Rorschach #3

[superboyprime]

"This is a deconstruction of a lot of things, but it's not a deconstruction of superheroes. That's not what we're looking for. This is not trying to examine what a superhero is, or what a DC superhero is, or any sort of those kind of questions. This is looking at who we are as people..." - Tom King

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Future State: Superman - Wonder Woman #1 this week has contrasting duos.

[thanekos]

There's Superman and Wonder Woman, of course.

There's also Solaris the Tyrant Sun and the sun god Kuat, who meet over Earth.

The latter rose to meet the former when he saw that his sky was binary.

( They hung over the Earth. )

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 among yourselves.

Well, I hardly need to ponder on what counts as the BIG event of the last week, as it has hogged headlines in every part of the world for days, but just in case, armed protestors/domestic terrorists invaded the Capitol Building in Washington DC last week as part of what was initially a protest against the official, more or less ceremonial, accepting of the 2020 election results in the US, by the current Vice President.

Five deaths resulted, one police officer and four of the protestors and multiple explosive devices had to be made safe.

This incident was directly encouraged by the President himself at a rally before the march. Said President is now likely to be the first person in American history to ever be impeached TWICE (This time for "Incitement to insurrection"), though it's unclear as yet how that will go. He's already had his Twitter and other social media accounts closed, and the Parler app, popular with ultra far right and consipiracy nuts, has also been shut down.

Footage of the invasion was broadcast live around the world, to the shock (it perhaps not surprise) of most of the planet. 

Questions are already being asked about how differently these (largely white male) protestors were treated by Police and Security compared to other recent, much more peaceful protests like Black Lives Matter.

There have been moments of heroism, an African American police officer has garnered praise for luring a mob away from the Senate chambers, but there have also been suggestions of possible complicity from some members of the police, considing how easily the Capitol was breached and how well the layout was known, but these will, I am sure, along with the whole situation, be discussed and investigated for years to come.

The FBI has issued warnings for State capitals around the country that armed protests are likely if trump is removed from power eearly or at the time of the Inauguration of President Elect Biden next week. PLEASE stay safe folks.

And this shouldn't overlook the Georgia Senate run off wins which give the Democrats effective control of the Senate, and included the first ever POC Senator from Georgia.

And of course the pandemic continues around the world, even as the vaccines roll out also begins in earnest. The UK passed 80,000 Covid 19 related deaths this week and we're not through the worst of the current spike either by all accounts.

In less intense news (though at this point, pretty much everything feels less intense)...

I've started watchom "Lupin" on Netflix, a French series starring Omar Sy as Assane Diop, a man inspired by the stories of Arsene Lupin, the original "Gentleman Thief" to seek his own sort of justice against the man who framed his father for a crime. So far it looks extremely entertaining (and Omar Sy is even MORE extremely easy on the eyes!)

I also caught Robert Rodriguez' "We Can Be Heroes" where the guy who gave us "Shark Boy and Lava Girl" and the "Spy Kids" movies has another go at kid superheroes. Very silly, full of Rodriguez's brand of "Don't think about it, just enjoy the ride" family movie logic, but by darn it believed in it's own premise and ran with it!

Discovery Season 3 reached it's finale on an upbeat note, though I felt the Emerald Chain was pumped up as a major threat, then sort of slapped down rather too easily. I've come to like a lot of this crew though and I do hope to see more.

Disenchantment Season 3 begins this week, which indirectly reminds me I never finished Part 2.

I started watching the last season of "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina", but am constantly being reminded of how, despite an amazing cast, there is very little about the actual Sabrina character I find particularly likeable. Nearly all the problems the show faces (once one accepts that msot of the cast are active demon-worshippers and thus inclined to some seriously poor role-models) are caused by her thoughtlessness or selfishness, which can make her a hard protagonist to root for. Oh well....

Future State: Justice League #1

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Darth Vader #8

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