Sweet Tooth #14

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Archie's 80th anniversary: "Moose!"

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Let's say you're writing a story about one of Archie Comics' most one-note and stereotypical characters: the stupid, foul-tempered jock Moose Mason. What do you do? If you're Mark Waid in 2018, you reinvent him as a shy, simple but very sweet jock who--

Oh, but we're still on the 1990s era in this series of posts, aren't we. Well then, if you're Mark Waid in 1991, you lean into the stereotype with all you've got, take the angry brutishness way over the top, and play it for screwball comedy.

( 'Hydrants... billboards... carnage...' )

In which Emperor Palpatine tells Darth Vader to chill out

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Once & Future #18

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My favorite thing about comics is that basically, comics is a real equal playing field to get an artist and a writer, or an artist by themselves really, and then 22 pages later it doesn’t matter if you’re from Marvel or DC or anyone else — you’re all basically doing the same thing. For me, Once and Future is better than anything Marvel or DC is putting out and it’s doing a similar sort of thing because this is a fun action comic. But with totally new characters with a strong mythic bent. I quite like you can do something that is utterly mainstream but with the volume turned up and the freedom that you allowed to do from a clean start. Dan is a mainstream pop phenomenon. People who read the book, it’ll take the top of their heads off. -- Kieron Gillen

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I Breathed A Body #4 was traffic across bridges.

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The Boys #21

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