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yicruz48 · 4 years

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There was a Damian fan account on twitter that posted a graphic that had all the books the super sons appears in, including the issue of Bendis' Superman where he """"reunited"""" them. I tweeted that issue does count and they immediately blocked me. I still laugh about it

Haha, that's incredibly funny XD. I can definitely say for sure that the fact that they blocked you says more about them.

But in all seriousness, I and @wesavegotham were actually talking about this recently. And I actually discussed this @bardicious too awhile back. So I will summarize all our conclusions into this post.

The question that if you still consider the Super Sons, the same dynamic dual they were after Jon was aged up?

All of us had the same conclusion that the answer was obviously no.

Think about it, one factor why Tomasi’s Super Sons worked and was received so well was because Damian was older (obviously this isn’t the only reason). Damian being older not only benefited the development of Damian but also of Jon’s:

Damian has a darker past (raised by the league since birth), very intelligent for his age, and believe it or not, Damian is, for the most part, really wise. Jon, on the other hand, is more naive, he was new to being a superhero and didn’t yet know of how dark the world could be, and the person mentoring him...was Damian, the person you least expect to mentor anybody.

But Damian was perfect for the job, he also started his superhero career at 10. Although he is young, Damian is absolutely NOT naive. Damian has experienced the worse the world can throw at you. What better person to mentor you?

Damian learned a lot from mentoring and training Jon. Now Damian was not being mentored or watched over, he was mentoring and watching over Jon instead. Working with Jon helped Damian learn how to better work with someone who was difficult to handle as he is.

And it gave Damian the opportunity to be the older sibling for once for someone else that needed an older brother figure in their life like Dick is to him.

On the other hand, Jon being younger and naive isn’t a bad thing. Him being child-like helped Damian finally experience the childhood he was neglected. It helped Damian not take everything too seriously and enjoy life for once. Put a little bit of his trust into someone else besides Dick and gain a new friend who understood living under the burden of a legacy that was so heavy. As Damian was mentoring Jon in the superhero world, Jon was mentoring Damian in their personal world outside of patroling.

Under Damian, Jon was getting development, learning to be his own entity, and not overshadowed by his father. Plus Damian wasn’t gonna let Jon just be all muscle, he was teaching him to be analytical-like and do detective work as well. Under Damian, Jon would learn how to be different from his father.

Now that Jon is older, it disrupts that dynamic. I don’t think even Bendis even knows how he messed this up. And no amount of cats, hugs, or whatever he showed us in his version of Super Sons in Superman issue 16 can fix that.

And even if he ages down Jon down, I don’t think I’ll ever forgive him for leaving Damian alone during one of the darkest times of his life after leaving the league (with Alfred dead) and as @wesavegotham said for even implying that Damian was comparable to a ‘baby Hitler.’ I don’t know if that is even worse than Glass destroying Damian’s development.

It is not only insulting to fans of Damian like myself who have watched Damian grow and develop. But it also is an insult to writers like Tomasi and Gleason who worked so hard to develop Damian in the first place.

#damian wayne #batman #robin #nightwing #dick grayson #jon kent #super sons #superboy #superman #brian michael bendis #bendis #patrick gleason #peter j. tomasi #gleason #tomasi #adam glass #robbie thompson #yicruz48

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gorogues · 2 years

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Spoilers for comics in June!

These are from the official solicits for that month, which you can see at CBR.

Things go from bad to worse for the Rogues in the finale of the Black Label series, while AU Roscoe and the Flashpoint Rogues make surprise appearances. I guess all the new Rogue stories this month are AU.

ROGUES #4 Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON Art by LEOMACS Cover by SAM WOLFE CONNELLY Variant cover by KAARE ANDREWS 1:25 variant cover by LEOMACS $6.99 US | 48 pages | 4 of 4 | Prestige Plus | 8 1/2" x 10 7/8" ON SALE 6/28/22 17+ Gorilla City blues! All the Rogues wanted was a better life for themselves. But that’s all over thanks to all their greed and backstabbing. Those still left alive are busted up with their backs against the wall, and Grodd’s forces are closing in. With no heroes racing to save them, they must make a deadly deal with Gorilla Grodd to survive.

Guess they shouldn’t have been backstabbing each other, something the Rogues on Earth-0 have (mostly) learned. I love that ridiculous Bane variant cover.

SUICIDE SQUAD: BLAZE #3 Written by SIMON SPURRIER Art and cover by AARON CAMPBELL Variant cover by VALENTINE DE LANDRO $6.99 | 48 pages | 3 of 3 | Prestige Plus | 8 1/2" x 10 7/8" ON SALE 7/5/22 After the blood-soaked events of last issue, there are no heroes left with the strength to take on the cannibal killer…with the possible exception of, believe it or not, one Michael Van Zandt. But when Michael learns the truth of both the killer’s true nature and that of the powers he’s been given, humanity might have a lot more to fear than one flying carnivore…

Like the Rogues series, this sure sounds like a Mature Readers story.

FLASHPOINT BEYOND #5 Written by GEOFF JOHNS, TIM SHERIDAN, and JEREMY ADAMS Art by XERMÁNICO Cover by MITCH GERADS Variant cover by XERMÁNICO 1:25 ratio variant cover by SCOTT KOLINS $3.99 US | 32 pages | 5 of 6 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 6/28/22 The Clockwork Killer’s identity is finally revealed as the dust settles after the showdown at Arkham Asylum. But as we learn the truth behind how the Clockwork Killer came to be, Thomas is faced with a reality-altering choice!

This variant cover is the first hint I’ve seen that Citizen Cold and the Rogues are in the Flashpoint Beyond story, and hopefully they get a significant role.

THE FLASH: THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE #3 Written by KENNY PORTER Art and cover by JASON HOWARD Variant cover by ANDY MUSCHIETTI $5.99 US | 48 pages | 3 of 3 | Variant $6.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 6/28/22 Barry has learned to control his powers and is finally starting to feel like the hero he’s always dreamed he could be. But then a showboating new villain going by the name, the Top shows up looking to test his abilities and make some cash selling his weapons after showing how they can take out the Flash! Barry will need to use every skill he’s picked up along the way if he’s going to stop this topsy-turvy terror!!

