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The Canonical History of SuperWonder

I love Diana and Clark together, but I found it oddly hard to track down a coherent list of when and how they were canon in the comics, so after consulting multiple lists that were each missing some iterations, I decided to make one myself.

This list turned out very long, because I included pictures of every SuperWonder kiss/one highlight moment from each run as well as brief reviews and warnings (deaths and triggers) to each, so here a TL;DR for those who only want the titles:

1974 - Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane, #136 *

1981 - DC Presents, #32 *

1983 - Wonder Woman, Vol. 1 #300 *

1985 - Superman Annual #11: For the Man Who Has Everything **

1987 - Superman, Vol. 2 #05 **

1988 - Action Comics, Vol. 1 #600

1996 - Kingdom Come (4 issues)

1998 - Distant Fires (oneshot)

1999 - The Kingdom (2 issues)

1999 - Wonder Woman, Vol. 2 #140 & #141

2000 - Created Equal (2 issues)

2000 - Act of God (3 issues)

2001 - JLA: Riddle of the Beast (oneshot) **

2002 - The Dark Knight Strikes Again (3 issues)

2003 - Red Son (3 issues)

2004 - New Frontier (6 issues) **

2005 - All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder (10 issues) **

2009 - Thy Kingdom Come (18 issues from the Justice Society of America Vol 3) **

2012-2016 - New 52; Justice League + Superman/Wonder Woman

2013-2016 - Injustice: Gods Among Us (73 issues)

2013-2014 - Justice League Beyond 2.0 (24 issues) ****

2014 - Justice League: War (animated movie)

2015 - Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (animated movie)

2016 - Justice League vs Teen Titans (animated movie)

2016 - Justice League: Action (animated show) **

2017-2018 - Injustice 2 (38 issues) **

2020 - Golden Child (oneshot) ***

* fake relationship or a magical dream sequence ** very brief (< one page/one episode) *** Clark/Diana are absent; their children are the main characters **** I can’t explain the caution for this one in one sentence, sorry

If you know any issue/run that feature SuperWonder and that is not listed here, drop me a title so I can read it and add it onto the list!

Now, more detailed recommendations and some pictures under the cut!

1974 - Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane, #136

The first time Clark and Diana are dating in canon, though brace yourselves - it’s only a Fake Relationship Trope. A ploy to protect Lois from Clark’s obsessive stalker and they part again at the end of the issue.

Still, the comic gives us a brief date-scene, two SuperWonder kisses and the entire plot is told through Lois’ POV, who keeps narrating just how well Diana and Clark fit together. So while not a real relationship, it still gives a good first visual and narrative representation of what their relationship would be like.

Definitely recommended, especially as a starting point into this SuperWonder journey.

1981 - DC Presents, #32

Again, not a real relationship - this time, magic made them do it. The god Eros is rejected by Diana and, to punish her, makes her and Superman fall in love.

They try to fight it, but the pull is too strong at times, giving us (including the cover) three SuperWonder kisses, jealousy and tension. It’s a good one for visuals, but the fact that it was all due to magic and is resolved in the end, having them part and go back to Lois and Steve, puts a damper on things.

1983 - Wonder Woman, Vol. 1 #300

The first of three instances where it’s all just a dream. Oblivion holds Diana captive in her own mind, trapping her in various dream-scenarios where someone not Steve lands on Themyscira. Among them, a few pages long dream-sequence where Superman crashes onto the island.

Despite being a dream, it gives a wonderful pitch for a What If, showing how they could have fallen in love had Clark landed on the island. They even get married in the dream. Sadly, even in the dream, they break up before Diana wakes up. I still appreciate seeing this take on how they could have fallen in love though.

1987 - Superman Annual, Vol. 1 #11

The story For The Man Who Has Everything features Diana and Bruce (and Jason Todd) as they free Clark from a mind-prison, a plant that induces a dream of your heart’s greatest desire.

And while the story itself resists the “SuperWonder are canon in a dream��, Clark and Diana do kiss in the end, outside of the dream, back in the real world. Though instead of acknowledging what a splendid idea that is, DC is being strangely winkey about it by having them call their getting together “too predictable” and end it there.

Truly not a lot in here, but a SuperWonder kiss is a SuperWonder kiss, I suppose.

1987 - Superman, Vol. 2 #05

While the very brief scene itself is only a dream, this is simultaneously the first instance of actually making Clark’s feelings for Diana canon. This is not a magic-induced dream, it is fueled by Clark’s real, actual feelings for Diana that are blossoming. While I don’t consider it worth reading if you’re reading for the ship - since it is truly only the first few pages of the issue - it is still an important instance to note in the overall history of SuperWonder.

1988 - Action Comics, Vol. 1 #600

The natural way to celebrate fifty years of Superman; by having Clark and Diana kiss on the cover and them, for the first time in actual canon, admit their feelings to each other. They kiss, for real, with no ploy or dream or magic, and agree to go on a date.

The best first date for two heroes their size is, naturally, to save Olympus from Darkseid. The issue beautifully illustrates what a great team they make and also just how well they already know - within seconds recognizing when a doppelgänger takes the other’s place.

Sadly, in the end, they agree to just be friends, Clark claiming that he does not stand equal with the Gods and that Diana is thus out of his league and Diana needing more time to settle into man’s world. Despite that agreement, it is a wonderful issue showing just how well they work together and having them share their first canon kiss and go on their first actual date.

1996 - Kingdom Come

Earth-22 is the holy grail of SuperWonder. We will revisit this Earth’s timeline two more times in this post, but let’s kick it off with its first run.

Lois is dead and Clark mourns alone. Diana lures him out of retirement and Clark has to face a world he has failed. Though they edge on over the course of the story, they remain each other’s most important pillar through this upcoming war. And, when the dust settles after the fight, they find each other.

In a brief epilogue, the two meet with Bruce to tell him that they are expecting a child, marking the first instance of endgame SuperWonder getting a happy ending; neither of them dead and both starting a family together.

1998 - Distant Fires

Oh boy, do I have mixed feelings about this one. Listen, if you just stop reading at page 49, this is basically perfection. And I am in love with it.

The premise alone is an intriguing one; man-made catastrophe wipes out basically all life on Earth. Lois is dead, and so are Clark’s friends. He thinks he is the sole survivor of the apocalypse, before he finds Diana - and she shows him an entire village of survivors. All heroes have lost their powers in the apocalypse and they now have to adjust to this new reality. As they rebuild a society for themselves, Clark and Diana fall in love, get married and have a son, Bruce Kent.

Instead of exploring this intriguing premise of powerless superheroes rebuilding their own society after the apocalypse, the comic introduces a twisted Billy Batson who is obsessed with conquering the world - and conquering Diana. Ultimately deciding that if he can’t have her, no one can and so he kills Diana. As a rage filled Clark fights Billy to avenge Diana, the Earth literally comes apart and Clark barely manages to send their son away from the exploding Earth, mirroring his own origin stories.

Not only is it incredibly disgusting to see Diana die in such a manner - killed for such a motif - but also to see Billy, of all people, as the antagonist. Yet I’d still recommend it because it’s very intriguing. And if you stop reading at page 49, you get to pretend it has a happy end.

1999 - The Kingdom

Here we have a direct sequel to Kingdom Come. We revisit Earth-22 in time for the birth of their son, Jonathan Kent. But we only get a brief moment to be joyous before a villain comes crashing the party (read New Year’s Evil: Gog from 1998 as a prologue and villain origin story). He ends up kidnapping baby Jonathan and Clark, Diana and Bruce find themselves on a time-traveling adventure trying to get Jonathan back and defeat Gog.

The comic does have a happy ending for our heroes and they are reunited with their son - not just the infant-version though; it is revealed that Jon will grow up to become a hero like his parents and protect the multiverse under the alias Hyperman. Clark and Diana’s past selves, from a time before the triggering disaster from Kingdom Come, wonder if this adventure has changed their timeline too, or if Jon will be born (and, consequently, Diana and Clark will end up together) in their timeline too, to which Jon gives a cryptic answer.

Personally, I enjoyed this as a sequel quite a lot. It gave us a glimpse into their happiness, it teased that their son would grow up to be a hero and it gave a potential of a changed, alternate timeline where just maybe, the heroes of the past manage to avoid the great disaster... and still get their happy ending.

1999 - Wonder Woman, Vol. 2 #140 & #141

I do quite love this two-parter. The premise is a similar one as 1983′s Wonder Woman #300, where Diana is captured in a dream. She dreams of world peace, but it is not enough to keep her captive, because she is lonely.

So to keep her trapped, Oblivion also captures Clark and Bruce - who had come to rescue Diana - and traps all three in a shared dream-reality.

Prior to being captured, we get a look inside Bruce’s thoughts and see him worry if Clark’s romantic feelings for Diana will jeopardize this mission, seeing as there are no other Justice League members as “buffers” (quote), not only driving home that, yes, that Clark has real feelings for Diana, but also that Bruce knows this.

Inside the dream, Diana and Clark are in love and happy - unlike in #300 where their relationship within the dream comes apart. They get married with Bruce as their best man (and, though I try to limit the amount of images in this post, I can’t not include a SuperWonder wedding) and Diana finds out she is pregnant. But even the most beautiful of dreams has to end and while both Clark and Diana express how much they enjoy this dream, they confront the fact that it is not real and break out of it.

While the relationship itself only happens in a dream, Clark and Diana’s feelings are very real and so is their yearning. We end with a shot of Diana, accepting reality but being sad that it was just a dream. The story very beautifully shows the Amazon princess’ lonely status as Wonder Woman and it also shows the potential of Superman as her equal, it also serves to show that they both still have feelings for each other in their reality, while also giving a beautiful dream-sequence of what their life could be like.

2000 - Created Equal

I wasn’t fully sure whether or not to include this one. They’re not explicitely stated to be together, though Diana’s feelings for him are evident and it is heavily implied toward the end that the two of them will end up together. So see this as a warning of sorts. I would still count it, even without the expliciteness.

Now, to the story itself. Lois dies. Again, she does that a lot. Also all men aside from Clark and Lex die of an unknown plague. It’s a pretty interesting two-issue story, I think, though the approach is very... man-hating in how it’s executed. Lex becomes the king of incels and all men are implied to be inherently bad by nature, so if that’s not your cup of tea, maybe steer clear.

2000 - Act of God

This one comes with actual trigger warnings, because it includes themes of alcoholism, depression and nearly attempted suicide. It also comes with a hearty recommendation though.

Remember how, far up above, I complained that Distant Fires didn’t deal with the more interesting elements, such as the power-losses? This three-parter features a so-called “act of god” that caused all super-powered beings to lose their powers and then deals with what this would actually mean for them. Clark and Diana are not the vocal point of the story; the comic focuses on other heroes and how they cope with the loss too.

Lois divorces Clark, because she realizes she “loved the Super more than the Man”, when she can’t deal with Clark’s depression and self-pity anymore. He can’t deal with all of this on his own though and seeks out Diana, someone he feels will and can actually understand what he is going through. Though their relationship is bumpy and they break up in-between - Clark a heavy alcoholic and Diana suicidal - when they hit rockbottom, they find each other again and they pull themselves together again.

Despite Clark sobering up and picking up the pieces of his life again, including his work at the Daily Planet, he does not get back together with Lois; the two reconcile as friends and Clark and Diana get to raise their son together, presenting the second instance of SuperWonder endgame with a happy ending. It also teased the potential for a sequel, revealing their son to have powers.

2001 - Riddle of the Beast

I’m not entirely sure how to describe this. It’s like how I imagine it’d be if the Justice League sat down together and played D&D.

The story is a Lord of the Rings-esque high fantasy setting and all characters are... very far removed from what they are in canon while still echoing their canon selves in certain ways.

In it, Diana and Kal are king and queen of warring kingdoms. They were once engaged but the engagement came off. The main plot happens - it’s centered around Tim Drake and Zatanna mostly, who are on a quest to slay the Beast - and changes both Kal and Diana’s situations.

At the end of the battle, Kal and Diana are reunited and at the very end of the comic, agree to give each other a chance, romantically. Though their interactions are very brief and they are not explicitely shown as a couple, as a fair warning. But they do end up together.

2002 - The Dark Knight Strikes Again

Don’t read this comic. I just... I can not stress enough how much I recommend everyone to not even touch it. The Millerverse is atrocious, obnoxious and misogynistic enough as it is, but this one also comes with horrendously ugly art - and that’s not just in the sense of objective taste; there is no anatomy in this hastily scribbled-looking comic (just look at the proportions below; Clark’s thumb is as thick as Diana’s arm).

Sure, they’re technically canon in this universe, but... at what cost... Clark is a better sperm-bank, purely sexual and not a romantic partner or equal to Diana, who is honestly quite the bitch in this story. They’re a very small fraction of a very large, overall mess. The comic can’t even be recommended for the SuperWonder content, much less for the actual plot.

Here, I’ll spare you the time of going through it for SuperWonder and will provide you with their kiss, which is basically the peak of whatever is going on between them in this comic:

2003 - Red Son

While the premise of “what if Clark grew up in Russia and became an important pawn in the Cold War?” is incredibly intriguing... the execution is sloppy and whacky. Lex Luthor is the good guy and though Kal and Lois literally only exchange one glance once, the story still kind of acted as though there was some romantic will they wont they going on between them - just to reveal (and no, I am not making this up) that Kal is a direct descendant of Lex/Lois who was sent back in time when Earth exploded.

Diana is introduced as a potential match made between Stalin and Hippolyta, but the comic never actually pull through with them. Diana is canonically in love with Clark, but no only does Clark not return those feelings, he also remains oblivious to them, ultimately ending up ruining Diana’s life.

Personally, I wouldn’t recommend it, not just because of the onesidedness of SuperWonder, but also because... seriously, I can not stress enough just how weird not just the ship of Lex/Lois but the fact that Kal is their descendant was and how even more weird the tension between Lois and Kal was, under these circumstances. The whole comic is just... weird.

2004 - New Frontier

While the story itself is more or less entertaining, if you came solely for the SuperWonder, this is not the right comic. They have a total exchange of three pages over these six issues and it ends with them sharing a kiss... right before Diana nearly dies. She does survive, but even as they reunite, the kiss is not spoken of again and they are not romantically involved after.

2005 - All Star Batman and Robin, The Boy Wonder

More Millerverse. Still, can not stress enough how much I dislike this verse, but at least the art is pretty this time. But if you’re really only here for the SuperWonder, this is even less recommendable. They barely have one scene in this that lasts only if I remember right three pages or so.

And for the story itself? Again, it’s the Millerverse. It’s weird, and not in an entertaining way; in a disturbing way. So here, have the one obligatory SuperWonder kiss Miller put in there and move on to better comics:

2009 - Thy Kingdom Come

We’re back on Earth-22... more or less.. in this kind-of midquel to Kingdom Come. This one does require some explaining.

Clark is pulled out of his own reality and sucked into a parallel world, one where Clark Kent has died a while ago and where the Justice Society keeps the peace. An enemy appears who echoes Clark’s own past from his Earth.

But if you came here for the SuperWonder, you can safely skip this one - or at least skip to the final issue’s last five pages, where we are treated to a beautiful, art-style keeping redrawing of Clark and Diana’s getting together scene, as well as brief shots into what their future looks like, including a confirmation that Clark and Diana have four children in this reality.

Though that is really it when it comes to SuperWonder in this comic; it fully takes place on the parallel Earth and even there, Clark’s entire focus is on facing the ghosts of his past - in the form of Lois. He spares no thoughts to Diana or has real interactions with this world’s Diana; he grieves Lois and confronts her, his dynamic with Kara is also explored marginally. As a whole, I’d still recommend it though, because it’s very compelling; the storyline is interesting and well-executed, the characters involved are very compelling and the “man out of his world” plot presented an interesting angle on it all. Also, at the very least, it doesn’t undo anything about Kingdom Come, though it also doesn’t necessarily add much to it either.

2012-2016 - New 52

I have such mixed feelings and with this being the longest run of SuperWonder, there’s a lot to unpack.

For one, there is a lot of SuperWonder in here, which makes sense considering there is an aptly named Superman/Wonder Woman series in the New 52, which I definitely do have to recommend. But maybe stop early, if you aren’t into heartbreak, because Clark dies in the end. And he gets replaced by a Clark who comes with his wife Lois and son. They really just... replace Superman like you’d change a lightbulb, and I’m mad about that.

I do think that the SuperWonder relationship in New 52 is very beautiful. It highlights all their strengths and what makes them work. It also gives them some domestic moments and dates and really quite a lot of kisses and gentleness. If they hadn’t shit the bed with the ending, this could be such a beautiful, contained little SuperWonder universe.

