Jan. 21st, 2022
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First Ghostbusters and now this
https://gizmodo.com/idw-loses-gi-joe-transformers-comic-books-1848398596
No exact word on who gets the license yet but strongly suggested that Skybound is the one.
IDW will retain other Hasbro properties such as My Little Pony and Dungeons and Dragons
https://gizmodo.com/idw-loses-gi-joe-transformers-comic-books-1848398596
No exact word on who gets the license yet but strongly suggested that Skybound is the one.
IDW will retain other Hasbro properties such as My Little Pony and Dungeons and Dragons
Not All Robots #3
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"And I think also from observing how late-stage capitalism, especially how the profits are generally made, not from creating new products and improving things, but by controlling the costs, by keeping the amount you pay the workers down by doing things more cheaply and in creating in its wake a greater human cost. That's kind of what this [story] is, it's about the human cost and ultimately the robot cost to innovation.
So that's something that definitely was on my mind as I was writing about how the gig economy has sort of destroyed the very people it was supposed to make life easier for. Because ultimately it's just another way — as most innovations have done over the last 20 years — of controlling costs; of keeping your company from having to pay anybody any money. That's really what the story of American commerce has been since the 1980s. It was just like, "Well, how can we not pay any retirement benefits to that person? How can we get away with getting an intern to work for free?" And a lot of that sort of was baked into the cake of Not All Robots. Anybody who makes their living as a freelancer or in the gig economy will probably see a lot of themselves in this comic."
- Mark Russell
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