WEB OF SPIDER-MAN #46 :Spider-Man and Hank Pym vs. Nekra

[starwolf_oakley]

This was one of the "Peter Parker's book tour" stories from the late 1980s.



Peter Parker is at a normal Cape Cod town. That has people going berserk and screaming "Hate outsiders!"

( A life without love. )

Rorschach #5

[superboyprime]

"That happened simultaneously with the Watchmen TV show coming. That was, to me, eye-opening in the fact that it was so good, you know? I feel bad for saying this, but I really wanted to hate it, you know? I wanted to be like, "How dare you?" All the stuff I think people are gonna say about me when Rorschach comes out, I wanted to say to the Watchmen TV show, and [instead] I was like, "this is so good." It's not Watchmen, but it's using that vocabulary to talk about huge themes that are happening in our society. And it's using Watchmen almost as a symbol to say, this is important. The HBO Watchmen is not about the same things that '86 Watchmen [comic] is about, it's about completely different themes of race in history in America. That kind of opened my eyes where I was, oh, this is possible, this can be done." - Tom King

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The Joker #1

[cyberghostface]

"And then there’s The Joker. The Clown Prince of Crime, himself. The devil of the DC Universe… Where does he lurk in between his bouts with Batman… What is he planning, and what does he want. The Joker bends and changes like a dark reflection of his true adversary, so what happens to him as a character when you take that adversary away. I’ve always been fascinated about the Joker, and I’ve always loved writing the Joker interacting with and against the villains of the DC Universe, going back to when I wrote the back-up stories to Death of the Family storyline in the New 52 Batman run. I’m already having so much twisted fun writing him here, and I am so excited for you all to see it." -- James Tynion IV

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Superman #29

[lordultimus]

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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.

I have to make this a relatively short post, but I know you'll expand on it.

To distance themselves from the British Royal Family, "retired" royals Harry and Meghan Windsor when on Oprah to talk... about the British Royal Family, and how shittily they say they had been treated. (Which seem sadly plausible.)

The media erupted, tabloids went into meltdown "Worst crisis for monarchy in decades" etc etc. (Which does seem to be rather downplaying Prince Andrew's "little problem" with being affiliated with the Jeffrey Epstein scandal etc).

Some interesting, if annoyingly vague, news coming out about possible collectibles/toys based on the old Dungeons and Dragons cartoon amongst others. They also mention Jem and the Holograms, and that both classic and modern iterations would be involved, so I wonder if IDW/Sophie Campebell style Hologram and Misfits figures might be a thing?

Duck Tales "Tale Spin" referencing (and "Wuzzles" sort of referencing) episode was amazing, great fun, though with some weirdly disturbing body horror thrown in, just for funsies!

"Pacific Rim: The Black" a new animated series started on Netflix (I'd forgotten that there was even going to be a PR cartoon). Guillermo Del Toro is not involved in this one, which is written by Greg Johnson (X-Men Evolution) and Craig Kyle (Thor: Ragnarok).

I liked the first movie, was underwhelmed by the second (The first movies Jaegers were heavy and slow moving which made sense, the sequel had them zipping around all over the place), and by the end of the first episode of the anime I was already tiring of the main characters (Whose actions do sort-of-directly lead to multiple deaths), which isn't a promising start. Maybe not helped by, as some critics have noted, movie scale, live-action "Kaiju vs Megazord" battles being a fairly unusual genre, but very common in anime. Maybe it picks up later, I'm told some of the worldbuilding is good, but it's perpetually grim.

Rorschach #6

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Daredevil #27

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