#star trek graphic novel collection

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Title: Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life Editor: Alina Pete Genres: Contemporary, Anthology, Graphic Novel Pages: 120 Publisher: Iron Circus Comics Review Copy: Contributed to fundraiser Availability: Available now

Summary: First Nations culture is living, vibrant, and evolving, and generations of Indigenous kids have grown up with pop culture creeping inexorably into our lives. From gaming to social media, pirate radio to garage bands, Star Trek to D&D, and missed connections at the pow wow, Indigenous culture is so much more than how it’s usually portrayed. INDIGNERDS is here to celebrate those stories! Featuring an all-Indigenous creative team, INDIGNERDS is an exhilarating anthology collecting 11 stories about Indigenous people balancing traditional ways of knowing with modern pop culture. Includes work by ALINA PETE, PJ UNDERWOOD, KAMERON WHITE, RHAEL MCGREGOR, and many more!

Review: [Note: Some of the stories in Indiginerds reference heavier topics, such as domestic violence and bullying, though not in great depth.]

Indiginerds is a graphic novel anthology about modern and nerdy Indigenous life. This anthology was obviously curated with a great deal of thought and care, and I really appreciated the breadth of the stories told in these pages. There were some nerdy staples I expected, like D&D and Star Trek, but there were several areas that surprised me, like pirate radio stations and local music scenes, neither of which I have engaged with much if at all. It was fun to see glimpses of these other pop culture communities I know little about. The anthology featured a couple of autobiographical pieces, too, which were a delight to read.

Like any anthology, readers will find some stories that resonate with them more than others. I was particularly fond of “Missed Pow Wow Connection” by Kameron White, “Dorvan V” by Alina Pete, and “Welei (I Am Fine)” by Bianca "binkz17" Martin and Rhael McGregor. But even the stories that I didn’t connect with as strongly, I appreciated the artistry that went into making them and the variety they added to the anthology as a whole. I was especially happy to see the diversity in how people were depicted across the board (e.g., cultures, body type, skin color, hair texture/style, clothing, etc.). Overall, anthology did a wonderful job of showcasing Indigenous people engaging with pop culture and telling their own stories.

Recommendation: Get it soon if you’re looking to expand your graphic novel collection. This anthology features a variety of stories about Indigenous people engaging with modern pop culture and forging spaces for themselves. This would be a fun addition to any school or classroom library.

Extras: "Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life," with Editor Alina Pete

[calvincell]

It’s absolutely astounding how much more I enjoy Star Wars as an overall franchise when I engage with Extended Universe & Legends Era projects that aren’t the shows or films (exceptions being Andor & Visons).

Even in regards to the Disney Era, so many of the most compelling writing & stories come from several of the prose books/short story collections (ie Alphabet Squadron & From A Certain Point Of View) and comics (ie many of the Darth Vader graphic novels).

On a lark, after putting off reading my copy for so long, I finally decided to read the often praised Star Wars Legends novel Darth Plagueis via Audiobook on YouTube and, despite watching the sequel trilogy in theaters, the audiobook was the most engaged & invested I’ve been in Star Wars as a storytelling playground since Tartakovsky’s Clone Wars back in 2003. The book is brimming with engaging characters & fantastic rich writing & plotting.

Now I’ve moved on to the YT channel The Archivist Publishing & its Audiobooks for Tales of the Bounty Hunters and the truly outstanding novel Death Star which is an incredible ensemble drama about the compelling lives of multiple characters either willingly, conscripted or outright forced to work on the 2/3rds constructed superweapon. It covers a gamut of perspectives from icons of Imperial command like Tarkin & Vader, to political prisoners of the Empire forced to apply their skills to the Death Star’s construction, to rank & file guards & pilots steeped in worship of the Empire eager for reassignment to the doomed battlestation, and even several individuals from discriminated species simply looking to eek out a semblance of a stable life under the thumb of the Empire. The book is absolutely overflowing with intrigue, magnetic & complex characters, spectacular worldbuilding & just generally terrific writing.

