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"A lot of what I do seems extreme in comparison with other comics — which, given that the industry staple is still superheroes, are mostly going to seem that bit more restrained. But compare my work to some of the current stuff in TV or movies, and all of a sudden I’m not quite that far out there." -- Garth Ennis

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We’re celebrating what I think is really interesting about the original character and concept. I’m going back and reading all of the early Silver Age appearances from the first detective stories. I thought there was something with this character that can see into people’s minds, but has a truly alien perspective that even Superman doesn’t possess, that was really powerful and interesting. -- Deniz Camp

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Giffen and DeMatteis do their usual. Finished art is by Linda Medley, who renders a mixed crowd of heroes with clarity and expressive simplicity. She also makes the Queen Bee fun to look at, walking a line between researched plausibility and vampy camp.

The Global Guardians have appeared often in JLI stories by now, but only as a memory, an abstract, nostalgia-shrouded ideal from which the devalued, brainwashed reality has fallen. “Bialya Blues” brings back a facsimile of the Guardians as they were, but said facsimile still won’t measure up to the memory.

( More like Doctor MISSED, amirite )

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https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2026/01/29/will-eisners-the-spirit-for-sale/

The estate of Will Eisner is putting the entire output of Will Eisner that they control through copyright and trademark up for sale, including The Spirit and all of Eisner’s graphic novels and comics.

George Gene Gustines for The New York Times reports (or here):

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Up for grabs are Eisner’s graphic novels, children’s books and instruction manuals for creating comics. Also included in the sale are the many characters he created, most notably the Spirit, the influential masked crime fighter who debuted in 1940 and featured in stories that are noteworthy for their moral realism, mature themes, genre fluidity and inventive page design.
Eisner’s last work featuring the Spirit, a 72-page story from 1996 called “The Spirit Returns,” was never published. It, too, is up for sale.

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The cover of Justice League America #37 is one of Adam Hughes’ best on the title (which is saying something), but it’s open to multiple interpretations.

( Don’t worry, it’s not a Magic Eye poster. )

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Ah, Mun, here we are again.

It's been another... hiatus you call it? How many years this time? Six? More? And what has inspired you this time? All those little ideas that continued to percolate? They just wouldn't let you go...

And now you've returned to me, because you're just like me: a user . I've been terribly slow. 14 years in, and I've finally discovered that you utilise me for "stress processing".

Well, I have some home truths to tell you: there is doubtless any John Watson around to help you play out any of these situations. Let alone Mary, Molly, Lestrade... or... others.

[He means his brother, Mrs Hudson, or the other Yarders.]

So, what you need to do is pack me up and put me away. Then just go and write these stories. You don't need me to play them out. You are actually quite capable of working them out on your own.

"More fun," you say? For whom? Oh, that's right, because it's all about you. Never mind me.

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Ah, Player, here we are again.

It's been another... hiatus you call it? How many years this time? Six? More? And what has inspired you this time? All those little ideas that continued to percolate? They just wouldn't let you go...

And now you've returned to me, because you're just like me: a user . I've been terribly slow. 14 years in, and I've finally discovered that you utilise me for "stress processing".

Well, I have some home truths to tell you: there is doubtless any John Watson around to help you play out any of these situations. Let alone Mary, Molly, Lestrade... or... others.

[He means his brother, Mrs Hudson, or the other Yarders.]

So, what you need to do is pack me up and put me away. Then just go and write these stories. You don't need me to play them out. You are actually quite capable of working them out on your own.

"More fun," you say? For whom? Oh, that's right, because it's all about you. Never mind me.

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The discussions regarding my great-grandfather is... interesting to read. Of course, one shouldn't pay attention to rumors assumptions. Especially not about those whom can not speak up to defend their honor.

[Alas, he's incredibly amused by the idea that he wasn't the first Baratheon to fall in love with a knight.]

Now, I'd appreciate that this new tall tale (ha punny) has renewed your interest in myself. I'm bursting with excitement to see where it takes us. I need to get back and stretch my legs. Much yet to see and do.

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Whilst completely acknowledging that future Doug Ramsey as Revelation did a lot of utterly horrific things (and I mean there aren't war crime classifications dreadful enough to describe many of them) I'm sort of loving that Evil Beast's reaction, after returning from the all-life-on-Earth-is-about-to-be-turned-into-planet-Doug dystopian hellscape which Revelation created is not horror, or outrage, or even numbness.

( Those would be understandable )

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"When Jonathan Reason falls asleep, he becomes... something terrible."

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Is there something your character is very good at that they wish they weren’t so good at?

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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 scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Though it must be said that that has been harder and harder to avoid. It would be remiss to not acknowledge the growing efforts of those resisting authoritarian overreach, which has led to at least two deaths of late, and likely more. We name Renée Good and Alex Pretti as victims of this situation.

I will mention, on the UK side, more of the more extreme Tories from the last administration are defecting to the very very Right Wing Reform Party. I've seen this described as rats leaving the Titanic to discover they've landed on the Titan submersible. A confused mental image, but I understand what they mean.

The international stage defies any attempt at summary because where would be start, but that is part of the playbook, so let's not and focus on trivialities

The UK version of the Traitors ended with a remarkably tense finale where, with a sort of delicious irony, the Faithful wavered in their support, but the Traitors remained faithful to each other. There's probably a lesson in there.

Masters of the Universe got a teaser trailer which I think looks like a LOT of fun

And so did a series I didn't even know was happening Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord.

Starfleet Academy had it's most "college humour" episode so far, with a prank war breaking out between the Academy and the War College next door.

And Tom Baker and John Leeson are joining together again to play Holmes and Watson in a new audio drama! Which will also feature Nicholas Rowe, who played Young Sherlock in the Spielberg movie back in the 80's!

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Sal Buscema has passed away. In my opinion he was one of the best 'old school' comicbook artists and his work on Spectacular Spider-Man was a stand-out. I decided to share the ending of #200 which is a classic.

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https://www.cbr.com/legendary-marvel-comic-artist-sal-buscema-passes-away-89/

“Wow. I just received word from Mrs. Joan that Sal Buscema passed away last Friday. He was 89. Today, he would’ve turned 90. When I think back on my childhood and all of the comic books that I read, Sal’s name seems to have appeared in just about all of them. I didn’t just read the books that he illustrated, I studied them.
Every nuance in his pencils and his inks I saw and tried to mimic. He was definitely one of the greats during those years at Marvel, when handling more than three titles a month was not just a requirement but a necessity. Sal’s art had a direct impact on my own, along with his older brother John, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, John Romita Sr and Ron Frenz.
Ron, God bless him, was the person responsible for Sal and I meeting some time ago and for that I’ll be forever grateful. Sal was a very nice, kind and generous person who I am happy to have known and who took note of my skills enough to mentor me. The wonderful conversations we had will always be cherished.
My condolences to his wife Joan, the Buscema family and to all of us fans who grew up with and love his amazing art. I’ll have more posts later. – SC”

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No, I haven’t lost track of my numbering. These two “inventory stories” were published later on, but they seem set around here in the chronology. The first is the first Keith Giffen-Gerard Jones writing collab, with art by the underrated Linda Medley. Her style wasn’t as attention-getting as the works of Kevin Maguire, Adam Hughes, or even Bart Sears, but her down-to-earth approach syncs with the down-to-earth aspects of Giffen’s plotting. She’d do some more League work and go on to her own indie series, Castle Waiting.

Say, did you know film fans could be just as obsessive and antisocial as comics fans?

( ‘‘I’m so glad I’M normal!,’’ said everyone reading this story. )

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Mrghhhhh. I never could get the hang of Mondays. (Or Tuesdays either, really.)

How confrontational is your pub? Are they better with their words than their fists(/superpowers/etc.)? Or do they hate any kind of confrontation at all?

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One thing about the Doug Ramsey/Bei the Blood Moon's relationship has been constant from the start.

( The love that cannot understand it's name )

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Congratulations, you're both decades too late and a couple years too early.

[It's called "seasons". :| I'm in the process of a rewatch, okay?! It's a lot of content!]

Yeah, whatever... Look, if you're gonna break me out on a day like today, drinks are on you. I don't make the rules.

[You just did, though...]

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While some JLI members lost their solo series after getting into the JLI, Scott Free, AKA Mister Miracle, got his back in a second volume. (All unmarked citations here are for Mister Miracle v2.) J.M. DeMatteis wrote issues #1-8 with assistance from Keith Giffen and Len Wein; Wein took over for #9-13, and Doug Moench finished it out with #14-28. The series’ central conflict was Scott and Barda trying to live out the late-20th century version of the American dream: a home in the suburbs, a repair shop that’ll support them both (boy, those were the days), no crazy super-shenanigans.

( ‘‘We’ve got to BLEND IN to small-town New Hampshire life, honey! That means we vote Republican now! We’re not like those big-time city slickers from CONCORD!’’ )

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I--I don't understand.

I've committed to dying for the Achaeans. I will gladly do so.

Why, then, do you insist on bringing me to some "game"? I don't do well with games; I never did.

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Oi!

[ there’s a decidedly unimpressed scowl set firmly upon her brow, arms crossed and skinny hip cocked - all sharp angles and pointy edges. prickly and snarling and annoyed; perhaps a front to hide the discomfort of nerves simmering in her gut. ]

As much as I enjoy the thrilling adventure of being plucked from home and put in this… quasi-Globalsoftian database or whatever all this is. [ it rears up again : the chill of fear trickling down the back of her neck. she squashes it with a toss of her head and gnash of teeth.] Are you actually planning to do something with me or is this all a passing lark in the virtual bloody park?

[ a stomp of a booted foot to make her point. a beat passes. her arms unfold so her fingers can fiddle with the hem of her skirt.]

I don’t like to leave Gaz alone for too long. The boy is near useless without me.

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"I caught the [60s Batman] TV show in reruns after school every weekday. There’d be a great block of shows that I’d run home for: Star Trek, The Monkees, Twilight Zone, etc. There was a lot of cool stuff that hit stores from Batman-mania that Dad and Mom would get for us, so it was always I source of excitement and great joy. When I was asked to do an issue of DC Solo I immediately got together with my big brother, Lee to do our Batman love letter, BATMAN A Go-Go." - Mike Allred

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For what purpose have I been summoned? It is not yet All Hallows' Eve.

....Though it is true that we can sense many lost souls around here — perhaps damned to wallow in their own despair, belonging to nowhere and no-one.

Is that it? Do you think we might help them find reprieve?

[ A pause, and he tilts his head lightly to the side as though listening to something before speaking again, knuckles taut within the skin of his gloves as he grasps the handle of his cane tightly, suddenly tense. The man draws in a slow, steadying breath. ]

....It wonders about the rules to this realm. It can tell that things are different. [ ... ] It lusts for more than one soul to claim. Do you now see why it is a danger for me to be conjured forth, here? I do not wish to harm the innocents of this realm. This.... "Dreamwidth."

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I would very much like to attend a local rally in solidarity with Minnesota today - there are events planned nationwide - but it's currently -24C, which is -11F, and it feels like -32C, which is -26F. The wind is making my wind chimes do the intermittent mambo. Schools have closed all over the area, because it's not safe for kids to wait for buses in this. BRRRR! And not only BRRRR! It would be unsafe, in a very real way, for me to be outside for any length of time, even if I layered up.

... Do I head for a rally anyway, despite the horrible weather, or not? A large chunk of me is willing to risk it. I mean, the ICEDamns* aren't taking time off from intimidating and brutalizing people, are they?

*That's an admittedly clumsy play on ice dams i.e. what accumulate on a roof if there's heat escaping a house through the attic or similar, but I couldn't come up with anything better on short notice.

Current Mood: cold

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Oi!

[ there’s a decidedly unimpressed scowl set firmly upon her brow, arms crossed and skinny hip cocked - all sharp angles and pointy edges. prickly and snarling and annoyed; perhaps a front to hide the discomfort of nerves simmering in her gut. ]

As much as I enjoy the thrilling adventure of being plucked from home and put in this… quasi-Globalsoftian database or whatever all this is. [ it rears up again : the chill of fear trickling down the back of her neck. she squashes it with a toss of her head and gnash of teeth.] Are you actually planning to do something with me or is this all a passing lark in the virtual bloody park?

[ a stomp of a booted foot to make her point. a beat passes. her arms unfold so her fingers can fiddle with the hem of her skirt.]

I don’t like to leave Gaz alone for too long. The boy is useless without me.

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Giffen plot and breakdowns, DeMatteis script, Hughes pencils.

“Club JLI” (#34) has a real “1970s-1980s movie comedy” vibe. Ex-millionaires Blue Beetle and Booster Gold are still broke and anxious for a new side hustle. Their repo gigs have been getting too depressing, and Booster’s old merchandising and licensing deals don’t bring in much bacon. But they are members of the Justice League International, the highest-profile super-team on the planet! That’s got to be monetizable somehow, right?

Sure it is! And wait until you hear the plan for their new business venture!

( What could go wrong? )

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