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Comrade_Bullski

@Comrade_Bullski

3 years

Retrospectives and musings master thread. Unpublished Image comics part 1:

Comrade_Bullski

@Comrade_Bullski

3 years

As promised (threatened?), strap in folks, because we are going to spend our Saturday talking about the abandoned, canceled and plain evaporated comics of Image Comics. Much of this is pretty fascinating and not just in a trainwreck kind of way, so stick with me!

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3 months

Perfect time to remind everyone that J. Jonah Jameson has consistently been shown to be a staunch supporter of mutant rights and that he's refused to print any material that could support racism against mutants. So if he believed Spidey was one, he'd probably back down.

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I'm not going to do any form of review of Absolute Power. I read it, it was fine. Dan Mora is one of the best artists working in the business. But I do want you reading this to promise me one thing.

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People love to flanderize J.J.J into being just a generic jerk who hates anyone that's different, but that's not even close to the case in-universe. He hates Spider-Man for very personal, specific reasons. And that makes him so much more compelling than the alternative

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Jameson staring down Bastion, a being who could kill him with the least effort, and refusing to back down is one of the best J.J.J moments. He's so real.

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X-Men and Spider-Man intersecting is usually an interesting time. Emma taking a peek inside his head and realizing he's one of the good ones is so damn cute.

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So, some of you might be aware that I at one point considered making this account into a Scarlet Witch stan account. Today I'm going to discuss why that didn't happen as well as how fandom can go from love and joy to suffering.

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Also Mystique worked at the Daily Bugle for a bit. This has only ever been referenced in this one panel but I like to imagine she and Pete interacted. And J.J.J doesn't know why one of his reporters just vanished one day. (Raven has had more jobs than Barbie)

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The idea of a multiverse and a multiversal crossover to give meta commentary on the state of the industry and on the current events in comics is not just something Grant Morrison does. In late 1996 Image published Shattered Image, a four-issue miniseries crossover event.

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7 months

@DanSchkade Aunt May can and will shoot back.

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This is the most important issue of an X-Men comic ever. I am only half joking. Nope this isn't Krakoaposting, this is another short retrospective.

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2 months

Go read Suicide Squad (1987) by John Ostrander and Like McDonnell (and more). It is the comic all future Squad comics are based on and still by FAR the best. Trust me, if you only read modern-day Squad books you are NOT prepared for this comic.

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Dave Cockrum was a master of design. Despite the Giant-Size X-men cast coming around in 1975 they have beautiful, iconic designs that stand up to anything today. His Storm is so iconic and unique that we're still riffing on it to this day, and 97 proves that it still holds up.

Eric Ansley Diaz 🏳️‍🌈

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5 months

No shade to Jim Lee’s 1991 Storm costume, later used in the original cartoon. I don’t hate it. But as an ‘80s kid, the OG Storm costume just clears. So yeah, I’m the distracted boyfriend in the meme. #XMen97

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2 years

Alright folks it's time for us to take a look at one of the most unlucky teams in superhero comics. Today we go global and explore the hopefully beginnings and tragic end of DC's Global Guardians. Caution: This thread is gonna get DARK.

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It's absolutely hilarious that it didn't even take one year after Agatha Harkness got rejuvenated for her to go from "dignified and serious older witch" to "barely competent magic bimbo"

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@PhillipStell BRING ME PICTURES OF SPIDER-MAN BUT BE SURE TO RESPECT HIS GENETIC PROFILE.

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Al Ewing trying to patch up a Marvel property only to get canceled within 12 issues only to pick the threads up in another book. Absolute legend.

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The funny thing about Laurel Kent (the girl who was retconned into being a Manhunter in Millennium) is that she was a descendant of Superman, but she only had physical resistance as a power since she had so little Kryptonian DNA after 1000 years of family history.

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>Hickman openly states that the Doom one-shot was Sanford Greene's baby and he just helped out >various twitter reviews: "Hickman's new Doom one-shot is amazing. And the art is kinda cool too."

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1 year

Welcome once again, o nobles of Hyboria. Tonight I am going to talk briefly about a topic I have touched upon a few times recently, namely the literary development of the character of Conan and the battle of ideas that raged for decades regarding the character and his creator.