....is Roscoe wearing armour on the cover? Sadly this probably means he won’t be in any of the movies, but that was to be expected. I’m hyped for the comic anyway.

BRIGHTEST DAY OMNIBUS (2022 EDITION) Written by GEOFF JOHNS and PETER J. TOMASI Art by IVAN REIS, PATRICK GLEASON, and others Cover by IVAN REIS $100.00 US | 696 pages | 7 1/4" x 10 7/8" | Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-77951-633-6 ON SALE 8/30/22 Offered again! In this follow-up to Blackest Night, 12 heroes and villains were resurrected by a white light expelled from deep within the center of the earth. Now Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Deadman, Jade, Osiris, Hawk, Captain Boomerang, and Zoom must discover the mysterious reason behind their return and uncover the secret that binds them all in this massive hardcover collecting issues #0-24 of the hit series!

It’s 2022, why do they still insist on calling Eobard “Zoom”?

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takeeachdayonebookatatime · 2 years

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Best TV romances.

Do you ship two characters together? When watching a show. Here are some of the best characters that wound up together.

Sydney and Vaughn (Alias) is an American action thriller and science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams. September 30, 2001 –May 22, 2006. Both spies with the CIA the storylines follow a recurring focus on the search for and recovery of artifacts created by Milo Rambaldi.

Felicity and Ben (Felicity) is an American drama television series created by J. J. Abrams and Matt Reeves about college students in New York City. September 29, 1998, to May 22, 2002. Felicity also dates Noel. It's almost like a love triangle. Who will she pick in the end? ps I know who she picks in the end but I won't spoil it you will just have to watch the show yourself.

Alice and Ralph (The Honeymooners) is an American television sitcom created by and starring Jackie Gleason, and based on a recurring comedy sketch with the same name that was part of Gleason's variety show. October 1, 1955 –September 22, 1956. Bus driver Ralph Kramden lives in New York with his wife Alice.

Jesse and Becky (Full House) is an American television sitcom created by Jeff Franklin. September 22, 1987 –May 23, 1995. Jesse is Danny's brother-in-law and Pam's younger brother. moves to San Francisco to become the co-host of Wake Up, San Francisco, being paired with Danny as her co-host.

Buffy and Angel (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) is an American supernatural drama television series based on the 1992 film of the same name. It was created by Joss Whedon who also created Firefly. March 10, 1997 –May 20, 2003. The series follows Buffy the latest in a line of young women known as "Vampire Slayers".

David and Patrick, (Schitt’s Creek) (stylized as Schitt$ Creek) is a Canadian television sitcom created by Dan Levy and his father, Eugene Levy. January 13, 2015 –April 7, 2020 The wealthy Rose family—video store. Johnny, his wife and former soap opera actress Moira and their pampered adult children David and Alexis lose their fortune after being defrauded by their business manager.

Corey and Topanga (Boy Meets World) an American television sitcom created and produced by Michael Jacobs and April Kelly. September 24, 1993 –May 5, 2000 it produced a Spinoff called girl Meets world. It follows the story of a group of middle schoolers all the way through their college years.

#tvshows #fullhouse #buffy the vampire slayer #schitt's creek #boy meets world #the honeymooners #felicity #alias

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oonathefaewitch · 3 years

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Hey so I'm a self-taught witch who practices independently and I was hoping to learn a little bit from others as well. Do you have any books/resources/people you recommend looking into?

Hi there!

I'm a self-taught witch as well and I'm still at the beginning of my journey, at the moment I'm yet to finish the big blue book Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft of which I'm also sharing the lessons (you can find tose posts in my archive here) so for now I can only really recommend that one, but I'm marking down all the recommendend supplementary redings at the end of every lesson if you wanna check them out!

I'm also reading a very interesting and complete book about tarot called Holistic Tarot which i really recommend, it's a bit expensive maybe but it's totally worth it

Other than that I can write down here the list of recommended reading at the end of the blue book (with extra books other than the ones already listed at the end of every lesson), I can't recommend those personally (even if I did buy some of them but I still have to read them) but I think they're worth a shot if you'd like to know more, I'll add the other two I mentioned above in the list, in any case if you find other books online read carefully all the reviews cause many books are not serious about this topic

Also I'm not sure but I think these books below are all from white people and mainly about white cultures (and most of them are very old), so If you (or anyone else) have some recommendations about other cultures' book about witchcraft or ancient traditions I'd be glad to know more about that too!

As for people and other resources, I follow some witches on Twitter that shares interesting stuff, it would be too long to link all of their profiles so I can give you directly the list of people I follow here

I hope you'll find this helpful~

Color Healng by Mary Anderson

Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece by Edward E. Jr Barthell

Crystal Gazing by Theodore Besterman

I-Ching: The Book of Changes by J. Blofeld

Primitive Song by C. M. Bowra

Gerald Gardner: Witch by J. L. Bracelin

The Lost Gods of England by Brian Branston

Development of Religion and Thought is Ancient Egypt by J. H. Breasted

Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft / Amazing Secrets of the Psychic World / Color Magick / Gypsy Dream Dictionary / A Pocket Guide to the Supernatural / Practical Candleburning Rituals / Scottish Witchcraft & Magick / The Tree: Complete Book of Saxon Witchcraft / Wicca For Life / The Witch Book: Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, WIcca and Neopaganism / Witchcraft From the Inside by Raymond Buckland

The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries by Zsuzsanna Budapest

Amulets and Talismans by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge

Egyptian Language by Oxford University Press

How to Read the Aura, Practice Psychometry, Telepathy and Clairvoyance by W.E. Butler

Ancient Ways by Dan and Pauline Campanelli

Handbook of Unusual and Unorthodox Healing by J. V. Carney

Handbook of Bach Flower Remedies by Philip M. Chancellor

Color Therapy by Linda Clark

Precious Stones: Their Occult Power and Hidden Significance by W. B. Crow

Lid Off the Cauldron / The Witches Speak Athol by Patricia Crowther

Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper

Earth Power / Living Wicca / Magical Herbalism by Scott Cunningham

Practical Guide to Astral Projection by Melita Dennings and Osborne Phillips

The Silent Path by Michael Eastcott

Patterns of Comparative Religion / Rites and Symbols of Initiation - Birth and Rebirth by Mircea Eliade

