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Well, we made it folks, we made it through the flaming shitshow which was much of 2025.

Let us hope that 2026 treats us a ilttle more gently, or at least we can try at a personal level to treat other people more gently, just.. y'know... in general.

So the questions today are:

What are you looking forward comics-wise in 2026?

• A new series?
• A new character?
• A new title?
• A new creative team taking over an old title?
• An existing character getting more focus?

Speaking personally I'm interested in the upcoming Mirage mini-series

I want to see the fall out of the Age of Revelation and what it means for my old favourite Doug.

The news of more "Check! Please" was a delightful surprise.

And you?

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

In a move so inept one has to wonder how accidental it was, it appears that a significant number of Epstein files redactions can be undone by the simple process of copying and pasting the text into another file, they changed the font colour, but that was it. In a possibly even more bizarre twist it seems that the reason the redacting was so slipshod is that DOGE slashed the budget for Adobe Professional licences and they had to use the much less fancy basic free version instead. Once again, satire can't keep up with reality.

Not that impressed with the Christmas TV selection this year (and missing my usual "Doctor Who" fix), but did catch up with a few films, including FINALLY getting to watch the new "Superman".

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

A Happy Hannukah to those who celebrate it. Given recent events in Australia it may not seem like a time to celebrate anything, but that is perhaps the time we most need to.

Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday, so a happy Centenary to him!

However, we lost Rob Reiner, creative genius behind too many memorable films to start to mention (Oh, the hell with it: The Princess Bride, Spinal Tap, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, The Sure Thing, A Few Good Men and Stand by Me, amongst others) and his wife Michele.

(I did not think my opinion of the current US President could sink any lower, but his social media post on the Reiner killer was so lacking in sympathy, good taste or even basic human decency that I initially assumed it had to be a fake because no one could be THAT toxically graceless, alas, it was real)

In contrast, today is the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth today so let us acknowledge one of literature's most brilliant and witty wordsmiths.

In slightly lowerbrow news, I found out that season 2 of "LEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy" had already come out, and caught up on that because I know I needed something to make me smile, which it achieved.

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

I hope that those who celebrated Thanksgiving did so in as harmonious a manner as possible.

In the UK, our own Right Wing extremist wannabe cult leader, Nigel Farage countered claims of Anti-Semitism and racist behaviour in his school days by saying that he had "never directly racially abused anybody"... which managed to make the word "directly" do more heavy lifting than an Olympic shot-put team.

However bad your workday was, the odds are that it was better than whoever at the Office for Budget Responsibility pushed the button which accidentally released a detailed response to, the UK Government's Budget report, several hours before the UK Government actually announced it's Budget report.

The Terry Pratchett Estate has announced that in Discworld terms, following 2025 being "The Year of the Luminous Lemur", 2026 will be "The Year of the Curious Squid".

Stranger Things, Season 5 Pt1 dropped. Having forgotten to actually watch most of Season 4, I made do with the recap and don't think I missed too much. I suspect a lot of shippers will be unhappy with some choices being made but, whilst sympathising with them of course, never having been that invested in it myself, I think I actually liked the realisation at the end of the last episode of this part. I've also seen these episodes described as being "A lot of build up, but not much actually happens", which is probably fair but that's what happens when you split a season in two for marketing purposes)

Hey look, they've made a sequel to the weird by excellent (IMHO) 2022 Norwegian monster movie "Troll" and it's on Netflix!

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

I mean... between the Epstein files in the US, and the UK's Labour Government recommending immigration policies that make the former Tory ones look progressive I wouldn't know where to start.

Happy Life Day to those who celebrate the most wince-worthy of fictional holidays... the anniversary of the first showing of The Star Wars Holiday Special

I've been dealing with some things in real life so have not been able to catch up on new shows like "Pluribus" or "IT! Welcome to Derry" as yet. Any good?

I did find that there was a special Epilogue released to celebrate the tenth anniversary of The Bright Sessions which was a bit of a reminder about the transitory nature of time as I could have sworn it was barely five years ago it came out.

