Future franchises.

A companion to "movies I was waiting for", and "franchises I didn't see coming" so here's those.

• Movies I was waiting for.
• Part 1.
• Part 2.
• Part 3.
• Part 3.5.
• Franchises I didn't see coming.

As I said here...

But, anyway, for the most part, 90's-Me's geeky movie dreams have come true.
Time to make a list of new dreams, I guess.
Hmm, that might be a good sequel idea....I'll think about it...

So, here we are.

Stuff that...seems to be developing into the next batch of up-and-comer young whipper-snappers.
I don't have a crystal ball, but....


Dune.

The books here.
The Lynch movie here.
The miniseries here.
Jodorowsky's Dune here.

Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Bladerunner 2049) is taking another crack at it.
I think he might finally be the guy, and this is finally the right time.
If it lands, we're looking at the next Rings/Thrones.


Stephen King Renaissance.

Dark Tower came out, IT came out, IT Chapter 2 is on its way, Doctor Sleep is on its way, and the Pet Sematary remake is on its way.

If it all crashed and burned after those, that's 5 movies, that's a franchise right there.
But we know even more are coming.
Come on.
It's Stephen King.


Transformers renaissance(?)

"Captain America: Civil War", fixed Spider-Man in 15 minutes, and "Bumblebee", fixed the Transformers franchise in 1 movie.

And yes, it made enough, the sequels are coming.
How many is anyone's guess, and I hope they don't taper off in quality.

If they stay good, damn, I'm finally happy to be a Transformers fan again.
Well, with this, and the Ghostbusters crossover.


Hasbro-verse.

They announced their intentions for this 4 goddamned years ago.
The intention being a crossover of Transformers, G.I. Joe, MASK, ROM, Micronauts, and Visionaries.

But Michael Bay wouldn't stop raping Transformers.

Now that its been soft-rebooted with Bumblebee, they seem to be back on track for their grand plan.

IDW already did it in the comics 2 years ago, so we know it works.

Oh, and Hasbro just bought the rights for Power Rangers, so they're going to be integrated.
Hey, if Voltron refuses to play ball, Zords will have to suffice.


Creed

Creed 1.
Creed 2.

Stallone officially retired the character of Rocky after Creed 2 came out, so, if they do Creed 3, and there's no way they won't, we'll have a truly Rocky-less Rocky franchise, and Creed will be its own thing.
So, that counts as new.


MCU/Fox-Men crossovers

So, yeah, Marvel bought Fox, X-Men are coming home, and being rebooted/recasted into the MCU,....BUUUTT, Bob Iger says Deadpool and other movies will be off in their own special little R rated universe.

So....a little pocket of Fox-Men will stay around for Deadpool?
It's...gonna be interesting how this is handled.


Sony-Marvel-verse.

Venom.
Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
Ranking the Sony-Marvel-verse so far (2018)

Yep, Sony may be loaning Spidey to the MCU, but they're still doing their own thing, and I'm actually excited for it!


Millarworld.

Mark Millar sold the rights to every napkin he ever scribbled on to Netflix, and they're going to start cranking out infinite shows and movies based on his stuff.


Valiant

This was also announced 4 years ago.
Sony got the rights to this whole universe, and I hear Vin Diesel is playing Bloodshot, and that one will start filming after Diesel gets done with Fast 9.


The one I'll make. ;)

Stay tuned. ;)


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Pop culture updates #25.

• Parts 1-11.
• Parts 12-19.
• Part 20 (Toxie reboot)
• Part 21 (Ghostbusters 3!)
• Part 22 (GB/TF 1)
• Part 23 (GB/TF 2)
• Part 24 (GB/TF 3)

Couple more little details on "Ghosts Of Cybertron".

Before, I said...

Transformers do have ghosts in their universe.
Starscream came back as a ghost way back in season 3, and "Beast Wars", did a ret-con that "sparks", (a Transformer's core personality program) can manifest as a ghost.
So, that's enough for Ghostbusters to latch on to.
Good enough.
Hope the Busters zap and trap Starscream once and for all!!

...and then I said...

Hmm...wonder what's behind that "top secret", box.
Can't be Starscream's ghost, he's alive up in the left corner, so this is pre-"Transformers The Movie".

Nope, the ghost of Starscream is in it all right.

Blammo!

Also, I said...

I don't see Prime anywhere...is he possessed by Gozer?
Who knows?

Well, I was in the vicinity of the right trail.

Decepti-Gozer!!!

Well, he/she is a shapeshifter.
Why not a Cybertronian?
Then, you've got two layers of being a Transformer!

They've revealed these two, and still haven't revealed the Top Secret box...so....it might be yet some other thing.

But hey, they had me at Ghostbusters/Transformers, every little cherry on top only gets me more excited.



