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mikedeodatojr · 2 years

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#Repost @cancelcomics with @repostsaveapp · · · REVIEW: Absolution #1 @londonmilligan @mikedeodato @leeloughridge @swandsart @awastudiosofficial The story of Absolution takes place in the future where social media dominates every aspect of life. The users have an influence on the outcome of the justice system. Nina Ryan is an assassin who is caught by the police and put on trial, likely to be sentenced to the “slow death”. However, a medical review has found that she has the potential to be cured of her anger and criminal mindset. So instead of a death sentence, she undergoes surgery so that Nina can act as an assassin once again. Her fate is to be decided by social media users who livestream her kills. If she reaches Absolution with enough favorable votes, then she is to be set free. If not, then she will die. Along with the livestream, there is a celebrity panel that judges her kills in real time. It’s a bit distracting that two of the people on the panel look exactly like Woody Harrelson and Kobe Bryant. It’s a really interesting story about an extreme version of what the future might look like. The artwork by Mike Deodato is highly stylized and cinematic. It has the look of a science fiction film and the story itself seems perfectly crafted for a movie adaptation. I enjoyed reading it, but didn’t really make an emotional connection with Nina. The reader is obviously meant to empathize with her. She definitely looks cool and is easy to root for. I’m not totally sure if I’ll keep reading or not, but the premise is really interesting. #comic #comics #comicbook #comicbooks #reviews #comicreviews #comicsreviews #comicbookreviews #comicbookreview #newcomics #absolution #absolutioncomic #absolutioncomicbook #awa #awaupshot #awaupshotcomics #petermilligan #mikedeodato #mikedeodatojr #leeloughridge #stevewands #scifi #scificomics https://www.instagram.com/p/CgMaovPO3Is/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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mind-of-sanity · 11 months

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My favorite Comic of all time!

Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey

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tedwgraham · 11 months

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My favorite Comic of all time!

Eat the Rich by Sarah Gailey

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wednesdaytoast · 1 year

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🆕NEW EPISODE! Episode 180!? This week we are giving our thoughts on "Do a Powerbomb", as well as going over some nerd news! Latest ep on: 🖥The Site: bit.ly/3L6q8Yr 🍎Apple: apple.co/3YhyBL0 🟢Spotify: bit.ly/3KOM2Pz #comicbookreviews #comicbooks #comics #comicbookreview #comicreviews #comicreview #comicbook #review #igcomicfamily #reviews #dccomics #marvelcomics #comiccollection #independentcomics #comicfans #superherocomics #comicbooklife #caricartoon #comicview #marvel #digitalcomic #dynamitecomics #originalcomic #cadarcartoonmurah #comicscience #mangacomic #comichaul #cartoonprofile #indiecomics #mangacomiccon (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpS75OavGgr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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lucysullivanuk · 1 year

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💥REPOST @deadmensboots 📢 “Finally got around to reading the hauntingly atmospheric Shelter: Early Doors by Lucy Sullivan. A folk-horror that dials into themes of displacement, community and trauma. The story begins with Ealga ‘Ellie’ Culhoun as she arrives in Sheperds Bush, London, having fled from Ireland. The year is 1969 and Ellie’s cousin Tommy is helping her to find her feet with a job at his local. Despite Tommy’s hospitality, his intentions run darker… Early Doors creates an uneasiness for the reader, as streets and characters creep across each page and shadows linger. Sullivan’s art sculpts an eerie space, one which becomes emblematic of the new and uncertain world Ellie finds herself in. Many of the characters Ellie meets are equal parts friendly and menacing, which emphasises a feeling of unease. This is especially true of the men in the story, as their behaviour is never challenged in their community and the onus is on women to facilitate or adjust their ways. It all adds to a creeping sense of dread for Ellie and readers alike. After Ellie turns down an invitation to join her colleague and some of the rowdy locals, she is met with, “Honestly, Ellie! Lighten up! Just a bit of fun innit?”. Ellie's house-keys are slipped between her knuckles [3] as more advances are made before she heads for home. It's a strong visual cue, paired with the vertical slicing of the panels and splashes of red, that serves as a warning to the violence that stalks the streets. The night’s events set her on a path to Mammy Magee, a figure of power and shelter for women in the community. Sullivan’s use of colour on the page [4] instantly brings Mammy’s warmth and home to life, although you’re never quite sure if that warmth will burn Ellie. Yet Mammy is a character to be reckoned with and one who will facilitate justice when others turn a blind eye... Shelter: Early Doors deserves your attention!” #comicbookreview #earlydoors #shelterearlydoors #shelterthecomic #folkhorror #londonstories #britishcomics #indiecomics #smallpresscomics #smallpress #indiecreator #comiccreator #womenincomics #comicbook https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl9FwB3MdZ8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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fwacata · 2 years

