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Post by Trevor on Apr 2, 2024 16:20:25 GMT -5
Wow, Ed Piskor is gone, suicide. Holy sh*t! Obviously on the back of the recent scandal and his having been "cancelled". I only heard about it all yesterday from commond and now he's dead. That's a terrible waste of life. While the messages he sent were definitely skeevy and really not at all appropriate, it's not like he actually did anything criminal (as far as I'm aware). Taking his life over this seems really excessive, but maybe there was more going on in the background regarding his mental health than we know? On the other hand, it could just be a case of the "Hollier-than-thou" online mob having wrecked and destroyed a life. Whatever he did with those inappropriate texts, he didn't deserve this. From his reaction, I’m thinking it was more than texts and the other rumors are true and it was worse than just those texts with Molly. But yeah, the online mob can be cruel. But take responsibility for your actions and work on restitution and recovery. Instead, the chicken shit way he did it and the victim blaming in his manifesto is just going to rile up the angry mob of gaters and probably lead to more harm to his victims. They’re already getting increased death threats.
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Post by Trevor on Apr 1, 2024 18:01:15 GMT -5
Wow, Ed Piskor is gone, suicide.
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Post by Trevor on Mar 30, 2024 21:24:29 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 11 of 52, ending 3/17/2024 Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf I’ve enjoyed the little of Backderf’s previous work that I’ve seen, but this is a freaking masterpiece. He squeezes a lot into these 280 pages, perhaps too much, but the details and backstory are important. So sad to see the story so relevant still, with half of our society seemingly ok with authoritarianism. I was sadly uninformed of most of the details, being only 4 when the murders happened, and then, I’m ashamed to admit, ok with right wing strong-arming much of my adult life. One of the most emotionally evocative books I’ve ever read. This is a comic book to show people who think comics are just for kids or the superhero obsessed. Hopefully my wife will read this. This was a library copy, but I’ll be buying a copy soon.
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Post by Trevor on Mar 27, 2024 15:31:07 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 10 of 52, ending 3/10/2024 Peacemaker Tries Hard issues 1-6 Got behind in this weekly goal, but I’m going to catch up and keep it going darn it! I didn’t read much this particular week, so this choice might not be the winner on a heavier reading week, but darn if it wasn’t a lot of fun. Kyle Starks has been writing some good horror lately, but returns to his comedy roots on this I guess obvious attempt to cash in on the popularity of the TV show. But it works, as I imagine anything with these talents will work. The writing feels like another couple episodes of the TV show, with the dialogue and mannerisms closely matching Cena. A couple deep dives into DC continuity made this lifelong DC nerd smile, and I’m in for more if they so choose. Pugh’s art is always fun, and a perfect fit for this story.
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Post by Trevor on Mar 18, 2024 21:07:03 GMT -5
Couldn’t resist this in the dollar bin. Beat to crap, but complete except the back cover.
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Post by Trevor on Mar 14, 2024 10:14:40 GMT -5
Plop brought me into comics, so to be a completist I had to have Spoof and Arrgh! too.
Oddly, for both those Marvel series, I quickly found four of the five issues, but it took me years to find issue #2 of each.
That makes me remember that I had the same quirk in acquiring that sci-fi/fantasy line that DC introduced around 1975. Beowulf and Starfire and stuff like that iirc. For several of those short runs, for years I had issues 1-3 and 5+, always missing issue #4 of each.
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Post by Trevor on Mar 8, 2024 13:49:16 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 9 of 52, ending 3/3/2024 World’s Finest issues 1-12 Per my norm, read the first couple of issues and loved it, so put it aside for later. As expected, I agree with the majority of comic readers and have found every issue just flat out fantastic. Pretty sure I’ll keep binging until I get current. Have always enjoyed Waid, not that I’ve read all that much of his voluminous output truthfully. I think I’ve only seen Mora in Klaus, but wow. While the fill-in issues have looked great so far, it’s easy to see why Mora won artist of the year. Can’t really add much to all the praise this book has been getting for over two years now, but this is great super-hero comics. Excited to hear that this team is doing the next DC event.
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Post by Trevor on Mar 3, 2024 18:31:10 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 8 of 52, ending 2/25/2024 yeah, a bit behind, but today’s post is in the works Saint Cole by Noah Van Sciver Have only read a couple short stories by Noah before this, but he might become a favorite. Almost turned me off early on as it appeared to possibly be a book about a slacker, something that generally turns me off. But there’s an honesty in Joe’s depravity and recklessness. The story is gritty and funny and heartbreaking and shocking at least a couple times. The utter hopelessness of his situation and the harsh economic inequity of this country shines thru and almost makes us forgive him. And maybe the crazy ending gives him one more chance to get his life together? Still not sure if I feel a bit sorry for Joe, or don’t at all respect people that make choices like his. But I’m still thinking about this novella a week later, and am anxious to read more of his work. I’ll be spending some of my Fantabucks on more work from the decent Van Sciver brother..
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Post by Trevor on Mar 1, 2024 8:12:53 GMT -5
I’ve read a bit of Strangers in Paradise, loved it, and plan to finish it someday; but the only thing of his that I’ve read to completion is Rachel Rising. It was wonderful.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 29, 2024 7:40:08 GMT -5
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Post by Trevor on Feb 28, 2024 16:15:09 GMT -5
Richard Lewis. Darn it.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 28, 2024 12:42:36 GMT -5
A weekend fifty cent sale at a local shop had me finding a box full of oddities including some ten cent duck books, and a Distant Soil book signed by Doran and a bunch of the artists including Simonson.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 25, 2024 18:31:23 GMT -5
The Best Thing I Read This Week Week 7 of 52, ending 2/18/2024 Kick-Ass issues 1-8 and The Magic Order volumes 1 and 2
Feel like I’m always talking about how I’ve never read or at least finished comics, so much so that you all probably think I don’t read many comics at all. I really do, just end up reading a lot of the average stuff as I put aside the stuff I know I’ll like for a rainy day that rarely comes as i keep reading new stuff all the time. So anyway, not sure if I’d ever read anything by Mark Millar, at least to completion. A lot of it has been in my piles to get to, and decided to take the plunge last week.
Fun stuff, particularly enjoyed The Magic Order but I’ll read more Kick-Ass too. Guess I’ll keep going with Millar stuff, have The Night Club sitting here, and then read The Big Game.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 16, 2024 13:59:29 GMT -5
I dreamed that I was trying to buy a Venture Bros baseball cap at a concert venue. The vendor was David Bowie, and he refused to sell me the hat.
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Post by Trevor on Feb 16, 2024 13:45:31 GMT -5
Natural causes I’m sure.
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