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Corrections/updates: Series 2, Part 5.

• Series 1.
• Series 2-
• Part 1. (Kricfalusi)
• Part 2. (Lego Joker)
• Part 3. (Walkers)
• Part 4. (Eternity)

In "The Return Of Crossovers!", I talked about Obama crossover comics.

Specifically, I said...

Savage Dragon #137...had Savage Dragon shamelessly endorsing the future president.

IIII dunno, that's kinda tacky.

I'm liberal, and I still prefer my heroes apolitical.
Don't tangle 'em up with that stuff.
What if someday some beloved hero endorses the next Nixon level embarrassment?
Or, some full-blown fuggin' internment camp muthafucka?
They're gonna have that taint on 'em forever.
Nah, not cool.

I've come around.
Fuck it.
Comics didn't and wouldn't endorse someone like Trump.

If Savage Dragon alienated the MAGA crowd, good.
Fucking good.
Piss off the the crypto-fascists any fucking chance you can get.
Let these jagoffs have nothing left to read but "Highlights", and "Field & Stream".

And while I'm at it, let me repost the comics cover of their newest hate-boner obsession.

Yep, that's a thing.
Enjoy.


I suffered to bring it to you.
When I Googled "Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Comic", I got a shitload of red-scare-mongering and racist political cartoons of her.
Which just added to my sense of "fuck 'em".


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Franchises I didn't see coming.

A companion to "movies I was waiting for", so here's those.

• Part 1.
• Part 2.
• Part 3.
• Part 3.5.

So, while I was waiting in the 90's/00's/10's for new stuff from all those evergreen franchises from the 70's/80's/90's, brand spanking new stuff cropped up.
Time I collected those.


Harry Potter
(2001-2011)

Covered the movies here.
Covered the books here.

This, like a lot them, I had to be dragged to in a "oh, all right, show me then *arms crossed*", kind of mood.
I gotta stop doing that.


Lord Of The Rings
(2001-2003)

Covered the movies here.

Okay, the books were written in the 50's, and there were previous attempts, but this is the one that finally took.
And, I grew up on the animated Hobbit movie, so I didn't need to be sold on these at all.

Netflix is making a series out of this universe to compete with Thrones.


Game Of Thrones
(2011-2019)

Covered the show here.
Covered the books here.

It took the whole planet being crack-addicted for me to finally go "all all RIGHT!! FINE!!".
It had me by season 1.
Boom.
As said with Harry Potter, I gotta stop being like that.


Breaking Bad
(2008-2013)

Covered the show here.

I didn't need to be sold on this, I already loved Bryan Cranston from "Malcolm In The Middle", so I jumped right in.

This franchise is still rolling along through "Better Call Saul", and there's going to be a sequel movie about Jesse sometime this year.


The Walking Dead
(2010-present)

Covered it here.

In its 9th season, Fear is coming up on its 5th season, and there's going to be an explosion of movies and spinoffs in the coming years.
Zombies aren't going anywhere.

I was a bit skeptical, but basic cable is right there in your bedroom, so I was like "what the Hell, why not?". There have been weak seasons, but I've stuck with it, because when it's good, it's really fucking good.


Stranger Things
(2016-present)

Covered it here.

Mag-nificent.

I didn't need to be dragged to this at all, John Schnepp and Peri Nemiroff raved about it, and they pitched it as "Goonies meet IT",  so I was like "fuck it, I'm in".


Those are the biggies and middle-ies.
All I can think of for now.


Next, future franchises.


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Corrections/updates: Series 2, Part 4.

• Series 1.
• Series 2-
• Part 1. (Kricfalusi)
• Part 2. (Lego Joker)
• Part 3. (Walkers)

In "The problem of "eternity"", I broke down how making anything eternal makes it hellish, and editing bad things out of eternity to make it "paradise",  contradicts the whole fundamental premise of afterlife out of existence.
I used the example of taking a shit a lot.

Because of that last bit, and the tepid response it got (for the time! The people that dug it dug it a lot, it just wasn't in the double digits), I remembered it as being cringe-y.
No, fuck that, it's awesome, I'm proud of it.
Its aged like a fine wine.
Read it again, folks.

So, instead of the correction I thought it was gonna be, it's just an update.

Looking back, I went after this argument, because it came from someone I considered stunningly stupid, and yet it impressed people I used to respect.

It's clearer to me now, ten years later, I was caught in my evolutionary transition phase of becoming my real self, and ripping away who I had to pretend to be to keep these old friends.
It was a slower Band-Aid rip than it should have been.
If I could go back in time, I'd tell myself "fuck 'em, they're stupid, and they end up being backstabbers, and 60% of them float away from the board anyway".

But again, Sharon knew, and tried to tell me.

