#Paul Neale

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Paul and Ed visiting the chainsaw house circa 2001

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Batman 222 Cover by Neal Adams

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led zeppelin, by neal preston

final rehearsal for the 1975 american tour. metropolitan sports center; january 17 1975.

CYNTHIA: …. These rehearsal photos. You just got in and started taking pictures? NEAL: Of course. Of course. Well, I wasn’t shy. I walked in already taking pictures and I remember they were playing ‘Custard Pie’. They also played ‘The Wanton Song’. Don’t ask me how I remember that.

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Patricia Neal and Paul Newman during filming of Martin Ritt’s HUD (1963). Neal won the Best Actress Academy Award for her performance in the film. But, a favorite, she was always truthful and moving on film. Terrific actor.

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hockey duos as so american by olivia rodrigo! (part two: electric boogaloo)

in order: dylan strome & alex debrincat, brady skjei & jimmy vesey, ryan suter & zach parise, philipp grubauer & joey daccord, james neal & paul martin, alex galchenyuk & brendan gallagher, ilya samsonov & joseph woll, morgan frost & joel farabee!

thanks so much to @pierremcguire and @tksupremacy for enlightening me in the ways of american/canadian hockey rpf <3 this one's for y'all!

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For a long time, the main impetus for DC reprinting any of its voluminous back catalog was some promotional or licensing tie-in: a movie, a TV show, some merchandise they were trying to push, or just a popular ongoing book. Given how prominently Dr. Fate was featured in the recent BLACK ADAM movie, therefore, it's surprising and somewhat disheartening that DC didn't take the opportunity to do some kind of greatest hits compilation for the character, who was certainly the best thing about that mostly terrible film.

This is especially unfortunate because you could fit quite a bit of Dr. Fate's Silver Age and Bronze Age non-JSA appearances in a single volume, starting with the two 1965 SHOWCASE team-ups with Hourman shown above, by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson. There are also a number of later team-ups with Superman and Batman:

Fate then got a couple of solo features in the '70s:

Kubert cover notwithstanding, the 1ST ISSUE SPECIAL story, which is written by Marty Pasko, has some really outstanding early Walt Simonson art, while the SECRET ORIGINS OF SUPER-HEROES story has an eight-page retelling of Fate's origin, narrated by Kent Nelson's wife Inza, by the ALL-STAR COMICS team of Paul Levitz and Joe Staton.

In 1982, Doctor Fate got his own eight-page backup feature in, weirdly enough, THE FLASH #306–313. Despite what a couple of the covers imply, there wasn't a team-up between the Flash and Fate (who in those days still existed on separate parallel Earths); the Fate strip was just an unrelated second feature.

This strip, written by Marty Pasko and Steve Gerber with spectacular art by Keith Giffen and Larry Mahlstedt, presents an array of interesting ideas (some of which obviously paved the way for Giffen's 1987 revamp). Pasko had already established (in the 1975 1ST ISSUE SPECIAL story) that Doctor Fate wasn't exactly Kent Nelson: He was really the ancient Lord of Order Nabu, the entity who trained Nelson in the magical arts, who possessed Nelson's body whenever he put on the Helm of Fate. In other words, the Dr. Fate of these stories isn't so much a man wearing a magical helmet as a magical helmet wearing a man. Nabu has made both Kent and Inza ageless — they both appear about 25, but by this time, they're really in their 60s — but allows them little real control of their lives. Kent has more or less resigned himself to it, but Inza is feeling the strain of being trapped in a magical menage à trois with her husband and an inhuman entity that has little regard for Kent's welfare and even less for hers. Nabu, for his part, seems to exist in a state of constant mystical urgency in which human frailties are an unaffordable distraction.

This could have been really compelling, and it's both graphically interesting and quite strange, but all that is a lot to squeeze into eight-page installments, and having them crammed in the back of one of DC's most conventional superhero books was obviously not optimal. It was also having to compete for Giffen and Mahlstedt's attention with LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, which I assume was why the Fate strip was dropped after only eight installments.

To everyone's surprise, there was even a Doctor Fate action figure in 1984 as part of the Kenner Super Powers line. This came with a little minicomic, which to my knowledge has never been reprinted:

All of this stuff would add up to something in the realm of 230 pages, which would easily fit into a single trade paperback collection with a digestible price point. Maddeningly, DC has already done the color remastering for roughly three-fifths of this material, so even that probably wouldn't be a huge chore (although the Giffen/Mahlstedt stuff, which has a lot of color holds and graphic effects, really calls for more care in remastering than DC has tended to give its older material of late.)

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X-Month reaches new heights with 60 years of the Avenging Angel!

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Paul Walker behind the scenes of Timeline (2003).

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - VHS Cover

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Just some images.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

"Things happen here about... they don't tell about. I see things. You see, they say it's just an old man talking. You laugh at an old man. There's them that laughs and knows better."

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Slash: Orgy Of The Damned (2024)

Cover Artwork By Toni Greis

Snakepit Records

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led zeppelin, by neal preston

madison square garden; february 21 1975

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Supergirl pt 2

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GH: BATMAN #359

As I’ve mentioned often in the past, growing up, I was never all that much of a fan of Batman. I didn’t dislike the Masked Manhunter, it was more a question of liking a particular flavor of him. I first encountered the Caped Crusader in daily reruns of the 1966 live action television show, and like most other kids of that age, I took them entirely seriously. I also occasionally read comics…