Pop culture updates #34.

• Parts #1-30.
• Part 31. (Holidays)
• Part 32. (Talisman)
• Part 33. (Gunn)

Oh, yeah, I'm a little bit late with this one, but what the Hell.

Behold, the first comic book inter-company crossover movie!!!


Batman vs.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 
(2019)

Adapted from the comic.
It's the same iteration of the Turtles from the Ghostbusters crossovers, so maybe we'll get that next!

The movie press is making more hay about the characters involved rather that focusing on the big fucking deal of it being inter-company.

It's the first inter-company crossover movie since "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?".

Could "Batman vs Hulk", be far behind?
Probably.
But....this movie just existing says never say never.

This could be a game changer.
Fingers crossed.

Trailer.


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Corrections/updates: Series 2, Part 7.

• Series 1.
• Series 2-
• Part 1. (Kricfalusi)
• Part 2. (Lego Joker)
• Part 3. (Walkers)
• Part 4. (Eternity)
• Part 5. (AOC comic)
• Part 6. (Poem)

In "What? They're just trying to beat him up, right?", I told the "Raunchy Hulk", story.

Short version, in The Hulk issue #23, Banner almost gets anal raped by some mean gay guys at the YMCA, and he has a delayed transformation into the Hulk because of the shock trauma.

I concluded that it wasn't homophobic.

...sss....yeeaahhh...it's homophobic.

I don't think it set out to be, Jim Shooter claims this is something that really happened to a friend of his, but...making one of the gay villains a lisping stereotype?
Yeah....it's not a good look.

Marvel always strove to be socially progressive in its values, but they dropped the ball sometimes.

This wasn't a shining moment.
But, it's still a fascinating piece of history.
And an amusing childhood memory revolving around reading this thing.

Anyoo, I thought that needed a quick revisit.


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Pop culture updates #33.

• Parts #1-30.
• Part 31. (Holidays)
• Part 32. (Talisman)

Way back in July of last year, I said...

Marvel fired James Gunn over some politically motivated bullshit engineered by the guy who invented "pizzagate".
Fuck this country.

Remember that shit?

Well, Disney/Marvel finally found the new director for Guardians 3, and it's.....

*Drumroll*

James Gunn!!

Yep, he's back.
The bullshit is over, and the Twitter Nazis lost.

He's still doing "Suicide Squad 2", for DC though.

Kudos to Alan Horn for taking the hit to his pride, and asking him back.
And kudos to Gunn for not telling him to go fuck himself.

It's a win for everybody.
For Disney, Gunn, Marvel, DC, the comic book genre, and us, the fans.

The future for comic book movies is going to be exciting.

Now, Captain Marvel just has to make a billion, and Episode 9 has to make 2 billion, and the trolls will truly be beaten back to their sewer.



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Pop culture updates #32.

• Parts #1-30.
• Part 31. (Holidays)

Updating "future franchises", specifically Stephen King.


The Talisman!!!

Yep, it's finally being adapted.
Steven Spielberg bought the rights for it back when the book came out in the 80's, he wanted to direct it, but it got caught up in development Hell, and he could never get it going, and other projects came along, and it just kept getting lost in the weeds.

Now, he's producing, and Mike Barker is directing.

The book is awesome.
Imagine Harry Potter flung into an R rated Legend Of Zelda.

Add that to the list with IT Chapter 2, Doctor Sleep, and Pet Sematary.



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Corrections/updates: Series 2, Part 6.

• Series 1.
• Series 2-
• Part 1. (Kricfalusi)
• Part 2. (Lego Joker)
• Part 3. (Walkers)
• Part 4. (Eternity)
• Part 5. (AOC comic)

A second correction to a correction!!

In "Corrections/updates Part 11", I claimed I never wrote a poem.

I did so!!
In "Postcards from Podsville #21"!!!

It's sloppy, and fell apart at the end, and I wasn't happy with it, and I forgot about it, but it's a poem.

I mooshed too much together in the last paragraph.
The ideas needed to be broken up into littler pieces.

So, I've fixed it!!
9 years later, I fixed my broken poem.
Here it is.


Somewhere, someone tells the one they love "I hate you!".

Somewhere, someone screams, shouts, and terrifies, in the name of "some goddamned peace and quiet".

Somewhere, someone drinks to forget unpleasant experiences brought on by alcohol consumption.

Somewhere, someone shoots up to take away the pain of being alienated by their addiction.

