As an American I found this very quaint
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the Japanese racialization of Okinawans is a topic i know very little about but this is a fascinating data point
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It’s a pretty cute manga and it is full of little Okinawa factoids
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Book 4 of RaiRaiRai switched from the usual kaiju v. kaiju battles to some real action
The parlor owner’s character design is incredible:
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rairairai is so good
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I went to a Norfolk comics expo yesterday. My wrist hurts a lot from driving six hours in a day. I stayed for maybe 2 hours. That ratio may seem off, but it was worth it. Norfolk is very cool to drive into, with its bridges, boats, and tunnels.
It was a small expo in a brewery. I met Brian, the Bubbles guy again and wore the Igaguri shirt he had printed. He told me about how he met a comics artist from India, and then traveled to his house and stayed with him and his mom. He published Stories From Zoo by Anand | Bubbles Zine and it is really one of my favorite things I’ve read in any year. Everyone should get it.
I also stopped by the Comics Blogger table and got another Death Spark. That guy seems cool. I wish I was better at talking to strangers! There’s a big opportunity to just hang out with artists at these things, but my mind kind of shrivels into a grubby little grocery shopper, filling up my bag and avoiding eye contact.
Rae Whitlock, who has a new comic out https://raewhitlock.myportfolio.com/goldfish, complimented my jacket. She asked me questions about the jacket that I could not confidently answer! I think it was handmade, Rae, but not by me, that much I’m sure of. I didn’t buy her comic…yet! It felt too transactional in the moment. Idk, maybe I’ll start writing elaborate emails or try to become pen pals.
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Makes it easy to browse through the Marvel Comics archives chronologically, particularly if you’re browsing on the computer rather than on the Marvel Unlimited mobile app. Also, a Random Comic function! ^_ ^
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marvel have finally copied dc’s compact comics line with the marvel premier line. they’re slightly more expensive than dc’s books, and there’s only a few of them, but it’s a start i guess.
i got and read daredevil: born again, which is also somehow the first daredevil i’ve ever read. i’m sure this is no surprise, but wow, what a fucking good story! and some of the best colouring i’ve ever seen, too!
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I just got all the issues for that a few years ago. Excited to get to it in my DD re-read but I have to get to Miller first. Some of the creators preceding him makes his run all the more impressive.
For instance, Wolfman was the writing co-creator of Bullseye, in which the issues feel more out of Loony Tunes than how we know the character post-Miller. In the second appearance, Bullseye attaches DD to a giant bolt to be fired out of a giant bigger-than-man-sized crossbow out into the sea.
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– https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/62616
Info from Grand Comics Database
“Marvelman was a British Golden Age superhero comic book, published by L. Miller & Son in the United Kingdom between 1954 and 1963. The lead character was originally created by Mick Anglo as a replacement for Captain Marvel due to Fawcett Publications ending the latter’s titles following legal action by DC Comics.” – Wikipedia
(Marvel’s Marvel Universe online comic archive goes back to 1939, but this is pretty nearly the earliest comic cover I could find in it that doesn’t feature male gaze, bondage, guns, cops, xenophobia, or just horrific art. It also happens to be one of the few comic covers in there that early that wasn’t drawn by an American.)
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don’t bundle bondage in with guns, cops, and xenophobia!
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Oh, it’s mostly just scantily clad young women–or Toro–tied up / strapped down by some slavering fiend.
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No you made the best possible purchase
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'Cause you take all the best comics! ^ D^
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Awwww!
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Just remembered I have those two issues in the digital version of the Superman’s Pal Kirby collection on Amazon. = D Haven’t read the DC Kirby stuff yet, I’m still working through his 60s Marvel stuff. ^ _^
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the first uk reprint of the hulk’s debut didn’t have his skin colour change. (presumably the interiors were black and white, as uk comics tended to be until the 80s i think)
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god damn “the strangest man of all time” is such a good tag line
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