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somebody on wikipedia made a map with every county in kentucky in ge’ez script so that they could add that map on the amharic language wikipedia page for kentucky. the page is otherwise almost entirely empty, and no other state has an amharic wikipedia map

its like almost 4am in the morning and i saw this while doomscrolling on twitter so im not entirely certain i wrote comprehensible english but if this is understandable then i think you would enjoy knowing it maybe. i will go to bed now but have a good one dude :-)

WILD

Thank you for this blessing of knowledge 🙏

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Here’s this year’s list, spread it around imo

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Hi Benito

I have a question regarding the latest Friends Till the End Episode (the one on Final Destination 3). I have a Simmsian relationship with horror movies (they scare me real bad but am a big fan of Apocrypals and Ajax and 3 time Eisner Award Winner Erica Henderson so I love the show) and so I've never seen any Finals Destination and apologise is this is explained in the movie and just wasn't covered on the podcast.

Regarding your ongoing theory about Tony Todd being an agent for a power operating contra to gods intention I do not understand how the photos on the camera taken BEFORE Julie had the vision which caused her to 'save' half their group from the roller coaster accident show the deaths that came about to restore balance to kill those who should have died? Does that imply the force acting against God's/Death's plan can foresee exactly the consequences of the visions they send? But also it then feels like maybe they all weren't meant to die on the roller coaster they were always intended to die later and so this whole movie is a fake out because you THINK it's like the first two but isn't and Julie never saved anyone??

I am tormented by questions about the lore of a series I will never watch, y'all have created an extremely engaging show and I love it thank you very much

I can’t believe you just asked a logical question that makes this franchise make even LESS sense

Having just recorded part four today, I can tell you that they didn’t make any effort to work out those kinks

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Are you familiar with the theory that the word "obscene" derives from terms used to describe ancient Greek theatre, and if so how credible do you think it is?

(I'm aware that it's not uncontroversial, I just really want it to be true).

I’m going to be honest I never even considered that it wasn’t related to skēnḗ so this is a wild way to find out that it’s actually not

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same guy who asked about writing for the tick, thanks for your speedy reply, another Quick question; any suggestions on how to get into the series for cheap? I watched the Amazon show which I liked, and then the cartoon on Hulu which I found more enjoyable. How do I get into the comics? The omnibuses are kinda pricey, especially when I’m saving for Uni, and also saving to get professional artists to draw my friends DnD characters.meanwhile the Bonza’s don’t have a lot of issues And then there are the spin offs like chainsaw vigilante and Paul the samurai. Or the fun out of continuity like Golden age Tick & Tick and aurtie. I want to read the comics, but I don’t know how to start

By far the easiest way to get into the comics is through the Complete Works collections, because that’s basically the only thing NEC is keeping in print. They are definitely pricy, but you can save money by not getting them all 😂 I know that might sound obvious, but if you aren’t psychologically compelled by bad brains to get them all, you shouldn’t

Here’s what you should get:

The Complete Edlund

That’s the original story by the original creator and it’s the best stuff. It’s also the basis to varying extents to each TV version of the character. If you only get one thing, get this. Most people interested in the Tick comics will only ever get this.

If you read that and like it and want more and want to drop another $30US, get the Complete Big Blue Destiny by Eli Stone. It follows right after the Edlund stuff (kinda) and it’s weird and pretty good, if very different from the Edlund material.

In my opinion, the best Tick material after Edlund is the stuff by Sean Wang. Unfortunately there’s no one volume collecting all his stories like there are for Edlund and Stone. Some of his stories are in the Complete Specials and some are in the Complete Tick & Arthur. The Wang stories are great, but only account for about half the material in each of those volumes, with the rest being by various creative teams doing stories of varying quality.

The Complete Man Eating Cow/Chainsaw Vigilante has a lot of fun stuff in it and is the best of the spin-off material.

If I’m being completely frank, I wouldn’t really recommend the rest of the volumes unless you’re an absolute completist.

