Batman and the Joker

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SPIRIT Splashes

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Every now and then, I'd like to do a little gallery of splash pages from THE SPIRIT. The strip appeared as an insert in syndicated newspapers (and as such, the Spirit had an astonishing circulation; many thousands who never picked up a comic book read THE SPIRIT every week). This impromptu selection leaves out several of the types of stories Will Eisner did so well. There were his satires on advertising and consumerism and current fads; there were his whimsical fantasy or science-fiction romps, his tough gangster sagas and locked-room mysteries; the little misadventures that Ebony or Sammy went off on their own; and so many that are hard to classify. You just never knew what you would find when you opened your Sunday paper.

It flummoxes me how heartbreakingly good Sunday comics used to be. From the 1930s to around 1960, you might pick up a paper that had THE SPIRIT, POPEYE, PRINCE VALIANT, TERRY AND THE PIRATES, POGO, MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN, GASOLINE ALLEY, KRAZY KAT... Then the size of the pages started to shrink faster and faster, the quality of the printing and coloring dropped, the era of high adventure and screwball humor faded away.

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The time Green Goblin killed Gwen Stacy on national television

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Someone asked if the Goblin had been shown killing on national television. And, you know what? Yeah, yeah, he had been. You know why? Because he put it on there himself. Since this is apparently the first time the public has seen it, we must presume that Goblin set up his own camera beforehand. (Which would be an interesting retcon to get into if someone ever bothered to follow up on it.)

5 pages from Peter Parker-Spider-man, vol. 2, issue 45

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Bonus scan from the same arc: Goblin re-enacts with action figures.

Positive Comics Week: A tale of Batman

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Greetings, scans_daily!

It's been about eight months since I discovered s_d back on LJ, and since I'm going to be busy soon I thought I'd make my first contribution now. It also fits nicely with Positive Comics Week (which is still on, yes? Till the 20th, at least?).

This is from Batman: Gotham Adventures #22. It's seven pages from a 22-page book.


(It's bigger and clearer in context, honestly)

( Permit me to tell you a tale )

Batman is a punk rocker.

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( Aside from watching Sailormoon... )

Wally/Dick: Guy Love

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( Five pages behind the cut )

Legion of Super-heroes: The Goat Saga!!

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( What a charmer! From Threeboot issue 2 and 15 )

Matthew Murdock vs. The Hand

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Ed Brubaker's run on Daredevil concludes; four scans from Daredevil #500.

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The Mysterious Case Of Jane Doe

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xdoop posted some scans from Batman: Streets of Gotham's Manhunter stories a few hours ago. They featured Jane Doe, who was... quite different from the last time I'd seen her in comics. The first time I'd seen her was in Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, where she was one of the three or four parallel stories featured in the six issue miniseries. This post contains a summary and several spoilers for the book.

All books were written by Dan Slott, illustrated by Ryan Sook, and colored by Lee Loughridge. The artwork has a very Hellboy, Mike Mignola vibe to it which works well in this context.

( This is Jane Doe. This is what she does. )

Who'd have thought so many people would fuss over the Scarlet Witch?

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Four scans from Mighty Avengers #28.

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Batgirl Revealed!

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Over at the DCU blog.

( The page in question, so as not to bring the thunder of the mods down upon me. )

Blind Al

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( Nuff said )

Streets of Gotham #3

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( Images under cut )

Batgirl #1

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( Two pages behind the cut. )

Blackest Night: Superman #1

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( two scans - about a page worth total )

A bit more Batgirl #1 and DC Nation

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Three interior pages, the DC Nation column, and spoilers under the cut.

( Rage and squee, rage and squee )

Resources

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At Scans Daily we recognize that not everyone starts from the same place in discussions about privilege and discrimination. We have put together a list of resources to help us navigate this difficult area. Additionally, we've included some netiquette and slang guides, and other helpful links.

LJ Communities | The 101s | Privilege | Conversation

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This list is only a start. If there is a resource you would like added to, or removed from this list, please let us know. We consider this project a work in progress to be updated and revised on a semi-regular basis.

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Batgirl vs Batman

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Batgirl #49-50 aka Bruce versus Cass with her wanting to remain being Batgirl.



