Anthony Dean
@diversetechgeek.bsky.social
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I run Diverse Tech Geek, a blog covering media and technology, plus diversity in both. Into comics and animation. Pronouns: he/him. 🏳️‍🌈 Blog: https://www.diversetechgeek.com
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For any new followers: hello, I'm Anthony, and I run a blog (split into two sections) about media and tech. I write about comics, animation, Linux/blogging/other tech, streaming services, and diversity in the above.

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Their proposed substitute is... energy drinks?!
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Are they seriously going with "you don't actually NEED coffee" shaming? Really?

Because we don't need tariffs, we never needed tariffs, they're entirely the decision of one deranged man, & yet the onus for needless luxury is placed on US?
theatlantic.com
Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:
The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight
Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.
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You can watch Apple TV (the streaming service) on your Apple TV streaming device, and use the Apple TV app for both? 🤷‍♂️
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And yes, I did have fun snarking how American comic concepts are "weird" when thought about: a guy dressed as a vampire throwing bat-shaped boomerangs at a clown? A woman who fights crime with a magic rope? A fat orange cat keeps trying to mail a kitten to the capital of the United Arab Emirates?
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TLDR, a mix of: anime's popularity; a younger generation who don't view manga as "weird/foreign"; fresh new genres/ideas; they're inexpensive and easy to read; and superheroes = TV/movies only to the general public, not comics (and DC/Marvel have made their comics irrelevant to the general public).
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Again, the 1976 DC Calendar has entries for the Shazam cast that was important at the time... which didn't include Black Adam, who nowadays is the *only* Fawcett chaeracter DC/WB seem to really care about (occasional Captain Marvel attention aside).
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Today's the birthday of Sterling Morris, the owner of WHIZ radio/television (and Billy Batson's boss).

(Art by Cameron Stewart, Kevin Maguire, Jerry Ordway, and Kurt Schaffenberger.)

#1976DCCalendar #DCComics #comics #Shazam
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Also the long-running Scooby-Doo comic's been quietly axed at DC Comics (along with the even-longer-running Looney Tunes one).
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I gather recent Scooby media *really* wanted to stick with the traditional "monsters and supernatural aren't real" take (DC crossovers aside), even if it meant retconning/hammering "Zombie Island" and "13 Ghosts" into said mold painfully.
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bustronaut.bsky.social
Paramount should have kept the "All Access" part when they changed from the initial CBS branding.
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I always thought it was weird that nearly all the big streamers followed along with Disney's "+" branding. It just made them seem like secondary platforms.
culturecrave.co
Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'
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Playing more Disney Speedstorm. A game that really tries to make the recent "Tron" stuff and its characters a thing.
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I never hated Scrappy. However, I wonder if the early 80s seasons where it's just Scrappy, Shaggy, and Scooby running from real monsters for 7 minute comedic shorts (and no mysteries until the last season, when they started dialing things back w/the three working at a detective agency) didn't help.
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Tomorrow's blog post: whose tongue is bigger in proportion to their body, Venom or Odie from "Garfield"?