Two men waiting for the mail to arrive.
That’s all the story is about.
OK, that’s not exactly true.
Not when one of the men is the Joker.
The premiere issue of “DC Nation” No. 0, cover date July 2018, the company’s publication to promote new projects, characters and creators alike, opens with one of the most chilling stories DC has published in years.
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Judging from the stink, you’d think someone served flaming plates of poo at the White House Correspondents’ dinner this weekend.
Michelle Wolf what she was hired to do: She told jokes. She spared no one, Republicans, Democrats, CNN, Hillary Clinton, even Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, who has been dead almost a decade.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was there, representing the White House since Donald Trump is too much of a chickenshit to attend.
And the kerfuffle that has erupted proves that not only can’t some people take a joke, some snowflakes can’t even understand a joke.
As far as trolling goes, this is impressive.
Marvel Comics no longer publishes a “Fantastic Four” comic. It’s all part of a scheme to devalue the property enough so that 20th Century Fox will stop trying to make terrible film versions about the foursome and allow the rights to revert back to Marvel Studios.
Me, I’m Old School, I believe some money is always better than no money, but what do I know? Not enough for the House of Ideas, and then again, who is to say that monthly comic sales have any impact on how a film is received? DC’s “Wonder Woman” for decades pulled less than Amazonian numbers, but the big budget film last summer won critical acclaim and broke all kinds of records.
Marvel’s decision to drop its flagship title is just one of a legion of errors that help explain why the company is once again rebooting its titles in less than a year.
But if Marvel won’t give the world a Fantastic Four, DC will.
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From Hasbro, maker of Monopoly, My Little Pony and other fine products to entertain and distract children, comes this new game …
… about walking in poo.
In “Don’t Step In It!,” kids are blindfolded and must cross a playmat without stepping in piles of crap.
OK, it’s not real crap.
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“God’s Own Country” is at last on DVD.
The film focuses on Johnny (Josh O’Connor), a young man whose life is forever changed when he is forced to work with a Romanian immigrant on his Yorkshire farm.
Johnny simmers with rage, drinks himself blotto when he can and has quick sex with random locals.
But when his ailing father forces him to work with Gheorghe (the handsome Alec Secareanu), Johnny finds his irritation falling way to desire and then something much more powerful.
Mark Perigard 