The Dream Game by Ann Faraday

What Witches Do / Eight Sabbats For Witches / The Witches' Way by Janet and Stewart Farrar

Magical Rites From the Crystal Well by Ed Fitch

The Golden Bought by Sir James G. Frazer

The Wisdom of Pagan Philosophers by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy

Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud

Witchcraft Today / The Meaning of Witchcraft / High Magic's Aid / A Goddess Arrives by Gerald Gardner

Complete Herbal by Gerard

Stalking the Healthful Herbs by Euell Gibbons

Witchcraft, the Sixth Sense, and Us by Justine Glass

Seasonal Occult Rituals by William Gray

The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft by Rosemay Ellen Guiley

Ancient Art and Ritual Kessinger by Jane E. Harrison

Palmistry, the Whole View by Judith Hipskind

Myth and Ritual by S. H. Hooke

Witch: A Magickal Journey by Fiona Horne

The Runes and Other Magical Alphabets by Michael Howard

Witchcraft by Penethorne Hughes

Memories Dreams and Reflections by Carl G. Jung

Aradia, Gospel of the Witches of Italy by Charles Godfrey Laland

Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion / Gogmagog - the Buried Gods by T. C. Lethbridge

Healing For Everyone by E. Loomis and J. Paulson

Numerology by Vincent Lopez

Commond and Uncommond Uses of Herbs of Healthful Living by Richard Lucas

The Herb Book by John Lust

Pagan Parenting by Kristin Madden

Witta: An Irish Pagan Tradition by Edain McCoy

The Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia by Abbè Mermet

The Hearbalist by J. E. Meyer

The Craft by Dorothy Morrison

Green Witchcraft series by Ann Aoumiel Moura

Sexual Occultism by John Mumford

The Family Wicca Book by Ashleen O'Gaea

Reclaim the Power of the Witch by Monte Plaisance

Potter's New Cyclopedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations by R. C. Potter

How to Make and Use Talismans / The Art of True Healing by Israel Regardie

The Seventh Sense by Kenneth Roberts

High Magic's Aid by Scire

The Book of Charms and Alisman by Sepharial

The Spiral Dance by Starhawk

The Devil in Massachusetts by Marion L. Starkey

Medical Palmistry by Marten Steinbach

Is This Your Day? by George S. Thommen

Magic and Healing by C. J. S. Thompson

Where Witchcraft Lives / An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present / Witchcraft For Tomorrow by Doreen Valiente

The Rites of Passage by Arnold Van Gennep

Herbal Manual by H. Ward

Holistic Tarot by Benebell Wen

The I-Ching by R. Wilhelm

The Christians As the Romans Saw Them by Robert L. Wilken

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft by Denise Zimmermann and Katherine A. Gleason

#witch blog #witch #book of witchcraft #witchblr #witchcraft beliefs #philosophy of witchcraft #history of witchcraft #witches #witchcraft #reading recommendations #introduction to witchcraft #witches of tumblr #books about witchcraft #books recommendations #witchcraft resources #medusa's answers

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peanuts-fan · 4 years

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'A Charlie Brown Christmas' at 50: The Making of a Classic Soundtrack

Producer Lee Mendelson, drummer Jerry Granelli reflect on enduring seasonal favorite

By Liz Pelly December 9, 2015

“The fact that it's become such a permanent part of the holiday season is surreal," says original 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' producer Lee Mendelson. United Feature Syndicate Inc./ABC

The legend goes like this: In 1963, producer Lee Mendelson made a documentary about Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, for which he needed music. One night, Mendelson was driving over the Golden Gate Bridge, tuned into a San Francisco jazz station. "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" came on the air, a drifting cut where melodies appear and then disappear, and bouncing elation is matched by tiny moments of despair. The track was pianist Vince Guaraldi's mini-hit that year, and Mendelson was struck by how it sounded simultaneously adult and childlike. The next day, he called up the San Francisco Chronicle's jazz critic, Ralph J. Gleason. "Do you have any idea in the world who Vince Guaraldi is?" Mendelson asked. "Yes, as a matter of fact, I'm having lunch with him tomorrow," Gleason said. Mendelson met Guaraldi a few days later, and they agreed to work together.

The documentary ultimately didn't sell. But two years later, Coca-Cola, who had seen the doc, called up Mendelson, and asked if he'd ever thought of making a Christmas special. Mendelson said, "Absolutely!" and hung up the phone, then called Mr. Schulz. As Mendelson remembers it: "I said, 'I think I just sold A Charlie Brown Christmas.' And Schulz said, 'What in the world is that?' And I said, 'It's something you're going to write tomorrow.' There was a long pause, and he said, 'Alright. Come on up.'"

The rest, of course, is history. A Charlie Brown Christmas aired 50 years ago today, on December 9th, 1965. Over the years, the special has become a perennial classic: the 25-minute story of wistful Charlie Brown and his struggle to find the true meaning of Christmas in the face of holiday-season commercialism. "I almost wish there weren't a holiday season," he sighs, at the story's beginning. "I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it?" The genius of A Charlie Brown Christmas was the way it channeled the looming sadness and anxiety that come with the holidays — and the way its timeless, best-selling soundtrack by the Vince Guaraldi Trio tapped into that narrative seamlessly, with muted, melancholic jazz.

Indeed, to create such an unabashedly anti-consumerist story with the backing of both Coca-Cola and CBS was a subtly radical accomplishment in 1965, as it would be now. The executives at CBS were displeased with the finished product: its slow-moving animation, its religious undertone, its jazz soundtrack. They had no choice but to air it, though — they had already advertised it in TV Guide.

"They wanted something corporate, something rousing," says drummer Jerry Granelli, the lone surviving member of the Guaraldi combo. "They thought the animation was too slow. They really didn’t like that a little kid was going to come out and say what Christmas was all about, which wasn’t about shopping. And then the jazz music, which was improvised — you know, the melodies only take up maybe 30 seconds." Yet A Charlie Brown Christmas was an immediate, massive success.

The first of many specials that Schulz and Guaraldi would collaborate on with Mendelson and animator Bill Melendez, A Charlie Brown Christmas came together in just six months. "We brought Vince Guaraldi in to reprise the music he had done for the documentary, plus some Beethoven and some traditional music," Mendelson says.

