The latest booklet covering last month's current events and whatever else is going on. The B-side is The Struggling comic strip.
202304 Light-but-Wiser
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These are the videos I've been making of news reporting of these articles. The things I do for you...
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04 May, 2023
The force is with us but it's not on our side. It's breaking the doors down!
□ [“‘It Was One Can and Not a Campaign!’ Anheuser-Busch CEO Sidesteps Apology in Call to Investors”]
Well maybe you should make it a campaign since you’re just going to keep doubling down on this. So now they’re defending it, all the way up to the very top of the company. Nobody who gets paid by Budweiser is going to say this was a really stupid move, which will just make things worse for them. Customers who decide to drink other beers can find them, where are you going to find more customers?
This just comes off like someone with a serious drinking problem. The refusal to admit that they even have a problem doesn’t help and now everyone is watching them. Apology would be the first step but they’re avoiding that. Firing everyone who approved this decision all down the line would be the next step and obviously that’s not going to happen. Dropping the leftist “disinformation on social media” propaganda would be a big help but they aren’t doing that, so the problem stays and will get much worse.
The advertisers and marketers are just wasting the company’s money while the distributors and stores are having problems with it and there’s a lot more of them then there are of you. So yes, go with that campaign! Bud Lite is now the official beer of the transgender movement. If it wasn’t, they’d have said so by now.
04 May, 2023
□ [“Massive Bus Caravan of Migrants Out of Costa Rica Headed to the US Border as Title 42 Expires”]
Military-age men are invading with full support from our masters. They won’t be asked if they’re vaccinated or told all the dozens of gender pronouns they need to use. They can bring in drugs, weapons and slaves, no one will stop them. Costa Rica’s probably not the only place invaders are coming from, or even the only continent.
How much of this was planned and how much is just chaos? The stolen elections are in place so they don’t need more fake voters, the point has to be tearing down the country. But how can they not see the personal dangers to them? They aren’t all rich enough to get food flown to their estates from some safe location, they’ll need electricity and fuel. Do they just want us all wiped out and they’ll keep their armed protection?
Although I’m convinced that our rulers have real plans, not just the delusions they usually have, that doesn’t mean the plans work. The more complicated, the more ways it will go wrong. The enemy also gets a vote. So how much of this is an actual play by our masters and how much is happenstance, or just someone else taking advantage of them?
04 May, 2023
□ [“Kirby Refuses to Comment and Walks Away on ‘Criminal Scheme Involving Then-VP Biden and a Foreign National’”]
So far, the closest we get to evidence that this isn’t just a show is how there are actual media people asking questions about this. They’re permitted to ask this? You’d think they’d be ignored after they show the White House their questions in advance. Or maybe that’s the point, to *look* like something is going on but it won’t go anywhere.
Congress is investigating Hunter’s income and how he brought his father in. The rumors are that they met Chinese officials to bring in a lot of money. Ok, so what? Nothing will happen but maybe it’ll go on the public record. Intelligence officials will be expected to testify to Congress, presumably under oath, they may even show up.
The thing is, basically everyone in the investigations would know what’s been going on for a long time, so the only goal would be to keep people on their side from being discovered, showing this will go nowhere in the long-term and probably not even in the short-term. Are they just waiting for China to take over or the upcoming invasion?
04 May, 2023
□ [“Kamala Harris: “Some of Our Younger Small Business Owners Actually Self-Identify as Entrepreneurs. They’re Small Business Owners Also”]
What’s the percentage? What’s the age-limit for those who self-identify like that? How do other business owners self-identify, especially the older ones? Does she have no clue what she’s saying or were these the only words she could read off the prompter?
Biden hasn’t been seen recently, probably focused on that election campaign, so they need to push her out to make it look like she adds something. Not sure what, the only people who respect her are as stupid as she is, but I don’t see any other excuse for this. If Biden doesn’t look enough like a puppet, her gender and skin color seal the deal.
At least Biden has been known for decades, familiarity bringing some advantages, even just going with the idiot you already know instead of risking a brand new idiot. But the thing about continuously lowering the standards is that there’s no bottom. You just keep dropping and increase vulnerability to anyone who wasn’t stupid enough to do that.
04 May, 2023
So Prince Charles is ready to self-identify as queen, Fox is losing viewers just as CNN gains viewers, banks are collapsing with more getting ready to, companies are firing employees, leaks on Hunter and his father’s hidden business transactions with others following. Someone on the Supreme Court gets lots of money from a book publisher she ruled on in court. That’s just what comes to mind off-hand, never mind the upcoming new virus, WWIII, the invasion or the upcoming economic collapse.
