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OFFAL #5

by Roberto Padula

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1917 03 06 Richthofen's 24th victory - Thomas La Padula

Richthofen's Twenty-fourth Victory: On March 6, 1917, having survived being put down in the morning after his fuel tanks were holed by enemy fire, Richthofen was back in the air around 5 in the evening. Flying with Lt. Allmenroder, they attacked two enemy BE. 2e's on artillery spotting duty over Souchez. Richthofen’s attacked the B.E.2e, No A2785 manned by 2nd Lt. Gerald B. Gosset-Bibby, and his observer Lt. Geoffery J. O Brichta. Its wings came off, and it went straight down to the ground and crashed. Both men were killed in the crash and are buried alongside each other in Berlin Cemetery, France.The BE.2e completely new wings, braced by a single pair of interplane struts per side "single- and a set of shorter wingspan lower wing panels than previous BE versions. The tailplane was smaller than its predecessors and had a large quadrant vertical fin.It is still unclear what machine Richthofen had been flying due to the occurrence of the morning. The plane he was flying was an Albatros D.lll 1996/16. This aircraft was Lt. Edy Lubbert's, a fellow Jasta pilot who had been wounded, although this is also uncertain.

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Dark Horse will bring Boscarato award winner Loud: Stories to Make Your Voice Heard to the U.S. next year. The anthology broaches the topic of gender-based violence and features work by the Italian artist collective “Moleste,” with a cover by Grazia La Padula.

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Napoli Comicon 2024: Speciale Wonderland

Come da tradizione consolidata,Wonderland, il noto magazine Televisivo che Rai 4 dedica al mondo dei fumetti, dei videogame, del cinema,della cultura pop, ha trasmesso questa settimana un ampio speciale dedicato alla Ventiquattresima Edizione del Napoli Comicon, svoltasi a fine aprile, sotto la direzione del Magister Igort Tuveri, che viene ampiamente intervistato nell’apertura dello Speciale…

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[Diario di una cagna][Grazia La Padula][Céline Tran]

Elise, 52 anni, scrive per una rivista femminile. Un giorno, per caso, scopre da un sms che l’amorevole marito la tradisce. Sconvolta, decide di non far trapelare nulla e di scoprire chi è l’amante. La ricerca dell’altra diventa presto, in parallelo, la ricerca di una nuova se stessa. Passando dalla rabbia alla rivolta, Elise si dedica alla riscoperta del suo corpo e della sua sensualità. La sua…

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Take a stand against gender-based violence with Loud: Stories to Make Your Voice Heard

Take a stand against gender-based violence with Loud: Stories to Make Your Voice Heard #comics #comicbooks #graphicnovel

Coming soon from Dark Horse Books is a new edition of a graphic novel that broaches the topic of gender-based violence, by some of Italy’s most prominent creators in comics. Their goal with this book is to showcase stories that empower everyone to talk about gender-based violence out loud. Winner of the Boscarato award for “Best YA Graphic Novel,” Loud: Stories to Make Your Voice Heard encourages…

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La aventura del tango: ¡ Qué tipo complicado!

ANTONIO PIPPO PEDRAGOSA Periodista, Director Gral. Cultura Tanguera de La AMdP. Editorialista – Columnista Como de otros próceres del tango, ya he escrito de José Luis Padula. Sólo que en eso de hojear libros y diarios viejos y repasar reportajes, surgen aspectos que se hacen nuevos para nuevos lectores, dibujando mejor al personaje. La obra cumbre de Padula, el tango 9 de Julio –único que…

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1917 03 04 Richthofen's 22th victory - Thomas La Padula

With the weather being unfavorable for the rest of the month of February, it was not until March 4, 2017, that Richthofen struck again. North of Loos, Richthofen downed another British BE 2, No. 5785 on a fine March afternoon. His opponents this time were Lt. James B E Crosbee and Flight Sgt. J.E. Prance flying on a phot reconnaissance mission. Prance stated that, ‘he was attacked from right out of the sun’ by a very fast Halberstadt (Albatros). The German pilot fired a burst that hit Prance on the first go round. The second pass by the enemy shot away the extra ammo drums on the BE 2 and the third and final pass sent the British plane into slow ground headed spiral with holes in her fuel tank. After firing some 500 shots Richthofen for some reason did not pursue the stricken BE 2 and continue following but rather broke off the engagement. Crosbee was able to return to his base where Prance received medical aid.Again, was Richthofen’s claim seems to be made by mistake. As Richthofen acknowledge he did not see the plane crash and it seems his claim of downing the BE 2 was accepted. Also 500 shots were well above the capacity of a Halberstadt that carried a single gun. It does allow for the plane that Richthofen was flying in this engagement to be an was an Albatros which had a 1000-shot capacity. By this time the restrictions on flying the Albatros in combat had been rescinded. So even though it is on record that MvR flew Halberstadt’s for the month of March. The amount of ammo used in this victory says otherwise.

