Alex Zalben
@azalben.bsky.social
Host/Producer: http://comicbookclublive.com | Buy my books: http://amzn.to/3t0NB2t | TCA member | Sure, I’ll be on your podcast | He/Him | http://linktr.ee/azalben
Dean of Streaming University voice: Netflix Hooooouse!
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Dean of Streaming University voice: Netflix Hooooouse!
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The drink is called Stop Yelling At Us
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
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The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The drink is called Stop Yelling At Us
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yeah so here’s the news
Okay, yeah: Endless Mode is now The A.V. Club Games. We speedran this thing. Same editors, same writers, same content, just a different but familiar site. www.avclub.com/new-games-se...
The A.V. Club Games announces a new era
The A.V. Club's games section gets a major boost as Paste's and Endless Mode's games coverage joins the site.
www.avclub.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
yeah so here’s the news
He breasted. He breasted boobily. He breasted being boobily. He boobily breasted boobs themselves.
i think this may be the bit that broke me bc I am picturing her self-satisfied smirk at coming up with this and it is, honestly, making me die a little on the inside
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
He breasted. He breasted boobily. He breasted being boobily. He boobily breasted boobs themselves.
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Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
November 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Today, Paste Magazine shuttered all its non-music verticals, a choice I am both professionally and personally heartbroken about. Sadly, I am once again looking for a place that wants to let me write about Books and TV on the regular, so hit me up if that’s you or anyone you know.
Exciting! Instead of making a fully animated Moana, they made a mostly animated Moana that looks way worse! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKYF...
Moana | Official Teaser
YouTube video by Disney
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Exciting! Instead of making a fully animated Moana, they made a mostly animated Moana that looks way worse! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKYF...
Writing a whole book about how you, ostensibly a human, fell in love with a sentient charbroiled baseball mitt, technically counts as romantasy.
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Writing a whole book about how you, ostensibly a human, fell in love with a sentient charbroiled baseball mitt, technically counts as romantasy.
One way of saving journalism would be to pay journalists money so we can afford to subscribe to each other's journalistic endeavors.
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
One way of saving journalism would be to pay journalists money so we can afford to subscribe to each other's journalistic endeavors.
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Scoop! Star Wars photo ID booths may soon be coming to a Disney park near you: comicbookclublive.com/2025/11/17/e...
Exclusive Scoop! Join The Rebel Alliance With Officially Licensed Star Wars ID Photo Booths | Comic Book Club
Star Wars photo booths are being developed, possibly for Disney theme parks, featuring three different IDs. Get the exclusive scoop here.
comicbookclublive.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Scoop! Star Wars photo ID booths may soon be coming to a Disney park near you: comicbookclublive.com/2025/11/17/e...
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If Link doesn't get his ass beat by a chicken it's not accurate to my experience
These pictures of Link and Zelda look good, but the most important thing is that they spend at least five hours in the movie getting infinite rupees thanks to the frozen meat glitch.
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
If Link doesn't get his ass beat by a chicken it's not accurate to my experience
These pictures of Link and Zelda look good, but the most important thing is that they spend at least five hours in the movie getting infinite rupees thanks to the frozen meat glitch.
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
These pictures of Link and Zelda look good, but the most important thing is that they spend at least five hours in the movie getting infinite rupees thanks to the frozen meat glitch.
Fwiw I think it was also a bad idea to give the teddy bear a knife
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Fwiw I think it was also a bad idea to give the teddy bear a knife
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Marvel's Daredevil gets a new creative team. Rocketeer teams up with Amelia Earhart in new comic. Maia Kobabe publishes middle grade follow-up to Gender Queer.
Daredevil Gets New Creative Team, Rocketeer Teams Up With Amelia Earhart, Maia Kobabe Publishes Middle Grade Follow-Up To Gender Queer | Comic Book Club News For November 17, 2025
Marvel's Daredevil gets a new creative team. Rocketeer teams up with Amelia Earhart in new comic. Maia Kobabe publishes middle grade follow-up to Gender Queer.
comicbookclublive.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Marvel's Daredevil gets a new creative team. Rocketeer teams up with Amelia Earhart in new comic. Maia Kobabe publishes middle grade follow-up to Gender Queer.
