 In June 2012, the YouTube series "" featured an episode starring Howard the Duck complaining to Marvel that his movie was not given a special Blu-ray re-release to celebrate its 25th anniversary.He eventually gets Joe Quesada to try to appeal to, and bribe, George Lucas into supporting the re-release.In 2014, the "Los Angeles Times" listed the film as one of the costliest box-office flops of all time.