@Dex Stewart
A side note… I went to subscribe to your channel, then discovered I’m already a subscriber lol

@AlsoSprachOdin
I somehow have over a thousand now.

@Dex Stewart
Huh, I didn’t know you made videos.

I finished a new video!
It’s all about a bizarre Christian comic featuring Archie! The picture is a link to the video.
Please come check it out!

Blue Beetle is on track to underperform Shazam 2’s opening weekend. And some outlets are trying to spin this as a win.

@ANoobis
She’s also a chonk in this new TMNT

Seth Rogen’s race-swapped April O’Neil is causing another controversy. Boxes with a light-skinned, though otherwise unaltered, April toy have been found. The speculation going around is that the white Aprils are a variant meant to be shipped to overseas markets like China, but there’s no proof one way or the other of that yet.

@Havoc
But not until it increases the supply of “things”.