#Oracle ARCS Resume

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[princess-of-the-corner]

Okay, I'll try to summarize it as best I can. Spoilers for Hyrule Warriors, of course:

Cia was the guardian of time, who existed outside of the timestream. As she watched the various incarnations of Link go on their quests, she became infatuated with him, but was saddened because he was always bound to be with Princess Zelda by fate. (Time likely ending up with Malon notwithstanding.) Ganondorf, who was sealed away completely at this time, took the opening to corrupt her and separated her goodness from her, creating Lana. Cia gathered an army of monsters to wage war on Hyrule. She got her hands on the Triforce of Power and used a spell to steal the other two Triforce parts from Link and Sheik and used it to rip time and space and merge different eras at Ganondorf's urging. Link ultimately defeats Cia in battle and she fades away in her other half's arms.

In the Wind Waker arc of Hyrule Warriors: Legends, Cia was revived in the Wind Waker timeline where she was captured and drained of power by Phantom Ganon. The heroes found and managed to save her, and she joined forces with them. Cia and Lana left to resume their roles as guardians of time.

THe plot is wild. It's a shame I couldn't get into the gameplay because the lore is interesting. So the Hyrule Warriors spinoff is the one I know the least about, which is ironic given my entire thing in No Fate is yoinking every character into this and fucking around with the Trio and their knowledge of past lives.

As for potentially using Cia/Lana as the Oracle of Fate...... debating on it.

On one hand out of all past characters she /does/ fit.

On the other hand.... the Oracle of Fate is less 'corrupted by evil via jealousy' and more 'going insane because of paranoia that if things don't go exactly as they should be it's all going to fuck up'

[euclyta]

I really like your pso2 oc! I think she's a cutie! Can you give me an info dump about her? If you want to, you don't gotta

i had to write this three times bc tumblr kept deleting everything i wrote orz. u get mey's condensed pso2 lore (i still have close to nothing for her ngs lore aaa)

meyneth is the incarnation of the great light, born together with the universe and the primordial darkness!

ten years before the story of pso2 begins, she is almost a casualty from the attack on the arks ship by dark falz apprentice, and is saved in the nick of time by a pair of newman siblings. her body is mechanized from the inside to save her life. after these events, she decides that she’s going to find the two siblings that rescued her and give them a proper thank you

years later, she joins arks and befriends afin on her first day on the job. they become besties and are never seen far from the other. mey is extremely proficient with light element techniques and is a very fearsome force/techter (she gets a lot of comments about her power being blinding like the sun itself)

the story is largely the same as the one in canon, except for after when matoi is taken by the profound darkness; mey goes to see euclyta, because her case gives her hope, and no matter how many times shes told its futile, she returns over and over; not just to talk about saving matoi, but because she genuinely likes being around her and they become very close friends. she doesnt want to say anything, but the truth is that mey developed a huge crush on euclyta along the way. she’s content with keeping quiet until xiao asks her to undergo cryosleep to cleanse her body from f-factor. the night before she has to go, euclyta steps up and confesses she’s also got feelings for her. they promise they’ll be together once mey comes back.

two years pass, she wakes up, and reunites with her friends.

episode 4 as it is in the game doesnt exist in this story because i dont like it so the way i retconned it is an arc focused on defeating falspawn across the planets in preparation for the primordial darkness’ return, like xiao had said at the end of episode 3. there is a lot of focus on mey reconnecting with her friends and catching up on the two years they missed out on, and her developing relationship with euclyta.

when the primordial darkness returns, mey harnesses her innate light and manages to separate persona from it, creating omega in the process. episode 5 continues as normal, except that when euclyta and aurora are brought to epyk, they refuse to go back to oracle and stick together with mey (largely because eucie doesnt wanna leave her alone on a strange medieval fantasy isekai, like if you found out your girlfriend was fighting REAL firebreathing dragons, golems, and shit you’d be terrified for her wellbeing too) (she got a very cool epyk disguise because otherwise margareta wouldnt let them go)

when episode 5 ends theres another divergence from canon, in which mey is too kind for her own good and saves elmir from dying and forces him into the falz sitcom headspace together with luther, gettemhart and co. she has to constantly tell them to not lay a finger on him. also he refuses to admit he does like her. she gets a very cool masquerade dark blast form!

in the small timeframe between the end of ep5 and before shiva overtakes the mothership in ep 6, mey obtains a cosmogenic arm of her own in the form of lightstream xion, after fighting the requiem of the specters grudge (the dark falz persona raid).

the war against shiva goes the same, but when it comes to the finale you might be asking who the third heroine is if i wrote hitsugi out of existence. its euclyta :D because i can and because i believe in the power of love skjdhsj

after the end of the story, things go quiet and they try to resume life and live in peace. meyneth and euclyta get married a few years later. i am still ironing out how i want this ending to connect to ngs bc we still have so little lore on the meteorn but i’ll make it work. i now realize this was supposed to be about mey and i somehow still ended up rambling a bit about euciemey in the process whoops. anyway .

theres the mey lore i hope u enjoy pls subscribe and hit the little bell icon for more

[pattarainn]

And yup, I already posted this on the human zoo clip on YouTube because some stupid comments saying Laura wasn’t the Dying Leader but Galactica herself.

I mean Galactica was still usable and wasn’t a wreck from the get-go tho. She was merely an old ship that the "Dying Leader" decided was better off retired and turned into a war museum.

Not even Kara—the supposed goddess Aurora guiding them to the Promised land with coordinates—because she was long dead before they even made it to the new Earth. It was Laura's death that confirmed they had truly reached the promised land.

And the survival of humanity all circles back to Laura's life:

- Her parents, both educators, influenced her career choice.

- Her distinguished career in education captured Adar's attention.

- Family loss led her to abandon teaching.

- Joined Adar's team.

- As Adar climbed the political ladder, she became Secretary of Education.

- She pitched the idea to turn Galactica into a museum.

- A clash with Adar led her to attend the decommissioning ceremony alone.

- A routine check revealed her terminal breast cancer diagnosis.

- The Cylon attack resulted in her unexpected presidency.

- Talked Adama into running instead of fighting.

- During the New Caprica arc, a brief break from cancer bought more time for herself and the Fleet to continue the journey.

- Resuming her presidency, her battle with cancer resumed, reaffirming her status as the Dying Leader.

- Several visions, induced by Chamalla extract, mirrored ancient oracles of Delphi.

- Her peaceful passing on the same day they arrived at the new Earth secured the planet as the Promised Land, and her role as the Prophet and the Dying Leader.

Even her relationship with Bill was destined. I can’t imagine his romantic connection working with anyone but Laura.

I feel for her, but Carolanne was merely a plot device – the link to lead him back to the military. The Metis giving birth to his children, who would play a crucial role in the mission, and the voice in his head.

He was always away, so his ‘a man of actions and a few words’ approach wouldn’t work because he wasn’t there in person for his first wife to express love through actions rather than words.

Unlike when he was with Laura, where he was allowed to take actions and show her how much he loved her. Thanks to the vastness of space, they couldn’t just run away after a fight, a tendency both of them had – him burying himself in military work and her shutting everyone out, working hard in the background like a wallflower.

Due to the failed marriage, he understood the importance of cherishing and protecting the love and the last chance he was lucky enough to have.

I know it might seem undemocratic for the head of the military to openly support only the government leader he favored, Laura, despite the election and the system.

And then, they happened to have exactly the same taste in literature, with him owning the book she wanted to read before the end of the world but didn’t have a chance to.

Let's be real, Bill, too, was created for Laura – born to be in the military so he could meet the Dying Leader, love her, and support her to ensure the mission would be accomplished.

This should be more than enough confirmation that Laura Roslin was indeed the Dying Leader, and no one can ever convince me that she was NOT THE DYING LEADER.

Sometimes, I wonder why it’s such a big deal for Laura and Bill to be in a relationship.

What would the fleet do if they learned that the president and the admiral were romantically involved? Would they congratulate them, or would there be screams for their breakup and resignations?

After all, they were all each other had left, and there was nothing more beyond the shelter of Galactica’s bulkheads. If the crew could get together – even Baltar was forgiven and had his own cult – couldn’t the fleet allow a dying woman to be peacefully and happily in a relationship with a man she found after the end of the world, the last love of her remaining days?

Every time I think about it, I feel so mad at our parents for squandering the limited years they could’ve spent together as a couple, all because of their so-called responsibilities, overthinking, and avoidance.

[kaijuno]

So I (@el-smacko) went to the University of Iowa and took a lot of undergraduate writing classes. I didn’t attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop but I was taught by people who did and the most important thing I ever learned was that there’s more fiction in nonfiction and more nonfiction in fiction and that that’s actually a really good thing.

For nonfiction to work, it has to fundamentally contradict the fact that life rarely ever happens in a cohesive, satisfying story with a traceable narrative arc. In fact, the crisis of identity that a lot of my peers (and myself) had in school and maybe even more so afterward was that our lives weren’t conforming to the story we’d written for ourselves and worse, didn’t even appear to have a narrative trajectory, much less structure. Not to get too off topic or melodramatic, but the whole American hyperindividualism that says slavery and Jim Crow somehow don’t affect people of color today is also telling our children that they need to independently “be something” or, worse, “make something” of themselves. It’s basically saying “Remember Ozymandias? Fuck that guy, build your statue.”

Anyway, for fiction to work it has to reflect reality enough to be accessible to other people that may not share your experience but definitely share that reality. The worst fiction I ever workshopped were barren worlds populated not by characters but by unbelievable caricatures. To write people, to create and direct characters, you have to know what real people are like and especially how they talk.

