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graphicpolicy · 9 months
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Preview: Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #5 (of 5)
Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #5 preview. Surfer and Ghost Light are at the mercy of the Stranger! #comics #comicbooks #silversurfer
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Marvel + Abrams will release ‘Marvel Super Stories’ anthology in October
Jerry Craft, Mike Curato, George O’Connor, Nathan Hale, John Gallagher and more will contribute stories to the new anthology, which is edited by John Jennings.
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geekcavepodcast · 1 year
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Marvel Comics and Abrams Books Announce “Marvel Super Stories”
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Abrams Books is releasing a collection of stories for middle-grade readers. Marvel Super Stories is an anthology consisting of new six-page stories from some big names in comics. John Jennings is the editor of the book.
Characters and stories in Marvel Super Stories include:
Black Panther from Jerry Craft
Wiccan rom Mike Curato
Miles Morales Spider-Man from C. G. Esperanza
Iron Man from John Gallagher 
Shang-Chi from Gale Galligan 
The Hulk from Chris Giarrusso
Spider-Man from Nathan Hale 
Captain America from Michael Lee Harris 
Hawkeye from Ben Hatke 
Ms. Marvel from Priya Huq 
Daredevil from John Jennings 
Thor and Loki from George O’Connor
Namor from Lincoln Peirce 
Squirrel Girl from Maria Scrivan 
Ghost Spider from Jessi Zabarsky 
Marvel Super Stories goes on sale on October 17, 2023.
(Image via Marvel Comics - Cover of Marvel Super Stories)
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Silver Surfer - Ghost Light #3 (2023)
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youtwitinmyface · 1 year
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Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #1
Written by John Jennings Drawn by Valentine De Landro Published by Marvel Comics Since February is Black History Month, it’s a bit fitting that I’m starting with a review of this comic book that just came out, because it’s written by a Black writer. John Jennings is someone I’ve known via the internet since at least 2010 (when we became friends on Facebook), but it may have been earlier than that…
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re-readingcomics · 1 year
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Comics Read 10/29-11/08/2022 
Over the past week plus I read the comic book adaptation of Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. They previously adapted her novel Kindred and I read it back in 2017 or 2018, a period in which I wasn’t updating this blog. I have not read the novels on which either of these is based, though I have read Butler’s work collected in Blood Child and Other Stories and Seed to Harvest. Despite not having read either of the source materials, it feels like Kindred is more amenable to adaptation than The Parable of the Sower. As this is an adaptation of something I haven’t read, I’m going to avoid discussing the plot or its political relevance. The plot sprawls with dozens of characters, the political relevance has some really keen moments and other aspects feel best appreciated as a product of the early 1990s, when the original book was written. I can't really say anything of value about it.
I do want highlight that I appreciate that it gets the concept of empathy correct, and I like the way the lead character’s, Lauren Olamina, “hyper-empathy” illustrates it. It’s become a pet peeve of mine that too many people use the word “empathy” (the psychological identification with or vicarious experiencing of the emotions, thoughts, or attitudes of another”)  when they mean some kind of very strong sympathy (the act or state of feeling sorrow or compassion for another), minus whatever pitying condescension they associate with that word. A person can feel another persons pain and not care, or blame the other person for their discomfort. The hyper-empathy described here is involuntary and easily manipulated. It applies to pain and pleasure. That said, the artistic choice to describe this is part of what makes the book often feel too busy and confusing. The experience of hyper-empathy is generally in the color red, but not a red that is distinct enough from the colors use in the rest of the book to be automatically clear that this is what is happening. Sometime Lauren is portrayed as having whatever affliction she sees and feels. Sometimes a body part of hers is super imposed in red over the character being injured. Other times the whole panel is portrayed in red. I’m constantly reminding myself what I’m reading.
