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Hell’s Kitchen Movie Club #2: Silent Running

This was just supposed to be a dumb strip about bad action movies, obscure band t-shirts, and the peculiar rhythms of male friendship. Then as I wrote it, these two assholes starting having emotional arcs and longer, interconnected storylines about loss and PTSD, and *throws up hands* why can’t I just make stupid things?

Then the Last Vegas shootings happened. Dave and his wife did a lot of the graphic design for that concert; they had many friends in the audience. And suddenly a lot of the casual conversations in bars we’d been having about these characters and their larger presence in the American cultural landscape got very real.

Look, I’ll go to my grave swearing that artists have a duty to be irresponsible. You try for responsibility in art – giving the audience what they expect – and you end up with Soviet Realism, or WPA murals. They’re pleasant enough in their way, but they don’t really make you feel anything, do they?

The act of creation is, at heart, wildly irresponsible. So, sure. Be daring. Tweak noses. Astonish and anger your audience. But remember there is first a far more fundamental rule, the numero uno, the bedrock law of existence in civilised society:

Don’t be evil.

And don’t enable the use of your creations for evil by others.

This is true from your very first story. It’s even more true when you are the brief caretaker of a multi-million-dollar corporate character, especially one that represents disenfranchised white male working-class rage, or a yellow-haired man wrapped up in red, white and blue who represents “America”, whatever that is.

Because make no mistake: evil is abroad in this land. It visits itself daily in violence on innocent bodies based on the color of their skin or the name they call God. And nobody does anything. It visited itself on hundreds of innocent music fans in Las Vegas. And nobody’s doing much of anything to stop it happening again.

I’m not saying you have to do anything. You don’t have to be a hero.

Just don’t be evil.

And if you’re lucky enough to write heroes, don’t do it in a way which allows the hateful to use them as symbols for evil.

If you want to do something, consider giving a little money to the Las Vegas victims’ fund (Team Frank) or Stop Soldier Suicide (Team Bucky). Or, y’know, maybe both.

Yours always (or at least until the inevitable Cease & Desist),

Alex

PS love to my volunteer co-creators, @dave-acosta (line art) and @deecunniffe (colour art), please follow them. We’ll be releasing a colour version of HKMC #1 tomorrow.

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Hey Tumblr. I've branched out and got an Instagram account. Those of you who enjoy my photography of Alaska may want to check it out. All my comic posts and gif sets and such will stay exclusively on Tumblr though. I'll start posting more as life gets less hectic in the coming weeks.

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Jessica Jones in Marvel’s The Defenders (2017)

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Cause if we can’t protect the earth you can be damn well sure we’ll Avenge it.

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Suicide Squad #1 - “Kicked in the Teeth” (2011)

written by Adam Glass art by Federico Dallocchio, Scott Hanna, Ransom Gerry, & Val Staples

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General Mills Presents Justice League #3 (2017)

written by Ivan Cohen art by June Brigman, Roy Richardson, & Jeremy Lawson

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Deadpool’s version of therapy seems pretty extreme.

Source: Daredevil/Deadpool Annual #1

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Avengers Assemble #11

written by Kelly Sue DeConnick art by Stefano Caselli

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Bombshells #4 - “Combat” (2015)

written by Marguerite Bennett art by Laura Braga & Wendy Broome

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Because the contemporary artists that perform it are not better than the Devil the way the real Johnny was?

My main problem with the song The Devil Went Down to Georgia is that the Devil’s section is invariably better than Johnny’s in any version I’ve heard.

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Nerdy Fact #1678: When asked specifically about how much of Kilgrave’s character traits, powers, and his constant demand for Jessica to “smile” is inspired by modern misogyny, Jessica Jones showrunner Melissa Rosenberg responded, “100%. [Jessica] is not defined by her gender. But those of us of the female persuasion, our lives are certainly informed by our gender and the misogyny around us.”  

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Texts From Superheroes

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As more people turn to internet steaming over cable, Netflix needs to adopt an Emergency Broadcast System.

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Time for a Dragonball Z app that lets people hunt for dragon balls and spend time in actual gyms to raise their power levels

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While I can see why that quote might seem Slytherin-esque, I’d love to point out that Deadpool is (canonically) a Hufflepuff.

SLYTHERIN: “I’m a bad guy who gets paid to fuck up worse guys.” -Rhett Reese + Paul Wernick (Wade Wilson: Deadpool)

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They should invent some kind of edible tape that you could use for holding down parts of different foods, like the ends of a burrito.

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Texts From Superheroes

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