Ultimately, as someone who gravitated more towards Star Trek as my mainstream space scifi franchise of choice for years, I’m glad to finally get truly engrossed in the Star Wars universe & franchise earnestly rather than keeping it at arms length & only watching most of the post-Original Trilogy content out of social obligation to listlessly follow the zeitgeist instead of real interest. And as such I highly recommend that anyone who wants to truly see what can be done in this universe beyond the multitude of mid & low tier live action content we’ve gotten pre & post-Disney or simply just want to read good space opera fiction, definitely check out the Star Wars Legends-branded books & short fiction collections as well as several of the modern Star Wars comics.

[popculturelib]

In honor of Juneteenth, we are featuring four books in our collection by queer Black and African authors. Descriptions of the books are below the read more.

Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction (2016) ed. by S. Andrea Allen & Lauren Cherelle.

Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happy Ever Afters (2022) ed. by Jessica P. Pryde

The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, Futurism and the Speculative (2011) ed. by Sandra Jackson and Julie E. Moody-Freeman

Meanwhile: Graphic Short Stories about Everyday Queer Life in Southern and East Africa (2019) by the Qintu Collab

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

Lez Talk

A necessary and relevant addition to the Black LGBTQ literary canon, which oftentimes over looks Black lesbian Writing, Lez Talk is a collection of short stories that embraces the fullness of Black lesbian experiences. The contributors operate under the assumption that "lesbian" is not a dirty word, and have written stories that amplify the diversity of Black lesbian lives. At once provocative, emotional, adventurous, and celebratory, Lez Talk crosses a range of fictional genres, including romance, speculative, and humor. The writers explore new subjects and aspects of their experiences, and affirm their gifts as writers and lesbian women.

Black Love Matters

An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian Jessica Pryde. Romantic love has been one of the most essential elements of storytelling for centuries. But for Black people in the United States and across the diaspora, it hasn't often been easy to find Black romance joyfully showcased in entertainment media. In this collection, revered authors and sparkling newcomers, librarians and academicians, and avid readers and reviewers consider the mirrors and windows into Black love as it is depicted in the novels, television shows, and films that have shaped their own stories. Whether personal reflection or cultural commentary, these essays delve into Black love now and in the past, including topics from the history of Black romance to social justice and the Black community to the meaning of desire and desirability. Exploring the multifaceted ways love is seen--and the ways it isn't--this diverse array of Black voices collectively shines a light on the power of crafting happy endings for Black lovers. Jessica Pryde is joined by Carole V. Bell, Sarah Hannah Gomez, Jasmine Guillory, Da'Shaun Harrison, Margo Hendricks, Adriana Herrera, Piper Huguley, Kosoko Jackson, Nicole M. Jackson, Beverly Jenkins, Christina C. Jones, Julie Moody-Freeman, and Allie Parker in this collection.

The Black Imagination

This critical collection covers a broad spectrum of works, both literary and cinematic, and issues from writers, directors, and artists who claim the science fiction, speculative fiction, and Afro-futurist genres. The anthology extends the discursive boundaries of science fiction by examining iconic writers like Octavia Butler, Walter Mosley, and Nalo Hopkinson through the lens of ecofeminist veganism, post-9/11 racial geopolitics, and the effect of the computer database on human voice and agency. Contributors expand what the field characterizes as speculative fiction by examining for the first time the vampire tropes present in Audre Lorde’s poetry, and by tracing her influence on the horror fiction of Jewelle Gomez. The collection moves beyond exploration of literary fiction to study the Afro-futurist representations of Blacks in comic books, in the Star Trek franchise, in African films, and in blockbuster films like Independence Day, I Robot, and I Am Legend.

