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  CNN story here . Due Dissidence also has a video on the story:

 

Art by Jennifer Crute, btw :

The late great film critic liked films that some people have all but dismissed .

Of course not. You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toon Town once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful. -- Ultra-Capitalist ( and nutty toon ) Judge Doom .

I don't know whether to make a child-labor crack, a joke about corporate greed or snark that Nickelodeon is treating her as an undocumented worker : Has the voice of 'Dora the Explorer' been taken for a ride? The actress who became the voice of the adventurous cartoon character in 2007 filed a lawsuit on Wednesday claiming Nickelodeon and its parent companies exploited her with a dubious contract that made millions for the network, but little for her. Lawyers for 14-year-old Caitlin Sanchez told the New York Daily News that the actress and her parents were pressured into signing a "convoluted and inscrutable contract" that cheated her out of "millions, perhaps tens of millions." [snip] Sanchez became Dora, a Latina character, in 2007, and her contract promised $5,115 per episode and a cut from residuals and merchandising. The Sanchez's claim that their own agent, Jason Bercy, gave them only 22 minutes to review the contract and threatened...

If you can't here's a handy (and cool) chart .

Yeah, I'd read/watch it . Who said Disney + Marvel couldn't = AWESOME?

...sometimes they work, sometimes they don't .

After three live action movies and at least four animated renditions you would think bringing a X-Men character "to life" would be simple. Sadly with each incarnation some characters end up being shells of their comics book selves. Besides, it's just so much easier (and cooler) to just animate Wolverine popping his claws in someone's face. Here's one humble man's critique on X-Men characters the shows (and movies) still screw up on: STORM I wanted to start with Ororo Munroe because I wanted to set the tone here. I don't think I have to go into Hallie Berry's forgettable, uninspired performance or the fact that I think there are others way more qualified for a live action rendition. But I will say that where the movies screwed up the most was transforming Storm from an objective weather witch into a slightly human-hating mutant who couldn't beat D.C. Comic's Weather Wizard in a Battle of Climates. (For those thinking, "human-hating?" r...