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Superheroes and comics

Attention around Superheroes and comics is elevated, and has fallen over the last 24 hours.

DC and Marvel characters, comics publishing and Comic-Con, beside the studios' wider slate on film-production.

EntertainmentGLOBAL

Signals

What moved

The largest movements across forecasts, attention, discussion sentiment and reporting in the last 24 hours, each compared with how much that topic usually moves.

Nothing moved beyond its usual range over this window. 6 measurements were compared.

6 changes were compared.

Across signals

  1. NARRATIVE GAP

    News coverage rose while public attention stayed at its usual level.

    Superheroes and comics

    Public attention
    0.9σ from usual, 4 sources
    Coverage
    7 separate reports, 5.2σ from usual
    How this was detected

    Strength within narrative gap: 11%

    • Public discussionHacker News
    • Search & activityFuture Index internal search and pageviews
    • Public discussionLemmy
    • Public discussionMastodon
    • The coverage baseline covers a short history.
    • Some of the underlying activity was discounted as concentrated.
    • One of the signals is older than its usual update interval.

What was reported

Occurrences reported on this topic, the most widely reported first. One entry per occurrence, however many outlets carried it, and the count on each is the outlets that reported it independently.

  1. Jennifer Lawrence Says ‘Absolutely F—ing Not’ to Transforming Into X-Men’s Mystique Again opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    Variety

  2. Patrick Stewart Changed Genre Acting Forever With ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    Variety

  3. Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain Picard and ‘X-Men’ actor, dies at 86 opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    Al Jazeera English

5 further occurrences on this page — show them
  1. Margot Robbie ‘May Be Over’ Playing Harley Quinn, but James Gunn Would ‘Bend Over Backwards’ to Include Her in the DCU opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    Variety

  2. Patrick Stewart’s Career in Photos: ‘Star Trek,’ ‘X-Men,’ ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and More opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    Variety

  3. Hugh Jackman Mourns ‘X-Men’ Co-Star Patrick Stewart: ‘A Tremendous Friend and Man. I Learned So Much From Him’ opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    Variety

  4. Patrick Stewart, a perceptive patriarch in 'Star Trek' and 'X-Men,' dies at 86 opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    NPR

  5. Patrick Stewart Dies: Marvel, Kevin Feige Praise ‘X-Men’ Icon For Bringing ‘Charles Xavier to Life With Grace, Intelligence and Humanity’ opens in a new tab

    1 independent origin · low confidence

    Variety

What people are discussing

Posts and shared links on the discussion platforms this site reads that are about this topic, over the last two days, the most discussed first. Titles are the platform's own. Counts are the platform's where it publishes them, and otherwise the comments or shares this site read; none of it is a figure this site calculates.

  1. Margot Robbie ‘May Be Over’ Playing Harley Quinn, but James Gunn Would ‘Bend Over Backwards’ to Include Her in the DCU opens in a new tab

    19 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  2. Julie Newmar - publicity photo for Batman (1966-68) opens in a new tab

    3 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  3. Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’ Captain and ‘X-Men’ Superhero, Dies at 86 opens in a new tab

    2 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

7 more posts — show them
  1. Patrick Stewart, célèbre acteur de Star Trek et X-Men, est décédé à 86 ans - Gayvox (Mathias Gerdy) opens in a new tab

    2 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  2. Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’s’ Captain Picard and ‘X-Men’s’ Charles Xavier, Dies at 86 opens in a new tab

    2 commentsLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  3. 35 years ago, X-Men the Animated Series premiered today! opens in a new tab

    1 commentLemmydiscussion opens in a new tab

  4. Preview: Avengers #1 - Graphic Policy opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  5. Preview: Superman: The Stranger #3 - Graphic Policy opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  6. Preview: Batman #15 - Graphic Policy opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

  7. Preview: Absolute Superman #25 - Graphic Policy opens in a new tab

    shared in 1 postMastodon

Forecast contracts

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Readers' discussion on this site

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Sources

5 contributing sources — view breakdown

Attention

  • Hacker NewsPublic discussion50.0
  • Future Index internal search and pageviewsSearch & activity69.3
  • LemmyPublic discussion77.4
  • MastodonPublic discussion50.0
  • Wikimedia Pageviews (Analytics API)Search & activity73.4

How the attention figure is calculated · method version 3.0.0 · What these figures do not say