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Editor-in-Chief 💎 Pop Heist Bylines ✍️ Decider, CBR, MTV News, Marvel Drag 👠 Barb Hardly I guess I'm moving to Minneapolis? https://popheist.com/ brett at popheist dot com

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · Dec 2

Welcome to @popheist.com, a new kind of pop culture website that hopefully feels like the classic, beloved kind of pop culture website. We're trying to make things better, more fun, more weird, more challenging, more more more. Join us!

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Hi. We're Pop Heist. - Pop Heist

Pop culture media is a hellscape. Sites are overrun with intrusive ads, or they’re SEO farms, or they pay writers at near-criminal rates. Some of them pollute the internet with AI-generated garbage, u...

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 8h

Pop Heist subscriptions really are wonderful. You get me writing about HANNIBAL, you get @seantcollins.com writing about I, CLAUDIUS (way bigger draw than I am, imo), you get @brettwhite.bsky.social going all-in on his GI JOE obsession, and so. much. more.

Support worked-owned culture writing!

Pop Heist @popheist.com · 8h

🍷 ALERT 🍷
A new HANNIBAL recap from @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social is live! 🍴
Will's descent into darkness is encouraged by Jack and Hannibal, albeit for different reasons. 🥩
New recaps drop Tuesdays at 12 AM ET for subscribers 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️

'Hannibal' 1x02 Recap: Giving Voice to the Unmentionable - Pop Heist

Will's descent into darkness is encouraged by both Jack and Hannibal, albeit for different reasons. When Will kills again, will he like it?

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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 12h

"When you were created, my face was etched into your soul ..." — Pythona, to EiC @brettwhite.bsky.social probably

Hasbro's Pythona Is the Perfect G.I. Joe Classified Figure

Can one figure salvage the reputation of a wrongly maligned movie, nearly 40 years after its release? Do not doubt Pythona's prowess.

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 14h

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Hugh J. O'Donnell He/They 🏳️‍🌈 @hughjodonnell.bsky.social · 14h

Instead of diving towards 'common ground' we need to pie more bigots.

Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 22h

On this day in queer history: Oct 14, 1977

During a live TV appearance in Iowa, anti-gay activist Anita Bryant was hit with a pie in protest of her “Save Our Children” campaign. A sweet moment of queer resistance.

#QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #QueerResistance #AnitaBryant

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 14h

This is true. But I think it could be said for almost every other superhero franchise, aside from maybe Daredevil and Batman?

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 1d

The October edition of Horror Secret Handshakes is live at @popheist.com.

It's Karloff. It's Lugosi. It's THE BLACK CAT.

Horror Secret Handshakes: 'The Black Cat' (1934) - Pop Heist

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, titans of horror, star in a psychological thriller that stands with the best Universal Pictures has to offer.

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing my mission to make the most obscure GI JOE customs possible. Range Viper Evy, from the DIC era; and Cobra-La scientist Cobra Commander. I fully expect @officialsuper7.bsky.social to get around to these eventually.

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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 6d

Are YOU living up to your responsibilities as a Halloween candy giver? Here's the guide so you can become the neighborhood's favorite house!

Heist Guide: Halloween Candy - Pop Heist

Are YOU living up to your responsibilities as a Halloween candy giver? Here's the guide so you can become the neighborhood's favorite house!

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 5d

My REVIEW of the new GI JOE CLASSIFIED PYTHONA figure is live right now!

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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 4d

September may have shown up cool and crisp, but the toy scene refused to chill.

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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 3d

"I don't need another friend. I already have two!"

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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 1d

🏝️ ALERT 🏝️
A new SURVIVOR 49 recap from @goforgrace.bsky.social is live! 🥥
Between its struggles in the immunity challenges and a fateful snake bite on the beach, the poor Kele Tribe just can't catch a break. 🔥
Support Pop Heist by subscribing 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Zarana — on a T-shirt?! Yes. One of many Joe shirts. MANY.

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Me and @benzado.com are Dreadnoks now

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, hell yeah. Roadblock!

Skybound @skybound.bsky.social · 3d

Just Announced: The enigmatic MATT TRAKKER returns in February’s G.I. Joe #19 to collect on the favor owed by Clutch and Hound.

But how does Duke react after the events of DREADNOK WAR?

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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 5d

Can one figure salvage the reputation of a wrongly maligned movie, nearly 40 years after its release? Do not doubt Pythona's prowess. The 172nd #GIJOE Classified figure feels, tonally and thematically, like the first figure in a bold new era for the series.

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 4d

Next Week on #Hannibal on @popheist.com:

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 4d

My squad goes harder than yours

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 5d

My REVIEW of the new GI JOE CLASSIFIED PYTHONA figure is live right now!

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 6d

cc: @lanpitts.bsky.social

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SLICE DICE 92 GI JOE COBRA by brettwhite

Kitchen ain't complete without 'em.

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EK-Ultra @ethankaye.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote this to help you, but I really wanted to just go ape shit on some Halloween opinions. Also, I wrote the word “fuck” on a children’s book, which might be a career high or low, depending.

Pop Heist @popheist.com · 6d

Are YOU living up to your responsibilities as a Halloween candy giver? Here's the guide so you can become the neighborhood's favorite house!

Heist Guide: Halloween Candy - Pop Heist

Are YOU living up to your responsibilities as a Halloween candy giver? Here's the guide so you can become the neighborhood's favorite house!

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI yesterday, I'm recapping @bryanfuller.bsky.social's HANNIBAL for @popheist.com, and my piece on the series premiere is now available for subscribers!

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'Hannibal' Series Premiere Recap: A Knack for the Monsters - Pop Heist

Pour a glass of wine and have a seat, because Pop Heist's members-only recap series of the legendary 'Hannibal' is on the menu.

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 6d

the most dangerous information for me to learn via this auction as someone who is perusing this auction while nearly destitute is that bob newhart and i are essentially the same size clothing wise lol oh what just a bunch of bob's suits and jackets oh god

Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 6d

it'sthe watch bob wore on bob newhart show and in the 70s the watch that i have sought out cheap imitations of and it's just there here it is that's the watch in photos and everthing

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Lot - Bob Newhart: Piaget 18 Karat Gold and Tiger’s Eye Watch

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Brett White @brettwhite.bsky.social · 7d

PYTHONA! Worth the wait. Just a killer figure, from the top of her topknot to the tip of her cape. Every accessory a keeper. Damn close to perfect. Review on @popheist.com tomorrow, ahead of her big NYCC debut.

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