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February 2025

AI Challenge #21

AI Challenge #21: Superhero woman armed with a a long-barreled weapon plus a set of knives and a hatchet, dressed in thick fur. As per usual, Chat GPT interprets descriptions as best applied to a glamour-styled image and pose, and Grok seeks to make it as mundane as possible, as if the AI model is mordently nonplussed about the concept of posing in general.

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Mad Cave Comics makes exclusive deal with Lunar Distribution – Comicsbeat

Arthur Nichols has died – Bleedingcool

He also did lots of commercial design work, and got to design things like the DC Comics Super Heroes toys Jack In The Box kids meals, DVD holders for Blockbuster, Star Wars cup-toppers for Pizza Hut. And worked as a storyboarder, including the 2012 Oscar-winning animated short film, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore, as well as other animations such as Ultimate Spider-Man, Generator Rex, Scooby-Doo movies, Transformers Prime, Ultimate Avengers II, GI Joe: Valor vs. Venom, as well as background design on Wolverine and the X-Men, and character designer on Dreamworks' Small Soldiers...."

Disney+ to up their French and foreign content – Variety MSN

Disney+ has signed a landmark agreement to invest 25% of its annual sales generated in France to finance French and European series and films. As a payoff for this commitment, the streamer will be allowed to access newly released films nine months after their theatrical release, a big improvement from the previous 17-month window. By comparison, Netflix, which ranks as France's leading streaming service in terms of subscribers, has a 15-month window..."

Godzilla vs Los Angeles comic book to benefit wildfire victims – CBR MSN

AI Challenge #22 - Three Musketeer warrior women

GROK vs CHAT GPT: the main prompt was to have three musketeer women holding swords above their heads while a zeppelin burns in the sky. This made for rather bland images, so it was amended that the three should be in "action poses" and this was radically interpreted in different ways by both AI engines. Perhaps the strangest interpretation was when the prompt was added to make the musketeers more muscular, and Chat GPT took this to mean more voluptuous.

Index of all the AI Challenges on Comic Book Brain

AI at work... she's got three legs... AI The Artifical Art

"Fans are gutted about Man-Bat" – Gamesradar – Article about what James Gunn left out of Creature Commandos.

The Captain America Brave New World backlash – MSN The Wrap

Mackie's social media post came in response to the wave of backlash he received following an appearance in Rome. While promoting "Brave New World," the actor commented, "To me, Captain America represents a lot of different things and I don't think the term 'America' should be one of those representations. It's about a man who keeps his word, who has honor and dignity and integrity. Someone who is trustworthy and dependable."

As has been pointed out elsewhere, the Captain America suit and name makes a link to "America" rather unavoidable.

AI Art Challenge #20: Barbarian Warrior Woman with Fur and Sword atop a burning tank. Grok decided this meant a rather hefty frame for the warrior, but Chat GPT, and this is rather normal for that platform, decided that meant something like a super model in attire a supermodel warrior would wear (a plain old fur coat) to a fight.

Index of all the AI Challenges on Comic Book Brain

Japan: Digital titles rise in demand, print sales dropping – NHK World

The Research Institute for Publications puts estimated combined sales at about 1.57 trillion yen, or about 10.1 billion dollars. That's down 1.5 percent from 2023, marking the third-straight year of decline. The institute estimates that print titles fell around 5.2 percent to slightly more than one trillion yen, or 6.5 billion dollars. Sales of both books and magazines were down..."

This is in contrast (though slight) to Publisher's Lunch reporting that in the USA sales for print was up a little bit in 2024. "Unit sales totaled 782.7 million in the year ended Dec. 28, 2024, compared to 778.3 million in 2023." – Midland Paper

Fantasy had the biggest increase in the adult segment, up 35.8%..."

Spider-Man replaced: Amazing Spider-Man #66 – CBR MSN

Does video gaming with comic book characters lead to buying comic books themselves? – VG247

Marvel Rivals has been an astounding success since it's launch back in December, introducing a humungeous wave of players to well known and niche heroes alike. However, despite what you might believe, it doesn't look as though the game's success has led to an increase of interest in the comic books its characters come from. At least, not in the UK...."

Dark Horse quites Neil Gaiman – NY Times

"Neil Gaiman dropped by publisher over sexual misconduct claims" – UK The Times

AI Challange Grok vs ChatGPT #19 - 1980s Hair on Superhero Women - click to enlarge

After Secret Wars movie, Russo Bros to do an X-Men reboot – Superherohype

Interview with creator of Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz "a graphic family memoir" – The Comics Journal

Matt Gagnon exits Boom! Studios – Comicsbeat

Who gets blamed for Diamond Distributors bankruptcy? DC Comics! – Cosmicbook – Article describes a "dire" landscape for small comics publishers who are facing a situation in which there is no organized outlet to get their product to the individual comic book stores. But the reason DC Comics is to blame for this isn't enunciated clearly in the article.

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Original page January 29, 2025