Meanwhile

The lived realities of young queer people in African contexts are not well documented. On the one hand, homophobic political discourse tends to portray queer people as 'deviant' and 'unAfrican', and on the other, public health research and advocacy often portrays them as victims of violence and HIV. Of course, young queer lives are far more diverse, rich and complex. For this reason, the Qintu Collab was formed to allow young queer people from a few African countries to come together, share experiences and create context-specific, queer-positive media that documents relatable stories about and for queer African youth. We see this as a necessary step in developing a complex archive of queer African life, whilst also personalising queer experiences and challenging prejudicial stereotypes. The Collab is made up of eighteen queer youth from Botswana, Kenya and Zimbabwe, two academics, three artists and a journalist. We first worked in small groups in each country through a range of creative participatory methods that focused on personal reflection and story-telling. Young people created personal timelines, and made visual maps of their bodies, relationships, and spaces. We then had group discussions about themes that emerged to help decide what to include in the comic works. At the end of 2018, we all came together in Nairobi, Kenya, for a week to collaborate on this comic book, and a set of podcasts on similar topics. We worked through various ways of telling stories, and developed significant themes, including family, religion and spirituality, social and online queer spaces, sex, and romantic relationships. Each young person created a script and laid out the scenes for a comic that told a short story from their lives. They then worked one-on-one with an artist to finesse those ideas into a workable comic, and the artists thereafter developed each story through multiple rounds of feedback from the story's creator and the rest of the group

[iambic-stan]

last book read + last stethoscope used, part 21

I have been reading a lot lately, but I've read a few duds. But then there was:

This has been on my to-read list for years, solely for the steampunk stag beetle art. Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover, because this one was pretty exciting. The stethoscope pictured is MDF Instruments' Procardial Titanium cardiology stethoscope in Botswana agate and rose gold, my first of the brand and the beginning of my obsession with it. The book is sci-fi/speculative fiction author Kameron Hurley's Meet Me in the Future, a weird, sometimes gory, always imaginative short story collection and my introduction to the author. There were a couple of stories that confused me, and then I went online and found out that they were meant as companions to some of the author's novels, which I might have to pick up. While this collection was darker than any Star Trek series I can think of, it, too, skillfully uses futuristic situations as allegories for social situations we face now. Granted, the best science fiction does at least a little of this. Hurley plays with our ideas about gender by sometimes deliberately never revealing a character's gender, or creating a society with multiple established genders (to name a couple of examples) seamlessly, almost in a way that no one could shout, "It's woke!" in a derogatory manner (though it certainly is and there's nothing negative about that). Despite my sensitive stomach and aversion to most things graphic, I think my favorite couple of stories followed a body-hopping (thus immortal) mercenary and his human and pig companions in "Elephants and Corpses" and "The Fisherman and the Pig."

[thegeminisage]

STAR TREK MASTERPOST

hi my name is liz and i'm watching the entirety of star trek in release order, so this post was SIGH inevitable. i will edit with updates it as i make more

FANFIC

Gambler's Knife - AOS, Spirk, 22k. Twelve years after Tarsus IV and three months after dying to realign the warp core and save his ship, Jim Kirk seems to have a new lease on life: he's been resurrected, started pursuing a tentative new relationship with Spock, and has an entire five-year mission ahead of him. That is, until the attempted murder of an old friend forces him to divert the Enterprise away from her intended course and towards Planet Q. After a chance encounter on the planet's surface, new secrets about Jim's time on Tarsus IV come to light—secrets that threaten to destroy everyone he fought to protect, and the new life he's finally achieved. Some things you carry with you wherever you go.

SKIP/WATCH LIST

as i watch star trek, i am making an incredibly detailed spreadsheet which aims to guide new people into what to watch...or what not to watch. this list includes every single movie and tv series (including the animated ones), multiple watch orders (release order vs chronological order), runtimes, content warnings, and indicators on which characters feature in which episodes + indicators on which episodes are important for continuity. the only catch is i am updating it as i go, so it's a verrry slow work in progress. i've also still got a few blanks in the tos bit.

currently the only tumblr post with a link is this one, but i'll make a better post once i've finished going back and filling in the blanks on the tos section.

