Hawkworld #5
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scans_dailyWriters: John Ostrander and Timothy Truman
Pencils: Graham Nolan
Inks: Rich Burchett
Byth hires Shadow Thief to steal the Thanagarian ship.
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Guy Gardner: Warrior #17
May. 24th, 2025 03:37 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Mitch Byrd
Inks: Dan Davis
Guy is trying to reconcile with his estranged mother when he is attacked by a heavily-armed nutcase calling himself Militia.
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technical difficulties
May. 24th, 2025 10:21 ampauraqueSo I made the terrible mistake of trying to use the Manage Circle page to clean up subscriptions to journals that have been inactive for years, and the damn thing defriended at least a dozen people I did NOT intend. I've tried to go through and add everyone back, but if you're here and wondering why I unsubscribed or removed access, please tell me so I can re-add! Good grief.
Guardians of the Galaxy #10
May. 24th, 2025 09:06 amiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriters: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Pencils: Brad Walker
Inks: Victor Olazaba and John Livesay
The Guardians of the Galaxy arrive just in time to save the Negative Zone prison being held under siege by Blastaar's forces.
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makes the one-hand catch
May. 23rd, 2025 10:48 pmmusesfoolI'm so tired of people blowing their deadlines and making it my problem. But at the super last minute, it did finally come together so I was able to log off at 3 pm (it's the first Summer Friday of 2025, and we get to sign off at 2:30 until Labor Day).
My sister is having a birthday bbq tomorrow for my oldest and youngest nieces, who share a birthday, and one requested Smitten Kitchen confetti cookies (even though I told her I found them too sweet) and the other requested brownies (which is why I asked about brownie recipes yesterday - I don't make them often anymore so I don't have a go-to recipe). I couldn't lay hands on dutched cocoa for love or money today, but it turns out that the King Arthur "triple cocoa" or whatever it's called, works in recipes calling for dutched cocoa, and I have that. *hands* But like, nobody even has Hershey's special dark! I was surprised by that. Anyway I ended up making these King Arthur Fudge Brownies and they smell fantastic, though next time I will probably try the microwave to melt the butter instead of doing it on the stove - I did it in a pot on the stove and even on low heat, it got so hot that I had to wait like 30 minutes for it to cool to the temperature required by the recipe (110° - 120°F), so it took a lot longer than I planned for. Other than that, the recipe is really easy. I guess because you beat the cocoa into the eggs, you don't have to worry about the hot butter/sugar mixture scrambling them (you laugh, but that happened to me once with the old mascarpone brownies recipe when I added the melted butter!).
I hope they both enjoy them!
I also bought a banana squishmallow for Baby Miss L, because her response to them has been A++ hilarious every time.
Hopefully the weather tomorrow cooperates. It has rained here so much. Today it rained all morning and then the sun came out late in the afternoon, and then...it poured while the sun was out for a while, and the temperature has lingered in the low 60s. I mean, I'll take the cooler temps for sure, especially at night, but I'm really tired of the rain.
In other news, last night I fell asleep on the couch when I was trying to read, so when I woke up, I decided to just go to bed, and for once, couch sleepy did translate to bed sleepy and I ended up sleeping for almost 10 hours last night! It was glorious! But I don't think I can realistically make myself go to bed at 10:15 every night. *glances at clock* I mean...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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My sister is having a birthday bbq tomorrow for my oldest and youngest nieces, who share a birthday, and one requested Smitten Kitchen confetti cookies (even though I told her I found them too sweet) and the other requested brownies (which is why I asked about brownie recipes yesterday - I don't make them often anymore so I don't have a go-to recipe). I couldn't lay hands on dutched cocoa for love or money today, but it turns out that the King Arthur "triple cocoa" or whatever it's called, works in recipes calling for dutched cocoa, and I have that. *hands* But like, nobody even has Hershey's special dark! I was surprised by that. Anyway I ended up making these King Arthur Fudge Brownies and they smell fantastic, though next time I will probably try the microwave to melt the butter instead of doing it on the stove - I did it in a pot on the stove and even on low heat, it got so hot that I had to wait like 30 minutes for it to cool to the temperature required by the recipe (110° - 120°F), so it took a lot longer than I planned for. Other than that, the recipe is really easy. I guess because you beat the cocoa into the eggs, you don't have to worry about the hot butter/sugar mixture scrambling them (you laugh, but that happened to me once with the old mascarpone brownies recipe when I added the melted butter!).
