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Jenny Sparks #5 - "A Great Job"
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Just terrible shit has happened for 23 years in a row. We thought we were going utterly straight ahead and instead we hit the ground and bounced up and hit the ground again and bounced back up, and suddenly it felt like that 20th century that we thought had let go was still pulling on us. All those sins of the 20th century, all the shit, all the war, all the bad fucking shit we had done to win the Cold War, all the bad shit that happened in World War II that sort of haunted the psyche of the entire world had come back and had not disappeared and was still haunting us. -- Tom King
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Jenny Sparks #4 - "We Got Him"
Dec. 20th, 2024 07:40 pmlaughing_tree
I was like, well, is the 20th century dead? Like, has it stopped affecting us? Because I think at one point in my life, probably around 2000, I'm old enough to have been alive then, I thought the 20th century was dead, and people were telling me the 20th century was dead. They're like, all those conflicts that sort of riled you: World War I, where so many people died needlessly. World War II, where so many people died evilly. Evilly, that's my new word. And then that of course followed by nuclear conflict and the Cold War. And then, towards the end of the 90s, we started to get this sense that, like, okay, we're past all that conflict and that we are now a progressive society. We're not a perfect society. We're still fucking broken in a thousand ways, but somehow Western culture... it was this idea of soft power, it was the idea that we're gonna slowly spread our culture and with our culture democracy is gonna follow, and that's gonna spread across the whole world. And people wrote books called The End of History. We're just fucking done with conflict now and now it's time for us to sort of, you know, globalize and be friendly and all hold hands and order a Coke. And I totally bought into it. [...] We thought the 20th century was dead, but it wasn't dead. It came back. -- Tom King
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Jenny Sparks #1-2 - "Be Better"
Sep. 23rd, 2024 01:52 amlaughing_tree
Literally, my thesis from college is like, "I will never go to war because the world is going to be great." That was a thing. And that was like, "Okay, the 20th Century is dead. Let it die. Let it die." And then 9-11 happened. And then fucking Iraq happened. And then the banks collapsed. And then fucking 2016 happened. And then the pandemic. And we weren't at all done with history. That was just fucking bullshit. We did not go straight ahead. -- Tom King
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Jenny Sparks: If Reagan is president...
Dec. 19th, 2011 10:41 pmstarwolf_oakleyJenny Sparks was the "Spirit of the 20th Century," had electricity-based superpowers, and lived quite an exciting life in the Wildstorm Universe.
Some time ago, I commented that Jenny Sparks once considered letting the world end if Ronald Reagan got the Republican nomination for president. And here's that moment from JENNY SPARKS: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AUTHORITY. It's written by Mark Millar in 2000.
( Context and city-battlesuits after the cut. )
Some time ago, I commented that Jenny Sparks once considered letting the world end if Ronald Reagan got the Republican nomination for president. And here's that moment from JENNY SPARKS: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE AUTHORITY. It's written by Mark Millar in 2000.
( Context and city-battlesuits after the cut. )
kirke_novakSome people have lives. I have comic books. I posted this earlier to my LJ, because I'm desperately trying to avoid writing some stuff for work and yes, the deadline is tomorrow. Now I'm sharing this with you, because I love you as much as Midnighter loves murder.
Some panels are NSFW!
( Behold! Nearly 40 panels filled with Midpollo (Apighter???) love!!!!! (and some panels just with Midnighter because LADYBONER, guys!) )
Some panels are NSFW!
( Behold! Nearly 40 panels filled with Midpollo (Apighter???) love!!!!! (and some panels just with Midnighter because LADYBONER, guys!) )
Tags:
- char: apollo,
- char: engineer/angela spica,
- char: jack hawksmoor,
- char: jenny quantum,
- char: jenny sparks,
- char: midnighter,
- creator: chuck dixon,
- creator: garth ennis,
- creator: warren ellis,
- publisher: wildstorm,
- title: midnighter,
- title: the authority,
- trigger warning: homophobia,
- trigger warning: violence/gore
STORMWATCH #44: Jenny Sparks in the 1980s
Oct. 15th, 2010 08:27 pmstarwolf_oakleyIn an earlier post, I showed two pages that homage the first page of WATCHMEN. Here are the rest of one of them, STORMWATCH #44. Jenny Sparks (the Spirit of the 20th Century) is talking about her life to either Jackson King or Malcolm King (don't know which one, sorry) about her life.
The "evil of the Thatcher government" is almost an entire character in 1980s British comics. Of course, was it really "Thatcher-ites" who were evil, or just the people who took advantage during that time period?
( Toe-rags! )
The "evil of the Thatcher government" is almost an entire character in 1980s British comics. Of course, was it really "Thatcher-ites" who were evil, or just the people who took advantage during that time period?
( Toe-rags! )
Two WATCHMEN satires/parodies/homages
Oct. 13th, 2010 09:06 pmstarwolf_oakleyTwo WATCHMEN references after the cut. One in RADIOACTIVE MAN #5 is obviously a funny parody. The other IN STORMWATCH #44 is by Warren Ellis, so I'm not sure if it's a satire or an homage.
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