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The second half of Bill Willingham's run involves a short arc about the JSA taking on Mordru, followed by one of those Days of Future Past type things where Nazis have taken over the future, so the surviving heroes have to use time travel to undo the lousy future. Nothing wrong with that, theoretically, but

1. The arc just kinda seems to wallow in the awfulness of this Nazi future. Concentration camps and whatnot. Which is par for the course for this kind of story, but I feel it should be leavened somewhat. This is entertainment, after all. I think Bill's trying to do that with a subplot about Mr. Terrific genuinely befriending his interrogator, but it's just not enough to me.

2. This stops being a 'JSA' story and becomes more of a 'DC universe' story, with cameos from just about every superhero ever. It feels elementary to me that this dystopian future arc would be a good chance to show the younger JSAers in something like their prime, answer the question of how they would react to this situation, but instead we get a lot of Ollie and Bruce and Clark and so forth. Which, ironically, makes this story feel a lot more generic.

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So Geoff Johns is done and we're getting into the Bill Willingham run. Featuring Magog! Doesn't everyone love Magog!?

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Scott Free is trying to prepare for a celebratory barbecue, but this being the Justice League International, it doesn’t go quite to plan.

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( The Three Universal Laws of Superheroics. )

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Bill Willingham has released Fables into the public domain after falling out with DC. There's a lengthy substack post about it here and AVClub has an article about it here. As Willingham writes, "If I understand the law correctly (and be advised that copyright law is a mess; purposely vague and murky, and no two lawyers – not even those specializing in copyright and trademark law – agree on anything), you have the rights to make your Fables movies, and cartoons, and publish your Fables books, and manufacture your Fables toys, and do anything you want with your property, because it's your property."

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Well, [Cinderella] is a woman without a country in the sense that Fabletown, which she served, no longer exists. I think we'll see the process of finding her new loyalties and therefore her new country (if you will). I think in her journey, if she's going to remain without a country, it's not going to last very long. One hopes. -- Bill Willingham

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I wanted the Adversary to be Peter Pan. Even when I was a kid, I couldn't understand why he was considered the good guy in these stories. Basically, he would come to our world and steal our kids. That just seemed pretty sinister. I thought, "Okay, we'll do a little turnaround on that, and make Peter Pan the evil Adversary, and that means that Captain Hook and his pirates were really were a crew that were going to Neverland and rescuing these kids, and they were painted as pirates only because Peter was doing the press releases." That was, I thought, a pretty good idea that we didn't get to do, because even though I carefully worked out that Pan was in public domain in America, he's still under copyright in England, because the Parliament did a special extension of copyright because all the income from Peter Pan books went to the Ormond Street Hospital for kids. So to keep the hospital having their income, they extended the copyright, and since we were going to sell Fables in England, we couldn't do it. -- Bill Willingham

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"Batman vs Bigby was written with the idea that some of the readers will be new to Bigby and Fables. Everything essential that you need to know is already cooked into the story. You don’t need to be Fables-wise to fully enjoy it. But that’s not to say a reader couldn’t enhance the experience by starting to read Fables too. In fact, I hope many new readers will be inspired to come to Fables as a result of this tale.

However, if you’re one of the readers who knows all about Fables but nothing about Batman? I’m not sure such a creature exists, but if you do, I’ve tried my best to make the essential Batman as understandable as can be. We’ll see if I’ve succeeded." -- Bill Willingham

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That's Do's and Don'ts of Dating, as delivered by Red Sonja

This valentine's day will likely not be a vintage one for declaring love or hooking up with people because of the 'rona, but it is worth keeping some idea of how to act around potential romantic partners.

I've already shared Flirting the Hyperion way*, Hyperion's guide to speed dating and Thundra's Guide to picking up guys

Two pages from ( Red Sonja Valentine's Special 2021 )

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