#Jim Lee 2024

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A MEETING OF THE MINDS -- WHAM! BAM! POW!

PIC INFO: Spotlight on living legends Jim Lee, comic book artist, writer, publisher supreme & Serj Tankian frontman of SYSTEM OF A DOWN (as well as activist, artist, and now writer), photographed at his one man multimedia exhibition “Lost Technique” @ the Eye for Sound hybrid cafe/art gallery, 1638 Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock, CA, c. late September 2024.

Source: www.picuki.com/media/3446499074206254179.

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Wolverine by Tyler Kirkham from the Unknown Comics variant cover for Wolverine: Revenge #2 (2024) in an homage to Jim Lee's classic cover for Wolverine #27 (1990) 

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Jim Lee + Jeph Loeb will return to ‘Batman’ for ‘Hush 2’

Chip Zdarsky and Jorge Jimenez will wrap up their run on ‘Batman’ in February.

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Being a Gotham fan right now, especially an Oswald fan

is kind of weird after the USA presidential election this year 😭

Spoilers for season 3 episode 16/17:

I love Oswald and think he had more potential as mayor than Aubrey James, but that's in a world where the person in power needs to have connections to the crime world!! 😐

And oddly enough, this real-world election, which happened about 6 years after similar events in the show, was kind of similar to Oswald rise to power after Ed's betrayal:

Both gained a part of the people he wanted out of the city the last time: A big part of Oswald's campaign was getting "Hugo Strange's monster" out of Gotham but they were his "Army of Freaks" the second time around — one of Trump's big things during his first campaign was building a wall bordering on Mexico, whereas the third time he tried to get elected, he managed to gain support from Latino Americans, including people whose family member could have to leave under his policies 😯

Not to mention that they both tried to steal the election.

At the moment watching Gotham and the news can be a bit much for me, do any people feel similar?

Cause so many of the things Americans are facing are dystopian elements in gotham:

police corruption (immunity)

a criminal, who has and will contintue to express his dislike of (certain) people, becoming their leader

bad healthcare (abortion too probably, maybe contraception 👀)

poverty

families breaking apart

gender-based violence (I hope no-fault divorce won't be ended)

ostracism/deportation

If you want to see specific examples, here's the edit I made of the parallels:

The Dystopian World of Gotham (Can Be Seen as a Modern AU/Parallels to the USA in 2024) on Youtube (I recommend you watch it there because of the format but it's also on Tiktok)

In any case: please someone edit chief of staff!Ed with eyeliner 💚 Like next to tanned!Oswald or something 💜 Let's ignore that Trump has an actual chief of staff too 🤫

[Edit: someone pointed out that they thought my comparisons made the real problem seem smaller & mentioned a few other things like reading into this that I meant to call latinos monsters, (what the hell?) 🤨. If you feel similarly, you can check out my clarifying response]

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Comic - DC Versus Marvel Omnibus Cover (2024)

Art by Jim Lee And Scott Williams

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Finally made the playlist based off my notes from when I saw Stray Cats

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SDCC '24: “Jim Lee & Friends” panel unveils DC Studios logo, first look at Creature Commandos

DC Comics hit the ground running today, with the star-studded and multi-media-centric annual  “Jim Lee & Friends” panel.

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Labyrinth

Movies watched in 2024

Labyrinth (1986, UK/USA)

Director: Jim Henson

Writer: Terry Jones (based on a story by Dennis Lee & Jim Henson)

Mini-review:

As a big fan of Jim Henson's work (the Dark Crystal universe, most specifically), this film has been on top of my watchlist for quite a while, and it was already time I made an effort to look it up and watch it. And man, I will never stop being amazed by Henson's incredible genius. I spent the whole film in awe of the sets, the costumes and, of course, the puppets. Pretty much every shot is pure art. And I was also surprised by how funny the script gets at times, too. I did feel like the story tended to meander a bit too much, but the visuals and puppetry were stunning enough to keep me interested until the very end. Anyway, I can understand why Labyrinth has developed such a big cult following.

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The WIZARD Files, Ep. 44: John Livesay

We interview veteran comic book inker, John Livesay about his career working for Top Cow, Extreme Studios, Marvel, DC Comics and more all throughout the 90’s and beyond. Plus, we learn about his lifelong comic book collecting hobby and personal experience trying to get recognized in Wizard magazine, among many other amazing stories Want to take your WIZARDS experience to the next level? Get an…

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Book Reviews: Children's Edition; Simone Biles: Little People, Big Dreams; My Friend LeVar; The Owl Prowl Mystery; Big Jim and the White Boy; From the Early 1900s to the Mid-1900s: Inventors #NetGalley #NewBooks

Time for another round-up of ARCs that I've read lately. This time 'round, it's a bunch of children's books of all ages, including a retelling of Huck Finn, and a book on #Olympian #SimoneBiles #Bookreview #netgalley #newbooks #levarburton

I’m cruising along and getting through all my Advanced Reader’s Copies from NetGalley. In order to keep up with blogging about them all, I’ve decided to do more roundups like this. Most books can be found at the affiliate links below or try your local library when they are released! (Amazon US) (Amazon CA) (Amazon UK)  (AbeBooks) (Barnes & Noble) (Booksamillion)  (Audible.com)…

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Housing Market Forecast: What's Ahead For The Second Half Of 2024

As we move into the second half of 2024, here’s what experts say you should expect for home prices, mortgage rates, and home sales. Home Prices Are Expected To Climb Moderately Home prices are forecasted to rise at a more normal pace. The graph below shows the latest forecasts from seven of the most trusted sources in the industry: The reason for continued appreciation? The supply of homes for…

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Pride Month typically brings Pride-themed variant covers from both DC and Marvel, and this year DC will collect many of their past covers in DC Pride: Uncovered #1, on sale June 11. This gallery comic will include covers from Jen Bartel, Phil Jimenez, Jim Lee, Joshua “Sway” Swaby, David Talaski, Babs Tarr, Kris Anka and more.