SPOCKANALIA DIGITIZATION

@maulthots and i are working on digitizing all 5 volumes of SPOCKANALIA - retyping text, cleaning up images, and adding alt text. they'll be added here as we complete them.

Volume 1

EPISODE REWRITES

sometimes star trek makes me crazy and i wanna fix it, but i don't have the time or patience to rewrite it in fic form so we get tumblr posts instead. they are in the order that i did them. right now there are only a few but i want to do like a thousand

[tos] the motion picture

[tos] the tholian web

[tng] violations

META

these are mostly small posts for now. someday i might make big ones.

marrying a vulcan is not unlike being a horsegirl

tos kirk vs aos kirk on retirement and the infinity of the universe

tos spock vs aos spock on love and death being real

tos spock vs aos spock on becoming close to one parent but remaining forever separated from the other

kirk and bones react differenly to spock showing emotion

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE SPACE BABES - kirk's encounters with women are often nonconsensual (collaboration with @maulthots)

funniest possible pre-mcspirk situation in aos

aos plot devices we could have had

small post about vulcans getting drunk on chocolate the first time

GRAPHICS

most of these are shitposts.

spock in shades for my header

"then perish" tas bones meme

spones graphic for wrath of khan/search for spock

CLIPS

i make clip shows sometimes.

bones being possessed in search for spock

tos scenes that remind me of tarsus iv

kirk insults spock for a minute and a half

kirk reacting to spock's emotions vs bones reacting to spock's emotions

STAR TREK TAGS

#tos -the original series

#tas - the animated series

#tmp - the motion picture

#wok - the wrath of khan

#sfs - the search for spock

#tvh - the voyage home

#tff - the final frontier

#tuc - the undiscovered country

#tng - the next generation

#ds9 - deep space nine

#aos - collective tag for the kelvin timeline movies

#st books - posts about the star trek novels

#st comics - posts about the star trek comics

#vintage trek - anything from before the turn of the century

#spockanalia - post about spockanalia, an early spock-centric fanzine

#spirk - kirk/spock

#spones - spock/bones

#mckirk - kirk/bones

#mcspirk - spock/kirk/bones

#st fav - fav star trek posts

LIVEBLOG TAGS

this includes the series AND the novelizations, if/when applicable - i am working my way through the tos movie novelizations and i want to read more. also, spockanalia <3

#tos lb - the original series liveblog (technically i didn't start liveblogging it until late into the series. rip)

#tas lb - the animated series liveblog

#tmp lb - the motion picture liveblog

#wok lb - wrath of khan liveblog

#sfs lb - search for spock liveblog

#tvh lb - the voyage home liveblog

#tff lb - the final frontier liveblog

#tuc lb - the undiscovered country liveblog

#tng lb - the next generation liveblog

#ds9 lb - deep space nine liveblog

#aos lb - the kelvin timeline movies (not much here because i wasn't star trek posting back when they came out)

#spockanalia lb - spockanalia

#star trek blogging - all of the above put together

MISC

my top 10 and worst 10 tos episodes

non-exhaustive list of youtube videos of vintage trek commercials, feel free to add your own

funny and unhelpful version of the skip/watch list i used with friends ie my only true record of tos first impressions

star tos "episode sorter" to rate every episode from best to worst

tos episodes on a tier maker

[sistahscifi]

As super fans, we LOVE collecting editions of books signed by our favorite authors!! Swipe right to see some of our current favorites!!

What are some of your favorite autographed book?

@SistahScifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage&q=Signed

Black Candle Women

Signed by author @diane_marie_brown

@graydonhousebooks

🔥A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of heartache, miscommunication, and learning to let go.

The Edinburgh Nights Series

Signed by author @tendaihuchu

@torbooks

🔥Sixth Sense meets Stranger Things in this sharp contemporary fantasy series, Edinburgh Nights, from acclaimed Zimbabwean author T.L. Huchu.

