Batman needs to stop being mean to Firestorm, Firestorm is doing his best

imagining the world where zoids became the core modern mecha referent instead of gundam god i love zoids they're so fucking stupid

Obsidian Age giving me some great Etrigan in the end as well as fun action. Very nice, even if I prefer a more character driven solo book.

why am i craving tallarin saltado i had it on wednesday why do i need it again now

JLA: Obsidian Age is pretty good, for all that Firestorm is basically not being used with any major characterization for it. I really am enjoying it. The time travel was confusing at first because I thought there was a Past and a Further Past due to poorly established stuff, however.

i occasionally need to remind myself that I am on Discords populated by The Youths who were not alive in the 90s and are not aware that Bill Clinton was infamous for sleeping around well before he became president

Firestorm update: Circle of Fire ended well. We are now into the JLA run where he's been tapped as part of the JLA's replacements while they're stuck 3000 years in the past. It appears to be picking up with him back at college, largely ignoring...uh, basically all of Extreme Justice's writing.

Firestorm update: his role in Day of Judgment was relatively minor but set up some fun stuff with him having to learn chemistry now that he doesn't have Stein in his head, and that's playing nicely in Circle of Fire. GL/Firestorm in particular is a really fun little issue for a wild goose chase.

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whatever else is going on in the pure cotton candy fluff that is Day of Judgment, it has given me another addition to the wonderful gallery of Hal Jordan, God's Dumbest Soldier

Day of Judgment is all empty calories and no real meat, but I’ll happily take that after Extreme Justice

i am free had a brief detour to Showcase '96 for Ronnie going to rehab. I don't like his alcoholism plot but at least Showcase handled it about as respectfully as was possible in 1996, unlike, uh, any part of Extreme Justice i still want to know when he became an underwear model

extreme justice update: i have four issues left. i am almost free. firestorm cannot possibly be in a worse book than this, right i'd have heard about a worse one

so uh extreme justice: this issue was about neron buying the soulless infant child of Star Sapphire and Predator in exchange for separating Star Sapphire from Carol it sucked it was bad it gets memory holed forever and i wish i didn't have to read it

extreme justice update: ronnie raymond is an underwear model? why? when? why are there piss lizards here why did amazing man eat shit trying to absorb their power are we just not gonna go back to that? are we never going to explain that in favor of captain atom drama?

so i don't talk about 1999 much but it remains the best written gacha game i've ever seen but also the most impenetrable if you are not, in fact, basting in world history of the 20th century and random fields of literature

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.” www.transition2025.com/apply

this is the stupidest fucking timeline

I don't drink coffee so not crossing this picket line won't be difficult for me, but the rest of you should probably be prepared to caffeinate in an alternate fashion

so the good news is Extreme Justice stopped being 75% fights and that's significantly better for its legibility and quality the bad news is parts of it are still made of piss, i am told this yellow is probably the result of early digital coloring techniques that the colorist wasn't good at

WHY DOES THIS ENTIRE COMIC LOOK LIKE IT’S MADE OF PISS

WHY IS EXTREME JUSTICE SO UGLY AND HARD TO FOLLOW WHY WERE 90s COMICS LIKE THIS

extreme justice is extremely ugly and i do not like perceiving it with my eye holes

Firestorm is now done. Next stop on my read is Extreme Justice, as I have determined that the potential detour to Wonder Woman: War of the Gods would not be meaningfully relevant.

okay i forgive firestorm for a lot of the annoyance i've had over the elemental arc, issue 96 was a gorgeous and shockingly well researched toe dip into Yoruba mythology and I loved it

The further I get into the tail end of Firestorm, the more convinced I am that the full elemental was a mistake, and it sucks that Ronnie and Mikhail are just...kinda gone.

i do not think i've had a more surreal experience in a while than having a coworker show off a photo of his fursuit in a meeting as his halloween costume and knowing that he doesn't at all understand why this would be surreal for anyone else

The narrative that rabbis aren’t showing up for Mamdani— or that nobody believes that economic and labor justice are core Torah values — is false.

Ran into the funniest sex comedy manga I’ve seen in a while, about a fantasy world doctor having to deal with people making very poor decisions with their genitals

Waiting For Godot trip report: Alex Winter as Vladimir was amazing. Keanu was good but Estragon didn’t give him as much meat to work with. The guy who played Pozzo, Michael something? Also great. Lucky was good but not superlative. A Boy was fine.

saw a D&D heartbreaker cite the Herculoids as an inspiration, which was really baffling and confusing, but now i'm thinking about a Herculoids-based RPG where everyone is a weird alien critter with a special weird alien trick and you have to use your weird alien tricks to help your hapless humans

My Firestorm reading has now gotten to Janus Directive, the 1989 crossover event about DC's multiple secret semi-evil US government super teams. Firestorm is tangentially involved and I'm reading the entire thing to find out how Ostrander does that. but good lord are some of these teams weird

Update: Invasion sucked

Can we stop writing about Thanagar, nothing good comes from stories about hawk guys

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i am on my fourth DC event book in my Firestorm readthrough and man I actually do not know which one I like least! I think I like Crisis the most because the Anti-Monitor is fun in a "how many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man" way. Legends was hardest to follow I guess

I find myself becoming a fan against my will of DC supervillain Slipknot just because as far as I can tell he has never succeeded at literally any task whatsoever in anything he has ever been in

docs.google.com/document/d/1... The mechanics here are mostly complete! I have some decisions still to make regarding Skaven and subfactions, and I have to flesh out a Lore and some other stuff, but the archetypes are complete.

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

working on filling out the Chaos archetypes, which includes adding rules for playing Daemons. (They're like Stormcast in terms of starting stats, can't gain or use Favour or Soulfire by any means, and have core talents that use Doom.) Especially proud of the Exalted Flamer.

let me into the realm of chaos let me iiiiin

my work on mee vorala will be interrupted today by my uncontainable excitement for champions of chaos we will return to our regularly schedules glorantha writing at a later date, i have to warhammer today

now to write up Mee Vorala which is going to be going to be pretty wild because i intend to hew closer to "how fungus actually works" than "how Greg Stafford things fungus works"

still can't do polls here, but i can at least ask. Pick one: - Cold - Bugs - Mushrooms - Hatred - Moon - Darkness - Healing - Hunting

Basko, the Dark Brilliance, is the national god of Chen Durel, and a very strange god in a lot of ways. I had a lot of fun writing him for my Glorantha TTRPG project, Secret History of the Horse Sun.

the Helsmiths of Hashut are jazz to me, they're art deco babylon, so i made a playlist open.spotify.com/playlist/0pD...

why does everyone in the DC universe think Slipknot can take Firestorm handpicked by the Monitor, recruited first by Multiplex, chosen specifically by Amanda Waller for the Suicide Squad to take him down guy doesn't even have powers, he's just a shibari expert

listening to swing revival a lot right now and like. i love the sound of swing and big band jazz? but god damn the swing revival guys need to find more subjects than "let's swing"

i do not want to watch a video about the warcry big update please write a fucking article text my kingdom for text