Employing his background in easygoing, West Coast jazz, and working with a local children's choir that sounded perfectly off-key at times, Guaraldi crafted future classics through original compositions and re-arrangements of holiday standards. Like the characters themselves, the songs merge bits of Schroeder's bookish sophistication, Charlie Brown's heavy heart, and Snoopy's unpredictable mischief. The songs are both smooth and snappy, with Granelli's brush and stick sounds pushing them steadily along.

"Guaraldi never wasted a note," says author Derrick Bang of the pianist. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

"We went in and did it in three hours," recalls Granelli, who was only 24 at the time. "That's just the way jazz records were recorded. I think we even went to work in a club that night." Some of the songs were already part of the group's repertoire. "We were improvising all the time, so each night, the song kind of evolved."

The trio's version of the 1824 German carol "O Tannenbaum" exemplifies this process. Guaraldi, Granelli and bassist Fred Marshall took the song's harmonic foundation and ran, moving the composition into more explosive, bluesy territory. In the special, the song plays as Charlie Brown and Linus look around for a Christmas tree. "This doesn't seem to fit the modern spirit," says Linus, when Charlie Brown picks out the smallest, most dilapidated one he can find. The funny sound of flat piano keys chirp as the tree's twigs fall to the ground.

"Linus and Lucy" was one of the holdovers from the Schulz-documentary days; in A Charlie Brown Christmas, it is the centerpiece of the soundtrack, capturing a moment when inner anxieties subside and the season feels fleetingly fine. "My playing is really very simple on that record, but it's exactly what captures the story," says Granelli. "It moves the music forward doing very little. Just the way the brush starts on 'Linus and Lucy,' so it doesn't conflict with the bass line, and then it goes to the Latin part, and then it goes back to the left hand, the conga drum part."

"Christmas Time Is Here" was originally an all-instrumental piece. "Guaraldi had written a very beautiful melody for the opening skating scene, but about two weeks before it was about to run on the air, I thought, 'Maybe we could get a lyricist to put some words to this,'" remembers Mendelson. "I called a few lyricist friends of mine, and everyone was busy. So I sat down at my kitchen table and I wrote out a few words, and we rushed it to the choir that Vince Guaraldi had been working with in San Francisco. And he recorded it, and we got it into the show about a week before it went on the air."

"They really didn’t like that a little kid was going to come out and say what Christmas was all about, which wasn’t about shopping." —Jerry Granelli

"It's deceptively simple, but at the same time, impressively complex, kind of the way Charles Schulz approached his newspaper strip," says Derrick Bang, author of Vince Guaraldi at the Piano and multiple books on Peanuts, of Guaraldi's soundtrack. "He never wasted a line; Guaraldi never wasted a note. Every note was important."

"We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us," reflects Granelli. "And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown ... I think there’s just a humanness."

"The whole thing from beginning to end has been surreal," Mendelson says. "The fact that it's become such a permanent part of the holiday season is surreal. And every time I hear it on the radio, or I hear it in a store, or someone says, 'wah, wah, wah,' I realize we're very lucky to have been associated with Mr. Schulz and his characters. It all comes back to his characters, and his philosophy, and his humor."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/a-charlie-brown-christmas-at-50-the-making-of-a-classic-soundtrack-20151209?page=3

*Note: The picture at the top of the article is NOT from “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, it is from another cartoon, probably “It’s christmastime again, charlie brown”.

#charlie brown christmas #Peanuts #Peanuts gang #Vince Guaraldi #lee mendelson #Charles M Schulz

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blackscarabfilmz · 1 year

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I am not a tech reviewer but that didn't stop me from reviewing my newest tech purchase on my blog!

#google pixel #pixel buds #google pixel buds pro #tech #blog #writing #essay #blackscarabfilmz #michael j. gleason

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grapevynerendezvous · 3 years

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Jefferson Airplane -Surrealistic Pillow

The release of Surrealistic Pillow, Jefferson Airplane’s second album, coincided with so many new things going on in the world of music, and the world in general. It brought national attention to the psychedelic music scene flourishing in a drug-infused counterculture of Summer of Love San Francisco that had its’ roots in the ‘50s beat scene. The record came out two months before the release of the band’s first hit single, Somebody to Love (b/w She Has Funny Cars, and nearly two months before the next one, White Rabbit (b/w Plastic Fantastic Lover. The actual first single RCA chose to issue from the album was My Best Friend written by Skip Spence (b/w How Do You Feel). It failed to break into the Billboard Hot 100, cresting at No.103. Both Spence and former lead female singer Signe Anderson had departed in 1966 and veteran drummer Spencer Dryden had come aboard along with Grace Slick, formerly of another San Francisco band The Great Society, several months later. Slick brought along the two songs that became huge hits for The Airplane. Somebody To Love, written by her brother-in-law at the time, Darby Slick, had been performed and recorded by The Great Society as Someone To Love. Slick was the composer of White Rabbit early on in the Great Society’s existence. In August 1966, a few months prior to Grace Slick joining Jefferson Airplane, the band fired manager Matthew Katz. A protracted precedent-setting artist-management legal battle ensued over the terms of their contracts, which lasted two decades. Marty Balin’s roommate and friend, Bill Thompson, was their road manager and filled in as band manager for awhile. As Surrealistic Pillow was about to be released, Jefferson Airplane became managed by Bill Graham which lead to their first time on the East Coast. Along with the Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service they co-headlined the Human Be-In at Golden Gate Park on January 14, 1967.

The recording of the album took place November 1966 at RCA studios in Los Angeles, not long after Grace had joined the band. The span of dates actually goes from Oct. 31 to Nov. 22, but the band spent less than two weeks in the studio total. There are various takes on how the process went with RCA staff producer Rick Jarrard, but suffice it to say that the band members were not overly happy working with him despite the results or perhaps, in their minds, because of the results. It is noted on the liner notes on the album that Jerry Garcia was the Musical and Spiritual Adviser. There is disparity as to what influence he may have had over the recording. Producer Rick Jarrard denied that Jerry had any presence on any of the tracks. This has been countered by band members, and Jerry himself said in a 1967 interview that he played guitar on three tracks, the high lead on Today, and also Comin’ Back to You and Plastic Fantastic Lover, plus he rearranged Somebody to Love. In his book, Been So Long: My Life and Music, Jorma Kaukonen wrote, "I used to think about him as co-producer, but now that I really know what a producer is, the producer of that record was Rick Jarrard. Jerry was a combination arranger, musician, and sage counsel.” Reportedly Garcia was also the inspiration of the album name with his comment, “as surrealistic as a pillow is soft”, according to two sources, Light into Ashes-Grateful Dead Guide: Jerry Garcia & Surrealistic Pillow, and JGMF-Jerry Garcia’s Middle Finger: Jerry on Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow.