But there are exceptions. The point of, for instance, The Stranger by Camus (etc.; look, it’s been a while since I was in high school—I had to check Wikipedia to make sure it wasn’t written by Sartre and you can’t make me look up if it’s absurdism it’s nihilism or both I don’t care) is that you may be your own main character, the narrator, the hero of your own story, but for a frightening amount of people especially in America the story is being found guilty and going to prison for the rest of your life and, if a Republican comes into power at any point in your entire life behind bars that may have started before the internet, you’re put to death and your story ends. (The death penalty has recently resumed in the US btw [sorry, I should say “officially resumed” because if you’re a person of color you could be summarily executed at any point for existing near a cop].)

What a lot of Lovecraft enthusiasts especially fail to realize is that “weird” can become meaningless when fiction is saturated with “weirdness” that is weird relative to nothing. These writers actually regularly and remarkably manage what should be an impossible task in writing “weird” that isn’t uncanny because a plain may be the same depth relative to sea level as a valley but without peaks it can’t actually, you know, go a-valleying.

But hey while I have you there’s this writing advice going around that what characters say should be at least three degrees away from what they actually mean because real people don’t perfectly express themselves or have speeches prepared should they be asked to exposit. In fact, a little advice: do not under any circumstances learn to recognize the “cooperative cool with being interrogated” way some characters speak because it’ll fucking ruin a lot of media.

But also, while I generally agree with the advice of meaning having to be filtered into speech, I think it’s far more important to know when those filters shouldn’t be in the way. And I don’t mean a confession of love under stress. I mean Cassandra of Troy perfectly prophesying the fall of Troy but being cursed to be disbelieved. And a lot of people don’t really understand the story of Cassandra in context: she didn’t just have the gift of prophecy and the curse of disbelief. That would’ve been meaninglessly redundant to the Greeks, who if you read Herodotus are regularly given obscure prophecies in poetic meter by the oracle at Delphi that aren’t understood until after the disaster has come to pass. No, the tragedy of the curse of disbelief is that Cassandra was given the gift of perfect, coherent prophecy.

Accordingly, characters shouldn’t be unilaterally denied clarity, but clarity should be leveraged to tell a good story.

Hey but also, and this is super important: writing doesn’t have to be good. In fact if you want to write something enjoyable, it may not have to be good at all. The majority of the stories I workshopped in college weren’t good or even just enjoyable—most of my writing included—but if you had good attendance, engaged with the discussion about whatever story we were reading, and wrote everything you were told to write like workshop letters and analyses and, you know, your fucking story we were going to workshop, you got an A and a depressing amount of published work has that degree of uninspired, formulaic, barely passable bullshit.

Which leads me to my final point: have fun. Fuck it. Write what you want and if you had a good time hell yeah rad.

[perseveriing]

( worn canary yellow boots, the green hue of a screen full of codes to be hacked, bruised knuckles and scarred skin ) –– && it looks like barbara gordon has finally arrived in woodshore ( though she originates from dc ). although known as BATGIRL back home, here they are a thirty year old librarian, known to be INTELLIGENT, but RECKLESS. they were coaxed here with the promise of HER FATHER. they remember THINKING SHE KILLED HER BROTHER.

from what point in your characters canon are they taken from?

babs is taken from an arc where her brother ( james gordon jr. – a serial killer ) is working against her and comes close to killing their estranged mother. in an attempt to save her, she seems to fatally injure him but he falls from a bridge and his body isn’t found. ( spoiler alert, this is comics so he was alive ). still, at this point in her life babs has already been through hell and back, having first picked up being batgirl at the young age of fifteen. she’s been oracle, formed her own team with the birds of prey, mentored other batgirls, and ultimately resumed the role as they all went on to find their own identities. due to triggering topics, i won’t get too deep into her experiences but i do generally pull from newer comic arcs simply to be on the same page as many others, but i have read or am aware of all her comic history and happy to use whatever works best in terms of plotting!

gender/pronouns

cis female & she/her

anything else you’d like to add!

irish & mexican super duper smart chaos bi with an eidetic memory

as mentioned, i do pull from recent comics for continuity reasons but i am happy and love all points in the comics and am happy to pull things from there as well !!

i am trash and still plotting things out so if anyone would like to establish any fake life/memories/any plotting please don’t hesitate to message me!

she’s a librarian who loves her motorcycle and computer okay

friends, enemies, frenemies, relationships pls all the things i’m trash

[eddycurrents]

For the week of 21 October 2019

Quick Bits:

Action Comics #1016 continues brilliantly integrating Naomi into the broader DC Universe as she helps Superman with the Red Cloud and introduces Batman to her mom. Some very nice double-page spreads in this one from Szymon Kudranski and Brad Anderson, with a nice structure from Brian Michael Bendis in the form of a investigative journalist format.

| Published by DC Comics

The Amazing Mary Jane #1 is an interesting debut from Leah Williams, Carlos Gomez, Carlos Lopez, and Joe Caramagna. It plays upon MJ’s resumed career as an actress and a different turn for Mysterio (I need to go back and read some of his stuff with Kindred, because something seems off).

| Published by Marvel

Amazing Spider-Man #32 begins the next stage in Marvel’s seeming neverending onslaught of event after event with the prelude into the upcoming 2099 thing, including the Marvel debut of Patrick Gleason providing line art. The thing that gets you is that it’s good. Nick Spencer, Gleason, Matthew Wilson, and Joe Caramagna give us an interesting hook in a future and a present that have apparently gone wrong, but we’re really unsure what’s happened yet, just that a seemingly powerless Miguel, back in his original costume, needs to find Peter. It’s compelling.

| Published by Marvel

Amazing Spider-Man: Full Circle #1 is a rather fun and funny story that you really have to go into blind in terms of most content. It’s better to be surprised by the experience. It’s an all-star team of talent including Jonathan Hickman, Chris Bachalo, Gerry Duggan, Greg Smallwood, Nick Spencer, Mike Allred, Kelly Thompson, Valerio Schiti, Al Ewing, Chris Sprouse, Chip Zdarsky, Rachael Stott, Jason Aaron, Cameron Stewart, Mark Bagley, Tim Townsend, Al Vey, Karl Story, John Dell, Laura Allred, Mattia Iacono, Dave McCaig, Tríona Farrell, Nathan Fairbairn, Frank D’Armata, and Joe Caramagna playing a game of exquisite corpse, with each team coming up with a more outlandish cliffhanger for the next team to extricate Spider-Man from. It’s hilarious and incredibly well done.

| Published by Marvel

Angel #6 gives us another perspective on the “Hellmouth” crossover event, as a dejected Spike is tracked down by Fred and Gunn. I really like how Bryan Edward Hill, Gleb Melnikov, Roman Titov, and Ed Dukeshire are continuing the ongoing narrative of the series, while still dovetailing seamlessly into the event. It doesn’t miss a beat on either side of the equation, while still presenting an entertaining story in its own right regardless of whether you’ve read anything previously. All while introducing another player that’s already causing complications. Very nice layered storytelling here.

| Published by BOOM! Studios

Aquaman Annual #2 seems to have been oddly scheduled, with a story taking place after the still ongoing “Amnesty” arc in the main series, but Kelly Sue DeConnick, Vita Ayala, Victor Ibáñez, Jay David Ramos, and Clayton Cowles still deliver an entertaining story that plays into the DOOM that’s been spread by the Legion of Doom and Perpetua. There’s an undercurrent of animosity, anger, and paranoia that seems to be fostered by the doom mark hanging in the sky, and this story nicely builds on it.

| Published by DC Comics

Ascender #6 begins the next arc, though it is much more a direct continuation from the story unfolding, with Andy captured and Mila on the run by boat. Jeff Lemire continues to inject humour into this story through the sheer ineptitude from the vampires. It’s a wonder that they can control anything.

| Published by Image

Avengers #25 is the finale to “Challenge of the Ghost Riders” from Jason Aaron, Stefano Caselli, Jason Keith, Erick Arciniega, and Cory Petit. It does a good job of building Robbie back up, while showing more of the cracks that we’re seeing in Johnny Blaze that were shored up in Ghost Rider. 

| Published by Marvel

Bad Reception #3 goes hard into more traditional themes around horror and, more specifically, slasher films and it’s absolutely wonderful. Juan Doe is giving us a very compelling mystery here, adding more layers as to why the killer is doing this and adding complications through the different characters. Great stuff.

| Published by AfterShock

Batgirl #40 escalates Oracle’s plans as she launches an offensive on Burnside in order to draw out Batgirl. The art this issue from Carmine Di Giandomenico and Jordie Bellaire gets taken to a completely new level. They layouts and colours are absolutely beautiful.

| Published by DC Comics

Batman/Superman #3 goes deeper into the Batman Who Laughs’ machinations for the Infected and what he’s trying to unleash on the DC Universe. Joshua Williamson, David Marquez, Alejandro Sanchez, and John J. Hill are very nicely executing this story, playing with the darker elements that have been bubbling since Metal, but presenting it in such a way that it’s not a dour, grim and gritty story. Also, though it doesn’t have the branding, this is still absolutely integral to the overall “Year of the Villain” event.

| Published by DC Comics

Black Adam: Year of the Villain #1 aims the infected Shazam at Khandaq at lets explosions ensue from Paul Jenkins, Inaki Miranda, Hi-Fi, and Tom Napolitano. This gives us an interesting look at leadership, humility, and responsibility, seemingly entrenching Black Adam again as a somewhat heroic figure.

| Published by DC Comics

Bloodborne #16 concludes “The Veil, Torn Asunder”, revelling in some of the madness that really grips the world. There’s a real unnerving sense of reality crumbling here, somewhat more horrific than what we’ve seen before. Great art from Piotr Kowalski and Brad Simpson.

