Supergirl Troubles, Comic Industry Pest, GTA Legal Woes - Fandom Pulse Daily Briefing
It’s a very busy week for me! Going to World Cup on Thursday evening which should be a lot of fun, but the news never stops. I’ll obviously not be able to see Supergirl that night so I’ll have my review up on the weekend when I get a chance to see it.
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Rockstar Fired 34 Union Organizers Before GTA 6, And The Lawsuit Is Still Running
On October 30 and 31, 2025, Rockstar Games fired 34 employees across studios in Edinburgh, Dundee, Lincoln, and Toronto. Every one was a member of a private Discord server maintained by the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain. Rockstar’s stated reason: gross misconduct for distributing confidential information in a public forum.
Early Supergirl Reviews Spell Trouble For The James Gunn DCU
The Supergirl review embargo lifts this morning. The pattern across critics who liked it and critics who did not is identical: messy script, worthless villain, action sequences that do not deliver. The film is a grimy Mad Max knockoff that does not work as a superhero movie, does not work as an action movie, and arrives having spent three months giving …
Cartoon Art Museum Curator Andrew Farago Arrested for Secretly Recording Party Guests, Including Children, in Bathroom
Andrew Farago, the curator of San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum and one of the more prominent progressive voices in the organized comics community, was arrested June 3 on 20 counts of invasion of privacy after secretly recording birthday party guests using the bathroom at his Berkeley home, according to court documents obtained by The Berkeley Scanner.
How Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Built the Liaden Universe One Convention Chapbook at a Time
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller had a problem in the early 1990s that would have ended most science fiction series. Del Rey published the first three Liaden Universe novels, Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, and Carpe Diem, between 1988 and 1989, then declined to renew the contract over modest sales. The husband-and-wife team had a universe, a small and …
Comics Writer Grant Morrison Wants to Run Doctor Who And Gives His Pitch To Save The Show
Grant Morrison published a Substack post this week floating their interest in approaching the BBC about the Doctor Who showrunner job. The pitch is characteristically indirect. Morrison notes that the BBC “have never taken me seriously before, so I’m not convinced they’ll start,” but the ideas attached to the inquiry suggest someone who has thought seriously about how to fix a show that just lost its showrunner, its Disney streaming partner, and its audience over three consecutive seasons.
Anne McCaffrey Was Savvier About Collectors Than Anyone Realized
Anne McCaffrey spent her career building Pern, but she also spent it feeding collectors. The evidence is scattered across estate sales, limited press runs, and a local Irish bindery, and the full picture only comes together when you look at the whole catalog. McCaffrey wasn’t just a prolific author. She was a writer who understood that her audience want…
Marvel Let TikTok Bully a Legend Off the Cover of Amazing Spider-Man #1000, But It's Back
Amazing Spider-Man #1000 hits shelves September 16. The thousandth issue of Marvel’s flagship title, the character that built the publisher. The main cover was drawn by John Romita Jr. and painted by Paolo Rivera. It was pulled by Marvel editorial after social media mockery spread. Then the comics industry pushed back and Marvel restored it within 72 ho…
The Oldest Regional Science Fiction Convention in the World Is Quietly Voting Itself Out of Existence
Westercon is dying. The West Coast Science Fantasy Conference has been running since 1948 and once drew 2,500 attendees with legends like Ray Bradbury, Frank Herbert, and William Gibson as guests of honor. This week it posted a notice that nobody has filed a bid to host the 2028 convention.
One clear day they’ll realize that there is other 50% of the population that wouldn’t mind watching something new - as long as it’s not complete dogshit propaganda and subversion