Released February 1, 1967, the album went as high as No.3 on the Billboard Top 200 while being on the chart for over a year. It was awarded a Gold Record for over a million sold (eventually certified Platinum) and is ranked 146 on the Rolling Stone list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Somebody to Love hit No..5 and White Rabbit No.8 on the Billboard Hot 100. Both songs are in Rolling Stones list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, Somebody to Love at 274 and White Rabbit at 478. The B-side of White Rabbit, Plastic Fantastic Lover, received extensive airplay in the San Francisco Bay Area and perhaps other markets as well. Jorma Kaukonen’s guitar instrumental, Embryonic Journey, also got some airplay in the Bay Area and was performed on at least one network television show. The Airplane also benefited from being on TV shows such as The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Jefferson Airplane became a national and international phenomenon, thanks in part to the influence of music critic Ralph J. Gleason, The Airplane was invited to play at the first major rock festival, Monterey Pop in June 1967, just prior to the White Rabbit release. Surrealistic Pillow was, as Allmusic reviewer Bruce Eder put it, “…a groundbreaking piece of folk-rock-based psychedelia, and it hit like a shot heard round the world”. It was considered original for its; time, and the band’s fusion of folk rock and psychedelia lined up with pioneering musical directions of The Byrds, The Beatles, The Yardbirds, Bob Dylan, and The Mamas and the Papas.

The songwriting for the album was spread out amonst five of the band members, the result of which was, as Bruce Eder puts it, “resplendent in a happy balance of all of these creative elements”. She Has Funny Cars, written by Marty Balin and Jorma Kaukonen, starts with a rhythm and blues based Bo Diddley Beat, and goes on to highlight the new harmony magic of Marty and Grace Slick. The song expresses the materialism in American Society, but the title has been attributed to Spencer Dryden’s girlfriend’s “funny car(s)”. The next two songs on the album were written by other local musicians that the band had been associated with. Somebody To Love was written by Darby Slick, Grace’s brother-in-was at the time, and it was released as a single by their band The Great Society, under the name Someone To Love. With Grace’s decision to join Jefferson Airplane at Jack Casady’s suggestion, The Great Society band came to an end. While Grace’s presentation of Somebody (Someone) To Love with them was more subdued, in the Jefferson Airplane version “she sounds far more accusatory and menacing”, per SongFacts. My Best Friend was a nod to the Airplane’s folk rock beginnings, and in some ways had the type of harmonies reminiscent of The Mamas and Papas, and before that, Peter, Paul and Mary. It was composed by former drummer Skip Spence, who had left to form Moby Grape. The two tracks that close out side one are ballads written by by Marty Balin with Jack Kantner co-writing the first one, Today. Balin said that he was inspired to write Today while being in a recording studio next to one where Tony Bennett was recording. He had thought to write the song for Tony in hopes that he might meet him and give it to him. This never happened and it ended up being one of the Airplane’s most beautiful songs. Another lovely song, Comin’ Back to Me, which features Grace Slick on recorder, was written by Balin in one sitting, afterwards going right to the studio to record it with any available musicians. It has been included on soundtracks of several American feature films. 3/5 of Mile in Ten Seconds is a psychedelic blues-rocker that sheds light on the vibrant, drug-drenched San Francisco scene of 1966 while “there is a sense of reflection in some of the lines”, per Matthew Greenwald’s Allmusic song review. D.C.B.A.-25. The title is pretty simple, the letters are for chords in the song, and -25 comes from LSD-25. Paul Kantner composed it. A true sign of the times. The next song is the only one on the album written by someone not connected to the band in some way. Tom Mastin is the composer of How Do You Feel, which is similar to My Best Friend in that it is a folk-rock number with shades of The Mamas and The Papas in the vocalization. Like Comin’ Back to You, it also features Grace Slick on recorder in addition to her vocal harmonies. Little is known about Tom Mastin. Grace Slick had merely said that he was a friend of the band according to Barbara Rowes' biography of Slick. There is some light shed on him in a biography on the Brewer and Shipley website. Michael Brewer met Tom Mastin in Kent, Ohio in 1964, playing in a local club together, and they decided to check the scene out in San Francisco. Perhaps this is when he met up with local musicians at a time when bands like Jefferson Airplane and The Great Society were forming. After a brief stay Mastin and Brewer headed for Los Angeles to meet up with some friends. They ended up recording a three-song demo produced by Barry Friedman (later known as Mohawk Frazier), and Columbia Records offered a contract for them to record as Mastin & Brewer. As they, and two other band members added to the group, were preparing to record, Mastin walked away from the band. He is said to have suffered severe bouts of depression and eventually committed suicide in the ‘90s. The single was actually completed when Brewer recruited his brother Keith to perform Mastin’s vocals and Columbia released the Brewer & Brewer record, which attracted little attention. As already noted, Grace Slick had already written White Rabbit, but the first studio recording of it occurred shortly after she joined Jefferson Airplane. The thinly disguised references to psychedelic drugs meant it was banned in some markets, but it still managed a high position on the charts. It was not included on the U.K. version of the album and the released single there only reached No.94 on the UK Singles Chart. Marty Balin wrote the final cut on the album, Plastic Fantastic Lover, after spending time in a Los Angeles hotel watching television. It is his somewhat sarcastic viewpoint about how much people watch the medium, all done in a blues-rock style with the influence of James Brown/funk.