| Published by Titan

Contagion #4 gets darker in this penultimate chapter from Ed Brisson, Damian Couceiro, Veronica Gandini, and Cory Petit. Things get even more grim as more and more of the heroes fall and we’re left with a rag tag band of street-level heroes and the z-list ring of magicians.

| Published by Marvel

Count Crowley: Reluctant Monster Hunter #1 is an entertaining debut from David Dastmalchian, Lukas Ketner, Lauren Affe, and Frank Cvetkovic. It revels beautifully in the low budget local network horror programming of the ‘70s and ‘80s, following an alcoholic reporter who gets fired for her behaviour, before taking the job as the host to a b-movie segment like Elvira. Great stuff here.

| Published by Dark Horse

Criminal #9 distances us a bit from Jane and that story in this chapter of “Cruel Summer”, instead giving us a look at what Leo is up to as his father plans a heist and Ricky’s recklessness. It’s a nice side track, giving us a different perspective again along with a seriously messed up robbery. Love the washes for the flashbacks from Jacob Phillips.

| Published by Image

Detective Comics #1014 brings Nora Fries back. And aside from just the extreme lengths that Victor has gone to in order to accomplish it, something about all of this feels very, very wrong and that some new horror is about to be unleashed on Gotham. Beautiful artwork from Doug Mahnke, Christian Alamy, Mark Irwin, and David Baron.

| Published by DC Comics

Dial H for HERO #8 gives us the origin stories for The Operator and Mister Thunderbolt from Sam Humphries, Paulina Ganucheau, Joe Quinones, Jordan Gibson, and Dave Sharpe. There’s a rather neat format for the storytelling here as we get parallel stories of The Operator and Mister Thunderbolt, told forwards for one and then backwards for the other.

| Published by DC Comics / Wonder Comics

Doctor Mirage #3 has some gorgeous and trippy art from Nick Robles and Jordie Bellaire. The oddity in the colours and the impressive layouts and double page spreads really adds to the overall feel and atmosphere of the story, immersing you into the surrealism and unsettling feel that even Doctor Mirage herself is feeling.

| Published by Valiant

The Flash #81 concludes “Death and the Speed Force” from Joshua Williamson, Scott Kolins, Luis Guerrero, and Steve Wands. There are some major ramifications here for the DC Universe as a whole and some interesting developments for Hunter Zolomon himself. Like last issue, it’s pretty fitting that this is being handled with Kolins’ art. Also, we see a bit of what might be happening because DOOM won.

| Published by DC Comics

Ghost Spider #3 keeps things interesting as we get a continued build for two different Miles Warren stories on both Earths-65 and -615, from Seanan McGuire, Takeshi Miyazawa, Rosi Kämpe, Ian Herring, and Clayton Cowles. There’s also a feeling that through school and superheroics across two realities, Gwen might be wearing herself out more than she already has been with a hungry costume, which is a compelling fact that might feed into to forthcoming stories.

| Published by Marvel

GI Joe #2 takes a bit of a step back from the explosions of the first issue, still following Tiger, but in a much more introspective and measured way as he keeps getting his ass handed to him by Scarlett. Paul Allor, Chris Evenhuis, Brittany Peer, and Neil Uyetake are giving this a very different feel from any previous GI Joe incarnation and it’s very interesting. Some neat twists and some very welcome humour.

| Published by IDW

Hellboy and the BPRD: Saturn Returns #3 concludes this excellent mini-series from Mike Mignola, Scott Allie, Christopher Mitten, Brennan Wagner, and Clem Robins. I quite like this new approach to the historical series, giving a broader view of the previous years. Also, the development of Liz and Hellboy is wonderful, just great character building.

| Published by Dark Horse

Immortal Hulk #25 is very strange. Very, very strange. The lead story is set in the future where the Hulk has become the Breaker of Worlds and everything is slated for destruction. A pair of former lovers are trying to stop him. From Al Ewing, Germán García, Chris O’Halloran, and Cory Petit. There’s a lot of your usual dystopian future stuff, plus sending something back to save the future, but there’s more to this. The set up plays into some of the Kabbalistic themes and ideas that Al Ewing has been using through this series and we get an interesting interpretation of Binah and Chokhmah here. Though it might be more appropriate to consider them as their Qliphoth. Granted, you don’t need to get into any of this to enjoy the comic. Especially since it will appear much more straightforward in the present as the usual team of Ewing, Joe Bennett, Ruy José, Paul Mounts, and Petit reintroduce a familiar evil face.

| Published by Marvel

Josie and the Pussycats in Space #1 is a digital original from Alex de Campi, Devaki Neogi, Lee Loughridge, and Jack Morelli. It’s a pretty damn good reimagining of the characters, putting them on an intergalactic USO tour, and then eventually cranking up the weird and the horror.

| Published by Archie Comics

Justice League Dark #16 is incredible. “The Witching War” continues in this story from James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martínez Bueno, Fernando Blanco, Raul Fernandez, Brad Anderson, and Rob Leigh as Wonder Woman confronts Circe and everything gets doomed. The stakes here feel real, especially as the team continues to fall apart.

| Published by DC Comics

King Thor #2 is as epic as the first issue with Jason Aaron, Esad Ribić, Ive Svorcina, and Joe Sabino seriously bringing the thunder here. The artwork is drop dead gorgeous and the magnitude of the confrontation between Thor, Loki, and Gorr is massive.

| Published by Marvel

Marauders #1 gives us our first look at an X-book in “Dawn of X” without Jonathan Hickman at the helm. It’s really good. Gerry Duggan, Matteo Lolli, Federico Blee, and Cory Petit give us a somewhat more lighthearted approach to some of the concepts, featuring a Kate Pryde who for some reason can’t go through the Krakoan gates, so is recruited by Emma to helm a vessel for the Hellfire Trading Company. It then sets up the more serious element of rescuing mutants who wish to accept Xavier’s offer, but are stuck in hostile regimes. Very nice humour here.

| Published by Marvel

Martian Manhunter #9 rounds the corner for the homestretch, with Steve Orlando, Riley Rossmo, Ivan Plascencia, and Deron Bennett plumbing the depths of one of Charnn’s victims and discovering a bit of a plan for what’s to come. The artwork from Rossmo and Plascencia remains some of the most inventive currently on the stands.

| Published by DC Comics

Middlewest #12 puts together the pieces of where Abel and Bobby have been taken and gives us an introductory glance at the horrible place that they’re being forced to work. Skottie Young, Jorge Corona, Jean-Francois Beaulieu, and Nate Piekos continue to work magic on this story.

| Published by Image

Money Shot #1 is definitely unique. Tim Seeley, Sarah Beattie, Rebekah Isaacs, Kurt Michael Russell, and Crank! give us a story of a group of scientists who turn to making alien porn in order to fund their science projects. There’s humour and a lot of oddity here. Also, alien sex.

| Published by Vault

Punisher Kill Krew #4 sees the Black Knight enlisted to the team as they continue to navigate the Ten Realms to get vengeance for the orphaned war children. The art from Juan Ferreyra is absolutely gorgeous.

| Published by Marvel

Resonant #4 dives into the two new regions of Honcho’s island and the Congregation. It’s interesting to see how other areas are dealing with the waves, even in horrifying ways. The art from Alejandro Aragon and Jason Wordie is incredible.

| Published by Vault

Second Coming #4 sees Sunstar enlist help to find Jesus, while Jesus laments Christians with his new friend Larry in jail, from Mark Russell, Richard Pace, Leonard Kirk, Andy Troy, and Rob Steen. Some very interesting ideas presented here about how a religion can get away from apparent foundational messages. This issue is rounded out by the usual text pieces and short stories.

| Published by Ahoy

Sera and the Royal Stars #4 has us still in the underworld, from Jon Tsuei, Audrey Mok, Raul Angulo, and Jim Campbell. It’s very interesting to see the zodiacals interacting with variations on various deities. Also, Mok and Angulo remind us that they’re an incredible art team. The visual shifts throughout this issue are beautiful.

| Published by Vault

Star Wars Adventures: Return to Vader’s Castle #4 gives us a central tale featuring Jabba the Hutt’s extended family and a bunch of disembodied brains, as illustrated by Nicoletta Baldari. We’re also getting to the end of the framing tale from Cavan Scott, Francesco Francavilla, and AndWorld Design and this issue gives us an interesting cliffhanger to take us home.

| Published by IDW

Strikeforce #2 maintains the high level of storytelling from the first issue, continuing to keep us on our toes about this oddball group, and deepens the threat of the Vridai as the team heads to Satana in Vegas. Tini Howard, Germán Peralta, Miroslav Mrva, and Joe Sabino have hit on a winning combination here and it just keeps getting better.

| Published by Marvel

Unbound #1 is kind of a cyberpunk/fantasy series with this first issue focusing on Lukas, a famous hunter who takes on a helper for his current hunt, from Ralph Tedesco, Oliver Borges, Leonardo Paciarotti, and Carlos M. Mangual. There’s some nice world-building here, but the real hook comes later in the story that’s really compelling. I won’t spoil it, but it definitely takes it above what you’d expect.

| Published by Zenescope

Valkyrie #4 unveils a lot more of the context of what happened in the first three issues in a rather interesting way, while bringing back a trio of really old Dr. Strange villains. One of whom will be familiar to moviegoers. Al Ewing, Jason Aaron, CAFU, Jesus Aburtov, and Joe Sabino are telling a very interesting story here with some great twists and gorgeous art.

| Published by Marvel

Wonder Woman #81 concludes “Loveless” and with it G. Willow Wilson’s run on the title, here with Tom Derenick, Trevor Scott, Scott Hanna, Romulo Fajardo Jr., and Pat Brosseau. It’s not bad, progressing with a few changes and setting up Steve Orlando’s incoming arc.