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The plot involves many characters who often appear only briefly, have a mostly tragic story told and then leave. It seems at odds with artistic choices including the portrayal of hyper-empathy, as well as the rough expressiveness of the style. The story alternates between Lauren’s experiences, and how she interprets them in her notebook, the original draft of what becomes the basis of Earthseed, the religion that she is in the process of founding. In the early pages of the comic they try and address this by including the lines from notebook paper in the drawing, essentially fading into the background while the reader goes more into Lauren’s perspective.
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dailydccomics · 3 months
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the Justice League by Jen Bartel
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georgeplantagenet · 28 days
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"I thought he was an extraordinary looking man. Helmut is a wonderful actor. He looked like Ludwig, and I think he was magnificent in the part. He was, at all times, charming to me. We went out together." — John Moulder-Brown
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cosmicdayglow · 10 months
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Thinking about Arthur coming out to John, either as aromantic, or gay, or trans, or (insert your headcanon here), and Arthur makes the most gigantic deal out of it, because it’s the 1930s so obviously he’s learned to keep this shit to himself, he’s actually shaking and like sweating and trying to keep his cool…and John who has literally zero concept of societal norms or gender roles is like “k? Anyways, so-”
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taciturn-nerd · 5 months
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Can we talk about Mrs. Jennings' generosity in contrast to John and Fanny Dashwood?
In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, John Dashwood is the first-born son of Henry Dashwood who re-married and had three daughters. When Henry Dashwood dies, the way the will was set up by his uncle, made it so that John would inherit everything and Henry's wife and daughters would get nothing (aside from a thousand pounds for each girl), despite the fact that Henry and his wife and daughters had been there for his uncle in his later years.
Before he dies, Henry makes his son promise to take care of his step-mother and half-sisters, which John fully thinks he'll do, until his wife talks him out of doing anything meaningful. (The fact that it was so easy to talk him out of it really says something about his character.) He went from wanting to give them three thousand pounds to thinking, "Oh I'll just help them move when it comes time for them to move and maybe gifts of fish and game once in a while."
The way regency society operated meant that until an upper or middle class woman got married, she was entirely dependent on her male relatives for financial support (unless she became a governess which has other challenges). Never mind that John made a promise to his father on his deathbed. By society's expectations and just common decency, he should have been the one to take care of his father's widow and daughters.
Let's compare his and his wife's actions with Mrs. Jennings':
John and Fanny Dashwood
John and his wife move into Norland estate immediately after his father dies. They had every legal right but it was very insensitive and lacking any empathy to the ladies who had Norland as their home for so many years and had just lost their husband and father.
They could have just let them continue living there but it was so awful living with Fanny that Mrs. Dashwood wanted to leave as soon as possible (as soon as Fanny made it clear to Mrs. Dashwood that Elinor wasn’t good enough for Edward).
Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters were moving just far enough away, that John couldn't help them move. (How convenient)
When John hears of the Middletons being great landlords he very cluelessly says this:
“I am extremely glad to hear it, upon my word; extremely glad indeed. But so it ought to be; they are people of large fortune, they are related to you, and every civility and accommodation that can serve to make your situation pleasant might be reasonably expected. And so you are most comfortably settled in your little cottage and want for nothing! Edward brought us a most charming account of the place: the most complete thing of its kind, he said, that ever was, and you all seemed to enjoy it beyond any thing. It was a great satisfaction to us to hear it, I assure you.” (Yes JOHN people RELATED to them would REASONABLY be expected to help them out!)
Mrs Jennings
Is not even a relative of Mrs. Dashwood and the girls. She's the mother-in-law of Sir John Middleton who is a relative (distant cousin?) of Mrs. Dashwood's. So they're only distantly related by marriage.
Even though she teases Elinor and Marianne a lot at least she cares more than John and Fanny about finding them future spouses and securing their financial futures. She and Sir John were always inviting Colonel Brandon over and making sure Willoughby was included in outings at Barton.
She invites Elinor and Marianne to stay with her in London for the winter. I know she loves the company, but I can't imagine the additional cost it was to her. (Lucy reasonably assumed John and Fanny would invite Elinor and Marianne to join them in London for the winter but they don't). As an older brother this would have been a common thing to do to invite your family along but more importantly to help his sisters network (i.e. meet eligible suitors).