This one finally hit close to home for me. It was my first San Francisco "sound", Summer of Love record. It is also one of my all-time favorite records, as I’m sure it is with many other folks. It wasn't too hard to be attracted to The Airplane's music, what with first one big hit, and then another, riding the airwaves. They weren't new songs to the SF music scene, but soon the whole world was paying attention. Somebody To Love and White Rabbit were and still are catchy tunes that spoke to a generation. New generations are still tuning in. A young singer songwriter I know, Lisa Azzolino, covers White Rabbit. It is undoubtedly the most remarkable version I've heard since Grace Slick held forth with it back in the day. I remember being struck by some of the song titles and the band’s appearance. It was pretty foreign to me and quite fascinating. The album itself was likely something I might have bought even if I hadn’t heard Somebody To Love. I even went so far as to buy the 45rpm of White Rabbit and Plastic Fantastic Lover. I’m pretty sure I got it because it was played so early in the Bay Area and hadn’t risen to hit status as yet. As time went by, Bay Area Top 40 stations were playing not only the two huge hits, but Plastic Fantastic Lover (which was on the single), Today, and even Embryonic Journey as well. The one song on the album that didn’t do much for me was My Best Friend. Perhaps it was too “folksy” for me, or seemed a bit “country”, but as time went on it started sticking in my head more and more. I even realized that it would just pop into my personal play list and I would be singing it to myself, probably as much or more as Somebody To Love, or Today. I never heard the single version on the radio though.

As I was researching information for this the name Matthew Katz stood out to me immediately. I’ve been familiar with it for a long time. primarily because of his likewise unscrupulous management associations with Moby Grape and It’s A Beautiful Day. I have friends involved in both bands and have heard some horror stories directly from them which include, among other things, “legal” control of publishing, and even the names of the bands. He refused to let go of these things and took advantage of them as much as he could without ever considering renegotiation. The fact that his legal wranglings with Jefferson Airplane has had a major impact on how artist-management arrangements are being handled since those days is gratifying to say the least.

I never got to see Jefferson Airplane in person, but I have seen Starship and a later version of Jefferson Starship. I saw the latter at Marin County Center one night. I recall that Paul Kantner was there on rhythm guitar, and Marty Balin sang a handful of his great songs, including some Jefferson Airplane favorites. It was special that Signe Anderson came out and sang a few songs which included her joining with Marty on Its No Secret. I had an opportunity to go to Monterey Pop because I had just spent a week in Pacific Grove that year and a friend who lived there invited me down for this festival that was happening a week or two after I was there. The problem was I didn’t have a way down and I didn’t really know how to approach such a thing with my parents. Ah well, nothing too much happened there, right? And the Bay Area connection was special in more ways than one. Grace Slick nee Wing attended my alma mater Palo Alto High School, but switched to the private all-girls Castilleja High School, also in Palo Alto. I estimate she started Paly 14 or 15 years before I did, which meant I hadn’t arrived in town yet. Paul Kantner, born in San Francisco, was sent to a catholic military boarding school by his father after his mother died when he was eight years old. He graduated from St. Mary’s College High School in Berkeley in 1959, also before I moved to California, but ten years before I graduated from Paly High. To think, a religious military school. Paul puts it best in regard to his experience of being forced to be at St. Joseph’s Military Academy in Belmont CA: “I was an abandoned little child. The school was out of necessity, (his 61-year old salesman father couldn’t raise him on his own) but still rather drastic. Nuns and guns. As a result, I now fear nothing.”

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jefferson-airplane-mn0000840102/biography

https://www.allmusic.com/album/surrealistic-pillow-mw0000591676

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/surrealistic-pillow-251704/

https://books.google.com/books?id=TKyYNB0pGIoC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=paul+kantner+saint+mary%27s+college+high+school+graduate&source=bl&ots=qa5ymlMsuE&sig=ACfU3U2fe1iOMB1NLVQgq0h-HTapXX4Ukw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizipu0yqrpAhUHKKwKHZPdAYwQ6AEwAnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=paul%20kantner%20saint%20mary's%20college%20high%20school%20graduate&f=false

Somebody to Love http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1251

https://www.amazon.com/best-friend-how-feel-single/dp/B007A6SAGI

https://www.allmusic.com/song/3-5-of-a-mile-in-10-seconds-mt0056876477

How Do You Feel composer https://www.allmusic.com/artist/tom-mastin-mn0001774142 http://www.brewerandshipley.com/Bios&Liners/Mastin&Brewer.htm

Surrealistic Pillow https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzEG2f9QAl8OaEk6_Mz2gG3DXBImWofzm

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Superman (Vol 4) #6

Writers - Peter J. Tomasi & Patrick Gleason

Art - Patrick Gleason & Mick Gray

Cover - Doug Mahnke & Wil Quintana

“Son of Superman” Part 6

Superman is now charged with the Kryptonian souls abducted by the Eradicator. But will it be enough power to take down the mechanical monstrosity?

This issue is a big, huge slugfest between Superman and the Eradicator. The action is pretty good and I really enjoy the idea that the Eradicator can morph its form like some kind of Terminator. Its a good thing this took place on the moon or there would have been a lot of damage and casualties on earth. Lois and Jonathan are kind of sidelined here, but Krypto gets a few shots in on the Eradicator, so the family does get to play a part. I’m still not a fan of the whole idea that the Kryptonian souls provide some kind of power source, but that seems to be put to rest this issue. Supes seems to leave the inert carcass of the Eradicator on the moon at the end - seems like he’s asking for trouble there.

Honestly, while the fistfight is cool, some of the best parts of the issue are Clark’s interactions with Jon. He demonstrates he’s a good father and he has a bond with his son that goes beyond shared powers. I like the quiet moments quite a bit here. It’s very reminiscent of Gleason’s run on Batman and Robin and the interactions between Bruce and Damien. As a father, I appreciate those moments.

The artwork is high-energy throughout the entire book - intense expressions, big action, bigger explosions - an issue that rivals a Michael Bay movie in some respects. There are several double-page spreads that really accentuate the action and drama and make for exciting storytelling.

A fine wrap-up to this first storyline that illustrates Jon’s place in this book is assured. So it’s not going to all be about Superman, but include his family as well - and that’s a good choice!

