#Alex Inc.

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Alex Ross' cover for the first issue of Dynamites Justice, Inc. #1 (August, 2014) featuring a crossover between The Shadow, Doc Savage and The Avenger.

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Black Canary by Alex Garner

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Just finished Inside Job. If Netflix had ANY sense, it would greenlight at least a Part 3.

Solid eight episodes of Reagan taking on the Robes would be hella cool.

That said, Part 2 ended on a good note of Reagan letting go of what Rand could not. Even with the cliffhanger, it's a very good endpoint for her. God, that penultimate scene...

I recommend it to anybody from Gravity Falls fans to those looking for Adult Animation that doesn't stop or end at raunchy comedies.

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“Polaroids” by Dash Snow.

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Guided By Voices — Strut of Kings (GBV Inc.)

Photo by Ellen Qbertplaya

In an interview following the announcement of the new Guided By Voices record, Strut of Kings, Robert Pollard explained why it would, uncharacteristically, be the group’s only release this year: “I just wanted to give this one a little more time to sink in with the fans. Give them some breathing space.” Take Pollard at his word: Strut of Kings is worth the focus and, speaking of space, it’ll take up as much as your speakers allow.

Back in 2018, I wrote that Space Gun (also that year’s only GBV album) was “a protein-rich re-entry point from which to backtrack through the post-millennium catalog…with triumphant blends of sweeping rhythm guitar, ascending lead riffs and rolling rhythm sections.” Six years and 13 albums later, I’ll say the same of Strut of Kings, only more so. As on Space Gun, Pollard is backed by Bobby Bare Jr., Doug Gillard, Mark Shue, and Kevin March, but here they play with a stormier ambition that adds an extra potency to the songs. This isn’t angry music, exactly, but it is noticeably heavier and sounds off with a harder-rocking urgency.

On the edgier end of things come ornery, ear-ringing slugfests like “Olympus Cock In Radiana” and “Cavemen Running Naked.” The first of which heaves around thick, fuzzy guitar arpeggios over a dogged stomp with the bare menace of early Black Sabbath. The second evokes both Queens of the Stone Age with its brute force drumming and taut, meaty riffs and Thin Lizzy with its buzzy, glamorous bursts of guitar. Sequenced between those two and yet darker is “Leaving Umbrella.” The track, slow, sheer and draped with cymbal crashes and sliding walls of distortion, finds Pollard wallowing in a psychedelic, fantastical fog, like a long lost David Bowie album for Southern Lord.

Ill-tempered bangers aside, Strut of Kings is, like so much of Pollard’s vast catalog, at its best in rich, punchy, power pop mode. One of Pollard’s great strengths as a vocalist is delivering even his hardest-to-parse lines with the conviction of confessional poetry. As the sparkling strum and thrust of “Fictional Environment Dream” is lifted by sustained electronic keys, “trying to sell me/on such same primitive tools/programming fever dreams/with the fools/let them expel me” might as well be Matthew Sweet lamenting “I’m sick of myself when I look at you.” It’s one of several moments when the musical ambition and vigor of this album crosses into more radiant, but no less powerful territory. Take, for instance, the long, elegiac build of “Bit Of A Crunch,” from clean, picked guitar to a robust, sunbreak-after-rain stadium balladry close to Oasis’ ragged, golden “Don’t Go Away.” Perhaps the record’s most potent blend of beauty and brawn, however, is “Serene King.” At the bridge, while Pollard raps towards his jet plane takeoff on the final refrain, a rapid series of single guitar notes shoot up from the bullying rumble of bass, drums and blasting, third-rail rhythm chords, taking the song from fist-pumping to something like transcendent.

Chalk it up to the explosive instrumentals, but the lyrics, often the most beguiling aspect of a Guided By Voices record, aren’t the most memorable part of Strut of Kings. One verse, though, from the album closer “Bicycle Garden,” stands out: “Though all the roses are dying/the old nest climbing with ivy/is lively.” What better way to describe Pollard’s indefatigable musical career than in terms of voracious regeneration. With this latest liveliness, Pollard and company continue that relentless growth. And remember, they’re leaving the breathing space for you: no one said they needed it.

Alex Johnson

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Sometimes I see ppl argue for partition/a two state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict and I just. One thousand yard stare from the part of Ireland under partition where paramilitaries very much still exist and make life hell

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Amazing Spider-Man #793 Cover Art by Alex Ross

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Alex Garner - Black Canary & Deathstroke

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Original Male Character/Reader Characters: Original Male Character(s), Original Trans Character(s) Additional Tags: Parent/Child Incest, Father/Son Incest, Penis In Vagina Sex, POV Second Person, Trans Porn by Trans People, Father-Son Relationship, Incest, Rough Sex, aftersex, Consensual Sex, Misgendering, mention of past physical child abuse, Revenge Sex, dubcon, Transphobia, Age Difference, No Underage Sex, Trans Male Character

Summary:

POV: You’re a trans guy with conflicted feelings about your dad. You fuck him about it.

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Alex Ross' recreation of Joe Kubert's original cover for DC Comics' version of Justice Inc. (vol. 1) #1 (June, 1975).

The original.