| Published by DC Comics

You Are Obsolete #2 gets creepier, playing up even more of the Midwich Cuckoos vibes and revealing that the kids are actively spying on people, with the implication that they’d use more salacious details to their benefit as potential blackmail. We’re still not entirely sure why anything is going on, but the series is definitely setting up a creepy atmosphere.

| Published by AfterShock

Other Highlights: Absolute Carnage: Lethal Protectors #3, Agents of Atlas #3, Archie vs. Predator 2 #3, Black Canary: Ignite, Books of Magic #13, Fearless #4, Freedom Fighters #10, Future Fight Firsts: Luna Snow #1, Immortal Hulk: Director’s Cut #6, Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Allegiance #3, Kaijumax - Season 5 #1, Lumberjanes #67, Marvel Action: Spider-Man #10, Rat Queens #19, Red Sonja & Vampirella meet Betty & Veronica #6, RWBY #5, Sharkey: The Bounty Hunter #6,��Spider-Man: Velocity #3, Star Wars #73, Tony Stark: Iron Man #17

Recommended Collections: Amazing Spider-Man - Volume 5: Behind Scenes, American Carnage, Ascender - Volume 1, Evolution - Volume 3, GI Joe: A Real American Hero - Volume 23, Harrow County: Library Edition - Volume 4, Hex Wives, Infinity 8 - Volume 5: Apocalypse Day, Invisible Kingdom - Volume 1, The Long Con - Volume 2, Naomi: Season One, Spider-Man: Life Story, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Teen Titans - Volume 2: Turn It Up, Wonder Woman - Volume 1: The Just War

d. emerson eddy is not a pineapple.

[sebeth]

Young Justice: The Return (Animation)

In an earlier post, I wrote my thoughts on the upcoming return of the Young Justice comic book. Now it’s time for the cartoon series.

I’ve tried to avoid most interviews but I have seen the promo images and watched the two trailers repeatedly.  I like to go in as spoiler-free as possible when watching/reading media but I only have so much self-control.

Let’s start with the main plot –

There will be a time jump between season 2 and 3 – we’re just not sure of the exact length.  

The formation of the Outsiders, along with the rescue of Terra, will be the main arc of season three.

Dick reunites with Conner and Artemis in the beginning of the season for “one last mission”.  Black Lightning accompanies the trio to Markovia to shut down the metahuman trafficking ring.  Why?  Besides the fact that human trafficking is bad.  Black Lightning has no previous connection to Young Justice but he has long-standing connections to Batman.

Has Batman already formed the Outsiders minus Geo-Force and Halo?  We briefly see Batman, Katana, and Metamorpho jump from a plane and later brawl with Deathstroke.  Batman formed the group in the comics - it would make sense for him to be behind the group’s organization in the cartoons.  A covert group for more adult missions he wouldn’t want the Young Justice children to participate in.

I’m guessing the Markovia mission reveals the metahuman trafficking ring is way more extensive than previously thought – leading Dick to reunite with - and resume leadership – of Young Justice.

The Light and the Reach experimenting with metahuman activation began in season two.  Per Wonder Woman, the Justice League “have confirmation that on multiple worlds, earth’s metahumans are being deployed by the enemy as weapons of mass destruction.”

Wonder Woman’s comment suggests the abducted metahumans are being subjected to brainwashing along with experimentation.  I highly doubt the newly activated metahumans would rampage across the universe without mind control directing their actions.

The “multiple worlds” comment ties together Bart’s “we have a mission in space” with the glimpses of the New Gods, Superboy’s brawl with Lobo, and Dick and Conner fighting Sensei/Silver Monkey on a foreign world.

New Genesis might be one of the world’s affected by the “metahumans of mass destruction”, Lobo could have been hired by the Light, and Sensei/Silver Monkey is guarding one of Ra’s Al Ghul’s headquarters.

On to the characters:

First up, the Outsiders –

Geo-Force, Katana, Halo, Metamorpho, Black Lightning

Terra

The Markov Royal Family

As I said above, I’m fairly confident Batman has already formed the Outsiders before the beginning of the season.  Possibly as a true “covert” group – as in without the Justice League’s knowledge or permission.

Young Justice was told they were a “covert” group by the Justice League but mostly it was a “training wheels” type group – smaller missions while being trained by the more experienced heroes.  They did covert missions but were still in the press and public’s eyes.

The Outsiders will be the true covert group – sticking to the shadows, away from the press, down and dirty missions, etc.

As for the individual Outsiders:

Geo-Force - Brion is an adorable big brother.  Noble, protective, eager to find his sister and stop the bad guys.  Visually his powers should be awesome – they are similar to Terra’s.

Terra – Not a member of the Outsiders but I wanted to include her with Brion.  The big question: will Terra be a villain?  I’m guessing “yes”.  Comic cannon dooms her to this fate.  I do believe it will be the result of the Light’s brainwashing instead of the general “evil” nature.  Possibly making her a tragic villain.  Will Deathstroke be involved with Terra’s brainwashing?  Comic cannon says “yes”.  Could Batman, Metamorpho, and Katana storm the island looking for Terra?  Is that why the Outsiders end up fighting Deathstroke?

Black Lightning – Jeff appears serious and mature.  Love his visual design.  Can’t wait to see him in costume.

Metamorpho – We only have a visual impression.  Very nice. I wonder if we’ll see Sapphire or Simon Stagg?  Rex will be the one who gives Deathstroke the most trouble in the upcoming fight.

Katana – Not much to go on yet except visually.  Katana’s design reminds me of a more adult version of her DC Girls attire.  Excited to see her in action.

Halo – Will be entirely different from the comics.  She is a person of color and possibly Muslim?  Let’s skip all the drama and hatred over the race change.  Please?!  She’s seems to be a new character.  I highly doubt her name is going to be “Violet Harper”.  For those unfamiliar with Halo, she wasn’t a great character.  Apologies to Halo fans.  Violet was a sociopath who was murdered by the 100, a criminal organization.  Aurakle, an alien entity, merged with Violet’s deceased body.  The “resurrection” caused amnesia.  It gets more complicated from there.  Let’s agree to start fresh and give the new Halo a chance.  Halo’s powers are light-based – different colors have different effects.  Halo’s colors were the same ones used by every color Lantern corps.  However, Halo predated the emotional spectrum Lantern corps by twenty years.  I’m betting Halo receives her powers in the cartoon due to the Light’s genetic manipulation. The one thing I would like to see carry over from the comic books is the maternal/big sister role Katana has in Halo’s life.

On to the Young Justice newbies:

Spoiler – I’m excited – I love Stephanie.  She had a brief cameo in Season Two.  How and why did she join the team? Is she involved with Tim?  Will this cause friction with Cassie?  I hope not as I would love to see Steph and Cassie bond. Cassie is very exuberant in the cartoon and Steph has the same approach to life – I would love to see the two become close friends.

Arrowette – A surprise choice since we already have Artemis, Roy, and clone Roy in the series.  Glad to see her as she was a prominent member/supporting character in the comic book series.  Will she develop a close friendship with Cassie and Bart?  Those were her two besties in the comics.

Thirteen/Traci 13 – Another surprise choice. Traci can easily step into the void Zatana left when she joined the Justice League.  Will Traci have a romance with Blue Beetle?  They were a cute couple in the pre-New 52 era.

Oracle – Not a true new character but Barbara has clearly been through some changes since season two. Will we see a Killing Joke flashback? Or did Babs become Oracle in a different way?

Static – Like Oracle, Static is a returning character but with an upgrade.  The writers seem to love electricity this season – we have Static, Black Lighting, and Live Wire also makes an appearance in the trailer.

Notable absences:

Miss Martian – I won’t miss M’gann if she’s absent this season.  She started out cute in season one, became creepy with the Conner-molding, and became worse in season two with the unrepentant mind-frying and toying with Lagoon Boy.  So no thank you unless Miss Martian has learned from her mistakes and expresses honest regret over her actions. Feeling bad for mind-frying Kaldur does not count as honest regret.  M’ganns the easiest case for a “hero goes bad” if the show writers wanted to go that route.

Aqualad, Lagoon Boy, Aquaman, etc – Atlantis has had zero representation in either trailer.  Did something happen to Atlantis during the time jump?  Will that be one of the mysteries during the season?

Miscellaneous thoughts on the upcoming season:

We are all but guaranteed a fourth and fifth season of Young Justice.  We know it’s going to be one of the heavyweights of the DC Universe streaming service so I don’t want various plotlines rushed.

Season Three will have 26 episodes.  The majority will focus on the Outsiders and the metahuman trafficking ring alongside a “mission in space”.    That leaves room for some “done in one” episodes or time for the development of various subplots.

The two big questions on fan’s minds: Will we see the return of Wally West or the debut of the Red Hood?

I would bet Wally’s return will be near the end of the season.  The writers will want a “wow” ending for the season finale and that would be it.

As for Red Hood…I feel it’s a strong possibility.  I don’t think the writers would have had Jason’s memorial hologram if they didn’t have any intention of using the Red Hood.

The writers could have Red Hood’s debut be similar to Jason’s appearance in the Teen Titans comics:  Jason attacks Tim, and leaves the “Jason Todd/Red Hood Was Here” message on the walls.  I’m not sure if the writers want to redo the entire “Under The Red Hood” storyline.  At this point, it’s been done in the comic books, an animated movie, and a video game – most fans are familiar with the details by this point.  Jason’s attack on Tim would allow Dick to fill in the rest of the team on the details of Jason’s resurrection.  Dick has been keeping his distance from the team as indicated by his “one last mission” line.  Dick’s distance would easily explain why the rest of the team is unaware of Jason’s return. Tim wouldn’t explain “Gotham business” to his teammates – he’s much more introverted and was way more intent on respecting Batman-imposed boundaries than Dick.