If, however, you feel like you have to have everything, here it is in order:

Complete Edlund

Complete Karma Tornado

Complete Big Blue Destiny

Complete Specials

Complete Tick & Arthur

Complete Color Series 1

Complete Color Series 2

Tick Golden Age 1-3

Days of Drama 1-6

Mangalicious Tick 1-4

Tick New Series 1-8

Tick 100-101

Tick FCBD 2011-2020

The Tick 2017 1-4

And then the spin offs:

Complete Paul the Samurai

Complete Man Eating Cow/Chainsaw Vigilante

Giant Circus Maximus

Of course, this one would have been the most essential, if it had ever actually come into existence:

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if I wanted to write a comic using the Tick IP, how would I go about getting it published

Well, it’s essentially the same as if you wanted to write a published Spider-Man story: you get hired by the publisher to write one

In the Tick’s case the publisher is NEC Press, but they haven’t published any new Tick material since 2020, and even then they were doing so at a rate of about one issue a year, so it might be tricky

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If you want comprehensive but readable: A Strenuous Life by Kathleen Dalton

If you want a deep deep dive: Edmund Morris’s trilogy of books

If you want a closer look at a specific buck wild episode in his life: The River of Doubt by Candice Millard

If you want a hefty tome specifically about his presidency: The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin

ohhh are we suggesting history books? I suggest Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel. it's a biography of Galileo's life and includes actual letters from his daughter. Dava Sobel also wrote Longitude, which is about john harrison and how he made the chronometer to help navigate the sea with longitude. Do you have any suggestions for good history books about Teddy Roosevelt?

I don’t, but I bet benito-cereno could help you out on that one!

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Hi, hope you are well. I've been reading your posts latelly and saw that you are a fan on the Golden Age Wonder Woman. I've been wanting to read these stories for some time, but I am unsure of when Marston stopped writing them. Do you know which issues of Wonder Woman, Sensation Comics and Comic Cavalcade were his last ones?

Based on the credits from the recent Golden Age omnibus, looks like these were Marston’s final issues:

Wonder Woman #11

Sensation #40

Cavalcade #10

Joyce Murchison took over as ghost writer for a little while after that, and then Robert Kanigher took over for almost 20 years after that. All three of them worked under the pen name Charles Moulton.

I would definitely recommend checking out the Murchison issues, they’re very fun. Kanigher goes a whole different direction with the book, and while his stories are fun, they are very different from the Marston mold

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We did a Kabbalah one

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New from me

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Podcast! It actually started happening before Christmas! Just the first of many this year. And the story contest show is almost done, too.

This one's about Scandinavian gnomes/elves (nisse, tomten) with Benito Cereno. @benito-cereno

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Lineup for the podcast this year. Episodes will NOT appear in this order, most likely.

Linda Raedisch on her surprisingly disturbing History of Christmas Baking.

Ellen Datlow on her new collection Christmas and Other Horrors with stories from a ton of great sf/f/horror writers.

Two shows with @benito-cereno, one on travelling thru European Xmas markets and the other on some freakish Christmas legends you've never heard of.

Thomas Ruys Smith on his new collection of Mary Wilkins' Christmas Stories from Mark Twain's time.

Another Christmas Murder Ballad show with my other-podcast-partner James. (The first one was super popular.)

A ghost story.

The flash fiction contest show.

Maybe more? Maybe?

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🤯

truck or trout

Trout please

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truck or trout

Trout please

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Happy Halloween, we watched a terrible movie

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Hi! I am interested in watching the Universal Monsters movie this October. Which movies from the original Universal Monster Universe would you recommend? I've never seen any of them

Hello! I’m glad you’re planning on digging into these, they’re very fun. Plus a lot of them are available on Peacock right now, making them pretty easy to access.

I don’t know how many you’re wanting to watch, but I would say the “essential ones” are

Dracula

Frankenstein

The Invisible Man

The Bride of Frankenstein

The Wolf Man

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Creature from the Black Lagoon

If you want to do a few more than that, The Black Cat (1934), Son of Frankenstein, and The Raven (1935) are underrated gems.

If you want to do the “shared universe” playlist of the movies that end up crossing over (with very inconsistent continuity), you’ll miss some of the good ones and watch some bad ones, but it’s still a pretty fun time. That list goes like this:

Dracula

Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

Dracula’s Daughter (optional)

Son of Frankenstein

The Wolf Man

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

House of Frankenstein

House of Dracula

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Happy viewing! 👻 🎃 💀

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Whoops I accidentally posted this on the Apocrypals account

Wake up, significant other. New Halloween streaming rec list just dropped

Also: bonus list