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With several bigger projects on the back burner the purchases I made the other day ignited my desire to talk to you fine folks about this guy. So let's talk about Conan the Barbarian and how his decades-long award-winning first tenure at Marvel ended. It gets weird.

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@Skullmannsfw201 "I guess even a menace has a good side. Sometimes."

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2014: Surprisingly upbeat new superhero fighting local supervillains 2023: Killed, resurrected in new body, is now a mutant and hunted by a world-wide racist conspiracy 2024: Final boss of arc looks to be her original body reanimated as an Orchis zombie #XSpoilers

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Specifically I want you to read this comic because modern comics have flanderized Amanda Waller to "lol she want control at any cost" and it's such a downgrade from how nuanced the original character was that you deserve to read that version instead.

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It is so silly that we now have a Waller willing to make deals with literal demons and put brain-bombs in people with no criminal record when she used to be one of the most moral and compassionate supporting characters around. That was what made her in charge of the Squad great

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Comrade_Bullski

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People love to joke and meme about Claremont's penchants for stories where his female characters get transformed, mentally or physically (often both). "Body and soul" is a long-established Claremont trope. But the context of WHY he does it often goes unmentioned. 1/

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@Comrade_Bullski Claremont loves his under-appreciated comic women.

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Larry Hama taking Cobra and inextricably integrating their terrorist threat with the idea of disenfranchised middleclass America and runaway capitalism was a masterstroke in 1982 and is even more relevant today than it was then.

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@Comrade_Bullski

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Happy 63th to the Fantastic Four, shown here in their most iconic costumes!

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@Comrade_Bullski

5 months

2024 is the year Cassandra Nova joins Destiny, Agatha Harkness and Aunt May in the "give the old lady a sexy makeover" category!

Jonathan Loves X-Men

@jonathan_eff

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Oh yeah, I'm ready to see Cassandra Nova in action.

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@Comrade_Bullski

3 years

Alright everyone the time has finally come. I've put this off for so long because of reasons I will soon get into but now it's time for us to talk about Malibu Comics. WARNING: This thread will contain discussion of sexual violence, theft, racism and other sensitive topics.

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@GoldenKaos I love that it's so consistent

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This flanderization has been going on for a while now and it doesn't look like it's ever going away, but that is why the original version is still worth reading and worth discussing even today. Not because it's old and thus good but because it's good and also happens to be old.

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@Comrade_Bullski

3 months

PROJECT KRAKOA 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO

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@Comrade_Bullski

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It's impossible to put into words the effects George Perez has had on American comics. He's been a legend in his field for fifty years now and illustrated many of my favorite comics. He also deserves endless praise for his work on relaunching Wonder Woman.

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Comrade_Bullski

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Friends. What is a comic book death that you liked and didn't want to see reversed? Any comic, any era, any publisher, any country. QRT or reply, your choice!

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Whenever I read another banger from The Claremont Run it sets my own mind spinning, forming associations and seeing themes echo through the X-Men family of comics for years to come. And today this one made me think about Generation X.

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With “New Mutants,” Claremont expands his approach to character vulnerability. While still threatening personal safety and well-being (a lot, in fact), he also leans into the student cast by threatening their future development as virtuous beings/heroes #xmen #newmutants 1/8

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Comrade_Bullski

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If you enjoyed this thread please give me a follow, I talk about comics a lot, especially stuff that's obscure. Big pile of links in my profile for older topics.

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Today I have been blessed with finally obtaining scans of Justice, an Antarctic Press one-shot comic from 1994 which collected and translated material from various Japanese fanzines about western comics, especially superhero comics. And it gets WILD.

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I make no secret that I feel the loss of civilian, non-combat cast and heroes having civilian identities is a big loss. If I'm reading an Iron Man run and I don't know the names of people working at Tony's company and what quirks and problems they have, why am I even reading?

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Alright folks, when things get out of hand they just do. I don't have any valid excuse for the time since the last thread other than that life has been very busy for me, and sadly mostly in ways not related to comics in any way. But let's go again. Let's go back to Hyboria.

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Comrade_Bullski

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So yes. Go read this Suicide Squad run. Even if you hate the Suicide Squad. ESPECIALLY if you hate the Suicide Squad. It'll change your mind and show why DC keeps coming back to this well 40 years later. Bullski out.