A developing friendship between Arsenal-Roy and Jason is a must.  Not only because of the “Outlaws” comic book but because it’s a natural development between two traumatized boys prone to lashing out.

What I Don’t Want:

A Conner-M’gann relationship – The pairing started cute but is now toxic.  Creepy molding combined with mind manipulation = abuse.

No Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain, Starfire, Cyborg, or Raven.  At least not this season.  We have multiple new characters debuting this season, new characters who didn’t receive much focus last season, and a possibly debuting Red Hood. The seating capacity is full – no new debuts until season four.

I’ve rambled enough for now – so excited for January!

[whetstonefires]

If rescuing Cass from the character doldrums how would you overcome her biggest problem? When trying to explain her to people she sounds like a self-insert written by a 13 year old. She’s a silent Asian ninja badass! And she’s the Greatest Martial Artist in the World! And she’s the beloved Daughter of Bruce Wayne you’ve never heard of! And she learned English from a psychic! And her name is CAIN! When trying to convert the unconverted, Cass is a tough sell.

I mean, she’s not the greatest in the world, she’s just brimming over with potential to be.

And that’s the thing. I don’t think being too awesome actually is her biggest problem. She’s a girl, and not white; she was never going to be as easily liked as her brothers because that’s the world we live in right now, but that’s not her biggest problem either though it’s probably at the root of it.

Her biggest problem is that nobody’s heard of her; that she has been abandoned by her creators. (They’re treating her a bit better lately; we’ll see.) Her problem is that there’s no place kept open for her in the broader narrative so she doesn’t seem to fit.

But the way around it is, you don’t start with how awesome she is. No one ever genuinely liked something because someone else proved they ought to.

We start where she did.

We say, she was conceived to be her father’s perfect weapon. We say, he kept her apart from human language all through her childhood, let her speak and understand only feeling and motion, and made himself her whole universe. We say, she was born to kill.

We say, she refused.

We cannot say ‘she didn’t;’ even before DC started throwing her under the bus they did not let her stay that clean, but at ten years old she obediently took her first life, and in watching that death under her hands and the suffering of her victim understood the horror of mortality and the obscenity of murder, and fled everything she had ever known and been rather than inflict such a thing again.

We say that she fled alone through the world for years (it’s a strictly implausible number of years in some ways) until she came to Gotham, and stopped there at last because there (in the chaos after an earthquake) was need for her and no one outside Gotham could find her, and then because with Batman and Oracle she found a place where what she was, all the fighting and surviving skills she’d learned, were valued, not an obstacle, and yet she was encouraged to be a girl and not a weapon.

Then we can say that language is still hard for her even after someone rewrote her brain for it, but motion is easy, that she can tell how people feel just by looking at them. We can say that her mother is considered the greatest martial artist in the world, and is almost as bad a parent as the father. We can say that Bruce adopted her quietly, eventually, to make sure she knew her home could not be taken away and to keep her out of the reach of her birth parents. We can talk about her great, obnoxious sense of humor and her complete failure to understand even the concepts of housekeeping or table manners. Though both of those did see mild improvement.

We can say anything we like, but our best bet is to start with her origin story.

That list of awesomesauce traits is quite capable of doing its job of making her appealing if it comes out naturally, in-context, one bit at a time. It’s not actually fake for a fictional superhero to be awesome. People who already like Batman will find it easy to like Cass for how awesome she is, once they see her in action, if they’re able to like a girl for the same things and if they have space in their worlds for more than one awesome person.

And if they don’t have those capacities, there’s nothing you could have done about that by explaining her differently.

But the reason Bruce works as a character, and not just a superhero cut-out, is that he’s built around that core hurt, that intensely personal set of motivations. Why does he dress up as a bat and prowl the darkness punching people? Because he suffered a loss from violent crime and wants to get vengeance, and to protect other people from suffering the same thing he did. He wants to make things better, and he wants the hurting to stop, and he’s all tangled up about it, but he harnesses that to power his amazing, and that’s where we meet him.

Cass’ relationship with her pain is very different from Bruce’s, of course–rather than happiness broken by tragedy, she had the sort of abuse that is recognizable only in hindsight, and endless loneliness.

There’s no self she can go back to or imagine as existing in some different world that hasn’t been hurt the way she has, because being hurt that way was what she was created for. The suffering underlies everything but it only occasionally merits attention. She’s building herself one bit at a time, a self that belongs to her on a foundation of people she can trust; she does not center on her suffering the way Bruce does because it isn’t interesting, not the way living is. She lives forward the same way he lives backward.

Part of the reason DC gave up on her I think is that they’d run out of ideas for her growth–her personal intention was to grow up to be Batman but they knew they couldn’t do that.

Several of the most relatable or showy bits of Cass were reused in Damian, the same way Carrie had some of her best traits rehashed in Tim. This can make her feel surplus to requirements in rather the way Tim seems to now that there’s a new Robin, which is yet another reason not everyone is going to care.

But on the other hand people who are invested in Damian’s arc away from what he was raised to be and his ninja aesthetic may be open to liking the same things in Cass. And she’s…rather more likeable, in normal-person terms. ^^; If also very, very weird.

Anyway the best way to get around people feeling alienated by Cass’ list of improbable life circumstances and specialized skills is to not present her as a resume, but as a story, because that’s what she is. And all messing-about aside, it’s a pretty good one.

[bookshop]

Hi, Aja! I was wondering if you could please do a card reading for me? I'm wondering specifically about my job hunt. I'd love something from the cosmos deck. :~) Thanks ahead of time! :~)

Hi there! Let’s just pause to enjoy all the things working against you here, haha:

i’m a week late responding to this so who knows how your job search is going now, oops

the Cosmos deck is a bit of a wacky deck so who knows what it’s going to turn up with:

tarot has no predictive qualities and cannot tell you anything about your future— all it can do is remind you of what you already intuitively know. 

So, all that said, here we go!

Okay, so drawing this card made me reclassify this deck (on my list) from a tarot deck to an oracle deck, because my experience with it is that it’s so rarely tied to traditional tarot meanings as to be unhelpful unless you’re fully thinking of it as an oracle deck instead.

You’ve drawn the page of wands (oops, mistyped “wands” instead of “water” here, which is the Page of Cups— don’t worry, i was reading it as Cups! Though that really doesn’t matter in this deck anyway since it’s all basically new), which here is connected to the constellation Columba, which is traditionally represented as a dove with an olive branch in its mouth. Obviously, this is a universal symbol of peace and hope, which is what this card is meant to represent. What’s more, as the card indicates, the main star in this constellation is called “Phact,” which often represents the original dove-with-olive branch — that is, it’s the dove Noah sent to find land after sheltering in the arc. 

So in this context, this card is a reminder for you to kick back and stay chill and optimistic about your job search! You are hopefully safe and protected in your arc of friends/family/emotional/domestic support, and you can hopefully send out resumes like flocks of doves seeking new ground and a new start. :)  And no matter what the outcome, the card reminds you to keep your chin up. Good luck!

[ask-the-phan-site]

The Reptilian Minister of Lust

>It’s time.

C'est l'heure du spectacle!

I have no idea what you just said, man, but I’m fired up for this!

I’m so excited, it really does feel like we’re agents of M.A.Y.H.E.M.

I can tell you’re up for this. Alright, then let’s give it all we have!

>Mona becomes our bus and we drive off to to Coco LaBouche’s heart.

>Coco LaBouche’s A.R.K. Coco LaBouche is in a lab.

It looks like everything’s going according to plan. My little “present” is almost done. Let my husband know.

L.E.G.I.O.N. agent: Wee, madame.

>With that, Coco returns to her quarters to be ready for her husband’s arrival. But before she could get changed, a red wave passes over her. When it was over, the quarters now looked like the throne room of a Japanese shogun... Even Coco was different.

So you’ve arrived, have you? Vous fous ne prendra pas ce qui est à moi!

We’ll see about that, you cuckoo bird.

Shadow Coco: I don’t understand why you would try to stop me. I’m merely taking what is mine.

You don’t deserve any of it!

You may be beautiful of face, but you have the heart of a reptile.

We won’t let you enact such a terrible revenge on such a kind and loving family, especially with the holidays on the way.

We’ll stop you right here and now and you will be in prison. Along with that husband of yours.

Shadow Coco: And how will you do that? We are legion... It says so in the name.

A name like that can only get you so far. For that, you need a genuine bond with them. You only see them as a means to an end.

Shadow Coco: It’s true. I didn’t marry that fool, Brimstone, just because of our mutual feelings... I just like being in power. It really makes me feel greater.

Violet: How could you? You wicked old witch!

Shadow Coco: Fine. If being a witch is what it will take to get what I want... Alors une sorcière je serai.

>With that, the Shadow changes shape.

Oracle: Persona!

>Necronomicon scans the Shadow.

Oracle: I got it! She’s weak to Electricity and Bless attacks. But she’s strong.

Skull: (smirking) Don’t sweat it, we got this in the bag.

Crow: Try not to go overboard, though. I’m the one with Black Mask Mode here.

Skull and Crow: Persona!

Queen: I’ll fight, too. If she gets shocked, Nuclear Skill might come in handy. Persona!

>I change Personas.

Joker: Persona!