The tricky part is knowing where to find it, outside the SM/WW run. Their relationship actually starts out in the Justice League run, in volume 2, and is also featured in volume 3. If you are only here for the SuperWonder, those are the only two times that their romantic relationship is really acknowledged in Justice League. So if by volume 3 the story is still not doing anything for you, I’d say stop reading there, because if if at that point, SuperWonder is still your driving force, you don’t really need to bother anymore.

Instinctively, you’d go to the separate Superman and Wonder Woman runs too. And you’d be wrong. The Superman run manages to, somehow, be C/ois bait, putting them very close, physically so too, and much in a “will they/won’t they” situation, which seems strange and uncalled for since Clark is with Diana from the get go and stays faithful with her and they quite literally have to kill this Clark off and replace him with a whole new Clark who is in love with Lois. Aside from that, Wonder Woman is an absolute mess and if you are invested in Greek mythology you too might feel personally offended by this as I did, and the Superman storyline wasn’t... the writing wasn’t after my taste, at one point I just started skipping through it for the SuperWonder tidbits.

And because the New 52 are horribly confusing to keep track of with the different series and how they interact, here is a short, chronological order in which SuperWonder are actually featured (for completion’s sake, all Justice League volumes not featuring SuperWonder are also listed but set in braces):

Justice League Vol. 1: Origin

Justice League Vol. 2: The Villain’s Journey

Justice League Vol. 3: Throne of Atlantis

(Justice League Vol. 4: The Grid)

Superman: Unchained

(Justice League: Trinity War)

(Justice League of America: Survivors of Evil)

(Forever Evil)

Young Romance

Superman Vol. 4: Psi War

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol.1: Power Couple

Superman Vol. 5: Under Fire

Superman: Doomed

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 2: War and Peace

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 3: Casualties of War

(Justice League Vol. 6: Injustice League)

Justice League: Power and Glory

(Justice League Vol. 7: Darkseid War Part 1)

(Justice League Vol. 7: Darkseid War Part 2)

(Superman Vol. 7: Before Truth)

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 4: Dark Truth

Superman/Wonder Woman Vol. 5: A Savage End

Superman: Savage Dawn

The Final Days of Superman

If you don’t want to see him die slowly, don’t read the crossed-out issues. If you don’t mind the death, or just want to get to the SuperWonder bits in between, that’s how the story goes and Final Days is where it ends.

2013-2016 - Injustice: Gods Among Us

This is gonna be one of these more complicated reviews again, because there is actually relatively little SuperWonder in this (considering the length of the run), but even so I would wholeheartedly recommend it because I am deeply, madly in love with this universe.

It takes an alternate turn on Kingdom Come, in a way: If you came out of that, thinking “Damn, I wish Clark hadn’t retired to farm in isolation after Lois dies but instead had murdered the Joker” - you have come to the right place. Again, Lois dies. This time, Clark kills the Joker for it and decides “no more”. No more unnecessary death. And what... starts out as a good cause slowly, very slowly and gradually, slips. This is an incredibly well-written slowburn thought-experiment on a corrupted Superman who becomes a tyrant and dictator to the world and I absolutely adore it, seriously, it is so well-written, even when juggling so many sub-threads and characters, it really fleshes their stories and motivations out so well.

The SuperWonder is just a bonus. And a relatively small one, at that, hence the opening of this being a more complicated review. They’re heavily implied to be a couple, Diana definitely is in love with him, there is a beautiful though short dream-sequence where they are happy together. There’s SuperWonder continuously sprinkled in between the story, but well, it’s not the main focus, so if your goal in reading these is to only focus on the SuperWonder, this might be a disappointing read. (The above image is not from the dream sequence; the below one is though.)

2013-2014 - Justice League Beyond 2.0

I’ve tried to write the briefest of warnings in the summary, but this one is too complicated to break down in one sentence, so if the summary note confused you and you ended up here for a full-length dissection of what is going on, take a seat.

This story takes place in the Batman Beyond continuity. Clark is a vocal point of the new Justice League, with a young team. Together, they saved a young boy named Zod-Ur from the Phantom Zone and Clark basically decided to adopt the kid, help him find his footing as a Kryptonian on Earth.

It later turns out Zod-Ur is actually Clark/Diana’s biological son. Only not this Clark.

Diana from the Beyond reality left many years ago to a parallel Earth where Lord Superman and Lady Wonder Woman rule as evil dictators and she went there to fight them. Along the way, she fell in love with that other world’s Bruce Wayne. Other Bruce and other Diana die in the continuous war between Bruce/Diana and Clark/Diana in what might be the strangest ship-war-metaphor possible.

Beyond!Diana then agrees to get married to Lord Superman; a political alliance to bring peace to their people. But they hate each other.

And still, they decide to have a child together because... they want to project all their marital problems onto the kid, I guess. However, the Brainiacs from both their worlds work together to steal the child and hide it away in Beyond’s Phantom Zone, where the boy grew up to become Zod-Ur.

You... can see how this is a bit more complex than a one sentence break-down? A biological child of SuperWonder is one of the main characters (he is a delight and getting to know him is definitely worth the read to claim him in later... better... takes on SuperWonder, since we rarely ever see their children beyond the baby stage). And technically, SuperWonder are married, but... they’re not happy or in love or... even like each other.

Meanwhile, Beyond!Superman... doesn’t have his Lois either, this part confused me because usually Lois being dead means SuperWonder is endgame. But there don’t seem to be romantic feelings between the Beyond versions of Diana and Clark either, though they do... kind of... end up as co-parents to Zod-Ur, since the boy already took to Clark and Diana is here to stay and trying to rekindle her relationship to her son.

I would recommend it still, because I found Justice League Beyond quite engaging and I think it is worth it for Zod-Ur alone if you want to get to know the possibilities of a SuperWonder family more, but if you read it for the ship itself, don’t, because the ship’s not a happy place in this. (Below, Beyond!Clark with Zod-Ur.)

2014 - Justice League: War

This is actually what started all of this for me; my first introduction to SuperWonder. Unlike all prior to it, this is not a comic - it’s an animated movie. And Clark and Diana aren’t (yet) actually together. Though they heavily flirt during multiple instances and their voice-actors brilliantly deliver on the inrigue both characters feel toward each other.

This movie marks the first in a multiple-movies spanning shared universe that I’m personally very fond of; I enjoy the characters’ characterizations, the constellations and the animation, as well as the stories.

2015 - Justice League: Throne of Atlantis

The next movie in the shared universe. And it directly opens up with SuperWonder sharing a kiss over Athens. Over the course of the movie, they bond, go on an actual date and banter throughout.

Aside from being heavy on SuperWonder, the movie introduces Aquaman to the universe - and to this Justice League - and explores the dynamic among this JL lineup more thoroughly. Seriously, I recommend these movies.

2016 - Justice League vs Teen Titans

The third (and last) of the Justice League movies in this universe (though there are more movies set in this world). This time, the Justice League has to face Trigon - in a rather different way, as the demon takes them over and the Teen Titans need to save them.

We see Diana and Clark preparing for a date and later coming from said date, just before Clark is taken over. In the final battle, it is Clark who brings Diana back from her possession.

Now, while I do recommend this universe, from a SuperWonder point of view, I’d advise you to stop after this movie; it is followed by the first Superman solo movies (Death of Superman and Reign of the Supermen) and the first Wonder Woman solo movie (Bloodlines), which... break SuperWonder up for... literally no given reason, just to have them in their usual endgame romances for their solo movies (also the final entry to this universe, Justice League Dark 2: Apokolips War, is simply an atrocity and a gorey mess). Still, that’s a total of 11 animated movies, even without those four. (Not that you can’t watch those four too, it’s just a well-meant warning, particularly if you don’t want to see Clark and Diana broken up for no reason whatsoever.)

2016 - Justice League: Action

This show SuperWonder baited me. It’s a cartoon series that, in theory, has SuperWonder as a canon ship in it, but... they’re only actively seen as a couple in one episode and mentioned in passing one more time. Not that I need a romance at the forefront of a cartoon series, but even for a background ship of two of the main characters, you’d expect it to come up casually more often, through small gestures shared or something.

The one (out of 52) episode that does focus on them is episode 12 Repulse!, where we see them on a date, having a good time, just to be interrrupted by a villain. There is a total of not one, not two, but three (3) interrupted kisses. Which is absolutely ridiculous, seriously if this was a mlm or a wlw ship I would understand the homophobic censoring of preventing them from an on-screen kiss but seeing a man and a woman kiss on screen in a cartoon is... really not that unusual. This cartoon is so strange to me in that they are canon, but they never get an uninterrupted kiss and they don’t even get casual background relationship behavior. It’s treated like a heavily censored queer ship would be treated in a cartoon and that’s just wild.

I’d still, on the overall, recommend the cartoon though, because the animation is cute, the stories are funny and quirky and explore the different members of the Justice League nicely. But if you only came for the SuperWonder... just watch episode 12 and move on, there is literally nothing more in it than that.

2017-2018 - Injustice 2

This is where things get complicated in the recommendation department again, because... there virtually is no SuperWonder in this. As indicated in the table of content/short-list at the top, it amounts to one page, really. And that one page is Black Adam referring to Diana as Clark’s love.

However, that’s not due to, say, them shelving the ship or something. They kind of... shelved both Clark and Diana in the sequel? Clark spends all of this in prison and only appears in the first and last issue of the run, Diana is also imprisoned for a huge junk of the comic. But seeing as it very much sets up a sequel and is itself a sequel to a comic where SuperWonder is canon, I would still recommend it - if you came out of Injustice: Gods Among Us really loving the story, the world and the other characters too. If you came out of that one already only liking the SuperWonder, then there is absolutely nothing in this run for you, aside from the one panel below.

2020 - Golden Child

This one’s different because Clark and Diana aren’t even in it (well, Clark is, very briefly), but they’re still technically a very important angle to this comic - because their children, Lara and Jonathan, are the main characters.

It’s Millerverse, again, by the way. But honestly, I actually kind of liked this one. It was an interesting exploration of how a child would deal with these kind of powers and I find Lara and Jon rather interesting.

#SuperWonder #Clark Kent #Diana Prince #DC Comics #New 52 #Injustice #Kingdom Come #Thy Kingdom Come #JLA: Act of God #Distant Fires #Created Equal #Red Son #JLA: Riddle of the Beast #Justice League Beyond 2.0

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Her role in Harvey Dent's past was updated into the currently prominent Two-Face origin: Batman Annual #14 (1990), a story called "Eye of the Beholder."[9] In this story, it is revealed that Dent's father was an abusive alcoholic who would nightly play a game with his young son: "I'll flip a coin: if it's heads, I beat you. Tails, I don't." Dent spends a lifetime burying his rage and resentment, only to discover that the coin was two-headed all along. While Dent is torn between loving and resenting his father, Gilda clearly despises him; she scoffs that after a lifetime of abuse and cruelty, the only thing Dent's father ever gave him was a coin.

Gilda tries to comfort Dent as his sanity deteriorates. She pleads with him when, upon awakening from a nightmare, he races out of their bed in the middle of the night and goes to his office, "where it's safe". After Harvey is disfigured, Gilda visits him in the hospital to try to give him back the coin. It was in his pocket during the trial, and was also hit by some acid, scarring one side of the coin. She last appears in this story right after Two-Face murders his corrupt former assistant, Adrian Fields, tearfully explaining Dent's abuse history to Batman.

Gilda does not reappear until Secret Origins Special # 1,[10] where she (here named Grace) appears on a TV talk show focusing on Gotham's villains. She talks about a time when one of the criminals Dent put away as D.A. returned for revenge by taking her hostage. Two-Face eventually rescued her, beating the ex-con to the point of death, but holding off because Grace demanded he stop. This represents a rare case where Two-Face is not influenced by the coin, but rather by someone else's welfare. She tries once again to appeal to his "good" side, but fails. At the end of the interview, she professes her belief that, one day, Dent would return to her.

Gilda returns in Batman: Two-Face Strikes Twice.[11] Here, she finds herself at odds with her now-ex-husband, as he believes their marriage failed because he was unable to give her children. She later marries Paul Janus, a reference to the Roman god of doors who had two faces, one facing forward, the other backward. Two-Face attempts to frame Janus as a criminal by kidnapping him and replacing him with a stand-in, whom Two-Face "disfigures" with makeup to make it look as if Janus has gone insane just as Two-Face had. Two-Face is eventually caught by Batman and sent away, and Gilda and Janus reunite. Years later, Gilda gives birth to twins named James and Luke, prompting Two-Face to escape once more and take the twins hostage, as he erroneously believes them to be conceived by Janus using an experimental fertility drug. The end of the book reveals a surprise twist; Batman learns from Gilda that Janus is not the father of Gilda's twins - Dent is. Some of his sperm had been frozen after a death threat had been made against him, and she used some of it to get pregnant. Batman uses this information to convince Dent to free the twins and turn himself in.[12]

Post-Zero HourEdit

Gilda Dent destroying incriminating evidence against her husband Harvey Dent in Batman: The Long Halloween. Art by Tim Sale.

After the events of Zero Hour: Crisis in Time, Gilda's entire history has been revised. She has a larger role and story arc in The Long Halloween,[13] a maxi-series that is part of Two-Face's origin in Batman Annual #14. During the nearly year-long story, a serial killer called Holiday systematically murders prominent gangsters. During the series, Gilda's marriage to Dent shows signs of strain; she wants to settle down and start a family, while he is obsessed with capturing Holiday. In a private monologue at the end, Gilda states that she was the original Holiday killer, having committed all of the murders up until New Year's Eve. Gilda indicates that Dent murdered Alberto Falcone on New Year's Eve, taking her place, and that he was the one responsible for the crimes from that point on. The confession is only known to readers, since Alberto confessed to all the Holiday murders upon his capture. Gilda destroys the evidence of her crimes and leaves Gotham City.

Due to the success of The Long Halloween, the events of the story have generally been accepted into continuity as the "official" story of Batman's early years, given that Zero Hour retconned the events of Batman: Year Two and rendered them non-canonical. In Batman: Dark Victory, the Calendar Man is about to reveal Holiday's true identity, but an enraged Two-Face cuts him off.

In Greg Rucka's novelization of Batman: No Man's Land, Dent thinks that Gilda is dead.

Post Infinite CrisisEdit

In the "One Year Later" story arc Batman: Face the Face, Dent mentions Gilda when recalling his past life, but the Two-Face persona states "No, Harvey. She's gone now".

During Dick Grayson's tenure as Batman, she appears standing over a wounded Harvey Dent. The Riddler reveals that she faked her death and was institutionalized following The Long Halloween, where she met Mario Falcone, who suffered a similar breakdown following the event of Dark Victory. After getting involved upon their release, Falcone kept Gilda like a prisoner, and she conspired with the Riddler to steal Two-Face's coin and entice him to rescue her. Knowing that Falcone was on Dent's tail, Gilda faked Harvey's death by appearing to shoot him at point-blank range. When they were finally reunited, she explained how much she missed him, and that she now believed in Two-Face as well as Harvey Dent. Feeling betrayed and manipulated, Two-Face tried to kill her, but hesitated, only to be stopped by Batman. To save Harvey, she shot Batman with a .22, knocking him out and allowing them both to escape. Her ultimate fate remains unknown, and Dick even expressed doubt that she was in fact the real Gilda Dent.[14]

New 52Edit

In the New 52 reboot, Gilda is a socialite that Bruce Wayne introduces to Harvey at a graduation party. She is killed in front of Harvey by Erin McKillen.

Other versionsEdit

FlashpointEdit

In the alternate timeline of the Flashpoint event, Harvey Dent has a wife and twin children. When the Joker kidnaps Dent's children, Mrs. Dent is emotional while her husband asks Thomas Wayne (the Batman of this timeline) for help in their search.[15]

In other mediaEdit

FilmEdit

A Victorian era version of Gilda appears briefly, without dialogue, in the animated adaptation of Gotham by Gaslight.

Gilda appears in the two part animated film Batman: The Long Halloween, voiced by Julie Nathanson.[16] In this version of events, Gilda takes the blame as the Holiday Killer, motivated by her anger at the Falcones after she had a past relationship with Alberto that ended with Falcone ending the marriage and forcing Gilda to get an abortion of her and Alberto's child.

