30 June 2025 @ 03:18 pm
We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
 
 
30 June 2025 @ 03:45 pm
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30 June 2025 @ 06:43 pm

Words and pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer


Mister Miracle must save his friend from a dictator with a secret.


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30 June 2025 @ 01:30 pm


"David Sexton: gave Not so long ago, there was a magic based mini-series (which I won't name) that climaxed in a battle between a good wizard and an evil wizard. After the evil wizard head-butted the good wizard, it cast a spell on some innocent bystanders by pointing its evil wizard finger at them and uttering that most famous of magical phrases, 'Bang!' Reading that sequence kind of crystallized some of the things I had been thinking about regarding magic in comics. Magic is not a gun. It should look and feel different from technology or from a mutant power. Magic should be depicted in an imaginative manner. Magic only exists in our shared imaginations, so a writer needs to provide that kind of convincing detail in order for the reader to 'believe' in what they're reading...The rules have gotten rather mushy, but 'The Magic Gun Syndrome' can be stopped. If a character or a creature manipulates magic in a new and different way, fantastic, but the reader needs to understand how. The magic has to make sense. Not rational sense, but it should have what Jung referred to as 'Mythopoeic' meaning."
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30 June 2025 @ 02:29 pm

Writer: Mark Waid

Pencils: Andy Kubert

Inks: Jesse Delperdang


Ka-Zar would have words with his brother.


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30 June 2025 @ 12:36 pm

Writer: Gerry Conway

Pencils: Luke McDonnell

Inks: Bill Wray


Batman has only just re-joined the Justice League and he is already rubbing people up the wrong way.


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30 June 2025 @ 10:29 am

Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Herb Trimpe

Inks: Sal Trapani


The Hulk crashes Betty and Glenn's honeymoon.


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29 June 2025 @ 06:58 pm
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That was a really light bulb moment for me, where I knew that I wanted to, number one, play with fire, because it was so essential to the Martian Manhunter mythology, but then the idea of how we represent thoughts in comics with essentially thought smoke. So I made that connection immediately, and I thought that we could do something with that. And so it just felt like we're taking that that formal concept, and kind of playing with it, and going as deep as we can with it throughout the issues. -- Deniz Camp

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29 June 2025 @ 07:17 pm

Writers: Barbara and Karl Kesel

Pencils: Rob Liefeld

Inks: Karl Kesel


Hawk isn’t best pleased that somebody is dressing like his dead brother.


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29 June 2025 @ 05:17 pm

Writer: Beau Smith

Pencils: Mitch Byrd

Inks: Dan Davis


Guy gets a ridiculous new look, just in time for another Crisis.


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29 June 2025 @ 01:28 pm
So... the preview for X-Men #19 is out.

As you might imagine, the premise of Doug Ramsey becoming Revelation, the "Heir of Apocalypse", is not one that has greatly impressed me, as it seems to run counter to his whole nature, but I try to be open to new things so here's hoping.

So how is it going so far? )
 
 
29 June 2025 @ 12:18 pm

Writer: Len Wein

Pencils and inks: Dave Gibbons


John Stewart must team-up with the Predator to stop Eclipso.


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29 June 2025 @ 09:41 am

Writer: Alan Davis

Pencils: Doug Braithwaite


Alan Davis ties up another loose end from Claremont's run. Namely, what happened to those dinosaur tourists.


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28 June 2025 @ 06:09 pm


Kamala Khan has been shoehorned into the X-Men so hard she's taking a tour of mutant history, so let's play Spot The Continuity Error!

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28 June 2025 @ 07:47 pm

Words and pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer


The Phantom of the Sewer is there, inside your mind...


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