Thanos Annual 2018 - "Exhibition" & "The Comfort of the Good"

[laughing_tree]

He gets (understandably) the Darkseid comparison, but that's only ever a surface one. They couldn't be further apart to write. Darkseid is cold. Thanos is hot. Darkseid's genocide is math. Thanos' genocide is poetry. In short, Thanos is basically a purple Lord Byron. -- Kieron Gillen

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Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #19 - "Remastered, Part VI"

[laughing_tree]

Star Wars doesn’t really have the terminology that we do either. One of the things we wrote inside the first arc was that homophobia as we know it doesn’t really exist in the Star Wars universe. No one raises their eyebrow, no one seems surprised when it happens. It’s kind of just something that’s there, so the way that they process sexuality has got to be different anyway, and how they choose to identify, as well. -- Kieron Gillen

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Masks

[cyberghostface]

 

This was written by Gillian Flynn, the author of 'Gone Girl' and 'Sharp Objects'.

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One page from Star Wars: Poe Dameron #27

[his_spiffynesss]

The current story line in Star Wars: Poe Dameron is taking place in the immediate aftermath of The Last Jedi, with flashbacks explaining what happened to Poe after the crash on Jakku. But this one page stood out to me.

( Who's Piloting the Falcon now? )

Just a Pilgrim: Garden of Eden #4

[history79]

( Conclusion )

Lookers #0

[history79]

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The Crew #5: Big Trouble in Little Mogadishu, Chapter Five: Josiah

[superboyprime]

'Black Avengers really just nails What This Is in a way "The Crew" really can't. "The Crew" may summon, for some fans, unpleasant images of an urban hip-hop culture. I'd guess most comics fans are not universally fans of 50 Cent and Eminem and Nas. Most people have very specific cultural boundaries they respond to, and the hip-hop subtext of a name like "The Crew" may be off-putting. Hip-Hop, to those of us (myself included) who are neither, well, hip nor hop, can feel like either an accusation of un-coolness or as confirmation of our own insecurity about our place in popular culture. Being a fan of Rhino Records reissues more so than of what is new on the charts, I can certainly relate to that generational separation from the cutting edge of pop culture. To people who do not hop, Hip-Hop and its nascent cultural implications (urban clothes, the predatory street look and booming, thunderous music) can be received as a kind of attack. As violence. Having not read even a single page of THE CREW, many fans were predisposed to not like it simply based on (1) the race of the characters (and, perhaps, the author) and (2) the cultural subtext of the book's title. Black Avengers would have mitigated both concerns, but would have made Marvel into a kind of minstrel show. In 1972, Marvel could have gotten away with Black Avengers. In 2003, it would be seen as a kind of unfortunate in-joke. So, THE CREW it is.' - Christopher Priest

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Swamp Thing: Swamped

[alicemacher]

( 'If there's one thing that I despise, it's the sound of steak sobbing.' )