To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols And Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights

Signed by @angeladalton_author Illustrator @bylaurensemmer

@harpercollins

🔥Perfect for fans of Hidden Figures and Mae Among the Stars! To Boldly Go tells the story of Nichelle Nichols and how she inspired and recruited a new generation of diverse astronauts, scientists, and engineers into STEM fields.

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts signed by

@dr.rebhall @wakecomicbooj0

@hugom_art_inez

@simonandschuster

🔥Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that uncovers the history of women-led slave revolts.

The Monsters We Defy signed by @LeslyePenelope

@hachettebooks @redhookbooks @orbitbooks_us

Washington D. C., 1925: Clara Johnson can talk to spirits, a curse that’s left her indebted to the spirit world. So when a powerful spirit offers her an opportunity to gain her freedom, Clara seizes the chance. The task: steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the District.

#SistahScifi #SignedBooks #Wake #TheEdinburghNightsSeries #ToBoldlyGo #Wake #BlackCandleWomen #TheMonsterWeDefy #LeslyePenelope

[cringecompanionapologist]

5/Turlough Moments in Short Stories

Short stories mainly means Short Trips, but the older Decalogs and Annuals still count. Unlike the chronological order of the novelizations, these are in no particular order. 

I’ll start with two from the Short Trip Qualia. Turlough is a teacher’s pet and Tegan is jealous.

There there’s Zeitgeist, a Decalog. It’s another story from right after Tegan left. The Doctor is sad and Turlough is having no fun.

The Matasian Pleasure Rings sounds like one of those Star Trek pleasure planets, like Risa.

The Doctor smiles for the first time in ages because Turlough says a Turlough thing and the narration, still in Turlough’s PoV, describes it as saintlike. That’s adorable.

Lastly, there’s The Oxaqua Incident from the 1984 Annual. I’ve already posted this screenshot but it goes here.

The Doctor saves Turlough’s life in a way that involves rolling around on top of him and Turlough basically asks him out in response. This being 1984, it probably wasn’t intentional but wow.

Also, this isn’t really 5/Turlough but it’s interesting:

So, the 1995 Yearbook, which is basically an annual for a year when the show was cancelled by the fans wanted one anyway, there’s a short story called One Last Try. There’s an alien life-form that’s sort of like a Ditto. It turns itself into the people it sees. However, when it turns into a copy of Turlough, it couldn’t imitate his clothes for some reason. And there’s an illustration.

(Mildly NSFW? Nothing graphic, really...)

So...screenshots. I have quite the collection.

[araneaserketrystoohard]

since its my 8irthday, heres some facts a8out me!!!!!!!!

As everyone who follows me knows, i go 8y aranea due to some stupid reason that pertains to my ineptitude of not 8eing a8le to shut up at all, relating to her on many levels 8esides 8eing wordy.

1.I am a lesbian and have known forever.

2. I play the 8ass guitar!!!! Its the only instrument i know 8ut it is so much fun to play!! I know most soda stereo and jack off jill songs on there 8ut my a8solute favorite is either tropical tundra 8y the monkees or Entre Caní8ales from soda stereo!

3. i LOVE!!!! Greek and latin mythology and im in my school’s latin clu8 for certamen! Ive 8een studying Greek and latin literature for a few years now 8ut i really love the latin language too

4. I have a love for older fandoms such as, (o8viously) homestuck,all of jhonen vasquez’s works, star trek, princess tutu, twilight and ive been a fan of hetalia for most of my life.

5. I collect twilight merchandise, i have the entire series as well as the graphic novel, a hardcover for new moon and eclipse, and the movie version of new moon. I have the dvds for the first and second movie as well as jewlery and the mattel 2009 edward cullen doll.

6.im team jaco8. 8ut Ro8ert pattinson has a place in my heart

7.i love classical novels!! My favorites are Carmilla,Jane Eyre, War and Peace and Of mice and men!!!!

8.im Ashkenazi jewish and i speak he8rew (as well as latin 8ut 8luh)

9.i am a vampire lover, not just twilight 8ut 8uffy, wwdits, Vampire knight,Carmilla, Dracula, Renfield, etc.