What’ll it take to make people say ‘enough’? We can see things like Bud Lite and Disney movies going down, but that’s just entertainment. When are we going to have an organized resistance? I’m just flabbergasted by the fact that there isn’t one already.
Maybe we can just blame the internet age, we no longer have any real connection to others. It’s worse now but that started back when television became a thing. I’ve been hoping to give some thought to the upcoming AI invasion but haven’t gotten around to it. We have no idea what rumors are true or how reality will work but it doesn’t sound good.
05 May, 2023
Where do we get a vaccine against our rulers?
□ [“Biden Tells Reporters to Scram, He'll Be Doing a 'Major Press Conference' This Afternoon”]
“I’m doing a major press conference this afternoon, so I love you all, but I’d like to ask you to leave.”
By the time I heard about this, the White House had already said he’d misspoken, he’s actually speaking to MSNBC tonight. They didn’t explain how Biden thought this was a “major press conference” or if he even knew what that was. He can tell MSNBC to leave so he can go to a fancy banquet and just swings through the McDonalds drive-thru?
This was the only time he was seen this week and this is what he brings, kicking people out so he can use words which don’t actually mean what his handlers say he meant. MSNBC must have been here, did they have a clue what he was talking about?
If we had a competent media, the White House would have to be serious about this guy’s delusions, but a competent media wouldn’t have helped him steal the election. So that’s what we have, just another example of our rulers’ contempt for America.
05 May, 2023
□ [“Russian Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov Accuses US of Backing Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Kremlin”]
I’m avoiding articles about this because it seems like the truth won’t be out for a while, but everyone seems to agree that something about this doesn’t look right.
How could Ukraine be so incompetent when they’ll be hit back regardless? It’s public knowledge that US special operations are on the ground, they wouldn’t want any part of this unless it worked. The drones were apparently launched from within Russia which is just odd. Don’t they have border security? What else do the invader Ukrainians get away with that no one would’ve noticed if not for this pointless failed attack?
It's like the Nord Stream pipeline, everyone on one side were eager to destroy it and once that happened, they had nothing to do with it and oppose any investigation that could prove otherwise. Unlike Nord Stream, Russia would definitely be a suspect here, just because this attack gives them an excuse to do, well, whatever the hell they’re doing.
05 May, 2023
□ [“Rochelle Walensky Resigns as CDC Director”]
She’s probably getting a promotion, after handling the last fake-virus and will oversee the new ones being sent in. Funny how this comes just after the WHO finally got around to agreeing with Biden who finally got around to agreeing with Congress that the pandemic was over, two and a half years after Biden promised to end it on “Day One.”
I can’t guess why but I think this was a target date set by our self-appointed rulers. They make up a virus, use it as an excuse to seize power and steal elections, we’re required to obey and by the time they get around to saying it’s over, they’re ready for the next step. For the US, it’ll probably be the invasion, maybe economic collapse, possibly more bioweapons. Britain’s new problem starts tomorrow at Westminster.
I also think they’ve set up a ‘controllable opposition’ to limit the possibilities of resistance to a handful of choices they’ve already set up traps for. It's like training a bull, sometimes you have to just let it wear itself out. That’s quite possibly the case here.
05 May, 2023
□ [“Lego Goes Woke as It Launches New Gender Neutral Toys in a Bid to ‘Break Stereotypes’"]
Here’s the next big-name company ready to damage itself. How do they get these people in charge, did leftists take over all the business schools to brainwash their graduates? They already have the HR but they don’t add enough to actual production. Yet this keeps happening and nobody has the sense to stop.
This is what’s destroying the economy, not just the big disasters like this but just doing it on a day-by-day basis. That’s the ‘get woke, go broke’ mindset that’s been infected into every institution these people can get into. Collectivism has an advantage there, they aim for groups more naturally than individuals, which helps them tie people down through connections to their family and friends who all need jobs and income.
I don’t have any idea how to defeat this. A purge is required but there’s no way any civilized people could wipe these uncivilized out of existence. But I see no other alternative. At best, it shows why we need to go on strike, let them deal with themselves.
05 May, 2023
□ [“Trans Activist Shrieks for a Minute at San Francisco Board of Supervisors Meeting 'I Hate You!’”]