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TONIGHT’S READING #roguesgallery #defendersbeyond #artemiswanted Let’s see how this week goes! #comicreview #readcomics #reviewingbooks #comicbookreview #comicsreview (at Miami, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgQiXzqsWGU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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livelaughlovecomics · 2 years

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IDW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Read Through-Part 4

The reading order guide I am using tells me to pull up the 30th anniversary special (which came out in 2014, 3 years after this series started) and read the short story A Lot to Learn. Writers Tom Waltz and Bobby Curnow along with artist Dan Duncan combine their talents to weave a story that shows Raphael training with his brothers and the problems he is having fitting in.

This tale pulls at the heartstrings and Raph who only remembers being on his own struggles to relate to the idea of family until he leaves to hang out with Casey Jones. What follows is an excellent example of an epiphany. For a short story, this one was great. As far as great moments go, I am choosing this one in which the scripting from Waltz clearly shows the personality of each turtle.

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girlfriendsofthegalaxy · 21 days

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tuesday again 4/23/22

three months unemployed YAY. also wherein i get SUPER pressed about star wars lore

listening

funeral by tele novella. popped open tiktok to see something my best friend sent me and this was there, the first thing on the for you page. let's yoink a description of their previous album from an interview i'm going to quote at length in a bit: "The result was “exactly what we wanted it to be,” a perfumed mist of jingling, jangling, lilting, off-center pop—a strange little snowglobe gathering dust at the back of the shelf."

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the lyrics did hit me like a train bc i often find myself mourning places and situations that were not necessarily good for me but were familiar.

Oh, you're not tied up Here comes the train The tracks feel safe because you know 'em

if you had told me this was made in about 2007-2009ish i would have believed you. very spare production in the way folksier songs of the time were spare. a bit raspy and direct in her delivery. there's a bandcamp interview wherein i found out this is the side project of a vintage/antiques dealer and she has a fascinating perspective on her own music:

Her passion for the craft is evident—in our conversation as much as in listening to the band—but music, for her, is a means to an end, a way to transmit stories. “As a musician, I’m mediocre at best,” Ribbons says matter-of-factly. “I think that my talent lies in my storytelling ability. I think that I’m a good storyteller.” It’s something instilled in her by her grandparents, “voracious readers” who were always buying her books and secretly wanted Ribbons to be a writer, she suspects.

i really adored this whole album as a cohesive work. "vampire cowgirl" is another standout for obvious reasons.

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You came barrelin' down Rabid with some talk Of a gal who rides at night Picking off the stock

remarkably good at reproducing the general vibe of the midcentury cowboy western album, when tv cowboys were sweeping the nation

reading

T. Kingfisher's Nettle & Bone. enjoyed it, but not quite as much as her other stuff. whereas her other series are almost always comical and often stray into farce, this one was a bit grim. even with the addition of a demonic chicken. had to stop and really think about if my own experience with funerals and funerary rites (too many, too often) was coloring this for me but i think it is simply not as funny or interested in being funny as her other works. not a ding against it, but not what i was really expecting or in the mood for. image from tor, let's yoink the description from macmillan

This isn't the kind of fairy tale where the princess marries a prince. It's the one where she kills him. Marra — a shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter — is relieved not to be married off for the sake of her parents’ throne. Her older sister wasn’t so fortunate though, and her royal husband is as abusive as he is powerful. From the safety of the convent, Marra wonders who will come to her sister’s rescue and put a stop to this. But after years of watching their families and kingdoms pretend all is well, Marra realizes if any hero is coming, it will have to be Marra herself. If Marra can complete three impossible tasks, a witch will grant her the tools she needs. But, as is the way in stories of princes and the impossible, these tasks are only the beginning of Marra’s strange and enchanting journey to save her sister and topple a throne.

paywalled article, sorry, but i personally have a bone to pick with fanduel due to [REDACTED INCIDENTS] from [PREVIOUS JOB] so it does not surprise me in the slightest that they don't really seem to be doing a single fucking thing about money-laundering. allegedly.

watching

the bad batch, or the 13/16 episodes of the third and final season that are out. all these images are from comicbookreview bc i watched this on my actual television

one of the plots i hate most is the trying to get someone back plot. for example, i think finding nemo does this really well bc it's also a coming of age/parenting movie. i do not think the second finding nemo movie does this well bc as soon as one person is reunited with the group, through a wacky series of coincidences they lose another member. plus that movie is part of the downturn of modern pixar where they forgot how to tell interesting stories but that's neither here nor there. the bad batch falls into the finding nemo 2 category. it's simply frustrating to watch. it turns into a desperate floundering after whoever happens to be missing instead of using a The Searchers style plot to say something about the act of the search itself. i realize i am once again saying "what if star wars was good" but like. come on.

