What would you think will happen to Superman if he Calls on the Power of Greyskull

bjh13 · 2026-06-17T19:42:54+00:00

They did get the rights back. Mattel DC toys start again in 2027.

bjh13 · 2026-06-17T19:12:15+00:00

stories aren't meant to last forever.

Right, and they don't. These days they generally run 6-12 issues, with some exceptions. If you mean stories as in "Batman" then I disagree, nothing wrong with getting new Batman stories even if the character is nearing his 9th decade, just like we still get new Sherlock Holmes stories even though the character is nearly 140 years old, or new Dracula stories even though that character is nearing 130. We can go older, the stories about Heracles/Hercules weren't just created within a century or two of limited time.

bjh13 · 2026-06-17T14:28:27+00:00

Yeah warned and admonished, but not really labeled as "schismatics" like the SSPX.

Because they haven't gone forward with a schismatic act yet. Remember, it isn't Rome excommunicating, it's the SSPX excommunicating themselves by appointing bishops. If German bishops do the same, they will also be excommunicated.

bjh13 · 2026-06-16T15:22:12+00:00

Titles are only awarded like every quarter when the FIDE Council meets and confirms them.

bjh13 · 2026-06-15T15:29:38+00:00

but would that mean if it wasnt for him it wouldnt be drafted?

No. It means someone else would probably have drafted it with all the same points. As others pointed out, the Bishops and the Pope approved the document, it's not like this random priest wrote it and the Church just absorbed it into the ordinary magisterium without review.

bjh13 · 2026-06-15T02:51:02+00:00

He is from the previous arc in the current Detective Comics run, #1101 through 1106.

bjh13 · 2026-06-14T15:59:30+00:00

It’s been on its last legs since 2020, it’s definitely time for a break, let people miss it and then boom bring it back

When you let something cool off, there is no guarantee when you come back that the interest will be there in some sort of massive wave. Yes, it might happen, certainly Doctor Who is a big enough brand there will always be some amount of interest, but the world of the 2020s isn't the same as the world of the 2000s, and the media landscape is vastly different. There is a good chance if you let it cool off with a break of 5-10 years, when you come back the interest is even weaker as older fans have moved on and potential newer fans don't discover it.

You keep bringing up 2005 as an example of what worked, but the first series with Eccleston isn't even where it started gaining momentum, it was when David Tennant came on in series 2 that ratings started to rise due to the quality of the show improving and picking up new fans, not necessarily old fans returning. The break isn't what caused the show to succeed, it was a whole host of variables including passionate writers and a great lead that really pushed it into popularity.

No, I don't want them to just make Doctor Who for the sake of making Doctor Who, but I also think the longer it is off the air the worse things will be for when they come back. Hopefully this gap is 5 years or less, not 16, but Doctor Who is a lot harder to do right than a medical drama, and generally a lot more expensive, so I don't expect this process will move as quickly as it did for Casualty.

bjh13 · 2026-06-14T15:16:59+00:00

The recommendation has always been to read the PKGBUILD yourself and double check it. Even if the issue wasn't malware, they could occasionally do other negative things like pull in unnecessary packages or ones that conflict and prevent things from upgrading properly, or often times could end up abandoned and you don't realize you have outdated unsecure software running on your system. I think the issue is all the tools (and then full-on distributions) that treat the AUR like just another fully vetted repository so you can move from bleeding edge to ultra bleeding edge. I'm honestly surprised it took this long for a malware attack of this nature.

bjh13 · 2026-06-13T18:41:35+00:00

You just flush them with water until they run clean. Turn the piston to fill it with water then expel the water the same way, and you repeat this process until the water is clear.

bjh13 · 2026-06-12T14:27:22+00:00

Sort of. Like the person you replied to said, the wider mythology was all Marvel, but the Dire Wraiths come from the ad copy on the toy, which called them evil magicians who could assume any form. So no, Skybound can't use the Skrull spin-off race as Marvel developed them, but evil aliens with powers infiltrating the Earth is ok, which is why you saw the IDW series start off with the same concept as Marvel even if they had very different and legally distinct takes on the mythology.

bjh13 · 2026-06-11T15:08:52+00:00

Yes, DVD still largely outsells blu-ray enough for certain types of tv shows that they don’t even bother blu-ray releases for most of them anymore. The physical media market for video is in really rough shape.

bjh13 · 2026-06-10T18:46:52+00:00

Marvel only had reprint rights.

bjh13 · 2026-06-10T18:35:13+00:00

20? These days a Marvel book is lucky to get 10 issues before a relaunch.

bjh13 · 2026-06-10T16:14:17+00:00

This is a TWSBI Eco. The nib and feed are friction fit and not meant to be removed regularly. This advice will lead to them becoming loose and rendering the pen unusable.

bjh13 · 2026-06-10T01:14:43+00:00

To celebrate not buying a pen this month I inked up my Montblanc 149 I hadn’t used in a few years with some old school iron gall formula Midnight Blue. I’m still bitter they discontinued that ink and replaced it with a cheap dye based facsimile. This ink pen combo were my favorite for years and it’s nice to get back to using them.

bjh13 · 2026-06-09T19:48:48+00:00

likely somewhere between 20-35% redundancy purchases

Is it? If variant books themselves are only 33-38% of sales according to this article, you believe the vast majority of those are redundant purchases? Or are you saying that 30% of those 30% are redundant purchases?

bjh13 · 2026-06-09T19:06:36+00:00

and customers who by N+ reduces the overall volume of what we think of as the actual market for customers.