#superman #superboy #peter j tomasi #patrick gleason #mick gray #doug mahnke #wil quintana #dc comics #rebirth #comic books #comic review

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Ohio National Guardsmen in gas masks and with rifles as they prepare to advance up Blanket Hill, through clouds of teargas, to drive back Kent State University students during an antiwar demonstration on the university's campus, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970

The shooting lasted a total of 13 seconds. These students lost their lives:

Jeffrey Miller - 20

Allison Krause - 19

William Knox Schroeder - 19

Sandra Lee Scheuer - 20

(and nine injured)

Kent State University’s virtual 50th Commemoration to honor and remember the events of May 4, 1970

READ MORE https://www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50

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Celebrating Another 50th Anniversary: The Student Strike of 1970 May 1, 2020

READ MORE https://woodstockfolkfestival.org/2020/05/01/celebrating-another-50th-anniversary-the-student-strike-of-1970/#comment-13

radio soundtrack

“Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – written by Neil Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings

“Kent” by Magpie (the duo of Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner) on their album Give Light; Terry Leonino is a survivor of the Kent State shootings

Dave Brubeck’s cantata “Truth is Fallen” was dedicated to the slain students of Kent State and Jackson State and other innocent victims

Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?”

Steve Miller’s “Jackson-Kent Blues”

Bruce Springsteen’s “Where Was Jesus in Ohio?”

Barbara Dane’s “The Kent State Massacre”

“I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin-to-Die” by Country Joe and the Fish

“For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield

“Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival

“Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around” by Joan Baez

“The Universal Soldier” by Buffy Sainte-Marie (also a hit for Donovan)

“Bring ‘Em Home” by Pete Seeger

“Give Peace a Chance” by John Lennon

“Masters of War” and “Blowin’ in the Wind” by Bob Dylan

“War” by Edwin Starr

Books and Resources

Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs by James Sullivan

33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs by Dorian Lynskey

Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation by Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw

Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century by Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison

Talkinʼ Bout a Revolution: Music and Social Change in America by Dick Weissman

Playing for Change: Music and Musicians in the Service of Social Movements by Rob Rosenthal and Richard Flacks

The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music by Jonathan Friedman

The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture by Michael J. Kramer

Politics in Music: Music and Political Transformation from Beethoven to Hip-Hop by Courtney Brown

Troubadours & Troublemakers: The Evolution of American Protest Music by Kevin Comtois

Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States by Kip Lornell

Music in the Air: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason edited by Toby Gleason (Ralph was co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine)

Music: A Subversive History by Ted Gioia

American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation by Holly Jackson

Music is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change by Brad Schreiber

Sounds of Freedom: Musicians on Spirituality and Social Change by John Malkin

Curriculum materials produced by Facing History and Ourselves – “How Can Music Inspire Social Change?”

The Social Power of Music – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (4-disc box set and book)

Womenʼs Suffrage

Music in the Womenʼs Suffrage Movement – collection at Library of Congress – includes a digital collection of Womenʼs Suffrage in Sheet Music

Songs of the Suffragettes – Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

“Let Us Sing As We Go: The Role of Music in the United States Suffrage Movement” by R.L. Brandes (appears to be a dissertation at the University of Maryland – may be accessible online)

The Womenʼs Suffrage Movement edited by Sally Roesch Wagner

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware

National Womenʼs History Museum (www.womenshistory.org) has materials and article by Nancy Hayward on their website has a list for further reading

The Music of the Suffrage Movement by Kate McKenzie at www.awsom.info Reviews of ʼ19: The Musical – musical last November in Washington, D.C. that was called “the Hamilton of Womenʼs History” – at National Archives

The Music of Womenʼs Suffrage – Amaranth Publishing – sheet music (this led me down an interesting path of other articles such as Women Ragtime Composers)

Earth Day and the Environment

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Earthrise Global Mobilizations – earthrise2020.org (please note this is entirely separate from the Festival’s “Earthrise” concert in 2018)

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau by Bill McKibben

Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat

Writings by John Muir

Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, both by Al Gore

It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Past, Present, and Future of Climate Change by Bridget Heos

Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World by Bill Nye

World Without Fish: How Could We Let This Happen? by Mark Kurlansky

Weather Makers by Tim Flannery

A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation by Aldo Leopold

Songs by Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell, John Denver, Peter, Paul & Mary, and Neil Young; music by the Paul Winter Consort and John Cage; Live Earth Concert from 2007

Student Strike of 1970 and the Antiwar Movement

Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of Dissent by Randall B. Woods

Sitting in and Speaking Out: Student Movements in the American South, 1960-1970 by Jeffrey A. Turner

Give Peace a Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement by Melvin Small; William D. Hoover

The Vietnam War on Campus: Other Voices, More Distant Drums by Marc Jason Gilbert

The Movement and the Sixties by Terry H. Anderson

The 1960s Cultural Revolution by John C. McWilliams

From Yale to Jail by Dave Dellinger

The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam by Tom Wells

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era by Charles Chatfield

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam

Born on the Fourth of July by Ron Kovic

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald

Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow

Public television’s Vietnam: A Television History and Ken Burns’ Vietnam War series

Songs by Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul & Mary, Bob Dylan, Country Joe & the Fish, Barry McGuire, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, John Lennon, Edwin Starr, Barbara Dane, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, among many others.

https://woodstockfolkfestival.org/aiovg_videos/woodstock-folk-festival-9th-annual-invitational-concert/

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Ohio" cover The Steppin Stones doing a great Neil Young cover at their July 4th, 2013 show in City Market in Savannah, GA.

#Kent State University Ohio 1970 May 4

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december 2019 asgardian solicitations

INCOMING #1

AL EWING. DAN SLOTT, CHIP ZDARSKY, KELLY THOMPSON, GREG PAK,

EVE L. EWING, MATT ROSENBERG, ED BRISSON, SALADIN AHMED, TINI HOWARD,

JONATHAN HICKMAN, GREG PAK, DONNY CATES & JASON AARON (W)

HUMBERTO RAMOS, JIM CHEUNG AND MORE! (A)

Cover by Patrick Gleason

Variant Cover by DUSTIN WEAVER

TEASER VARIANT BY KIM JACINTO

Variant Cover by SANFORD GREENE

VARIANT COVER BY JIM CHEUNG

WOMEN OF MARVEL HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY J. SCOTT CAMPBELL

WRAPAROUND HIDDEN GEM VARIANT COVER BY J. SCOTT CAMPBELL

PARTY VARIANT BY JORGE MOLINA

PREMIERE VARIANT COVER BY Patrick Gleason

ONE WILL UNITE THEM!