The main cover will feature a previously released piece by Bartel, while the variant will feature a previously released piece by Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Tamra Bonvillain.

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Nightwing #113 (2024) Jim Lee Artist Spotlight Card Stock Variant

#Nightwing #113 (2024) #JimLee Artist Spotlight Card Stock Variant / #TomTaylor & #MarvWolfman Writers / #DanieleDiNicuolo & #BrunoRedondo Pencils / LANDMARK 300TH ISSUE! "Untitled" You have seen Dick Grayson do so many things, but now, in his 300th issue, you will see him… well, you'll just have to pick up the issue and find out. SAVE ON SHIPPING COST - NOW AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL PICK UP IN DELTONA, FLORIDA https://www.rarecomicbooks.fashionablewebs.com/Nightwing%202016.html#113  #KeyComicBooks #DCComics #DCU #DCUniverse #KeyIssue

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Patrick Braxton became the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama, when he was elected in 2020, but since then he has fought with the previous administration to actually serve in office. (Aallyah Wright/Capital B)

NEWBERN, Ala. — There’s a power struggle in Newbern, Alabama, and the rural town’s first Black mayor is at war with the previous administration who he says locked him out of Town Hall.

After years of racist harassment and intimidation, Patrick Braxton is fed up, and in a federal civil rights lawsuit he is accusing town officials of conspiring to deny his civil rights and his position because of his race.

“When I first became mayor, [a white woman told me] the town was not ready for a Black mayor,” Braxton recalls.

The town is 85% Black, and 29% of Black people here live below the poverty line.

“What did she mean by the town wasn’t ready for a Black mayor? They, meaning white people?” Capital B asked.

“Yes. No change,” Braxton says.

Decades removed from a seemingly Jim Crow South, white people continue to thwart Black political progress by refusing to allow them to govern themselves or participate in the country’s democracy, several residents told Capital B. While litigation may take months or years to resolve, Braxton and community members are working to organize voter education, registration, and transportation ahead of the 2024 general election.

But the tension has been brewing for years.

Two years ago, Braxton says he was the only volunteer firefighter in his department to respond to a tree fire near a Black person’s home in the town of 275 people. As Braxton, 57, actively worked to put out the fire, he says, one of his white colleagues tried to take the keys to his fire truck to keep him from using it.

In another incident, Braxton, who was off duty at the time, overheard an emergency dispatch call for a Black woman experiencing a heart attack. He drove to the fire station to retrieve the automated external defibrillator, or AED machine, but the locks were changed, so he couldn’t get into the facility. He raced back to his house, grabbed his personal machine, and drove over to the house, but he didn’t make it in time to save her. Braxton wasn’t able to gain access to the building or equipment until the Hale County Emergency Management Agency director intervened, the lawsuit said.

“I have been on several house fires by myself,” Braxton says. “They hear the radio and wouldn’t come. I know they hear it because I called dispatch, and dispatch set the tone call three or four times for Newbern because we got a certain tone.”

This has become the new norm for Braxton ever since he became the first Black mayor of his hometown in 2020. For the past three years, he’s been fighting to serve and hold on to the title of mayor, first reported by Lee Hedgepeth, a freelance journalist based in Alabama.

Incorporated in 1854, Newbern, Alabama, today has a population of 275 people — 85% of whom are Black. (Aallyah Wright/Capital B)

Not only has he been locked out of the town hall and fought fires alone, but he’s been followed by a drone and unable to retrieve the town’s mail and financial accounts, he says. Rather than concede, Haywood “Woody” Stokes III, the former white mayor, along with his council members, reappointed themselves to their positions after ordering a special election that no one knew about.

Braxton is suing them, the People’s Bank of Greensboro, and the postmaster at the U.S. Post Office.

For at least 60 years, there’s never been an election in the town. Instead, the mantle has been treated as a “hand me down” by the small percentage of white residents, according to several residents Capital B interviewed. After being the only one to submit qualifying paperwork and statement of economic interests, Braxton became the mayor.

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here we have a late submission for day 6 of zukki week 2024: heist au (click for better quality)

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more thoughts under the cut

i got back into leverage this week so of course i couldn't not draw zukki as the ot3. i think suki would work better as a grifter than a thief (maybe even a hitter) but yk. i also stayed up way too long thinking about who is the mastermind and who is the grifter/thief remaining and i got to the following conclusions:

song as the mastermind and jin as a grifter just butters up my heart like i missed these girls like crazy and i think it would fit them (also azula as jim sterling is way too funny)

but then we have azula as nate (which i think is equally funny) and ty lee as thief

also mai as nate but thats just because i ship mailee and i wanted them together

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Wolverine by Tyler Kirkham from the Unknown Comics variant cover for Wolverine: Revenge #2 (2024) in an homage to Jim Lee's classic cover for Wolverine #27 (1990)