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Alright, I wasn't going to do this but since it's already aggressively invading my timeline and I don't want to feel forced to turn twitter off for three months I feel I may as well. I'm going to talk a little about Blood Hunt issue 1, and the "Red Band" variants of this issue.

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Comrade_Bullski

@Comrade_Bullski

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RIP to Bob Newhart who played a comic book artist in his 1992-94 show "Bob". The comic books supposedly created by Bob on the show got made into a mini-series from Marvel by Ty Templeton and Evan Dorkin which is so weird it ranks up there with the strangest Marvel projects.

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Many people being introduced to her through the DCAU is truly unfortunate as they had to reduce the character down to a simpler persona due to the limitations of the format, and many creators seem to have run with it, thus robbing her of her essential humanist nature.

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Comrade_Bullski

@Comrade_Bullski

3 years

Alright, I think the time has come for another topic. This time we tackle how comics publishers spread information to their readers before the internet and the inherent limitations therein. Today we talk about handbooks.

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Comrade_Bullski

@Comrade_Bullski

2 years

Hello everyone, it's time for me to tackle a subject I've been meaning to talk about for a long while, something that's had a transformative effect on the medium of comics and yet is rarely discussed as a concept. Today we talk about the history of collected editions of comics.

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The fact that we just lost Ramona Fradon and now Trina Robbins feels like a twist of the knife. Trina was a pioneer in every sense of the word, the woman behind the first all-woman comic "It Ain't Me Babe Comix" in 1970 and she kept that energy for the rest of her life.

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Comrade_Bullski

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Hi everyone. Tonight's thread will only be a shorter one as we will follow the fictional existence of a single character - in this case the infamous terrorist known as the Viper or Madame Hydra and it's for very specific reasons. Please RT and quote as usual if you enjoy.

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Comrade_Bullski

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Whenever the Sentry is brought up I instantly remember this page from his funeral issue (Sentry: Fallen Sun) and that I have no goddamn idea how I'm supposed to read this scene. Or this entire comic. It's supposed to be a parody, right? The tone is inscrutable to me.

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Sometimes I get obsessed with minutiae. And by "sometimes" I mean "all the goddamn time". So let's try to get to the bottom of what the hell is up with this guy... girl.. thing? Who is Shuma-Gorath and how is it connected to everyone in fiction?

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Out of all the creative, outrageous and just weird fan-theories my friends have told me over the last week, absolutely nothing could beat "The Krakoa era is actually a gritty X-Men show created by mojo". Please read 🧵before you flame me .

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@Comrade_Bullski

4 months

Time for me to post this again.

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@Comrade_Bullski

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Friends, I've secured my second professional comics article assignment. It's time to once again thank you all for the support and constant morale boosting that helped me gain the confidence to do this over the last year and a half. Thank you.

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@Comrade_Bullski

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@PlasticManTalk yeah mutants used to be all caused by radiation. it was very 1960s

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@Comrade_Bullski

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Alright friends, it's time for another hyper-focused topic on something probably nobody but me cares about. In my handbook retrospective last year I talked briefly about these but now it's time we travel back to the 90s, back to DC and take a look at... SECRET FILES AND ORIGINS

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Six issue series with only a single tournament fight between two characters interspersed with flashbacks to training and talking. We're reaching levels of decompression hitherto unsuspected by science.

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Tom King and Ryan Sook promise their new WWE-inspired fight comic will give Black Canary her due in the DC Universe.

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So a question I have been asked both directly and indirectly a few times since I started doing this is "Why do you spend time and effort reading bad comics?". And there's more than one answer to that, each of which has varying degrees of rationality behind them.

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NO YOU FOOLS YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE-

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Cyclops, Colossus and Jubliee are being added to Fortnite. (via: @ShiinaBR )

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Granny Goodness by Keith Giffen.

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Here's the thing about George Perez art that people don't bring up as much. When he drew Steve Rogers and Clint Barton without their costumes, two white dudes with blonde hair and blue eyes, you could INSTANTLY tell who was who because George gave every character his fullest.

