Free Comic Book Day 2025: The Amazing Spider-Man/Ultimate Universe #1
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I wrote all of the Venom captions, and then Joe wrote all of the Spider-Man captions and Charles wrote Eddie's captions. And then we all collaborated a little bit on the OTHER CAPTIONS. -- Al Ewing
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[stationery] ... twice so far this week...
May. 21st, 2025 23:46kaberett... have I done the "oh no, why has my pen stopped working, did I break it :(" dance only to realise that in fact, no, THE PEN IS EMPTY. (Once because my first attempt at filling it was apparently fairly inept unless I have massively misjudged how much ink it lays down, which given that it's a Pelikan is not totally implausible, but would still be... surprising.)
On the upside I think I might have worked out why a different pen seems particularly prone to evaporation and drying out. I am not sure how fixable it is, but I do at least have a workaround! (I think the inner cap is a bit reluctant to settle into place; it shouldn't be, but wiggling the pen a bit once capped seems to be helping...)
(This is such a ridiculous hobby.)
proposed restrictions on covid vaccines
May. 21st, 2025 16:37redbird posting in thisfinecrewThe clowns running the FDA have proposed restricting access to covid vaccines, to people over 65 or who have certain medical conditions. There's a public docket for comments on the proposal.
Your Local Epidemiologist has a good post about the proposal, including that the people suggesting this know that nobody is going to do the placebo-controlled tests of new boosters they want to require.
Possible talking points include:
Families and caregivers wouldn't be eligible for the vaccine, even if they share a household, unlike the current UK recommendations.
Doctors, dentists, and other medical staff wouldn't be eligible either.
My own comment included that the reason I'd still be eligible for the vaccine is a lung problem caused by covid.
Your Local Epidemiologist has a good post about the proposal, including that the people suggesting this know that nobody is going to do the placebo-controlled tests of new boosters they want to require.
Possible talking points include:
Families and caregivers wouldn't be eligible for the vaccine, even if they share a household, unlike the current UK recommendations.
Doctors, dentists, and other medical staff wouldn't be eligible either.
My own comment included that the reason I'd still be eligible for the vaccine is a lung problem caused by covid.
Detective Comics #654
May. 21st, 2025 18:02iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Michael Netzer
Inks: Scott Hanna
Knightfall prelude.
Batman must deal with a punk kid and his gang shooting up Gotham City.
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Conquerors' Pride, by Timothy Zahn
May. 21st, 2025 08:50runpunkrunMilitary scifi filled with dudes, all of them boring except for the guy who's been abducted by aliens, which is the only interesting thing about him. His dad, brother, and sister—one of five women in the book, and that is an overly generous count—hatch a cockamamie plan to get him back. It's the kind of scheme only Miles Vorkosigan could (accidentally) pull off, and none of these people are as smart, confident, or unhinged as Miles.
The first in a series that probably isn't worth reading unless you already have all three books in front of you, which I did not.
The first in a series that probably isn't worth reading unless you already have all three books in front of you, which I did not.
Quick rec
May. 21st, 2025 08:40sartoriasI've been snowed by various loads of stuff, including reading subs for Viable Paradise's workshop in October. My reading has been sporadic, and usually language-related. Like, I'm making my glacial way through a really good biography of Liselotte von her Pfalz, which is in German. I'm reading French comics, and so on and so on.
But! When I lumber this old bod out for daily steps, I listen to audiobooks. I've been making my way through T. Kingfisher's stories, and enjoyed them, but took a break for a real delight called RAVENMASTER, by Christopher Skaife. He wrote about his job as Ravenmaster at the Tower of London.
I'm sure the printed book is just fine--it's vigorously written, full of all kinds of facts as well as legends, etc, and sprinkled with humor. But I highly recommend the audio book, which he narrated. He has a great voice, which adds to the sheer delight. I wish it was longer.
OK, back to work trying to crawl back into my twelve-year-old headspace so I can finish a project that has been hanging fire for too many years.
But! When I lumber this old bod out for daily steps, I listen to audiobooks. I've been making my way through T. Kingfisher's stories, and enjoyed them, but took a break for a real delight called RAVENMASTER, by Christopher Skaife. He wrote about his job as Ravenmaster at the Tower of London.
I'm sure the printed book is just fine--it's vigorously written, full of all kinds of facts as well as legends, etc, and sprinkled with humor. But I highly recommend the audio book, which he narrated. He has a great voice, which adds to the sheer delight. I wish it was longer.
OK, back to work trying to crawl back into my twelve-year-old headspace so I can finish a project that has been hanging fire for too many years.