10. I am a huge fan of the tudor era! Mainly just medieval history in general….8ut tudor england is my favorite period of discussion, i could go on and on a8out anne of cleves and the impact Anne 8oleyn had on english history. 8asically im just a history loser

And heres a shitty doodle based on how i actually look outside of my drawing.

[anotheruserwithnoname]

In praise of Trekker

No, not Star Trek - THIS Trekker:

This is bounty hunter (or Trekker) Mercy St. Clair, who was introduced as a black and white serial in the anthology series Dark Horse Presents way back in January 1987. Her deadly adventures, and her will-they-won't they relationship with her friend, Molly (seen by some critics as being basically Xena and Gabrielle a few years before there was a Xena and Gabrielle; I saw one suggest they might have even been inspired by Mercy and Molly), played out over a few storylines and some standalone specials in the late 80s and early 90s, including a colour special (that's the cover art for it above). Colourized versions of the original stories have also been printed in graphic novel form.

Imagine my surprise to discover just this week that for at least the last 12 years or so, Randall has not only been uploading - for free - those classic issues to his website, but he has been running a weekly series of new adventures featuring Mercy for a number of years now, uploading one comic page per week. He's grown the characters out (Mercy x Molly became a "will they" a few years back), and you can see how Randall's art style on Trekker has evolved since 1987. He also publishes print collections of the strip (supported via Etsy and Kickstarter). His uploads of the original stories have so far only been the black and white versions, rather than the colour variants.

I've been reacquainting myself with the series, which I could say is Blade Runner-meets-Modesty Blaise-meets-Xena-meets-Aeon Flux (google it)-meets-well, a whole bunch of other stuff. I'm surprised no one has tried to do a movie or TV series of it yet. When people complain of not having enough strong female action heroes, I sometimes roll my eyes knowing that we have Modesty Blaise and Trekker St. Clair staring us right in the face (come on, Hollywood; Angelina Jolie would have been perfect for Mercy.)

Anyway, check out trekkercomic.com for more (the link goes to an archives page where you can find all the stories. This is because the main URL goes straight to a major spoiler for the current storyline.) The cover art above is from the gallery page.

There is also a series of audio dramas adapting the original DHP storylines. They're on YouTube.

[repurposedmeatlocker]

Looking up the bibliographies of famous writers on Wikipedia is like:

- The widely acclaimed book that has been adapted or is in the process of being adapted to film, graphic novel, etc.

- The underrated book that hardcore fans deem the better narrative.

- Debut short story collection with a super investing cover that is more interesting than the actual story it is interpreted from.

- The author’s poorly hidden hardcore fetish fuel porn that no one asked for.

- Random young adult/children’s book. 

- Most recent work that nobody cares about, but actually should get more attention.

- Screenplay for a Star Trek episode.

[tailsrevane]

[comic review] batman: tales of the demon (1971-1980)

“detective… i respect you as i respect no other! you are truly a magnificent foe!”

this graphic novel collects batman’s first several run-ins with ra’s al ghul. i won’t discuss all of the comics because a lot of them are just adventure yarns where batman has an uneasy alliance with ra’s and ra’s is being sneaky or betraying him in some predictable way, or else it’s talia doing that, and a lot of them are kinda samey.

only talia appears in the first issue collected in the graphic novel, detective comics #411 (writer: dennis o’neil, artists: bob brown & dick giordano), with ra’s’ first appearance coming in the second story, batman #232 (writer: dennis o’neil, artists: neal adams & dick giordano). i think there’s a batman: the animated series episode based on this issue if i remember correctly? this story sees robin kidnapped, and talia supposedly kidnapped by the same people, but ra’s staged the whole thing to test batman to see if he’s a worthy heir. of note in this one is ra’s’ first actual appearance, where he just shows up at the batcave having deduced batman’s secret identity, which is a pretty serious power move.