TelevisionEdit

A character analogous to Gilda, Grace Lamont, appeared in Batman: The Animated Series, voiced by Murphy Cross. In the episode "Two-Face", she is D.A. Harvey Dent's fiancée. Alongside Dent's best friend Bruce Wayne, she watches helplessly as Dent loses his grip on sanity while going after gangster Rupert Thorne. After Dent is disfigured and becomes Two-Face, Thorne plots to use Grace against his new rival. A couple of Thorne's men disguise themselves as police officers and offer Grace a handheld tracking device, in case Two-Face ever approaches her. Two-Face eventually does, bringing her to his lair and wearing a scarf to cover his scars. She nearly succeeds in persuading Two-Face to reform, when Thorne's men show up, revealing that Grace inadvertently betrayed him. Nevertheless, Grace helps Batman and Two-Face fight off Thorne's men, and remains by his side as he is taken into custody with Thorne.

MiscellaneousEdit

Grace returned to animated continuity in the comic series The Batman and Robin Adventures issues # 1 and # 2, where the Joker manipulates Two-Face into thinking that Grace and Bruce are having an affair.[17] Two-Face abducts her and tries to kill Robin, but is ultimately thwarted when Grace jabs the jagged edge of the scarred coin into the disfigured side of his face. The story ends with the implication that their relationship is now damaged beyond repair.

Grace appears again in The Batman and Robin Adventures issue #22, in which Two-Face's life is thrown into chaos when he loses his coin during an unplanned breakout from Arkham Asylum, and is forced to replace it with a quarter. Little Jonni Infantino, the mastermind behind the breakout, threatens to hurt Grace if Two-Face doesn't provide information on one of Rupert Thorne's thugs, Weird Tony Hendra, whom Two-Face prosecuted as Harvey Dent.

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What’s in a retcon, anyway?

The more I think about, the less I believe that comic book writers feel compelled to be bound by earlier writing. Unless an editor is keeping them under their thumb to get coherent writing – and if DC had that, things wouldn't be such a mess – it seems to me they are happy to blend their personal variant of a canon backstory. I will present a number of examples to support my hypothesis.

Pre-Crisis, Marv Wolfman wrote Dick saying he was Robin from age 8 (New Teen Titans #39, 1984), and he’s about 19 at the time.

New Teen Titans # 39. By Marv Wolfman, art George Pérez. (1984)

When Crisis on Infinite Earths reached Batman, Jim Starlin wrote the retcon that said that Dick was Robin for six years, presumably from age 13 to 19. (Batman # 416, 1987). This version also included that Bruce fired Dick from Robin, but more on that later.

Batman # 416. By Jim Starlin, art Jim Aparo and Mike DeCarlo. (1987)

And then Marv Wolfman wrote Batman Year Three (Batman # 436–439, 1989), and all of a sudden, it was ten years since Dick's parents were killed when Jason had recently died. That has to imply that Dick was Robin for longer than six years, right? And that Dick was about ten when he came to Bruce.

The following year, 1990, Dennis O'Neal wrote an illustrated short story about Dick's origin where he was ten when his parents were murdered. (The Glimpse. In Secret Origins vol 2 # 50, 1990)

Dennis O'Neal, by the way, was the editor of Batman # 416 and co-editor of Batman Year Three (Batman 436–439). He should be the guy to keep track of details like this, shouldn't he?

Then we have Chuck Dixon's version of Dick's origin in Robin vol 2 Annual # 4 (1995). This retcon includes that Dick spent time at a youth centre before he came to Bruce (the "juvie origin"), but his age is never mentioned. He doesn't look old enough to be 13, in my opinion.

The next decade, Devin Grayson had Dick say, in at least two different issues, that he was orphaned at 8. (Batman: Gotham Knights # 21. By Devin Grayson, art Roger Robinson and John Floyd (2001), and Nightwing vol 2 # 76. 2003) Just as in (the Pre-Crisis) NTT # 39.

Nightwing vol 2 # 76. By Devin Grayson, art Mike Lilly and Andy Owens. (2001)

Does that mean Devin Grayson also intended to rewrite other retcons that came after the Crisis – so that Dick wasn't fired from Robin and/or Dixon's "juvie origin"?

It’s difficult to say, since she never did write her own version of Dick’s origin. I can't remember her Nightwing run mentioning either how Dick left Robin or what had happened before he moved in with Bruce. (Actually, I can't remember any writer, besides Chuck Dixon himself, referencing the "juvie origin".) But Devin Grayson wrote Dick talking about being left in an orphanage in Gotham Knight # 21, in a context where he surely would have said “left at the youth centre” if she had ment to stick with Dixon’s version.

Batman: Gotham Knights # 21. By Devin Grayson, art Roger Robinson and John Floyd. (2001)

After Flashpoint, in the new origin story, Dick was 15 when he was orphaned. (Nightwing vol 3 # 0, 2012) But in Rebirth Batman # 54 (2018), by Tom King, Dick is drawn way younger in a flashback, and he’s been shown younger in the Nightwing title too.

Two more examples of canon jumping all over the place are Jason Todd's origin and how Dick left Robin to become Nightwing. Dick originally left by his own decision, because he felt Robin was the junior partner to Batman while he had outgrown that, but the Post-Crisis on Infinite Earth retcon was that Bruce fired Dick. First, in Batman # 408, because he got scared when the Joker shot Robin. Later, in Chuck Dixon's version (in Nightwing: Secret Files and Origin, and Nightwing Year One, Nightwing vol 2 100–106), Bruce fired Dick at ostensibly because Robin wasn't available enough when Batman needed assistance.

Again, after Dixon, I can't remember any writer referencing that Dick should have been outright fired as Robin.

Jason Todd was introduced as a strawberry blond, circus kid Dick Grayson clone but after Crisis on Infinite Earths he was a black-haired street kid. And when Dick originally left Robin, it was his choice to let Jason become Robin. Post-Crisis, Batman made Jason Robin – and while Dick might not have been on good terms with Bruce, he did accept Jason as Robin.

Fast forward to the 2010s. When Grant Morrison wrote Batman, and Batman and Robin vol 1, he re-introduced Jason Todd with red-blond hair – but not his Pre-Crisis personality (the Dick Grayson clone.)

Morrison's era Jason Todd was the street kid and he had always liked trouble which made him "a juvie" (Batman and Robin vol 1 # 23, 2011, written by Judd Winick). In the same issue, there is a flashback that shows that Dick was on good terms with Bruce and working with Batman and JasonRobin – as if it were the Pre-Crisis version.

Batman and Robin vol 1 # 23, by Judd Winnick, art Guillem March and Andrei Bresson. (2011)

In the very last issue of Batman before Flashpoint and New 52 (Batman # 713, by Fabian Nicieza, 2011) a flashback seems to confirm that it was Dick's decision to leave Robin.

Batman # 713. By Fabian Nicieza, pencillers Steve Scott, Daniel Sampere, Andrei Bressan. 2011.

The Morrison era Batman was, very much, built on a mix of Pre- and Post-Crisis material.

Pre-Crisis, by the way, Jason Todd was the first boy that Bruce adopted, and that was still the case when he was killed Post-Crisis. But he's been referred to as his ward in Batman: Gotham Knights # 44 (2003, written by Devin Grayson), as well as Batman and Robin vol 1 # 23 (2011, written by Judd Winick). (I'm sure other writers/other issues have put Jason down as adopted son...)

Batman and Robin vol 1 # 23, by Judd Winnick, art Guillem March and Andrei Bresson. (2011)

Neither Devin Grayson nor Grant Morrison wrote, as far as I can remember, a "visible" retcon where their ideas of the character's backstories are laid out. But it's nevertheless clear that they did not work with the same version of the character's history as writer/s who preceded them.

Then there's Robin Dies at Dawn from 1963 (Batman # 156), where Batman took part in a psychological experiment. That was canon and the unnamed doctor, who seemed pretty harmless at the time, became a major adversary, Doctor Hurt, during Grant Morrison’s run. Doctor Hurt has also been active as a Nightwing villain in Rebirth.

Batman # 673. Written by Grant Morrison, pencil Tony S. Daniel, ink Jonathan Glapion and Sandu Florea. (2008)

Nightwing vol 4 # 19. By Tim Seeley, art Javier Fernandez and Minkyu Jung. (2017)

Another recent example of cherrypicking is Tom King who, in his Batman/Catwoman mini series, uses the character Andrea Beaumont/Phantasm from the DC Animated Universe (she was created for an animated film in 1993). Of course, she's far from the first character who has been created in the animated universe and made their way over to comic book canon.

Tom King also used Hush in Batman vol 3 # 80 (2019), even though the man was last seen being killed in another universe (Batman: Prelude to the Wedding, Nightwing vs Hush, 2018).

Batman: Prelude to the Wedding. Nightwing vs Hush. By Tim Seeley, art Travis G Moore.

Sam Humphries, who wrote Nightwing vol 4 for a short period – I don’t know why he left early – had plans to use Dick’s Uncle George, whose one and only appearance was in 1944, in Batman vol 1 # 20. This is from an interview on Batman-news.com: https://batman-news.com/2017/11/27/a-nightwing-before-christmas-an-interview-with-sam-humphries/

SH: I will… I will say that’s a very intriguing pick. I’ve not thought about that. I do have a list of characters I want to bring in on the run, most of which I’ve gotta keep close to my chest.

JY: Sure, sure.

SH: You know, I do… Dick Grayson has an uncle, George Grayson, and there’s a story I want to tell about him that I’m really excited about.

In conclusion. It seems to me that official comic book writers are just as prone to pick and choose from earlier canon and disregarding whatever retcon they dislike as us ordinary fans...

#Dick Grayson #Nightwing #Bruce Wayne #Batman #Robin #Jason Todd #Red Hood

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latveriansnailmail · 3 years ago

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Favorite Movies as of 2021

Subject to updating because surely I’ve missed a few. This is not supposed to be a list of meritorious films but rather just a list of movies I genuinely enjoy. It runs from Shakespeare to Bill & Ted with heavy doses of 80s fantasy, superhero schlock, and pretty much anything with Kurt Russell in it. Enjoy.

1- Harvey No contest, my favorite of all time.

2- Big Trouble in Little China It’s always a great joy to introduce a new viewer to this film.

3- Flash Gordon (1980) In which they totally lean into the camp and low budget.

4- The Thing I watch this annually upon the first major snowfall.

5- Titus (Taymor) One winter break Titus would be on one of the movie channels each day when I woke up, so I watched it daily for a month and it didn’t get old.

6- Death to Smoochy “Are you alright?” “I’m a little fucked up in general so it’s hard to gauge.”

7- Blade Runner (The Final Cut) So there’s this dude Deckard and he hunts robots but it turns out HE’S a robot, oh so very clever, little film

8- Tombstone I recently learned that Kurt Russell directed this film in all but name.

9- The Dark Crystal Immersive fantasy, though I’m sure it appears plain, drab, and simple now after the Netflix prequel.

10- Somewhere in Time I’m a romantic, I guess. Thus all the John Carpenter movies.

11- Grosse Pointe Blank So good, I used to think I liked John Cusack.

12- The Producers (musical) You heard me. Wilder and Mostel were great but the musical version had decades to mill over and expand the premise.

13- To Be or Not To Be (Brooks) Surprisingly suspenseful.

14- The 13th Warrior Saw it again recently and it holds up. Horror, only it happens to viking warriors who would rather chop the horror down than run.

15- The Mighty Thor I mean, Black Panther is objectively the best of the lot but subjectively this is my personal favorite superhero flick. I must have seen it a half a dozen times at least.

16- Lost Boys A billion Chinese can’t be wrong.

17- Die Hard A Christmas tradition. As a postman, it’s cathartic for me to watch Christmas get blown up a little before all the hugging and sentiment.

18- The Blues Brothers Deadpan hilarity cut with performances by legends of blues and soul.

19- The Sting The best heist film. It keeps you guessing until the very end and no twist feels arbitrary or leaves a hole.

20- Interview with the Vampire Fun fact, I looked like Pitt’s Louis when I was a young man in the goth scene.

21- Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure “Be excellent to each other!” “Party on, dudes!” *air guitar*

22- The Seventh Seal See? This list has its high points.

23- Revolutionary Girl Utena Note: Read the entire manga, watch the entire anime series, and read Adolescence of Utena BEFORE watching this or you’ll be left confused. Dazzled but confused.

24- The Nightmare Before Christmas So good I got the tarot deck.

25- The Last Unicorn It’s still a damn shame they never made that live action remake. Christopher Lee was set to reprise King Haggard.

26- Chasing Amy Honestly changed my life.

27- Excalibur It’s weird though how they’re always in armor. Wedding? Armor. Dinner? Armor. Deathbed? Armor.

28- Ginger Snaps A cut above any other werewolf movie I’ve seen.

29- Top Secret! My sense of humor distilled.

30- Clash of the Titans (Harryhousen) Yeah it’s dry but then there’s the monsters.

31- Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life People are not wearing enough hats.

32- Shadow of the Vampire Nosferatu nearly made this list but it’s hard to pinpoint a definitive cut. Try instead this film about the making of Nosferatu with an actual vampire as the vampire.

33- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust Look, we as a culture had the unfortunate experience of Twilight. This is the same premise but actually good.

34- The Last Supper This film challenged and changed me as a young man more so than any other work of art.

35- The Princess Bride The perfect film, but I’ve seen it so much it’s down at 35 now.

36- Blazing Saddles What can I as a white guy say? Just watch the movie.

37- Streets of Fire Always suspicious to me how Final Fight premiered within a year of this movie.

38- Gremlins More Christmas havok. Yum?

39- The Beastmaster Forgotten and underappreciated.

40- Ladyhawke A thing of beauty.

41- Willow C’mon. It’s Willow. I have nothing to justify here.

42- Speed Racer I know you heard it’s bad but hear me out: it is the strongest narrative I’ve ever seen on film and it’s exactly the way you played with your toy cars when you were little.

43- Angelheart You’re supposed to know that de Niro is Lucifer. The rest is mystery and the final reveal set up a trope that’s been done into the ground nowadays.

44- The Hunger More atmosphere than plot, but hey, vampire Bowie!

45- Zoolander My partner’s favorite.

46- Faust (Murnau) You will be shocked to see what was possible to achieve in film in 1926.

47- A Muppet Christmas Carol but a cut that includes the fiance’s song This finishes out my traditional Christmas films.

48- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Y’know, I’ve got two Branagh films on here and neither are what you would expect given his catalog. The other one’s Thor for crying out loud.

49- Highlander I noticed in recent editions of Vampire: the Masquerade that it’s still possible in that game to hide a katana in a trenchcoat. This movie is why.

50- The Name of the Rose One of only a few instances where I prefer the film to the book. That book loooooong.

51- Robocop (1987) Of all the damn science fiction, why must we be in Robocop?

52- The Prophecy Now we’re getting into films I demoted since the last time I updated this list. This film’s a slow burn unless you get turned up for angels and Christopher Walken like I do.

53- The Warriors Would be higher if the opening wasn’t so slow.

54- Legend Tim Curry kills it as Darkness.

55- Black Panther Objectively the best superhero movie and the Academy backs me on that one.

56- Wonder Woman I do wish they’d trot out Vandal Savage as a Wonder Woman villain.

57- Captain America: The Winter Soldier Just rewatched this one earlier! It is heavily marked by the height of the War on Terror.

58- Blade The ancestor of all modern superhero movies and a solid vampire flick to boot.

59- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Nostalgic for me? Maybe, but I hold that this is the first comic film worth a damn because they stuck with the comics when they wrote it.

60- Captain America: the First Avenger This movie is a real test of character. If someone doesn’t like Cap it’s because they think goodness is unrealistic.

61- Four Rooms Really just rooms 3 and 4.

62- Reservoir Dogs Hey, two Tim Roth films in a row!

63- Event Horizon Do you see?

64- What Dreams May Come Kind of an emotional ringer, especially after William’s death.

65- Monty Python and the Holy Grail Have I watched it into the ground? Yes. Is it still hilarious? Yes, and it gets funnier the more you study Arthurian myth.

66- Pulp Fiction I’m kinda over this now.

67- The Crow People who liked the comic passionately disagree with me but I still like this one.

68- Akira Still.

69- Ghost in the Shell Still, though the farther you get from 13 the less titties you need in your art.

70- Beetlejuice Why not? Let's just tack this on there.

Honorable Mentions:

Fight Club A suburb film but one I grew out of, as should everyone. If you meet a man who’s passionate about Fight Club, run!

American Psycho Ditto. I grew out of this but it’s still excellent.

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape A horrible caricature of my brother’s life. I don’t get along with my brother any more.

Rocky Horror Picture Show Not actually a good film if you watch it straight with no commentary. Still, it’s a cornerstone of queer culture.

Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 Of all the superhero films, this is the one that resonated with me the most. I was in a weird place at the time. It still resonates with me now because I’m a foster dad.

