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Aliens: Havoc

"One incredible story. Forty amazing creators. A hive of deadly aliens. That's what we call Havoc. Some of the biggest names in comics -- including Art Adams, George Pratt, Kelley Jones, Kevin Nowlan, and Kent Williams -- illustrate Eisner Award winner Mark Schultz's story of a haunted space station infested with aliens." -- Dark Horse

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Sentenced To Be A Hero #7

I had no idea that Kivia personality is a lot more... sillier in the original light novel/manga compared to the anime.
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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

UK politics is mired in yet more chaos in terms of the fallout of Peter Mandelson's appointment to, and rapid departutre for, the role of US Ambassador.

US politics is just... mired... in general, or so it seems from the outside. The reveal that Pete Hegseth quoted Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" citing it as an actual Biblical passage was quite something (And another three satire writers probably changed careers in disgust, because this is just the sort of thing they'd have presented as parody), as was the VP's attempt to lecture Pope Leo, an Augustinian, on... ummm... Augustinian theology. Good luck with THAT one slugger!

I'm torn on "Maul: Shadow Lord". It LOOKS amazing, and Sam Witwer as Maul is as good as ever but I don't feel it's doing anything particularly new, which is a shame.

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Rogue Trooper teaser trailer

An early, and immensely popular strip in 2000AD was "Rogue Trooper", the story of the last surviving Genetic Infantryman (GI for short) who is committed to finding the General whose trairourous actions led to the deaths of all the other GI's.

Oddly, though he is the last living GI, he is assisted by three others, who remain as personailty chips built into his equipment: Bagman, Gunnar and Helm are in his backpack, assault rifle and helmet respectively.

And now, 45 years after his introduction, he's gettting an animated movie for the first time.

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The Immoral Thor: JUSTICE LEAGUE EUROPE #30, WAR OF THE GODS #2 (JLI 85)

JLE #30 (Giffen-Jones-Robertson) begins with a dream sequence that’d disorient you whether you’d read Armageddon 2001 or not. In “Breakdowns Part 5,” Captain Atom was alive and well and being reinstated to the League, so you’d expect that to still be the case at the start of “Breakdowns Part 6.”

But if you had read A2001, you would’ve seen Captain Atom “dying” a hero and future Captain Atom as a mournful, crazed victim. ( You’d also have seen two other characters assassinated, one figuratively and the other literally, but let’s move on from that. )

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Nightwing #136 began " Blüdhaven Lore ".

The previous arc " Cirque du Sin " was the transition from Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo's brighter run, smoothed by the fantastic parts of that threat.

What the Cirque did in Blüdhaven led to reconstruction, set-up for some of writer Dan Watters' thoughts:

" As someone who moved from the UK to the US, American infrastructure fascinates me. The shapes of cities here can be entirely different- there's just so much more damn space.

" The psychogeography of a sprawled city is so different to a more European-style city, which I'd generally pigeonhole Gotham as- walkable, easily accessible via public transit, with people living stacked on top of each other.

" Cities where each stop of the day is a 45 minute drive away makes for a different way of living, and invites a different kind of story.. "

" It is wild to me to build infrastructure that is ostensibly to facilitate and improve human living, and to have so much of it inaccessible to the pedestrian. Engaging with your own town primarily through windshield glass.

" These are the things swirling around in my head as I consider what makes Blüdhaven different to Gotham. And I decide it means Nightwing needs a cool new car. "

( Another axis on which Blüdhaven is worse than Gotham. )

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DC Preview: Superman #37 Superboy-Prime Has A Discussion With Jonathan And Martha Kent

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Exquisite Corpses #11

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Justice League Interchronal: JUSTICE LEAGUE EUROPE ANNUAL #2, ARMAGEDDON 2001 #2 (JLI 84)

Warning for a homophobic throwaway line from a villain, and some...controversial character development.

