Whitewashing, Blackwashing and all that Jazz

Tantz_Aerine at 12:00AM, July 6, 2019




So by now, anyone who is on Twitter (and possibly other social media I dare not touch) is aware of this whole kerfuffle over the newest Disney live action remake, which happens to be The Little Mermaid. It has been announced that Ariel will be played by an actress who ...


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Politics in Fiction

Banes at 12:00AM, July 19, 2018

There was recently a Provincial Election in the part of Canada where I live, and there's a Federal Election coming up in about a year.

With the brouhaha going on in the world these days about politics and the divisions between many people that are resulting from it, I ...

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Fandom

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 25, 2018



In a world of adapted comic book characters and stories, reborn old franchises, and endless brand-excavation of old TV shows, toys, and video games, our entertainment culture is something different than we've previously seen.

“I.P.'s” are dug up repurposed endlessly, in order to try and make a ...



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Used Books Celebrates Ten Years with an Anniversary Special!

kawaiidaigakusei at 12:00AM, Feb. 20, 2017



Used Books is celebrating its tenth anniversary on Feb. 23 (Thursday), so we are interrupting the story for a couple special extras this week. The first is posted Monday.

usedbooks writes:

The Beginning

Thursday, February 23rd marks the 10th anniversary of Used Books online. I started drawing UB shortly after ...







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The Old, the New, History and Nostalgia

Banes at 12:00AM, Jan. 28, 2016



Pop culture is being visited by its own past. There's no denying the excitement surrounding the reappearance of the original Star Wars and X-Files characters after an absence of years.

We all know our mainstream entertainment is stuffed with more and more sequels, remakes, reboots, soft reboots, reimaginings, reintegrated ...



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My Halloween Playlist

Banes at 12:00AM, Oct. 22, 2015



If you've heard me talk for any reasonable amount of time (apologies!), you know I can't maintain much of a conversation before beginning to list movies. What can I say? I love ‘em!

So for this penultimate October Thursday, I thought I’d share my Halloween movie playlist ...



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Adaptations

Ozoneocean at 12:00AM, Nov. 21, 2014



In recent years Hollywood has been desperately mining already popular material in the hopes of producing ready-made hits, so we've had a great bonanza of classic Scifi, fantasy and comic book films blasting onto the silver screen with the likes of The Lord of The Rings, The Chronicles of ...

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Monday feature -> Plastic Bullets Mayhem Unloaded

skoolmunkee at 12:01AM, Oct. 17, 2011



Cross is the leader of Team One, which competes (as underdogs) in a “mayhem unloaded” tournament- a violent kind of plant-the-flag. The comic starts mid-match, then moves to an atmospheric nightclub where the point is to wear as little as possible and get rained on (or thrown in the pool ...

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Just a tiny bit of news this Wednesday!

skoolmunkee at 2:15PM, Dec. 16, 2009


Just one bit of news today I guess! And that is I had a lovely dinner with duck and things and an apple tart.

No not really, the news is that elektro's Negligence has turned 200!

elektro
The last four comics have been remakes of older, less refined comics ...




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Like the Juggernaut, the news keeps on coming

skoolmunkee at 4:01AM, June 23, 2006

Comic Announcements!

Yami No Tainai is 600 comics old! Holy cow that's a big number!

Rick and Daphne (comic is Adult/18+) is undergoing a “remake” phase where Akakios is going to redo (or something) the first 43 pages of his comic!

Revenger's Tradgedy has finished its first ...





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