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Punishment Without Crime
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cyberghostface
I sometimes post Bradbury stories around this time of year. Here is one I haven't shared yet.
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2000ad presents: Mega-City MAX
Aug. 6th, 2023 10:03 pmshakalooloo"Welcome to the launch of a new comic, Mega-City Max, and while all these stories are set in the dystopian world of Mega-City One, home of Judge Dredd, the stories in this comic feature teen- and post-teen versions of 2000ad characters who are determined to get by, stand out, and be true to themselves in a future-shocked landscape that is not too dissimilar from our own once you get past the sci-fi tropes and gadgets" - the sales pitch on the inside-front cover
So yes, while the title does contain stories featuring a young DeMarco PI starting out, and a re-imagined cast of Harlem Heroes, for some reason good ol' Walter the Wobot gets a story too, despite, y'know, not being a teen in any way...
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Oh, we get four pages for an issue, so here's some young Devlin Waugh as well:
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Earthdivers #1
Nov. 11th, 2022 08:30 amcyberghostface
"I feel writers go for killing Hitler because he was, well, the worst. But going back to kill Christopher Columbus has not been done in a big way yet. I suspect it has something to do with who has the most anger at Columbus. Me being Blackfeet, along with Indians across North, Central, and South America, I think we all have a pretty legitimate beef with Christopher Columbus for opening open the door and filling in the land with infections, warfare and land-takers all over." -- Stephen Graham Jones
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Halo Evolutions — "The Mona Lisa"
Oct. 31st, 2022 11:21 amdeh_tommy
Halo Evolutions was a short story anthology collection based on the hit video game series Halo. Its stories have all since been adapted into motion comics for their companion apps. Given what day is today, I figured this would be appropriate, so if you’re in the mood for something spooky then I recommend giving this a watch. Happy Halloween!
( “I AM A MONUMENT TO ALL YOUR SINS.” )
Nimona by N. D. Stevenson
Feb. 11th, 2022 03:20 pmleahandillyanaNimona is certainly one journey of a comic. It starts as a basically comic equivalent of a shitpost – Ballister Blackheart, a villain who keeps most of his ethics back from his heroic days is approached by titular character, a girl who thinks the guy to be almost cool – he only needs more evil! And that’s what Nimona is for. Majority of the story is dedicated to Ballister and Nimona spreading mostly non lethal chaos to inconvenience Ballister’s former employers and especially his former friend, Ambrosius Goldenloin, whose betrayal pushed Ballister on the path of villainy to begin with. However, the comic gets more serious with each death of Nimona – did I mention that she is an immortal shape-shifter? Now I did. By the end, the comic dives into surprising depths in regard to the psychology of its characters and ends on a mostly sweet note. While the gay romantic subplot is not explicitly portrayed in the comic, I think that the intense subtext and the author’s confirmation to be enough to consider it a gay romance. 7 pages out of circa 250.
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leahandillyanaWhen I began this series I mentioned that some comics will feature material impossible to publish in American market. Wrecked Hearts epitomizes this type of a story. This manga-style comic was created by two French author-artists and published by a Swedish publishing company. The comic contains two sci-fi romantic stories. In the first story 15 year old Fio is a girl living in a space colony on Callisto who lust over a cute boy she’s never spoken to and has a secret – she’s only half-human and has shapeshifting powers, which she decides to use to pursue her crush – as a boy. In Dark Energy, a cat-shaped robot journalist travels the galaxy to find interesting people to interview and write books about. This time he chose to interview Astree, a girl living in a greenhouse spaceship. Their meeting gets side tracked by sheaningans such as a planet being swallowed by a fissure in space, the ship turning into a refugee for sentient fart clouds, and other craziness among which Mikael falls in love with Astree.
Why a warning for such seemingly cute stories? There’s plenty of teen nudity and sexual fantasies, including a scene in which a character molests their sleeping love interest. In fact, the comic is opened by a scene of sexual harrassment dreamt by a character.24 pages out of circa 200.
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