So where are the complaints about “hate speech”? You’d think San Francisco would fight anyone who’s full of hatred. But despite their own rhetoric, they took it as natural. *Some* people are allowed to attack others because of hatred.
Yet this thing just starts crying and screaming like an infant. What a waste of space, it has no use. How can this lump of flesh be considered human in any way? Thinking about it, the very concept of “hate speech” was probably a step to make this happen, brainwashing people to punish speech according to how they self-identify it.
Ok, these things can’t reproduce but they want to infect everybody, the younger the better. They’re not the only problem but they’re the biggest example of what’s gone wrong. Everyone who supports them supports every other aspect of their evil plan.
06 May, 2023
I could tell by the way you walk you’re a woman’s man, no time to talk, but I choose not to.
□ [“'My Son Has Done Nothing Wrong' – Biden Defends Hunter as Feds Near Decision About Charges”]
This is basically a sign that nothing will happen. It’s like Hillary bragging to Congress about ignoring the rules for classified documents, what’re you gonna do about it? Well, as we’ve seen, they did nothing. Hunter will get that privilege too, and the left will once again use this as an excuse to pretend that *the law applies to everybody.*
The only question is if any investigations will continue, just for pretense, or if it’ll just be over. Doesn’t matter, even if they keep going, the investigators will have already been told what to ignore and what results to reach, so the end will be the same.
The media doesn’t even ask if Hunter still takes crack with underage prostitutes. He probably does, Biden says Hunter’s done nothing wrong so we see what the standards are. Or at least we know who gets to ignore them for any reason they want. Like I said, this is just sending out official word that nothing will be done about this.
06 May, 2023
□ [“Biden Regime Approves Nation’s First ‘Congestion Pricing’ Tolling Plan For New York”]
They will demand money just to enter Manhattan during peak hours, they’ll even get to decide those hours. There’s no hesitation for tyranny, this isn’t even the local or state government, it’s the fed imposing themselves onto poor people without consent.
Amazing how much torture you can subject millions of people to if you just use love for the earth as an excuse. There’s no restraint, they can ban vehicles in general so only the elites can use them. They can ban food which needs vehicles to be brought into Manhattan. They may do that anyway, food will be more expensive to bring in unless food trucks are given a special exception from this. Poor people can’t do without food and now they get to pay more. The rulers may tell New Yorkers to just eat bugs.
The new tax won’t be in place until next year, second quarter of 2024. I’ve got no expectation that things will improve. New Yorkers have put up with this for this long and always begged the government for more, so there’s no reason to stop now.
06 May, 2023
□ [“Chicago Gay Bar Stops Selling Anheuser-Busch Products After Brand Bows to Anti-Trans Critics”]
How bold they are, waiting a month before they copy people they hate, Budweiser must be trembling with fear at what gay bars can do to them. Oh no! We’ve lost the 1% of 1 % who actually drank Budweiser because we’re not pro-trans enough! You’d think gays would want to show how decent they are, helping others, but no, they just ban whatever they don’t like. Your customers want Bud Lite? Sucks to be them.
Alas, this probably *will* have more impact on the company than the peasants who stopped drinking their product. If we’re lucky, they’ll realize they went too far, but more likely they’ll just double down to be the official transgender beer. That sounds ridiculous but given that they’ve done all this without hesitation, they won’t stop now.
What’s next? We know all major corporations are *woke,* some are just better at hiding it. But now whoever’s giving them orders will require them to do more of this. The targets all seem to be called ‘right wing,’ like beer, sports, Fox and the military, so what will the next company be to voluntarily get rid of their customers?
06 May, 2023
□ [“Denver City Council Wants Extra White Owned Businesses Taxes For Black Owned Businesses”]
They’ll tax people by skin color and give that money to a skin color which for decades has had welfare that hasn’t helped. Does that include businesses who put dark-skinned people in charge as mascots? What if the owner just self-identifies as dark-skinned? The laws don’t prevent people from deciding their gender or skin color.
The government is bribing blacks, showing that they’re too stupid to do anything else, while imposing new rules based on skin color and making everyone’s life harder. You can say taxes are a *necessary* evil but this is showing the *necessary* isn’t part of it. There’s no deal, it’s just taking whatever you want, like any power-lusting bully.
But the taxes end if business closes down. Only a willingness to work on their project, their property, their business, gives the rulers anything to seize. Otherwise they have nothing to grab and can only declare you as their slaves, which you are. We never hear blacks say this could be a bad idea, Democrats would punish them if they did.
