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HARRISON FORD: The Canary In The Coal Mine For Hollywood’s Downfall
A great example of how Hollywood self-imploded is the career of Harrison Ford.
Centipede Press’s Roger Zelazny Reprint Sells Out in Under 24 Hours
Roger Zelazny’s Roadmarks just got the deluxe treatment from Centipede Press, and it didn’t last a day on the shelf. The Colorado small press released its signed and numbered edition of the 1979 road-trip science fiction novel on June 2026, limited to 400 copies at $100 each, and the entire run sold out within 24 hours of going live.
Critical Drinker and the Limits of Anti-Woke Centrism
Commentators like The Critical Drinker have built large audiences by formerly mocking franchise mismanagement. There was a time when that kind of criticism landed well with viewers and grew his channel. While many of his complaints were surface-level in substance, viewers latched onto the sentiments expressed as some kind of traditional zeal against pro…
D&D Is Purging Darkness From Dark Sun With Sensititivty Readers
Dark Sun is coming back to Dungeons & Dragons, and Wizards of the Coast wants fans to know the setting’s most notorious feature is getting cut. The 30-plus-year-old post-apocalyptic setting, teased at the GenCon 2026 keynote and slated for two full books plus a modified Player’s Handbook in early 2027, built its reputation on a world so brutal that slavery, genocide, and torture were baked into its lore rather than sanitized around the edges. According to the designers now handling it, that reputation is exactly the problem.
Warren Ellis Returns to Image Comics, and the Comics Press Wants Him Erased Again
Warren Ellis has a new comic coming out, and half the comics industry is treating it like a crime scene. Image Comics announced on August 11 that the writer will release Ghost Drive Station, a graphic novella illustrated by Lordess Foudre, on November 18. It’s his first new mainstream comics work in five years, and the reaction proves that in this industry, forgiveness has an expiration date that never arrives.
The Queen of Rhemuth: A Katherine Kurtz Retrospective
Every Sunday at 7:00 PM Eastern, on an IRC network with a Discord bridge, Katherine Kurtz shows up to talk with her readers. She has been doing this, in one form or another, for close to twenty-five years. She is eighty-one years old. Her community, gathered at
Anson Mount Mocks Star Trek Fan With Insurance Jingle As Trek Actors’ Pattern Of Contempt Continues
Anson Mount spent part of this week turning a fan’s criticism of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds into a Farmers Insurance bit, and he is not the only Trek actor treating audience frustration as a joke.
Rob Liefeld Calls His Own 2001 Column Fake AI After It Contradicts Him
Rob Liefeld is accusing the internet of faking a column he wrote about Cable, after that column’s contents lined up with an account he had just finished calling a lie.
Marvel’s Wolverine Backlash Widens From Meme Mockery Into Casting and Writing Credits Ahead of September Launch
Marvel’s Wolverine has become a punching bag on social media in the weeks before its September 15 PS5 release, and the criticism has moved well past jokes about combat footage into pointed questions about who wrote the game and who’s in it. The reaction intensified after preview embargoes lifted this week and gameplay clips started circulating, with one…
Gen Con Poaches The Dice Tower’s Camilla Cleghorn to Run Its Events Program as Convention Outgrows Its Own Venue
Gen Con has hired Camilla Cleghorn, a longtime on-camera presenter for The Dice Tower and a key organizer behind its Dice Tower East convention, as its new head of events, putting her in charge of planning and running the thousands of events that make up tabletop’s largest annual gathering. The hire lands less than a week after this year’s Gen Con close…