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iamrman (iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-08-01 02:29 pm
iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-08-01 02:29 pmSecret Society of Super-villains #4
Writer: David Anthony Kraft
Pencils: Pablo Marcos
Inks: Vince Colletta
Face front, True Believers, for it is the return of Funky Flashman!
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yhlee (yhlee) wrote2025-08-01 06:41 am
yhlee) wrote2025-08-01 06:41 amCandle Arc #1
https://candlearc.com/candle-arc-comic-1/
:3
(The physical zine has additional bonus material not on the website.)
:3
(The physical zine has additional bonus material not on the website.)
iamrman (iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-08-01 12:31 pm
iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-08-01 12:31 pmRom: Spaceknight #23
Writer: Bill Mantlo
Pencils: Sal Buscema
Inks: Joe Sinnott
In Power Man and Iron Fist #73, Dire Wraiths impersonated the Fantastic Four to convince the Heroes for Hire to hunt down Rom. Now that the misunderstanding fight is done, Luke and Danny help Rom to sneak in to the Baxter Building to make sure the real Fantastic Four are okay.
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iamrman (iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-08-01 10:31 am
iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-08-01 10:31 amRobin II #4
Writer: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
Robin hatches his own plan to catch the Joker.
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laughing_tree (laughing_tree) wrote in scans_daily2025-08-01 01:07 am
laughing_tree) wrote in scans_daily2025-08-01 01:07 amEntry tags:
The Ultimates #13
As readers who follow the solicits will know, it's the next evolution of the book and the team — Ultimates 3.0. I don't want to get too deep into the details—that's what the book is for!—but things change dramatically for every member of the team and the very nature of how the Ultimates operates. -- Deniz Camp
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Cara Marie (caramarie) wrote2025-08-01 07:52 pm
caramarie) wrote2025-08-01 07:52 pmEntry tags:
Two Korean films in which men look their age
Bungy Jumping of Their Own (2001, Kim Dae-seung)
What if true love is real but your love dies young and gets reincarnated as the opposite sex and then you meet them as your student?? What then??This film is in two parts, showing us firstly the youthful love affair, and secondly the teacher driving himself crazy as he becomes convinced that his student is the reincarnation of his lover. It’s ambiguous at first, and the film could have taken a creepier route, but then it does make it clear that the boy *is* the reincarnation of the lost love. It’s still pretty creepy! But in the film people are more upset by the gay part than the student–teacher thing.
The youthful love affair part is somewhat undercut by Lee Byung-hun playing the same character and both ages. And while he did an admirable job in terms of playing a much younger character … he is still clearly a whole-ass adult. Lee Byung-hun is not a man who looks younger than his age!
The other problem is the film doesn’t sell me that much on the ‘true love’ angle, ie, why these two people in particular are soulmates. It’s just too generic a romance for that.
Anyway, the ‘what then’ ...
is that you go to NZ and jump off a bridge. A review I saw put it as ‘You can make your own ending coz the last seen is that they both went to new zealand and did bungee jumping??? not sure if with ropes.’ Which is what intrigued me into watching the film but I’m sorry to say … there were definitely no ropes.Peppermint Candy (2000, Lee Chang-dong)
I can’t say I enjoyed this film, but I did get something out of it.The film starts with a work reunion that gets awkward with the arrival of Kim Yongho, who is clearly going through a time and making everyone uncomfortable, up until the point he won’t get down from the train tracks and lets himself get hit by a train, whilst yelling, ‘I want to go back.’
( What then, does he want to go back to? )
Star Wars: Questionable Provenance by remusasriel
Fandom: Star Wars
Pairings/Characters: Kleya Marki & Luthen Rael from the Andor series
Rating: K
Length: 7,108
Creator Links: FFN Profile
Theme: Working Together
Summary: He was never meant to survive. So why is she risking so much to save the man who killed her family?
Reccer's Notes: Kleya does her duty, as does Luthen, in aid of the rebellion. When their wishes and deeds clash, it takes forever and a day to reach an equilibrium. I especially enjoyed the scenario of two rebels diminishing status once their seminal work concludes, because how do they fit in now? And do they want to? Fine characterization, and a what-if that we hope happens, in some other timeline, perhaps.
Fanwork Link: Questionable Provenance
Pairings/Characters: Kleya Marki & Luthen Rael from the Andor series
Rating: K
Length: 7,108
Creator Links: FFN Profile
Theme: Working Together
Summary: He was never meant to survive. So why is she risking so much to save the man who killed her family?
Reccer's Notes: Kleya does her duty, as does Luthen, in aid of the rebellion. When their wishes and deeds clash, it takes forever and a day to reach an equilibrium. I especially enjoyed the scenario of two rebels diminishing status once their seminal work concludes, because how do they fit in now? And do they want to? Fine characterization, and a what-if that we hope happens, in some other timeline, perhaps.
Fanwork Link: Questionable Provenance
Travis (torachan) wrote2025-07-31 10:28 pm
torachan) wrote2025-07-31 10:28 pmEntry tags:
Daily Happiness
1. I haven't watched the Nintendo Direct yet but it seems there were some surprise new games announced, like a new Octopath Traveler!
2. Another day of ridiculously high sales at the new store.
3. I am going down there tomorrow to help out, so that will likely be an exhausting day, but at least I can have Saturday off. I'm probably going to need to go in Sunday, though.
4. The puzzle I'm currently working on is a tough one. It's 750 pieces, which is the largest I've attempted, plus it's a circle, plus it is mostly just two colors. It's not something I necessarily would have picked out on its own, but it's part of that Disney anniversary four pack and I figured I might as well do them all at once. But while it's been slow going, I have been making a little progress every day, and it's finally starting to come together.
5. I love Molly's perfect paws.
2. Another day of ridiculously high sales at the new store.
3. I am going down there tomorrow to help out, so that will likely be an exhausting day, but at least I can have Saturday off. I'm probably going to need to go in Sunday, though.
4. The puzzle I'm currently working on is a tough one. It's 750 pieces, which is the largest I've attempted, plus it's a circle, plus it is mostly just two colors. It's not something I necessarily would have picked out on its own, but it's part of that Disney anniversary four pack and I figured I might as well do them all at once. But while it's been slow going, I have been making a little progress every day, and it's finally starting to come together.
5. I love Molly's perfect paws.
thanekos (thanekos) wrote in scans_daily2025-07-31 06:44 pm
thanekos) wrote in scans_daily2025-07-31 06:44 pmThis year's Nightwing Annual explains the current run's over-arching villains.
They've already been introduced - Olivia Pearce, CEO of the super-weapons company Spheric Solutions, and the inhuman Zanni.
They're the last of the " Cirque du Sin ", criminals Nightwing stopped with Batman back when he was Robin. The Zanni was the power behind, and Olivia was the group's " Colombina " (commedia dell'arte references both.)
They've been making things happen in Blüdhaven - Pearce's helped normalize walking tanks as police equipment and the Zanni's inflicted fifth-dimensional travails on Nightwing.
Their endgame is the world as circus, with Dick their " ringmaster ".
( What this Annual's story establishes is why they want that. )
They're the last of the " Cirque du Sin ", criminals Nightwing stopped with Batman back when he was Robin. The Zanni was the power behind, and Olivia was the group's " Colombina " (commedia dell'arte references both.)
They've been making things happen in Blüdhaven - Pearce's helped normalize walking tanks as police equipment and the Zanni's inflicted fifth-dimensional travails on Nightwing.
Their endgame is the world as circus, with Dick their " ringmaster ".
( What this Annual's story establishes is why they want that. )
sanguinity (sanguinity) wrote2025-07-31 05:11 pm
sanguinity) wrote2025-07-31 05:11 pmEntry tags:
Write Every Day: Day 31
Intro/FAQ
Days 1-15
zwei_hexen is hosting for August, and has their Day One post up already. (Thank you, sylvanwitch and ysilme!)
In the meanwhile please check in for July 31 here (or for anything in the July 16-31 window, really!) I'll post a final tally in another day or so. It was a pleasure hosting you all, and good luck with your writing!
My check-in: Wrote a bunch of beta comments!
Day 31:china_shop, sanguinity
Day 30:badlyknitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, china_shop, cornerofmadness, nafs, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme
( more days )
When you check in, please use the most recent post and say what day(s) you’re checking in for. Remember you can drop in or out at any time, and let me know if I missed anyone!
Days 1-15
zwei_hexen is hosting for August, and has their Day One post up already. (Thank you, sylvanwitch and ysilme!)In the meanwhile please check in for July 31 here (or for anything in the July 16-31 window, really!) I'll post a final tally in another day or so. It was a pleasure hosting you all, and good luck with your writing!
My check-in: Wrote a bunch of beta comments!
Day 31:
china_shop, sanguinityDay 30:
badlyknitted, brithistorian, callmesandyk, china_shop, cornerofmadness, nafs, sanguinity, sylvanwitch, trobadora, yasaman, ysilme( more days )When you check in, please use the most recent post and say what day(s) you’re checking in for. Remember you can drop in or out at any time, and let me know if I missed anyone!
throbbing light machine (lotesse) wrote2025-07-31 03:14 pm
lotesse) wrote2025-07-31 03:14 pmEntry tags:
fic: The sort of beauty that's called human (Will/Bran, G for now, 3/?)
The sort of beauty that's called human (3321 words) by lotesse
Chapters: 3/?
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies, Will Stanton (Dark is Rising), Owen Davies, Herne the Hunter (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Loss of Parent(s), Immortality
Series: Part 4 of Wherein was bound a child
Summary:
Chapters: 3/?
Fandom: Dark Is Rising Sequence - Susan Cooper
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Bran Davies/Will Stanton
Characters: Bran Davies, Will Stanton (Dark is Rising), Owen Davies, Herne the Hunter (Dark is Rising)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Loss of Parent(s), Immortality
Series: Part 4 of Wherein was bound a child
Summary:
“We have to go,” Bran said, his voice coming out hoarser than he’d expected. “Rhys called. Trouble with my da. A stroke.”
No more needed to be said aloud. They were going back to Wales.
iamrman (iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-07-31 06:32 pm
iamrman) wrote in scans_daily2025-07-31 06:32 pmRichard Dragon: Kung Fu Fighter #11
Writer: David Anthony Kraft
Pencils: Ric Estrada
Inks: Jack Abel
Richard Dragon is assigned to retrieve a mystical MacGuffin from Red China.
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rachelmanija (rachelmanija) wrote2025-07-31 10:26 am
rachelmanija) wrote2025-07-31 10:26 amEntry tags:
Katabasis, by R. F. Kuang
Katabasis releases at the end of August. I read an advance copy.
I have to conclude that R. F. Kuang's fiction is just not to my taste. This is the first book of hers that I even managed to finish, having previously given up on both Babel (anvillicious, with anvillicious footnotes) and The Poppy War (boring) quite early on. However, a lot of my customers love her books, so I will buy and sell multiple copies of this one.
The structure and concept of Katabasis is quite appealing. Alice Law is at magic college, obsessively determined to succeed. When exploitative working conditions lead to her making a mistake that gorily kills her mentor Professor Grimes, Alice still needs his recommendation... so she goes to Hell to fetch him back! She's followed by another student, Peter, who is a perfect genius who she doesn't realize is in love with her. Their journey through Hell takes up almost all of the book, interspersed by flashbacks to college.
Lots of people will undoubtedly love this book. I found it thuddingly obvious and lacking in charm. The humor was mildly amusing at best. The magic is boring and highly technical. Alice is frustratingly oblivious, self-centered, and monomaniacal - which is clearly a deliberate character choice, but I did not enjoy reading about her. Hell was boring - how do you make Hell boring?!
Spoilery reveal about Peter:
( Read more... ) The entire book, I felt like I was sitting there twiddling my fingers waiting for Alice to figure out that it's not okay for college to be exploitative and abusive, that it was bad for Professor Grimes to have sexually assaulted her, that Peter loved her, and that success isn't everything. Though at least it didn't have anvillicious footnotes [1] like Babel!
[1] Legally and morally, Professor Grimes sexually assaulted Alice. It is common for survivors of sexual assault to not recognize it as such at the time, especially when the assault involves an abuse of power. [2]
[2] It is an abuse of power for a professor to make any sexual overture to a student, even a seemingly consensual [3] one.
[3] Due to the power differential, no sexual relations between a professor and a student can ever be truly consensual.
I will continue to stock Kuang's books but this is probably the last time I will attempt to actually read one.
I do love the cover.
Punk (runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-31 10:22 am
runpunkrun) wrote2025-07-31 10:22 amEntry tags:
Gravity is the Thing, by Jaclyn Moriarty
Abigail Sorenson as a teenager, an adult, a sister, a wife, a single mother, a student, all of her offered to you at once, though in pieces, while the story rolls along like a katamari, gaining in size as it picks up all those pieces and a lot of other stuff besides, and just keeps on rolling through the years, investigating the grief of lost loved ones, the philosophy of self-help, the question of correlation versus causation, and the way all of Abi's life lead to this point, here, where it picks up one last piece and snaps together like an origami ball. I found it inventive, painful, curious, striving, playful, and, in the end, very satisfying.
Moriarty has a light touch as a writer. Her characters are detailed, but effortlessly so. Her prose is easy and whimsical and while it can verge on twee, for the most part, I find it delightful. The novel deals with heavy subjects, but in her hands, it's joyful too. In fact, it's mostly about joy, about building human connections, about finding your place in the universe, and about being subscribed to a mysterious newsletter.
Contains: references to underage sex, some of it coercive; references to adult sex, including a one-night stand with dubious consent; missing family member; MS diagnosis; ableism; pregnancy, including two early miscarriages; infidelity; child in medical peril.
Moriarty has a light touch as a writer. Her characters are detailed, but effortlessly so. Her prose is easy and whimsical and while it can verge on twee, for the most part, I find it delightful. The novel deals with heavy subjects, but in her hands, it's joyful too. In fact, it's mostly about joy, about building human connections, about finding your place in the universe, and about being subscribed to a mysterious newsletter.
Contains: references to underage sex, some of it coercive; references to adult sex, including a one-night stand with dubious consent; missing family member; MS diagnosis; ableism; pregnancy, including two early miscarriages; infidelity; child in medical peril.
yhlee (yhlee) wrote2025-07-31 10:48 am
yhlee) wrote2025-07-31 10:48 amLouisiana Zine Fest tomorrow!
I realize most people reading this are not in the Baton Rouge area, but:
Louisiana Zine Fest tomorrow!
Date:
Friday, August 1, 2025
Time:
12pm – 8pm
Place:
Main Library at Goodwood
7711 Goodwood Blvd
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
map
Some prototypes as teasers :)
I'll be there with a sketchbook. We'll see if I can avoid having to carry too many zines back home! :)
Louisiana Zine Fest tomorrow!
Date:
Friday, August 1, 2025
Time:
12pm – 8pm
Place:
Main Library at Goodwood
7711 Goodwood Blvd
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
map
Some prototypes as teasers :)
I'll be there with a sketchbook. We'll see if I can avoid having to carry too many zines back home! :)