#William Ostrander

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your ride to HELL has arrived!!

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THE DEVICE by William J. Burns and Isabel Ostrander (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1915). Illustrated by William Grefé.

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putterings, 279-277

  or a chance word be the seed of an idea, but most often, not   of the theater, the heap of garments, the violet-tinted note, water,   anathematized method idle theories or chimerical clues,   and the wide world in which to forget it all intuitionism; anticipatory shades

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[ginge1962]

Wasteland #5 - May 1988, cover by Don Simpson.

This printed cover was meant for #6 and was printed in error on this edition. DC hastily sent out corrected copies! #5 should have had a cover by William Messner-Loebs.

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The Spectre #10 (1993) Michael William Kaluta Cover & Tom Mandrake Pencils, John Ostrander Story, Madame Xanadu Appearance

#TheSpectre #10 (1993) #MichaelWilliamKaluta Cover & #TomMandrake Pencils, #JohnOstrander Story, #MadameXanadu Appearance "Unforgivable Acts" Inside Saint Christopher Church, the police take away the body of the woman who the Reaver killed last night. SAVE ON SHIPPING COST - NOW AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL PICK UP IN DELTONA, FLORIDA  https://rarecomicbooks.fashionablewebs.com/TheSpectre1992.html#10  #KeyComicBooks #DCComics #DCU #DCUniverse #KeyIssue

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Damn, this hurts

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The Crevice, by William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander, Illustrated by Will Grefe. 1915

Isabel Ostrander (1883 - 1824) was an early 20th century mystery writer who at the time was well known enough that Agatha Christie parodied her in one of her Tommy and Tuppence stories.

William John Burns was the first director of the organization that would become the FBI.

[havendance]

As I continue through my post-crisis read through, post OYL, Detective Comics really is the superior Batman comic. I’m really enjoying Dini’s focus on one-shot stories. They’re fun and a refreshing change of pace from the multi-issue story arcs that the other comics have. It gives him a chance to shine a spotlight on a lot of different characters. I’m also really enjoying the new Ventriloquist—she’s fun. Even the guest slot for Tec 829-830 was only a 2 issue story and it was a fun Batman and Robin team up.

On the other hand, Batman has Grant Morrison who is uh, certainly writing a comic. (Morrison, I’m not going to read your prose joker issue of Batman. Seriously.) It kind of reminds me of Tom King’s Batman in a way. They both have this level of over-the-topness to their Batman which doesn’t really work for me. I can tell that they both have a take on Bruce, though it is one I don’t always agree with.

(And also like… Batman #666 man… You know, I think it’s interesting to see how many bits of Damian in that issue get picked up going forward. That’s the Batman costume that gets used for future Batman Damian. Alfred the cat is there! When it comes to the actual story of that issue though… It’s very much a Morrison story. We name drop Dick as one of Bruce’s sons but not Tim (though the fact that Damian’s the one doing the name dropping might have something to do with that.) We’ve got Barbara Gordon as police commission which is not really all that. (Also, yet another aside, but I can tell I’ve been reading modern comics, but I was like ‘at least she’s in a wheelchair!’ while reading it.) Oh, and Damian’s bald. Interesting creative choices all around.)

Anyway, the other story in Batman that I’ve read was from Ostrander which I did have hopes for but sadly it did not do it for me :/

Coming up: Grant Morrison gets three whole issues with J H Williams III illustrations when Dini only got one. THREE. (I shall be salty about minor things as is my right.)

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Suicide Squad (1987) #4 Readthrough

Well, after last issue’s cosmic flavored story with The New Gods, this single issue is more of classic frame-up story against a racist-Green Arrow expy.

          The issue starts with William Hell fighting crime in Central City (which because of Crisis is left without a hero) with arrows. But we quickly see the flaws in his methods, when he only captures the people of color and lets white criminals get away as long as they join his White Pride hate group. (Yup, this is a politically charged issue that is still relevant today.) We also get Hell in his secret identity as a businessman (William James Heller) who supports racist organizations.

          Waller finds out this information from one of the support staff (Black Orchid). So, she decides it is up to Suicide Squad (with guest member Chronos) to stop this man and his movement before it escalates to a race war.

          And then we get to the action of the issue which is of heist-like. The hints of Squad’s plans are already there from the 1st section of the book. We then get Captain Boomerang and Bronze Tiger committing a crime to gather the attention of William Hell. Hell is tricked into letting Boomerang join his organization.

          The action heats up when a fake William Hell (Deadshot) interprets a meeting that Hell’s civilian identity is holding. Deadshot gives a speech about how it isn’t race that separates people and how it will take the lower class to combine together to fight the upper class.