the fourth story, batman #240 (writer: dennis o’neil, artists: irv novick & dick giordano) actually has kind of a lot in common with the star trek tos episode “spock’s brain,” so that got a good giggle out of me. also collected is an underwhelming three-issue arc, batmans #242-244 (writer: dennis o’neil, artists: irv novick & neal adams & dick giordano) where batman goes to war with ra’s al ghul. this arc does introduce the lazarus pits, so it is of some historical importance to the franchise, but the story as a whole is just kinda nothing.

the only remotely interesting part was batman being stung by a scorpion during his duel with ra’s, and talia saving him by kissing him with the antidote on her lips. the rest of the graphic novel is kinda more of the same. my attention honestly wandered. there was one subplot where talia kidnapped batman and ra’s performed a wedding because apparently only the bride needs to consent to a wedding in his (unspecified) country. that was pretty hilariously bad. but it was also weirdly half-hearted, like the comic didn’t even really try that hard to make it a whole thing.

given that these stories largely spanned the 70s it’s perhaps unsurprising that the writing is a bit corny, even in the better issues. more annoyingly, there’s (also unsurprisingly) enough orientalism in these pages to choke a camel.

there are nevertheless the occasional flashes of good action and story in the first few issues, and it’s understandable that ra’s and talia became enduring adversaries for the dark knight. i do like some of ra’s’ quirks, like referring to batman as “detective.” i wish we got to see more of him being an eco-terrorist in this rather than just being kind of generally all-purpose evil and scheming, but i guess that aspect of his character developed later.

on the whole, the first few issues are probably the most enjoyable, but it rather quickly turns into a slog and at the end of the day i just really don’t think it’s worth anyone’s time.

d-rank

[frogsandfries]

I. Spent. All. Damn. Day. Cleaning up my drive.

I backed up photos and folders, deleted emails and documents. I'm going to just have to clear out all my photos and maybe all my documents except the most important. Thanks, Motorola.

Then, if absolutely everything from audio to video is going to save, I'm going to need to make drive purges a regular habit. Which, fuckin honestly, I should probably be doing anyway. You never know when google is going to take a dump.

The last thing I need to do is then, compress all my images, photos, screenshots, studies, memes, and all, into pages that maybe eventually one day I'll collate and get printed as a collection of photo books. Maybe I'll buy two copies; one for leaving like it is and one for cutting up and turning into a scrapbook or some shit. Ehhhh probably not. Honestly, I'll probably just stuff the book full of sticky notes.

Unfortunately, I definitely don't have time for that OR my Tumblr offline. I've had a lot of fun working on the Tumblr offline: What I've been doing for that is, scrolling my screenshot from my phone three times, and then each page is two columns, and sometimes I have to snip up the screenshots, and then sometimes I make little notes, like "I don't remember this" or "this is a Star Trek reference" or "this gif depicts Sandra Bullock facepalming Samuel Jackson". This post is getting a little meta for my liking.

Anyway. My sister is, rightfully, on my butt about finding a job. I shouldn't have wasted my day on my drive, but I wouldn't be able to continue working on the graphic novel without it, and I don't like letting any one part of the graphic novel get too backed up or piled up and at this moment, the scans of my original inks are getting backed up. I also need to figure out what the fuck is wrong with my printer so I can print my portfolio cover and the rest of my sheets of colored pencil lineworks.

[chappellroansgf]

