Sara Century
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Makes photos, videos, books, and podcasts. She/her. saracentury.com
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As the launch of my X-Men zines preorder draws near, I'll remind you that you can currently get a pack of 3 of film zines at my shop. They have handmade covers & are 60+ pages. A Scream zine, lesbian vampire zine, and Hitchcock zine. They are good! I have good takes usually. sara-century.square.site
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Vivian Moira Valentine
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Full offense, but we shouldn't have to stop, hold your hand, and say, "That was a sad choice, wasn't it? Can you help think of a better one?" when writing for adults
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
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Sadly exactly what they intended Watching the escalating behaviors as a very specific set of people , continually remove context and refuse to be clear about what’s happening For a myriad of reasons That ultimately boil down to “Other people are expendable for my comfort”
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foppish michael
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life is at least a little beautiful idk
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Maybe we can try anyway just for fun
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I'm in favor of this!
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Elizabeth Taylor was in some really bizarre thrillers (complimentary), but she was also in a legit horror movie called Night Watch that somehow I just watched for the first time. It starts out standard and then it gets W I L D. I was just sitting here yelling at the screen and it upset my cats.
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RM
2 days ago
Sometimes the hero is an old man in a purple cape giving long, dense speeches about how you need to get off his goddamn lawn.
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There was a good ten years where my whole intake of art/books/music/etc. was regional, like 2006-2016 my frame of reference is all local to Denver. So to this day people are like "did you see the Nightmare on Elm Street remake they did back in the day" and I'm scandalized like WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?!
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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics
2 days ago
hey look an excuse
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
2 days ago
"Also, Charles Xavier looks like an egg and our Empress wants to sit on him." "An ambiguous number of Summers/Shi'ar siblings remain." "We have Space Wolverine at home." "Deathbird still wants to remain relevant in this continuity." "Time travel makes it impossible to eliminate your brood."
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Jake Cole
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My biggest takeaway so far working through the Claremont run is that if you are familiar with the X-Men via other media properties like the movies, the old animated series, various video games etc, you are not prepared for the level of space opera derangement it contains.
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I love that whenever the Shi'ar show up Jean Grey is like "oh, Jesus Christ!"
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
2 days ago
I have some thoughts about this:
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Stephanie Burt
2 days ago
Also Batman's a hard case. The X-Men simply are not cops.
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I understand why people watch a superhero movie and dismiss all superheroes as "lone cowboy with bazooka saves the day" but my early understanding of showing up for a community came from superhero comics. There's fights, but Batman brings Solomon Grundy food and leaves him alone when possible, etc.
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Kyle Winkler
3 days ago
Why this works is b/c comic writers are on deadline & must give-in to their imaginations as a source of continuing story. This kind of creation is why I look to comics for inspiration more often than not. Next are the SF writers of the 50/60s & Weird Tales authors. It was just full-tilt boogie.
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Matt Parent (They/Them)
3 days ago
Ali eating Ketchup sandwiches, making everyone fall in love with her and shooting Galactus on sight. I’m such a sucker for Dazzler vol 1.
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Malda Marlys 🍉
3 days ago
call me when mystique's 18th secret baby with (roulette wheel spins) an alternate timeline's red hulk returns from a sojourn in a universe ruled by evil thor for convoluted revenge on the great lakes avengers and also spiral is there
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Ketracel Black
3 days ago
I tried to explain to a coworker that daredevil has pretended to be his own twin brother (who isn't blind) and he just didn't get it 😂
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Katie Bayler
3 days ago
My first ever comic featured the Hulk, on a trip through subatomic worlds, landing on a world where WWII was being re-fought by soldiers who turn out to be giant salamanders that had been transformed by the Shaper of Worlds. He fights Captain Axis, and it ends on a cliffhanger.
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I WEEP ❤️ thank you
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Friend of Dazzler 🏳️🌈🔺
3 days ago
I still can’t get over the fact that Peter Parker once taught The Beyonder how to use the bathroom
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Jesse Post
3 days ago
Sophie Campbell's SUPERGIRL is like this, too. And the Elliot Kalan run on HARLEY QUINN. DC really is going for it!
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Not to start a tangent because there's much to say here but Cockrum is my favorite early X-Men artist and this is one huge reason why.
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Witch Cabell, PhD
3 days ago
In Intro LGBTQIA+ I assign this essay abt the Legacy Virus in 1990s X-Men comics & the radical possibilities for queer metaphor in a genre that is ALREADY bonkers:
lareviewofbooks.org/article/x-me...