And it was confirmed that the Doctor Who spin off miniseries about UNIT "The War Between The Land and the Sea" will launch on 7th December, at the same time as an edited version of the original Jon Pertwee series "The Sea Devils" is released. Certain sections of the fandom are already "outraged/appalled/clutching their pearls" that the Sea Devils will be referred to as "Homo Aqua".

As if "Sea Devils" wasn't originally just a term used by a traumatised person to describe the creatures that attacked him, rather than a more neutral name you might want to use in a diplomatic relationship.

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Several significant elections are taking place in the US foday. As with all opportuniies to influence local and national events, we strongly encourage you to exercise your democratic rights. Such things are vital, perhaps moreso than ever.

Miraculous Ladybug introduced two new elements. The first was, someone who is celarly destined to become the wealthiest person in Paris; the therapist who various Miraculous Holders visit in their civilian ID's: Max for his (now confirmed) autism, Mylene for her anxiety, Juleka and Alya for their separate family issues, and so on and, in a move guaranteed to pay for at least three kids going through college, Adrien about his daddy issues.

The second was the first planned spin off series, Stellar Force, a combination of Kyuranger, Saint Seiya and Miraculous.

(Incidentally, it may be that the Super Sentai series of annually rebranded, colour-coded, spandex-clad (distantly hears "IT IS NOT SPANDEX!" in Dr K's voice... sorry, deep cut) heroes is coming to an end in early 2026 with the finale of it's 50th team, though it may also be that it is instead rebranding. Details are still unclear on that)

A couple of stories from London's West End;

Paddington: The Musical premiered at the weekend, and the producers finally revealed what their on stage Paddington looks like and he's quite an extraordinary creation. A little person actor wear performs the character on stage, and a second performer offstage provides the voice and puppets the animatronic facial expressions.

And for those attending the Halloween evening performance of Disney's Hercules musical, they got something of a surprise... their two act performance had THREE acts. After the show proper ended, there was a surprise appearance on stage by Susan Egan, the original Meg from the 1997 film, who duetted on "I Won't Say I'm in Love" with the current stage Meg Mae Ann Jorolan, followed by various members of the cast all singing classic villain songs from other Alan Menken scored films

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

A hearty congratulations to anyone who took part in the "No Kings Day" rallies across the US, which were universally peaceful and appear to have attracted a turnout of over 8 million people.

A happy Diwali to those who celebrate!

Time Magazines choice of photo of POTUS47 for their cover did not go down bigly at the White House.

So possibly the demolition of parts of the White House to make way for the new Ballroom were just a little cathartic destruction?

Credit where it's due, Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first ever female Prime Minister, which is groundbreaking. Though, as she is a "staunch conservative and admirer of the late former British PM Margaret Thatcher" who is also opposed to same sex marriage, one suspects it won't make that much difference

A "heist" at the Louvre in Paris has caused global headlines. And whilst, yes it was done with a modicum of style and a minimum of violence, seems likely to have been carried out by organised crime so the chances of the Crown Jewels of France being recovered intact seems vanishingly small, which is a tragedy.

Longtime youtuber favrouites Dan and Phil have publicly confirmed they are a couple. I confess I am oblivious to this whole thing, but it seemed to cause a stir amongst the young'uns so I'll mention it here and wish them well. (See, I'm still down with the kids! When I'm not shouting at them to get off my lawn)

Oh, and the NinjaKidz Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers trailer dropped. Alas, the incredibly heavy use of AI slop for the effects was painful, to the extent I'm not even going to share a link to it, so here's "The Rainbow Connection" instead, because you can't go wrong with Kermit the Frog.

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

However, it would feel inapporpriate not to acknowledge that this is the second anniversary of the attack on Israel by Hamas, which has led to the massively destructive war in Gaza.

Tonight is the first supermoon of 2025, the Harvest Moon. Though our community here is scattered across the globe, and we all see a slighty different assortment of constellations, we all see the exact same moon in our skies, which is a lovely thought, no?

