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They were the same age both times, but in the Bronze Age they lied about it. There's no way in Heaven, Hell or Metropolis the Curt Swan Superman or Clark was in his 20s. And Bruce was about 35, but he was 1955's idea of 25. They just lied. To children. With the approval of the Comics Code.
I love that even after turning Superman into a kid, he still feels the need to rabbit punch that kid from behind.
The idea that an adult would put all those kids in constant danger is kind of crazy. It would only make sense if they're already sidekicks for whatever reason, and they come to him for special training. "Here's something Green Arrow can't teach you."
I've always liked the idea of the first Robin, especially the modern version where Dick is determined to solve his parent's murder no matter what, so Bruce trains him to help him survive. But an informal training orphanage for sidekicks is something that only makes sense in comics...
I really want to read this one.
I just read Escape #1, by Rick Remender and Daniel Acuña, and... holy cow, what an amazing book! This is the start of an incredible story. #comicsky
Awww...
I'm glad this story has a happy ending.
Happy birthday!
Hey, it says it's a bargain right there in print! It must be true. But there might be a slight risk of being shanghaied if you frequent drinking establishments down on the wharf.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Cena's one of those people who commit themselves completely to whatever they're doing, even if it makes them look silly or dumb. Unlike some other wrestlers, he can do comedic parts and antiheroes without hurting his professional persona.
Thank you!
Oh, I get it now! A lot of posts here suddenly make sense. Maybe. I doubt it, but we'll see.
Oh, the tariffs are still in place until Trump appeals to the Supreme Court. Goddammit. What kind of court lets someone keep keep breaking the law until their appeals are exhausted? "It's illegal to stab that man, Mr Trump! But you can keep stabbing him while you appeal our decision."
Yes! This was how I first experienced Star Trek. When I was a kid we didn't have cable TV, and no local channels showed Star Trek reruns. But the library had the James Blish adaptations, so I read them voraciously. Before The Motion Picture came out, I didn't know what Kirk and Spock looked like.
www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps... If this sticks, it's WONDERFUL news for the United States, and the world! It doesn't fix everything, of course, the authoritarian takeover is still in progress - but at least it might head off that recession that's been growing larger in the rear view mirror #tariffs
I think the original Wild CATs were back on the Kherubim homeworld because the war was over (a bad decision for Voodoo, since she had Daemonite DNA) and back on Earth there was a whole new team, with a guy named Tao and the cyborg lady... That's all I can remember.
I got one of the Alan Moore issues. It has a cyborg lady on the cover. So much had happened since the early issues, it really left me in the dark.
Thank you for the substack link! What Robert Kennedy Jr. is doing is very frightening, because it could kill millions of people and set back public health in America by reinforcing the beliefs of anti-vaxxers.
Those were the three I got! I dropped Wild CATs fairly early, but kept reading Spawn and Savage Dragon for a while.
I personally hope there's more and more to understand, deeper and deeper layers that keep us busy for a long time figuring it out. If we're not smart enough to understand everything, then we need to make ourselves smarter. What kind of being we become at the end of that quest is another question.
Masked goons arresting innocent children. That's the USA in 2025.
Yeah, it's an excellent channel.
Love how his ears go up when he figures out what you want.
Future infamy notwithstanding, that bit about him being "almost as good" an actor as his brother had to sting as bad as the wound.
...and elections.) Then comes a reckoning of some sort, a counter-revolution that will probably require big changes and trigger massive resistance from Republicans. The institutions need to be fixed and guardrails installed so authoritarians like Trump can never succeed again.
...second term will still be there, many of them still in positions of power within the US government. First comes recognition that this is a sort of revolution, not politics as normal. Then a confrontation with the revolutionaries. (Hopefully just in the form of civil protests, demonstrations...
"Wait until the next election, we'll fix everything then." "Just go along with Trump, he won't last forever." And that last justification is true, he won't last much longer. But then it's Vance's turn. And the mysterious people who gave Trump so much assistance at the beginning of his...
He's saying that the media, many politicians and other Americans can't stop thinking of this as just more of the same old political game of posturing between left and right. "Trump can't be turning the US into a dictatorship like Hungary, because that never happens here!"
This is a huge blindspot when "the point" is a is a bad-faith misdirection to justify authoritarianism. Refusing to see the Trump administration as following the predictable pattern of other authoritarian regimes enables that blindspot." ...
or that taking over Democratic cities is about crime, you are helping perpetuate Trump’s rationales for undermining democracy. Pundit brain is very US focused: the points of reference are US left/right, and the Smart Take is always saying the right has a point that the left refuses to acknowledge...