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Like the idea that Ostrander/McDonnell Waller would threaten and force somebody like Dreamer into the Squad is unthinkable. Modern Waller has become the exact kind of person original Waller wanted to stop. And that's so sad to me.

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Comrade_Bullski

@Comrade_Bullski

2 years

Hello everyone, time for another topic that fascinates me! It's probably not news to you that DC Comics has absorbed many other publishers over the years and that many of their characters originated with totally different companies. But what was the first DC acquisition?

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The golden age of Phil Coulson synergy truly is behind us. Alas. I mean he is still around, he's been in Avengers quite a few times during Aaron's run. But that period when he was everywhere in SHIELD-related content seems to be over, not that strange given the MCU changing

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You can easily determine how good an X-Men run is by how many softball games, mall trips and pool parties happen. Other social, non-super activities also apply. This is a strong statistical correlation!

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The Phantom is kind of a big deal in Scandinavia, his magazine having outlasted Superman, Batman and Spider-Man. We also produce new stories just for the Scandinavian market and have a lot of books and merch based on him. Even was a theme park back in the day.

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EXCLUSIVE SWEDISH VARIANT 🇸🇪

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The thing that kinda kills event comics for me (both at Marvel and DC) is how most of them feel like they're something you can only enjoy in the moment. Many of these are so mired in extremely particular status quos which only make any sense if you were there at the time.

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Kurt Busiek and George Perez on Avengers (1998) is as close to my Platonic ideal of a superhero team comic as can exist in our flawed reality. Every story arc is a banger, every character is their best self. The strongest book from Marvel's renaissance era.

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Favorite superhero team book for all time? For me it's the Grant Morrison/Howard Porter JLA.

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Actually let me say that I still enjoy some modern Squad stuff. Like I'm super happy Nicole Maines got to write a mini about Dreamer and the Squad with Eddy Barrows art. But the version of Waller and the Squad here is so unrecognizable from what it started as.

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@Jurgan15 Yup. I love that they kept that trait into the mutant racism era

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Sometimes I'm randomly reminded that there's stuff that's just baffling to me, like there are still Spider-Verse comics being made in 2024. That well ran dry hard and fast, honestly. I mean the whole multiverse gimmick is the most over-used and tired trope in superhero books RN.

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One thing I wanted to talk about during my brief spate of X-Men posting was the concept of mutants and evolution as presented in the comics from the 1960's to now, but I quickly realized that to give this a fair overview I would literally have to detail read every X-men comic.

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Part of the wonder of being a kid is not feeling the constraints of adulthood even with fiction. Some of my first comics were the Marvel Star Wars comics and to me they were as real and important as the movies. I had no concept of "canon" at the time, I just knew I liked them.

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This is a reminder that while all the high-profile stuff has been going on, Sholly Fisch has been low-key writing an iconic, fun and relatable version of the DC Universe that's accessible for anyone. And he's been doing it for decades. Sadly it gets dismissed as "kid stuff" ofte

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Alright, it's time we go back once more to the tumultuous 90s and finally witness the fate of Malibu Comics. It's time for the one most of you were waiting for. Time for the Ultraverse.

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"When did Marvel Comics become political?" 1939. With Pearl Harbor over a year in the future and US involvement in the brewing second world war more than uncertain, Martin Goodman and his creators dove headfirst into the political scene of the time.

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YES! PLEASE NEVER LEAVE ME AGAIN

ComicBook.com

@ComicBook

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The official logo for DC Studios just revealed at #SDCC2024

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To add to John's excellent thread about forgotten Batman supporting characters I figured I'd say a few words about the bizarre situation surrounding Kathy Kane following Crisis on Infinite Earths and how it touches on some editorial policies at the time.

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OK, let's see if we can wrap up this thread 🧵 on #Batman 's Forgotten Supporting Characters. First up, 12) Batwoman (Kathy Kane). 69 Appearances. First Appearance: Detective Comics #233 . Died: Detective Comics #485 .

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For a short period in the late 90s Marvel ran these on the inside covers of their books. Just a handy introduction to the main character, blurbs for relevant characters from each story and a recap of the last issue. They're great, you can get up to speed fast.