Somewhere, someone wire-taps and spies in the name of "liberty".

Somewhere, someone prays to God to finally return, and end all the gloom and horror in the world let loose by religion.

Somewhere, a factory farmer wears a cowboy hat, and misses the irony.

Somewhere an old man applies to the big box store that drove out his hardware store.

Somewhere, a diabetic in a gas guzzler stuffs their face full of fast food, then looks up at a polluted sky, and says "such a shame, but what can ya do?".

Things you can count on.
These things are always happening.
Somewhere.


There.
Did that.
:-)



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Pop culture updates #31.

Parts #1-30.


I folded "evolution of franchises", into this series, let's do some more folding in.

It all started with my Halloween horror reviews, so let's put the Halloweens in here.

Halloween.

• Happy Halloween!!!! (Hell yeah, ya fuckin boogins!!!!)
• Halloween Part 2: All the drugs in me, all the bugs in me!
• Halloween Part 3: Hi-jinks Ensue!!
• Halloween Part 4: Under the wire, and through a loophole!
• Halloween Part 4.5: Delayed gratification!
• Halloween Part 5: Back In Orange!
• Halloween Part 6: "Hold out your cups, kiddies!".
• Halloween Part 7: "That's why people soup is MMM-HMM goood!".
• Halloween Part 8: "I'll send yah to the bone yaaahhd!!".

There was some bleed over from Halloween to Thanksgiving, so let's chuck the Thanksgivings in there.

Thanksgiving.

• The 1st! (2010)
• The 2nd!! (2011)
• The 3rd!! (2012) (The one with the reviews and recipes)
• The 4th! (2013)
• The 5th! (2014)
• The 6th! (2015)
• The 7th. (2016)
• The 8th! (2017)
• The 9th! (2018)

And then that leads into Christmas, with my superhero stuff, so chuck those in...

Christmas.

• 8 maids a milking.
• Seven Schwans a swimming!!
• Six geese a laying!
• Fiiiiive golden riiiiings!!!!
• Four calling birds.
• Three French hens.
• Two turtledoves.
• And a partridge in a pear treeeee!!!!

And the Halloweens, Thanksgivings, and Christmases used to be bundled up as En-Mike-lopedia, so let's chuck those in.
Yeah, they're mostly a repeat of the above holidays, but there's some extra bits n' bobs n' bonuses to justify them.

En-Mike-lopedia.

• Volume 1 (2011)
• Volume 2 (2012)
• Volume 3 (2013)
• Volume 4 (2014)

And all of the above spun out of my documentary reviews, so let's chuck those in.

The Bigass Documentary Review Compilation.

And my movie BTS documentary compilation thingy is sorta the sequel, so chuck that in.

The great big geek documentary compilation!!


There, now I can just have this series drop in the little updates to the few franchises I actually give a shit about, and drop them into Halloween, Christmas, Star Wars day, and Ghostbusters anniversary, without being forced (by format, and self-imposed obligation) to cover every little news item for absolutely everything.

It can be nice and casual, like it always should have been.
I guess I had to go all the way around the learning curve to figure it out.
Now we start fresh!



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Pop culture updates #1-30 compilation.

Here they all are so far...

• Part 1 (Twin Peaks)
• Part 2 (Fangoria)
• Part 3 (GB games 1)
• Part 4 (Daria & Connors)
• Part 5 (Lando & Rachel)
• Part 6 (Comic-Con)
• Part 7 (Caligula)
• Part 8 (Picard series)
• Part 9 (No GB news til 2019)
• Part 10 (Scream Queen) 
• Part 11 (Mandalorian)
• Part 12 (Bubba Ho-Tep)
• Part 13 (Lower Decks)
• Part 14 (Joe Bob)
• Part 15 (GB games 2)
• Part 16 (Cassian)
• Part 17 (Section 31)
• Part 18 (GB 3??)
• Part 19 (GB IDW 35th)
• Part 20 (Toxie reboot)
• Part 21 (Ghostbusters 3!)
• Part 22 (GB/TF 1)
• Part 23 (GB/TF 2)
• Part 24 (GB/TF 3)
• Part 25 (GB/TF 4)
• Part 26 (Franchises)
• Part 27 (GB games 3)
• Part 28 (GB3 casting 1)
• Part 29 (GB3 casting 2)
• Part 30 (GB cereals)

Now, to link this to archives.


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