Space Puppets + Head Trauma

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The first actual trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu dropped and yes, they rebuilt the Razor Crest just to probably blow it up again.

Sigourney Weaver plays a New Republic colonel. Jeremy Allen White is Jabba's son Rotta who we last saw as a baby slug in that 2008 Clone Wars movie that everyone forgot existed. Including me. And I saw it. Opening night. Still forgot. That's how forgettable it was. Like my password to literally any website.

Zeb Orrelios shows up because fan service is currency now.

Tom Holland's in the hospital with a "mild concussion" from Spider-Man: Brand New Day stunts because the man refuses to use stunt doubles like a normal person.

"Mild." That's what they're calling it. You know what else is mild? My salsa preferences. My interest in continuing to exist. Not head trauma. Head trauma is not mild. It's head trauma.

He'll be back in "a few days" which in Hollywood means either tomorrow or six months. No middle ground.

Crew merch leaked showing Cyclops in blue and yellow looking exactly like the comics.

Mystique's in white and black. Nightcrawler looks like Nightcrawler. Beast is blue and furry. They're doing the thing. The thing we wanted. Which means they'll definitely ruin it somehow. Like when McDonald's brought back szechuan sauce and it tasted like zinc and capitalism.

Gunn posted a script cover for Man of Tomorrow with a brain cross-section because subtlety is dead.

Brainiac. The villain is Brainiac. We get it. Brain. In the name. On the cover. This is like when my ex would post cryptic song lyrics and expect me to decode her emotional state. "Figure it out!" I couldn't. Still can't. Probably why she's my ex.

Lex Luthor and Superman team up against him which is the comic book equivalent of group projects where you have to work with the person you hate most. Except with more world-ending stakes and less passive-aggressive email chains.

Here’s a look at Joseph Zada as young Haymitch in Sunrise on the Reaping and the image quality looks like it was taken through a potato by someone having a seizure.

The poster shows young Haymitch post-games with "Our Victor" at the top and "Your Hero" at the bottom but the angle's so skewed I can barely tell it's a person. Do better, paparazzi! My drunk aunt takes better photos at Thanksgiving and she doesn't even know how to unlock her phone half the time.

So we’re getting young Haymitch before the alcoholism. Before the trauma. Before he became the only relatable character because he dealt with dystopia the right way - drunk and bitter. Goals honestly.