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Dean Simons
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He/Him. UK-based freelance culture writer/journalist [news & features]. Interests: world comics, comics history, digital comics + tech/gaming

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I think the EU forced usb c on the world. As a large trading bloc, they required it to become standard (possibly to avoid tech waste and the constantly changing grind of expensive proprietary cables forced on us).

It is kind of great since in theory everyone will have an adapter. In theory.
December 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Did it turn the ultimate heel?
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Also this is ignoring online simulpublishing of chapters
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Just satisfying my curiosity than making a specific point. Everyone is hungry for manga and One Piece is a global phenomenon. There are probably a whole number of reasons for the variance of localisation dates.
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I updated the piece a few hours ago, but yeah: This isn’t over (aside from FIBD 2026).

He isn’t the festival president though, he just thinks he is.
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
just updated it with more detail
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
haha. i try
November 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
C'est moi? 🙃
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I misread ‘Current human knowledge’ as the amount of knowledge of the average person and chuckled a little bit
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Also worth reiterating that the Angoulême Crisis concerns one of the most important festivals in the world and the most important in French language comics.

It hasn't collapsed the French comics industry (though it has been experiencing other economic problems this past year)
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM