The Demon #3
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scans_dailyWriter: Jack Kirby
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Mike Royer
If you lived a former life, then you may become a victim of... the Reincarnators!
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iamrman posting in scans_dailyBlue Beetle #6
May. 22nd, 2025 02:42 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Len Wein
Pencils: Paris Cullins
Inks: Bruce Patterson
These issues have got me interested in checking out the Question's book. Look out for that soon.
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Black Panther #1
May. 22nd, 2025 12:31 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWords and pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Mike Royer
People seemed to like my posts about Jack Kirby's Fourth World, so I thought I would start posting his run on Black Panther.
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Batman: Sword of Azrael #4
May. 22nd, 2025 10:31 amiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Dennis O’Neil
Pencils: Joe Quesada
Inks: Kevin Nowlan
Azrael in final battle with his nemesis LeHah.
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The Premiere of Sabretooth: Iron Fist #14
May. 21st, 2025 08:30 pmmastermahan posting in scans_daily
Inspired by the recent Sabretooth postings, I thought it would be interesting to go back and see what he was like in his first appearance. Was he always the dangerous monster x-fans now know, or a blowhard who can't win even with the deck stacked his favor?
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Free Comic Book Day 2025: The Amazing Spider-Man/Ultimate Universe #1
May. 21st, 2025 07:12 pmlaughing_tree posting in scans_daily
I wrote all of the Venom captions, and then Joe wrote all of the Spider-Man captions and Charles wrote Eddie's captions. And then we all collaborated a little bit on the OTHER CAPTIONS. -- Al Ewing
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LB is Moving! Take Our Stuff
May. 21st, 2025 08:08 pmlb_leeMori: welp, our new shrink got ratfucked by Trump, even though we only got him last month, which means we have to go hunting a new one and start the whole training process over again while moving. This means we are eager to clear our plate of other distractions ASAP!
First: Wanna help us move? We will be moving on the last weekend of May--most likely Sunday, June 1 because our other three roomies move on May 31 and we don't want the front door to become a clown car. Are you available? Are you willing to lug boxes and get treated to dinner afterward? We would appreciate you (especially if you have wheels)!
Second: FREE STUFF GIVEAWAY (long as you cover shipping)! We have a couple books free to good homes:
Okay, back to trawling my health insurance website for potential new shrinks!
First: Wanna help us move? We will be moving on the last weekend of May--most likely Sunday, June 1 because our other three roomies move on May 31 and we don't want the front door to become a clown car. Are you available? Are you willing to lug boxes and get treated to dinner afterward? We would appreciate you (especially if you have wheels)!
Second: FREE STUFF GIVEAWAY (long as you cover shipping)! We have a couple books free to good homes:
- Sweet Abilene, a M/FTM porno comic by the great E.K. Weaver. Sweet Abilene is a spin-off of their webcomic Shot and Chaser, so you can get a good idea of the art and main characters! It's great! We want other people to love it!
- Festival of the Bones II: What Is Remembered Lives, an anthology of ancestor worship stories and poems edited by the Writers Egbe of Ile Orunmila Oshun. We fed it through the bookscanner, which means this book can now be liberated! (The PDF will be uploaded once we get it OCRed.)
- this page of MPD for You and Me (original)
- two spreads of the queer trans multi wedding in LB Goes To Alaska (prints made to look like the originals in a sketchbook, which include marginalia and green colored pencil underdrawing that are erased from the comic). You can see a photo of one of them here. One spread shows Zyfron and Mystics doing their wedding smooch and first dance; the other shows the wedding dance afterward. These spreads inspired the name of the art show they were framed for, "Love is for all of us." If you need high-res images of the pages in question, just ask!
Okay, back to trawling my health insurance website for potential new shrinks!
Media update
May. 21st, 2025 01:20 pmomensI guess it's Wednesday! All the days are turning into a slurry, it's Miscday every day :O
TV: I have been watching Miss Night and Day with my bestie and it has been pretty fun! A magical cat has worked some magic and Lee Mijin is now in her 50s in the daytime and in her normal late 20s at night. The main lead is not as much of an initial butthole as some we've had recently! There is a serial killer plot line that connects the leads' pasts, but you can't win em all. UGH :P murder shit. We're through 7 episodes so far, fingers crossed it keeps being entertaining. I enjoy all of the characters aside from the obviously evil one.
Other than that, all my video time has gone back to language stuff - the pre-travel stress dead zone has passed! \o/
Books: I now have 3 books on the go, lol. A memoir about an Irish guy's family that isn't as entertaining as it should be, Gretchen McCulloch's Because Internet which is also not clicking with me as much as I expected (love her, v much enjoy the Lingthusiasm podcast), and Hammajang Luck which I've just started but seems v interesting so far!
Games: dipping back into Stardew to finish up year 2. Not as absorbing now that it's not early game. I saw the Ghost Detective mobile game (thru Netflix) has an update and now I regret deleting it. Might be fun to start over but idk idk.
Writing and other wips: I have been doing YARD STUFF. Cleaning out my front garden, planting herbs, bought some hangers to hang planters. Mowed the lawn for the first time ever at 44 (applause) ....but no writing, lol. I have been reading my wips like o_o come back to me, my loves ;_; but too much other shit on the go right now.
