We have two articles on the Christmas sensation Home Alone. At least I think it’s still considered a Christmas movie. As noted earlier this week the genre term is kind of messed up thanks to you know what. The first comes from Geeks & Gamers contributor Alex Gherzo and why he thinks the hijinks of Kevin McCallister still endures. In the second, Variety is reporting Macaulay Culkin has an idea for a new sequel passing the torch to Kevin’s son. Would you watch it?
Never bring a fist to a knife fight…when you can make it a gun fight.
Miracle Comics #1
Hillman-Curl Inc. (February, 1940)
A new title and from what I can tell a new company. So we’re about to see some brand new characters that never made it. Miracle Comics seems to have only lasted four issues while the publisher continues on. That does not bode well, but unless the stories are really bad I might go through all four issues when they come up on Comic Book Plus’ virtual newsstand. I could use some new old material.
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Apparently he didn’t catch the skip when talking about Thundercats. Tigersharks was the action show from the anthology The Comic Strip. The only other segment I liked was “Karate Kat”.
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From what little I know, the Helldivers game franchise is a Starship Troopers (first movie) style parody of militaristic worldviews or something. All I know is it’s not my prefered type of game, but it only matters because the latest news about an upcoming movie sparked the commentary. Neither of us need know anything about these games.
The director of the movie adaptation sure doesn’t. And it’s apparently a selling point to his getting the job.
Spencer Baculi of Bounding Into Comics is reporting that Justin Lin of “Fast & The Furious” fame is set to make a Helldivers movie, and that not knowing the source material is what got him the gig.
In waving the reddest flag possible ahead of Super Earth’s next major deployment, a live-action Helldivers film is now in production under the helm of Fast and Furious franchise director Justin Lin, whose winning pitch reportedly “leaned into” the fact that he has absolutely zero familiarity with the video game medium, let alone Arrowhead Game Studios’ acclaimed democracy simulator.
So a guy who doesn’t know Pac-Man from Cloud Strife is going to adapt a game he probably doesn’t know contains neither of those characters. At a time when bad adaptations are rampant in both Hollywood and comics, it seems that ignorance isn’t just bliss, it’s welcome. As the article goes on, I don’t need to know about the game to feel sorry for the fans because I’ve seen it happen to far too many of the shows, comics, games, and old movies I DO enjoy. It’s one thing for the studio system to not learn from past mistakes. It’s worse to see them double down on stupid and treat it like a good thing, which I’m expecting shill media to start telling us is a plus. No, it’s one of the problems with Hollywood, and while it tends to be a long standing one, it somehow gets worse when banking on the success of existing properties’ pre-existing audience runs into people who hate or at least look down on those properties and where they came from. So let’s go over this again.
“Wait, how do I get down from here?”
Dawn Of The Visionary Creation 2024-2025
Visionary Comics (2024)
CREATOR/WRITER: C. Edward Sellner
LETTERER: Jacob Bascle
Visionary Creation is the main Visionary superhero universe, from what I can tell primarily the years long design of C. Edward Sellner, finally made into a comic. For some reason trying to bring the actual page from Drive-Thru Comics for this comes with an error, but it was still in my library so I’m checking out.
The preview contains short tales from various titles in this shared universe, so we’re going to speed through these.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
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Netflix To Take Over Warner Brothers: What Does The Future Hold?
Well thanks a lot, guys. Now I have to push CBS Transformers off of the schedule this week because you drop this as people were going to bed last night. I had TWO installments auto-scheduled so today I could focus on getting my Christmas comic out by Christmas, but instead we have to talk backstage nonsense. Figures.
In case you somehow missed the buzz today, Netflix has won it’s bid to acquire Warner Brothers and everything that comes with it. Note that this is not yet a done deal. Final negotiations still have to happen, Paramount’s new owners Skydance, the most favored of the bidders, is raising a ruckus, and part of the deal is for Discovery’s side of things to take some stuff with them when they go, but for all intents and purposes the paid streaming service has won the day, the Warner Brothers back catalog, and the resources to make more theatrical and TV/streaming shows. Apparently everybody wants Warner Brothers…except people who own Warner Brothers. It wasn’t that long ago that Discovery Networks took this off of AT&T’s hands after they got it from AOL Turner Time-Warner.
Of course everyone involved with discussing the entertainment media have thoughts on the deal. I share some of those thoughts, and yet there are a few that aren’t being brought up that probably should. No matter how you look at it, this may be great news for Netflix and for David Zaslav’s accountant, but for the movie industry, fans, and various corners of geekdom this is not a good sign for the future. Let’s discuss.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on December 5, 2025 in Animation Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight, Video Game Spotlight and tagged commentary, DC Comics, DC Entertainment, Discovery Global, Hanna-Barbera, Netflix, news, Ruby-Spears Productions, Warner Animation, Warner Brothers, Warner Interactive, WB Games.
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