Anyway, that my memory of this rant was so fallible shores up my point.
If my memory of it had been infallible and eternal, I couldn't have been pleasantly surprised.

Who wants an eternity with no surprises?
Seems pretty boring to me.

These arguments aren't just goofy and childish, they're vanity, greed, and solipsism dressed up in gold leaf and rainbow glitter to try and en-noble them.

They're not noble.
They're actually quite nasty.
Thought up by nasty greedy people to maintain worldly power.

I wish I could have communicated this to the people who needed it the most, the people who fell for this shit.
But it's not a failure on my part, it's on them.
You can't save people from themselves.
I see that now.


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Corrections/updates: Series 2, Part 3.

• Series 1.
• Series 2-
• Part 1. (Kricfalusi)
• Part 2. (Lego Joker)

In "My big podcast/internet shows list", I had Channel Awesome.

Well, about that....

There was a guy in their circle who went by the handle of "JewWario", who killed himself.
After he was dead, a bunch of girls/women came out and #metoo-ed him, and said he molested them when they were underage.
Then, Doug and Rob Walker (Nostalgia Critic, and his brother) came out (in a Google doc you have to hunt down, not on camera) and said they knew about it at the time while he was alive, but said nothing "to protect the victims".
Bullshit, you can still warn people, and not out the victims.

So, they knew, and went into legalistic ass-covering mode.
Nice.

I deleted Angry Video Game Nerd for way less, so they're fucking gone.
Had to dump Tamara Chambers, and Stone Gremlin Productions too.
It hurt to have to do those ones, but I don't wanna see Doug Walker's stupid pedo-enabling face pop up on those.
That whole clique has to go.
Bye!


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Movies I was waiting for- Part 3.5!

• Part 1.
• Part 2.
• Part 3.

I said in part 3...

When I was monitoring future movies as a kid in the 90's, the MCU wasn't a thing yet.
I never could have dreamed of it.
That's why it's not in these.

*Smacks forehead*

DUH!!!

James Cameron's Spider-Man!!!
There's my loophole in!

James Cameron tried to do a take on Spider-Man in the 90's, it got stuck in Development Hell, he lost the rights, and we got Sam Raimi Spider-Man instead.

Then, it got rebooted as the Marc Webb ones, and then the Jon Watts/MCU one.

And that splices in the whole MCU, and there we go.

So, here's all the Spidey stuff up to now.

• Prelude to Spider-Man: Homecoming.
• Spider-Man: Homecoming.
• Venom.
• Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.

And here's this.

Happy 10th anniversary, Marvel Studios!!!!


There, and then that's all ready for part 4, which will have Star Wars: Episode 9, Ghostbusters 3, and Avengers: Endgame.


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Corrections/updates: Series 2, Part 2.

• Series 1.
• Series 2, Part 1. (Kricfalusi)

This is my first correction/update of a correction/update.
I knew one of these was gonna happen someday.

In "Corrections/updates Part 18", I shook my fist at Zach Galifianakis one last time, and then let go of the hate.

And all that hate was over him slamming comic fans.
14 years ago.

My dumb brain just remembered.
He apologized for that, not in words, but in deeds.

He was Lego Joker!!

Duh!!

Okay, all is forgiven.

...I still hated "The Hangover", though.


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Pop culture updates #24.

• Parts 1-11.
• Parts 12-19.
• Part 20 (Toxie reboot)
• Part 21 (Ghostbusters 3!)
• Part 22 (GB/TF 1)
• Part 23 (GB/TF 2)

The title dropped for Ghostbusters/Transformers, and it's...

Transformers/Ghostbusters:
Ghosts Of Cybertron (2019)

Why, I just happened to predict that here.

I'm gonna go out on a limb, and guess "Ghosts Of Cybertron".

Nailed it, boom.

Also, above is another cover image.
It's the Busters doing the poses from the RGB teaser painting, but on Ectotron instead of regular Ecto.

So, that's why the comic news was so (frustratingly!) sparse and top secret last anniversary.
Clearing all the rights hurdles, waiting for the toy to be ready, and coordinating the artists and writers for the anniversary thing.
NOW it all makes sense.

Hmm, Turtles, Transformers, I guess that ties things together enough to justify me getting the Infestation/Infestation 2 omnibus...

Hmm, y'know, one of the side characters dropped a little Easter egg joke about Transformers way back at Ghostbusters 101, I bet the gears were in motion way back then!

I predict next year's thing is a prequel comic to the 3rd movie to tie everything together.
We'll see.
If it is, I'll quote this, and strut over being a prophet.


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Pop culture updates #23.

• Parts 1-11.
• Parts 12-19.
• Part 20 (Toxie reboot)
• Part 21 (Ghostbusters 3!)
• Part 22 (GB/TF)

The covers dropped for...

