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What accounts for the change in fractions?

Ethel out. Then later Midge in. Kind of a strange choice for third girl in both instances for differing reasons.

#Comics #Archie #Betty and Veronica #Betty Cooper #Veronica Lodge #Ethel Muggs #Midge Klump #Jughead #Jughead Jones #Reggie #Reggie Mantle #Archie Andrews #Archie cam

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Original Art - Kathy #010 Pg 17 (1961) by Stan Goldberg

#Comics #Paper doll #Original art #Stan Goldberg #Kathy

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Star Wars arcade game - Atari (1983)

#Video game #Atari #Star Wars

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Lois & Clark by Rubén Procopio.

#Comics #Ruben Procopio #Clark Kent #Lois Lane

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Hawkeye #1-4 covers by Julian Totino Tedesco

I love how those covers are both highly stylish and reminiscent of vintage paperbacks and Gold Key’s painted covers.

#Comics #Hawkeye #Julian Totino Tedesco

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Solomon Kane in Savage Sword of Conan #14, September 1976, art by David Wenzel and Duffy Vohland

#Comics #Solomon Kane #Robert E. Howard #Savage Sword of Conan #David Wenzel #Duffy Vohland

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Untold Destiny of the Foot Clan #2, cover by Mateus Santolouco

#Comics #Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #Mateus Santolouco

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"PRecycle!" Archie's Environmental Tip #10, 1991 PSA

#Comics #Archie #Betty #Betty Cooper #Reggie #Reggie Mantle

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Topolino #3558 cover by Francesco d'Ippolito.

It's great to see Pete on a cover again!

And I really hope for some terrific, stupendous, otherwordly celebrations for his 100th birthday next year!

#Comics #Disney #Topolino #Peg Leg Pete #Francesco d'Ippolito

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Blake et Mortimer: La marque jaune, originally published in Tintin from August 6, 1953 to November 3, 1954, original art by Edgar P. Jacobs

#Comics #BD #Ligne claire #Original art #Edgar P. Jacobs #Blake et Mortimer #Tintin

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Went on a bit of a book shopping spree (wasn't planned, honest. I took my Mom to the city for her yearly visit and then invited her to a restaurant that just happens to be next to a great bookstore I only visit, quite coincidentally, once a year) and was gifted this booklet: @neil-gaiman's "Pourquoi notre futur dépend des bibliothèques, de la lecture et de l'imagination (Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming)" which is a transcript of a lecture given for the Reading Agency:

I was lucky. I had an excellent local library growing up. I had the kind of parents who could be persuaded to drop me off in the library on their way to work in summer holidays, and the kind of librarians who did not mind a small, unaccompanied boy heading back into the children’s library every morning and working his way through the card catalogue, looking for books with ghosts or magic or rockets in them, looking for vampires or detectives or witches or wonders. And when I had finished reading the children’s’ library I began on the adult books.

They were good librarians. They liked books and they liked the books being read. They taught me how to order books from other libraries on inter-library loans. They had no snobbery about anything I read. They just seemed to like that there was this wide-eyed little boy who loved to read, and would talk to me about the books I was reading, they would find me other books in a series, they would help. They treated me as another reader – nothing less or more – which meant they treated me with respect. I was not used to being treated with respect as an eight-year-old.

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.

#Neil Gaiman #Reading #Library #Books #Bookstore #My pics

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"Ici commence la mer (Here begins the sea)"

#Street art #My pics

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Simone Signoret, Yves Montand, and Marilyn Monroe at a Beverly Hills Hotel. Beverly Hills, California, USA, 1960 - Ph. Bruce Davidson

#Photography #Simone Signoret #Marilyn Monroe #Yves Montand #Bruce Davidson

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bertsbooks on Instagram

#Books #Bookstore #Brandon Sanderson

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Wonder Woman Reviews: Historia: The Amazons #3

By Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer), Nicola Scott (artist), Clayton Cowles (letterer), Annette Kwok (colorist).

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Incredible.

It's very fitting this book had a tribute to the tragically late-George Perez in the previous issue because now having read the concluding part of this story, it's the same kind of mythic reinterpretation of Wonder Woman's world that Perez's 80s reboot of the character was. Something DC often tries to poorly with the character, or when they don't just shoe-horn the character back into bog-standard superhero tropes.

While this isn't really a story about Wonder Woman herself, DeConnick definitely joins the great tier of Wonder Woman creators for a variety of reasons but probably first and foremost being her depiction of Hippolyta here.

As I've said in previous reviews, Hippolyta isn't a character many writers try to go deep on outside of a select few (Perez, Jimenez, Simone to name some), and even then it's rarer to see a story about her that isn't ultimately about her relationship with Diana. But other than she's almost always just "Wonder Woman's Mom" and the imposing Queen of the Amazons.

So while this story has retreaded some similar ground before, it's quite refreshing to have a story where Hippolyta is largely the central focus and allowed to stand as a character on her own. And that includes having her questionable decisions that we and in-universe characters are given reasons to doubt, as we see at the end of book. And unlike previous times this has been done, it comes off as a questionable decision that character actually would make and not just character assassination like making her bang Zeus.

Another bit of praise DeConnick deserves praise in this series for is her handling the pantheon. Unlike previous depictions of them in DC's comics, these depictions of the pantheon don't sway to hard in the direction of HBO/CW rejects or the more traditional togas and robes speaking in faux-Shakespeare. They actually look and speak as if the way you'd assume deities would but have some bits of dialogue here and there that don't make them to stuffy to a modern reader.

The scene between Ares and Hera would probably be my favorite "Olympus scene" in the issue. Shows a side of the two (one of which is traditionally the Big Bad of Wonder Woman media) that we don't often see in modern depictions of the Greek pantheon. Though any scene with Artemis is also pretty great.

Much like Jimenez, Scott was a fan favorite Wonder Woman artist for many prior to this book so I was interested when I saw her name attached to this book how this stuff would compare to her prior work on the character in Rucka's run. And unsurprisingly, this was as much of a level up for her as it was for Jimenez when he did the first issue. A certain scene with Heracles was masterfully well done and it'd like be my favorite scene in the book for both her and DeConnick if it wasn't for the ending.

After 10 years, Wonder Woman's true origin finally gets the lovingly rendered modern depiction it deserves. I know this isn't the first instance DC's done the clay origin since making Diana another offspring of Zeus but it's always to nice to not only see it get used but also treated with the respect it deserves in such a high profile project. Especially as DC otherwise blows on with the Daddy Zeus origin. This is just one page but the whole sequence probably surpasses George Perez's depiction of the event back in Gods and Mortals.

I've become fairly uninterested in the direction of DC's comics as of late, especially with the direction of Wonder Woman given what they've already announced. So this makes appreciate this book all the more as just great standalone WW-verse story without being shackled to the rest of the DC Universe. I can only hope the series has done well enough so far to greenlight the sequels.

#Comics #Wonder Woman #Kelly Sue DeConnick #Nicola Scott

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This boy is unbelievable!

#Comics #Archie #Betty #Betty Cooper

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Joni Mitchell photographed at her Laurel Canyon home🌵

Via @thereal60sbazaar on Instagram🌵

#Music #Photography #Joni Mitchell