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Writer: Ron Marz
Pencils: M.C. Wyman
Inks: Tom Christopher
The Silver Surfer and Firelord team-up to look for Nova.
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disappear
love story
23 April 2025 @ 12:32 pm
Silver Surfer #72
23 April 2025 @ 10:32 am
Fantastic Four #289
Script: Tom DeFalco
Plot: Tom DeFalco and Paul Ryan
Pencils: Paul Ryan
Inks: Danny Bulanadi
The Collector has come to add Lyja’s baby to his collection.
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22 April 2025 @ 06:39 pm
Recent Reading: The Starless Sea
The most recent commute audiobook was The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern, of The Night Circus fame (although admittedly I have not read that one yet). This is a fantasy novel about Zachary, a young man swept into the drama of a secret underground society and the mysterious figures who surround it.
I finished this book on Sunday morning, catching the last 7 minutes of a whopping 19-hour runtime over breakfast, and since then I've settled into a relative disappointment. On paper, this book has so many things that should make it an ace in the hole for me: Book lovers! Cats! Secret magical societies! Queer characters! Women who are something Other taking control of their destinies! And yet, overall, this book just did not land for me.
As is a risk, I think, with all stories that are about the power of stories, The Starless Sea comes off a little pretentious and self-important. It is a book lauding the unmatched importance of books. I felt aware at various points throughout the book of how hard it was trying to appeal to people like me, who would enjoy the idea of a dark-paneled underground room with endless books and an on-demand kitchen, and this sense of pandering did take away from it at times.
However, it also does some interesting things with regards to what it is like to be the person in a story (such as the fate of Eleanor and Simon, once their part in the story is done) as well as the risks of valuing preservation over change and growth. Without giving too much away, there is a secret society in decline, and a woman so determined to prevent its downfall that she ends up causing significant harm to the organization she's trying to save because she is unwilling to accept that an end comes for all things. I enjoyed this theme and I felt like it was echoed well throughout the story, and in many ways it's easy to sympathize with her ultimate goals, if not her methods.
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22 April 2025 @ 10:47 pm
Yet more superheroes dressed as wrestlers
It seemed appropriate to post these seeing that it was WrestleMania weekend just recently.
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22 April 2025 @ 08:36 pm
Daredevil #110
Writer: Steve Gerber
Pencils: Gene Colan
Inks: Frank Chiaramonte
The Black Spectre revealed!
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22 April 2025 @ 05:48 pm
Defenders #10
Writer: Steve Englehart
Pencils: Sal Buscema
Inks: Frank McLaughlin
Avengers/Defenders War. Continued from Avengers #117.
The Hulk Vs. Thor. ‘Nuff said!
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22 April 2025 @ 12:33 pm
Amazing Spider-Man #90
Writer: Stan Lee
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: John Romita, Sr.
I told you messing about on the roof was dangerous!
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22 April 2025 @ 10:32 am
Web of Spider-Man #2
Writer: Louise Simonson
Pencils: Greg LaRocque
Inks: Jim Mooney
The Vulturions want a rematch!
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22 April 2025 @ 08:30 am
Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
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 me. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
The UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of "woman" is defined solely by biological sex (Whilst also mentioning the protections are still in palce for trans people), crowed over as vindication by those who you never want to see crowing, and leaving trans people in vague limbo whilst Government bodies look to rework their policies.
Pope Francis died at 88, the day after Easter and the day after meeting US VP Vance... coincidence? A Pope who, more than any before, shifted the boundaries in terms of seeking out the excluded and the marginalised and caused uproar when he said things like "If someone who is gay is seeking God, who am I to judge?" and permitted priests to give a blessing to same-sex couples. Not a perfect man by any means, nor as radical as some had hoped, but in terms of the inertia he was working against, probably more progressive than any would have dared hope for ten years ago.
Star Wars Celebration happened in Japan this past weekend, with many new projects announced
A live colossal squid was caught on camera for the first time and is as beautiful as you'd have hoped
And Doctor Who gave us "Lux", which I won't spoil further but was certainly different, in a good way.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
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 me. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
The UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of "woman" is defined solely by biological sex (Whilst also mentioning the protections are still in palce for trans people), crowed over as vindication by those who you never want to see crowing, and leaving trans people in vague limbo whilst Government bodies look to rework their policies.
Pope Francis died at 88, the day after Easter and the day after meeting US VP Vance... coincidence? A Pope who, more than any before, shifted the boundaries in terms of seeking out the excluded and the marginalised and caused uproar when he said things like "If someone who is gay is seeking God, who am I to judge?" and permitted priests to give a blessing to same-sex couples. Not a perfect man by any means, nor as radical as some had hoped, but in terms of the inertia he was working against, probably more progressive than any would have dared hope for ten years ago.
Star Wars Celebration happened in Japan this past weekend, with many new projects announced
A live colossal squid was caught on camera for the first time and is as beautiful as you'd have hoped
And Doctor Who gave us "Lux", which I won't spoil further but was certainly different, in a good way.
21 April 2025 @ 08:47 pm
Tim Drake: Origins- Part 4
Writer: Marv Wolfman
Plot: Marv Wolfman and George Perez
Layouts: George Perez
Finishes: Tom Grummett
Inks: Bob McLeod
The New Titans #61.
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21 April 2025 @ 04:51 pm
Superboy #4
Writer: Karl Kesel
Pencils: Tom Grummett and Mike Parobeck
Inks: Doug Hazelwood and Ande Parks
Superboy: The Animated Series!
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21 April 2025 @ 06:21 am
The Other History of the DC Universe #4 - "1992-2007: Renee Montoya"
With Batman, with Superman, it’s not like I said, I’m going to make these guys cyphers for the worst of the worst of American perspectives. But I think there’s a reality that it’s getting harder and harder for people to deny that there are biases that are baked into the system. -- John Ridley
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21 April 2025 @ 01:13 pm
Rom: Spaceknight #8
21 April 2025 @ 06:35 am
28 Days Later #12
21 April 2025 @ 10:38 am
New Warriors #42
Writer: Fabian Nicieza
Pencils: Darick Robertson
Inks: Larry Mahlstedt
Super-Nova has empowered Richard Rider to recreate Xandar.
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20 April 2025 @ 07:11 pm
New Mutants #15
Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Sal Buscema
Finishes: Tom Mandrake
Kitty has gotten herself captured by the White Queen, so it is up to the New Mutants to fix her mess.
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20 April 2025 @ 04:38 pm
Mister Miracle #2
Writer: Jack Kirby
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Vince Colletta
Granny Goodness captures Mister Miracle and throws them in her Uncanny X-Pit.
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20 April 2025 @ 10:00 am
“Hopping Down the Bunny Trail”
"DC wanted horror stories… Excuse me… 'Mystery' stories' revolving around all the different holidays. Well before I knew it, all of the older, established comic book writers from the generation of Denny O'Neil, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman..., etc. quickly gobbled up such things as Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween, yada yada yada. So I decided to go the most 'Unexpected' way and being merely a DC Junior Woodchuck, I asked for and got a go ahead to craft a story about Easter. The one warning I was given was that they did not want a Jesus/zombie 'back from the dead' story. Figuring I had nothing to lose, I decided to push the envelope as far as DC, my editor Jack Harris, and the powers that be at the Comics Code would allow. After an inspiring listen to my childhood record of Gene Autry singing, 'Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Hopping Down the Bunny Trail,' I started writing." -- Michael Uslan
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