#Gerry Grant

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Doctor Fate will not live through the night!

(All-Star Comics #62)

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Batman #348 (”Shadow Play”)

Detective Comics #592 (“The Fear”)

Batman: Shadow of the Bat #2 (The Last Arkham)

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Some Jurassic Park Daily Reflection-ft Life Finds A Way

I know I’m a few days late to when this chapter was the assigned reading, but I’m still going to make a post about this specific part of the book. I want to highlight the quote in the post title “Life…Finds A Way”. This small phrase has essentially become the slogan of the whole entire franchise, and arguably taken on a life of its own (no pun intended). So I want to talk a bit about the scene where we are first introduced to it, before even the iconic scene in the first film, to when we see the equivalent of that scene in the book.

It’s part of a much larger spiel, which is pretty par for the course for Book!Ian Malcolm, who is prone to long diatribes, many paragraphs long, detailing his opinions on everything from fashion to capitalism to natural history and beyond.

Anyway, the scene where this spiel takes place is actually not the scene in the laboratory like in the film, but rather a scene with an injured stegosaurus (triceratops in the movie). Dr. Sattler and Dr. Grant are trying to help the vet Dr. Gerry Harding assist the dinosaur to recovery, and Tim, Lex, Ian, Ed Regis (a PR representative who was not in the film) and Donald Gennaro (the lawyer, who is essentially a different character in the books) are all crowding around, too. Lex gets board and tries to play catch with some of the adults-Gennaro agrees and has a sidebar conversation with Malcolm at the same time. During this conversation, Gennaro essentially says that he thinks Malcolm’s use of chaos theory is too broad (“is anything not predicted by your theory” he point blank asks). He is skeptical, but Malcolm is able to provided specific examples beyond “things are unpredictable”, which Malcolm is able to do, listing many specifics. When trying to explain his underlying perspective, we get the basis memorable monolouge from the film: “The history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way…I don’t mean to be philosophical, but there it is.”

What’s most interesting to me is that unlike the pristine lab setting where we get this in the film, Malcolm outside talking to his colleague who’s playing catch with a young kid. Not only does it seem less grandiose, in a way, but it seems to have a more practical application, too. Oftentimes, in the later films or even other media, this idea of “life finds a way” takes on this “humanity will survive” kind of context that feels totally applicable, but a bit disconnected from the film scene imo.

But in the book, the entire spiel is happening over a game of catch, a game that means a lot to Lex, who, not fully known to Ian and Gennaro at this point, is having a very rough time at home. She feels unheard and ignored by all the adults in her life, and excluded even by Tim at points. But in this moment, Gennaro takes the time to indulge her game, and as far as Malcolm’s concerned, the more people to hear him talk, the merrier. In the midst of this hectic tour of a prehistoric zoo, they have found a small moment to connect, to build bonds, to be a community, and that represents the survival of humanity and the human spirit to me in a very visceral way.

It makes all the “life finds a way” tied to humanity exclusively make even more sense, too. Because while Malcolm is talking about things on a grand history scale, he’s also doing so while participating in/witnessing this small human moment, and it’s kind of perfect, in a way.

Anyway, I have a lot of thoughts about this and wanted to share!

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Find yourself a best friend who won’t be put off by rotten pizza on your nightstand.

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While I am enjoying season 4 of Succession so far, it’s really giving me Fanfiction.net 30k+ words WARNING: Major Character Death Hurt/Comfort fanfic energy

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GH: JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #215

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA had been one of my favorite comic books when I was younger. It was one of only three series to which I ever maintained a subscription to insure that I didn’t miss an issue. But by 1982, the book was feeling tired and a bit stale. Writer Gerry Conway had been in place for more than sixty issues, and one got the feeling that his heart wasn’t in the assignment to the same…

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Funniest thing about the Dalek Gerry Anderson Comic crossover’s is that UFO and the UNIT era of Doctor Who happen at the same time (we know UFO a happens even though it has no crossover’s thanks to SID appearing in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and CSatM had a direct comic crossover) like Ed Straker will be having the worst day of his life trying to fight the UFO’s and knowing his son is dying after he was in a car accident whilst his ex wife’s begs for him to help but he needs to destroy the UFO’s first, whilst the Doctor, the Brig, and Jo will be having wacky hijinks  fighting the Master and what ever foe is going to betray the Master this week.

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I promised a hot girl summer Michael Shelley and I have delivered!! (This song has been stuck in my head since I first listened to it)

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Marvel wanted to cash in on the popularity of Spider-Man so added another title with Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man, cover date December, 1976. The issue introduced the Vice Chancellor of Empire State University Dr Edward Lansky created by Gerry Conway and Sal Buscema. ("Twice Stings the Tarantula!" Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider Man 1#, Marvel Comic Event)

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gerry has me in a fucking chokehold rn. sjhdiahsjJshhzjHzhJju

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Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #2 (Conway/Buscema, Jan 1977). The relationship between Spidey’s Amazing and Spectacular books remains an impressive feat so far. Pete returns from his confrontation with the Kingpin to find Doc Connors looking worse for wear. Somehow Pete doesn’t worry about a reappearance of the Lizard, but he’s juggling so many plotlines right now, it’s hard to blame him. A kidnapping conspiracy has been developing while he was fighting Fisk. And after months of Jonah firing secretaries to replace Betty Brant, Pete refers his neighbor Glory Grant.

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A spectacular one-minute tour of the JSA HQ

(All-Star Comics #62)

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Bouncing off the mutant progress question, since mutant rights (/ mutant metaphor) has ofc been a big focus in the marvel universe, and there are also several prominent legal based marvel characters (like she hulk and daredevil) who’ve intersected w the x men , have we had any legal looks at the day to day legal discrimination or battles mutants have had to deal with? Ofc there are the major things like registration, “cures”, sentinels, etc. but what about marriage, workplace discrimination, “mutant panic” “defenses”, mutants in military, mutant political representation, etc. or do they usually have a degree of seperajtonb with the “mutant metaphor” with the subjects they cover vs real world issues?

Well, "mutant panic" was infamously depicted in Rosencanny X-Men and everyone fucking hated it.

But yes, there has been coverage of day-to-day mutant legal issues in New X-Men leading into District X. Most recently, the topic was covered in Rainbow Rowell's She-Hulk run, when Jenn Walters, Esq. became "outside counsel" for Krakoans dealing with legal matters in the U.S, and in Gerry Duggan's Iron Man, where Jenn acts as Tony and Rhodey's lawyer in their struggle against Feilong and ORCHIS.

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Rebellion announces 40 Years of Scream! collection for 2024

Celebrating 40 years since IPC launched its iconic, "horror" anthology, Rebellion has announced 40 Years of Scream!, on sale next April - collecting all of the strips included in the 15-issue run of the short-lived weekly comic

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Unfortunately, Clovis attacked Gerry after an unlucky drink… Is this the end to the fraternity friendship?

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The New Normal Chapter 15

Chapter 15: The New Normal 

Gerry regarded the long scars on Robert’s forearm and knew there were more beneath his clothes. He still remembered the night Amelia called him to tell him that Robert had survived the ordeal on Isla Nublar, but was in the hospital. He had hurried to be there to offer support to the Muldoon-Croft family and in turn, had seen firsthand what a sorry state the raptors had left their handler in.

Read the full Chapter : Here