When Marianne gets dangerously ill, Mrs. Jennings stays with Elinor to help nurse Marianne, even though Mrs. Jennings' daughter has just given birth.
When John tells Mrs. Jennings, Elinor, and Marianne how Mrs. Ferrars is disowning and disinheriting Edward for his engagement to Lucy, Mrs. Jennings praises and defends Edward for his integrity in contrast to his own family's cruelty and valuing class and money above all else.
“Then,” cried Mrs. Jennings with blunt sincerity, no longer able to be silent, “he has acted like an honest man! I beg your pardon, Mr. Dashwood, but if he had done otherwise, I should have thought him a rascal. I have some little concern in the business, as well as yourself, for Lucy Steele is my cousin, and I believe there is not a better kind of girl in the world, nor one who more deserves a good husband.”
John and Fanny Dashwood continued (for the sake of being somewhat chronological)
Fanny only ever helps out by sending a carriage to pick up Elinor and Marianne for an evening event in London because they happened to be visiting her when another acquaintance did and they extended the invitation to them because they reasonably assumed the girls were staying with John and Fanny. And Fanny does it so begrudgingly! She even wished they were late so she could complain about it but they were prompt!
In conversation with Elinor, John says aloud that maybe Mrs. Jennings will leave some money to her and Marianne, or maybe Elinor should try to "catch" Colonel Brandon so she can marry well. And he convinces himself that this is doing the max as a concerned and loving brother! How about you, an actual sibling, do something so they’re not living in relative poverty and isolation?
"He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal; and an offer from Colonel Brandon, or a legacy from Mrs. Jennings, was the easiest means of atoning for his own neglect."
In the text, Jane Austen is utterly savage about John and Fanny's selfishness and callous hypocrisy. John probably thinks himself a good person.
Mrs. Jennings already goes above and beyond for the Dashwood girls but compared to John and Fanny, her generosity and genuine care really shine. She is a wonderful person and I’m so glad the Dashwoods had her as a friend.
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graphicpolicy · 1 year
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NYCC 2022: Marvel's Voices: Wakanda Forever coming February 2023
NYCC 2022: Marvel's Voices: Wakanda Forever coming February 2023 #comics #comicbooks #nycc #nycc22 #nycc2022 #blackpanther #wakandaforever
Announced at New York Comic Con, the Marvel’s Voices anthology series returns in February 2023 with Marvel’s Voices: Wakanda Forever.   The special one-shot arrives just in time to celebrate Black History Month and puts the spotlight on iconic heroes of Wakanda. Black Panther, Shuri, Okoye, and more star in all-new stories by an incredible lineup of both fan-favorite creators and talent fresh to…
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During their Marvel’s Voices panel at the New York Comic Con, Marvel announced several upcoming  projects for February that tie into Black History Month, including a new miniseries titled Silver Surfer: Ghost Light. This one is by award-winning writer John Jennings and artist Valentine De Landro, who worked on Mister Miracle and Bitch Planet.
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geekcavepodcast · 1 year
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“Silver Surfer: Ghost Light” to Debut New Hero
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The debut of a new Marvel hero is on the horizon. According to Marvel Comics’ this new hero is 54 years in the making and will be introduced in John Jennings and Valentine De Landro’s Silver Surfer: Ghost Light.
“Toni Brooks and her family have moved into the quiet town of Sweetwater. But nothing is quite what it seems with their new home. What mystery did Toni and her family unravel that would call upon the Sentinel of the Spaceways—the Silver Surfer?! And just who or what is GHOST LIGHT?” (Marvel Comics)
Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #1 (of 5), featuring a cover by Taurin Clarke, goes on sale on February 1, 2023.
(Image via Marvel Comics - Taurin Clarke’s Cover of Silver Surfer: Ghost Light #1)
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