Sweet Tooth #6

[cyberghostface]

"I’m a fan of the great post-apocalyptic science fiction stories like Mad Max and Tim Truman‘s old comic, Scout. I was a big fan of that book. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road novel. Walking Dead, too. The idea of a post-apocalyptic world is such a great set up for sci-fi stories and action adventure stories. Somewhere inside, I always wanted to tell my own version of one of those books, but I didn’t want a world that was destroyed by a nuclear war or something like that. I wanted a world that was sort of our world, but left untouched and empty. I thought that was an interesting place to explore." -- Jeff Lemire

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Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade #2

[laughing_tree]

If you tried to figure where and when Arthur's court actually existed… well, you'd fail. But you'd realize you're dealing with a timeframe of about 300 or 400 years and endless possible locations, none of which show any convincing confirmation of the stories.

So... I leaned into that. Found a reason that the history and the myth don't tally.

I can't say much more than that - it's pretty cool, though. But thanks to this one conceit we've been able to kinda run amok with the notion of what the MU version of Camelot was really like.

Short version: as Manhattan is to the modern Marvel Universe, so Camelot was to the early Middle Ages..

-- Si Spurrier

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NoScans: Kentarou Miura, author of Berserk, dies of aortic dissection

[leahandillyana]

Today the editorial of Young Animal announced the news of the passing of Kentarou Miura. The author of world-famous Berserk manga, which remains incomplete on his death, died on sixth of May at the age 54. He was buried in a small family funeral. Berserk is a manga with a cult following both in Japan and abroad, the one that started the trend of hyperviolent low fantasy in the country in the 90s. Without Berserk, you wouldn't have the isekai subgenre, at least not as we understand it. More info (in Japanese): https://twitter.com/berserk_project/status/1395212918040391680

Haha #4

[cyberghostface]

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S.W.O.R.D. #5 - "Giallo"

[laughing_tree]

I've spent three lockdowns watching Italian giallo movies, and now I can claim it was for work. -- Al Ewing

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