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Fifth Anniversary Update

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  Hello my friends, and welcome back to my blog. It was very recently the fifth anniversary of my podcast, and I released my first new episode for some time, and so I thought I might sit and take a look at what I have upcoming as I follow the anniversary and being to get back into the process of more regularly scheduled content. So let me please do my best to entice you with the things I have planned. A Brand New Project So firstly I need to introduce my brand new project. I am creating a series of what I'm calling Fandom Primers. I posted a short video enquiring about this project a while ago when I first got the idea, and the response was overwhelmingly positive, and so I'm deciding to use some of my prodigious yet obscure knowledge to provide people with a background and introduction to some incredible franchises. In some cases these are franchises that I have already spoken about before, in some they are franchises I have little to talk about besides using this chance to ...

What Could the MCU look like if Marvel had the Rights to All their Characters? - Alternate MCU Thought Experiment

Hey my friends, and welcome back to my blog. So I did a previous podcast where I spoke about how back in the 90s Marvel's mismanagement by corporate raiders led to the Comic Book Crash, and caused Marvel itself to file for bankruptcy. As part of their solution to remain solvent they sold off film rights to many of their most famous characters, such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Captain America, the X-Men, Wolverine, Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, Thor, Daredevil, Punisher, Ghost Rider, Luke Cage, Ant-Man, Black Panther, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and many, many others, to film studios large and small including  Universal, Paramount, Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox.  Now in our world we know what happened next. Many film ideas were batted around at many studios for years throughout the 2000s. Some, like Sony's Spider-Man and Ghost Rider , Fox's X-Men , Daredevil and Fantastic Four , New Line's Blade , Lionsgate's Punisher , and Universal's Hulk got either single...