(Paired w/Christensen & Hanson’s 1996 “Comedy as Cure for Tragedy: ACT UP & the Rhetoric of AIDS”!)
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Victor Von Doomscroll
3 days ago
I collect cursed Reeds
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Friend of Dazzler 🏳️🌈🔺
3 days ago
Thor being turned into a frog is the kind of shit you can only get away with in a comic book, and something you will certainly never see in a MCU movie.
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Danny Lore
3 days ago
See this is even true of like the really straight forward heroes and hyper competent street dudes i love lol
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Ben
3 days ago
This is why it’s useless for weirdos like us to talk about the best comic to give to someone first. The best comic to give someone first is whatever random Bronze Age issue from the middle of a lengthy run you can find in a quarter bin.
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Once you've done this, you're on the next level
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Joshua Rivera
3 days ago
this is what it’s about man, this is the love of the game
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Indigo Black
3 days ago
And when comics didn't even have arcs! Those X-Men issues that weren't "Part 2 of 6" but were, like, picking up on a random story arc from 34 issues ago where Colossus befriended a sentient potato
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RM
3 days ago
If you're not asking "wait...why does she have tentacles?" at least once per run, what is the point?
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈
3 days ago
We lose so much when art is blanded down to "cast the widest net to catch as many people who will like or tolerate this but never fall in love"
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Vivian Moira Valentine
3 days ago
Uncanny X-Men had a short arc where NYC became Conan Times! Captain America was a werewolf for like three issues! Wonder Woman worked at Taco Bell!
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Derek Halliday 🇨🇦
3 days ago
My favorite is the one where Galactus gets her help to get Terrax the Tamer out of a black hole...though I came to that story because I had read the WHAT IF...? follow up to that first where she becomes Galactus Herald and they fall in love.
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Having read original X-Force beginning to end, I know exactly what you're saying here.
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another morgan
3 days ago
these current team runs where you have 8 characters that only get 6 issues together are crazy. it's like watching a pilot episode. WHERE are the bizarre lived-in soap opera team dynamics
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
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(It feels weird that we're technically in the middle of a horror comics revolution and almost nobody talks about it.)
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Drew Dietsch
3 days ago
Great point. Part of the MCU's success was how it streamlined and commodified weirdness. That's great for expanding an audience, but not great for weirdos who like weird stuff. One of my first Spider-Man comics was about Peter dying, fighting Thanos in some Purgatory, and being saved by Death.
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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
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Like, this was simultaneously a banger parody of Kirby-esque antics and genuine love letter to Kirby-esque comics of that era.
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Resharing in case someone needs the recommendation, they finally collected the Treehouse run after years not too long ago and it's a lot of fun, especially if you like anthology horror comics!
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Sage Wilson
3 days ago
I seriously can not overstate how much I miss this dynamic in superhero comics. DC is getting us there at least with runs like World’s Finest and Poison Ivy, but Marvel needs to get their act together. The fact Immortal X-Men and Ewing’s Guardians didn’t get 50+ issue runs literally haunts me
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Al Kennedy
3 days ago
One of my folly projects, should I ever become a deranged billionaire and buy Marvel, is a sports drama comic about the Grapplers. Songbird, Amazon and D-Man as training staff, lead character would be Millie Collins as the luchadora Millie Mascara. Get Kyle Starks on board. Rake in Eisners.
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Matthew Jackson
3 days ago
Arguably the single greatest superhero comic book run of all time opens with "OK, there's a new Thor, and he's an alien horse man with a tragic backstory whose best friend is a talking spaceship."
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O F Cieri
3 days ago
My main beef with 'superhero' as a genre is that it glazes over the fact that a 'superhero' used to be a character who could exist in every genre that ever existed
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Martian Vision!
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This is kind of the core of my philosophy. Other than “oh that comic that was too niche so they cancelled it after six issues? I love that.”
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Dazzler solo series still bangs and if you don't believe me just read the issue where she ends up in prison for murder I guess? and then is forced to wrestle with the wrestling-themed villains The Grapplers because they just happen to also be in prison.
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What non-superhero fans don't understand about my love for superhero comics is that they are weird and they used to be even weirder. I don't like MCU so much. I like that comic runs used to go on for like 100 issues and the whole time I'd be like, what the Hell am I reading???
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
3 days ago
This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.
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