Calls to Cancel James Gunn, Flash Fizzles on Streaming, $313k Study on Why Manga is Popular



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Welcome to The Weekly Spinner Rack where I review some of the comics of the past week and break down the biggest comic book news of the week.

Topics: the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities is spending $313,000 to understand why manga is popular, Snyder Fans renew their calls to get James Gunn fired, The Flash fizzles on Max, Gerry Conway discusses his cancer battle, and much more.

Books reviewed this week will include: The Incredible Hulk #3 by Al Ewing and Nic Klein, The Plot Holes #1 by Sean Murphy, DSTRLY: The Devil’s Cut by many creators, Marvel Age #1000 by many creators, Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1 by Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, and Carlos Gomez and Adam Gorham, Riddler: Year One #6 by Paul Dano and Stevan Subic, Batman/Catwoman: Gotham War by Tini Howard, Chip Zdarsky, and Mike Hawthorne Conan the Barbarian #2 by Jim Zub and Roberto De La Torre, and many more.

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21 thoughts on “Calls to Cancel James Gunn, Flash Fizzles on Streaming, $313k Study on Why Manga is Popular”

  1. Definitely going to check out Conan The Barbarian. Your review of DSTRLY: The Devil's Cut is very interesting. It's hard to get the balance right with an anthology, where you're trying to tell complete stories but still get people interested in the new books. It sounds like they didn't even try to do complete stories.

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  2. Ok idk why someone gave you a hard time for enjoying talking about the flash topic but its your show.

    The video quality, lighting and engagement gets better every week. From someone from the old production eating challenge days of the spinner rack, keep it up my friend

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  3. I don't get why people keep comparing Barbie's box office with older movies? There's a thing called "inflation". So, a Harry Potter movie released 20 years ago, adjusted for inflation, probably did better than Barbie did.

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  4. I don't think there has been a ton of 2D content for VR aside from just watching videos on a big "screen". It would make more sense to adapt their work into 3D in some way, maybe be able to move around in the scene or something. Just make models in the style of the art.

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  5. I feel that the DC property would do better owned by someone else that's not Discovery/WB. Their current and past CEO's didn't realize the gold mine they were sitting on. Maybe someone else more competent can put quality time and attention to DC and put out high end content.

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  6. I’m not saying this is the case of EVERYBODY that loves Tim Burton’s Batman movies, but the people I know that do, love them because of nostalgia.

    I’m not a very nostalgic person so I find them ridiculous and accidentally funny.

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  7. Hi Chris! I agree, Ross Andru's an underrated Spider-Man artist. His approach was classic anatomy with a ton of foreshortening and really dynamic poses and angles. Also voted for Comic Tropes over at Comic Book Community. More power to you and all the folks here =). Oh yeah, the food is amazing in Osaka.

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  8. I was having my doubts with James Gunn recently. Unlike "Slither" and "Super", none of his DC movies were even worth watching. But those Batman movie statements certainly rather put him in a good light for me. I agree with everything he said there. Tim Burton's version has a great Gotham City, but everything else is boring, bad and often cringeworthy, IMO. Nolan's trilogy also didn't do much for me, due to messy story construction, trope-overload and Batman seeming horribly slow on the uptake.

    Christian Bale's Batman voice is also cringe, as well as a part of the last movie, where they put up the facepalm story idea that a little girl would be able to jump farther than a man who trained his entire life to be at peak human fitness level.

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  9. @ 29:47
    Agree…3D still images would be a good idea for a VR comic, if you could actually freely move around in them and maybe discover details that the protagonist(s) and other characters cannot see.

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