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Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

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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.

Well, the USA's 250th Anniversary happened... I guess. The least unifying speech imaginable from Trump didn't start until 11pm and, as such, the fireworks display didn't start until the 5th of July. Though the scale of it meant that they're still cleaning the detritus out of the Reflecting Swamp and most of the rest of the city centre (I mean detritus from the fireworks, not the speech, just to be clear).

There were also the 200 or so fully masked, white supremacists walking through the city with Confederate flags, for that real "We are one people" vibe.

Trump also managed to drag the World Cup into another mire, by personally intervening in the case of an American player being given a red card, which means an automatic send off an one game suspension, which was then reversed by FIFA (an unheard of event). The global reaction was, shall we say, not supportive of this move, even if America then did go on to lose the match and be out of the competition.

In good news on the UK front, Nigel Farage is under multiple investigations for accusations of not being open about his finances, which seem dubious to say the least.

My Adventures with Superman gave us another new Super, who looks like Kon-El, sounds like Kon-El and acts like Kon-El, but is actually Jon-El... well, a Jon Kent from the future.

Given "Kara adapts to modern day Earth" is already a story arc, this seems an odd choice. We do get confirmation of the big bad though, Hank Henshaw's Cyborg Superman... a character I wish I had ever actually found interesting, but maybe this show will do something fascinating with it (at least it's not Doomsday, I guess)

A new EP of re-recorded Jem tracks dropped, with Britta Phillips recreating the singing voice of Jem again for four of the classics

And to end on a suitable bit of cheerful absurdity, Hasbro are releasing a Scooby Doo/Transformers Collaboration. The Mystery Machine becomes Mysterious Prime, with four interchangeable heads (Though sadly, probably not Headmasters) and Automutt a robotic Great Dane that turns into a box of Scooby Snacks.