In the repost of Don Moynihan's essay, it helps to read the whole thing, but this part jumped out at me "Many remain unable or unwilling to see the bigger picture. If you think the assault on higher education is about anti-semitism, or that the purge of the federal government is about DEI...
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
Not anticolonial - anti-imperial. Star Wars is neutral on the morality of colonizing other worlds, but very much against the idea of one big power controlling everyone.
Mr. Busiek's original point about how responsibility is scalable is what makes Peter's story so applicable to anybody. Everyone has power of some kind, even if only over themselves.
Still probin.' But just recreationally and not for science.
I like it.👍
That's an interesting idea! So you're saying that Dock Ock is like Peter if the Spider bit him much later in life?
I never got the appeal, but Ayn Rand is the common denominator behind so many extremist types over the years. It's extraordinary how much Objectivism continues to appeal to people at a certain stage of their lives. Most of them can't write or draw, but Ditko was the very rare exception.
I agree, they undermine what makes Spider-Man so relatable in the first place.
I wonder if that's the difference between a young man still optimistic about life, and an older man with convictions hardened by experience. Those years may have been very eventful for him.
Wait, is he behind himself in that image? Or is that somebody else who looks a lot like Newsom? Maybe it's his Better Angel.
Cool! I just got into the Parker novels this year. Been listening to them on Audible. The weird thing is I'd previously seen both movie adaptations of "The Hunter" but didn't realize they were adapting this book. I thought they were three completely different stories at the time.
Spider-Man's origin is a really neat parable about personal responsibility. You make a good point there, the spider powers aren't even an essential part of it. The same events could've happened to anyone. Maybe that's why it's such a powerful story. Peter is no chosen one.
...where we control AI (and not the other way around), I think humanity's role is to be like the cerebral cortex of the brain. The part on top that makes the decisions while other parts of the brain do stuff like vision and figuring out how to move. But what that will look like, I don't know.
...I wonder how it will change us to now have the ability to construct minds larger than our own, not just AI but communities of humans augmented by AI, where the machines do all the boring data processing and we do... What? In a world...
...And now we've reached the point where we can explicitly make artificial thinking machines, even machines that can think FAR BETTER than we do. The Professor Dave video is about the risks of AI. But putting that aside for a moment...
...composed of many individual humans. A society has always been a kind of larger mind, but advances in communication technology have made it more and more obvious that we're making "superorganisms" like nation states, corporations, the scientific community, and even the hive mind of the Internet...
... to converse with people in other times and places, and even have (one way) discussions between the dead and the living. Both of these turning points led to progress by connecting humans together in new ways. Now we're at a third turning point where we're starting to create larger minds...
...when we developed written language. The first turning point gave humans the ability to work together and think of ourselves as something separate from our environment. The second gave us a way to preserve thought against the ravages of time. This made it possible...
Just watched this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrPo... About which I might say more later, but here's a random thought. Humanity has now reached a third turning point in our evolution. The first was around 200 000 years ago, when we developed language. The second was about 5000 years ago...
Congratulations!
No idea what's going on, but that's an interesting cover!
At some point the impact of Trump's bad policies is going to hit, and people will have to stop pretending this is business as usual. But when will that be? Is there still years of runway, or will the currency rapidly depreciate?
A dry investment advice video is not the place for politics. But I wonder when we need to start the conversation about the overall risk of keeping investments in the US. The market is bizarrely sanguine about Trump trying to fire Lisa Cook, but is that justified? ...
I guess I can't blame them. The job of an investment advisor is to help clients achieve their goals while minimizing risk, and part of that risk comes from the client overreacting and trying to time the market....
No mention of how unwise it may be to invest in a market that may become less open, and more and more controlled from the top like a third world country. Eyes firmly planted on the numbers, and only talk about how this affects next quarter's investments.
It felt like they're saying the President has set the United States on fire, and it's going to burn at such and such a rate for so many years - and that means Canadian investors need to do this and that to minimize risk. No mention of how insane it is to deliberately sabotage your own currency...
Just now I saw a video on the weakening American dollar. The serious banker men think the US dollar is going to slide in value by 10-25% over the next 5 years. They gave a brief explanation for what they THINK Trump is trying to do, and why. It made no sense to me...
Jesus, talk about surreal. As an investor I sometimes listen to information that's pitched to the Canadian financial community. Basically it's very serious men (and the occasional woman) in suits who are focused on understanding current events through the lens of how to make money. No politics...
But there was a huge railroad bubble in the late 19th century. They built a lot more track than they needed, and dredged out a bunch of really expensive canals. Afterwards a lot of investors lost their shirts.
But it kept the dollars flowing into tech. I think the tech sector has decided it needs bubbles at least once a decade to keep investors excited about tech. If too many years go by without anything new being developed, that money may go somewhere else.