The heroes of the JLA and JLE are gathered in New York after the Bialya mission. While they mingle with some of their usual irreverent chatter, it’s more subdued than usual.

J’Onn and Catherine hope to get things back to normal--“as much as they can be, without Max.” But Cap nips “normal” in the bud as the JLE starts teleporting back to London.

( He starts spraying his pits with WD-40 and speaking French in a Gambit voice. ‘‘Ah, oui, cherie, hon hon hon!’’ )

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New Titans #34: New Problems And Dilemma Of Man Vs Machine

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Wishing Adam Hughes ALL the good vibes

The artist best known for his unapologetically cheeky pin-up art style, Adam Hughes, needs little introduction to most comic fans.

However, today his wife, fellow artist Allison Sohn posted that Hughes had been diagnosed with Stage 3C colorectal cancer.

This is a treatable, and survivable, condition but there are never guarantees.

I know I speak for the Mods, and am sure I speak for all members of the scans_daily community in sending him all our best, and wishing him the best possible outcome in his upcoming fight against this most unpleasant of diseases.

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Bialya With Extra Cheese: JLQ #5-8 (JLI 83)

The Global Guardians were only the third most popular “GG” in the JLI era, after Guy Gardner and General Glory. But they merited at least a little attention after all their buildup. Assistant editor Kevin Dooley slid into the writing role for these four stories with Andy Smith on pencils, though it’s hard to believe the same people wrote and drew all four of them. Even by JLI standards, they’re quite varied in tone.

( Almost as much as Sumaan Harjavti’s skin and hair are from appearance to appearance. )

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Storm: Earth's Mightiest Mutant #3

I need you all to understand how batshit crazy the ongoing Storm comic is.

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Superman Unlimited #12: Red Herring Reunion

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Absolute Batman #19

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Meet the Absolute Robin's - Absolute Batman #19

How to kill my interest in Absolute Robin's in one panel

I confess I've only been glancing at the Absolute Batman title, it's just.. not to my tastes. If you're enjoying it, then more power to you, but not for me.

However, me also being me, I was interested to see what they'd do with the concept of Robin.

So how does the latest issue introduce the concept? With one panel they poured cold water over me.

( Oh no... not HIM )

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The Walking Dead Deluxe #134

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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

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It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

Artemis II arrived safely back to Earth, though apparently Mission Control chose not to all put on ape masks

The beloved internet meme "Neil Banging out the Tunes" celebrated it's 20th Anniversary
And speaking of rats doing improbable things (without the charm of the above) POTUS47 managed a remarkable week even by his usual, unbelieveably low, standards. Trying to save face when his chaotic Iran War went horrendously badly, to the extent he's now blockading a blockade that only exists because he set in motion the events which caused it in the first place. Milirary historians will be documenting this one for years.
Suffice it to say that when you manage to post an AI image so offensive that your own Christian Nationalist supporters come out on the side of the POPE in an argument (even momentarily), you HAVE to know you've buggered things up.

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Batman: Secrets #5

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Bialya With Seeds in the Center: JLE #30, JLA #55 (JLI 82)

JLE Giffen-Jones-Robertson, JLA Giffen-DeMatteis-Wozniak.

Storytelling is as much about what you don’t include as what you do. Giffen and company were often inspired in terms of what they left out or minimized. This appealed to a smart audience who could fill in the blanks.

But sometimes you leave too many blanks. Sometimes you cross the line between making your reader an enthusiastic participant in the storyline and making them wonder why they’re doing all your work for you.

___ ______ ________ ______ _______, and that’s why this final Queen Bee of Bialya storyline leaves too many blanks. ( ____________ __ __ ____ _____ ____ ___ _____ _______ __ ____ ___ __, ___ ______ ___ _______ ____ _____ ________ __ ____ ____ ____ ___ __ _________, _______ __ _ _____ ________ ___ _____ ____ __ ___ ______! ___ _________ ___ _____ ___ ____ ______… )