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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.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

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 me. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of "woman" is defined solely by biological sex (Whilst also mentioning the protections are still in palce for trans people), crowed over as vindication by those who you never want to see crowing, and leaving trans people in vague limbo whilst Government bodies look to rework their policies.

Pope Francis died at 88, the day after Easter and the day after meeting US VP Vance... coincidence? A Pope who, more than any before, shifted the boundaries in terms of seeking out the excluded and the marginalised and caused uproar when he said things like "If someone who is gay is seeking God, who am I to judge?" and permitted priests to give a blessing to same-sex couples. Not a perfect man by any means, nor as radical as some had hoped, but in terms of the inertia he was working against, probably more progressive than any would have dared hope for ten years ago.

Star Wars Celebration happened in Japan this past weekend, with many new projects announced

A live colossal squid was caught on camera for the first time and is as beautiful as you'd have hoped

And Doctor Who gave us "Lux", which I won't spoil further but was certainly different, in a good way.

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I have recently written limericks in: due South, Interview with the Vampire (TV), Murderbot, Star Wars Original & Prequel Trilogies, and Venom (Movies). Go here for the links and summaries, in alphabetical order by fandom.

I would be happy to write more, so if reading my limericks makes you want more of them, prompt at will.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Forgetting my sweater has made me much wetter

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Writer: Marv Wolfman

Plot: Marv Wolfman and George Perez

Layouts: George Perez

Finishes: Tom Grummett

Inks: Bob McLeod

The New Titans #61.

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Writer: Karl Kesel

Pencils: Tom Grummett and Mike Parobeck

Inks: Doug Hazelwood and Ande Parks

Superboy: The Animated Series!

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With Batman, with Superman, it’s not like I said, I’m going to make these guys cyphers for the worst of the worst of American perspectives. But I think there’s a reality that it’s getting harder and harder for people to deny that there are biases that are baked into the system. -- John Ridley

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Writer: Bill Mantlo

Pencils and inks: Sal Buscema

Rom crashes a funeral.

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Writer: Fabian Nicieza

Pencils: Darick Robertson

Inks: Larry Mahlstedt

Super-Nova has empowered Richard Rider to recreate Xandar.

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Give me a kink or a sex-related trope and/or one or more characters (ideally one(s) I know, though I have osmosed quite a bit from many other sources), and I will write you a limerick.

Please publicize this! Requests are welcome, no matter whether I know you or not. Anon commenting is on; just leave a name so I know who to dedicate the poem to.

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Limericks thus far, alphabetical by fandom:

( due South )

( Interview with the Vampire (TV) )

( Murderbot Diaries )

( Star Wars Original Trilogy )

( Star Wars Prequel Trilogy )

( Venom Movies )

Current Mood: poetically inclined
Current Music: Ganja in excess ain't dangerous

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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Finishes: Tom Mandrake

Kitty has gotten herself captured by the White Queen, so it is up to the New Mutants to fix her mess.

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Writer: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Vince Colletta

Granny Goodness captures Mister Miracle and throws them in her Uncanny X-Pit.

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"DC wanted horror stories… Excuse me… 'Mystery' stories' revolving around all the different holidays. Well before I knew it, all of the older, established comic book writers from the generation of Denny O'Neil, Len Wein, Marv Wolfman..., etc. quickly gobbled up such things as Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween, yada yada yada. So I decided to go the most 'Unexpected' way and being merely a DC Junior Woodchuck, I asked for and got a go ahead to craft a story about Easter. The one warning I was given was that they did not want a Jesus/zombie 'back from the dead' story. Figuring I had nothing to lose, I decided to push the envelope as far as DC, my editor Jack Harris, and the powers that be at the Comics Code would allow. After an inspiring listen to my childhood record of Gene Autry singing, 'Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Hopping Down the Bunny Trail,' I started writing." -- Michael Uslan

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Writers: Mark Waid and Tom McCraw

Pencils: Lee Moder, Brian Apthorp and Scott Benefiel

Inks: Ron Boyd and Tom Simmons

The Legion moves in to their new headquarters.

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Writer: Gerry Conway

Pencils: Mike Machlan

Inks: Mike Machlan

Superman, Wonder Woman and Barry Allen return from a jaunt to Earth-2 to discover the Justice League satellite has been destroyed.

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Issue #123's ending had had the Flyboiz of Blüdhaven asking Nightwing for help.

Issue #124's beginning was Oracle expositing what that help would involve - medical attention for those Flyboiz who'd been poisoned by significant exposure to " Chemo-infected corpses " - and Nightwing summing up with " They need blood transfusions. "

This did not sit well with the Teddies, the other Blüdhaven gang Nightwing was helping.

( The Flyboiz and the Teddies had been in conflict. )

Current Music: protocol - Macroblank

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Writer: Mark Waid

Pencils: Humberto Ramos

Inks: Wayne Faucher

The last we saw Bart he was driving off a cliff to his certain doom. How will he get out of this one?

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Writer: Timothy Truman

Pencils: Timothy Truman

Inks: Enrique Alcatena

Katar Hol returns from exile and aims to settle matters with the traitorous Byth.

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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Joe Staton

Inks: Terry Beatty

Guy Gardner isn’t to everybody’s taste, but I like him. At the end of the day, isn’t that all that matters? I mostly post these for my own enjoyment and if people happen to like them as well, then that is a pleasant bonus.

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Writers: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning

Pencils: Paul Pelletier

Inks: Rick Magyar

Intrigue and Skrull-duggery abound as the Guardians try to discover who has infiltrated Knowhere.

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Writer: Len Wein

Pencils: Dave Gibbons

Inks: Dave Gibbons

Hal Jordan fights a guy who throws pointy sticks.

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( A Revealing Revelation... or a Revelatory Reveal? I'm not sure which is grammatically correct.. ironically )

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Writer: Jack Kirby

Pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Vince Colletta

A bunch of space hippies arrive on Earth in search of their missing friend.

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Wonder Woman #20...

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Writer: Mike Baron

Pencils: Butch Guice

Inks: Larry Mahlstedt

Wally saves his girlfriend from the oil refinery file and calls in the Titans to protect her while he tracks down her unstable husband.

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"[Doom] basically goes to Valeria and says, 'Look, you are my goddaughter and, unlike most people on Earth, I really care about what you think, so let me justify what I'm doing to you.' It doesn't matter that she's the daughter of his worst enemy. This is someone he cares about." -- Ryan North

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Writer: Jo Duffy

Pencils: Jim Balent

Inks: Dick Giordano

Catwoman tangles with a gang that has been harassing local nuns.

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Not sure if this quite qualifies here, but people are fans of animals, so why not!

why-animals-do-the-thing had a colleague reach out and ask if they could help get some feedback on setting up a zoo tour for people with low vision. Honestly, I read the suggestions, and they sound pretty great, IMO.

You can check out the outlined plan over here. If you don't have a Tumblr account of your own, I'd be happy to pass on any feedback on your behalf.

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( The full trailer has dropped )

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Writer: Mark Gruenwald

Pencils: Ron Lim

Inks: Danny Bulanadi

The time has come for the Kingpin and the Red Skull to duke it out for control of New York's drug trade. Cap has to make do with fighting Crossbones instead.

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The very reductive, one sentence pitch(s) are: Crisis on Infinite Earths if it was happening to normal, everyday people. OR Black Mirror if time and space were breaking down. -- Deniz Camp

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