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It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! Last Week's episode didn't get posted due to technical difficulties. Many apologies.THIS WEEK, though, we have lots of news for you. Marilyn Manson leads the music section.A possible roadmap for the Nintendo Switch 2 in gamingRippaverse keeps growing in comics.Kevin Smith's He-Man returns to Netflix.Studio Ghibli isn't done surprising us.And X-Men lead off the Rumor Mill.Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content.

Music

Follow-ups/Corrections

Manson - Another court issue settled. Settled a week before trial with his anonymous accuser. Charges filed in 2021, stemming from an incident with not specific details provided.

https://metalinjection.net/news/marilyn-manson-settles-rape-lawsuit-before-trial-begins

New Music/Video

Red - Surrogates https://youtu.be/7kA-kXQ_6JE Octane-core in its truest form.

Harper - Chelsea Smile https://youtu.be/6Cl91XNnk2U Cover of BMTH’s 2008 single. Some shiny production, but with some interesting issues. Harper is an entertainer for sure.

Lorna Shore - Welcome Back O Sleeping Dreamer https://youtu.be/9-jP9P-KXyc Breakdown at the beginning of the song? Playing with form a little bit… by and large still the same Lorna Shore though.

Dying Wish - Path to Your Grave https://youtu.be/lRLTXZBgzlI singer Emma Boster keeps showing that the seat at the top of the hardcore throne vacated by the absence of Walls of Jericho’s Candace Kucsulain is all hers.

Sum 41 - Landmines https://youtu.be/eQEY1gPeZgk does pop-punk work the same in 2023?

*N Sync - Better Place https://youtu.be/YIptWV8jKws Justin featuring *N Sync… but damn if it doesn’t work.

Tours/Festivals

Ministry - Support from Gary Newman and Front Line Assembly. Starts Feb 27 in San Francisco through April 5 in Tucson AZ.

https://blabbermouth.net/news/ministry-announces-2024-north-american-tour-with-gary-numan-and-front-line-assembly

Foo Fighters - Everything or Nothing At All stadium tour. Support from PRETENDERS, THE HIVES, MAMMOTH WVH, AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS, ALEX G and L7. Starts July 17 in NYC through August 18 in Seattle WA. General on-sale for tickets begins Friday, October 6 at 10 a.m. local time. For pre-sales and further information, please visit foofighters.com

Fuming Mouth - with Final Gasp, supporting Devil Master. Starts Oct 31 in Brooklyn NY, through Dec 3 in Philadelphia PA.
https://www.stubhub.com/devil-master-tickets/category/10032162

Dying Wish - Support from Boundaries, Omerta, Foreign Hands, Gates to Hell, Roman Candle, and Excide. Oct 20 in Santa Cruz CA through Dec 2 in Anaheim CA.
https://www.stubhub.com/dying-wish-tickets/performer/101089454

Bloodstock 2024 - Opeth set as headliners. Will be playing a setlist as picked by fans. Other bands will be Hatebreed, Enslaved, Nervosa, Crypta, Beast in Black, Forbidden, with more to be announced. Aug 8 - 11
https://bloodstock.seetickets.com/event/bloodstock/catton-park/2741721#op1

Reg ‘ol News

Porno For Pyros - Postpone upcoming tour in order to finish new studio album. No proper release date yet for said album, and the rescheduled dates for the tour have not been announced either. Perry Farrel says both announcements will happen in the coming weeks.

https://blabbermouth.net/news/porno-for-pyros-postpone-tour-continue-working-on-new-music

Bandcamp - The digital music platform has been divested by parent company Epic Games amid massive company layoffs. The streamer will now become part of Songtradr. Songtradr has said that they will be expanding the money making possibilities for the artists on the platform by offering more licensing options, including the ability to allow content creators and developers access to their music through their global licensing network.

https://metalinjection.net/news/epic-games-lets-bandcamp-go-amid-layoffs

Suggests

Ov Sulfur - Burden ov Faith
Ov Sulfur is a blackened deathcore band from Las Vegas, NV, featuring former Suffokate vocalist Ricky Hoover.

Gaming/Tech

Follow-ups/Corrections

Batman: Arkham Trilogy - The Switch release has been delayed until Dec 1.

Reg ‘ol News

Switch 2 - Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa told Nikkei that support for the OG Switch was planned through fiscal year of 2024 (which ends in March of 2025). Meaning they have no long term plans right now regarding the current hardware.
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUF295550Z20C23A8000000/

Epic Games - Focusing on Fortnite, Epic Games has decided that growth isn’t happening as originally planned, so they will be laying off 16% or their staff (approx 830 employees.) Will be leaning into Fortnite as a “metaverse-inspired ecosystem for creators,” according to CEO Tim Sweeney.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/epic-games-is-reportedly-laying-off-16-of-its-staff/

Twitch Layoffs - MORE layoffs at Amazon are effecting Twitch’s Customer Experience department.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/twitch-makes-another-round-of-layoffs

Naughty Dog Layoffs - The developer is slimming down the QA department it would seem. Not renewing 25 contracts of temp workers mostly in that area. Though this round of “layoffs” has apparently massively delayed the development of the Last of Us multiplayer game.

https://kotaku.com/naughty-dog-ps5-playstation-sony-last-us-part-3-layoffs-1850893794

Raspberry Pi 5 - Said to be 2 - 3 times faster than the previous generation. If you opt for a cased version this time around it will feature a cooling fan because the processor, while cheaper on power for individual tasks, has a significantly higher peak performance. 4GB model runs for $60 and the 8GB version runs for $80. Raspberry Pis can now support dual 4k60 monitors, and double the I/O.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/teensy-60-raspberry-pi-5-computer-gets-bigger-pc-brawn/

Suggests

Mortal Kombat 1 fighting game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Games. It is the twelfth main installment in the Mortal Kombat series, serving as both a sequel to Mortal Kombat 11 (2019) and the series' second reboot, following Mortal Kombat (2011).[3] The game was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on September 19, 2023.