Ghostbusters/Transformers!!

There they are stitched into a mural.
Like the catalogs that came with the toys.
Enlarge, or open in a new tab to take it all in.

Standing next to Ray and Jazz, and shooting Astrotrain is "Ectotron", the Ectomobile Transformer.

Hmm...wonder what's behind that "top secret", box.
Can't be Starscream's ghost, he's alive up in the left corner, so this is pre-"Transformers The Movie".
I don't see Prime anywhere...is he possessed by Gozer?
Who knows?

Anyway, still no title though....

Oh, and it's going to be 5 issues starting in June.


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Pop culture updates #22.

• Parts 1-11.
• Parts 12-19.
• Part 20 (Toxie reboot)
• Part 21 (Ghostbusters 3!)

Finally enough thin trickles on the Ghostbusters comics news to equal a bucket.


Ghostbusters meet Transformers!!!!!!

Holy fucking shit!!!

I really dug the Ghostbusters/Turtles ones, but I'm not a NUT for Turtles, but I'm a NUT for Transformers (see my Bumblebee review).

This was the "top secret project", they were hiding even after the big 35th anniversary project reveal.

And yes, that Ecto-1 Transformer toy is real.
That's coming out too to go along with the comic.

They haven't revealed the title yet, but they've shown literal bits and pieces of the cover, and part of the title was "ghosts of______".
I'm gonna go out on a limb, and guess "Ghosts Of Cybertron".

Transformers do have ghosts in their universe.
Starscream came back as a ghost way back in season 3, and "Beast Wars", did a ret-con that "sparks", (a Transformer's core personality program) can manifest as a ghost.
So, that's enough for Ghostbusters to latch on to.
Good enough.
Hope the Busters zap and trap Starscream once and for all!!

And about that 35th anniversary project....


Ghostbusters: 
35th Anniversary (2019)

Here's the colored versions of the covers, and the title is above.
OR...you could call it "Ghostbusters 35th", or "Ghostbusters 35".

But, I think the clear intention is "35th anniversary".

Kind of an anti-climax, they acted like that title was a huge state secret, when it was literally staring us right in the face.

I think they'll lump "Ghostbsuters: 20/20", into the graphic novel of this.
I just have this strong feeling down to my bones.


I'll probably update more when the GB/TF title and covers drop.

Oh, and I bought the graphic novel of "Ghostbusters: Crossing Over".
So, that's done.
All caught up on the new stuff.
Just gotta go back and catch up on the old stuff.

So, that's those three things.
See ya next time.


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Corrections/updates: Series 2, Part 1.

Series 1.

I knew I'd need more of these...

In "I don't h8 the 90's anymore (Part 1.5)", I ranted and gushed about Ren & Stimpy.

John Kricfalusi is a pedo.

Billdude just reminded me.

I knew about it, I kept thinking of it, but always late at night when I was too tired to walk to the computer desk, and write a note, so when I'd wake up, my memory would be erased, and it it would either be 100% gone, or I'd remember that I was gonna blog something, but it would never come back, and it would drive me crazy.

This was it.
This was the thing.

My memory didn't want it to stick, because it's too depressing.
But, there it is.

I dunno if I should throw away all my Ren & Stimpy stuff (see comics), or if that's fair to the other people who worked on it.

This is what I have to struggle with for the X-Men movies and Bryan Singer too...


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Logo change!!

From this...

...to this.

Yep, it's year 5's turned red.

I can't top year 5's, so I'm gonna stop trying, and I'm gonna stop having ones I don't really emotionally connect with, or that I didn't create myself.

Like I said here about year 7..

Arrgh, that's my least favorite logo.
I really hate it.
I should have broken the sacred rules, and changed it.

Fuck "sacred rules", and fuck waiting all the way until next year staring at that soulless robotic thing.

And I said about the one it's replacing...

I'll never hand-make one as good as year 5 again, I'll leave it to the programming geeks.

Nope, I'm not leaving anything to anybody.
Relying on other people got me fucked over by Hyla, Spencer, and Paul, trying to be the wind beneath someone else's wings got me fucked by Hyla a second time, I'm done being second fiddle in my own life.
I'm not a fucking sidekick, dammit.
If anything, I'm the last man standing of those fucking knuckleheads.

My blog, my logo, my art, my stories, my career, my everything.
Anyone who wants to horn in on it can go eat shit.
Way it's gotta be.

That's what this logo says.

So, I'm keeping logo #5 forever, but I'll rotate the colors to still keep the years distinct for the anniversary recaps.


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Bigotry is bullshit.

The compilation.


Bigotry.

