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knight_movesAm I the only one bugged when TPTB try to insist that Red Sonja is an original Robert Howard creation instead of admitting she was created by Roy Thomas? There's no shame in it, man. You don't have to try to lend Red Sonja some OG legitimacy by pretending there's a story in Weird Tales somewhere about a chick in a chainmail bikini who can't screw. She's an iconic character who entirely came about through not only comic books, but tie-in media. That should be honored! Imagine if one of the biggest Star Wars characters came from Tales of the Jedi. That'd be cool!
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knight_movesSuicide Risk... kind of a dumb name, because it has nothing to do with the story beyond vaguely sounding cool and making it impossible to tag the comic... is advertised as a deconstruction of the superhero genre, but it isn't for my money. It's more of a genre-bender that starts off in the superhero genre, never entirely leaves it, but steadily shifts into Lost-style myth arc, identity porn, and ends up as something of a space opera. So, brightside, you don't get the lazy "what if REED RICHARDS stretched HIS DICK" bull that Garth Ennis has been peddling since the Middle Ages.
It's set in a world where superhumans have started showing up, but unlike in most cape comics, they are largely supervillains... well, I suppose this IS the case for most cape comics, since every superhero has their own big rogue's gallery, but in this case, the villains are able to outnumber and neutralize the heroes, while law enforcement is regularly massacred by them and everyone is basically living under martial law. In the wake of one of these crises, one cop finds a note on a captured supervillain that he thinks is a clue to how these people are getting superpowers.
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It's set in a world where superhumans have started showing up, but unlike in most cape comics, they are largely supervillains... well, I suppose this IS the case for most cape comics, since every superhero has their own big rogue's gallery, but in this case, the villains are able to outnumber and neutralize the heroes, while law enforcement is regularly massacred by them and everyone is basically living under martial law. In the wake of one of these crises, one cop finds a note on a captured supervillain that he thinks is a clue to how these people are getting superpowers.
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Suicide Risk #1
Dec. 29th, 2021 03:13 pmhistory79
"It’s our world, very much our own present day, but set against the backdrop of the first wave of superpower activations. Dozens and then hundreds of people are showing up with powers – a trickle that becomes a stream that threatens to become a flood. And almost all of them are bad guys, or at least use their powers for selfish ends. So there’s a very small group of heroes and a somewhat larger group of non-superpowered law enforcers trying to hold the line against a tsunami of supervillains."
- Mike Carey
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The Dollhouse Family #1
Jul. 29th, 2020 08:00 pmcyberghostface
"The brief was wide open. Write a horror book that's genuinely scary and does something new and interesting. I thought about it for about a day and a half, and then the idea for Dollhouse Family popped up like toast. I suspect it's got The Haunting of Hill House and Locke and Key in its DNA somewhere, but we've tried our best to make it be its own thing. Certainly it's going to look both gorgeous and terrifying." -- Mike Carey
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The Dollhouse Family #1
Dec. 10th, 2019 12:00 amcyberghostface"The brief was wide open. Write a horror book that's genuinely scary and does something new and interesting. I thought about it for about a day and a half, and then the idea for Dollhouse Family popped up like toast. I suspect it's got The Haunting of Hill House and Locke and Key in its DNA somewhere, but we've tried our best to make it be its own thing. Certainly it's going to look both gorgeous and terrifying." -- Mike Carey
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Mother's Day: Mystique and Rogue
May. 13th, 2017 11:46 pm
Tags:
- char: gambit/remy lebeau,
- char: hope summers,
- char: mr. sinister/nathaniel essex,
- char: mystique/raven darkholme,
- char: professor x/charles xavier,
- char: rogue/anna marie,
- creator: chris bachalo,
- creator: chris yost,
- creator: craig kyle,
- creator: humberto ramos,
- creator: mike carey,
- title: new x-men,
- title: x-men,
- title: x-men legacy
Lucifer: Friends with the Devil
Jun. 6th, 2015 06:59 pmluceanGreetings to one and all,
First, I feel the need to apologize for the time since my last post, as the pause became somewhat longer than intended. Yet, now as I sit back watching Canada stumble against Chine, I felt what better time to return to the greatness that was Lucifer. As always, for the story before just check the tag for Lucifer.
Following are scans from two 22 page issues, seven scans per issue. These one's were a little bit more difficult to focus on as unlike in prevous issues, these follow a single story very intently and give us insight in to two crucial members of the supporting cast.
( Of adults and children )
First, I feel the need to apologize for the time since my last post, as the pause became somewhat longer than intended. Yet, now as I sit back watching Canada stumble against Chine, I felt what better time to return to the greatness that was Lucifer. As always, for the story before just check the tag for Lucifer.
Following are scans from two 22 page issues, seven scans per issue. These one's were a little bit more difficult to focus on as unlike in prevous issues, these follow a single story very intently and give us insight in to two crucial members of the supporting cast.
( Of adults and children )
