WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:02.897 [SPEAKER_00]: Ultimate X-Men ends in February. 00:03.018 --> 00:04.862 [SPEAKER_00]: Webtoon takes financial hit. 00:04.982 --> 00:07.829 [SPEAKER_00]: Sacramento looks to repeal comics law. 00:07.849 --> 00:11.998 [SPEAKER_00]: This is Comic Book Club News for November 18, 2025. 00:29.005 --> 00:31.730 [SPEAKER_00]: Ultimate X-Men is ending in 2026 with Issue 24. 00:32.191 --> 00:33.534 [SPEAKER_00]: This isn't news. 00:33.814 --> 00:34.475 [SPEAKER_00]: We do this. 00:34.676 --> 00:39.745 [SPEAKER_00]: But thanks to Marvel's February Solicits for its Ultimate Universe titles, we know how it will end. 00:39.826 --> 00:44.675 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the synopsis for the issue which is written in drawn by Peach Mimoko, quote, The Final Issue. 00:44.955 --> 00:46.879 [SPEAKER_00]: Hope you survive the experience. 00:46.859 --> 00:51.543 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd say goodbye to the ultimate X-Men, but what is the future hold for our favorite misfit mutants? 00:51.723 --> 00:55.827 [SPEAKER_00]: How will they survive the world war that is broken out, and what happened to armor? 00:56.007 --> 01:02.573 [SPEAKER_00]: All of Marvel's ultimate titles are ending next year, starting with Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate Black Panther, both in January. 01:02.653 --> 01:10.300 [SPEAKER_00]: While fans were doubtful, Marvel would really end the best-selling line, that certainly seems to be the plan much to the surprise of the writers involved. 01:10.320 --> 01:16.866 [SPEAKER_00]: But the goal is to have stories with beginnings, middle-sand ends that will be able to 01:16.846 --> 01:17.609 [SPEAKER_00]: Good plan! 01:17.870 --> 01:28.847 [SPEAKER_00]: Ultimate X-Men number 24, aka the final issue is on sale on February 11, 2026. 01:32.455 --> 01:41.763 [SPEAKER_00]: Given the constant stream of news from vertical scrolling platform webtoon from partnerships with Disney to animation deals with Warner Brothers, one might think it's up, up, up, up. 01:41.783 --> 01:51.753 [SPEAKER_00]: But in fact, the company took a big financial hit in the third quarter, reporting a loss of $11.6 million with things projected to fall even further in the fourth quarter of the year. 01:52.013 --> 02:02.142 [SPEAKER_00]: Her ICV-2, the total loss from a year ago, is $31.9 million. 02:02.122 --> 02:02.683 [SPEAKER_00]: Yikes! 02:03.024 --> 02:04.306 [SPEAKER_00]: So what is this attributed to? 02:04.426 --> 02:13.101 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not people being less interested in Web2, as monthly average users grew 12% for the English version of the app and 0.8% for the rest of the world. 02:13.261 --> 02:18.911 [SPEAKER_00]: Rather, the loss is due to income tax expenses and a severe change of the currency exchange rate. 02:18.931 --> 02:20.333 [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, wonder what that could be due to. 02:20.313 --> 02:26.603 [SPEAKER_00]: Even worse for the company's stockholders not to fold 25.1% off the price of the light of this news. 02:26.824 --> 02:38.102 [SPEAKER_00]: So is WebTune vertically scrolling up or vertically scrolling down more on this as it develops? 02:41.592 --> 02:45.618 [SPEAKER_00]: If you live in Sacramento and buy comic books, buddy, you're a criminal. 02:45.858 --> 02:47.541 [SPEAKER_00]: Or at least you are for the moment. 02:47.561 --> 03:00.040 [SPEAKER_00]: As a local comic book creator is looking to repeal an over 75-year-old law that makes selling comics that depict any sort of crime or violence to anyone under 18 years old, punishable by a thine or even jail time. 03:00.020 --> 03:07.556 [SPEAKER_00]: Per CBS news, the law was introduced in 1949, which predates the restrictive comics code authority by about five years. 03:07.796 --> 03:20.442 [SPEAKER_00]: While the law hasn't strictly been followed to the letter, there are a ton of comic bookstores of the California location, including world's best comics and toys, big brother comics and more, a local creator, Ebon Berguin, is looking to repeal the law. 03:20.422 --> 03:29.673 [SPEAKER_00]: He's backed by city council member Phil Pluckbaum and the duo is hoping that not only will they overturn the law, but they will also add a Sacramento comic book week in September. 03:29.773 --> 03:34.318 [SPEAKER_00]: The city council will hear their proposal this week and figures crossed it's not a trap. 03:34.378 --> 03:42.447 [SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Alvin and this is really going to cut it to the profits of my dark web Batman comic selling ring I've been running in Sacramento. 03:42.528 --> 03:48.901 [SPEAKER_00]: No, well, got tips or stories you'd like us to cover, email us at comic bookclublive at gmail.com. 03:49.062 --> 03:53.872 [SPEAKER_00]: For more comic book news, reviews, and interviews, check out comic bookclublive.com. 03:54.052 --> 03:58.782 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen early and add free on patreon.com slash comic book club.