from what i have seen on bluesky, yotsuba’s elementary school teacher is osaka from azumanga daioh
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If you had a Marvel Unlimited subscription, you might have earned some “Marvel Insider” points–Insider is ending and you’ll need to redeem those points by May 27th, after which point they evaporate.
Not that the rewards are super amazing or anything. My 42K points from like two years of daily log ins will get me about two digital comics. ; D (Although some go for as little as 7.5K points.)
– https://help.marvel.com/hc/en-us/articles/34955490300436-Marvel-Insider-Sunset
I had no idea Mr. Megaman is something that existed until I spotted a copy of the first volume at the store last week; it’s a manga set in a period after Doctors Light and Wily have retired and robot masters have become yesterday’s technology, leading Rock, Roll and company to all search for purpose when society isn’t actually interested in letting them carry them out the things they were designed to do. It’s an extremely good concept, with some interesting ideas (Enker from the Game Boy games is a major character! His thing is having an especially hard job adapting, given that his explicit purpose was being a Mega Man killer) which makes the simplistic, formulaic–and ultimately limited–storytelling especially disappointing. Despite the time gap, none of the characters really act as if they have distinct or interesting internal lives (nor does the story make that part of the point) and so everyone, despite their circumstances, ends up meeting up for drinks and commiseration with Rock in a way that feels really samey and shallow. Also, given that some of these themes made up some of the best elements of the Archie/Ian Flynn Mega Man, I’m mostly left pining for that series, or at least the desire that this one be in conversation with that one.
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I realized recently that it had been a while since issue 5 of Cruel Universe and concluded that it had been discontinued. Which is unfortunate, but it was fun while it lasted.
I’d been buying each issue digitally through Amazon for lack of an alternative, but when issue 5 was released I found that the iPad I got for free about ten years ago finally stopped supporting the Kindle app entirely.
Today I decided to go looking for less-than-legitimate copies of those comics that I had legitimately purchased in case I wanted to revisit them later. And in doing so, I made a nice discovery.
That title was indeed discontinued, it seems, but it was replaced with something that’s just as good, if not better. Cruel Kingdom. There are three issues so far and I’ve read only the first one but I like the stories and the art.
So I’m in a strange position where I still want to support this effort by paying for it but I don’t want to start collecting individual physical comic issues again. So I guess I keep buying them on Amazon and reading pirate copies obtained independently? Seems kind of silly.
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I’ve got one or two of those to read in my stack. Same with the horror book. Wonder if that one got canceled as well? Just like old EC, I think storytellers feel like they have a greater license in a scifi or fantasy space rather than a purely “horror” one and it’s often the case the best horror stories are outside of Crypt/Vault/Haunt or Epitaphs from the Abyss when it comes to these new books.
I enjoyed the first issue of Chew! I was fairly confident I would, given that I enjoyed the first volume of Chu, the prequel/midquel comic, but still, it’s good to know, now that I’ve bought the omnibus collecting the entire original series.
ETA: The book now also feels relevant again, given the returned prominence of bird flu.
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that Stan Lee documentary seemed gross from the wording on the Kickstarter but I didn’t know the guy was exactly as bad as everyone else he’s talking about
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No idea what you’re talking about. He was a great guy
i meant the dude making the doc
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You could have clicked on the damn link lol
Ah thanks. I miss assigned the pronoun
Nothing says “great guy” like stealing credit for other people’s work, screwing over your collaborators and oh yah the sexual harassment
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old joke from a comic message board
“did you hear? stan lee fucked jack kirby’s wife!”
“nah, you got it all wrong: jack fucked his own wife, stan just took all the credit”
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yeah I was gonna say either way the objection lacks merit lol
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When did he steal credit? Jack did have to set a precedent for credit to be given to him, but that was new in the medium, where most artists were trying to hide the fact that they worked on comics at the time.
As for the sexual misconduct, if at around age 95 he touched himself when he shouldn’t have when he was in massive mental decline, a year before his death… well. I’m not going to say it didn’t happen. But at that stage, we’re talking about a rather sad fact about old age. I’m not saying it’s ok, but nurses in homes are trained to deal with these kinds of things because that happens. Attacking someone’s legacy with that seems crass to me.
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The “marvel method” is literally a way to take credit for a bunch of work you’re forcing the artist to do on top of drawing lol
Fucked up that people are attacking stan lee’s amazing legacy of getting rich off of artists and literally not doing anything to dispel the bullshit creator myths around himself. A great example is how long it took people to give Larry Lieber and Don Heck credit for creating Iron Man - he didn’t say shit to dispel the belief that it was him and Kirby entirely.
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Stan Lee pulled the company line without blinking for decades until after Kirby died. He had time to come right and that ended when they put Kirby in the ground without returning his art to him.
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