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El Cantinero !

Ingredients:

2 OZ. Blanco Tequila or Mezcal

1 OZ. Grapefruit Cordial

3/4 OZ. Fresh Lime Huice

Dash of Ghost Pepper Tincture

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Grapefruit Cordial:

10 OZ. Fresh Grapefruit Juice

10 OZ. Sugar

3 OZ. Fresh lime juice

3 OZ. Aperol

1 TBSP. White Peppercorn Lightly Ground

20-30 Scrapes of Star Anise on a Microplane 

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Ghost Pepper Tincture:

7 1/2G Thai Chili 

10G Ghost Pepper

375ML Vodka

Preparation:

Add all of the ingredients to a shaker and shake with ice. Strain into an ice-filled glass. Garnish. 

Note: If you’re spice-averse, you can leave out the ghost pepper tincture all together.

Grapefruit Cordial:

Add ingredients to a sealable container. Stir and infuse overnight. Strain. Will keep in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 weeks.

Ghost Pepper Tincture:

Chop peppers and combine with the vodka in a container such as a mason jar. Make sure to use gloves when handling the ghost peppers. Shake and let it sit overnight. Will keep indefinitely.

Recipe: Keith Larry (Little Rascal, Brooklyn),

Photo: Joanna Lin

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Robin: [lowly] Aren’t you gonna say anything? Oscar: I haven’t decided what to say yet, pal-.. so, you better get your story straight. [Robin sighed, trudging after his father; he doubted “Levi’s a jerk n’ had it coming” was gonna cut it] Larry: Holy shit-.. tat man?! Oscar: Hey, uhm… Larry: Larry! We used t’be neighbours-.. dude, we were gutted when you moved out. Oscar: Oh, I’m sure you were. Larry: I totally didn’t reckon you were gonna make it last time I saw you-.. like I thought you were gonna be the first dead body I ever laid eyes on y’know, makin’ pals with that bathroom floor n’ all. [Oscar scoffed lightly, attempting to rid himself of Larry as quickly as possible. He couldn’t quite remember what his old neighbour was talking about, but he could guess-.. and it definitely wasn’t a conversation fit for a child’s ears] Larry: I wouldn’t be surprised if you don’t remember, dude! You were pretty-… Oscar: Well, it was nice seeing you! Larry: Aye-.. hey, you still in the game by any chance..? Oscar: Bye, Larry. … Robin: Why did he say that? Oscar: Ohh, we used to play games together now n’ the-… Robin: No, the dead body thing. Oscar: I don’t know what he’s talking about, ignore him. He’s a complete moron. [Oscar silently cursed Larry as he hurried Robin along, what an idiot, bringing that up in front of a bunch of kids] Robin: Did you die?! Oscar: What, no! Robin: But it look-.. it sounded like-.. he said you d-died! Oscar: No, he didn’t! Do I look dead to you? [Oscar sighed as Robin stammered something incoherent and jammed a frayed sleeve into his teary eyes-.. stupid fucking Larry and his big stupid mouth] Oscar: Robin, buddy-.. look, I’m fine! [Oscar tugged Robin closer and squeezed his arm with reassurance, murmuring softly] Oscar: Look, it-.. it was just a tiny accident when I was younger, okay? He’s being overly dramatic about it. I wouldn’t be here if I’d actually died, would I? Hell, neither would you! He’s talking nonsense, honey. Robin: B-but… [Robin choked back a sob as he threw himself at Oscar, catching himself before exclaiming that he’d literally just seen his father’s lifeless body right in front of him-.. well, Larry had] Oscar: I think today’s been a bit too much, hasn’t it? [Robin nodded somberly against Oscar’s shoulder, glad to be given a free excuse for his ridiculous outburst] Oscar: C’mon, let’s get outta here. … [Levi stared over his shoulder as his father practically dragged him toward the car. He’d be lucky to see the light of day for the next month at least and Robin got a hug-.. how the hell was that fair?!] Keith: Do you think I’ve got nothing better to do?! Get in the damn car!

[sprockyeahlegion]

Anything

[whenyourbirdisbroken]

Who are your favourite “band mates who fucked”?

[cantsayidont]

For a long time, the main impetus for DC reprinting any of its voluminous back catalog was some promotional or licensing tie-in: a movie, a TV show, some merchandise they were trying to push, or just a popular ongoing book. Given how prominently Dr. Fate was featured in the recent BLACK ADAM movie, therefore, it's surprising and somewhat disheartening that DC didn't take the opportunity to do some kind of greatest hits compilation for the character, who was certainly the best thing about that mostly terrible film.

This is especially unfortunate because you could fit quite a bit of Dr. Fate's Silver Age and Bronze Age non-JSA appearances in a single volume, starting with the two 1965 SHOWCASE team-ups with Hourman shown above, by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson. There are also a number of later team-ups with Superman and Batman:

Fate then got a couple of solo features in the '70s:

Kubert cover notwithstanding, the 1ST ISSUE SPECIAL story, which is written by Marty Pasko, has some really outstanding early Walt Simonson art, while the SECRET ORIGINS OF SUPER-HEROES story has an eight-page retelling of Fate's origin, narrated by Kent Nelson's wife Inza, by the ALL-STAR COMICS team of Paul Levitz and Joe Staton.

In 1982, Doctor Fate got his own eight-page backup feature in, weirdly enough, THE FLASH #306–313. Despite what a couple of the covers imply, there wasn't a team-up between the Flash and Fate (who in those days still existed on separate parallel Earths); the Fate strip was just an unrelated second feature.