Britain, and the world, lost three remarkable, and remarkably different, ladies in the arts and sciences this week.

Primatologist, anthrolopologist and outspoken environmental activist Jane Goodall, whose six decades plus career studying chimpanzees transformed an entire field of science.

Superb character actress Patricia Routeledge, perhaps best known as the magnificently monstrous social climber Hyacinth Bouquet (Spelled "B-U-C-K-E-T") though personally I was always more partial to her role as a retired housewife turned PI in Lancashire's "Hetty Wainthropp Investigates".

And Jilly Cooper, whose writing career led to the creation of an entire romance sub-genre know as the bonk-buster.

Oh, and if you're looking for something gentle, beautiful and thoughtful to read, Charlie Mackesy's sequel to 2019's "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" (Which I know helped me, and others, get through some dour times in 2020) just arrived in shops this week, called "Always Remember: the Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm"

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

A new gene therapy for Huntingdon's Disease was announced, and appears to be very promising, though it's early stages yet.

The Mangled Apricot Hellbeast (to borrow a favourite Scottish term of un-endearment), tried to convince the world that the dark forces within the UN were out to sabotage his speech; first by halting an escalator as he got on (despite the fact the most likely culprit was his own videographer accidentally hitting an Emergency Stop button at the top), and then the teleprompter (which it turns out was being managed by White House staff at the time).

The fact he used his speech, which rambled on for four times as long as scheduled, to basically berate the entire organisation/world for not being like his version of America, went down as well as expected.

The UK's very own Poundshop Trump wannabe, Farage, decided to ape his idol by claiming that "Migrants are stealing and eating our swans from the Royal Parks". This had about as much validity as you might imagine with ONE report from over 11 years ago not exactly proving a trend, nor involving a Royal Park, but since when did facts matter?

On the lighter (sort of) side of things, Miraculous Ladybug released another out of order episode, which managed to have: Adrien processing at least five stages of grief at the same time by yelling with a megaphone at a rampaging kaiju sized plasticine version of his deceased father (as you do), Marinette having yet ANOTHER breakdown over bad decisions she's made, and a hint at a entire new set of Miraculous we've not seen before. Busy, busy.

Disney+ will be showing the Disney: Twisted Wonderland anime at the end of October. An isekai anime based on the mobile game, it involves our protagonist being transported to a shonen-heavy all male bparding school with houses patterned after the seven big bads of Disney cartoons: Evil Queen, Maleficient, Ursula, Jafar, Hades, Scar and the Queen of Hearts.

Whilst I wish it well, I'm not sure it will exactly compensate for the reported 1.7 million subscription cancellations following their short-lived cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel

Oh, also, Star Wars: Visions Season 3!

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

But even so... What a week... and after the past... god knows how long, that is saying something.

The simplest summary of the murder of the Right wing provocateur and influencer is "I don't support the things that led to Charlie Kirk's death. But Charlie Kirk did."

However, watching the US Administration attempt to weaponise his death against some nebulous, ill-defined, left wing "conspiracy", despite so much of the evidence suggesting that the accused (but not yet charged) alleged perpetrator doesn't fit that preconceived notion, is chilling.

And now the UK is giving POTUS 47 a SECOND State visit. As a rather elegant act of protest, our Channel 4 will be broadcasting a collation of the longest uninterrupted reel of lies, misrepresentations of facts, and outright untruths from... POTUS47. It's nice that they have something about him on TV to watch when he's spending the evening at Windsor Castle (I am no ardent monarchist, but even I have to feel a bit of sympathy for the King over the next couple of days)

Oh, and 150,000 or so anti=immigration protesters marched in London, and had the "pleasure" of being addressed by Elon Musk, who was his usual charming self.

In more optimistic news, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been jailed for 27 years following an attempted coup to overturn the election he lost in 2023.

Not had much time for TV this week, so am open to suggestions.