Mod Post! Off-Topic Tuesday

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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 amongst yourselves.

Brazil has elected a racist, homophobic, mysogynist Right Wing candidate to be their President.

Sri Lanka is close to a contiutional crisis

Between pipe bombs being sent to Democratic and left leaning public figures by a white guy in a Trump-sticker festooned van, eleven horrific hate-crime murders in a Pittsburgh Synagogue where a Shabbat service and a bris were taking place by, no surprise here, a white guy, and the White House denying that the Presidents abusive Right Wing rhetoric could have in any way contributed to the mindset of those who would feel empowered to do such things, I don't even know where to begin with the US this week.

We can perhaps take some solace in how every local place of worship of every denomination united to vehemently condemn the actions and took up collections for the families of the lost. (On a personal note, there was a Christening in my local Church this Sunday, a joyous and happy event, but I'm sure I wasn't the only one who looked around and felt a slight chill or recognition).

I hate to pile it on, but we should definitely address the current US Adminsitrations plan to, effectively, erase the concept of transgenderism in US society by defining gender as purely biological and immutable, and the suggestion that discrimination against transgender people is not in violation of civil rights, which makes me want to say in a loud, clear voice both as an S_D Mod and a basic-issue human being ; "Fuck that noise!"

We would also recommend that every single person in the US who is in a position, vote when the opportunity arises in the next couple of weeks. Given reports of irregularities in voting machines, check where your voting location is and the opening times.

Okay, shifting away from politics...

The first season of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina aired on Netflix, by the same creative team as "Riverdale and the Sabrina comic by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. It's very, VERY dark (literally and metaphorically) and has a good cast Kiernan Shipka isgood as Sabrina, Ross Lynch makes Harvey an unproblematic fave and Lucy Davies and Miranda Otto as Aunts Hilda and Zelda are the definition of odd couple (in a Cain and Able sort of a way) but it's Michelle Gomez who steals every scene she's in as "Miss Wardwell" (without being as over top as "Missy" in Doctor Who) and it's refreshing that Sabrina make an awful lot of bad choices for what seem to be good reasons and the show isn't shying away from there being consequences to that. Witches defaulting to polygamous pansexuality is certainly something I don't remember in the Melissa Joan Hart series, but it might be fun to re-watch some episodes with that outlook in mind. :)

"Arachnids of London", the latest episode of Doctor Who, seemed a bit of a damp squib, partly because it had to follow up the extraordinary Rosa episode, and partly because it felt more like an abandoned Torchwood episode, relying too much on basic arachnophobia and a random semi-psychotic US presidential hopeful. Decent FX on the spiders mind you, and some nice character moments with Team TARDIS (Yaz finally getting a bit of focus), but the plot itself... not so much, alas.

The latest episode of Titans was something of an improvement, as some of our heroes meet for the first time, and we get more backstory on this version of Robin (Though I Was not overly impressed with the flashback scenes for narrative reasons I can't really go into without spoilers). There was fewer messy fight scenes, which probably helped, but I'd be hoping for more positive reasons for watching it than "Hey, Dick didn't kill anyone in THIS episode!"

And to end with mental images to offer some balance to the above; kittens, frolicing lambs, small children being adorable, and puppies... all drawn by Alan Davis. (I don't actually have those images, but just imagine what they'd be like! There, feel better now? :) )

Anything But a Ghost

[cyberghostface]

( Scans under the cut... )

The Man of Steel #6

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Kriota Willberg's known for her work with anatomy.

[thanekos]

(Gore tag's on for that.)

She's got a story in The Graphic Canon of Crime and Mystery.

It's an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's " The Body Snatcher ", in an EC Comics style.

It's about two men, Fettes and Macfarlane, echoes of real-life body snatchers William Burke and William Hare.

( The original story tied the former pair to the latter's employer. )

LastMan

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Not to be confused with Y: the Last Man, Last Man Standing, Last Man on Earth or with a regular manga by the same name, LastMan is a one-of-a-kind hell of a series.
It sometimes get classified as a franga/french manga because of its format–-200 pages each volume, not chaptered, the first few pages in colour and the rest in black and white, pages smaller than classic albums, more the size of a deluxe manga... plus a use of tropes reminiscent of shounen manga.

I won’t post a lot of scans for this series, because an English translation exists but I don’t own it myself and I feel stupid scanning the original French and redoing all the work someone else already did. Wish I could get a copy to share...



( in the beginning was a comics series )

( and then they made an amazing cartoon out of it )

If we get back to the comics series, right now it amounts to 10 volumes out of 12 planned, and #11 will be out just next week. The first 6 make up a first arc, the 6 next another after a ten-year time-skip. (Also, some spin-off one-shots were announced, one was issued early this year and... I thought it was terrible. I don't know how it sold, and what'll happen to whatever else was planned.)