The greatest movie ever made! Or at least, the first "adult" movie I ever saw without parental supervision. It would be so awesome to get it on DVD or BluRay.
My first reaction was LOL. But upon further reflection, this could be really neat.
I'm sure this will work out just like he wants it to, and cause no problems whatsoever. Just imagine rugging a entire country. So long suckers, I'm off to Monaco.
Not sure when comics got relegated to spinner racks, but originally they were on the shelves at the newsstand right next to the pulp magazines and newspapers. Every title face out and easy to find. Looks like these comics are from 1950 or 1951, so they probably sold on newsstands.
Wow, I guess so! Westerns really were huge in the fifties.
Now, "Journey Into Unknown Worlds," that's my kind of story! Let the planets fly...
"Gabby Hayes Western" was a thing? He was a great, iconic actor, but I can't imagine the kids were thrilling to the adventures of western sidekicks.
Hope the last two made it in as well!
Isn't Jim Jordan already famous for covering up rapes at Ohio State University? Doing the same thing for Trump is probably second nature for him.
The Central Stand of Jem City?
Classic indeed. This is a really good one.
This sounds right. Copilot AI says the lateral wall is the sides of the nose opposite the septum, so either nostril is probably good.
That's every outhouse.
3. The emissions have about 50% linear polarization, which suggests they come from "a highly uniform, ordered magnetic field source." (Quoting Petrov.) So something like a magnetar, but 100 000 times brighter.
Located in NGC 4945, a neighboring galaxy about 11 million light years away, Punctum is puzzling for several reasons. 1. It's weaker than a black hole, but stronger than anything else at mm frequencies. 2. It's fairly small, maybe 6-7 light years in size. 3...
Via the "Anton Petrov" YouTube channel: www.space.com/astronomy/sc... Astronomers using ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) have found a new object in the sky. Named "punctum," it may be the strongest emitter of millimeter radio wavelengths that's out there. #space #science
Oh, sorry. I didn't realize. Well, congratulations on writing the first draft! That's far more than most people do.
Congratulations! Now bring that book to term, and birth it out into the world.
I don't know, he skedaddled out of there the moment I opened the door. But probably.
Rock And Rule is amazing! A landmark in Canadian animation.
Once I was at the gym, when I opened the door to the sauna - and there's a guy in there, fully clothed, watching a tablet with the sound cranked way up! I guess he thought the hot, steamy sauna was a good place to watch his shows.
I don't understand why people don't use headphones, or earbuds or whatever. The sound quality is better, and you're not making yourself a nuisance to others.
Hype all you want! It's YOUR microblog, not anyone else's. It's awesome that you have so much stuff to promote.
So adorable!
Ten year old me would be all over this, soon as I could get hold of a dollar. Modern me would love it even more.
With Tigger as Al?
Thank you for the link! That looks like a really interesting piece of comics journalism. I'm gonna settle in and read it tonight.
Your analysis seems right to me. Trump has nothing to gain from this meeting, and neither does Putin. That's if you view it as a single meeting. But if you see it as the beginning of a campaign by Putin to persuade Trump, then Putin's attendance makes sense. Why Trump allows it is a mystery.
I like your first typo better. Maybe Jimmy gets a new girlfriend in each episode, leading to hijinks.
It's such a wonderful idea! You changed Luthor in a way that feels like a natural evolution of the character. It seems that's his default version now.
I kept reading after Byrne switched books with Bill Mantlo, but with decreased enthusiasm. Mantlo was American, and even though he tried to do research the locations lost their authentic feel. There was no more stories that took place in identifiable locations. Eventually I drifted away.
The scene where we meet his parents tells the audience all we need to know about Superman's morality. He has great empathy, just like them.
It's a good question. Batman has an indomitable will and much more experience - but Karate Kid has the benefit of another 1000 years of progress in martial arts, and all the crazy PEDs they've invented in the future. I think it would be a tough fight no matter what.
I remember laughing at this when it was new on the stands. Partly because the little girl still looks adorable when she's possessed, and partly because the solution to Johnny Peril's dilemma is so simple, if cold blooded. One shot for the girl, and one for the witness! Story over, on to the next one
Thank you for this thread! Back in the day I loved Alpha Flight wholeheartedly because they were actual Canadian superheroes. Heck, Guardian started out in my home town! That was incredibly mindblowing in an era when all superheros were foreign. Byrne really did a number on us fans with that book.
Shana is on her best behavior for this crossover, with a 1950's style costume.
Love talk with John Cena: 'I'm gonna drop you from the top rope, right on your head!" "Uh huh, then what?" "Piledriver, BAM!" "Oh yeah..." "Multiple fractures of the spine, you're not walking for at least three months." "Don't stop now!"