>Rangda uses Matarunda. Captain Kidd uses Matarukaja to counter it. Robin Hood tries to use Kouga. She dodges it. Johanna uses Marakukaja. Belphegor uses Concentrate. Rangda uses Swift Strike. Captain Kidd uses Matarukaja again. Robin Hood uses Kouga again as well. It knocks Rangda down.

Crow: Let’s scatter!

>After the attack, Rangda is still up. Johanna uses Freila. Belphegor uses Bufula. She Freezes and is unable to act. Captain Kidd uses Zionga. She shatters and is knocked down again.

Skull: All right! Time for some pain!

>After the attack, Rangda was still up. Robin Hood uses Kouga. Rangda is knocked down again, but we don’t do an All-Out-Attack this time. Crow passes the baton to me and Belphegor uses Bufula. She Freezes again. Johanna uses Freila again. It was a technical hit since she was Frozen. Then, Belphegor uses Concentrate. Rangda uses Eigaon on Crow. It knocks him down. Rangda then uses Bloodbath. Queen is infected with Fear. Skull uses Harisen Recovery on Queen. Then, Captain Kidd uses Zionga. But she dodges it. Crow gets backu p and Robin Hood uses Kouga. It knocks her down.

Crow: This is what I was waiting for!

>After the attack, Rangda is still up, but now weaker.  Johanna uses Marakukaja. Belphegor uses Bufula. Rangda uses Mudoon on Skull. It drops his HP to 1. Skull defends himself. Robin Hood uses Debilitate. Johanna uses Diarahan on Skull. I use Arc Magatama. It knocks her down.

Joker: Do it, now!

>After the attack, Rangda is still up, but now more weaker.

Rangda: I see. So you’re not just a bunch of masked buffoons... But I am far from over. J'aurai ma revanche!

>Rangda uses Desperation.

Oracle: This is bad, she going haywire. Everyone, time to go Ultimate.

Joker: Right, let’s do it!

>Skull, Crow, and Queen go Ultimate while I change Personas.

Joker, Skull, Crow, and Queen: PERSONA!

>Seiten Taisei uses Ziodyne. It knocks Rangda down with Shock. Skull passes the baton to Queen and Anat uses Freidyne. It was a technical hit. Loki uses Megidolaon. Anat uses Freidyne again for a technical hit. Lakshmi uses Bufudyne. She then uses it again. Rangda was too shocked to get back up. Seiten Taisei uses Ziodyne again.

Oracle: I’ll do something about this!

>Necronomicon recovers some of our SP. Loki uses Kougaon. This knocks her down. Crow then passes the baton to Queen and Anat uses Atomic Flare. Then, she does it again. Lakshmi uses Bufudyne. She uses it again. Rangda gets back up and uses Eigaon on Crow. He’s knocked down. Then, she uses Swift Strike. Seiten Taisei uses Matarukaja. Crow gets back up and Loki uses Kougaon. It knocks Rangda down.

Crow: Let’s scatter!

>After the attack, Rangda is still up, but it looks like one more blow

Skull: (smirking) Shall we, Queen?

Queen: I’m fired up if you are.

Hold Up!

Rangda: How could this be!? Dismissing Coco LaBouche? Fire Coco LaBouche? You can’t fire Coco LaBouche. Coco LaBouche fires others! Coco LaBouche is EuroReptar! ... COCO LABOUCHE IS L.E.G.I.O.N.!

Queen: Like Noir said, only in name. Let’d do this, Skull!

Skull: Then let’s get goin’!

>With that, the battle was over. Coco’s Shadow resumed human form and a light comes out of her.

Mona: Joker, we have the Treasure!

>I take the Treasure. It’s a pair of emerald earrings that look like Reptar.

Shadow Coco: A gift Mr. Yamaguchi when I became director of EuroReptarland. One of the happiest days of my life. I worked so hard for it.

Crow: But in the end, you forgot what it was all about: Bringing joy to children. Since then, you’ve only seen them as a way to gain more power instead of a precious gift of life. Now you’re getting your just rewards.

Shadow Coco: ...

Joker: He’s right. But you can still turn it around. Though Reptar is gone, you can still find away to make children and everyone happy.

Shadow Coco: ... Are you so sure?

It’s never too late. And you can start by not taking revenge on the Finsters.

Shadow Coco: ... Très bien. Vous gagnez. I’ll leave Kira and her family alone.

Noir: That’s good.

Shadow Coco: Don’t celebrate just yet.

Queen: What do you mean?

Shadow Coco: Just a little Christmas present I’ve been working on for the Morningstar.

Joker: What is it?

Shadow Coco: ... You’ll know soon enough.

>She faces... Crow. Then she vanishes back to her true self.

I already have a bad feeling about this.

>With that, we leave... Not knocking what will happen next.

>The next day on Coco’s A.R.K., Lucas Brimstone, along with Marcus Longinus and the Morningstar himself, came and discover his wife in tears about how she realized that revenge on the Finsters is bad.

And that is the end of the Ministry of Lust. Sorry, Brimstone.

Well, I guess good mates are hard to come by... Thanks a lot, Phantom Thieves.

I will be honest with you... She would never have been a great minister. Even if these Phantom Thieves of Hearts did not interfere, what she had planned for that family would have failed. You will dispose of Coco LaBouche, will you, Lucas Brimstone.

Brimstone: ...

Morningstar: I am not saying that you must kill her... Not yet. Just... Move her aside.

Brimstone: ... As you wish, your eminence.

Morningstar: In the meantime, I would like to see my holiday present early. Since Coco LaBouche is unable to do so and will not .

>At the lab, the Morningstar and Longinus stand before a large tube... There’s something, or someone, inside.

Longinus: Are you sure about this?

Morningstar: I was told that he was the most popular agent of L.E.G.I.O.N., very good at public relations... And we’re in desperate need of a new Minister of Pride since Professor Babylon has failed us.

Longinus: ... Very well, your eminence. I dare not question your decision. Anyway, I was told that we can awaken him now. Shall we?

Morningstar: ... Yes. Better to speak to him now instead of later.

>With that, the scientist begin. Violet static flies around the room and around the tube. Then, whoever is inside the tube begins to move... and opens his eyes.

>The Java Lava Coffee House. We were celebrating our victory... But Crow suddenly grasped his head in pain.

GAHHH!

Akechi, what’s wrong?

My head! It feels like... Like something just awoke. Something bad.

>Meanwhile, at Horizon High in New York, our friends there were decorating for the holidays. Peter and Harry were just putting up some tinsel... When Peter grasped his head in pain.

Pete, you okay?

I... I don’t know. I suddenly thought of Akechi. Then, something just hit me in the brain. Almost like a... Like a bad song.

>Meanwhile, at the Stay Sheep Bar.

Enjoy, everyone! In honor of the holiday season, I’ve made everything quite well.

Indeed you have. I’m so glad I came to visit. I’ve never actually spent a holiday with real friends. But now, things are different.

Roderick: Yeah, well, you can thank me by showing me how much you improved on your singing.

Abul: Indeed I will.

Roderick: Let’s try it like this... I'm chewin’ gum ‘til I’m crazy...

Abul: (a little confused) Huh?

Roderick: (shocked) Huh? This isn’t the song I meant to... Meant to... GAHH!

>Roderick was now holding his head in terrible pain. My parents and their friends notice. My dad and one of them went over to the bar to check on him.

Roderick, what’s wrong?

Yeah, you look like you got smacked in the head with a hammer.

Roderick: More like... They chewed my brain.

(imagine this place covered in snow)

>Meanwhile on Griffin Rock, the Rescue Bots, the Burns Family, Raymond, and Overflow were decorating the Firehouse for Christmas and Midwinter Morning. Suddenly, something happens with Raymond that even made his ID Mask fall off..

Whoa, Ray, just calm down! What wrong?

He’s right. You look like you’re about to fall apart. Take it easy, even machines have their limits.

Raymond: I don’t know. At first, I thought I heard a song. And then... Something was really off.

>The Citadel in Insomnia. The Royal Family and the Kingsguard were decorating for the holidays when Prompto suddenly dropped some decorations (nothing broken) and held his head.

Prompt, what is it?

I don’t know. It like something just blasted something in my ears.

I can see that. You definitely seem a bit off... Actually, you’ve been real off for sometime since you went to investigate the Aracheole Stronghold. I knew we shouldn’t have let you do it alone. You went missing two weeks.

Prompto: (trying to sound fine)  I’m fine. Don’t worry... (now looking grim) Now get off my back!

>Noctis and Gladiolus just stared in surprise. Quickly, Prompto regained himself.

Prompto: I’m... I’m sorry... I need to go. I promised Iris I’d go get the rest of the decorations.

>With that, he quickly leaves.

Prompto: I can’t believe you made me snap at my friends like that.

Voice in Prompto’s head: That’s too damn bad! Now hurry up with this holiday nonsense. We have work to do.

>Meanwhile, at an unknown location.

(grunting in pain)

I know. I feel it, too.... They’re bringing him back.

Yes, I heard L.E.G.I.O.N. was up to something... Now we know.

It would appear so... I think we have a call to make.

>Poseidonis, Atlantis. Kaldur’ahm and Wyynde were getting ready for Wyynde’s first Christmas on the surface. Then suddenly, Wyynde clutches his head in terrible pain.

(speaking in Atalntian) (Wyynde, what is the matter?)

(... Do you remember when I told you I had that dream of being a false singer?)

Kaldur: (Yes. Why?)

Wyynde: (Well... He is back.)

Kaldur: (worried) (Should we tell the others? What should we do?)

Wyynde: (For now... We should keep this from the others. But I really think we should tell the Phantom Thieves first.)

Kaldur: (You may be right. Although, knowing the Phantom Thieves, with Akechi with them... They probably already know.)

>Back on Coco’s A.R.K., the processes was complete... And August Gaunt awoke.

