Action Comics Annual #2
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scans_dailyWriters: Jerry Ordway, George Perez and Roger Stern
Pencils: Jerry Ordway
Superman: Exile.
Superman is forced to fight in an alien arena.
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Starman #12
Jul. 20th, 2025 10:42 amiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Roger Stern
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Robert Campanella
Starman in final battle with the Power Elite.
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July Challenge - Day 19
Jul. 19th, 2025 11:46 pmpf_mod posting in poetry_fictionFrom Morning After
Had a dream last night I
Thought I was in hell.
Had a dream last night I
Thought I was in hell.
July Challenge - Day 18
Jul. 18th, 2025 08:27 pmpf_mod posting in poetry_fictionFrom Yesterday and Today
I miss you so bad—
There ain't no way for me
To get you out of my head.
I miss you so bad—
There ain't no way for me
To get you out of my head.
July Challenge - Day 17
Jul. 17th, 2025 08:24 pmpf_mod posting in poetry_fictionFrom Dream Dust
One handful of dream-dust
Not for sale.
One handful of dream-dust
Not for sale.
Predator: Black, White & Blood #1
Jul. 19th, 2025 11:14 pmshakalooloo posting in scans_dailyOf course, since Predator is very famous for a certain colour of blood that it bleeds, that gives this comic the licence to have black, white, red AND green colouring!
This series is an anthology, leading with a multi-part story set in Australia. There's also a completely nutso story about a woad-covered Celt taking on a Predator that weirdly ends up going very The Last Knight.
The third story, a third of which is under the cut, involves the rather genius idea of Predator going to a gun show.
Now, of the holy trinity - Alien, Terminator and Predator - I must confess that the last of the three is my favourite, even though it is objectively the least good. But even I, a moderate Predator fan, have to roll my eyes whenever someone tries to paint it as any sort of 'honourable'...
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This series is an anthology, leading with a multi-part story set in Australia. There's also a completely nutso story about a woad-covered Celt taking on a Predator that weirdly ends up going very The Last Knight.
The third story, a third of which is under the cut, involves the rather genius idea of Predator going to a gun show.
Now, of the holy trinity - Alien, Terminator and Predator - I must confess that the last of the three is my favourite, even though it is objectively the least good. But even I, a moderate Predator fan, have to roll my eyes whenever someone tries to paint it as any sort of 'honourable'...
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Secret Society of Super-villains #2
Jul. 19th, 2025 07:28 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriters: Gerry Conway and David Anthony Kraft
Pencils: Pablo Marcos
Inks: Bob Smith
The Secret Society of Super-villains add a confused Golden Age hero to their number.
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Superman Unlimited #3: Krypto. Always A Good Boy
Jul. 19th, 2025 10:56 amsuperfangirl1 posting in scans_daily( Read more )
Rom: Spaceknight #22
Jul. 19th, 2025 04:29 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyPlot: Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema
Script: Bill Mantlo
Pencils: Sal Buscema
Inks: Joe Sinnott
Rom and the Torpedo team-up to take on the Dire Wraith Rocketeers.
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Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons: The Rise of Hellfire #4
Jul. 19th, 2025 10:00 amcyberghostface posting in scans_daily
Robin II #2
Jul. 19th, 2025 02:19 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
Just what is the Joker planning? Robin certainly doesn’t know.
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Richard Dragon: Kung Fu #9
Jul. 19th, 2025 12:06 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Dennis O’Neil
Pencils and inks: Ric Estrada
Richard Dragon and his supporting cast are asked to investigate reports of a mantis-man threatening the tourist trade in the Caribbean.
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Book review: "The Once and Future Witches" by Alix Harrow
Jul. 18th, 2025 06:00 pmOn Monday I finished The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow, about a trio of sisters in the American city of "New Salem" in Massachusetts in 1893 who take it upon themselves to revive witches' magic.
The Once and Future Witches dovetails historically with the movement for women's suffrage, creating some parallels between seeking the right to the vote and seeking the right to practice magic. I would have liked to have seen this carried more through the latter half of the novel, but I suppose I can see why it wasn't, particularly given it would be another nearly thirty years before the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. The suffragettes played a long game.
The core focus of the novel is sisterhood, both blood and otherwise. Harrow presents a beautifully wounded and layered portrait of siblinghood in the relationship between the three protagonists: Bella, the oldest; Agnes, the middle child; and Juniper, the youngest. Raised without a mother (she passed birthing Juniper) under the thumb of their abusive and alcoholic father in rural poverty, all three girls learned early on what they would do to ensure their own survival. And while there is great love between them, there is also great hurt, and by the start of the book, the three are not on speaking terms. Harrow did a great job with the complexity here, and watching their relationships develop and begin to heal was very enjoyable.
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