          The actual William Hell (a rich racist) can’t stand this speech and comes out and challenges Deadshot as a fake. And the way the Tells decide to tell which one was is the real is through the classic William Tell scenario. That’s right, they are going to shoot an arrow through an apple on Captain Boomerang’s head.

          Deadshot, of course, manages to shoot an arrow through the apple. However, when Hell shoots it goes over his head. Deadshot takes the momentum from this action and exposes William Hell as William James Heller. And to make things worse for Heller, a member of his hate group shoots Deadshot.

          And now for the reveal: the person who shot Deadshot was Rick Flag. The reason why Hell’s arrow missed was that they used Chronos’s device to stop time and Bronze Tiger deflected the arrow away from the apple. The team celebrates that Heller’s identity is burned as the media thinks Hell was actually Deadshot. And while they can’t arrest Heller, the man lost his influence in the media.

          This is another issue proving that Ostrander is one of the smartest writers in the business. He’s very careful with the danger that Heller can do with racist attitude. And he kinda of sees that racism won’t change but it requires community action.

And we finally get an issue focusing on Deadshot and he comes off as the coolest man in the world. The one issue one might have been how they try to tie-in Heller’s past with Deadshot’s backstory. It fine but a bit unnecessary to the story

But it isn’t just Ostrander who is making the story work. McDowell, Bob Lewis, and Carl Gafford do some amazing artwork in this issue. There is some A+ work in the way they play with the lines with William Heller.

[zahri-melitor]

In any case, the most important people in post-Crisis in terms of Barbara’s commentary on the Joker are the following:

John Ostrander & Kim Yale (Oracle Year One)

Chuck Dixon (Birds of Prey #8)

Dan Curtis Johnson & J. H. Williams III (Touched, JLL Secret Files and Origins)

Scott Beatty & Chuck Dixon (Joker: Last Laugh generally)

Tony Bedard (Birds of Prey #119-124 Platinum Flats)

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my brakes were out, thank god some asshole's car was there

[arnie-cunningham-official]

William Ostrander as Buddy Repperton in Christine (1983)

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William Ostrander as ‘Buddy’ in Christine (1983)

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Christine: Christine Explodes Gas Station Scene (William Ostrander)

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My Year in Reading: 2023

Here is every book I read over the last year, listed in the order I read them. These are the books I read cover-to-cover and completed. Books I particularly enjoyed are in boldface. Books I’ve read multiple times are marked with an asterisk.

James Tiptree, Jr. - The Girl Who Was Plugged In*

Kazuo Umezz - The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 2

Vonda N. McIntyre - Screwtop*

Hitoshi Iwaaki - Parasyte 8

James Spooner - The High Desert

Ernest Hemingway - True at First Light

Adrian Tomine - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

Jeff Lemire - Mazebook

Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell - Norse Mythology, Vol. 1

Veronica Roth - Arch-Conspirator

Annie Ernaux - Getting Lost

Seamus Heaney - The Burial at Thebes

John Connolly - Every Dead Thing

Alexander Theroux - The Enigma of Al Capp

Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips - Fatale, Book Two: The Devil's Business

Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips - Fatale, Book Three: West of Hell

Jason - Upside Dawn

Nick Hornby - Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

Scott Snyder & Jeff Lemire - A. D. : After Death

Kurt Cobain: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Alisa Kwitney & Mike Norton - Mystik U

Kelly Barnhill - The Crane Husband

Steve Brodner - Living and Dying in America: A Daily Chronicle, 2020 - 2022

Hua Hsu - Stay True

Stephen King - Billy Summers

Heidi Julavits - The Folded Clock: A Diary

Salman Rushdie - Joseph Anton: A Memoir

Alberto Moravia - Agostino

Don Winslow - City on Fire

Paul Auster & Spencer Ostrander - Bloodbath Nation

David Milch - Life's Work: A Memoir

Larry McMurtry - Horseman, Pass By

Patti Smith - A Book of Days

Gahan Wilson - Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, Book Three: 1994 - 2008

Claire Keegan - Foster

Lucinda Williams - Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You

Fantasy & Science Fiction (Oct/Nov 2000)

Fantasy & Science Fiction (January 1972)

Michael Connelly - Dark Sacred Night

Denise Mina - Three Fires

Jon Fosse - Aliss at the Fire

Kristen Radtke - Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Bob Layton - Hercules: Prince of Power*

Gahan Wilson - Fifty Years of Playboy Cartoons, Book One: 1957 - 1973

Annie Ernaux - The Young Man

Julia Wertz - Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

Sean Murphy - Batman: Curse of the White Knight

Paul McCartney - 1964: Eyes of the Storm