Why indeed Cass. Why indeed.

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Marvel Adventures: Avengers #39

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So, after gathering up my pulls this week, I noticed I had a couple bucks to spare. I'd been thinking about picking up Blackest Night: Superman, but man, with Pet Avengers over I needed something fun. Then I had a better thought.

( Maybe it counts for Positive Comic Week? )

Who is the best partner of Dick Grayson?

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( Oh, Dick. Your relationships are so complicated the Japanese invented a game to sort it out for you. )

Amazon vs Acrobat!

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ladymirth asked for scans of Donna putting Dick through a wall. I happen to have been collecting Donna scans for a while, and have those on hand, so...

( Yes, TITANS has always been a soap opera. )

Let's enjoy some beautiful art from "Blacksad: Red Soul"

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Greetings people of scans_daily! First time poster here who thought perhaps we could all take a break from Marvel and DC comics and enjoy some scans in English for the last Blacksad volume I managed to find (it's 54 pages). I give you all a little bit of:

Blacksad Vol. 3: Red Soul



First off, for the dial-uppers, here are the links!

He's good at what he does
Whatever happens in Vegas...
He chooses physics over girls?
None of my lectures were ever like THIS
Enjoying the view
A dog that can't swim. Irony...
He has a point
A literal example of a "Big-Lipped Alligator Moment"?
Get rid of that cursed hat
"Crown jewels"?
Blacksad? Run. NOW.
3, 2, 1...
If you think about it, shouldn't Blacksad have tackled the guy INSTEAD of the Professor?
THAT'S gotta sting
Awkward...

( Come see a mystery of the 50s Communism, the Red Scare, and espionage )

Thanks a Heap, Ceres!

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Here's a sample of the Heap from a late 1940s issue of AIRBOY. The character started in the Skywolf strip but proved popular enough to get his own back-up and even took over the covers a few times. Obviously inspired by Theodore Sturgeon's great 1940 story "It" in UNKNOWN, the Heap was himself echoed a quarter-century later in Marvel's Man-Thing and DC's Swamp Thing. By this point, the half-alive walking pile of moss and muck surrounding the corpse of a WWI German ace has come under the guidance of the goddess Ceres. It's great to see such an overlooked Olympian get some time onstage. Naturally, storytellers over the ages have gone for the more flamboyant and glamorous of the gods and goddesses (sex and violence always sell), but Ceres deserved her place in the pantheon. After all, if she chose, she could see that the other Olympians would have no worshippers.

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Wellll, the writer didn't know much about octopuses if he thought they only had one vulnerable spot. They're not exactly armored. And Ceres is seriously deluding herself with this talk about how no one has to fear the Heap because he means no harm, etc. This is the same creature that used to drink blood and which left a trail of broken corpses all over Europe in its rampages. Maybe she means that now, under her control, the monster can survive as a vegetarian but he sure wasn't always that way. (The art is by reliably good Dan Barry, I don't know the writer.)

Wade finally gets a happy ending

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And lots of awesome fourth-wall breakage.

Spoilers for Deadpool: Suicide Kings 5.

( Yay for Wade!  )

Well...this is awkward...

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Source is Amazing Spider-Man #157.

Deadpool doesn't just bump into the 4th Wall. He jumps through head-first! (Plus an Idea!)

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Greetings True Believers! I'm posting a selection of scans from Deadpool: Suicide Kings #5 about Wade exhibiting his "Comic Awareness" and I had an idea!

Why don't we have a breaking the 4th wall week? Rules would be simple, post scans from a story where a character breaks the 4th wall. Then classify it. Is it story-connected? It is over-done? Is it right for this story/character? Is it just for shits and giggles?

Does it sound fun? We have the usual suspects for breaking the 4th wall, Deadpool, She-Hulk, Animal Man but who else has done it???

So if you're interested, put in! To begin, I offer a couple of dee--lightful scans of DP and they will crack you up!

Oh and I have decided to call this week, "Breakin' the Wall, Breakin' the Wall."

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Blackest Night : Superman RISE!!!

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( Issue synopsis and the conclusion )