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davidmann95 · 5 years ago

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Superman’s 10 Best of the ‘10s

Good Miracle Monday, folks! The first third Monday of May of a new decade for that matter, and while that means that today in the DC Universe Superman just revealed his secret identity to the world on the latest anniversary of that time he defeated the devil, in ours it puts a capstone on a solid 10 years of his adventures now in the rear view mirror, ripe for reevaluation. And given there’s a nice solid ‘10′ right there I’ll go ahead with the obvious and list my own top ten for Superman comics of the past decade, with links in the titles to those I’ve spoken on in depth before - maybe you’ll find something you overlooked, or at least be reminded of good times.

A plethora of honorable mentions: I’m disqualifying team-ups or analogue character stories, but no list of the great Superman material of the last decade would be complete without bringing up Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye #7, Avengers 34.1, Irredeemable, Sideways Annual #1, Supreme: Blue Rose, Justice League: Sixth Dimension, usage of him in Wonder Twins, (somewhat in spite of itself) Superior, from all I’ve heard New Super-Man, DCeased #5, and Batman: Super Friends. And while they couldn’t quite squeeze in, all due praise to the largely entertaining Superman: Unchained, the decades’ great Luthor epic in Superman: The Black Ring, a brilliant accompaniment to Scott Snyder’s work with Lex in Lex Luthor: Year of the Villain, the bonkers joy of the Superman/Luthor feature in Walmart’s Crisis On Infinite Earths tie-in comics, Geoff Johns and John Romita’s last-minute win in their Superman run with their final story 24 Hours, Tom Taylor’s quiet criticism of the very premise he was working with on Injustice and bitter reflection on the changing tides for the character in The Man of Yesterday, the decades’ most consistent Superman ongoing in Bryan Miller and company’s Smallville Season 11, and Superman: American Alien, which probably would have made the top ten but has been dropped like a hot potato by one and all for Reasons. In addition are several stories from Adventures of Superman, a book with enough winners to merit a class of its own: Rob Williams and Chris Weston’s thoughtful Savior, Kyle Killen and Pia Guerra’s haunting The Way These Things Begin, Marc Guggenheim and Joe Bennett’s heart-wrenching Tears For Krypton, Christos Gage and Eduardo Francisco’s melancholy Flowers For Bizarro, Josh Elder and Victor Ibanez’s deeply sappy but deeply effective Dear Superman, Ron Marz and Doc Shaner’s crowdpleasing Only Child, and Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine DeLandro’s super-sweet Mystery Box.

10. Greg Pak/Aaron Kuder’s Action Comics

Oh, what might’ve been. In spite of an all-timer creative team I can’t justify listing this run any higher given how profoundly and comprehensively compromised it is, from the status quo it was working with to the litany of ill-conceived crossovers to regular filler artists to its ignominious non-ending. But with the most visceral, dynamic, and truly humane take on Clark Kent perhaps of all time that still lives up to all Superman entails, and an indisputably iconic instant-classic moment to its name, I can’t justify excluding it either.

9. Action Comics #1000

Arguably the climax to the decade for the character as his original title became the first superhero comic to reach a 1000th issue. While any anthology of this sort is a crapshoot by nature, everyone involved here seemed to understand the enormity of the occasion and stepped up as best they could; while the lack of a Lois Lane story is indefensible, some are inevitably bland, and one or two are more than a bit bizarre, by and large this was a thoroughly charming tribute to the character and his history with a handful of legitimate all-timer short stories.

8. Faster Than A Bullet

Much as Adventures of Superman was rightfully considered an oasis amidst the New 52′s worst excesses post-Morrison and in part pre-Pak, few stories from it seem well-remembered now, and even at the time this third issue inexplicably seemed to draw little attention. Regardless, Matt Kindt and Stephen Segovia’s depiction of an hour in the life of Superman as he saves four planets first thing in the morning without anyone noticing - while clumsy in its efforts at paralleling the main events with a literal subplot of a conversation between Lois and Lex - is one of the best takes I can recall on the scope on which he operates, and ultimately the purpose of Clark Kent.

7. Man and Superman

Seemingly geared on every front against me, built as it was on several ideas of how to handle Superman’s origin I legitimately hate, and by a writer whose work over the years has rarely been to my liking, Marv Wolfman and Claudio Castellini’s Man and Superman somehow came out of nowhere to be one of my favorite takes on Clark Kent’s early days. With a Metropolis and characters within it that feel not only alive but lived-in, it’s shocking that a story written and drawn over ten years before it was actually published prefigured so many future approaches to its subject, and felt so of-the-moment in its depiction of a 20-something scrambling to figure out how to squeeze into his niche in the world when it actually reached stores.

6. Brian Bendis’s run

Controversial in the extreme, and indeed heir to several of Brian Bendis’s longstanding weaknesses as a writer, his work on The Man of Steel, Superman, and Action Comics has nevertheless been defined at least as much by its ambition and intuitive grasp of its lead, as well as fistfuls of some of the best artistic accompaniment in the industry. At turns bombastic space action, disaster flick, spy-fi, oddball crime serial, and family drama, its assorted diversions and legitimate attempts at shaking up the formula - or driving it into new territory altogether, as in the latest, apparently more longterm-minded unmasking of Clark Kent in Truth - have remained anchored and made palatable by an understanding of Superman’s voice, insecurities, and convictions that go virtually unmatched.

5. Strange Visitor

The boldest, most out-of-left-field Superman comic of the past 10 years, Joe Keatinge took the logline of Adventures of Superman to do whatever creators wanted with the character and, rather than getting back to a classic take absent from the mainline titles at the time as most others did, used the opportunity for a wildly expansive exploration of the hero from his second year in action to his far-distant final adventure. Alongside a murderer’s row of artists, Keatinge pulled off one of the few comics purely about how great Superman is that rather than falling prey to hollow self-indulgence actually managed to capture the wonder of its subject.

4. Superman: Up In The Sky

And here’s the other big “Superman’s just the best” comic the decade had to offer that actually pulled it off. Sadly if reasonably best-known for its one true misfire of a chapter, with the increasing antipathy towards Tom King among fans in general likely not helping, what ended up overlooked is that this is a stone-cold classic on moment of arrival. Andy Kubert turns in work that stands alongside the best of his career, Tom King’s style is honed to its cleanest edge by the 12-pager format and subject matter, and the quest they set their lead out on ends up a perfect vehicle to explore Superman’s drive to save others from a multitude of angles. I don’t know what its reputation will end up being in the long-term - I was struck how prosaic and subdued the back cover description was when I got this in hardcover, without any of the fanfare or critic quotes you’d expect from the writer of Mister Miracle and Vision tackling Superman - but while its one big problem prevents me from ranking it higher, this is going to remain an all-timer for me.

3. Jeff Loveness’s stories Help and Glasses

Cheating shamelessly here, but Jeff Loveness’s Help with David Williams and Glasses with Tom Grummett are absolutely two halves of the same coin, a pair of theses on Superman’s enduring relevance as a figure of hope and the core of Lois and Clark’s relationship that end up covering both sides of Superman the icon and Superman the guy. While basically illustrated essays, any sense of detached lecturing is utterly forbidden by the raw emotion on display here that instantly made them some of the most acclaimed Superman stories of the last several years; they’re basically guaranteed to remain in ‘best-of’ collections from now until the end of time.

2. Superman Smashes The Klan

A bitter race for the top spot, but #2 is no shame here; while not quite my favorite Superman story of the past ten years, it’s probably the most perfectly executed. While I don’t think anyone could have quite expected just *how* relevant this would be at the top of the decade, Gene Yang and Gurihiru put together an adventure in the best tradition of the Fleischer shorts and the occasional bystander-centered episodes of Batman: The Animated Series to explore racism’s both overt and subtle infections of society’s norms and institutions, the immigrant experience, and both of its leads’ senses of alienation and justice. Exciting, stirring, and insightful, it’s debuted to largely universal acknowledgement as being the best Superman story in years, and hopefully it’ll be continued to be marketed as such long-term.

1. Grant Morrison’s Action Comics

When it came time to make the hard choice, it came in no small part down to that I don’t think we would have ever seen a major Golden Age Superman revival project like Smashes The Klan in the first place if not for this. Even hampering by that godawful Jim Lee armor, inconsistent (if still generally very good) art, and a fandom that largely misunderstood it on arrival can’t detract from that this is Grant Morrison’s run on a Superman ongoing, a journey through Superman’s development as a character reframed as a coherent arc that takes him from Metropolis’s most beaten-down neighborhoods to the edge of the fifth dimension and the monstrous outermost limits of ‘Superman’ as a concept. It launched discussions of Superman as a corporate icon and his place relative to authority structures that have never entirely vanished, introduced multiple all-time great new villains, and made ‘t-shirt Superman’ a distinct era and mode of operation for the character that I’m skeptical will ever entirely go away. No other work on the character this decade had the bombast, scope, complexity, or ambition of this run, with few able to match its charm or heart. And once again, it was, cannot stress this enough, Grant Morrison on an ongoing Superman book.

#Superman #Miracle Monday #Opinion

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Silver Sable (Silver Sablinova) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is usually depicted as a mercenary, hunter of war criminals, leader of the Wild Pack, and owner of Silver Sable International. While not a criminal, her work as a mercenary has sometimes brought her into conflict with several superheroes. Silver Sable is primarily an ally and sometimes enemy of Spider-Man.

Silver Sable

Silver Sable in Silver Sable and the Wild Pack vol. 1, #36 (November 2017). Art by Mahmud Asrar.

Publication informationPublisherMarvel ComicsFirst appearanceThe Amazing Spider-Man #265 (June 1985)Created byTom DeFalco

Ron FrenzIn-story informationAlter egoSilver SablinovaPlace of originSymkariaTeam affiliationsWild Pack

Intruders

Outlaws

Heroes for HireAbilitiesFormidable hand-to-hand combatant

Skilled martial artist

Expert markswoman, swordswoman and gymnast

Wears synthetic stretch fabric lined with Kevlar

Use of firearms and swords

The character has appeared in several media adaptations over the years, including animated series and video games.

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Fictional character biographyEdit

The operations of Wild Pack and Silver Sable International drive the national economy of the fictional small European state of Symkaria. The name Wild Pack had been used by the mercenary squad led by Cable for some time, until a legal notice forced them to change it to Six Pack.[11]

The State of Symkaria is adjacent to Latveria, the nation ruled by Doctor Doom. Silver Sable and Victor Von Doom have an annual diplomatic dinner at Castle Doom, situated in Doomstadt. Apparently, the friendship between the two states is deep-rooted and dates back to World War II.[12][4]

The family of Silver Sable is composed of her father Ernst Sablinov,[4] her uncle Morty,[13] and the young cousin Anna, who Silver Sable calls her niece, orphaned daughter of an unnamed uncle.[14][15] Silver's mother, Anastasia Sablinova, was killed in front of her by enemies of her father, who ran a Nazi-hunting group.[16] After this traumatic event, she was trained by her father to become a Nazi-hunting mercenary.[17] After her father's death, she became the leader of the Wild Pack, a team formed by Ernst to apprehend international criminals.[18] She also founded her own company, the Silver Sable International.[4][2] Like her father's, Sable's squad originally focused on bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, but over time they started to accept other type of missions for profit.[19]

Silver was briefly married to the Foreigner,[20] an international assassin and the head of the 1400 Club, but they divorced after she discovered his attempt to kill the President of U.S.[21] After that, their relation varied between non-belligerent and attempts to kill one another.[22][23]

Uncle Morty functions as Sable's assistant, organizing some missions and sometimes trying to influence her sense of judgement.[14][24] Silver supports Anna's boarding school education.[14] When HYDRA agents took over Anna's school, Sable infiltrated it, rescuing the hostages with the help of Spider-Man, Sandman, and the Wild Pack.[14]

While hunting the international criminal Black Fox to recover valuable gems stolen by the thief, she was inadvertently thwarted by Spider-Man.[1] She was later hired by a South African government to neutralize the international terrorist Jack O'Lantern.[19] She enlisted Spider-Man's aid against the Sinister Syndicate,[25] and forms a first alliance with the Sandman.[26] Some time later, she joined forces with Spider-Man, Paladin, Solo, and Captain America to track down Sabretooth and the Red Skull, who masterminded a plot to put the United States against Symkaria.[27][28][29][30][31][32]

She later worked with Spider-Man to steal incriminating documents from a Maggia money launderer; soon after, she formed The Outlaws.[33] An intelligence mission in Iraq resulted in the death of a Wild Pack member, and she denied compensation to the slain man's family due to his negligence.[34] She devised an initiation test for the Prowler to join The Outlaws, while teaching him a lesson in humility in the process.[35] She hired The Outlaws to retrieve a Symkarian nuclear device in England and to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Canadian official.[36][37][38]

Sable's cordial diplomatic relationship with Doctor Doom once proved almost fatal when the annual dinner happened to fall on the time when Doctor Doom's castle had been overtaken by an alien impersonator during the Infinity War crisis. Although Silver noticed that the doppelgänger looked differently, she interpreted it as Doom's desires to change his look.[12] During the dinner, Sable's driver was killed by Doom's robots and a human butler was killed by the doppelgänger himself.[12] Sable protested the brutality and was attacked herself, leading to a chase throughout the castle.[12] The Silver Sable International's soldier came to rescue her, despite Sandman himself also having been replaced by another doppelgänger.[12][39]

Silver has collaborated with various superheroes, including the aforementioned Spider-Man,[4] the Punisher,[40] Daredevil,[2] Luke Cage,[23][41] Venom,[42] and Captain America.[20] Sandman was a mercenary working for Silver Sable as part of her Wild Pack for a long time,[43] heading The Intruders, the squad of superpowered mercenaries employed by Silver Sable International.[21]

Later, Sable was hired to protect Professor Wolfgang Hessler holed up in the Symkarian monastery of St. Eboars. Wolfgang knew of a powerful genetic weapon and, attacked by guilt, was working on a neutralizing agent to give to the world so the weapon would be useless.[44] For this mission, Silver Sable hired a new team formed by The Cat, Paladin, and what she thought was Nomad but turned out to be Madcap. The group fought the Heroes for Hire, who had been hired to take the Professor.[45] Sable's team had the upper hand until Deadpool freed his Heroes allies and Luke Cage turned out to be a traitor, sending the Professor off to the Master of the World.[44]

During the Shadowland storyline, Silver Sable ended up paired up with Misty Knight, Paladin, and Shroud when Daredevil's Hand ninjas secretly targeted members of the mafia.[46]

During the Ends of the Earth storyline involving one of Doctor Octopus' schemes, Silver Sable recovered Spider-Man and Black Widow after the Avengers are defeated by the Sinister Six.[47] She joined them in an attack on a Sahara facility controlled by Doctor Octopus, with the three defeating Sandman after Spider-Man's allies at Horizon Labs helped determine a way to identify the one particle of sand containing Sandman's consciousness.[47] She was apparently drowned by the Rhino in the final battle when Rhino pinned her to the ground in a flooding corridor in Doctor Octopus' base.[48] Even though Doctor Octopus' plan had been stopped, Rhino also decided to kill himself in the process after the loss of his own wife.[48] However, Madame Web later revealed to Spider-Man that Silver Sable did not perish in the fight within Doctor Octopus' underwater base.[49]

She was later seen with other dead people in a Peter Parker's post-mortem experience.[50]

She has later revealed to be alive,[51] as she requested Spider-Man's help in thwarting a recent coup of Symkaria organized by Norman Osborn.[52] Sable explained that she had survived her confrontation with the Rhino by using her suit to cloak herself, distracting him long enough for her to escape, using her apparent death to discreetly hunt down most of her enemies.