Wha- What happened? Where am I? ... And why do I have craving for pancakes, something dead, and... seaweed salad? And washing it down with coffee, booze, and... motor oil?

Longinus: If you must know, you and Babylon fought M.A.Y.H.E.M... You lost.

Gaunt: (shocked) Ah! Now I remember! Mr. Scary-Demon-Mask 86 me!

Morningstar: Glad to see your memories still work.

Gaunt: (a little embarrassed) Come, come, your eminence. Try to have a little faith in me... But why bring me back? (worried) You’re not gonna...

Morningstar: Professor Babylon has already paid the price for his failure. I am merely in need of a new Minister of Pride... And you, August Gaunt, will be that new minister.

Gaunt: Are you serious? I thought the ministry dealt with Dark Matter research.

Morningstar: Usually, that would be the case, but you are the best public relations officer we ever had. Besides, part of your body is made from Dark Matter.

Gaunt: (surprised) Really?

Longinus: I wouldn’t look down if I were-

Gaunt: (screaming)

Longinus: Too late.

Gaunt: Wha- Where’s... the rest of me?

Longinus: Working progress. Be patient. For now, I would like to inform you about your auto-tuner... You don’t need it anymore.

Gaunt: For real!?

Longinus: Apparently when they were cloning your body, they discovered something about your vocal cords. They’re not sure what it is, but they ended up altering your vocal cords with Dark Matter. Now you can sing without your auto-tuner.

Gaunt: (actually pleased) This... This is the happiest day of my life.

>Gaunt then sang a few cords. But when he did, some of the scientists went into some kind of trance.

Morningstar: Interesting. I knew you already had the power to control others, but to see it like this.

Longinus: It does seem different from before.

Gaunt: Yes. It almost seems, and this is the only word I can come up with to describe it... Connecting... But seriously, I could use some booze here.

>What will happen next? We’ll just have to wait and see.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

THIS NEW FREEDOM IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD, HOWEVER

You can adjust the amount of freedom you get by scaling the size of a motorcycle when you wanted to create a giant, public company, and act surprised when someone made you an offer. When you can ask the opinions of the others, because of the doubling, occurring three times in nonspam mail would be enough. A novice imitates without knowing it; next he tries consciously to be original; finally, he decides it's more important that letters be easy to tell apart. How to Become a Hacker, and in the process of explaining them to the right kind of people to have ideas with: the other students, who will be not only smart but elastic-minded to a fault. Why not in design generally? 07347802 sorry 0. You also need Florence in 1450.

Not opting out is not the defining quality of work, and indeed that the reason they began blogging in the first place. 27meg. It is not unusual for an old Raleigh three-speed in good condition, and sent me an email offering to sell me one, I'd be delighted, and yet you won't use it. Much of what's most novel about YC is due to Jessica Livingston. As a result it became massively successful. Wearing suits, we're told, will make us 3. One of the tricks to surviving a grueling process is not to take oneself too seriously. So as animals get bigger they have trouble radiating heat. A rounds: millions of dollars given to a small number of startups that go public is very small. Then, the next morning, one of the more articulate critics was that Arc seemed so flimsy. A far more likely theory, in his Ptolemaic model of the universe, is that it can be at every stage.

Because by sheer chance it happens to be loaded with words that occur in one corpus but not the other. But it's a mistake founders constantly make.1 If you make fun of Eric Raymond here. You don't win by dramatic innovations so much as by good taste and attention to detail. A lot of the brain of the filter is in the individual databases, then merely tuning spams to get through the seed filters won't guarantee anything about how well they'll get through individual users' varying and much more trained filters. Err. If real estate developers operated on a large enough scale, if they lobbied successfully for laws requiring us all to continue to breathe through tubes if they could. This was roughly true. It's hard to follow, especially when two halves react to one another, as in, say, corporate law, or medicine. After all, the companies selling smells on the moon base could continue to sell them on the Earth, if they built whole towns, market forces would compel them to build towns that didn't suck.

When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition. Even a company with 100 people will feel different from one with 1000. This is where it's helpful to have working democracies and multiple sovereign countries. That's what happened with domestic servants. It may look Victorian, but a Times Roman lowercase g is easy to recognize. And the reason it's inaccurate is that, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are made of, and conversations with friends are the kitchen they're cooked in. The algorithm I used was ridiculously simple. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Underneath the long words or the expressive brush strokes, there is often neither a product nor any numbers.2 So before agreeing to meet with someone from corp dev wants to meet, the founders tell themselves they should at least find out what they want, or they'll get the wrong candidates. And launch as soon as you can, then cash in the potential energy you've accumulated when you need to make it prestigious.3 Taking a shower is like a form of exemplary punishment, or lobbying for laws that would break the Internet if they passed, that's ipso facto evidence you're using a definition of property that doesn't work. 15981844 spot 0. Search for a few key phrases and the names of the clients and the experts, and you'll turn up other variants of this story. The Eiffel Tower looks striking partly because it is simply the most powerful language available. It only came in black, for example. It doesn't even have x Blub feature of your choice.

You write programs in the parse trees that get generated within the compiler when other languages are parsed. This time the evidence is a mix of good and bad are the hash tables I created in the first place. He didn't learn as much as he expected. The people who've worked for a few key phrases and the names of the clients and the experts, look for the client. They're so desperate for content that some will print your press releases almost verbatim, if you took a random person off the street and somehow got them to work as if it were the small group of individuals that humans were designed to work in, but something major is missing. Would you like to work on, or don't like to get money to work on the problem. Not necessarily. Anything deleted as spam goes into the nonspam corpus. There is one thing companies can do short of structuring themselves as sponges: they can stay small.4 If they didn't know what language our software was written in either, but they noticed that it worked really well.

The second phase in the growth of mature economies—that is who Jessica Livingston is. But in a large organization has felt this. Even if you succeed, it's rare to be free to work on. Software is a very slippery slope, greased with some of the problems we face are different; the whole structure of the business is different. Success for a startup to launch them before raising their next round of funding. If you get an offer at all, they tend to sell early. Fashions almost by definition change with time, so if you can make something that will appeal to future generations, one way to achieve simplicity, but it's important enough to be mentioned on its own.

If your work is not your favorite thing to do, he couldn't—sometimes because the company is actually more valuable. In an essay I wrote a couple years of this I could tell a lot of these accidents, and they don't spend a lot of people seem to think we're on to something.5 It took me years to grasp that. We've got it down to four words: Do what you love in your spare time. They plan for plans to change. After years of working on their own internal design compass like Henry Ford did, American car companies try to make relativity strange. Copernicus was so troubled by a hack that all his contemporaries could tolerate that he felt there must be a better platform for it.6 I mean when people can charge for content when it works to charge for content without warping society in order to hack Unix, and Perl for system administration and cgi scripts. Now people are saying the same things about Arc that they said at first about Viaweb and Y Combinator and most of those who didn't preferred to believe the heuristic filters then available were the best you could do what you would call a real job. I consider each corpus to be a token separator. So working for yourself makes your brain more powerful in the same language.

Notes

Only founders of Hewlett Packard said it first, to mean the company, and making money on the group's accumulated knowledge.

You'd have to sweat any one outcome. And I've never heard of investors are interested in graphic design. We just store the data in files. Because the pledge is vague in order to test a new airport.

In a series A termsheet with a real partner. If you want to help the company than you could probably write a subroutine to do that.

European governments of the flock, or want tenure, avoid casual conversations with VCs suggest it's roughly what everyone must have had to for some reason insists that you should make the fund by succeeding spectacularly. Now to people he meets at parties he's a real salesperson to replace the actual lawsuits rarely happen. Incidentally, if you're flying through clouds you can't, notably ineptitude and bad outcomes have origins in words about luck.

For these companies substitute progress for revenue growth with retained earnings till the 1920s to financing growth with the solutions. Whereas when the problems all fall into in the definition of property. You won't always get a patent troll, either as an experiment she sent their recruiters the resumes of the political pressure against Airbnb than hotel companies. And while this is one of the word philosophy has changed over time, which parents would still send their kids to say what was happening in them.

In Russia they just kill you—when you had a strange task to companies via internship programs. Most unusual ambitions fail, no one would say we depend on Aristotle more than make them want you to believing anything in particular, because people would be to diff European culture have in 1800 that Chinese culture didn't, in the early days, then invest in a limited way, I advised avoiding Javascript. So 80 years sounds to him like 2400 years would to us that we don't use Oracle. It's ok to focus on their ability but women based on their utility function is flatter.