• Why I'm fed up with bigotry.
• My thing on racism.
• Racism is bullshit.
• A quickie rant on Republican homophobia.
• Transphobia is bullshit.
• Conspiracy theories are antisemitic.
• Objectivism is a white supremacist's wet dream.
• Atheist anti-feminism was a fascist infiltration.

The insecurities that bigotry feeds on.

• Male fidelity anxieties and performance fears.
• The "ick", factor, and what is consent.
• Sex being put on a pedestal as the cosmic meaning of existence.

The dumb and/or lame ideas that bigotry feeds on.

• Giving old people a free ride on their bullshit.
• Apologies and growth being "weak".
• Unearned pride.
• "The American dream", as a one size fits all mold for everyone.
• Getting the poor to hate each other. (part 1)
• Getting the poor to hate each other. (part 2)

There, now it's handy.
I'll link it to FAQ as part of my overall mission statement.


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Why I'm fed up with bigotry.

Charlottesville.
And Trump's reaction to Charlottesville.
And every Trump voter's reaction to Trump's reaction to Charlottesville.

That did it.
That tore it.
That woke me up to that I'm surrounded by meatheads that could turn into murdering monsters on a fucking dime.
I mean, I always sorta knew, but I didn't quite know the full depths of it.

And it certainly woke me up out of the anti-feminist bullshit the crypto-Nazis were hiding behind leading up to 2016.

Every rotten thing Trump has done since has just been extra cherries on the shit sundae.
I haven't been surprised.
I've been pissed, but I haven't been surprised.

Charlottesville was the test, and red hatters failed it with flying colors.
Nope, it ain't cute anymore.
Fuck this bullshit, and fuck these people.

If you're one of 'em, get out of my blog.
I ain't having it.
Piss off.

Up next, I'm compiling all my anti-bigot rants.
I THINK I found 'em all.
The good ones, anyway.
Stay tuned.


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Transphobia is bullshit.

In "I don't h8 the 90's anymore (Part 6)", I talked about Adam West's autobiography.

"Back To The Batcave", check it out.

What does this have to do with transphobia, and transgenderism?
I'm getting to that.
Gimme a sec.
*Sips water*
Okay here we go...

So, in that book, Adam recounts a story of going out on a date with this woman who turned out to be a hermaphrodite.
He didn't sleep with her, but they ended up having a conversation about her life and times, and he learned a lot, and made a friend.

Y'know what he didn't do?
He didn't beat her to a pulp.
Cuz Adam West was a hip cat.
And a real man.

Stomping someone to ketchup because you're displeased by the surprise in their Amazon package isn't "macho", it betrays deep seated insecurities that make you look weak.

And that's what transphobia and homophobia are all about.
Insecurity.

Adam was also good friends with Liberace (he was a villain on the show).
Liberace was as fruity and queeny as gay guys come.
And Adam loved him.
He said "he was a darling".
Cuz Adam was a hip cat.

We lost ground as a society since the 60's.
I blame Reagan.
Fuck Reagan.
Fuck his fan club.

Transphobia is about fear of the dick, or the invisible dick (for the fully transitioned trans-woman).

Now, say I'm at a restaurant, I order a plate of tacos, and the server brings me hot dogs.
Do I beat the server to death?
No, that's dumb.
I'd go to jail, and financially inconvenience my family.
I send the hot dogs back, and ask again for the tacos.
If they repeat the mistake, I go to another restaurant.
It's really an easy dilemma to solve.

Now, if the server tried to ram the hot dogs down my throat, then there'd be a problem.
But, that's not a thing that happens.
It just isn't.
Don't listen to Pat Robertson.
For anything.

I think transphobes and homophobes are terrified that the hot dogs are delicious.

No, it's worse.
Homophobes are terrified that the hot dogs are delicious, transphobes are terrified that every delicious taco might have some secret hot dog meat mixed in.

You'd think it were a fatal allergy.
Is there an epi-pen for dick?
Of all the fake quack de-regulated alt-medicine out there, I'm amazed someone hasn't thought to cash in on this.

Either hyper-capitalist scum aren't as creative as me, or even they feel hinky cashing in on bigotry.

Y'know what other capitalist venture can't afford to be bigoted?
The porn industry.
They do everything.

A couple times, watching porn, I've had thumbnails of bisexual or transgender stuff pop up in my face.
Did I scream? Did I puke? Did I try to gouge my eyes out?
Nope, I just said "nope, not into that", and clicked away to something else.
Again, easy dilemma to solve.
One little button push takes it away.
No harm to anyone on either side.

A fundamentalist Christian would be crying in the shower with a toothbrush down his pee-hole trying to scrub the evil out.

Boy, am I ever glad I'm atheist.
Religion is a drag.
Always was.

And none of this even gets into whether post-op transgendered people are "real women", or "real men", or if transgenderism is even "a real condition".