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Fantastic Four Vol 1 #237

Tues May 05 2020 [01:26 AM] Wack'd: I...don't know how that last issue slots here in continuity [01:27 AM] Wack'd: Since we open with our heroes having just come back from Latveria [01:27 AM] Wack'd: They brought Doctor Doom's comatose body with them! So that way if he ever gets un-stasised it'll happen on their terms and not his [01:28 AM] Wack'd: And then he can be put on trial, apparently [01:28 AM] maxwellelvis: That annual is probably just something you can shove in wherever. [01:28 AM] Wack'd: Even though his unconscious body was extradited to another country and also he's a head of state [01:28 AM] Wack'd: I guess through that whole adventure the Four had Doom's body on hand?! [01:28 AM] Wack'd: Sure [01:29 AM] Wack'd: Okay so. Uh [01:29 AM] Wack'd: Doom isn't head of state again yet [01:29 AM] Wack'd: Makes sense, he did want to get rid of all his enemies first [01:30 AM] Wack'd: (You'd think having diplomatic immunity would make that easier but) [01:30 AM] Wack'd: So Reed's like "we're gonna put him in suspended animation and then I'll call the Latverian embassy and see what they want to do about all this" [01:31 AM] Wack'd: Given that there's not a Latverian government at the moment who fucking knows what happens from there but I guess it's not Reed's problem [01:31 AM] maxwellelvis: Let's just hope they don't get there and Boris is already there, waiting for them. [01:32 AM] maxwellelvis: Wouldn't that just be all they needed? [01:32 AM] Wack'd: Yeah [01:33 AM] Wack'd: Anyway Ben has begun worrying that Alicia loves him because he's a giant rock monster. For some reason. Which is bad. Also for some reason [01:33 AM] maxwellelvis: Because now he can fret about what happens if it goes away again [01:33 AM] Bocaj: "I love you for you" "How dare you" [01:34 AM] Wack'd: I know the breakup is coming. I can feel it in my bones and I'm gonna be so mad [01:34 AM] maxwellelvis: because he's seen in the past that Alicia does feel different about him when he's human [01:34 AM] Wack'd: She literally just saw him as a human one issue ago and was happily married to him so *shrug* [01:36 AM] Wack'd: Meanwhile Franklin goes to see Frankie [01:36 AM] Wack'd: Who you might remember was having a breakdown last we saw her [01:37 AM] Bocaj: She saw herself naked in the mirror [01:37 AM] Wack'd: Meet a new character! She seems fun

[01:38 AM] Wack'd: We go inside though and Frankie's still having a breakdown. Julie's kind of a jerk [01:38 AM] maxwellelvis: Wonder if she'll stick around or if she never comes back from that class. [01:39 AM] Wack'd: Now, Johnny knows Frankie's secret. She has genitals

[01:40 AM] Wack'd: We cut away and will find out NEXT ISSUE! Alas

[01:40 AM] maxwellelvis: A severe burn on her chest or torso, I'll wager. [01:40 AM] Wack'd: I've been spoiled on what her deal is and I somehow doubt it [01:41 AM] Wack'd: Meanwhilier, Reed Sue and Franklin have gone horseback riding through central park! [01:42 AM] Wack'd: oh good bryne hasn't forgotten franklin likes to watch his parents kiss

[01:43 AM] Wack'd: Fortunately Franklin's weird voyeurism is interrupted by an alarm [01:43 AM] Wack'd: hahahahahahahahahahahaahahah

[01:44 AM] maxwellelvis: Why are there two guys with green hair in this panel? [01:44 AM] Wack'd: It's the 80s, get with it, man [01:45 AM] maxwellelvis: It's only like 1982, the Aqua Net cloud hasn't even descended over the world yet. [01:46 AM] Wack'd: So the alarm is a bank alarm, and there's a gang of bank robbers being led by a 9-foot tall blue alien lady who doesn't speak English [01:46 AM] Wack'd: She uses some kind of psychic beam to knock out Reed, and then Sue and Franklin when they come looking [01:47 AM] Wack'd: Franklin knocks out the blue lady and the bank robbers need to carry her away

[01:48 AM] maxwellelvis: Man, I didn't think things were that hard for Mr. Goodwin. [01:48 AM] maxwellelvis: He shouldn't have to supplement his income like this. [01:48 AM] Wack'd: Hehehe [01:49 AM] Wack'd: Reed and Sue wake up and Reed finds some aluminum-lead alloy balls at the crime scene, which is apparently only something that can be made in zero gravity [01:49 AM] Wack'd: They leave their kids with the cops because there's another crime happening imminently [01:50 AM] Wack'd: Reed manages to apprehend one of the crooks, which means its TIME FOR BACKSTORY [01:51 AM] maxwellelvis: This I gotta hear [01:51 AM] Wack'd: The leader, Archie, was "never a good 'bo", which I assume means "hobo"? Life on the road wasn't good enough for him and he turned his friends into a gang of criminals [01:52 AM] Wack'd: They found this big blue lady, who they call Spinnerette, in a junkyard, and Archie figured out she was here looking for silver [01:52 AM] Wack'd: And, uh, convinced her to come do crimes with them. Somehow [01:53 AM] Wack'd: End of backstory [01:53 AM] Wack'd: Reed determines "It all fits somehow. It all makes sense. yes..." [01:53 AM] Wack'd: Which, uh, okay dude [01:54 AM] Bocaj: So that's why MJ has to be Spinneret in RYV. This big blue lady took the other spelling [01:55 AM] Wack'd: Ugh. Women are people, John

[01:56 AM] Wack'd: Reed has a universal translator and gets Sue to trap Spinnerette in an airtight bubble. Turns out the high oxygen content of the air made her "drunk" [01:57 AM] Wack'd: Which I guess was indicated by the alloy that can only exist in a vacuum that she was dropping everywhere? Somehow? [01:57 AM] Wack'd: I don't think the bit with the hobos explained anything [01:57 AM] maxwellelvis: Dammit Zhaan [01:57 AM] Bocaj: Giant woman giiiiiiant wooooooman [01:58 AM] Wack'd: She leads the Four back to her spaceship [01:59 AM] Wack'd: You'd think if they were all identical the men wouldn't be so wide and maybe would also have boobs but uh okay

[02:00 AM] Wack'd: Anyway Reed makes a bunch of other wild deductions to make this story make sense and then the aliens leave [02:01 AM] Bocaj: Reed: -wild deductions- liens: "Ugh lets get out of here" [02:01 AM] Wack'd: Bryne was on a roll for a while but they can't all be winners, I guess [02:02 AM] Wack'd: If you're curious: the alloy was her trying to pay for the stuff she stole, she went for silver because she confused it with indium which can repair solar cells, she has dizziness powers because her job is to prevent vertigo in weightlessness [02:02 AM] Wack'd: And, uh, she was so cool hanging out with humans because coming from a race of clones she didn't notice they looked different [02:02 AM] Wack'd: Somehow [02:02 AM] Wack'd: Whatever [02:03 AM] Wack'd: I'm gonna do the next issue because I wanna get to the Frankie Raye stuff

#1981 #John Bryne #The Main Book

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ALL BOMBS 2018 my favourite platterstompf

01 up-tight "live in europe" [cdr & k7]

02 france "à la recherche de la flexitude du temps" [cd]

03 dylan carlson "conquistador" [lp]

04 kawaguchi masami's new rock syndicate " now" [lp] + masami kawaguchi "13.3.18" [dl] + masami kawaguchi, fukuoka rinji & anla couris "ramen en los parlantes" [cd] 05 bardo pond / plastic crimewave syndicate "live amen" [k7] + bardo pond "volume VIII" [lp] + bardo pond & major stars "this inner light b/w s.l.t." [7"] + curanderos "on the glaze b/w danger bird" [lathe cut 12"]

06 hôpital de la conception the electric rockin' chair [k7] 07 skullflower "werecat powers of the crossroads at midnight" [lp] 08 ulaan markhor "helm" [k7] 09 roy montgomery "day of the lords" [lathe 8"] + roy montgomery "suffuse" [cd] 10 demdike stare & il gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza "the feed-back loop" [k7] + demdike stare "passion" [dl] + demdike stare "stitch by stitch part IV (back)" [k7] ...

11 bridget hayden "pure touch only from now on, they said so" [lp] 12 brian ruryk & schakalens bror "2 guitars country style" [k7] 13 hex waves "canine rising" [k7] 14 altaat "maa on täysi" [k7] 15 yann gourdon "15.10.15" [cd & dl]

16 ian william craig "tresholder" [lp] 17 stephen o'malley & anthony pateras "rêve noir" [cd] 18 sunn 0))) downtown la rehearsal rifftape march '98 [lp] (2018)° + °sunn 0))) live @ echoplex los angeles 181118 [dl] (2018)° 19 wet tuna "great wet wonders" [cdx2] + wet tuna "livin' the die" [lp] + wet tuna "mountain busted" [cdrx7] 20 the opawa 45s "silver screen guitar" [k7] + the opawa 45s "the ostrich triptych" [dl] + the opawa 45s "live at lyttelton coffee company" [dl]

21 pro et contra "pro et contra " [cd] 22 the dead c "on the outbreak of civil war b/w good consul is punished [7"] 23 mainliner & expo 70 black hole bw totality wormhole [7"] + mainliner / plastic crimewave syndiate "no mellow" [k7] 24 midnight mines "stations b/w radio dub" [7"] + midnight mines "invisible insurrection of a million minds" [k7] aka midnight mines "live @ cafe oto 200517" [dl] 25 buñuel "the easy way out" [lp]

26 ilta hämärä "velloa" [7"] 27 fadensonnen "brut" [k7] 28 fukuoka rinji & michel henritzi "desert moon' [cd] 29 slift "la planète inexplorée" [12"] 30 black helium "primitive fuck" [lp]

31 keiji haino & konstrukt a philosophy warping... [live] [lp] + keiji haino & sumac "american dollar bill..." CF 2017 !!! + keiji haino & musqis "keiji haino & musqis" [cd] 32 wooing "daydream time machine" [7"] 33 fuji/ junzo "live at de audio plant" [k7] + fuji & suzuki junzo "live at de audio plant plus" [dl] 34 leda "japanese key b/w the silent contest" [7"] 35 the caretaker "everywhere at the end of time stage IV" [lpx2] + the caretaker "everywhere at the end of time stage V" []

36 albedo fantastica "culvert & starry night" [cd] 37 giegue "'77 tachikawa trip [hadaka no rallizes tribute]" [dl] + giegue "noise guitar pop" [ep] [dl] 38 the band whose name is a symbol "basement blowouts" [lp] 39 mark lanegan & duke garwood "with animals" [cd] + mark lanegan & duke garwood "mescalito" [10"] 40 suzuki junzo & ikuro takahashi "live phantasmagoria vol I helluva lounge 27/11/16" [cdr]

41 comacozer / blown out "in search for highs volume I" [cdr] 42 parades against parades "driving me stoned" [lp] 43 headroom / dire wolves (just exactly perfect sisters band) "split" [lp] 44 hastings of malawi "visceral underskinnings" [lp] 45 barth, hjorthol, & åm "the broken vessel" [cd]

46 "in death's dream kingdom" [lpx4] 47 le réveil des tropiques "big bang" [lp] 48 urthona "destruction blues" [cd] + urthona & the asterism "murmurations" [cd] 49 brant bjork "mankind women" [cd] 50 antony milton "(don't have) much to say" [dl]

Your Annual Bowery Eclectic:

& The Usual Baker Street Irregulars:

many many rereleases & the odd compilation (short list):

01 high rise "high rise II" [1986] [lp & k7]

02 public image ltd "the public image is rotten (songs from the heart)" [cdx5 & dvdx2] 03 einstürzende neubauten "grundstück" [2004] [lp] 04 earth "the bees made honey in the lion's skull" [2008] [lpx2] 05 ian william craig" a turn of breath [extended]" [2014] [lpx2]

06 tappa zukie "dubshot zukie" [dl] 07 bauhaus "bela lugosi's dead: the bela session" [1979] [lp/cd] 08 brainticket "zürich/lausanne" [1983-1984][cdx2] 09 snatch "snatch" [1983] [lp] 10 new york dolls "personality crisis: live recordings & studio demos '72-'75" [cdx5]

11 "step forward youth roots masters from the "punky reggae party" [cdx2] 12 augustus pablo "dub from the hills" [dl] + augustus pablo "presents dj's from 70's to 80's" [1997] [cd] 13 international harvester "remains" [1968-1969] [lpx5] 14 "birth work death - work, money & status in country music" [lp] 15 "hillbillies in hell volume 666 country music's tormented testament '52-'74" [lp] + "hillbillies in hell volume 777 country music's tormented testament '52-'74" [cd] + "hillbillies in hell the rapture country music's tormented testament '52-'74" [cd] + "hillbillies in hell the resurrection country music's tormented testament '52-'74" [cd]

16 simply saucer "cyborgs revisited" [rec '74-75] [1989] [lpx2] 17 the heads "rkt!" [1998-2002] [cdx2] 18 thisquietarmy "unconquered [10th anniversary edition]" [2008-2018] [cdx2] 19 ut "ut live at the venue" [rec 1981] [lp] + ut "early life" [1987] [lp] 20 siglo xx "box" [1982-1983] [lpx3]

most pleasing purchases:

01 cottonwoodhill "places of light b/w poetry" [1970] [7"]

02 batkin brothers "mai... b/w tropical" [1970] [7"] 03 worst "mmxvii" [2017] [k7] 04 shit & shine "bass puppy" [2010] [12"] 05 sister spliff & demon dread "marchena city dub" [1980] [lp] / king blood "eyewash silver" [2010] (2015) [cd]

gigs:

bardo pond live @ magasin4 040618

bootlegs:

01 bardo pond “live @ 100 club london 060618″ [dl] + bardo pond "live @ union pool brooklyn 170218" [dl]

02 van morrison "the catacombs tapes / live in boston '68" [dl] 03 einstürzende neubauten “live @ helsinki 241118″ [usb]

favourite record sleeve:

surprise ;)

the dream dates “the mess you’re in b/w search & destroy” [7’’] (1979)

radio:

... sadly, 2018 saw brian turner leaving wfmu ...

podcasts:

01 jim sclavunos "conway savage tribute @ soho radio 240918" [dl]

2018 summer hit:

your annual reminder:

youpi youpi yeah “youpi youpi yeah” [cd] (2010)

humorstompf:

01 hans teeuwen "real rancour" / "echte rancune" [dvd & dl]

ex aequo 01 stewart lee "content provider" [dvd]

02 simon munnery "renegade plumber" & "sings soren kierkegaard" [gfs] [dl] 03 jeroen leenders "jeroen leenders experience" [soundcloud] [dl] 04 tony law "lost show" [gofasterstripe] [dl] 05 james acaster "repertoire" [netflix] ex aequo luke mcqueen "the luke mcqueen pilots" [bbc]

dire times... the world needs lou sanders more than ever !

bilderstompf:

01 "here to be heard: the story of the slits" [dvd & scrapbook]

02 suburra "season I" [netflix] 03 counterpart "season I" [starz] / 12 monkeys "season IV" [syfy] 04 bas heijne "onbehagen" [vpro] 05 altered carbon "season I" [netflix] / queen of the south "season III" [usa network]

06 bron/broen "season IV" [sveriges tv / danmark radio] 07 endeavour "season V" [itv] 08 commissario monalbano "season XII" [rai 1] 09 killjoys "season IV" [syfy] 10 inside n°9 "season IV" [bbc] / david rodigan "reggae fever" [bbc]

favourite blog:

best interwebs:

... a rare glimpse of the true potentiality of the interwebs ...

may your home be safe from tigers, x leroy

HNY & stay hungry!