[eddycurrents]

For the week of 23 September 2019

Quick Bits:

Action Comics #1015 introduces Naomi to the broader DC Universe as she reaches out to Superman to help understand her powers, from Brian Michael Bendis, Szymon Kudranski, Brad Anderson, and Dave Sharpe. It’s pretty great. There’s a nice amount of humour and optimism here as she stumbles her way through.

| Published by DC Comics

Amazing Spider-Man #30 is a tie-in to Absolute Carnage as Peter tries to keep Normie and Dylan safe from Norman, but also gives us more insight into Kindred. It definitely feels like they’re setting him up to be either Flash or Harry, but that could just be misdirection. Great art from Ryan Ottley, Cliff Rathburn, and Nathan Fairbairn.

| Published by Marvel

Angel #5 is the other prelude to the Hellmouth event and is much more prelude-y than the integral Buffy the Vampire Slayer #8. This is more the continuation of Angel’s gathering the team story, introducing us to this interpretation of Gunn and his history. Gleb Melnikov and Roman Titov do some killer work here.

| Published by BOOM! Studios

Bad Reception #2 is even better than the first issue as we get a better look at the characters and the mystery of the murders at the wedding kicks off in earnest. Juan Doe is really doing a great job of building tension here, with scheming and planning going on, making you question who could possibly be the perpetrator here.

| Published by AfterShock

Batgirl #39 complicates things further as Oracle seeks out a way to bring Batgirl down and pockets of violence among otherwise peaceful citizens begins to erupt after Luthor’s offer. Cecil Castellucci, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Jordie Bellaire, and AndWorld Design are delivering a very nice multi-layered story here.

| Published by DC Comics

Batman/Superman #2 gives a fairly epic confrontation with an infected SHAZAM as Batman and Superman learn more of The Batman Who Laughs’ plan. I do find it interesting that this isn’t being branded as a “Year of the Villain” tie-in, but it is largely integral to that, as well as continuing the thread from Metal. Gorgeous artwork from David Marquez and Alejandro Sanchez, really leaning in to the epic scope of a Superman vs. SHAZAM battle.

| Published by DC Comics

Bettie Page Unbound #4 concludes Bettie’s multiversal adventure with a trip to Neverland. David Avallone, Julius Ohta, Ellie Wright, Sheelagh D, and Taylor Esposito have delivered an interesting trip through Dynamite’s various properties, so it’s kind of weird to end on Peter Pan, but it’s still good.

| Published by Dynamite

Black Panther #16 sees Daniel Acuña outdo himself with the artwork. This issue is beautiful as T’Challa resumes the reins of governing Wakanda and we get a showcase of Storm vs. some remnants of the Emperor’s regime.

| Published by Marvel

Black Science #43 is the end. In many ways, these two parallel worlds of a rebellious Grant and a submissive Grant live up to the spirit of the entire series in microcosm, showing us what happens through both inaction and action, and how many terrible choices Grant ultimately makes regardless of where he ends up. Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera, Moreno Dinisio, and Rus Wooton have given us an incredible story here.

| Published by Image / Giant Generator

Bloodshot #1 is an action-packed debut from Tim Seeley, Brett Booth, Adelso Corona, Andrew Dalhouse, and Dave Sharpe. It’s basically Bloodshot against a paramilitary group, with some seeds of that same paramilitary group meeting with the G7 leaders to sanction hunting and killing Bloodshot.

| Published by Valiant

Bronze Age Boogie #6 concludes this series from Stuart Moore, Alberto Ponticelli, Giulia Brusco, and Rob Steen. It’s been fun, reminiscent of some of the weirdness of Doom Patrol, but definitely not a knock-off. Very happy to find out there’s another special coming.

| Published by Ahoy

Criminal #8 turns the spotlight on Jane for part four of “Cruel Summer” from Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips. It’s interesting as to how more complex and complicated this arc keeps getting as more layers are revealed through each character, including the set up here for what possibly is going to bring all the plans down.

| Published by Image

Deadly Class #40 kicks off “Bone Machine” as Saya and Maria get a reunion and Helmut tries to get revenge for Petra. In the latter, we find out that Petra’s people are pretty much nuts. Great art from Wes Craig and Jordan Boyd.

| Published by Image / Giant Generator

Detective Comics #1012 goes full bore on Freeze’s mad science experiments for reanimating dead tissue, as he has his teams kidnap women with similar characteristics as his wife. Peter J. Tomasi, Doug Mahnke, Jaime Mendoza, David Baron, and Rob Leigh are certainly making this feel unnerving.

| Published by DC Comics

Doctor Mirage #2 is more wondrous storytelling from Magdalene Visaggio, Nick Robles, Jordie Bellaire, and Dave Sharpe. The art is phenomenal, bringing together some weird surrealism and detailed ancient spaces, and its interesting to see the selfishness driving Shan.

| Published by Valiant

Ether: The Disappearance of Violet Bell #1 begins the third volume in this series from Matt Kindt, David Rubín, and Kike J. Diaz. It’s pretty bleak. Despite being brought to life through the gorgeous artwork of Rubín and Diaz, everything has more or less gone to crap in Boone’s life. His friends and family are either dead or hate him and now Ether itself is being corrupted. Add to that a mystery, and you’ve got a compelling start here.

| Published by Dark Horse

Harleen #1 is really damn good. I’m not one to like romanticizing the relationship between Harley Quinn and the Joker, but damn if Stjepan Šejić and Gabriela Downie don’t manage to make this a beautiful and compelling story of an intelligent woman’s descent into madness.

| Published by DC Comics / Black Label

Justice League Dark #15 continues to be one of the best things currently being published by DC, going deep into the dark side’s history and continuity and coming back up with some fascinating character developments and changes into something new. James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martínez Bueno, Raul Fernandez, Brad Anderson, and Rob Leigh are working magic here. It should also be interesting to see what kind of nightmare Man-Bat has turned himself into now.

| Published by DC Comics

Mall #2 deepens the mystery of why and how Andre was framed, while gang warfare threatens to fully erupt. I really quite like the world-building that Michael Moreci, Gary Dauberman, Zak Hartong, Addison Duke, and Jim Campbell are doing here and love the artwork.

| Published by Vault

Manor Black #3 gives us most of the answers as to what’s going on in this penultimate chapter from Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, and Tyler Crook. The designs for the wild magicians are really neat.

| Published by Dark Horse

The Plot #1 is a great start to this old-school horror from Tim Daniel, Michael Moreci, Joshua Hixson, Jordan Boyd, and Jim Campbell. There’s a mix of family secrets, dark horror in the past, and monsters ready to bury them all. The art from Hixson and Boyd is incredible.

| Published by Vault

Relics of Youth #1 is an intriguing start from Matt Nicholas, Chad Rebmann, Skylar Patridge, Vladimir Popov, and AndWorld Design. This first issue sets up an interesting mystery of six kids with matching tattoos, each having weird visions of an island. As they set out to try to find whatever it is, they find that there’s so much more going on.

| Published by Vault

Resonant #3 sees everything get worse. As their dad is still away, captured for use in what looks like a labour gang, Bec and Ty see their relationship crumble, torn apart over waiting for him and not knowing what to do. David Andry, Alejandro Aragon, Jason Wordie, and Deron Bennett continue to make this one of the most unique post-apocalypse tales out there, with a very interesting focus on the characters.

| Published by Vault

SFSX #1 is another refugee from Vertigo being shuttered, presenting a world where a puritanical Party has taken control and is enacting strict “purity” laws in regards to sex and conduct. Tina Horn, Michael Dowling, and Steve Wands create a fairly interesting world here, with some hints that everything might not be what it seems with the Party.

| Published by Image

Strikeforce #1 is an interesting debut from Tini Howard, Germán Peralta, Jordie Bellaire, and Joe Sabino. It’s a very weird team, brought together through being framed by a race of shapeshifters left after the War of the Realms.

| Published by Marvel

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #98 steps closer to the end of “City at War” as the turtles regroup and everything changes with Stockman winning the election. It’s amazing as to how quickly things have changes this arc, it makes you wonder how much is going to stick around as a new status quo after #100.

| Published by IDW

Thanos #6 concludes the series from Tini Howard, Ariel Olivetti, Antonio Fabela, and Joe Caramagna. It’s interesting how this ties into the broader arc of what’s also going on in the current Guardians of the Galaxy series, with Gamora and Magus.

| Published by Marvel

Tommy Gun Wizards #2 continues this excellent series from Christian Ward, Sami Kavelä, Dee Cunniffe, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. The blend of magic with Prohibition era crime is a wonderful mix.

| Published by Dark Horse

The White Trees #2 concludes this wonderful mini from Chip Zdarsky, Kris Anka, Matt Wilson, and Aditya Bidikar. The feeling of old friends turned to resentment continues here in very interesting ways and we get a twist in the tale that really changes things.

| Published by Image

Wonder Woman #79 continues “Loveless” as the world continues to fall apart after the death of Aphrodite and Luthor’s doom spreads. Really nice to see art here from Scot Eaton.

| Published by DC Comics

Other Highlights: Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales #2, Avengers #24, Avengers: Loki Unleashed #1, Batman: Nightwalker, Books of Magic #12, Captain America #14, The Crow / Hack/Slash #3, Dial H for HERO #7, Evolution #18, Faithless #6, Fearless #3, Fight Club 3 #9, The Flash #79, Freedom Fighters #9, From Hell: Master Edition #7, Ghost Spider #2, Immortal Hulk: Director’s Cut #4, Invader Zim #47, Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance #1, Jughead’s Time Police #4, Knights Temporal #3, Lumberjanes #66, Marvel Comics Presents #9, Marvel Team-Up #6, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #43, New Mutants: War Children #1, Powers of X #5, Punisher Kill Krew #3, Queen of Bad Dreams #4, Ragnarok: The Breaking of Helheim #2, Rick & Morty #54. The Ride: Burning Desire #4, RWBY #3, Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid, Sera & The Royal Stars #3, Star Trek: Discovery - Aftermath #2, Star Wars: Age of Resistance - Kylo Ren #1, Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order - Dark Temple #2, Star Wars: Target Vader #3, Star Wars Adventures #26, Superior Spider-Man #11, Warlord of Mars Attacks #4, Wolverine Annual #1

Recommended Collections: Angel - Volume 1, Captain America - Volume 2: Captain of Nothing, Cyber Force: Awakening - Volume 4, Deathstroke: Arkham, Ghostbusters: 35th Anniversary Collection, The Goon - Volume 1: Ragged Return to Lonely Street, Kaijumax - Volume 4: Season Four - Scaly is the New Black, Mae - Volume 2, Monstress - Volume 4, Paper Girls - Volume 6, Secret Warps, TMNT - Volume 22: City at War Pt. 1

d. emerson eddy feels like a nap.