the bad batch s3 is surprisingly focused on retroactively filling in the backstory of how and why palpatine got cloned with his force powers intact, which is apparently a difficult technical problem. i would have cared about this if this show came out before the last movie and we had a cool breadcrumb style approach leading up to the movie. unfortunately that movie (and the sequel trilogy more broadly) killed a lot of my interest in modern star wars. anyway, this cloning problem leads to a lot of very technical conversations in a children's' show that are interesting to me, a grownup, bc no star wars media has ever successfully explained 1) what midichlorians actually are and 2) the biological processes by which they operate but refuse to be cloned? which is extremely funny to me bc midicholrians aren't supposed to be real. qui-gon has that whole little speech and blood test in the phantom menace but the series had So scrupulously stayed away from explaining how the force works before that. they still fail to explain it but they at least attempt to break two inches of new ground. side note this show gives us TWO canon trans girl clones and i really wish they were in a better show.

it's annoying that i'm annoyed about a children's show meant to sell toys. some fun things: the pyke syndicate shows up, a slew of my favorite bounty hunters show up, this show is much better at painterly backgrounds and has an overall more concept-art feel than the clone wars proper or rebels. i think it would be cool if they stopped whitewashing the clones. i'm going to finish out the season but i don't exactly have a lot going on in my life right now. i am not terribly sad that this is the final season but BOY do they have a lot of loose ends to wrap up in three episodes.

playing

new genshin update on uhhh thursday and it's kind of exciting bc i THINK it will finally fill in this hole on the map and the associated shorelines of three different countries!

i thought i had long since found all the chests in liyue (the second area released) but in the process of doing a recently released character quest set in liyue i found another chest. this game is very good at hidden objectives and little secrets but i wish it was better at letting you know when you have Actually cleared an area completely of all the little hidden stuff. anyway i have been holding back the last character hangout (ningguang, my best beloved ruthless girlboss business high femme) for a terrible day and that day came! unfortunately hanging out with the fake pretend video game lesbian did make me feel better!

also unfortunately i fucked up and cannot count so the gacha pity system (every 90 pulls you're guaranteed a 5-star character) gave me Neuvillette. who i don't hate but i wasn't really planning on pulling for. i do like his questline and his voice actor, he simply doesn't fit in super well with a mono-electro team bc i play this game like an insane woman.

the real bitch of the thing keeping me from upgrading him is going out in the overworld and collecting enough sea stars. why can't he need flowers or little gears or anything else i have a thousand of.

anyway this gal will be dropping sometime in the next six weeks and i AM extremely excited to pull for her. she has some cool abilities (GUN) and is part of a popular pair with the steampunk lolita character i love and leads my other main team. i hope their abilities play well off each other but she has such a cool storyline and design i don't super care if she fits in with my playstyle. i will adapt for her in a way i am not willing to do with neuvilette

making

i am once again obsessed with gallery walls, bc a friend has asked me to find the correct gigantic size frames to put some comics on his wall, and that has given me an excuse to go to thrift stores again.

unfortunately i have mostly found frames for me, and the projects i have been working on have kind of a long tail of when they will actually be on my walls. i picked up four 16x20 frames for $2.50 each (solid wood! remarkably detailed!) bc i eventually want to put up these fallout maps in the style of national parks maps up on the map wall in my office. i suppose this means i should join @ruffledringdove and actually play '76, bc that's the one modern game i haven't played. these are getting scuff sanded with 120 and painted with a eggshell paint sample in a bright white u all know the drill at this point. ive painted a lot of frames in the past few weeks.

left is one of the painted 16x20 map frames, right i have also finally sanded and painted both 12x16 deckle-edged wood frames i picked up off the side of the road in MA. and found glass + backs for them! eventually i will procure fancy mats and print + frame my grandmothers' portraits. they will eventually go on the living room wall, which is a neutrals and blue-greens wall of slightly disdainful women. this will help me swap the three maps in there to the office map wall.

i have also acquired this gigantic plaster-over-wood mirror for $15. i am using leftover rub n buff bc i don't have a great spot to spraypaint here without sheeting my entire front porch, and rub n buff is way less susceptible to 80% humidity than spray paint. also i would have to buy spray paint. i am looking up suspiciously bc i thought there was a bug. not sure what mackie was looking at.

#tuesday again #tuesday again no problem

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