Amazing Spider-Man #95
May. 21st, 2025 14:41iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Stan Lee
Pencils: John Romita, Sr.
Inks: Sal Buscema
Gwen has gone to London to live with her uncle (and no other reason.) Peter follows, only to get pulled in to a terrorist plot.
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Uncanny X-Men #213
May. 21st, 2025 12:35iamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Alan Davis
Inks: Mark Farmer
Welcome to the X-Men, Elizabeth Braddock. We hope you survive the experience.
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Absolute Martian Manhunter #2
May. 21st, 2025 01:33laughing_tree posting in scans_daily
That was part of my pitch, that maybe the DC Universe J'onn felt a little bit in between alien and human, in a way that wasn't a positive for the character, that wasn't a positive for readers. Where he is a little too alien to be relatable to, and maybe a little too human to really be awed by the alienness of him. And so that's part of why I separated the two characters and made John Jones a human being that we can relate to, and make the Martian this really strange alien consciousness that that has strange ideas that maybe that are not so relatable to us, and that's okay, because they're not really relatable to John either, and John's our way in and through John, hopefully we'll come to see whether those ideas are palatable or not. -- Deniz Camp
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Daily Happiness
May. 20th, 2025 22:40torachan1. Recently Carla saw a video on youtube about making pistachio pesto and she tried that the other day and it turned out so good! We've been having it on sandwiches, mostly roast beef but also ham. It was fine with the ham but amazing with the beef.
2. I had an all day meeting today but was able to get a bunch of small stuff done on my to-do list here and there during the day. Tomorrow I've got a busy work day, too, but at least don't have to get an early start.
3. You can tell this is Molly's spot on my bed by how much white fur there is.
2. I had an all day meeting today but was able to get a bunch of small stuff done on my to-do list here and there during the day. Tomorrow I've got a busy work day, too, but at least don't have to get an early start.
3. You can tell this is Molly's spot on my bed by how much white fur there is.
CREATURE.
May. 20th, 2025 23:27kaberettThis evening we went to the plot so I could water things (and say hi to people). We wandered up past the woodpecker nest; there was a Great Yelling; we heard some wood being pecked; all seemed well.
In the vicinity of ten minutes later, someone heading home realised that Things Sounded Wrong, and established that one of the babies had launched itself out of the nest while really not remotely being fledged yet (it. does not have that many feathers.) by dint of hearing that the yelling was not all coming from up, and also some of it was Louder Than Usual. (I am pretty sure we didn't miss this when we were ambling up? I think it genuinely did go on an incredibly misguided adventure somewhere in that ten minutes.)
... I was delegated to stand guard for the purposes of Dissuading Foxes. Other people went to fetch A Ladder. I subsequently provided A Torch, and Part Of The Ladder Steadying.
The Errand Child was delicately posted back into its hole.
The tenor of the yelling from the hole... changed.
An adult popped its head out, all "what the fuck just happened???" Paused. Quite clearly thought, upon Observing the Assembled, something along the lines of "... right then." Retracted.
And then everyone settled down apparently to sleep.
I was perhaps not in fact The Fae, but I did get to be at least fae-adjacent, and I got to see a shit tiny dinosaur that really I ought not to have but in a way that was minimally bad for the poor thing.
Fascinated by the evolutionary strategy of "screaming incessantly might get me eaten or might get me The Fae, but there's no good outcome from not screaming, so... screm?" Evidently in this case it worked!
(It had the start of its little red hat! It was simultaneously Tiny and Lorge, and definitely Distinctly Round! It was a BABY. I am so glad friend human realised Something Was Wrong.)
while I'm at it, another fountain pen question
May. 20th, 2025 13:21swan_towerHow the hell do you use a shimmer ink in a fountain pen without it clogging up the moment you look away?
I have tried this precisely once, and the results were so bad that for the first time in my life, I purged the ink out of a pen rather than using it up. I don't know if the answer is "the pen you used is clog-prone" (Pilot Vanishing Point; I haven't had issues with non-shimmer inks) or "only ink with shimmer if you're intending to write a bunch immediately, because six hours later it will be causing problems" or "use a dip pen" or what, but it seems like other people are able to use shimmer inks more successfully. Is there something I'm missing?
I have tried this precisely once, and the results were so bad that for the first time in my life, I purged the ink out of a pen rather than using it up. I don't know if the answer is "the pen you used is clog-prone" (Pilot Vanishing Point; I haven't had issues with non-shimmer inks) or "only ink with shimmer if you're intending to write a bunch immediately, because six hours later it will be causing problems" or "use a dip pen" or what, but it seems like other people are able to use shimmer inks more successfully. Is there something I'm missing?