the long list:

adam stone & dead sea apes "warheads" [cd] alvin lucier "criss cross b/w hanover" [lp] + alvin lucier "so you (hermes, orpheus, eurydice" [cd] amm "an unintended legacy" [cdx3] amt & the melting paraiso ufo "reverse of rebirth in universe" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "hallelujah mystic garden part one" [lp] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "electric dream ecstasy" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "paralyzed brain" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "the man who fell to us live in nagoya 2017" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "either the fragmented body or the reconstituted soul" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo "sacred & inviolable phase shift" [cd] + amt & the melting paraiso ufo vs lee van cleef "psychic battles vol V" [lp] anna von hausswolff "dead magic" [cd] black spirituals "black access/black axes" [lpx2] black thumb "lucy leave [syd barrett]" [dl] bonnie 'prince' billy & roadie "hope is all i'm holding" [dl] + will oldham "songs of love & horror" [lp] + bonnie 'prince' billy / naked shortsellers "the best of folks b/w harbour men" [7"] + bonnie 'prince' billy "blueberry jam" [dl] boris "eternity - dear 25th anniversary tour live 28-12-17" [dl] + boris "phenomenon's drive" [12"] br'lâab "other people's crimes" [10"]

campbell james kneale "naamah" [k7] + campbell james kneale "o blessed fornicatrix" [k7] + campbell james kneale "timid seamstress" [k7] + campbell james kneale & anla courtis "one-1-I b/w two-2-II" [7"] chris forsyth & the solar motel band "rare dreams: solar live 2.27.18" [dl] connorparty "koko [keiji haino]" [dl] cousin silas & the glove of bones "spirits of afrodubism" [k7] dan melchior "the folksinger" [lp] + dan melchior & sigtryggur berg sigmarsson dark arc [lp] + dan melchior & dylan nyoukis "unusual dealers" [cdr] daniel bachman "the morning star" [cd] david nance group "peaced & slightly pulverized" [cd] --- "110 blues" --- + david nance group "stalled out b/w profit" [subscriber 7"] dhidalah "moon people" [k7/dl] ecstatic vision "under the influence" [cd] efrim manuel menuck "pissing stars" [lp] einstürzende neubauten "live in helsinki nov 24 0529pm" [usb stick] elkhorn "lionfish" [k7] + elkhorn "live fish" [cdr] eugene chadbourne "solo guitar volume 1 1/3" [dl] + eugene chadbourne "29.10.17" [dl] + eugene chadbourne, beresford & ward "pleasures of the horror" [lp] flame 1 [aka burial & the bug] "fog bw shrine" [12"] fuji yuki, michel henritzi, & harutaka mochizuki "shiroi kao" [cd]

gnod "chapel perilous" [cd] + gnod "be aware of your limitations" [12"] grouper "grid of points" [lp] heather leigh & peter brötzmann "crowmoon (the auckland concert)" [cd] + heather leigh & peter brötzmann "sparrow nights" [cd] + heather leigh "throne" [cd] "hexadic III" [lp] hibushibire "official live bootleg vol III" [cdr] + hibushibire "official live bootleg vol IV" [cdr] honey radar "psychic cruise" [7"] + honey radar / john peel "middle class revolt bw the fall as introduced by john peel" [7"] aka chunklet industries a mark e smith tribute single [7"] + honey radar & henry owings "wind-up man b/w 172 seconds over louisville" [7"] + honey radar & gotobeds "no present" [7"] ilta hämärä "himmeä kaihoisa sininen" [lp] it hurts "estuary" [lathe 8"] jean dupuy "all of the time: sound works 1969-2017" [lp] jo meares "back to the world" [cd] jjuujjuu "zionic mud" [lp] john zorn "insurrection" [cd] jozef van wissem "we adore you, you have no name" [cd] julia kent, jean d.l. "the great lake swallows" [cd] keaton is dead "treat me like I knew you would" [dl] + keaton is dead "flying woman machine" [dl] + keaton is dead "itzy bitzy [ep]" [dl] mainliner / expo seventy "black hole bw totality wormhole" [7"] marisa anderson "cloud corner" [cd] mark kozelek "mark kozelek" [cdx2] michael gira "the egg: stories by michael gira" [cd] michael gordon, kronos quartet "clouded yellow" [cd] michael nyman "mcqueen" [cd] moe / marhaug "capsaicin" [cd] moon duo "no fun b/w jukebox babe" [12"] mv & ee & the golden road "feral run live @ brattleboro 140118" [dl]

nick cave & the bad seeds "distant sky [live in copenhagen]" [12"] + nick cave & warren ellis "kings [ost]" [cd] + nick cave & warren ellis "wind river [ost]" [cd] norman westberg "after vacation" [lp] + norman westberg "idling live" [cd] + norman westberg "before the bridge" [dl] oneida "romance" [cd] orchestra of constant distress "distress test" [lp & k7] oren ambarchi, jim o'rourke, with special guest u-zhaan "hence" [lp] + oren ambarchi, kassel jaeger & james rushford "face time" [lp] + oren ambarchi, crys cole & leif elggren "certainly" [lp] + oren ambarchi, sprenger & sollmann "panama b/w suez" [12"] -"scale" [cdx2] peter brötzmann & fredrick lonberg-holm "ouroboros" [lp] purling hiss "out tonight b/w walkin' with jesus" [k7] schakalens bror "omelette of disease" [lp] + schakalens bror "overdrive" [k7] scientists "braindead (resuscitated) b/w survivalskills" [7"] + scientists "mini mini mini b/w perpetual motion" [7"] simon wickham-smith "extreme bukake" [dl] stefan christensen "city code" [lp] sumac "love in shadow" [cd] + sumac "wfmu" [k7] sun kil moon "this is my dinner" [cdx2] + sun kil moon "linda blair" [dl] suzuki junzo "the magus" [cd] tape loop orchestra "lead is into the light" [lp] + tape loop orchestra "return to the light" [lp] + tape loop orchestra "before the light" [lp] tashi wada with yoshi wada & friends "nue" [cd] the aints! "church of simultaneous existence" [cdx2] the band whose name is a symbol "ottawa psychfest 2018" [dl] + the band whose name is a symbol "symbol ensemble III" [dl] + the band whose name is a symbol "basement blowouts 2" [dl] + the band whose name is a symbol "droneverdose" [lp] + the band whose name is a symbol "codocil" [dl] the limiñanas "shadow people" [cd] touts "sleep" [dl] träden "träden" [cd] uh "uh" [cd] uncle jim "my niece's pierced knees" [dl] young fathers "coccoa sugar" [cd] zeal and ardor "stranger fruit" [cd]

-anthroprophh "omegaville" [cdx2] -black elephant "cosmic blues" [lp] -brigid mae power "the two worlds" [cd] -broeder dieleman "komma" [cdx2] -carlton melton "mind minerals" [cd] -civic "new vietnam" [12"] + civic "live on pbs" [k7] + civic "those who no" [7"] -dirtmusic "bu bir ruya" [cd] -la morte young "a quiet - earthquake style" [cd] -long hots "monday night raw" [k7] -mazzy star "still" [12"] -nicolas wiese "unrelated" [lp] -okkyung lee "dahl-tah-ghi" [cd] -sadahiro yamada "shitaiha" [k7] -sean mccann "saccharine scores" [cd] -stefan neville & greg malcolm "a nuance" [lp] -the final age "the final age" [lp]

moments of brilliance (long list B):

1/3 octave band "headlands" [lathe cut 12"] 20 guilders "il grande silenzio: guitar improvisation 2017" [cd] "a" trio & amm "aamm" [cd] a-sun amissa "ceremony in the stillness" [cd] akio suzuki & aki onda "ke i te ki" [cd] alexandra philips & jan henderikse "you b/w i" [10"] alien mustangs "alienation" [lp] alternative tv "her dark places" [12"] andreas ammer & fm einheit "sie sprechen mit der stasi" [dl] anji cheung "terma" [k7] + ani cheung & burial hex "solstice tape split" [k7] ash brooks "crown of thyme" [k7] ben bertrand "ngc 1999" [lp] benjamin boone & philip levine "the poetry of jazz" [cd] big blood & thunder crutch "big blood & thunder crutch" [cdr] + big blood "operate earth spaceship properly" [lp] blk w/bear "mo re b roken th an y ou" [cd] bill callahan "live at third man records" [12"] bill orcutt "neu bros/ok phone/rural beatles" [lp] + chris corsano & bill orcutt "brace up!" [lp] + bill orcutt & chris cosano "gucci tops & bottoms" [k7] bong "thought & existence" [cd] boris "secrets" [cd] brian eno w/ kevin shields "the weight of history b/w only once away my son" [12"] bruce russell & noel meek "classical music" [lp] bob bucko jr "under cover summer" [k7x2] + bob bucko jr "trade mark of quality" [k7x3] brownout "fear of a brown planet" [cd] capri-batterie & stewart lee "bristol fashion" [lp] cave "allways" [cd] claire potter & bridget hayden "i am come from a place" [k7] colin stetson "the first ost vol I" [dl] + colin stetson "hereditary [ost]" [cd] constant mongrel "living in excellence" [lp] corrupted "felicific algorithm" [lp] country heroes "honky tonk tears" [cd] -courtney marie andrews "may your kindness remain" [cd] dalot & sound awakener little things [dl] + dalot & sound awakener strangers in the city [dl] darksmith "hatred of sound" [lp] datashock "kräuter der provinz" [lpx2] dead fretts "howlin' wolf (live)" [dl] + dead fretts "third day (live)" [dl] death grips "year of the snitch" [cd] derridada "derridada waits for wolf" [k7] dreadful "attack of the space machine" [dl] dreamweapon "sol" [lp]

eagle twin "the thundering heard: songs of hoof & horn" [cd] ellen fullman & okkyung lee "the air around her" [dl] emmanuel witzthum "songs of love & loss" [cdr] epic beardmen "season 1" [12"] félicia atkinson & jefre cantu-ledesma "limpid as the solitudes" [lp] + félicia atkinson "coyotes" [k7] flower room "arrangement I" [dl] futurians "distorted living" [lp] + futurians "lta" [k7] gad whip "post internet blues" [lp] geography of hell "hiroshima 1945 / nagasaki 1945" [lpx2] gerald murnane "recites how i wrote elastic man by the fall" [dl] giuda "saturday night's alright for fighting" [7"] giulio aldinucci "disappearing in a mirror" [cd] + ian hawgood & giulio aldinucci "consequence shadows" [cd] + giulio aldinucci & star pillow "hidden" [cd] + martijn comes & giulio aldinucci "split" [lp] goat "let it burn b/w friday pt 1" [7"] grand veymont "route du vertige" [lp] heads "collider" [cd] henry blacker "the making of junior bonner" [cdr] hunderd year old man "breaching" [cd] + hunderd year old man "rei" [s-sided 12"] immersion "sleepless" [cd] jandek "houston tuesday" [cd] + jandek "san francisco friday" [cd] jah wobble "the butterfly effect" [cd] + jah wobble "dream world" [cd] john zorn "in a convex mirror" [cd] + john zorn "the urmuz epigrams" [cd] jon spencer "spencer sings the hits" [lp] kinky friedman "circus of life" [cd] kleistwahr "acceptance is not respect" [cd]

lajoie-tuttle "american primate" [k7] lee 'scratch' perry "the black album" [cd] + lee perry & diggory kenrick "the antisnake" [10"] lo carmen "gold guns and silver" [dl] l.o.x. "l.o.x. time" [k7] low "double negative" [cd] lydia lunch "marchesa" [cd] mad professor "elctro dubclubbing" [cd] + mad professor "ariwa 2018 riddim series" [dl] marianne faithfull "negative capability" [cd] marissa nadler "for my crimes" [cd] martin & bell "roman totale's death song [a tribute]" (040218) [dl] mary gauthier "rifles & rosary beads" [cd] -max rubadub "style & passion" [cd] mayuko hino "lunisolar" [cd] michael morley "blessed high regency" [dl] + michael morley "reverse bondage k.o." [dl] + michael morley "zéro de conduite" [dl] + michael morley "call back your dogs" [dl] + michael morley "here today gone tomorrow" [dl] + michael morley "rise above" [dl] + michael morley "we are here because of you" [dl] + gate "winter songs" [dl] + the righteous yeah "goodbye forever" [dl] + the righteous yeah "unknown album" [dl] + the righteous yeah "history of love" [dl] + the righteous yeah "game changer" [dl] + the righteous yeah "oiseau de paradis" [dl] mick harvey & christopher r. barker "the fall & rise of edgar bourchier & the horrors of war" [cd] minami deutsch "with dim light" [lp] ml wah & herbcraft "no slack" [k7] + ml wah "big air" [k7] more klementines "more klementines" [lp]

nagual & stefan christensen "third" [7"] + nagual "florida" [cdr] nww / artaud [mini cd] + nww "nerve junction" [cd] + nww "changez les blockeurs and" [cd] + nww "experimente [personal archive mixes]" [cdr] + nww "experimente II [son of trippin' music]" [cdr] + stapleton, ka-spel, potter & rollet "the man who floated away b/w the closer... etc" [cd] ocre "ocre" [7"] øjerum "selv i drømme lyser den første sne" [lp] + øjerum "a certain grief" [k7] okkyung lee "speckled stones & dissonant green dots" [dl] pama international meets manasseh "trojan sessions in dub" [cd] peter zummo "frame loop" [lp] [rec 1984] philip marino "chasing ghosts" [cd] philippe petit & friends "on top" [12"] phosphorescent "ç'est la vie" [cd] pierre vervloesem & alinovsky "invisible quality" [cd] pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs pigs "king of cowards" [cd] pinch points "mechanical injury" [k7] platinum boys "we don't dance (anymore)" [7"] pumice "platelets" [7"] r stevie moore, alan jenkins & the kettering vampires "the embodiment of progressive ideals" [cd] razen "the night receptionist" [cd] rie fukuda & tabata misuru "precog" [cd] roy montgomery "jesus saves country boys too" [cd] ryan porter "the optimist" [cdx2] ryley walker "deafman glance" [cd] + ryley walker, z mark duo & extended fractures duo "lb 067" [k7]

sarry "oppidum desertum" [cd] + sarry "exspiravit planeta" [dl] scientist meets hempress sativa "in dub" [lp] seez mics "live long enough to learn" [cdr] sheku kanneh-mason "inspiration" [cd] shilpa ray "nihilism" [k7] sigur rós "route one" [lp] sleaford mods "sleaford mods" [12"] sleep "the sciences" [cd] + sleep "leagues beneath" [s/sided 12"] sly & robbie meet nils petter molvaer ft eivind aarset & vladislav delay "nordub" [cd] + sly & robbie meet dubmatix "overdubbed" [cd] sly & the family drone & dead neanderthals / mai mai mai "flesh logics b/w anatole" [7"] snakes don't belaong in alaska "interstellar harvester" [cdr] + snakes don't belong in alaska "radar ocean reconnaissance satellite" [cdr] + snakes don't belong in alaska II "astral audit" [dl] somesurprises "alt" [k7] stefan neville & hermione johnson "7/10/17" [dl] stoned earth "psycho city" [dl] + stoned earth "sonic planet" [dl] sundays & cybele "on the grass" [lp] suns of arqa "pressure drop: a tribute to the great lizard logan" [dl] tanz mein herz "une autre version de territory" [lp] tender crust "the earth's axis & hare" [k7] "the black book" [lpx3] the black vomit "black dada nihilismus" [dl] the limiñanas "remix" [12"] the oscillation "wasted space" [lp] + the oscillation "uef" [lp] thurston moore "mx liberty b/w panik" [7"] unknown artist "ijzeren rots" [12"] wild billy childish & ctmf "something's missing inside" [7"] young gods "figure sans nom" [dl]

-akira sakata, chikamorachi ft masahiko satoh "proton pump" [cd] -balmorhea "clear language: reworked" [lp] -bongripper "terminal" [lp] -charalambides "tom and christina carter" [lpx2] -chris butler "got it togehter!" [cd] -cinchel "a sad study in temporal dissonance" [k7] + cinchel "at once pleasant [live]" [dl] -cowboy junkies "all that reckoning" [cd] -dead valley girls "darkness rains" [cd] -dmbq "keeenly" [cd] -earthless "black heaven" [cd] + earthless "from the west" [cd] -foudre! "kami 神" [lp] -guiguisuisui & emerge "enchanted garden" [k7] -haley heynderickx & max garcía conover "among horses III" [cd] -idles "joy as an act of resistance" [cd] -james greer & neil luck "we all emerge some hours later baffled" [cd] -jfk "weapon design" [lp] -jochen arbeit & friends "jochen arbeit & friends webcast" [dl] + jochen arbeit, gerd beßler & hopek quirin "abq" [dl] + jochen arbeit, munsha & hopek quirin "live at roter salon" [dl] + jochen arbeit, martina bertoni, munsha & hopek quirin "live at volksbühne berlin" [dl] + jochen arbeit & hopek quinn "live at white rabbit" [dl] + jochen arbeit & paolo spaccamonti "cln" [lp] -kathryn joseph "from when i wake the want is" [cd] -keir vine "instance" [lp] -ktl "the pyre: versions distilled to stereo" [lp] -kyle bobby dunn & wayne robert thomas "kbd / wrt" [12"] -laurie anderson & kronos quartet "landfall" [cd] -lunar grace "the sunstruck forest" [dl] -randall dunn "beloved" [lp] -scot jenerik "drifting ash" [dl] -soundwalk collective "what we leave behind jean-luc godard archives" [lp] -sterile garden "concrete maze" [k7] -tales from the sleeping land "III" [cd]

the longest list:

6majik9 ritual "zero / monk nun" [cdrx2] a place to bury strangers "pinned" [cd] + a place to bury strangers "frustrated operator [slowdive remix]" [dl] aesop rock "klutz" [7"] airway "live at moca" [cd] alejandro escovedo & don antonio "the crossing" [cd] amen dunes "freedom" [cd] ana da silva & phew "island" [cd] anton mobin, kris limbach & hopek quirin "live" [dl] antony milton "unrealised films" [dl] årabrot "who do you move" [cd] archie & the bunkers "songs from the lodge" [lp] + archie & the bunkers "play the damned" [7"] aries mond "come on let's wait" [cdr] asbest "driven" [cd] ashtray navigations "zoom up" [cdr] + ashtray navigations "neon eating stationary planes" [cdr] asian women on the telephone "so wot" [k7] awkward geisha & gx jupitter-larsen "final destination" [k7] bandulu dub & dub dillah "disconnect" [dl] bart de paepe "verdronken land" [lp] + bart de paepe "pagus wasiae" [lp] bas van huizen "kulverzuchter" [cd] bazuingeschal "bazuingeschal" [lp] beak> ">>>" [cd] bear bones, lay low "atlantean encrypted message" [12"] + bear bones, lay low & don't dj "plafond 3" [lp] blacklab "under the strawberry moon" [dl] black moon circle "psychedelic spacelord " [cd] black rainbows "pandaemonium" [cd] blóm "powerfrau" [k7] blood quartet "until my darkness goes" [k7] blue chelise "daughters of time" [lp] bras mort "give her this, she takes that" [lp] "braublff [materie und laut]" [7"x2] brecht ameel "polygraph heartbeat" [lp] bruce gilbert "ex nihilo" bruxa maria & casual nun "bruxa maria & casual nun" [lp] bryan's magic tears "4 am" [lp] bvdub "drowning in daylight" [lpx2] + bvdub "a different definition of love" [cd] + bvdub "nights of nine vigils" [dl]

camera "emotional detox" [cd] celer "malaria" [dl] + celer "a chance isn't really a chance at all" [dl] + celer "advert subversion" [dl] + celer "arc eye" [dl] + celer "something cathartic" [k7] + celer "plays ravel" [dl] + celer & forest management "landmarks" [k7] ceremony "east coast" [dl] + ceremony "darling" [k7] chaines "the king" [lp] chaos echoes & mats gustafsson "sustain" [lp] + chaos echoes "mouvement" [cd] charalambides "out of place" [k7] charlemagne palestine "interrvallissphereee" [lp] + charlemagne palestine "ttuunneesszz duh rruunneesszz" [lp] charlotte de witte "brussels" [12"] chihei hatakeyama "scene" [k7] + chihei hatakeyama "void XV" [dl] + chihei hatakeyama "void XVI" [dl] + chihei hatakeyama "butterfly's summer and vanished" [cd] + chihei hatakeyama "afterimage" [cd] + eraldo bernocchi, chihei hatakeyama "solitary universe" [cd] + vida voji´c, chihei hatakeyama "fts002" [12"] child's pose "child's pose" [7"] chlorine "the wanting seed" [dl] chris butler & ralph carney "songs for unsung holidays" [cd] chris carter "chemistry lessons volume I" [cd] church of cash "thank you sir" [cd] circuit breaker "hands return to shake" [lp] circuit des yeux ft moon bros "sœur de race [catherine ribeiro]" [dl] cocaine piss "my cake" [s-sided 12"] cold meat "pork sword fever" [7"] commodo "dyrge" [ep] connan mockasin "jassbusters" [cd] consumer electronics "the weight b/w hostility blues" [7"] coolies / the futurians "u. cs-01" [k7] cosmic ground "IV" [cd] craig gerdes "smokin', drinkin' & gamblin'" [cd] crash toto "crash toto" [dl] crayon sun "crayon sun" [cd] crazy doberman "lungs of carbon or urban paranoia without a tonal center" [k7] + crazy doberman "rust clatter for the midwest sun" [7"] + crazy doberman "confused debris from slow dreams" [k7] + crazy doberman "2038" [k7] + crazy doberman "acid gallery 3am empty bottle blow out" [cdr] + crazy doberman "live @ wfmu" [dl] + crazy doberman "live fall 2017" [k7] + crazy doberman "this land god has abandoned" [dl] + crazy doberman "get lost pens of baldwin particle one" [k7] + crazy doberman "th'basement mother 2" [k7] creep show "mr dynamite" [cd] cruel diagonals "disambiguation" [lp] current 93 "the stars on their horsies" [cd] + current 93 "the light is leaving us all" [cd] cyril cyril "certaine ruines" [cd]

d.u.d.s. "immediate" [lp] dagger moths & philippe petit "ovaries" [12"] dandelion "every other day" [7"] dark sun "innerspace astronauts rare & unreleased" [k7] datashock "banana spleen" [k7 ep] david eugene edwards & alaxander hacke "risha" [cd] dead meadow "the nothing they need" [cd] dead neanderthals "life" [cd] + dead neanderthals "birth" [dl] dead otter "bridge of weird" [lp] dead vibrations "dead vibrations" [cd] deafheaven "ordinary corrupt human love" [cd] deafkids "espiral da loucura" [dl] dean ween group "rock2" [cd] delacave "window has no glass" [lp] delaney davidson "shining day" [cd] delgres "mo jodi" [cd] deludium skies "aspirations" [cdr] dirk serries "epitaph" [cdx2] + n(52) & dirk serries "scatterwound" [cd] + dirk serries & colin webster "gargoyles" [cd] + dikeman, hadow, serries, verhoeven, vicente "ideal principle" [cd] dirk wachtelaer, jürgen de blonde, alec ilyine, gert de meester "tales from the hellhole" [dl] dj klakke "black thursday in luxemburg" [dl] dogs in reverse "drella" [k7] donkey bugs ancient chinese secrets [12"] downward spiral galaxy "dsg spacebarn bootleg live 2018" [dl] + downward spiral galaxy "remembering the sunshine on a rainy day" [dl] drew mcdowall & hiro kone "the ghost of georges bataille" [12"] drew's theory "future vintage" [dl] drinks "hippo lite" [cd] drudkh "they often see dreams about the spring" [cd] dub foundation "the good the bad and the dubby" [dl]

è-lg "vu du dôme" [lp] earthling society "mo - the demon" [lp] echotourist soundsystem "naomi" [k7] eiko ishibashi & darin gray "ichida" [lp] electric moon "live 2015 zeiss planetarium bochum aka kosmos" [dl/lpx3] eleh "home age 2" [cd] + caterina barbieri & eleh "bestie infinite b/w wear patterns" [lp] elephant9 "greatest show on earth" [cd] emma ruth rundle "on dark horses" [cd] ergo phizmiz "boîte - the end of music" [k7x3] + ergo phizmiz "fstarstark mstarn winkyface" [dl] eric arn & margaret unknown "paranza corta" [lp] eugene chadbourne "29.10.17" [cd] fermata "salvaged space" [k7] fire down below "hymn of the cosmic man" [cd] flowers must die "där blommor dör" [lpx2] forest management "21st century man" [12"] + forest management "rotating angle" [k7] + forest management "biqui" [k7] + forest management & v i c i m "arid fragments" [dl] former selves "forgiveness circles" [k7] free/slope "abracadabra" [lp] frustration "midlife crisis b/w sad face" [7"] fuc lerrari & nean jégroni "souvenirs uchroniques" [k7] futur.s mort.s "futur.s mort.s II" [dl] gallery six "kazemakase" [cdr] + gallery six "bansyun" [dl] + gallery six "geisyun" [dl] garcia peoples "cosmic cash" [lp] + garcia peoples "suite" [dl] gareth sager & the hungry ghosts "juicy rivers" [cd] gas "rausch" [cd] gashrat "rock on [do it for me]" [dl] ggallan partridge "eyesore" [8"] glasseyelashes "jellyfish" [k7] gnaw their tongues "genocidal majesty" [cd] + golden ashes "the desolation" [dl] goat "double date" [10"] goat bath eternity "downers" [k7] goatman "rhythms" [lp] gøggs "pre strike sweep" [cd] graham day & the forefathers "emmaretta b/w love help me" [7"] gudrun gut "moment" [lp] guerilla toss "twisted crystal" [cd] guru guru "rotate!" [cd]

hairbone "earth to momma" [lp] hank wood & the hammerheads "hank wood & the hammerheads" [lp] harutaka mochizuki & makoto kawashima "free wind mood" [lp] hawthonn "red goddess [of this men shall know nothing]" [cd] herman de vries & the eschenau chaos band "idem" [lp] hermann nitsch "traubenfleisch" [cdx2] high aura'd "if i'm walking in the dark, i'm whispering" [k7] + high aura'd & asama "oil pourer" [k7] holy motors "slow sundown" [cd] holy wave "adult fear" [cd] hookworms "microshift" [cd] hopek quirin "live at chateau gorilla" [dl] howlin' rain "the alligaor bride" [cd] i am johnny cash "i am johnny cash" [cd] iguana death cult "femme fatale b/w faster faster" [7"] ilsantobevitore "realm of consciousness" [k7] ilyas ahmed "closer to stranger" [lp] international observer "free from the dungeons of dub" [cd] j c satàn "centaur desire" [lp] j gallagher "unknown cowboy [demos]" [dl] james carothers "still country, still king: a tribute to george jones" [cd] jarboe "the cut of the warrior" [cd] jay glass dubs "plegnic" [lp] + jay glass dubs & bokeh edwards "earth two² [mixtape]" [k7] + jay glass dubs "the safest dub" [12"] + leslie winner & jay glass dubs "ymfees" [12"] jean grae x quelle chris "everything's fine" [lpx2] jeffrey lewis & the deposit returners "works by tuli kupferberg [1923-2010]" [cd] jem-one "endless days" [12"] jess williamson "cosmic wink" [cd] jessica93 "en public [live] in rennes" [dl] jim o'rourke "sleep like it's winter" [cd] + jim o'rourke "steamroom 38" [dl] + jim o'rourke "steamroom 39" [dl] + jim o'rourke "steamroom 40" [dl] + jim o'rourke "steamroom 41" [dl] + jim o'rourke "steamroom 42" [dl] jimi tenor& tony allen "oto live series" [12"] joanne cash "unbroken" [cd] joe talia "tint" [lp] jóhann jóhannsson "mandy" [ost] [cd] + jóhann jóhannsson & hildur gudnadóttir "mary magdalene [ost]" [cd] + jóhann jóhannsson "the mercy [ost]" [cd] john carter cash "we must believe in magic" [cd] john krausbauer & david kendall "pdrm" [cd] john parish "bird dog dante" [cd] john tilbury, keith rowe, & kjell bjorgeengen "sissel" [cd] jon porras "voices of the air" [cd] josh pearson "straight hits" [cd] joujou jaguar "cheap life" [7"] jsm "sound system" [12"] junkpile jimmy "wants you dead" [lp] just mustard "wednesday" [12"] julian cope "skellington III" [cd]

kapital & richard pinhas "flux" [cd] kawabata makoto "live @ akihabara goodman 281118" [dl] kikagaku moyo "masana temples" [cd] killing flies "killing flies" [cd] king bong "beekse bergen vol I old school cool" [dl] + king bong "beekse bergen vol II electric boogaloo" [dl] + king bong "beekse bergen vol III bong sulfur sax magick" [dl] + king bong "beekse bergen vol IV dreadful gate" [dl] + king bong "beekse bergen vol V to infinity & between" [dl] + king bong "dickus pickus live at circolo gagarin" [dl] klara lewis & simon fisher turner "care" [lp] kosmischer läufer "secret cosmic music of the east german olympic program '72-'83 vol IV" [dl] la muerte "la muerte" [cd] lärmschutz "dons" [k7] langham research centre "tics & ampersands" [k7] + langham research centre "gateshead multi-storey car park" [dl] + langham research centre "tape reworks vol I" [7"] lawrence wasser "the garden" [k7] lay llamas "thuban" [cd] + lay llamas "thuban dub ep vol I" [dl] lea bertucci "metal aether" [12"] leather jacuzzi "the whole hog" [lp] lee ranaldo "electric trim live @ rough trade east" [lp/dl] leroy "leroy" [12"] les horribles travailleurs, mechanical ape "collaborative soundworks" [k7] lincoln durham "and into heaven came the night" [cd] little wings & maher shalal hash baz "share" [12"] louise landes, bart de paepe, & paul labrecque "collodial love" [10"] + louise landes levi "ikiru or the wanderer" [dl] "losing today" [dl] ludo mich with jennifer walshe & w ravenveer "ludo mich with jennifer walshe & w ravenveer" k7] luke mawdsley "luke mawdsley" [dl] lumerians "call of the void" [cd] make flames ft gavin laird "a map is not the territory it portrays" [dl] mamuthones "fear on the corner" [lp] marianne schuppe "nosongs" [cd] marie davidson "working class woman" [cd] + marie davidson & lamusa II "la ecstase" [dl] mary bell "histrion" [12"] mary halvorson with bill frisell "the maid with the flaxen hair" [cd] mats gstafson & didi kern "marvel motor" [lp] matt lajoie "the fountain [k7] + matt lajoie "free to be.." [k7] maurizio abate "the maadi sessions" [lp] + maurizio abate "standing waters" [cd] + riccardo sinigaglia & maurzio abate "dialoghi nel vuoto" [lp] maze & lindholm "where the wolf has been seen" [lp] meg baird & mary lattimore "ghost forests" [cd] melvins "pinkus abortion technician" [cd] + melvins cock & bull bw reedy creek roast [7"] merzbow, balázs pándi, mats gustafsson, thurston moore "cuts up cuts out" [lp] [rsd] + merzbow "monoakuma" [cd] mésange "gyspy moth" [lp] meteor vortex "absorb / implode" [k7] mick jenkins "pieces of a man" [dl] miss red "k.o." [cd] + miss red "dagga b/w one shot killer" [12"] mythic sunship "another shape of psychedelic music" [cd] + mythic sunship "upheaval" [cd]

nathan salsburg "third" [cd] neneh cherry "broken politics" [cd] nickk dropkick "der club de faust" [dl] + nickk dropkick "sweet, sweet jazz for the soul" [dl] neil campbell "i must have my manias" [dl] neko case "hell-on" [cd] nerve beats "nerve beats" [lp] newaxeyes "black fax" [lp] nhung nguyen "illumination [piano day '18]" [dl] + nhung nguyen "oblivion" [dl] nordvargr "mx.tape.rn" [dl] no joy & sonic boom "no joy & sonic boom" [12"] obnox "templo del sonido" [lp] + obnox "bang messiah" [lp] olan mill "variations on the letter h" [k7] + olan mill "sounds of a new father" [cd] + olan mill "curves" [cdr] olympus "band on the gum" [dl] one eleven heavy "everything's better" [lp] øresund space collective "live in berlin '18" [cdx2] + øresund space collective "chatoyant breath" [cdx2] + øresund space collective "kybalion" [cd] + øresund space collective "space jam 160 live @ urban spree" [dl] orgue agnès "à une gorge" [lp] otherworld ensemble "live at malmitalo" [cd] oulu space jam collective "intergalactic spy music redux" [dl] + oulu space jam collective "the lotus-eaters" [dl] p j philipson "distante" [dl] + p j philipson "linotopia" [cd] p wits "blonde on blonde" [k7x2] + p wits "feel-be" [ep] [dl] + p wits "i will fall" [single] [dl] paint "paint" [cd] papa m "a broke moon rises" [cd] parquet courts "wide awake" [cd] + parquet courts "wide awake remixes" [12"] pausal "volume flow" [cd] perhaps "hexagon" [lp] + perhaps "hexagain" [cdr] + perhaps "excerpts" [dl] peter broderick "two balloons" [10"] peter strickmann "mellow toes" [lp] pharaoh overlord "chewing gum live" [lp] + pharaoh overlord "zero" [cd] pheek "returning home" [dl] pierre bastien, cabo san roque, anna homler, adrian northover, & dave tucker "fts003" [lp] pink fairies "resident reptiles" [cd] posset "another forever tomorrow" [cdr] prana crafter "enter the stream" [k7] + prana crafter "bodhi cheetah's choice" [k7] preening "greasetrap frisbee" [7"] primitive knot "thee opener of the way" [k7] pullout kings "sweat crimes" [k7] questions and answers "tell us the truth" [7"]

radar men from the moon & 10.000 russos "rmftm & 10.000 russos" [lp] rafael anton irisarri "el ferrocarril desvaneciente" [k7] + rafael anton irisarri "sirimiri" [k7] rainbow grave "sex threat b/w you are nowhere" [7"] + rainbow grave & orthodox "death pyramid b/w spain is the place"[7"] rainforest spiritual enslavement "red ants genesis" [k7] ras g "ras g meets moresounds" [12"] red lama "motions" [lp] richard youngs "endless futures" [lp] + richard youngs "belief" [lp] + richard youngs "fierce years etc." [dl] + richard youngs "six panels for dissolution" [dl] + richard youngs "foot guitar vol VI" [dl] + richard youngs "foot guitar vol VII" [dl] + richard youngs "arrow" [dl] + richard youngs "daybreak" [dl] rosanne cash "she remembers everything [deluxe]" sasha grey & pig "that's the way [i like it] remixed by youth" [10″] + sasha grey & pig "that's the way [i like it]" [12″] samara lubelski "flickers at the station" [lp] + samara lubelski / bill nace "samara lubelski / bill nace" [cd] sarah davachi "let night come on bells end the day" [cd] + sarah davachi "gave in rest" [cd] savage grounds "let your love groan" [7"] scarab "erect in the garden of grace" [dl] schwund "technik und gefühl" [lp] set and setting "tabula rasa" [lp] shame "songs of praise" [cd] + shame "all the hits" [12"] + shame "tasteless" [dl] shit & shine "bad vibes" [lp] + shit & shine "very high" [12"] simon felice "the projector" [cd] sister iodine "venom" [lpx2] snapped ankles "violations" [12"] sneers "heaven will rescue us, we're the scum, we're in the sun" [lp] sons of kemet "your queen is a reptile" [lpx2] sound awakener "duskiness" [dl] spaceslug "eye the tide" [cd] spiral galaxy with plastic crimewave "d machine" [dl] + spiral galaxy with plastic crimewave "celestial omen" [dl] spiritualized "and nothing hurt" [cd] starbirthed "citrine dreams" [2017] [k7] + starbirthed "starbirthed" [lp] + starbirthed "the dweller on the treshold" [k7] + starbirthed" messages from..." [dl] sterile garden "night loops III" [dl] + sterile garden "wandering in circles" [dl] + sterile garden "city corridors: sound & the city" [dl] + sterile garden "live recordings" [dl] steve ignorant & paranoid visions "1977220174u" [cd] stuart a staples "arrhythmia" [cd] sudden infant "buddhist nihilism" [cd] sugar pills bone "slack babbath plays peep durple" [k7] sutcliffe jugend "the hunger" [cdx2] + sutcliffe jugend "live at maschinenfest 2017" [k7]

the bleak engineers "introspecto b/w indiscriminate" [7"] the buckshot boys "perform the ultimate survival machine" [7"] the cool greenhouse "london b/w the end of the world" [7"] the dead brothers "angst" [cd] the dwarfs of east agouza "rats don't eat synthesizers" [lp] the ex "27 passports" [cd] the fadeaways "transworld 60's punk nuggets" [lp] the heartwood institute "secret rites" [lp] the staches "the great depression" [7"] trust "dans le même sang" [cd] uk subs "subversions" [cd] underworld & iggy pop "teatime dub encounters" [cd] vintage cucumber "arabische nächte II" [dl] vomir & discipline "split" [k7x6] wicked shimmies exile on 5th street [k7] °debris related (2018)° william shatner & jeff cook "why not me" [cd] + william shatner "shatner claus" [cd]

