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James Gunn has been fired from Guardians Vol. 3 following the resurfacing of older tweets he made when he was kind of a shithead.

I guess I'd throw in Larry Lieber. He's certainly not a big name, but he's credited as co-creator of Iron Man, Thor, and Ant-Man. This is enormous. Not only did Ditko give us Spider-Man and Doctor Strange (as well as The Question, and Squirrel Girl, and Lord knows however many I'm not thinking of), but his storytelling and imagery were unmatched. I could look at his work in Strange Tales all day. Damn.

Is Stan the last man standing?

He was 90.

But... what?

I LOVE Moon Safari.

Solo: Fun. Not great. Not even sure if it's good. But it kept me relatively entertained for it's far-too-long running time, and Donald Glover doesn't need another plug from me, but yeah, he's easily the best thing here.

That needs to be better known for many reasons, not least of which is the utter meltdown a certain corner of fandom is certain to have. In all sincerity, though, it's awfully good to hear that. I'm pleased he's in a place where he can be open.

Not even kind of. He has another mega-franchise in Jurassic World, but they've given him the "beloved cinematic icon with a decades-long career" credit. He must have a hell of an agent.

Loved it, can't wait to see it again and drag Wendee to it. One big question I had:

SIM-bee-oat and SIM-bye-oat are both considered correct, although Marvel properties have only ever used the former.

... sym-BUY-ote?

The only show I can think of offhand that I don't see there is iZombie.

I wouldn't mind seeing Justice League Quarterly collected in there somewhere.

I got this for Christmas, and it's still in the shrinkwrap. I'm dying to tear into it but this thing is fucking enormous and intimidating as hell. As for a second volume... yeah, Jones' stuff is going to be very quietly buried for a long time. If there was any way DC was ever going to try to figure out a way to rerelease his stuff, the recent announcement that he's agreed to plead guilty squashed that real quick.

Apparently someone finally cut a check big enough for him to get the hell over himself, as it was announced that Christopher Eccleston is attending his first ever convention. I am seriously gobsmacked.

Is this the one-shot from the late 80s-early 90s? I never read this but the hype around it was ENORMOUS for some reason.

Yeah, this is what happens when I decide to check in on the forums before opening Twitter. The timing sucked, and I certainly hope he feels better.

Short version: he's a hack who's fundamentally incapable of working on a project without inflating it full of references to his past work so that his fanboys can point and remember that Mallrats was a thing once. He's more intetested in selling himself as a brand than in directing, insulated himself from any actual criticism and never made any effort to grow as a writer and has become, at best, a technically competent TV director. All of this is supremely frustrating, as Clerks was legitimately gamechanging.

Black Panther.

I would seriously be shocked if they didn't all come back. Paulsen, especially, would start work tomorrow if he could.

What'dja get? Wendee went WAY overboard and I have reaped the result. Twelve Doctors action figure set Annotated Watchmen Justice League International Omnibus Art of Atari Wolfenstein II Blu-ray set of all six TOS movies

There's an awful lot of woman/POCs/LGBT characters and creators on that list, there.

"Change is scary and I don't like it" is essentially 90% of the backlash. I'm old enough to remember people walking out of Empire really unhappy that it was so different from Star Wars and didn't even have an ending and are we seriously supposed to wait until 1983 to find out WTF is going on with Vader and Luke and etc. etc. etc. Also, we as fanboys have been trained to assume that anything we don't know is a deep and important mystery to be unraveled, and the idea that sometimes something we don't know yet isn't an elaborate puzzle box, but rather just a piece of semi-interesting information we haven't been given yet, people lose their shit and feel betrayed. Because entitled fanboys are the literal worst.