06 May, 2023
□ [“KISS musician grovels before social media mob for his comments on child sex changes”]
Paul Stanley tweeted a few days ago about the mutilation of children just because a boy says he’s a girl. So he was attacked and immediately crumbled. No matter how rich and famous you are, you can’t offend people or you’ll be called ‘phobic’ on twitter.
Things like this make it seem these people are part of a cult that aims for the rich and famous, just as scientologists does. Stanley is old and rich, he has no reason to cave in, yet he didn’t hesitate. I’m not remotely a Kiss fan, I just know they helped build modern marketing, designing the band to sell solo albums and movie soundtracks, along with merchandise and just trying to make rock concerts into a religious experience.
Still pondering what was involved in forming rock’n’roll. After his first couple years, Elvis was basically manufactured to follow the trail set by Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. Nobody could have seen the Beatles coming, with two major songwriters from an English town with no reputation for music, but once they were sent to America, there was the basic formula for movies and merchandising. Kiss came several years later as the mass media learned what cable, videos and computers would do to music.
Anyway, this is how rock’n’roll ends, with a sad whimper from old men who can’t handle disagreements on twitter and surrender immediately, all night and every day.
06 May, 2023
Culmination of events
Noticing somewhat of a culmination of events in my life, even if some of them aren’t connected and it’s not clear what deeper meaning is there.
On my last deployment in 2015, I came up with a couple jokes for a comic strip, so I did them and moved on. Then I forgot they existed, so they weren’t included for the collection of Microsoft Paint comics I’ve made in 2020’s The Horror Comics Picture Show. This meant that, when I finally discovered them, I had no idea what to do with them. I wanted to publish all of my good material but I couldn’t justify throwing two pages of meaningless comic strips into a random book, so what do I do?
I don’t remember when I rediscovered these strips, but I only figured out what to do with them seven books later. I also had a short story from my ‘fiction’ days which I’d always been proud of but hadn’t been included with the other fiction in my earliest books. It’s an example of how my books are just one big book which I broke into pieces for convenience, but I also try to justify each book on its own, so I needed an excuse to make myself use this material. I finally figured out how to justify it, collecting old, unused material in my 24th book, D-Vision. You gotta do what you gotta do.
Although I had no interest in continuing the strip, I came up with another joke that fit as I started finishing this book. Ok, that fills up another page, so I went ahead and did it. Then I came up with a few more strips. This was in September of 2022, I finished the book and carried on as normal. I knew that *if* I had any more ideas for a strip, fine, but I wouldn’t push it. I worked out the title, The Struggling, around that time.
I didn’t come up with another idea for a strip until December 30 but it’s been rather frequent since then. 4 strips in January 2023, 17 in February, 19 in March, 19 in April and 4 more in May so far. I couldn’t do it as a daily strip unless I was paid for it or something like that, but it’s an example of an event in my life which has led to today.
Another example also came from deployment. I forget if it was my second or third time in Iraq, but I was playing on my laptop at the very end, either while heading to the Baghdad airport or sitting around and waiting at an airport in Germany. I had noticed a Microsoft program to put audio and footage together into videos. I wasn’t remotely interested in making videos but I was curious if they could be used for animated cartoons. That would be neat. So I came up with a dozen very-simple images to see how they could be used for animation. It didn’t work very well so I quit trying.
I’d keep track of these images, and a few years later when I started making books, the first options for covers were Paint images I’d made during my Army career. These images weren’t used but I kept available as possibilities. I always tried to finish at least one book a year and had missed only two years since my first publication in 2011.
In early January 2022, I published my 21st book, The Facts of Roses. So ok, that year was covered. I was mostly out of old material that was conveniently available so I could focus on writing without worrying about the next book. Well I changed my mind a month later. The world looked like it would fall apart any day so I wanted published material to be as up-to-date as published. In uniform, I often said I was a soldier 24/7, but writing is what I do. Now I was no longer in uniform so that priority was confirmed.
I decided to publish the last month of material I’d written as what I now call a ‘booklet.’ I didn’t consciously know I’d continue them but I must have subconsciously known. For one thing, I put the month of publication in the title itself so it could stand out from any other. I also wasn’t sure what to do for the cover. I didn’t want to use any remaining quality images but didn’t want to waste time making up a new one, so what do I do? Scanning my Paint, I noticed the batch I’d made way back when to attempt a laptop cartoon. They were simple and effective, so I picked one and carried on.