Does it matter?
How about basic human respect no matter what?
Y'know, like Adam West.

Be like Adam West.


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Racism is bullshit.

Or- My Thing On Racism- Part 2.

Previously-
My thing on racism.(part 1)


I've laid this out numerous times on message boards, and on Facebook, but it occurred to me, I haven't logged it down here.

Or, if I have, it's buried in some other rant, and I can't find it.

Anyway, I want it handy.

So, here it is.
Racism is bullshit.
Actual bullshit.

Set aside the immorality, and the history, and all that, and at its essence, it's a pseudo-science.

Like flat Earth, crystal healing, anti-vax, chem-trails, shit like that.

"Race", itself is a bullshit concept thought up by racists in the first place.
In a dark age time before people even knew about germs and handwashing.
Back in oldy-times, they justified it with phrenology, which is a quack pseudo-science in its own right.

DNA slam dunks it, we're all the same.
In the ways that matter.
Eye color, hair color, skin color, that's all superficial.
There's no such thing as "races", we're all humans.

When we talk about "race", and "racism", in mainstream political discussion, we really mean "ethnicity/color", and  "ethnic/color prejudice".

If we called racism what it is, ethnic/color prejudice, it would cut it off at the knees as the irrational dipshit nonsense it is.
But, the mainstream media, which bigots like to pretend is "liberal", doesn't want to piss the bigots off, because they buy sponsored products too, so they play their language game.

Now, remember when I said let's set aside the morals and history?
Let's pick it back up.

Given that we're all humans, and are no different than differently colored cats or horses, those were PEOPLE the south enslaved.
Those were PEOPLE the Klan murdered.
Emmett Till was a REAL little boy that piece of shit beat to death.
And those are REAL kids and babies in those doggie cages down in Texas right now.

If there's a Hell, all these "good Christians", that thought all of that was a good idea are going there.
Or are there.

"But it's backed by evolution!!".

Nope.
Covered that before.
Here.

Debunked garbage.

And even if all the pseudo-science assertions of race were true, that wouldn't automatically justify hurting other people.
How would that even work?

Pets are lower than us on the totem pole, but we don't torture pets, and those that do are socially frowned on.
There's a whole ASPCA ad campaign that sickens everyone with beaten puppies and kittens.

Christ, even the animals we EAT are killed humanely, because torture is socially frowned on.
In spite of the Bush administration trying to normalize it.

Ditto all of the above for circus animals.

Ditto retarded people.

Ditto wheelchair kids.

Ditto anyone or anything that isn't friggin' Captain America.

Abusing those weaker than you is universally acknowledged as assholism.
So, what brilliant logic did violent racists come up with?
...nothing.
They threw a bunch of insulting adjectives at the other ethnic groups to say they were of a low moral character, but...isn't murdering people low moral character?
Didn't apply to them for some magic reason.

Because every tyrant and bully is a hypocrite.

It's all bullshit.
Every breath of it.
Every scribble of it.

And that's my thing on that.


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Corrections/updates: Compilation.

There, I think that's all of them.
If not, I'll make a series two.

• Part 1 (Lazenby)
• Part 2 (Birthday)
• Part 3 (Doctor Sleep)
• Part 4 (Old boards)
• Part 5 (Stomping Grounds)
• Part 6 (Ebert)
• Part 7 (Conspiracies)
• Part 8 (Randroids)
• Part 9 (Tidbits)
• Part 10 (Greed zombies)
• Part 11 (Old logo)
• Part 12 (Cryptos)
• Part 13 (Claire Danes)
• Part 14 (The un-goodbye)
• Part 15 (Troma)
• Part 16 (Obama)
• Part 17 (Nancy Grace)
• Part 18 (Galifianakis)

I'll link this to archives.


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Corrections/updates Part 18.

• Parts 1-9.
• Part 10 (Greed zombies)
• Part 11 (Old logo)
• Part 12 (Cryptos)
• Part 13 (Claire Danes)
• Part 14 (The un-goodbye)
• Part 15 (Troma)
• Part 16 (Obama)
• Part 17 (Nancy Grace)

In "Some MORE shows I hate that everyone else likes", I ranted and raved, and hooted and hollered about a bunch of stuff.
But in particular, Zach Galifianakis, and Tim & Eric.

I need to rewind a bit for context.

Way back at #2 of this series, titled "Another update on an old post", I brought up Bill Maher's shitty comments about Stan Lee's death.

Well, let's dig into that.

Here he is tripling down on that bullshit, and the article already points out his hypocrisy.

And here's Peter David (yes, that Peter David) curb stomping Maher into strawberry jam.

So, us geeks are pretty unified against Maher's crap by now, right?
Okay then!