A mysterious murder brings together the heroes of the Marvel Universe in the search for a killer - but no one can imagine where the trail will lead, or how it will affect everything in 2020 and beyond! Who is the victim and who is the assailant?

The closing chapter to MARVEL’s 80th year, which will connect the dots of everything that happened in 2019 and propel the narrative into the year that is to come! Featuring the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Daredevil, Spider-Man, the Champions, the Agents of Atlas, Valkyrie, the Immortal Hulk, Jessica Jones, Venom, Ghost Rider, the Masked Raider and more!

96 PGS./ONE SHOT/Rated T+ …$9.99

ANNIHILATION - SCOURGE: BETA RAY BILL #1

Michael Moreci (W) • Alberto Alburquerque (A) • Cover by Josemaria Casanovas

Variant Cover by Patch Zircher

The Scourge has arrived! As the local population becomes infected, will Beta Ray Bill be able to fight back the horde and save the innocents—or are they already lost? Overwhelmed, will Bill himself fall victim to the Annihilation wave?!

40 PGS./ONE SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99

THOR: THE WORTHY #1

WALTER SIMONSON, TOM DEFALCO AND KATHRYN IMMONEN (W)

RON FRENZ, SAL BUSCEMA, MIKE HAWTHORNE & MORE (A)

Cover by KIM JACINTO

Variant cover by WALTER SIMONSON

LEGENDARY THOR CREATORS REUNITE FOR A THUNDEROUS CELEBRATION!

Walter Simonson’s Thor run is widely considered to be not only some of the best Thor comics of all time, but simply some of the best comics, period. Now the legend returns for a special tale about Thor and Beta Ray Bill — with art from Mike Hawthorne and beloved veteran Sal Buscema! And the trio is joined by yet another unforgettable Thor team: Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz, who will be telling an all-new Thunderstrike story! Finally, no Thor story would be complete without his most trusted companion: the berserker, the warrior extraordinaire, the Lady Sif! Kathyrn Immonen wrote one of the landmark Sif tales in her run on Journey Into Mystery — and now she returns for a brand-new journey!

40 PGS./ONE SHOT/Rated T+ …$4.99

KING THOR #4 (OF 4)

JASON AARON (W) • ESAD RIBIC, RUSSELL DAUTERMAN, MIKE DEL MUNDO & MORE! (A)

COVER BY ESAD RIBIC

VARIANT COVER BY MIKE DEL MUNDO

VARIANT COVER BY STEVE EPTING

THE FINAL CHAPTER OF THE YEARS-SPANNING, AWARD-WINNING SAGA!

The sun has gone black. Midgard isn’t far behind. The entire Multiverse is dying — and with it, the last of the gods. A millennium ago, the God of Thunder heard a whisper: “Gorr was right.” Now Gorr the God of God-Butchers ascends to his final murder: the All-Father of all existence. Plus, a who’s who of Jason’s past THOR collaborators and a few surprise guests help close out the story in thunderous style!

56 PGS./Rated T+ …$5.99

VALKYRIE: JANE FOSTER #6

Al Ewing & JASON AARON (W) • Pere Pérez (A) • Cover by MAHMUD ASRAR

2020 VARIANT COVER BY DAVID NAKAYAMA

VENOM ISLAND VARIANT COVER BY ANNA RUD

HEROES OF MEDICINE UNITE!

But are they all about to become doctors to the dead?! Doctor Strange, Night Nurse, Cardiac, Faiza Hussain and more join forces with Jane Foster for a supernatural medical emergency that will give you heart palpitations!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

VALKYRIE: JANE FOSTER VOL. 1 TPB

Written by JASON AARON & AL EWING

Penciled by CAFU

Cover by MAHMUD ASRAR

Jane Foster is back! For years, you knew her as Dr. Jane Foster, one of Thor Odinson’s most steadfast companions. Then you knew her as Thor, Goddess of Thunder, who took up the mantle when nobody else was worthy. Now Jane takes on a new role as Valkyrie, guide and ferrywoman to the dead! But her days of battle are far from over — especially when Marvel’s deadliest shot gets his hands on the sword of a god! With the Asgardian weapon Dragonfang in his hand, who is Bullseye targeting — and what is he really after? Jane must learn a hard lesson: Not every death can be prevented. And when a friend falls, Jane discovers that Valhalla is only one hall of the dead. The multiversal afterlife awaits! Collecting VALKYRIE: JANE FOSTER #1-5 and material from WAR OF THE REALMS: OMEGA.

128 PGS./Rated T+ …$17.99

ISBN: 978-1-302-92029-6

LOKI TPB

Written by DANIEL KIBBLESMITH

Penciled by OSCAR BAZALDUA

Cover by OZGUR YILDIRIM

Loki is…Earth’s Mightiest Hero?! After dying a grisly death in WAR OF THE REALMS, the reborn Trickster learned a valuable lesson in warmongering: Don’t get caught. But now Loki has a whole new set of responsibilities — and his brother Thor isn’t about to let him walk away from them. Restless with his new duties, Loki seeks out the advice of the closest thing Midgard has to a king — Tony Stark, the invincible Iron Man! Close enough, right? But it turns out that Shellhead isn’t too happy to see Loki on account of all that stuff he did in the past. Now the God of Mischief/Stories/Evil/Chaos has to outsmart the cleverest man on Earth — or die (again) trying. Meanwhile, could Thor be hatching a mischievous plot of his own? Collecting LOKI (2019) #1-5 and material from WAR OF THE REALMS: OMEGA.

128 PGS./Rated T+ …$17.99

ISBN: 978-1-302-92031-9

#wednesday spoilers #thor #loki #valkyrie #jane foster #lol #a day late bc this week has been so tiring but we're suddenly getting so many????#curious about loki's lack of new solicits!!#also RUSSELL DAUTERMAN AND MIKE DEL MUNDO OH MY GOD!!!!! ONE LAST HURRAH FROM THESE GREAT ARTISTS!!!!!#disappointed about cafu tho!! valkyrie was doing so well??? i hope this isn't a permanent replacement!!#also i really hate j scott campbell sigh

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@keeper-of-the-lore has found out that on the second cover I posted there is a picture of two men kissing...from a DC book. It looks like somebody wanted to put in Wiccan and Hulkling’s kiss and SOMEHOW fucked up.

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