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– After two seasons, the PlayStation Network has cancelled Powers. The series was co-created by Brian Michael Bendis from a comic series he worked on with Michael Avon Oeming and wasn’t at all a precursor to Jessica Jones. (It was.) According to Bendis, the comic series will continue as is.
– Apparently, the upcoming Cartoon Network series, Justice League Action will feature over 150 different characters. Bear in mind, this is a modern day Cartoon Network show, with each episode running for 11 minutes. “It’s gonna be a nightmare,” producer Butch Lukic said. Obviously not every single one of those 150 characters will be in each episode, but producer Alan Burnett promises an appearance from at least one of the Trinity per episode. Unfortunately, the show won’t feature modern day Cartoon Network sensibilities, with Burnett, who has maybe never seen an episode of Adventure Time or Steven Universe also saying, “We wanted to do a show for kids, to appeal to boys in particular.”
– So the reviews of Suicide Squad are starting to come in and they’re looking pretty negative. Which is a shame because I think we were all holding out that this one would be decent. Wednesday’s Rundown touched on director David Ayers’s reaction to the response, but a certain sect of fans aren’t handling it with the same . . . dignity?, maybe? Abdullah Coldwater, on the other hand, started a petition at Change.com to shut down Rotten Tomatoes in the face of injustice and the gods among us. “We need this site to be shut down because It’s [sic] Critics always give The DC Extended Universe movies unjust Bad Reviews,” the petition declares, “and that Affects people’s opinion even if it’s a really great movies [sic]”. Coldwater admits his petition won’t shut down the site, but is using it as a way to express his anger. Though he seems to forget that Rotten Tomatoes is an aggregate website, where it measures the relative positive vs. negative reactions from critics. He also seems to forget that critical reviews reflect the reactions and opinions of the critic, not of his own, and there’s probably not a bias against DC films.
– Valiant Entertainment is getting in the collectible card game business, as announced at GenCon. They now join Marvel’s Legendary and DC’s Deckbuilding Game. (The best one, by the way, is Cartoon Network’s Crossover Crisis, followed by Star Realms, and then maybe Ascension.) They’re teaming up with Catalyst Games to release the Valiant Universe: The Deckbuilding Game, and if you preorder you get an exclusive Rai figurine. And honestly, it couldn’t be any worse than Zeppelin Attack!