I hope they both enjoy them!
I also bought a banana squishmallow for Baby Miss L, because her response to them has been A++ hilarious every time.
Hopefully the weather tomorrow cooperates. It has rained here so much. Today it rained all morning and then the sun came out late in the afternoon, and then...it poured while the sun was out for a while, and the temperature has lingered in the low 60s. I mean, I'll take the cooler temps for sure, especially at night, but I'm really tired of the rain.
In other news, last night I fell asleep on the couch when I was trying to read, so when I woke up, I decided to just go to bed, and for once, couch sleepy did translate to bed sleepy and I ended up sleeping for almost 10 hours last night! It was glorious! But I don't think I can realistically make myself go to bed at 10:15 every night. *glances at clock* I mean...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Green Lantern #179
May. 23rd, 2025 05:49 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Len Wein
Pencils and inks: Dave Gibbons
Green Lantern has been called away on an urgent mission, so it falls to somebody else to save Ferris Aircraft. Enter: The Predator. The Destruction Team won’t have time to bleed!
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Forever People #6
May. 23rd, 2025 02:34 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Jack Kirby
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Mike Royer
Darkseid doesn’t take kindly to the Forever People trashing his theme park.
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Excalibur #45
May. 23rd, 2025 12:30 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Alan Davis
Pencils: Alan Davis
Inks: Mark Farmer
Nightcrawler tries to turn the Technet in to a competent team. Pray for him.
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Detective Comics #621
May. 23rd, 2025 10:31 amiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Alan Grant
Pencils: Norm Breyfogle
Inks: Steve Mitchell
This issue is told via flashback as Batman tells Tim what happened to his parents.
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Detective Comics 2025 Annual #1 - "Batman, Do Not Solve My Murder"
May. 22nd, 2025 11:50 pmlaughing_tree posting in scans_daily
I had a really good time kind of finding my level with Batman. I think the notes I got back for the first draft was that my Batman was a little too chummy and a little too quirky and a little too friendly. He needs to be a little bit spikier. And I was like, "Yeah, I get that." -- Al Ewing
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When I needed sunshine I got rain
May. 22nd, 2025 05:55 pmmusesfoolSo it turns out that all that rain and wind last night was due to a nor'easter. In late May. What the actual fuck. But climate change is a hoax.
Anyway, hit me with your favorite brownie recipes! I myself prefer them fudgy instead of cakey, but I am open to variations.
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Anyway, hit me with your favorite brownie recipes! I myself prefer them fudgy instead of cakey, but I am open to variations.
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The Demon #3
May. 22nd, 2025 05:16 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Jack Kirby
Pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Mike Royer
If you lived a former life, then you may become a victim of... the Reincarnators!
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The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis (1945)
May. 22nd, 2025 12:14 pmpauraqueI picked up this book because I saw it mentioned as an example of the concept that "Hell is locked from the inside." That is, if God is the source of all good and you separate yourself from God, then your existence can have nothing good in it, and that's Hell. You can escape anytime by reconnecting with God.
Lewis explores this idea by imagining himself being taken on a journey from Hell (envisioned as a dreary, lonely, mostly-empty town in perpetual twilight) to the outskirts of Heaven. Here the "ghosts" of those in Hell are met by people they knew in life, who try to persuade them to enter Heaven instead of turning back. This is very much inspired by Dante, and like Dante, Lewis gets a guide: the Scottish fantasy author George MacDonald, who I'd never heard of, but apparently he was a great influence on Lewis. (Has anyone read his stuff?)