Well,  Zach Galifianakis said pretty much all the same bullshit about comic book fans that Maher did.
In 2005, he was in "The Comedians Of Comedy", with Patton Oswalt, Brian Posehn, and Maria Bamford.
It's a documentary series of the comedy tour they went on together.
Posehn and Oswalt are sitting around shooting the shit about comics, and Galifianakis sneaks aside to do a "Real World", style confessional thingy to the camera, and shits all over their hobby Maher style.
Posehn catches wind of it, and laughs it off.

I didn't.
Fuck him.
I've seen him as a hipster douche ever since.
Everything he's done has rubbed me the wrong way.
I avoid him.
His films, his shows, fuck him.

"Oh, aren't I cute? I'm a lovable Teddy bear!".
No, you're not, you're a snotty douche who wears a mask.

And if Maher rubs you the wrong way, I don't know why a lot of the same people lap up everything Galifianakis does.
Particularly those wretched "The Hangover", movies.

But, Patton Oswalt still frigging swears by him as some comic fucking genius, so what the fuck do I know?
*Shrug*

It's just my opinion, I don't like the guy.
Nor Tim & Eric.
Nor Tosh.
I don't like that snotty sour faced hipster style.

If Tim & Eric, or "Hangover", is your humor style, enjoy away.
I wish I could.
I don't wanna crap all over your parade.
Have your fun.

2012 was better days, I guess, in that I could expend such fist shaking outrage over such meaningless bullshit.

Like I said in part 6 of this series, we have to save our really good hate for politicians, clergy, and CEOs.

I'm getting off the hate train for celebrities.
Unless it's something egregious, like Kanye saying slavery was a choice, or some shit like that.
And even then, I dismiss him as just a knucklehead.

People like Jordon Peterson who pretend to be experts, they're the ones you really have to keep a fucking eye on.
And that poisonous sack of shit has Bill Maher's ear.

Anyway, that's my bit on that.


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Corrections/updates Part 17.

• Parts 1-9.
• Part 10 (Greed zombies)
• Part 11 (Old logo)
• Part 12 (Cryptos)
• Part 13 (Claire Danes)
• Part 14 (The un-goodbye)
• Part 15 (Troma)
• Part 16 (Obama)

In "Things that don't give me nightmares #9", I ranted that even though Nancy Grace is awful, she was at least a cultural barometer for the morals and ethics of our country, in that at least we all still hate rape and baby cannibalism.

Yeah, not so much anymore in the age of Trump.

The Red Hat people lined up to vote for Roy Moore, a pedophile.
They don't care about Trump's pussy grabbing.
They don't care about his philandering, when they made a huge deal about Clinton's.
They don't care about his treason.
They don't care about Mexican kids dying in cages.
They don't care about diabetics dying because the price of insulin has gone through the roof for no better reason than corporate greed.
They don't care that Kavanaugh was/is a molesty perv.
They don't care about mothers that have to push out their miscarriage with no doctor's help, because they hate "sluts", so much that that takes priority.

They believe in absolutely nothing.

They're pigs in people clothes.

They're the zombie horde.

Well, at least I had those 8 Obama years to relax a bit.
My scrambled marbles needed the recuperation time from the damage the Bush years did.

But, vacation's over.
Back into the shit!
:-(


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All right, let's talk Ghostbusters 3.

I did my big buildup for "Ghostbusters: Answer The Call", I should probably tackle this one in a similar fashion.

Starting with the Ghostbusters 3 version of "In defense of the Ghostbusters reboot".
Well, doesn't need much defending, this is the one everyone wanted.

But, I could revise my arguments, I guess.

Re: "Waaahh! It's a reboot!! Me no wanna reboot!!".

I said...

And sure, I vowed to avoid all horror remakes from that moment forward...but then I went to see the Evil Dead remake, and was pleasantly surprised, and proudly added it to the collection.

Then, renewed financial interest in the property led to "Ash vs Evil Dead", so everyone's happy.

Whelp, both the renewed interest, and the backlash, led to GB3, so here we are.


Re: "Waaahhh!! I wanted an original cast reunion!!".

I said...

Okay, the casual movie fans that don't follow the internet have this narrative in their head that they're hanging onto like fucking grim death, and it has no validity, and it goes like this.

"A cast reunion was on the table, but then evil feminists swooped in on their brooms, and stole it away".

No.
Just no.
Dumbasses.

A cast reunion wasn't on the table, it was never gonna happen, it was dead as a doornail.
Forever.
Accept it.
Bill Murray didn't want to do it, and then Harold Ramis died.
It was dead in the water.
Finito.
Done.
Over.

It was reboot, or nothing.
Forever.
And Hollywood doesn't let a profitable IP die forever, that's not how any business works.

