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FML is intensely confident, hilarious, and deeply compassionate. It’s a book about everyone doing their best, no one doing okay, and what happens when the stories we tell ourselves to cope with just how crazy shit is look us in the eyes and tell us what’s going to happen next.  You're going to love it.

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David @davidlopez.bsky.social blogged about the making of the flowchart on the FML blog! https://www.fmlcomix.com/post/how-can-i-buy-comics

https://www.fmlcomix.com/post/how-can-i-buy-comics

David López and I made a thing! If you’re new to comics or comics-curious and want to pick up FML (or anything else), maybe this will help.

I’ll put it up on the FML site along with mail order resources later today.

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David López and I made a thing! If you’re new to comics or comics-curious and want to pick up FML (or anything else), maybe this will help.

I’ll put it up on the FML site along with mail order resources later today.

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They inspire me, and a zillion others. They chase dreams. Higher. Further. Faster. More. #kellysue #jamiemckelvie #brielarson #captainmarvel (em El Captain Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuovkpEgHwS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pz1vw8k6tg4u

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Newsletter went out!

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Yep.

Sif is badass.

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This is my newest book -- "FML" -- co-created with David López and available at your local comic shop on November 6th, 2024. If you have a chance, I hope you'll consider pre-ordering from your local comic shop before SEPTEMBER 30TH.

Anyway, I got to talk to David Harper of OFF PANEL about it and I hope you'll give it a listen.

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Communities are a crucial part of futurism. And futurism needs to center communities.

My latest newsletter is about one essential reason why community gives me hope: communities create their own consensus reality, which can change the world.

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Bitch planet,

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The new Milkfed Criminal Masterminds newsletter confirms that yes, Matt Fraction co-created the new Monsterverse Godzilla show for Apple+ with Chris Black. He also gets to hug Kurt Russell a lot and shared this picture from Toho Studios.

I don’t know if I could find them, but years ago when he was active on Twitter, he and Kelly Sue DeConnick shared pictures from their son’s birthday one year where they had a kaiju party, complete with cardboard buildings set up in the yard. I’d like to think that helped him get this gig.

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[comic review] prometheus: fire and stone: omega (2015)

writer: kelly sue deconnick artist: agustin alessio

this extra long (44-page) one-shot concludes the crossover, and the first thing that jumped out at me is wow the art is amazing in this one. not that the art is bad in any of the other parts of this crossover, but they really pulled out all the stops for this one.

they also finally made me like the asshole who abandoned everyone in prometheus: fire and stone, which i know they were trying to do with his redemption arc when he was the protagonist in predator: fire and stone but it just didn’t get me there. but the leader of the survivors decides to use him as bait to get the predator to join them on their mission by putting him in peril, leading to the following exchange:

AND THEN IT WORKS???

he just totally skewers the xenomorphs that were gonna flay his human pet like a badass, and just… this dumbass has a yautja boyfriend!! i love it.

while that one certainly takes the cake, there’s just so many other awesome character interactions in this. like earlier, that same idiot asks, “why does everyone always tell me to shut up?” and one of the lesbians goes into mean lesbian mode and snaps back, “because you never do.” and later, the android/engineer hybrid guy is giving the dumbass a hard time for being a liar and a coward, and he snaps back, “you’re not even human!” to which he replies, “and i grow more delighted by that with each passing day.”

there isn’t a ton of action in this one, but it does effectively wrap up the story in a way that brings all the surviving characters together, lets us know where they’re at, and leaves things nicely set up for a sequel, which is about what i thought it was trying to do. and it got me to the point where i do genuinely like all the characters and am interested in seeing more of them. so i think it accomplished what it set out to do quite well, with the great art and dialogue as an added bonus.

a-rank

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Went to another great panel with Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, and Andrew Aydin where they said lots of great things about comics and education and history.

Then went and bought their comics Register and Recognize, which I will try to read before they have to be packed away for the move. And I got them signed (and got Valentine to sign a copy of BP that Kelly Sue had signed years ago) and they liked our a Honda Odyssey cosplay and I gave them ribbons and told them we had NC tats and had duck face selfies from years ago and I gave Kelly Sue a Monarch ribbon and told her that I knew it wasn’t her project but we were obsessed and I had gone deep down the fandom rabbit hole for it and I gave her an extra ribbon for Matt and she said she’d tell him we liked it lol.

And Valentine gave us these amazing Bitch Planet prints!

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Pretty Deadly!

Overdue fanart of @emmartian and Kelly Sue Deconnick s Pretty Deadly

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Anybody missing a t-shirt?

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Which variant is your favorite?

FML #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick, David López and Cris Peter. Cover by López. Variant covers by (2) Álvaro Martínez Bueno, (3) David Lafuente, (4) Nicola Scott and (5) Pepe Larraz. Out in November.

"From the Eisner award-winning creators who brought you Captain Marvel, Bitch Planet, and Wonder Woman: Historia comes this genre-busting, apocalyptic odyssey about a group of metal kids who face a medley of bizarre foes and encounters in Portland, Oregon during a worldwide pandemic. Riley is a teen that sketches out his heavy metal future with a ballpoint pen between monster movies and band practice. But musical stardom needs to compete with high school, the temper of a former Riot Grrrl mother, the morbid obsessions of a goth sister, and the eccentricities of bandmates that threaten to drive him and everyone around him insane. The balance gets harder after a ritual during a party in Portland's Forest Park causes him to wake up one day to discover that the creatures, witchcraft, and metal world he's obsessed with may be a bit closer to home than he preferred."

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"That is not justice. That is cruelty." "That is the way of the gods." "If I were a god…I would choose mercy."

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TELL ME EVERYTHING.

In the weirdest “life comes a full circle” moment: I spent my undergrad reading Captain Marvel, grad school screaming at the movie, and now as a doctor, teaching a class about Captain Marvel, Kelly Sue, and the Carol Corps.

This is the very best use of my PhD.