2025-03-11

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[personal profile] icon_uk2025-03-11 08:52 am

Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

There is still hope though: In Montana, speeches by trans and non-binary representatives helped switch the vote of enough Republicans to stop anti-trans legislation

Also, the current US Administration (using the term in it's loosest possible sense) has started losing the many court cases brought against them by those who they summarily fired, and organisations tried to defund.

"Daredevil: Born Again" debuted last week with a two episode drop.

"Ramadan Mubarak" to those who observe it.

Sorry, one of those days where little time for posting! Gotta go!
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[personal profile] iamrman2025-03-11 10:46 am

New Mutants #8

Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Bob McLeod


The New Mutants accompany Roberto’s mother on an expedition to the Amazon.


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[personal profile] cygnia2025-03-11 12:41 pm
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NS: Cartoonist R.E. Burke detained by ICE on backpacking trip

https://www.comicsbeat.com/cartoonist-r-e-burke-detained-by-ice-on-backpacking-trip/

British cartoonist R.E. (Becky) Burke was on a four month backpacking trip around North America but has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Her father, Paul Burke posted an appeal for help on Facebook. Burke attempted to cross over into Canada from the US on February 26th, but was denied because of a visa issue, and after returning to the US was arrested as an “illegal alien” and is now in detention in Tacoma. 

Burke is known in the comics community, setting up at Thought Bubble, writing for Broken Frontier and making some pretty good comics. Her Instagram is as typical and normal as a cartoonists IG can be, including some now devastating photos of the earlier carefree good times on her trip. Her last post was about the joys of travel.

ETA:  Snopes weighs in
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/10/becky-burke-detained-by-ice/



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[personal profile] iamrman2025-03-11 01:01 pm

Rom: Spaceknight #1

Writer: Bill Mantlo

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Sal Buscema


I finally took the plunge and got the first Rom omnibus. Most of the titles I have been posting are titles I have read before, but I am going in totally blind with this series. Will I like it? (Spoilers: Yes.)


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[personal profile] iamrman2025-03-11 05:27 pm

Silver Surfer #65

Writer: Ron Marz

Pencils: Ron Lim

Inks: Tom Christopher


The Surfer returns to reality only to encounter the new-and-improved Cap'n Reptyl.


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[personal profile] icon_uk2025-03-11 10:08 pm

DC announce their June Pride event

Rather than a series of unconnected stories, this fifth annual DC Pride book will feature a framing story, with different characters having their own episode within it.



From the Press Release:

DC Pride 2025 brings DC’s heroes together when a century-old tavern, the center of queer life in Gotham City, unexpectedly announces its imminent closure. It’s a huge loss to the community, and generations of patrons return to pay respects to a space they’ve endowed with entire lifetimes of memories, wishes and dreams—including Alan Scott, the Green Lantern. Alan returns, for one last time, to the place he fell for his first love, Johnny Ladd, to touch the wall on which they carved the symbol of their love, to remember the days before everything went to hell for them…and to say goodbye.

But love is a kind of magic, and, in Alan’s experience, magic can take on a life of its own. Before anyone knows it’s happening, heroes, villains, and civilians alike from across the DCU with powerful ties to this mysterious place—the Question, Midnighter and Apollo, Harley Quinn, Green Lantern Jo Mullein, Bunker, Connor Hawke, and Blue Snowman among them—find themselves spirited away to strange, alternate worlds where everything they ever thought they wanted can be theirs…but at what cost?


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