Otoh, look at my excellentgenprompt_bingo card:
TV: I have been watching Miss Night and Day with my bestie and it has been pretty fun! A magical cat has worked some magic and Lee Mijin is now in her 50s in the daytime and in her normal late 20s at night. The main lead is not as much of an initial butthole as some we've had recently! There is a serial killer plot line that connects the leads' pasts, but you can't win em all. UGH :P murder shit. We're through 7 episodes so far, fingers crossed it keeps being entertaining. I enjoy all of the characters aside from the obviously evil one.
Other than that, all my video time has gone back to language stuff - the pre-travel stress dead zone has passed! \o/
Books: I now have 3 books on the go, lol. A memoir about an Irish guy's family that isn't as entertaining as it should be, Gretchen McCulloch's Because Internet which is also not clicking with me as much as I expected (love her, v much enjoy the Lingthusiasm podcast), and Hammajang Luck which I've just started but seems v interesting so far!
Games: dipping back into Stardew to finish up year 2. Not as absorbing now that it's not early game. I saw the Ghost Detective mobile game (thru Netflix) has an update and now I regret deleting it. Might be fun to start over but idk idk.
Writing and other wips: I have been doing YARD STUFF. Cleaning out my front garden, planting herbs, bought some hangers to hang planters. Mowed the lawn for the first time ever at 44 (applause) ....but no writing, lol. I have been reading my wips like o_o come back to me, my loves ;_; but too much other shit on the go right now.
Otoh, look at my excellent
genprompt_bingo card: | Mind and Body | Hallucinations / Visions | Chaos and Order | Quarantine | Tools of the Trade |
| Science and Magic | Birth / Beginnings | The Rumour Mill | Winners and Losers | Truth serums, Truth spells, and Truth drugs |
| Artifacts (Alien and Otherwise) | Jewellery | Wild Card | Decay | A Strange Friend |
| The Company of Strangers | Left Brain / Right Brain | Junk | Dreams and Nightmares | Exploration |
| Exile / Stranded | Books are the Best Weapons | Worst case scenario | The Ties that Bind | Revelations and Concealments |
Detective Comics #654
May. 21st, 2025 06:02 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Michael Netzer
Inks: Scott Hanna
Knightfall prelude.
Batman must deal with a punk kid and his gang shooting up Gotham City.
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Amazing Spider-Man #95
May. 21st, 2025 02:41 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Stan Lee
Pencils: John Romita, Sr.
Inks: Sal Buscema
Gwen has gone to London to live with her uncle (and no other reason.) Peter follows, only to get pulled in to a terrorist plot.
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Uncanny X-Men #213
May. 21st, 2025 12:35 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Alan Davis
Inks: Mark Farmer
Welcome to the X-Men, Elizabeth Braddock. We hope you survive the experience.
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Absolute Martian Manhunter #2
May. 21st, 2025 01:33 amlaughing_tree posting in scans_daily
That was part of my pitch, that maybe the DC Universe J'onn felt a little bit in between alien and human, in a way that wasn't a positive for the character, that wasn't a positive for readers. Where he is a little too alien to be relatable to, and maybe a little too human to really be awed by the alienness of him. And so that's part of why I separated the two characters and made John Jones a human being that we can relate to, and make the Martian this really strange alien consciousness that that has strange ideas that maybe that are not so relatable to us, and that's okay, because they're not really relatable to John either, and John's our way in and through John, hopefully we'll come to see whether those ideas are palatable or not. -- Deniz Camp
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The Tainted Cup
May. 20th, 2025 04:46 pmpsocopteraThe Tainted Cup, Robert Jackson Bennett, 2024 novel, first of a trilogy. A young apprentice investigator with total recall like Simon Illyan, only these abilities are granted via Witcher-like potions (apparently even giving some people the white hair and yellow eyes), gets involved in a murder case in an empire threatened by kaiju and maybe also the manipulations of the Cetagandan-haut-like gentry. Which is to say that if an author admits to being an LLM user, even if he claims he isn't using it for his creative writing, I cannot help but start playing the "which parts of this seem borrowed" game. In all fairness it was a good book, fun, fast read, the mystery seemed to hang together as far as I noticed and I enjoyed the plant-tech worldbuilding. I'll probably read the other two. (I wasn't into Foundryside, but I liked the City-of books, so he is neither a definitely-read or definitely-don't-read author for me at this point.) And I'm actually all in favor of creative recombining/repurposing/riffing! If there's, like, a person doing it. I don't want to think I'm reading a book if I'm actually reading extruded text product though.
Building Power While The Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power
May. 20th, 2025 03:46 pmlb_leeStill working through that big stack of zines from Jimmy Dunson and Rebel Hearts Press, and we're down to the last thing: a paper back anthology of essays entitled Building Power While The Lights Are Out: Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power. It's really making my brain buzz with ideas! I'm only midway through, but so far my favorites are "Mutual Aid and Anti-Racist Organizing in Rural Appalachia" by Rural Organizing and Resilience, "Love My People: Following in the Footprints of the Panthers" by Suncere Ali Shakur, and "Survival Programs: Then And Now" by Malik Rahim (an old guy in his seventies who was part of the Black Panthers in the '70s). Like the other stuff from Rebel Hearts, it looks to be a paper-only release.
I just want to quote a few paragraphs from Shakur here, because... how could I NOT love this book? He cut his teeth on mutual aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, where black men were getting murdered as looters by vigilantes, cops, and others. It was not a safe time and place, and he describes the following events:
I just want to quote a few paragraphs from Shakur here, because... how could I NOT love this book? He cut his teeth on mutual aid in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, where black men were getting murdered as looters by vigilantes, cops, and others. It was not a safe time and place, and he describes the following events:
