Guy Gardner: Warrior #20
Jun. 11th, 2025 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Chuck Dixon
Pencils: Mitch Byrd
Inks: Dan Davis
Guy leads a team to investigate just what Hal Jordan has wrought.
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Green Lantern #182
Jun. 11th, 2025 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Len Wein
Pencils: Dave Gibbons
Inks: Mark Farmer
Who will be the new Green Lantern now that Hal Jordan has resigned?
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Fury of Firestorm #3
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Writer: Gerry Conway
Pencils: Pat Broderick
Inks: Rodin Rodriguez
Time for Killer Frost to kick some ice!
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Excalibur #48
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Words and pencils: Alan Davis
Inks: Mark Farmer
Excalibur heads out to Ireland to help Kitty and Alistair with their archaeological dig. Nothing ever goes wrong when superheroes poke around dig sites.
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Aches.
Jun. 10th, 2025 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Waking up to hail this morning was a surprise; getting out of the subway after the day's rains had all passed to leave the air in one of those hauntingly fragile summer afternoons was just as much a surprise, if a far more pleasant one.
Stuff.
Jun. 10th, 2025 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Freya and I also took a little trip last weekend up to Inverness to hang out with
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I happened to mention to my mum later that I'd gone up north to spend the day with some online friends who were up from England, and after a long pause she said '...I thought your internet friends lived in Germany?' To which I indignantly pointed out that I'm personable, people like me, I have more than one friend; this was met by a more sceptical look than you want from your mother.
We watched the series finale of Doctor Who, to which my reaction was, and still remains, holy, hail Mary pass, Batman! I am generally of the school of thought that spreadsheet dorks are a curse on most forms of entertainment, but I also kind of want to go to the pub with a Disney accountant just so that after, like, three drinks I can go 'So, Doctor Who, how's that math mathing?'
I also have gripes about how heteronormative the finale was, but that's increasingly the new normal, isn't it? I love living through a time of enormous backlash to any and all social progress orchestrated by history's greatest fuckwits.
In gayer news, here are some books that I have been reading:
The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet by Linz McLeod - Publishing a series of lesbian romances about Jane Austen characters is God's work, so I don't want to criticise it too harshly, not least because as a f/f regency romance it is perfectly delightful, but as a piece of Austen fanfiction it was, eh, Charlotte Lucas felt really true to character, but Mary Bennet could have been anybody, she felt half author's OC, half thinly veiled Lizzie.
That said, I will be picking up next year's The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley as soon as it comes out because God's work.
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh - I was so excited for this because Tesh's previous facist punching novel Some Desperate Glory had easily been my favourite of that year, so I was kind of bummed that I didn't like this one as much. Maybe it was the genre change, instead of sci-fi it was magical realism set at a contemporary magic school; maybe it was my class chippiness, I'm not entirely sure that private school pupils don't deserve to be eaten by demons; maybe it was that it was heavily talked up as having a central f/f relationship, which honestly felt kind of tacked on, while much more time was spent on the het relationship with a dude that the reader realises is the villain, like, a hundred pages before the protagonist.
Like, it's fine, it's good even, my expectations were just a bit out of control. Also, go read Some Desperate Glory.
The Vengeance by Emma Newman - Pirates, and werewolves, and vampires, and lesbians, oh my! Our protagonist has spent her life at sea during the golden age of piracy when she discovers her "mother" is no such thing, and embarks on a fish out of water road trip through pre-revolution France, running from werewolves, kissing girls, and fighting vampires.
Is it a lot? Yes. Is it totally awesome? Also, yes!
Blue Beetle #9
Jun. 10th, 2025 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Len Wein
Pencils: Paris Cullins
Inks: Dell Barras
Why has Angie Revere been stealing from Ted Kord? All will be revealed!
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Batman #488
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Writer: Doug Moench
Pencils and inks: Jim Aparo
Knightfall prelude.
Robin tries to teach Jean-Paul Valley how to be an effective crime-fighter.
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Absolute Green Lantern #2 - "The Abin Sur"
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As to why we did what we did to Hal, I think Hal can take it is the short version. If Hal can't take it, then he's not the character I thought he was. But I'm sure if you're a fan of Hal, yeah, you know he can take it, you know he can take some lumps. He's a big enough character to take the knocks. -- Al Ewing
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Dial in the number.
Jun. 9th, 2025 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The secondary accomplishments were taking the stairs to the gym, and making an attempt to reach out when I felt myself going down a spiral.
tonight i'm gonna cut it out and then restart
Jun. 9th, 2025 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's been gray and cool since last night, but it hasn't rained yet, so I've been able to keep the windows open. I did have to use the AC a couple times last week, especially to sleep, and I'll put it on again when necessary, but it was nice just using the fan last night.
Anyway, work remains busy, the world is on fire, but the Mets stay winning! Gotta take the little joys while you can...
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Amazing Spider-Man #98
Jun. 9th, 2025 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Writer: Stan Lee
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: Frank Giacoia
Harry is in need of medical attention after his overdose, so the last thing Peter needs is for the Green Goblin to come crashing in through the window.
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