My wokest opinion is empathy is not just good, it’s great, and supporting policies and programs that don’t benefit you directly in any way is also great because helping other people in your community ultimately helps everyone.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 16, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My wokest opinion is empathy is not just good, it’s great, and supporting policies and programs that don’t benefit you directly in any way is also great because helping other people in your community ultimately helps everyone.
The next Now You See Me movie should be titled Four You Now Me
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The next Now You See Me movie should be titled Four You Now Me
The main things I know about Gavin Newsom is he hates trans people, the homeless, and posts AI slop that play just like the garbage Trump posts. None of those things make me interested in voting for him! In fact, quite the opposite! We’ve got plenty of time to find a candidate who doesn’t suck.
If the Democratic Party nominates Plastic Gavin Newsom in 2028, I will write my own name on the ballot, and the Democratic Party can burn in their own well-deserved corporate plastic hell.
(this article is not complementary, unless you're a craven centrist whose sole pursuit is power)
(this article is not complementary, unless you're a craven centrist whose sole pursuit is power)
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The main things I know about Gavin Newsom is he hates trans people, the homeless, and posts AI slop that play just like the garbage Trump posts. None of those things make me interested in voting for him! In fact, quite the opposite! We’ve got plenty of time to find a candidate who doesn’t suck.
"Man, I feel like a HONK HONK HONK" - Shania Goose
November 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"Man, I feel like a HONK HONK HONK" - Shania Goose
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I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.
November 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.
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'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
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I know it's easy to mock this headline, but the article is actually @azalben.bsky.social writing another funny/smart deconstruction of these kinds of clickbaity Q&A pieces.
Why Isn’t Pennywise in The Running Man? It's more complicated than you might think... bit.ly/4a04Vvk
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I know it's easy to mock this headline, but the article is actually @azalben.bsky.social writing another funny/smart deconstruction of these kinds of clickbaity Q&A pieces.
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Lots of people dunking on this from just the title, but the writer is having a lot of fun here and there's an interesting examination of how King has created a shared but not shared universe in his books.
Why Isn’t Pennywise in The Running Man? It's more complicated than you might think... bit.ly/4a04Vvk
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Lots of people dunking on this from just the title, but the writer is having a lot of fun here and there's an interesting examination of how King has created a shared but not shared universe in his books.
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This is a masterclass in rage bait, because if you read the article it’s a legit question and if you don’t it’s the stupidest thing imaginable
Why Isn’t Pennywise in The Running Man? It's more complicated than you might think... bit.ly/4a04Vvk
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is a masterclass in rage bait, because if you read the article it’s a legit question and if you don’t it’s the stupidest thing imaginable
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starts in one hour NYC! two away from 100 rsvps!!!
Hey, friends in NYC! Come hang out with a buncha cool comics creators and fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE! A @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and @bkindivisible.bsky.social event at @anyonecomics.bsky.social in Brooklyn! It's gonna be a blast!
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...
Hands Off NYC Zine and Poster Fun in Brooklyn with local comics creators! · Indivisible Brooklyn
Join New York comic creators to fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE in our city! Stay to fold and color a while or just swing by to pick up zines and posters to distribute in your nei...
www.mobilize.us
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
starts in one hour NYC! two away from 100 rsvps!!!
Good news, for @ign.com, I'm here to answer the biggest burning question from the new iteration of The Running Man:
Why isn't Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the movie?
And also: wouldn't the movie be better if Pennywise DID show up?
www.ign.com/articles/why...
Why isn't Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the movie?
And also: wouldn't the movie be better if Pennywise DID show up?
www.ign.com/articles/why...
Why Isn’t Pennywise in The Running Man? - IGN
We explore the many reasons why Pennywise the Dancing Clown doesn't run into the Running Man in the new film.
www.ign.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Good news, for @ign.com, I'm here to answer the biggest burning question from the new iteration of The Running Man:
Why isn't Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the movie?
And also: wouldn't the movie be better if Pennywise DID show up?
www.ign.com/articles/why...
Why isn't Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the movie?
And also: wouldn't the movie be better if Pennywise DID show up?
www.ign.com/articles/why...