Comic Books/Books

Reg ‘ol News

Goodyng - Mike Baron has joined the Rippaverse. Baron has been brought on to fill in the backstory for the character Goodyng, who is a collaborator with central superhero ISOM. Joining in the ranks of enlightened former DC and Marvel collaborators Chuck Dixon, Gabe Eltaeb, and Joe Bennett.
https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/09/29/rippaverse-nabs-punisher-and-the-flash-writer-mike-baron/

Suggests

Wytches is a six-issue comic book limited series written by Scott Snyder and illustrated by Jock. The first issue of the series released on 8 October 2014 and is currently published through Image Comics. The rights for a film adaptation have been purchased by Plan B Entertainment, but it has since evolved into an animated series for Amazon Prime Video.

TV Shows

Trailers

He-Man Master of the Universe: Revolution - https://youtu.be/jo2QA_qJBIo “MOTU Revolution is a standalone, new series, loosely following the events of MOTU Revelation – in a war between He Man vs. Skeletor like never before. Feat. Chris Wood as He-Man alongside a star-studded cast.” Premieres sometime in ‘24

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off - https://youtu.be/68OueL-Iv2o Nov 17th.

Tomb Raider: The Legend of Laura Croft - https://youtu.be/cb9AUAZBcOk

Castlevania: Nocturne - https://youtu.be/8iWOsjEmxzs first 7 minutes

Doom Patrol - https://youtu.be/g87SrqR_ssQ

Suggests

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is an American supernatural horror streaming television series developed by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa for Netflix, based on the Archie comic book series of the same name. The series is produced by Warner Bros. Television, in association with Berlanti Productions and Archie Comics. Aguirre-Sacasa and Greg Berlanti serve as executive producers, alongside Sarah Schechter, Jon Goldwater, and Lee Toland Krieger.

Movies

Trailers

Doctor Jekyll - https://youtu.be/WyPUuM4COMU

Wish - https://youtu.be/oyRxxpD3yNw New Disney musical. Nov 22

Argyle - https://youtu.be/7mgu9mNZ8Hk the trailer is edited in time with the music in a pretty epic way. February release.

Toxic Avenger - https://youtu.be/IN3Cu3lN1ns the trailer seems VERY Trauma esque. No release date.

Silent Night - https://youtu.be/yBnTqn0lBDA Joel Kinneman, Scott Mescudi. Directed by John Woo. Lionsgate. John Wick for Christmas? Lots of wire work and slo-mo.

Rumble Throught the Dark - https://youtu.be/qtmxg3QgW5s Aaron Eckhart starring. Nov 3.

Reg ‘ol News

Studio Ghibli - Hayao Miyazaki has begun work on a NEW movie. The Boy and the Heron is not his final movie afterall. The Boy and the Heron November 22th, followed by a nationwide rollout December 8th.

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/10/2/z4a0pcwx24qe92xdnpgolz3h5hjahw

Michael Caine - Retiring after the release of “The Great Escaper”, his Charles Darwin movie. At 90 years old he is calling it quits.

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/9/21/re8lp3sfuff1i13lrs0pbdftowg4xm-TzqBj

Prey 2 - The Predator prequel is getting a sequel. HULU has given the greenlight, and the film is in preproduction. Presumably with Dan Trachtenburg returning to direct.
https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2023/9/28/07n5yrexekgt3yzx7fzuhk26mqkun7

Suggests

Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a 2023 British independent slasher film written, directed and edited by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, who also co-produced with Scott Jeffrey. It serves as a horror reimagining to A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard's Winnie-the-Pooh books and stars Craig David Dowsett as the titular character and Chris Cordell as Piglet, with Amber Doig-Thorne, Nikolai Leon, Maria Taylor, Natasha Rose Mills, and Danielle Ronald in supporting roles. It follows Pooh and Piglet, who have become feral and bloodthirsty murderers, as they terrorise a group of young university women and Christopher Robin when he returns to the Hundred Acre Wood many years later after leaving for college.

Rumor Mill

New Rumors

X-Men - Writer’s Strike is over… so of course there is a rumor about the first Disney X-Men movie. Said to be VERY early in development, though it will tie directly into Deadpool 3. The proper movie, though, is said to not be coming until AFTER Secret Wars, and missing wolverine on the team.

They Live - Reboot movie in the works starring Andy Serkis, sub-titled “The Conspiracy Unveiled”

Kang Dynasty - Movie canceled?

Superman Legacy - Brainiac said to be the major villain. And actor Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen.

Fantastic Four - Sue-centric. Why they have gone through so many lead males is because the focus on Sue makes Reed look really bad.

Avengers Kang Dynasty - Tobey Maguire said to be returning as Spider-Man.

James Bond - Christopher Nolan is said to be in talks to direct TWO Bond movies.

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