𝖑𝖎𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖍 & 𝖑𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖆 // p-did system with autism, adhd, & ocd // xxxi

tracking: #nightmaregfs

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books: alice’s adventures in wonderland, birdverse (trc & tdt), aftg, soc, crowns of nyaxia, wayward children, tsc, percy jackson, the love hypothesis, tsoa, one last stop, i kissed shara wheeler, red white & royal blue, penryn & the end of days, dracula, heartless, the poppy war, the poet x, with the fire on high, carmilla, the dare, crescent city, cirque du freak, the murderbot diaries, bird box, cemetery boys, iron widow, reboot, play me backwards, this is how you lose the time war

music: chappell roan, ariana grande, olivia rodrigo, one direction, 5 seconds of summer, fall out boy, céline dion, the band camino, sabrina carpenter, halsey, louis tomlinson, harry styles, niall horan, zayn, hozier, kesha, miley cyrus, post malone, sleep token, halsey, crimson apple, florence + the machine, lil nas x, madison beer, bad omens, dua lipa, reneé rapp, taylor swift

movies: horror, disney, the lion king, the batman, thor: ragnarok, the ring, killer klowns from outer space, prey, annihilation, barbie, scooby-doo, scream, friday the 13th, godzilla, deadpool, star trek, cloverfield, jurassic park, jumanji, llamageddon, care bears, oculus, megamind, dracula,

tv: golden girls, yuri on ice, scooby-doo, star trek, one day at a time, atla, the it crowd, monster high, daria, danny phantom, kim possible, bluey, 911,

other: collecting dolls, dreamlight valley, lorcana, plushies, shitposting, creepy crawlies, animals, learning, the sims 4, penpals, coloring, cryptids, especially mothman, graphic novels & comic books, bodies of water,

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Pop Sugar Reading Challenge 2024 - 12/50

[ oh thank christ they gave a copy/past text list ]

Read / Currently Reading / To Read

A book with the word "leap" in the title

A bildungsroman

A book about a 24-year-old

A book about a writer

A book about K-pop

A book about pirates

A book about women's sports and/or by a woman athlete

A book by a blind or visually impaired author

A book by a deaf or hard-of-hearing author

A book by a self-published author

A book from a genre you typically avoid - A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 by Joseph Loconte

A book from an animal's POV - "Remarkably Bright Creatures" by Shelby Van Pelt

A book originally published under a pen name

A book recommended by a bookseller

A book recommended by a librarian

A book set 24 years before you were born - (1961) - "Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans" by Kenneth Womack

A book set in a travel destination on your bucket list - (Scotland) - "Clear" by Carys Davies

A book set in space - "Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor" by Matthew Woodring Stover

A book set in the future - "Boogeymen (Star Trek: The Next Generation #17)" by Mel Gilden

A book set in the snow - "Cilka's Journey" by Heather Morris

A book that came out in a year that ends with "24"

A book that centers on video games

A book that features dragons - "The Sleeping Dragon (Guardians of the Flame, #1)" by Joel Rosenberg

A book that takes place over the course of 24 hours

A book that was published 24 years ago

A book that was turned into a musical

A book where someone dies in the first chapter

A book with a main character who's 42 years old

A book with a neurodivergent main character

A book with a one-word title you had to look up in a dictionary

A book with a title that is a complete sentence

A book with an enemies-to-lovers plot - "Batman: Hush" by Jeph Loeb(Writer), Jim Lee(Illustrator)

A book with an unreliable narrator - "Come Over, Come Over" by Lynda Barry

A book with at least three POVs - "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury

A book with magical realism - "Stranger Things and Dungeons & Dragons" by Jody Houser

A book written by an incarcerated or formerly incarcerated person

A book written during NaNoWriMo

A cozy fantasy book - "The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich" by Deya Muniz

A fiction book by a trans or nonbinary author

A horror book by a BIPOC author

A memoir that explores queerness

A nonfiction book about Indigenous people

A second-chance romance - "Part of Your World: A Twisted Tale Graphic Novel" by Liz Braswell

An autobiography by a woman in rock 'n' roll

An LGBTQ+ romance novel

Advanced Prompts

A book in which a character sleeps for more than 24 hours - "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" by Heather Morris

A book with 24 letters in the title

A collection of at least 24 poems - Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat by Khalisa Rae

The 24th book of an author

A book that starts with the letter "X"

Previous Years: 2023 - 15/50 2021 - 11/50 2020 - 19/50 2018 - 15/50 2017 - 15/52 2016 - 24/40 2015 - 15/52

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