A thread documenting how Francesco Mattina keeps getting work at DC Comics despite having been caught tracing art SEVERAL times, and is now generating variant covers with AI 🧵

While I'm posting all examples I can find I'm still definitely missing some, so if you know other cases of Francesco Mattina's blatant plagiarism then feel free to post examples yourself!

Underrated kaiju movies/horror creature features you should watch, and where they're streaming | Thread 🧵





First off, qualifications for a kaiju are VERY broad, everything in this thread technically counts because the translation is just "strange beast"

I'll be going from more traditional kaiju films to straight-up horror movies with cool monsters, regardless of size

Making the case that the screenwriters of Sony's Spider-Man Universe films(Madame Web, Kraven the Hunter) have been taking storylines from DC Comics

More specifically, storylines from one esteemed comics writer, Gail Simone

Thread 🧵 Some background on Gail:

Gail Simone is an award-winning writer known mainly for her work in the comics industry such as Batgirl, Birds of Prey, Secret Six, Deadpool, Domino, Red Sonja, & more!

You may already know her as the woman who coined the term "fridging"

Black Adam's unhinged marketing campaign | Thread 🧵 Dwayne Johnson was cast as Black Adam in 2007

He was told about the character while attending that year's San Diego Comic-Con, as he was attached to play Shazam at the time

Cancelled/Unmade/Reworked DC Extended Universe Projects | Thread 🧵 Ben Affleck's The Batman

Ben's take on a Batman film was inspired by James Bond, and too action-driven for the interest of Matt Reeves.

The antagonist was Joe Manganiello's Deathstroke, who would "systematically tear down Bruce Wayne's life piece by piece" as an act of revenge.

The plot of WB's cancelled Batgirl film, starring Leslie Grace, Brendan Fraser, J.K. Simmons, Rebecca Front, & Michael Keaton | Thread 🧵

This was stitched together from a few different sources and I've tried my best to make it coherent, however many details are still missing We start with a young Barbara Gordon in ballet class. She sees the martial arts class through a window and sneaks in. She meets her best friends here, Jason Bard and Alysia Yeoh.

With the help of her photographic memory, she uses some moves she saw to take down a bigger kid.

Thread of obscure/odd DC promotional material 🧵

Starting with the KFC Malaysia exclusive Man of Steel Umbrella



Carl's Jr. Man of Steel commercial

A extensive timeline of the VERY long and absurdly troubled production history of WB's The Flash movie

Thread 🧵 In the late 1980s, WB hired Jeph Loeb to write a screenplay for The Flash

This never materialized, and WB would not be interested in The Flash again until the early 2000s

if the arrowverse included titans this would be twice as long btw

https://twitter.com/_VYGRR/status/1632595347624329216

I have no proof of this but I remember at one point the ladies in the cast unfollowed each other

also the Debra incident

The CW seems to get their comically large amount of leather suits from the shop Oceandrive Leather in Vancouver, working with them ever since Green Arrow appeared on Smallville back in 2006

They work on the new suits without all the leather too, we love versatility In collaboration with The LEGO Batman Movie, single episodes of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow had special LEGO end cards

Additionally, two 30-second CW promos were made, voiced by Will Arnett

darkseid would never say this

https://twitter.com/itssan17/status/1632238983278374915

this is why the youtube algorithm is so harmful, you can tell he’s just parroting arguments he barely understands

The Arrowverse is ending soon so here's a thread of some tidbits, BTS issues, and weird lore I remember about it from the past 10 years

Not in any particular order 🧵 In Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 2, there's this quick shot that references a splash page from The Death of Superman, as a nice easter egg for the fans

They fucked it up, because Superman's cape is on the metal rod while still also being on his corpse

/u/nippedinthebud appears to be Simu Liu's archived Reddit account

It shows him commenting in the racist incel subreddit called into question (among other things) I realize that these are old comments, however people were asking for literally any kind of proof that he was involved with the subreddit at some point