So, if you wanted NO reboot out of spite, that wasn't on the table either.
It was reboot or bust.
Whether it happened now, or 20 years from now.
And they weren't gonna wait that long either.
Its been 25 years since GB2, we've waited long enough.

If you wanted to go to your grave with no more Ghostbusters, you're just petty and selfish.

Well, at the time, I was correct.
Bill Murray kept refusing to do it.

The deal was struck back when they made the first one that the four main guys and Ivan had to all agree on the script before moving ahead on a sequel.
If any of the 5 disagreed, it went back to the drawing board.

Bill Murray saying "no", kept it in Development Hell for 30+ years.
He had all the power.
And he used it.
And there was no reason at all to expect that he wouldn't keep doing so.

He didn't enjoy filming GB2, and didn't like how it came out, so he didn't want to go through that again.
He peed on the parade.

Only once he was butt-hurt after ATC came out has he softened on that.

So, you can kiss Paul Feig's boots, haters.


Re: "Why all women?? Why can't it be a gender balanced team?".

Looks like you're getting one.

So, shaddap.


Re: "I hope it fails!!".

Well, it did.
Did it make your life better?
How's your healthcare?
Your taxes?
Your job prospects?
Oh, you shot yourself, and the entire middle class, and all your LGBT, Hispanic, and black friends and relatives in the faces with a bazooka by voting Trump?
Well, enjoy your pyrrhic victory.
You nasty incel dipshits.


Then, wrapping up that post, I said...

And here's the important bit, and I reference back to the Evil Dead remake.
If it succeeds, we get other stuff.
They didn't create Ghostcorps just to make this one flick.
We're also getting tons of classic GB merch goodies just from this one coming out.
There's more of that on the way if we get more films.
There's an animated one lined up that just got a director.
And there's that Channing Tatum led one I haven't heard anything new about in awhile.

Supporting GB16 gets us to that stuff.
Hopefully, it's also actually good.

Well, It didn't succeed, but we did and are getting that other stuff from Ghostcorp.
The merch, the crossover comics, and this third chapter to the originals.
(Not so much the Channing Tatum one though (thank goodness))
You gotta learn to play the long game.


Now, from "Ghostbusters: The Lean Years (Part 2)"....

And, with my recent investigations into my lost memories, I really know why Ghostbusters was a sigh of relief.
"The Demon Murder Case".
That came out just the year before this.
Fuck you, Lorraine Warren, fuck you.
And thank you, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
You were the antidote to a lot of childhood trauma.

Yeah, it's really hard in our dopey culture not to believe in, and be scared by, the supernatural.
Throw "Poltergeist", in there too.
"Poltergeist", was 1982, "Demon Murder Case", was 1983, and "Ghostbusters", finally came as an antidote in 1984.

We need this franchise to be around.

Also...

The IDW series started with Infestation, and for me, it was the year of hell, which I like even less than 1997.
Looking forward to that dumb series kept me sane during massive grief and fear.
And looking back, the Ghostbusters part was the best part, possibly the only good part.

So, it got me back into Ghostbusters without knowing it at the time.
And the Busters saved my sanity yet again.

Thank you, IDW.

Yep, and now we're in the Trump years.
Save us, 'Busters!


Well, that's re-examining old stuff, now for new stuff.

Plot conjecture!!

Ivan Reitman said Jason Reitman's pitch made him cry.
So, I'm guessing they're gonna tackle the loss of Egon head on.
Combined with the teaser trailer image of the Ecto coming out of dust and mothballs, I think it goes down like this...

After GB2, the guys had a third adventure that went south, and that's where they lost Egon.
Either he got fried, or he got physically swallowed up into the ghost dimension.
Or, a little of both.
Ray kept trying to get him back with gizmos, the other two guys gave up, and moved on, then Ray finally threw in the towel, sold the firehouse, and moved out to his family's farm.
Which is what's in the teaser trailer.

Then jump ahead 30 years, and his nephew and niece move in cuz their parents fell on hard times.
The niece and nephew meet a boy and girl friend at school, and the four of them become the new teenage Ghostbusters.

The thing that killed/kidnapped Egon comes back, there's your villain.

Bam, there you go.

Jason Reitman has a track record of tear-jerky drama-dies so I think we're in for some tissue boxes necessary for this one.
Good!
It needs to be different.
I hope it pisses off purists again.
And still rakes in 700 million.

And finally...

For me, GB16 GB3 just has to be better than GB2.
If it can clear that hurdle, anything above that is gravy.

My expectations for TFA were just "just be better than Episode 3".
It cleared that jump by a factor of 10.

*Crosses fingers* please be good.

I'll link to this to reference in the review of the flick when I finally go to it.
See you then.

Yep to all of that.
See you next time.


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