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Jim Shooter, One Year Gone: The Editor Who Rebuilt Marvel and Then Built Valiant From Nothing
Jim Shooter died one year ago today, on June 30, 2025, at his home in Nyack, New York, after a battle with esophageal cancer. He was 73. Across six decades in the industry he ran Marvel’s editorial office through one of its busiest creative stretches, then walked out and built a second publisher, Valiant, that briefly stood as the only company outside M…
Marvel Turned Away the Man Who Created the Winter Soldier From His Own Movie’s Afterparty
The year is 2014. Captain America: The Winter Soldier has just screened to rapturous early reactions. Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, the writer and artist who created the Winter Soldier a decade earlier in the pages of Captain America, walk up to the afterparty for the film built entirely on their work. They’re turned away at the door.
Jack Posobiec Wants Fathers to Take Their Sons to See He-Man
Jack Posobiec spent this week urging fathers to take their sons to the new Masters of the Universe film, then to go home afterward and put on the original 1983 cartoon. His argument, laid out in a Human Events column and a thread on X, is that He-Man represents something Western boys have been systematically denied for years: an uncomplicated model of m…
Supergirl Bombed Worse Than Expected And The New York Times Blames "Misogyny"
Supergirl opened to $37.1 million domestic and $62.6 million worldwide. Warner Bros. spent $170 million making the film and another $120 million marketing it. The studio’s breakeven sits at roughly $300-315 million worldwide. Variety now projects a final theatrical loss between $80 million and $120 million, putting Supergirl in the same financial bracke…
Comcast Just Admitted What Hollywood Won’t Say Out Loud: The Tech Is Worth More Than the Content
Comcast announced this week that it is splitting NBCUniversal and Sky from its technology business, creating two separate public companies. Mike Cavanagh will run NBCUniversal, which keeps Universal’s film and TV studios, NBC, Telemundo, Peacock, and Bravo. Michael Angelakis, Comcast’s former CFO, becomes CEO of the remaining technology company once the spinoff completes, roughly a year out, structured as tax-free, following the same playbook Warner Bros. Discovery already used.
Elizabeth Moon Returns With New Paksenarrion Trilogy: First Book Drops October 6
Elizabeth Moon is back. After years of silence, the author behind one of fantasy’s most beloved military series has finished a new trilogy set in the world of Paksenarrion, with the first volume, Horngard, releasing October 6 from Baen Books under the series title
Jason Cordova Out at Baen Books: Another Blow to a Publisher Running Out of Time
Jason Cordova, the unofficial second in command of the publishing company, is leaving Baen Books. The announcement came out of Liberty Con this weekend, confirmed by sources on the ground, and it lands at a moment when Baen can least afford another loss.
Movie Review: Citizen Vigilante
Germany banned it. Elon Musk posted it to his 200 million followers. Armie Hammer stars in it. Uwe Boll directed it. That combination of facts tells you more about Citizen Vigilante than anything that actually happens on screen.
Genndy Tartakovsky Has Wanted to Make This Conan Series Since 2007 And It’s Finally Happening.
A Conan the Barbarian animated series is now in active development for Prime Video, with Genndy Tartakovsky as executive producer and showrunner, produced by Cartoon Network Studios and anchored on Robert E. Howard’s Queen of the Black Coast. The announcement arrived June 24. It has been eighteen years coming.