I did ask why I’d waste the complete set of images by picking a single one, which was solved as I continued to make monthly ‘booklets.’ I switch images each month, even reversing them on Paint when I started the second year of publishing, so they’re the same images but they’re also slightly different. It works well and I’ll probably just reuse the images. So that’s another event which has built towards today.
Then there’s how I started making videos. On May 1 of this year, I learned that Microsoft Word can actually read text out loud. A sound recorder lets you copy it, using two different voices which are fairly realistic, one male, one female. I’m still working out how to do these but I’ve downloaded stock footage and can now make videos to cover the current events I write about. It’s an audio/video version of the books I always write. I’m not happy with the required time and effort but otherwise it’s entertaining and productive. I don't watch tv or movies but I also hadn’t paid attention to Hollywood writers going on strike, yet now I’ve found myself willing and able to replace them.
I think that’s why I felt the urge to write this. Today was just a productive day. I started writing early, that doesn’t usually happen, so by early evening I had enough material. Then I started re-writing, always the hard part. It’s needed but I usually have to force myself to do that. I’m willing to publish unedited material in my books if it comes to it, but I think a video should have the text polished to make sure it works as audio.
But I got it done and it wasn’t even late-evening. I could start work on video and had even come up with a strip for The Struggling. Tomorrow will start the process all over again, then I’ll publish a ‘pamphlet,’ a collection of the last few days of material, but I had material to push out. I’m just pleased to have gotten all this done today.
So now I’ll write even more, covering how the last decade+ worth of material has come together this week. I really didn’t have any of it planned, but now I’ve added an hour or so of video using a program I didn’t even know existed when I woke up on May 1. Not just the videos themselves, but several minutes of testing the program and even more ads for Rococo Coffee. Yet I still carried on with my normal writing as normal, and even finished three comic strips, more than usual as I finish a ‘pamphlet.’ The first strip I did this month had been used to test the video program, I’d made an actual cartoon.
Thank you, God, for granting me the creativity and work-ethic to focus on this. I do beg for more tangible benefits but I submit to your will and am grateful for your gifts. That is why I had to write this, just to put down this connection going on across time and space and in each of our lives. Even if we can’t comprehend it or how it meshes together, we can see that it weaves itself together with common relationships we don’t understand. God willing, I’ll continue this tomorrow and as long as possible. Writing is what I do.
v/r,
07 May, 2023
You lookin' at me? You lookin' at me? Well why not? Please look at me!!!
□ [“Senior Google Software Engineer Jumps to Death From NYC Headquarters – Second Employee to Commit Suicide this Year"]
We see news articles like this fairly regularly for the last year or so. Unknown people committing suicide, but they're high-ranking employees at some major company or government organization. Of course there's no way to prove it but I definitely think it has to do with War currently underway.
Now maybe it's an execution, some force has targeted this person and it's just called a suicide. Or maybe it really is a suicide, it could be a result of demon-worship or perhaps it's seeing what's happening to the economy. My guess would be the latter, at least as a primary cause, but even there it may be from multiple causes. Personal economic problems? Professional responsibility for the collapse that's about to happen, either for themselves, their company or the world in general? Threats or blackmail for their relationship to the upcoming disaster? Maybe it's just some lower-ranking person who wanted their job and this was the quickest way to get a promotion.
I'm not that interested in the specific deaths themselves, it's the increasing number of them and their possible causes that I'm looking at. That's why I think this does qualify as warfare, even more than the deaths from "suddenly." So who's doing this and why?
07 May, 2023
□ [“House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer to the DOJ: 'Do Not Indict Hunter Biden Before Wednesday'"]
Oh come on! Indict him for what? If they have anything on him, they can indict him without you. If you have anything on him, you can use that. The fact that nobody has done anything so far tells us how this will end, so what's the point of this show-trial? And specifying Wednesday?
But because they know we need a glimpse of hope, that does work. I'm not expecting anything to be done about Hunter on Wednesday, or any other day. The elite get away with everything. But Comer does specify that something will be presented "to the American people" on Wednesday, which sounds like a target date for whatever happens next.
The official date of the invasion of the southern border will be Thursday, maybe that's it. Maybe the economy will collapse. Russia/Ukraine/China/Taiwan? There's any number of possibilities, maybe Prince Charles will pick his new gender so he can go down in the history as the first British xim ruler. But right now, it looks like this week will be when we go over the cliff.
