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Brother Power the Geek #1 (1968), cover by Joe Simon. Swamp Thing Annual #5 (1989), cover by John Totleben.

When we last saw “the Geek” before this — as I discovered via dirt cheap back issues of a series no one cared about — he’d been launched into space aboard a satellite on the orders of then-California Governor Ronald Reagan.

Then Neil Gaiman (pre-Sandman fame) came along with the tale of that satellite falling back to Earth, illustrated by Richard Piers Rayner, Mike Hoffman & Kim DeMulder.

While the story features some typical comic book action (eg, military men shouting orders into phones), what it’s really about is the 1960s peace & free love mentality crash-landing (literally) into the 1980s America of President Ronald Reagan.

Brother Power isn’t really even the main character in all of this; what’s fascinating is how his presence ripples out across the lives of the disparate cast of humans… and what they face in themselves as a result.

It’s a beautifully done little story that re-introduces BP without ever mocking or making fun of the concept (people in the story do, but the author himself doesn’t — a key distinction). 

A nice illustration of the axiom “There are no bad characters, only bad writers.”

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i was playing pokemon blue on stream earlier at 350% speed and i got to thinking

what if the reason nobody in the pokemon world has any good teams is because its considered a dick move to have a proper team comp

like culturally everyone is like “haha pick the pokemon you want! if you’re happy with three geodudes, thats you and your life!” and then you’re supposed to just have a friendly battle with any other pokemon trainers and whatever pokemon they just happen to have

like the average trainer is probably just walking around with a growlithe because that’s their pet, or a hiker has three geodudes because the geodudes help him with hiking. and if this pet owner and geodude hiker meet, you’re supposed to have a friendly battle but nothing too serious

now imagine the 10 year old kid that has six pokeballs on their belt comes up. you’re like “haha, we’ll have a friendly battle!” and you throw out your geodude 

and they throw out a fucking gyarados, and it one-shots your geodude 

and then you throw out your pidgey you have because the pidgey helps you navigate mountains because you’re a hiker

and then electricity crackles around the gyarados and a thunderbolt flies off of this giant dragon and evaporates your pidgey 

so you’re down to your last pokemon. you tell them you’re gonna send out your bulbasaur. the ten year old is like “oh okay in that case i’m gonna pull out my vulpix.” like not only is this kid walking around with an amped-up super dragon, but theyve also got multiple pokemon specifically for making type advantage counter-picks?

this kid’s a fucking asshole! really, kid? what are you trying to prove here? this is a friendly match between strangers for fun! why are you composing real-ass competitive teams? what a fucker! 

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I woke up out of a dead sleep to make this and then immediately passed back out

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fuck all philosophy except for whatever the hell Diogenes was trying to teach

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recipe for mud:

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it’s gonna be another one of those years huh

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018) dir. David Slade

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Me, when a sci-fi introduces a desert location: SHOW ME THE WORM

*giant sand worm burst from the ground*

Me: YESSSSSSSS

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On this day, 20 December 1973, Spanish fascist Prime Minister who was hand-picked as Franco’s successor Luis Carrero Blanco was assassinated in Madrid. Basque separatists ETA had spent five months digging a tunnel under a road he went down to attend mass. They then detonated a bomb as he drove over, shooting his car 20 metres into the air and over a five-storey building, earning Blanco the nickname of “Spain’s first astronaut”. His successor was unable to hold together different factions of the government, and was credited by some of helping accelerate the restoration of democracy after Franco’s death. We only post highlights on here, for all our anniversaries follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory Pictured: a cinematic creation of the event https://ift.tt/2rOwulk

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help

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Hot hot hot hot chocolate

HEY WE GOT IT

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I miss him