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LILLY THE ALEX RIDER DSMP AU. IT'S OVERTAKEN MY BRAIN. THE NEW SERIES. TALK TO ME PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PL

Oh hi Bean!!! :D

LOL I have not watched s3 yet but I saw you brainrotting, I'm assuming it was great!👍

Okay okay okay so!!! Brief recap bc I need to refresh my memory:

Tommy as Alex, Techno as Yassen, Uhhhhh Phil as John and Kristin as Ian I think???

Dream as "a younger, greener Blunt" to quote myself, uhhh I think Mrs. Jones was Puffy?????

Jack Niki Sapnap Eret as K-Unit/K-Squad! Code names Thunder, Arson, Animal Abuse, and Tax Fraud!!!😃 (I believe Tommy was Drug Abuse lol)

Quackity as Ash, Hannah and Punz as [Point Blanc] with Purpled & Enderboo as two of the clones, Ranboo Aimsey and Eryn as the [PB] kids, with Ranboo(in the role of Kyra) later transferring to Tommy and Tubbo's school. Kyranboo pog!

Tubbo was Tom!! As he should be!!!

Uhhh okay I think that's about as far as we got???

AR!Wilbur was Jack(the Starbright variety not the Manifold variety) but I think we might want to change that particular bit...😅 I suggest Charlie or Schlatt!! If it's Schlatt then Tubbo could also be Tommy's pseudo-brother?? Yknow since Schlatt is usually Tubbo's dad in these things. Charlie would be funnier though, considering Ash and Jack canonically went on a few dates in AR.

"Oh yeah Quackity from Las Nevadas, we f*cked a few times!" "Charlie-" "He made real nice noises when-" "CHARLIE STOP-"

Awesamdad would be nice too, but I think Sam was Smithers??? Or maybe it was Foolish, idk.

Uuuuhhhh Point Blanc!! Still needs a name!!! It's just Hannah and Punz (+Purpled) so... uh.

....Academy Bedwars????

idk what to call them OTL, I'm saving Skephalo/Eggpire for Scorpia, I can't call PB the Eggpire...

Uuuuhhhh anyway!! Bedrock Bros bc we love Bedrock Bros in this house!!! Phil got discovered/fought his prodigy/got betrayed a little later than John did in AR canon, so Techno met baby Tommy a few times. Tommy's blue sweater coming from Techno was what we agreed on I think!

Anyway even though Techno felt betrayed by Phil being a spy, I think his feelings are a little different than Yassen. With Yassen it was pretty complicated, with him already being committed to Scorpia/the morally grey(like, really really dark grey) side, still being grateful to John for saving his life, etc. Meanwhile Techno would betray the Eggpire for one corn chip- if said corn chip was Phil. He was just angry Phil never told him.

"You're a spy????" "Techno I can explain-*" "AND YOU WEREN'T GONNA TAKE ME WITH YOU???!?!!! I thought we were a team, smh! S M f*cking H!!!"

(*: he cannot)

Anyway after Phil "dies"(I don't think he's actually dead, I feel like a major deviation from AR canon is bound to happen sometime and I think Phil returning would be an important plot point), Techno just. Stays with the Eggpire. He doesn't know how to contact MI6 anyway, and he doesn't really see the point when Phil isn't gonna be there. Also, staying with the Eggpire means he can keep an eye out for Phil's remaining family, so that's what he does till one day he sees Tommy(Techno had been keeping track of him so he knows what Tommy looks like, but the kid looks exactly like Phil anyway) in a... rich kid boarding school?? And he's going by Tommy Outit(/ref)??? Bruh???

Tommy, of course does NOT recognize Techno and he's like Why is that guy looking at me like he recognizes me. Meanwhile Techno is bluescreening bc Hey. Hey Kristin? Why is your son doing spy work? Kristin???

...

Okay Imma pass the baton onto you now, feel free to add on lol.

-Lilly xx

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Relieved that Hank survived Avengers Inc. #5, but sad that his part of the story didn’t get more of a happy, hopeful ending.

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Alex Bale's Pixar Metaverse Theory makes more sense than The Pixar Universe Theory.

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Alex sibling PC is good but do you think I could ask about being Remy's sibling or child going around Alex's farm? If it's not too much?

Remy's Sibling

Remy's pissd, how could they not be? You're their sibling, you're meant to be on their side, always. Blood is thicker than water, right?

So, why are you sneaking off to that upstarts farm?

You're not torching the place, no. Would be eaiser if you were.

Oh, Remy won't turn you into part of the herd. They can't do that to you, and only partialy because they don't like anyone thinking about how people as high up as Remy could fall into beasthood. No, it's beacuse you're their darling sibling!

That's why you wake up bound to a bed in the mannor.

They'll make you see the error or you ways, one way or another.

Remy's Child

They're fucking furious

What is this, some kind of late stage teenage rebellion?

Sneaking off to their rival's farm? Sharing kisses under the moonlight? Play wresteling in the medow? Letting them pin you down? Letting some no name, low life fuck you?

Oh, what, you didn't think they'd find out?

Oh, honey, what kind of parent did you think they were? Remy keeps a close eye on everything you do.

They raised you, after all. Brought you up to be a proper member of society. They won't let you go throwing that all away.

Don't worry, they're your parent, they know what's best for you.

And, what's best for you now is locking you up in your room on the estate and make you forget every single thing that fucker ever did to you.

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