This strip, written by Marty Pasko and Steve Gerber with spectacular art by Keith Giffen and Larry Mahlstedt, presents an array of interesting ideas (some of which obviously paved the way for Giffen's 1987 revamp). Pasko had already established (in the 1975 1ST ISSUE SPECIAL story) that Doctor Fate wasn't exactly Kent Nelson: He was really the ancient Lord of Order Nabu, the entity who trained Nelson in the magical arts, who possessed Nelson's body whenever he put on the Helm of Fate. In other words, the Dr. Fate of these stories isn't so much a man wearing a magical helmet as a magical helmet wearing a man. Nabu has made both Kent and Inza ageless — they both appear about 25, but by this time, they're really in their 60s — but allows them little real control of their lives. Kent has more or less resigned himself to it, but Inza is feeling the strain of being trapped in a magical menage à trois with her husband and an inhuman entity that has little regard for Kent's welfare and even less for hers. Nabu, for his part, seems to exist in a state of constant mystical urgency in which human frailties are an unaffordable distraction.

This could have been really compelling, and it's both graphically interesting and quite strange, but all that is a lot to squeeze into eight-page installments, and having them crammed in the back of one of DC's most conventional superhero books was obviously not optimal. It was also having to compete for Giffen and Mahlstedt's attention with LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, which I assume was why the Fate strip was dropped after only eight installments.

To everyone's surprise, there was even a Doctor Fate action figure in 1984 as part of the Kenner Super Powers line. This came with a little minicomic, which to my knowledge has never been reprinted:

All of this stuff would add up to something in the realm of 230 pages, which would easily fit into a single trade paperback collection with a digestible price point. Maddeningly, DC has already done the color remastering for roughly three-fifths of this material, so even that probably wouldn't be a huge chore (although the Giffen/Mahlstedt stuff, which has a lot of color holds and graphic effects, really calls for more care in remastering than DC has tended to give its older material of late.)

[camphorfreya]

Keith Haring and Arthur Russell membership cards for New York clubs in the 1980s.

[twixnmix]

Larry Gagosian, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring in New York City, 1982.  

[anton-wyzek]

I know pride month is over now, but I want to reflect on the artists, musicians, actors, singers, and others we lost to AIDS.

Keith Haring

Gia Carangi

Leonard Frey

Robert La Tourneaux

Frederick Combs

Keith Prentice

Kenneth Nelson

Larry Kert

Irving Allen Lee

Ilka Tanya Payán

I encourage others to add more people, as I will do the same in reblogs as there were so many more people I wanted to add. And those in the public eye that we lost don’t even hold a candle to the large amount of brothers, sisters, friends, that were lost due to AIDS.

[wwprice1]

Covers and scenes from the amazing epic “The Great Darkness Saga”. By Levitz and Giffen.

[chernobog13]

The Super-cousins during the climatic battle between the Legion of Super-Heroes and Darkseid in The Great Darkness Saga. The story ran in Legion of Super-Heroes (vol. 2) #290-294 in 1982. Written by Paul Levitz, art by the late Keith Giffen and Larry Mahlstedt.

[beacarrot]

"do you get déjà vu?"

yeah, i did.

(when i saw the rolling stones album on karaokê i immediately remembered it)

[bluesrocknrollingstones]

Photos by Patricia Fried , 1972

[chenfordsrollisi]

You Know What's Weird? OTH Chat

Brooke's parents were absent for most of her life and most of the show. What's weird is that not a single adult that was in her life, thought to call the cops or CPS and tell them that a teenager lived by herself in a house, no parents, no supervision or caregiver of any kind. There were a handful of adults that were in and around Brooke's life when she was in high school, that could've and should've stepped up. Karen, Keith, Whitey, Larry. These are the only ones I can think of right off the bat who would care enough to get involved, but none ever did. It's crazy to me how this was never mentioned in the show, or how it was never a big thing in the fandom. Or at least, it wasn't talked about in the fandom spaces I used to frequent.

[all-action-all-picture]

RIP Keith Giffen. Personally I'll remember him best from Ambush Bug, the early years of Justice League/Justice League International and his run on Legion of Super-Heroes which gave us The Great Darkness Saga. I can remember being on a family holiday in the early 1980's and picking up random issues of this at a newsagents in Portstewart in Northern Ireland. They even had them on a spinner rack. For some reason that particular newsagents only seemed to have DC titles but no Marvel (while other shops had the reverse). The issues never seemed to be in any order and it wasn't until years later that I got to read the whole thing in a trade collection. It is only about 5 or 6 issues long but in those days it wasn't easy where I lived to pick up consecutive issues of US comics. This collection is from 1989. I think I've another collection of it somewhere but this one was handy.

[cantsayidont]

August 1982. In 1982, Keith Giffen became the regular penciller of THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES, to which writer Paul Levitz had recently returned. Aided by much-improved physical production, Giffen, inked by Larry Mahlstedt, gave the book a sleek new look, a science fiction setting that no longer felt like a holdover from the 1950s. Before long, he was also contributing so much to the stories that he began receiving co-plotter credit. This issue marked the official beginning of what's often considered Levitz and Giffen's defining Legion story: "The Great Darkness Saga," whose wheels had been set in motion a few months earlier.

[sprockyeahlegion]

“his miserable birth”