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Paul Tobin
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“You bastards! You finally did it! You blew it up! Damn you all to hell!”
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Graeme McMillan@graemem.bsky.social |
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Brain in a box for Popverse (thepopverse.com), previously of Wired, THR, Time, Playboy, LA Times, io9, countless other outlets that I've probably forgotten. He/Him. comicsfyi at gmail dot com if you want to email. Ping Ping Ping.
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Paul Tobin
@paultobin.bsky.social
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“You bastards! You finally did it! You blew it up! Damn you all to hell!”
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Erika Moen
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Portland comic artists of all levels, @stevelieberart.bsky.social will review your pages for free and give you invaluable feedback on how to improve your craft! Take advantage of this July 5th 4-6pm at @bkswpicspdx.bsky.social
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Charlotte Ariel Finn
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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.
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Steve Lieber
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I think my favorite black & white movie is Planet of the Apes on a 9” b&w Sony tv in my bedroom with the sound off because they’re showing it way after my bedtime and I’m supposed to be asleep
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Graeme McMillan
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Perhaps the most surprising thing about the Marvel Rom Omnibuses might be that Evan Dorkin shows up in the reprinted letter columns twice. (Once with a cartoon that might be his first printed artwork in a comic?)
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Graeme McMillan
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The plot of Prez #3 is that right-wing extremists are so upset about gun control legislation that they attack the capitol. Again, this comic is 51 years old.
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Graeme McMillan
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From Prez #2, a senator complains that limiting gun ownership threatens “the safety of all Americans.” This comic is 51 years old.
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Graeme McMillan
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1973’s Prez should have run for years.
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Graeme McMillan
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You're famous to us, dammit.
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Graeme McMillan
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Anytime Marvel wants to offer you the main book, I'd be into it.
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Chris Conroy
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No headline could possibly top this for the rest of the week variety.com/2024/scene/c...
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Graeme McMillan
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I listen to this on a regular basis, still. (And his work with Delakota, too, around the same time.) It's so good.
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Graeme McMillan
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(Yes, I know the thumbnail looks like a generic YouTube page, but clicking on it should play the actual song.)
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Graeme McMillan
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For bonus comic culture points, the original release had a Jamie Hewlett illustration on the cover that suggests a possible Ronald Searle career that wasn't.
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Graeme McMillan
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It's been a quarter of a century since this little piece of pop perfection came out, noodling around with a dictaphone rap made by the musician's little brother about crushing on one of his teachers in high school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR0Q...
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Graeme McMillan
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Three. The first two are already out.
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Graeme McMillan
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Mantlo was a great pulp writer in a way that just doesn't exist anymore, really: they weren't all winners, but that didn't matter -- he'd be off next issue doing something else anyway. Strong similarities to the 2000 AD crowd way back when.
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Graeme McMillan
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Mantlo is very very much up there with Claremont for best writer Marvel had in the 1980s for me. Micronauts, Hulk, and Rom are all masterclasses of a very particular style of writing. (And things like Cloak and Dagger and his Swords of the Swashbucklers are fun as outliers.)
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Graeme McMillan
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There's definitely similarities to how Giffen plotted. Superhero comics need more writers who are more afraid of getting bored than they are of blowing everything up every few issues to see what happens.
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Graeme McMillan
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I've been working my way through the Rom Omnibus Vol. 2 in the last few days, and between this and re-reading the Mantlo/Buscema Hulk run in its entirety last year, I have to say: Mantlo's inability to settle for too long makes him such a wonderful superhero comics writer.
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Graeme McMillan
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You know it's a good week* when you've genuinely lost track of what day it is and it's only Wednesday. (* It is not a good week. It's not necessarily a BAD week either, but it's certainly a very full week.)
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Graeme McMillan
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Ding ding ding.
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lyndsay
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That's one way to disarm the police
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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth!
@panic.gay
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This is your reminder to ask for help, even when you don't feel you absolutely need it. Yesterday a friend came over and helped me clean my depression mess. No major crisis. I was just sad and overwhelmed and having a friend there made it easier.
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Graeme McMillan
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I have seen the final episode of the Doctor Who season, AMA. (No, don't, I had to sign a non-disclosure agreement in order to see it.) (But I really liked it, for what it's worth.)
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Graeme McMillan
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Hacks is so, so, so good.
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Graeme McMillan
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You loved that episode too, huh? I’ve been losing my mind since the screener.
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Graeme McMillan
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Today in PR emails. It's unbelievable.
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Graeme McMillan
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Should I be… scared?
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Graeme McMillan
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Oh MAN.
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Ken Lowery
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sighs, moves marker COMICS DISCOURSE LOOP: No, It Is You Who Failed Superman Why Doesn't Batman Simply Buy Crime? Alan Moore: Threat or Menace? Writers Vs. Artists <--- YOU ARE HERE What If The Big Two Released Monthly Anthologies Instead Everyone (Except You) Knew Outed Monster Was Monster
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Graeme McMillan
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A book for every bookshelf!
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Graeme McMillan
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I think Hulu is mad at me.
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Graeme McMillan
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As the kids used to say, this has lived in my head rent-free since I first heard it weeks ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ6-...
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Evan Dorkin
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Just woke up.
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Rob Sheridan
@rob-sheridan.com
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He’ll get record fundraising off of this, of course, because we live in hell
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The Washington Post
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Breaking news: Donald Trump is found guilty in his N.Y. hush money trial, becoming the first ex-president convicted of a crime.
Follow live updates: wapo.st/3X1Mu2Y
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Graeme McMillan
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If it's got the Batman issues as well, it's the closest thing to the complete reading experience. (Submit was one of the one-shot tie-ins, and almost all of them are entirely peripheral.)
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Graeme McMillan
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DCUI's "In This Series" listings can be very very dubious, however. If the physical edition has the issues, then the digital edition will.
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Graeme McMillan
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I think both Submit (which is... pretty throwaway) and Superman Beyond #s 1-2 -- both pretty essential, given how the story ends -- are in the New Edition.
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Graeme McMillan
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I think that's Morrison's preferred approach; that the collapse of reality basically made the details soft, and so contradictions appear throughout. It's really going far to avoid saying, "I wish they'd read my comic and made it all fit," but Grant is too gracious.
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Graeme McMillan
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Yeah, that's the one to read. The extra pages smooth over some of the bumps.
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Graeme McMillan
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Countdown wishes it was Secret Wars II.
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Graeme McMillan
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Countdown is not good, and is very long. I warn you. (Final Crisis is... something you may or may not dig? Get the collection that has the extra pages, it's a smoother read.)
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Graeme McMillan
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The three series bluntly don't go together. They can each be enjoyed (or... not, in Countdown's case? It's such a strange series, and I say that as someone who's read it a number of times) separately, but as one complete story, you can't really do it.
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Graeme McMillan
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I like Final Crisis a bunch, even if it's somewhat messy. But it feels far more ambitious and contemporary in a manner that feels true to Kirby than the projects surrounding it.
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Graeme McMillan
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It's worth pointing out that Countdown to Final Crisis and Death of the New Gods both pretty extensively misunderstand and contradict Final Crisis, especially with regards to the Fourth World stuff. But to be fair, Countdown and DotNG contradict each other pretty strongly, too.
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Graeme McMillan
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That was the OTHER exorcist movie last year. Which spawned an entirely different franchise. We can only hope to see The Exorcist vs. The Pope's Exorcist in theaters before the end of the decade.
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Graeme McMillan
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"It's not a sequel to the prequel! We promise!"
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