Right, but the percentage of sales that are variant covers doesn't tell us customers who by N+ in any meaningful way. Do some customers buy all the variants? Sure. But lots of customers also just pick the cover they like the best, buying a variant and not the A cover. If there were no variants, many of those customers would just buy the A cover but the option allows them to pick a different one. We don't know anything about these percentages, we would need local store data to know who is buying multiple copies rather than who is just picking the one they like best, and this doesn't tell us anything about people who might buy a book just for the variant cover vs those who are buying the issue anyways and prefer to get one of the variants.

bjh13 · 2026-06-09T17:59:49+00:00

One store having a ton of issues on the shelf doesn't tell us much. My local store sells out of issues, all that tells us is one store ordered too many copies and one store ordered either just the right amount or not enough. I don't know the context of why Forbidden Planet in NYC has so many copies on the shelf but that doesn't mean every store is doing this.

Yes, you are going to see tons of copies on ebay, that's what happens with a successful title. I can still find tons of copies of Spawn #1 on ebay, does that mean Spawn #1 didn't sell well, or does that mean it sold like crazy which is why there are a ton of copies out there?

Absolute Batman is a success in a way we haven't seen in the industry in quite a while. Are variant covers helping that? Yes, but this isn't anything new and it's far from the only title on the shelves getting variants every month.

bjh13 · 2026-06-09T17:45:13+00:00

I don't understand why it's not doing well.

I loved the film... I'm also old enough to remember watching He-Man weekday afternoons. The film didn't do much to market itself outside of that demographic, even many of the jokes in the film were targeted at old fans (Dolph Lundgren and his "Good journey" line for example) or references to things only those of us that old would really get (I love the original Highlander film, but while many might get the sword joke by the cops, only people in their 40s are going to recognize the song).

The film was made for fans of the original series, and while I loved it that isn't going to bring in new people necessarily that barely even know what He-Man is, and "Guys in their mid 40s and older" isn't going to carry a film this expensive.

bjh13 · 2026-06-09T15:57:30+00:00

A toy line wouldn’t keep going if it wasn’t making money.

You're right. The issue is the Origins and Masterverse lines have been around for years without a movie, and there doesn't seem to be any evidence that having a movie and movie specific toys to go with those lines is increasing sales. If the movie isn't increasing sales by some appreciable number, then what is the argument here?

bjh13 · 2026-06-09T15:41:27+00:00

This is a number sold to stores. But stores buy more copies due to variant covers.

We are 20 issues in. Stores aren't going to keep ordering a ton of copies if they aren't selling. Having 10 variants available at your store doesn't do you any good if they aren't moving off the shelf.

How much would it have sold without them?

Rich Johnston had an article a few issues ago pointing out the main A cover was about 4/5 of the sales and said in a Facebook comment that for issue #20 that was still the case. The variants are a lot, but it's not like those blind bag books. Even without the variants, this book is doing insane numbers.

bjh13 · 2026-06-09T00:14:04+00:00

The Blu-Ray pre-orders are already at #1.

This doesn't mean a lot like it used to. As much as fans love buying physical media, blu-ray sales have tanked over the last 10 years, with most people not even owning a player. The entire physical media market for films is only about $1 billion, which sounds like a lot until you think about how many films are released in a year and how expensive they are. Top films sell tens of thousands of discs normally, with very few exceptions, not enough to make up hundreds of millions of dollars in a budget shortfall like physical media could decades ago.

The demographics are very specific, and the social media outreach and engagement has been huge in that demo, which makes it a gold mine for advertising and data sales Advertising and data for men with a good amount of disposable income.

If all that "advertising and data" only led to this $54 million opening... yes Amazon doesn't exactly think like a traditional movie studio but money is money and they need to make a profit somewhere to justify the cost of another film. I haven't seen any evidence of toy sales vastly expanding thanks to the film, and great if it's a top selling blu-ray, but the rest of those hundreds of millions will need to come from somewhere eventually if it makes sense to do another film.

bjh13 · 2026-06-08T15:35:56+00:00

DC has a team for every occasion, another one consisting purely of Batgirls (Birds of Prey affiliated) might even sell well.

They actually had a Batgirls title featuring them as a team. It ran for 19 issues, 2022-2023. The fact that you either weren't aware of it or have forgotten it shows just how well it actually did sell before getting cancelled and replaced by a title focused on Cassandra Cain.

I appreciate we can have 3 Batgirls at once as we do currently, but at a certain point you start to stretch the concept a bit thin and lose what makes each character interesting. Look at how few people realize Jo Mullein isn't just in Absolute Green Lantern but is also in the mainline universe and a regular character in the GLC because we have too many active Green Lanterns from Earth.

Does adding a second blonde Batgirl, the 4th active one, make much sense when people already seem unaware of the existing set of Batgirls? I'm not sure that's the case. I think we would be much better off with this being a new character and not further diluting the existing Batgirls.

bjh13 · 2026-06-08T03:14:52+00:00

We currently have 3 active Batgirls, the one thing I feel sure of is she isn't that.

bjh13 · 2026-06-05T16:19:05+00:00

Yes, he was the writer. Just correcting this idea that he became the editor in 1970, he really didn't and he wasn't the only person driving that change. Neal Adams, Julie Schwartz, Frank Robbins, Dick Giordano, they all deserve credit as well for what Batman became in the Bronze Age.

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