So, why would the dead turn back? Well, because it turns out the hard part of getting into Heaven is letting go of all the damaging patterns that made you miserable in life: Abusively controlling people and calling it love. Feeling big by making others feel small. Manipulating loved ones because you're scared they'll leave you. None of this has any place in Heaven, but most of the ghosts Lewis meets are so entrenched in it, blustering in pride or cowering in terror behind their emotional walls, that they'd rather go back to Hell than admit there's a better way.
Lewis keenly observes the lies people tell themselves to justify their own self-destructive behavior, and it's startling how little has changed in 80 years! Some of the ways these characters talk are chillingly familiar. Though I don't share the religious side of Lewis's worldview, we're certainly in close agreement in our understanding of how people lock themselves in their own personal hell on Earth.
The book is short but impactful. Lewis had a gift for viscerally expressing what his faith felt like to him, which is something I find valuable as someone who has never experienced religious faith. Part of why I read is to better understand what it's like in other people's heads, and this book did that for me.
(Oh, and I'm not being snarky by tagging this as fantasy. He calls it fantasy in the introduction! He makes it clear that he's writing imaginatively and not presuming to describe what the afterlife is actually like, because he can't know that. Well, I mean, I guess he knows now...)
Lewis explores this idea by imagining himself being taken on a journey from Hell (envisioned as a dreary, lonely, mostly-empty town in perpetual twilight) to the outskirts of Heaven. Here the "ghosts" of those in Hell are met by people they knew in life, who try to persuade them to enter Heaven instead of turning back. This is very much inspired by Dante, and like Dante, Lewis gets a guide: the Scottish fantasy author George MacDonald, who I'd never heard of, but apparently he was a great influence on Lewis. (Has anyone read his stuff?)
So, why would the dead turn back? Well, because it turns out the hard part of getting into Heaven is letting go of all the damaging patterns that made you miserable in life: Abusively controlling people and calling it love. Feeling big by making others feel small. Manipulating loved ones because you're scared they'll leave you. None of this has any place in Heaven, but most of the ghosts Lewis meets are so entrenched in it, blustering in pride or cowering in terror behind their emotional walls, that they'd rather go back to Hell than admit there's a better way.
Lewis keenly observes the lies people tell themselves to justify their own self-destructive behavior, and it's startling how little has changed in 80 years! Some of the ways these characters talk are chillingly familiar. Though I don't share the religious side of Lewis's worldview, we're certainly in close agreement in our understanding of how people lock themselves in their own personal hell on Earth.
The book is short but impactful. Lewis had a gift for viscerally expressing what his faith felt like to him, which is something I find valuable as someone who has never experienced religious faith. Part of why I read is to better understand what it's like in other people's heads, and this book did that for me.
(Oh, and I'm not being snarky by tagging this as fantasy. He calls it fantasy in the introduction! He makes it clear that he's writing imaginatively and not presuming to describe what the afterlife is actually like, because he can't know that. Well, I mean, I guess he knows now...)
STRUGGLE SESSION: Old Arrangements, Bi Romantics, Dan’s Baggage… and More!
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savagelove_feedGonna be a short one this week, as I’m headed home — and I’ve got lots of baggage (literal and metaphysical) and a long way to go. Dutch Lady had some good advice for BLAAHS, the bisexual woman who insisted on closing her marriage because her straight husband could fuck anyone he wanted (women) but … Read More »
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Blue Beetle #6
May. 22nd, 2025 02:42 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Len Wein
Pencils: Paris Cullins
Inks: Bruce Patterson
These issues have got me interested in checking out the Question's book. Look out for that soon.
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Black Panther #1
May. 22nd, 2025 12:31 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWords and pencils: Jack Kirby
Inks: Mike Royer
People seemed to like my posts about Jack Kirby's Fourth World, so I thought I would start posting his run on Black Panther.
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Sex & Politics #39: Blue City Blues
May. 22nd, 2025 11:00 amsavagelove_feedOn this episode of Sex & Politics, Dan gets to nerd out on urbanism, his (un)happy place. David Hyde and Sandeep Kaushik are the co-hosts of Blue City Blues, a podcast about what’s working – and what’s not – with the politics, governance and culture of the urban archipelago that defines blue America. They talk … Read More »
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