07 May, 2023
□ [“California Professor Indicted for Trying to Meet a 7-Year Old for 'Sexual Purposes'"]
These people need to be purged and I'm thinking of the simplest of trials. Every employee, or previous employee, of public education must sign a paper saying that they never attempted to have sex with children or encourage anybody else to do so. They will be investigated and if they're lying, immediate execution. It can be made a little more complicated but that's basically it. Maybe they can add names of people they suspect to the document, that might help. Anybody who refuses to sign that document will be the first to get investigated.
I don't see any better way to start fixing the problem and it's starting to look like a lot more Americans have woken up and see what these beasts are doing to children. They're not just molesting, they're encouraging others to follow in their footsteps and make things worse year by year. It might make an interesting study when it really got started but even a decade or so ago, these monsters would have been lucky not to be shot immediately and now they're in charge.
This would also start lining up what other policies they want to impose on everyone else. Would any of them oppose banning guns? Censorship of right-wingers? Inventing genders? There probably are exceptions and patterns would start emerging as we start getting rid of these wastes-of-space but that's something to be worked out. I am starting to get the impression that a lot of people are increasingly willing to wipe these people out. We may need food this winter, hint hint hint.
07 May, 2023
□ [“Chicago Reporter Exposes Luxury Hotel is Open to Illegals Only, Closed to Americans"]
This probably isn't the lower-ranking invaders staying here, it's the military leaders. This is their headquarters to plan the next steps. It's reasonably close to the center of the nation and it provides close contact with, ahem, certain high-ranking Democrats in the region. Some of the people staying here might even be Mexican and not Chinese.
It sounds like it's the new rulers, or at least their representatives, setting up a headquarters to crush the rest of us. Will they just send out armed squads to wipe us out on the spot? This is where I'd swear there needs to be some organization beyond the obvious, because what else could they do? Take over as "police" to shoot anyone who goes outside? They've probably already got gang members in line, locally if not nationally.
Things are going to start breaking down at any moment. The megacorporations are allied with our masters so they've got plans in place, but I don't know what the rest of us are going to do about it. This is why I've been saying for many months that we need to get a resistance movement together with as much as possible in the way of back-up supplies. Do you really want to starve to death thinking 'I wish I'd listened to that guy on the internet'?
07 May, 2023
It looks like Disney's going to continue having problems. They kept lowering the expectations for the latest Marvel movie and it did do slightly better than expected, but that's still not good. Thor 4 did better on opening weekend. It only did slightly better than the first Spider-Man movie in 2002 and only a few people seem to be noting how much more expensive movie tickets are now than they were just several years ago. I don't know what they cost now, I haven't been to a theater in years and rarely went back then, but that means fewer people are buying tickets.
One thing I've been trying to figure out is how Marvel movies have built from the decades of comics fanboys, buying the first issue immediately. Near as I can tell, all the obedient servants buy a ticket right away, then they've done their duty and never go back to see it in theaters again, so the movie won't remotely be a hit unless other people want to watch it. As we've seen for the last year or two, few people are going in to see Marvel movies, no matter how great their opening week is.
If you can't get a hit with these popular movie characters - they were mostly pointless as comics characters - then the studio is in serious trouble. They have managed to install Spider-Man as a continual hit but they don't have much else. Ant Man and Dr. Strange didn't do well, Thor barely did well thanks to his role in the 'Thanos' storyline. We've already seen the X-Men movies crumble for another studio so the odds are against Disney being able to do anything useful with them. Ditto the Fantastic Four.
It's quite possible that normal people just aren't big superhero fans. They can be entertaining in small doses but that's about it, there's not much to think about. It's something comics fans had to deal with for decades, even when they grew up and looked for comics about, well, anything else. And maybe it's just a problem with the genre, it is possible to tell more intelligent stories than the standard men-in-tights-who-punches-people comics, those just seem to be an exception that proves the rule.
Even there, I don't get why more people haven't just made up their own superheroes. Change the costume and a few details, it's a new character, so you can do whatever you want to them instead of being tied to Marvel/Disney and DC/Warner Bros. When I heard The Boys was becoming a tv show, I was slightly-interested in following that, until I heard about all the changes made, but otherwise that seemed like a great idea. Or do Astro City. Or, I dunno, a workplace sitcom like Cheers where Norm just happens to be a superhero, but something!
But Hollywood doesn't work that way. Marvel and DC spent decades trying to create ties to movie studios, finally succeeded and then burned it all out in barely more than a decade. It's very impressive that they were able to build something from Iron Man 1 to End Game, but it just doesn't look like there's any place for a follow-up. And the fans are sick of it too.
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