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Dragon Ball AF Lore

Last night I reblogged a thing about Xicor, the imaginary villain of Dragon Ball AF, the imaginary sequel to Dragon Ball GT. There were some cool responses to this, but I didn't want to reblog the entire post all over again, so I thought I'd carry the discussion over here.

@brotoman-exe : #so do they ever explain why Goku cheats on his wife in this set up?#(to be clear Im guessing it was likely a stolen dna Superman 4 thing just having fun)

My understanding was that the West Supreme Kai faked her death and then came back as a bad guy. She somehow obtained a DNA sample from Goku and used it to impregnate herself? The end result being that Xicor is the biological son of Goku and the West Supreme Kai, even though Goku himself had no idea of any of this.

Of course, it's impossible to cite sources on any of this, since I'm talking about made-up details from a made-up show. It's entirely possible that there are other versions of the AF legend where Goku cheated on his wife like a jerk.

What I always wanted to know was how the West Supreme Kai survived the fight with Kid Buu five million years ago, and why she laid low for so long.

But now that you've brought up Superman IV, I can't stop thinking about the raw chicken thigh Lex stuffed in that little lockbox. This is my new DBAF personal canon.

@scarabats123: #As someone who wasn't alive in 1994#let me tell you Xicor and AF was THRIVING in the 2000s up into the early 2010s#hell even now some people make nostalgic fanart of it#Everyone knew about Xicor and Evil Goku and that blue bald dude

It really is bizarre how long the AF mythos has persisted. I think Dragon Ball Super was the final nail in the coffin for any true believers that were still left, but by the time DBS came out AF had already established itself as this weird little thing in its own right. It's like Bigfoot. I think everyone knows it's not real and doesn't make a lot of sense, but the idea is too much fun to discard completely.

@mozillavulpix: definitely think there's a lot of information here that's wrong, but I wasn't in the fandom in the 1990s to confirm any of it But the one big thing is...I'm pretty sure 'Dragon Ball AF' was originally supposed to stand for 'April Fools'. Like at one point someone somewhere started the name just because it'd be hilarious to trick people into believing something with a name so obviously-fake if you were paying attention. But when people started believing it they came up with their own theories on what it meant. kanzenshuu also says the rumours probably only started around 2002-2003 https://www.kanzenshuu.com/rumor/dragon-ball-af/

There were some factual errors, but the one that stood out to me was the notion of Toyotaro creating Towa and Mira, since I'd always heard Toriyama created her for Dragon Ball Online. And I've heard of the Goku Black/Xicor parallels before, but I'm pretty sure that's more of a coincidence than anything else.

I also found the 1990s to be a little too early for AF rumors to really get started, so I went back to that Kanzenshuu article you linked to and read it again just to check. This time, I ran across the link to the message board discussion about the "SSJ5 Goku" image that seems to have started it all.

Apparently, this was all discovered back in 2012, but I don't think I ever heard about this until now. Someone found the "AF Goku" image in an issue of the magazine Hobby Consolas, cover dated May 1999.

It looks like the magazine just published reader-submitted fan art, and this particular one was credited to David Montiel Franco of Alicante, Spain. Forums member Raykugan published this information in February 2012, and then Derek Padula contacted the artist and published his findings on his blog "Dao of Dragon Ball".

David Montiel Franco, as it turns out, has his own blog, af-dragonball.blogspot.com, where he appears to be promoting his Dragon Ball AF fancomics. And apparently, the guy in the image is not Super Saiyan 5 Goku at all, but an OC named Tablos.

So it appears that the true original DBAF was a fanwork created by Franco prior to May 1999. Everyone else was building onto his creation whether they knew it or not. The alternative is that Franco is stealing the credit from the true artist, but that seems like a weird thing to still be holding onto after all these years. I mean, if he wanted clout, you'd think he'd do more self-promotion than this. By now, everyone would have heard of his claims to be the creator of AF. So I think he might be the real deal.

Anyway, it definitely ties DBAF to the year 1999, although I have a feeling the rumors didn't really pick up steam until 2002 or so, as U.S. fans became aware of a sequel series to Z and wondered what might follow after that. There may have been rumors in other countries that got earlier access to GT, and there were surely American fans in the 90's who knew more about GT before it was localized. But at least the concept of AF was around in the 90's, even if it was the tail end of the 90's, and even if it was very obscure.

But that's AF in general, not Xicor. I get the sense that Vintagegeekculture seemed to conflate Tablos with Xicor, and that's probably an understandable mistake to make, since Xicor was probably invented as a response to what was thought to be SSJ5 Goku. So Xicor must have come later, but how much later?

I guess what bugs me is that there ought to be someone who would claim credit for the character, the way Franco claimed to be the artist of the DBAF image. It's kind of fascinating how Xicor is out there and no one's trying to act like it was their idea.