Gail Simone 💙💛

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I just read a superhero team comic. The characters are not called by their names in the entire book. Their powers are not explained or even clearly shown. The fight is a carry-over from last issue, and no recap is given. Art is good, script is otherwise fine. 1/

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Non-comics media discovering multiverse crossover stories the same way as an unsupervised 3-year old discovers the open box of powertools in the garage.

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Whenever an adaptation of a comic property comes out, it is my fervent wish that the original creators both receive top billing but also that their original stories about the character or concept get reprinted in easily accessible, high-quality formats.

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Hello friends! The past week @Williamson_Josh has been celebrating an impromptu Green Arrow week in preparation for the upcoming title (as of this writing) with @SeanIzaakse on art. And this prompted me to finally put the final touches to a topic on the Emerald Archer.

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I think we as a culture are ready to admit that Dave Cockrum's Ms Marvel design is a 10/10 timeless banger and that what we actually hate is how her 2000s appearances drew her with her asscheeks hanging out and with giant portruding nipples for like 6 years straight.

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With the announcement of a Waller show this is your reminder that the ONLY recommended reading for Amanda Waller is Suicide Squad vol 1 by John Ostrander, Kim Yale and Luke McDonnell and Geoff Isherwood. I'm not denying anything that's been done with the character since, buuuut..

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Hey gang, I have managed to muster up enough energy to do another thread and I figured we may as well expand on some of my writings about a specific character. Today we take a look at a character who got an unexpected profile boost by the Krakoa era - Nekra. And boy oh boy.

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@DanSchkade That's why the burglar only managed to shoot Ben. May grabbed a gun and fired back.

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Also looks like she's a team character in tertiary X-Books from now on. What a fucking ride it's been, and this was just the first decade. The Punished Kamala arc has only begun.

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2 years

Everyone's talking about LXG and here I am remembering first discovering Marshal Law

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Al Ewing is going to be my death. There is nothing about this solicit I don't love.

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This complements so perfectly what I talked about with Marvel largely getting rid of supporting casts and civilian lives. Every other medium use those, and so do other comics.

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I'm going to break my sacred vow and briefly talk about Betsy Braddock for @EmmaTalksComics . In 1976 Marvel wanted a comic produced exclusively for their burgeoning UK market and the creative team was iconic artist Herb Trimpe and some guy named Chris Claremont.

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Would you have guessed there was a Japanese fanzine dedicated to Alpha Flight? Because holy shit I am literally dying here.

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2 years

Hello readers and welcome to one of the most requested and anticipated deep dives I have ever done. This is part 4 of the Archie superhero retrospective. This is Impact Comics.

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Because of a certain discourse happening right now I want to continue to remind people that different superhero teams being constantly at odds with each other hasn't always been the case even at Marvel.

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G.I. Joe #1 published with a June 1982 cover-date is a comic which predictably has a huge influence on the Joe franchise, in both large and small ways. Larry Hama and Herb Trimpe (with Bob McLeod inks) deliver a content-packed first issue to kick off the new version of Joe...

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In honor of the long-awaited collections of the Micronauts and ROM: Marionette by Gil Kane.

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In original creator Bill Everett's world, Namor's lost city was not Atlantis and the regular underwater dwellers all had the same ankle wings as Namor, as clearly shown in this gorgeous splash from Marvel Mystery #13 (1940)

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DC respecting Roy Thomas' wishes and letting Firebrand remain happily retired was cute. And then Geoff Johns came along and murdered her to give the Shining Knight angst. She was based on Roy's wife and co-writer.

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So they're giving Diana yet another daughter. I wonder why they are so unwilling to use the Infinity Inc. characters for anything? Lyta Hall could really REALLY use a reality where her whole life isn't misery. I mean so could most of the Infinitors but her especially.

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Gail offering up a take on mutant prejudice that makes a lot more sense than any of the canonical ones is fantastic. This is the kind of idea I would have loved to see if the X-Men were starting fresh, a sort of fear of the unknown coupled with othering people.

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I have a mutant hot take. I hear all the time, and have thought it myself, why does the world fear and hate mutants, but love the scary-looking oddballs in, say, the Fantastic Four? Here is a thought about that. 1/

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REBUILD OF KRAKOA 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE or RISE OF THE POWERS OF X

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