-adderall canyonly "museum of fire" [lp] -allen ravenstine "waiting for the bomb" [cd] -alpha steppa & nai-jah "the great elephant" [cdx2] -armonite "and the stars above" [cd] -arp "zebra" [cd] -atomonaut "inner space vol I" [dl] -axelle red "exil" [cd] -azusa "heavy yoke" [cd] -bebe buell "baring it all" [lp] -bitchin bajas & dsr lines "encyclopedia of civilizations vol II atlantis" [lp] -black space riders "amoretum vol I" [cd] + black space riders "amoretum vol II" [cd] -bonnacons of doom "bonnacons of doom" [lp] -brix and the extricated "breaking state" [cd] -brother jt "tornado juice" [cd] -catherine britt & the cold cold hearts "idem" [cd] -cave story "punk academics" [cd] -cavern of anti-matter "hormone lemonade" [cd] -charlotte gainsbourg "a-ring o'roses [sebastian on the beat remix]" [dl] -chris dooks joppa waves [dl] -christophe clébard on va crever [dl] + christophe clébard & carrageenan "split" [7"] -connorparty "flying colors!" [dl] -damo suzuki & jelly planet "damo suzki & jelly planet" [cd] -deniz tek "lost for words" [cd] -die wilde jagd "uhrwald orange" [cd] -dungen & woods "myths 003" [lp] -easy life "creature habits mixtape" [10"] -echo & the bunnymen "the stars, the oceans & the moon" cd] -eddy mitchell "le meme tribu vol II" [cd] -exitmusic "the recognitions" [cd] -glenn matlock "good to go" [cd] -grant-lee phillips "widdershins" [cd] -hatis noit "illogical dance" [cd] -hilary woods "colt" [cd] -ida sofar "mind" [cd] -jack ladder & the dreamlanders "blue poles" [cd] -jenny hval "the long sleep" [12"] -john grant "love is magic" [cd] -johnny jewel "themes for television" [cd] -juan d'oultremont "je pense donc je fuis" [dl] + juan d'oultremont "ma fiancée" [dl] + juan d'oultremont "otages b/w invisible" [dl] + juan d'oultremont "avant l'incident" [dl] -khalab "black noise 2084" [cd] -king dude "music to make war to" [cd] -kode9 & burial "fabriclive" [cd]

-la race "drancy ostinato" [lp] -laraaji, arji oceananda, dallas acid "arrive without leaving" [12"] -larry heard "heaven dub" [12"] -len leise & jura soundsystem "for adrian b/w udaberri blues" ]12"] -life education "earth tones" [cd] -malcolm middleton "bananas" [cd] -matthew "doc" dunn "lightbourn" [lp] -nurgul jones "carcosa" [dl] -okkervil river "in the rainbow rain" [cd] -oneohtrix point never "age of" [cd] + oneohtrix point never "love in the time of lexapro" [dl] + oneohtrix point never "the station" [dl] -open mike eagle "the dark dark purple tape" [k7] + open mike eagle "what happens when i try to relax" [12"] -orchestre tout puissant marcel duchamp "sauvage formes" [cd] -paolo conte "live in caracalla 50 years of azzurro" [cd] -peter hammill "x/ten" [cd] -protomartyr & spray paint "irony prompts a party rat" [7"] -ramble tamble "outlaw overtones" [k7] -rimjob texas "buttleg jan18" [dl] + rimjob texas "plačilni nalog" [dl] -ruby karinto "ruby karinto" [lp] -silencaeon "dead channel (music inspired by william gibson's neuromancer)" [dl] -sink ya teeth "sink ya teeth" [cd] -slightly stoopid "everyday life, everyday people" [cd] -stephen inglis "cut the dead some slack" [cd] -suishou no fune "moonlight" [k7x2] -territorial gobbing "circle of dads" [k7] -thalia zedek band "fighting season" [cd] -the decemberists "I'll be your girl" [cd] + the decemberists "traveling on" [10"] -the lumineers "c-sides" [dl] + the lumineers "live tracks" [dl] -"veterans in dub [deluxe version]" [cd] -zacht automaat "memory of the world" [12"] + zacht automaat "commercial waste" [dl] -zola jesus "wiseblood (johnny jewel remixes)" [12"] + zola jesus "okovi: additions" [dl] -тпсб "sekundenschlaf" [lp] - bevis frond "we're your friends, man" [cd]

- bevis frond "we're your friends, man" [cd] - bloody hell "my boss ross" [7"] - bobby body "rock on" [7"] - chocolat billy "délicat déni" [cd] - colin self "siblings" [lp] - dita von teese "dita von teese" [cd] - father john misty "god's favorite customer" [cd] + father john misty "live at third man records" [12"] - gary war "gaz forth" [cdr] - jennifer warnes "another time, another place" [cd] - jonathan richman "sa" [cd] - marc ribot "songs of resistance 1942-2018" [cd] - meghan patrick "country music made me do it" [cd] - no age "snares like a haircut" [cd] - nytt land "odal" [cd] - pablo raster "dub addicted" [dl] - pascal comelade & ivette nadal "arquitectura primera" [7"] - piloot "recuerda tu futuro" [k7] - rosali "trouble anyway" [lp] - ry cooder "the prodigal son" [cd] - salad boys "this is glue" [cd] - sarah shook & the disarmers "years" [cd] - satis "saturnalivm" [dl] + satis "planetarivm" [dl] - simon love "sincerely, s. love x" [cd] - spain "mandala brush" [cd] - spiny normen "spiny normen" [cd] - the johnny clash project "the johnny clash project" [cd] - the mountain goats "hex of infinite binding" [dl] - vanessa paradis "les sources" [cd] - weiland "perruche b/w vakbond" [7"]

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For the week of 1 July 2019

Quick Bits:

Aero #1 is an impressive solo debut for the Chinese original heroine spinning out of War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas in North America and her original stories published in China. The first story is an English adaptation of one originally published in Chinese from Zhou Liefen and Keng, with the adaptation by Greg Pak, letters by Joe Caramagna. The artwork from Keng is stunning. There’s also an original back-up from Pak, Pop Mhan, Federico Blee, and Caramagna that ties in more directly to New Agents of Atlas with Aero learning more about Wave’s origin.

| Published by Marvel

Age of X-Man: Prisoner X #5 concludes another of these minis setting up for the finale in Age of X-Man: Omega. Vita Ayala, Germán Peralta, Matt Horak, Mike Spicer, and Joe Sabino deliver an entertaining story here of Bishop and his crew fighting back against their captor and figuring out who put them in this mess. Gorgeous artwork from Peralta, Horak, and Spicer.

| Published by Marvel

Analog #6 returns from the break with this action-packed start to the new arc. Great art from David O’Sullivan and Mike Spicer. Also, an interesting reveal of what people still do post-Internet.

| Published by Image

Crowded #7 kicks off the second arc as Charlie and Vita try to make their way to Las Vegas. Tons of humour, Charlie continues to be someone that you want to strangle, and Dog may just be the best part of the entire series. I love the art from Ro Stein, Ted Brandt, Tríona Farrell, Katie O’Meara, and Holly McKend.

| Published by Image

Deathstroke #45 begins “Deathstroke RIP” from Priest, Fernando Pasarin, Jason Paz, Wade von Grawbadger, Jeromy Cox, and Willie Schubert. This one deals with the legacy of Slade Wilson in a fascinating manner as Rose tries to fulfill her father’s last contract. There’s also a tie-in to the “Year of the Villain” event with someone here listening to Luthor’s offer. Should be an interesting road ahead.

| Published by DC Comics

Doom Patrol: Weight of the Worlds #1 is very much a continuation of the previous volume of Doom Patrol (with this first issue even including a “Thirteen” chapter heading), but it’s both inclusive and weird enough that it doesn’t overly matter if you’ve read the previous stuff. It helps, but this isn’t a bad place to jump in at the deep end. Gerard Way, Jeremy Lambert, James Harvey, Sajan Rai, and a seemingly uncredited letterer deliver an excellent story here, featuring a weird story on a fitness planet and Cliff dealing poorly with being flesh and blood again.

| Published by DC Comics / Young Animal

Giant Days #52 seems to be setting up how the series may see its exit as Esther travels to London for a job interview. It’s going to be sad to see it end, but John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar, and Jim Campbell are ensuring that these final stories contain all of the humour and rich character interaction that has been a hallmark for the book.

| Published by Boom Entertainment / BOOM! Box

The Green Lantern #9 is another excellent issue with stunning artwork from Liam Sharp and Steve Oliff. This one sets up a new multiversal threat while also giving us a fun adventure on an otherwise forgotten corner of the DC Universe in Athmoora.

| Published by DC Comics

Harley Quinn #63 is another “Year of the Villain” tie-in, with the offer being heard on the last two pages of the book. That pretty much seems to be the theme of these tie-ins, so if you’re not normally reading the books, you might otherwise want to skip them if you’re only interested in Year of the Villain. Apart from that, this is an entertaining story of Harley dealing with her mother’s cancer diagnosis from Sam Humphries, Otto Schmidt, and Dave Sharpe.

| Published by DC Comics

Immortal Hulk #20 continues to build on the confrontation between Hulk, Betty, and the new Abomination adding General Fortean’s forces to the mix directly. It’s fairly explosive, while more horrible and horrifying things seem to be happening on the other side of the Green Door and elsewhere. Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, Ruy José, Belardino Brabo, Marc Deering, Paul Mounts, and Cory Petit continue to deliver Marvel’s best title. Also, there’s an Absolute Carnage teaser from Ewing, Brian Level, Mounts, and Clayton Cowles that gives us a missing body of General Ross and hints at possibly a more nightmarish Red Hulk.

| Published by Marvel

Justice League #27 continues “Apex Predator” from James Tynion IV, Javier Fernandez, Bruno Redondo, Hi-Fi, and Tom Napolitano. It builds further on the new history of Luthor and Martian Manhunter, while the rest of the team continues to try to track down the Monitor and Anti-Monitor.

| Published by DC Comics

Lois Lane #1 is an excellent debut from Greg Rucka, Mike Perkins, Paul Mounts, and Simon Bowland. It focuses well on Lois’ day job, building up on what makes her a creditable threat to shady organizations and the US government alike as she pushes forward to find the truth. A very welcome reappearance of a Questionable character, some topical story threads of the camps at the southern US border, and gorgeous artwork from Perkins and Mounts.

| Published by DC Comics

Red Sonja #6 is the penultimate chapter of this arc with the finale spinning off in the Lord of Fools special. Some interesting developments here as the Zamoran Emperor tries to end the war by offering Sonja a marriage proposal.

| Published by Dynamite

Savage Avengers #3 fully unites the team as Electra and Punisher join the others, complete with an interesting merging for the Venom symbiote. Gerry Duggan tosses out some really great funny lines for this one amidst all of the bloody action.

| Published by Marvel

Sea of Stars #1 is a heartbreaking debut from Jason Aaron, Dennis Hallum, Stephen Green, Rico Renzi, and Jared K. Fletcher. Heartbreaking because it tells the story of a kid and his father, struggling to get by in cruel world through space shipping, and the attack of a weird space creature that tears them apart. Great set-up, beautiful art, and some bizarre events for what happens to the kid.

| Published by Image

Space Bandits #1 is worth it just for the incredible artwork from Matteo Scalera and Marcelo Maiolo. Like Scalera’s work on Black Science, the inventiveness of his art knows no limits and he explores some rich and detailed alien landscapes and characters, with a neat pastel colour palette from Maiolo. This first issue sets up two criminals screwed over by their respective crews.

| Published by Image

Star Wars: Target Vader #1 is a compelling debut that sets up a plot to kill Darth Vader from Robbie Thompson, Marc Laming, Chris Bolson, Neeraj Menon, Jordan Boyd, Andres Mossa, Federico Blee, Erick Arciniega, and Clayton Cowles. This one’s largely a gathering of the team set-up as we follow Valance from Han Solo: Imperial Cadet and learn of an organization running guns against the Empire.

| Published by Marvel

Superman: Up in the Sky #1 begins to collect the original Superman story that was published in those Walmart-exclusive 100-page anthologies from Tom King, Andy Kubert, Sandra Hope, Brad Anderson, and Clayton Cowles. It’s not a bad start, even if it seems a bit weird as to how obsessive Superman seems to be over a missing child stolen from the planet. Some of the best art from Andy Kubert I’ve seen in a while.

| Published by DC Comics

Test #1 is another highly unique and entertaining debut for Vault. Christopher Sebela, Jen Hickman, Harry Saxon, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou introduce us to Aleph, a test subject in some sort of corporate experiment that seems to have some sort of unique powers. Or maybe not. That’s the interesting thing, there are hints that it could all be in Aleph’s mind. Wonderful art from Hickman and Saxon.

| Published by Vault

Thumbs #2 continues this excellent series from Sean Lewis and Hayden Sherman. The world-building in this series is incredible, especially considering how immensely personal it happens to be in regards to being seen through Thumbs’ eyes. The colour scheme in this series of blue-grey washes and hot pink just makes this look and feel wonderfully unique. Also, how the back-up story is presented with spot illustrations and dialogue is a neat use of format.

| Published by Image

Other Highlights: Batgirl #36, Batman/TMNT III #3, Birthright #37, Black Hammer: Age of Doom #11, Captain America and the Invaders: Bahama’s Triangle #1, Charlie’s Angels vs. The Bionic Woman #1, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #6, DCeased #3, Dead Man Logan #9, Descendent #3, The Dreaming #11, Fantastic Four: Prodigal Sun #1, Female Furies #6, Hashtag: Danger #3, Heathen #7, Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand, KINO #17, The Long Con #10, Ms. Marvel Annual #1, No One Left to Fight #1, Old Man Quill #7, Postal: Deliverance #1, The Punisher #13, Secret Warps: Soldier Supreme Annual #1, Section Zero #4, She Said Destroy #2, Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider #10, Star Trek: Year Five #3, Star Wars: Age of Resistance - Finn #1, Star Wars Adventures #23, TMNT #95, Transformers #8, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #46, Uncanny X-Men #21, The World of Black Hammer Encyclopedia

Recommended Collections: Conan the Barbarian - Volume 1: Life and Death of Conan Book One, Conan: The Jewels of Gwahlur & Other Stories, Crimson Lotus, Gasolina - Volume 3, Go Go Power Rangers - Volume 4, Hellboy: 25 Years of Covers, Monstress - Book One

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