Now, for many, Britain looks and feels like a different place, as if emerging from a night in hospital after being treated for concussion. The 11.3 million who voted Conservative may well be snuggling into the security blanket of a majority government tonight. But those voters who didn’t back the Tories are likely left feeling exposed, chilled by the uncertainty about what might unfold. Ripping up the Human Rights Act, bringing in the snoopers’ charter, risking an exit from the European Union.
What will these fundamental changes mean to the future of the country? And what fresh designs will be drawn up for Britain in the corridors of power, as the Conservatives embark on five years of near-unfettered reign?
Do you know if theres going to be an operation s.i.n trade released?
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I have no idea. It would be nice to see it all in one place, though.
– Kathryn
From Marvel’s solicits for July:
OPERATION: S.I.N. – AGENT CARTER TPB
Written by KATHRYN IMMONEN
Penciled by RICH ELLIS & RAMON PEREZ
Cover by MICHAEL KOMARCK
Tying into the explosive events of ORIGINAL SIN! In the early 1950s, an
alien energy source is discovered in Russia. It’s up to Peggy Carter
and Howard Stark to find it — but a newly risen terrorist group called
Hydra is also on the hunt! When the mysterious Woodrow McCord enters the
picture and Howard accidentally causes a UFO to fire on Moscow, Peggy
and her team must go underground. And when they discover a Hydra-run
gulag that hides a mysterious woman just as Soviet scientists open a
portal between worlds, an ancient terror is released! But what is it
searching for? The truth behind S.I.N. is exposed, and Peggy and the
gang face impossible decisions with grisly consequences! Plus: a tale of
love and honor starring Peggy Carter and Captain America! Collecting
OPERATION S.I.N. #1-5 and CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FIRST THIRTEEN #1.
144 PGS./Rated T …$17.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-9713-3
“Marvel’s Agent Carter” © 2014 Marvel & ABC Studios
But instead of sitting down at the table of the Internet and discussing these issues like calm, collected folk, the Internet responded as only the Internet knows how: with pile-ons and death threats.
The people who criticized Whedon publicly — which may or may not have spurred Whedon leaving the Internet — are, themselves, getting death threats. It’s a snake eating its own tail.
People have been writing about the many ways that the treatment of Black Widow has sucked, but that’s all going to get lost now. Instead, everyone’s going to talk about the abuse. And about Whedon, personally, instead of the work. But that’s just playing into the Internet’s many ongoing culture wars, and it’s going to ruin everything.
Marvel Entertainment are not nice people. They like having an avuncular mascot to trot out and reassure people that these entertainment products are made by the same kind of people who hand-crafted the original comics, but that’s a lie. It’s not about people at all. It’s about a company with a seventy-five year track record of scorched-earth business tactics doing everything they can to maximize their leverage on largest scale possible, the kind of scale not even Lee himself could ever have imagined.
You can’t root for Marvel anymore. It’s like rooting for McDonalds. Once upon a time Stan Lee believed himself to be Ray Kroc, but for a while now he’s been Ronald McDonald.
From The Back of My Head
So, I tossed out a half-formed thought about this on Twitter yesterday, but the cancellation of The Mindy Project and subsequent reports that it’ll be picked up by Hulu for two years feel like it’s the third latest installment in some kind of movement for sitcoms based at a particular demographic to be quietly pushed from television to the Internet. (See also Community and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt).
What’s interesting to me is how much of this is self-fulfilling prophecy – are the shows being cancelled (or not even making it to air, in Kimmy Schmidt’s case) because ratings are low as a result of the core audience already watching the episodes online? And if so, does this mean that we’ll see more broadcast TV follow suit outside of sitcoms? Will TV – or, at least, broadcast TV – become the refuge of programming aimed at older audiences, while the Internet becomes the default home for younger-skewing programming?
You discover, later, that you’re not good enough, or not lucky enough, or not present enough, and you made too many important decisions on the fly because you were too busy or too scattered or too tired, and that you’re never going to be that person who writes one of those inspirational blog posts about success. You’re in your 40s and you’re still standing on the shore, keeping a wary eye on the riptide, because you know that all the small things you’ve built could be swept away overnight.