#vertigo visions: the geek

[tinkerbitch69]

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack. Reprinted from Vertigo Visions: The Geek. Art by Mike Allred

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The Barbie movie ripped off Rachel Pollack smh. A trans woman did it first 30 years ago!

Happy pride 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

[smashpages]

Rachel Pollack, who passed away last year, introduced DC’s first trans character Coagula during her run on Doom Patrol back in the 1990s. As a part of Pride Month, DC will release DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack, which will feature reprints of Doom Patrol #70, Coagula’s first appearance; Vertigo Visions: The Geek, the long out-of-print one-shot by Pollack and Mike Allred; and a new Coagula story by Joe Corallo and Rye Hickman.

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[inhousearchive]

House-ad for Vertigo Visions: The Geek (1993) one-shot. Art by Michael Allred.

[smashedpages]

On this date in 1993, Rachel Pollack and Michael Allred's The Geek hit comic shelves. It was part of DC's Vertigo Visions line, a series of six double-sized one-shots that focused on a different DC character -- and Vertigo-ing them up.

It was based on DC's Brother Power the Geek #1, who had first appeared in comics back in 1968 and was created by Joe Simon. Brother Power's original series only lasted two issues, as its sympathetic portrayal of "hippe culture" proved too controversial for DC management. A third issue created by Simon never saw print, and he never released any artwork from it.

The Vertigo one-shot pulled some elements from the original issues, such as Brother Power being caught by and forced to perform in a "psychotic circus." It also featured Cindy, the sympathetic hippie from the original series. Now a prostitute, Cindy and the Geek are reunited, and he dies saving her before being reborn in the body of one of her dolls.

[mayamistake]

In the 1990s, writer Rachel Pollack did the impossible: she raised the bar for surprise and strangeness in her beloved run following Grant Morrison's career-making Doom Patrol! This one-shot reprints the debut of the iconic Coagula, DC's first transgender superhero, from Doom Patrol #70, along with the long-unavailable one-shot Vertigo Visions: The Geek (with superstar artist Michael Allred)! And in a final, original short story, Rachel's most beloved creation, Kate Godwin, a.k.a. Coagula, returns to the spotlight in tale of triumph over death itself written by Joe Corallo, Rachel's longtime friend and collaborator, and drawn by Rye Hickman!

[augustheart]

realized i never posted this. here's all the comics i read for the first time in 2024, not including my dnf list.

asterisks denote ongoings and were deleted once the comic concluded. you can kinda see where i lost momentum around... idk, july, maybe? partially due to mental health issues. you can also see where i would get caught up in a specific universe and start going wild.

full list is below the cut as well:

Doctor Mid-nite (1999)

Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye (2016)

Cave Carson Has An Interstellar Eye (2018)

Speed Force (2023)

Wesley Dodds: The Sandman (2023)

The Ray (2012)

Vertigo Visions: The Geek (1993)

Vertigo Visions: Dr. Thirteen (1998)

Vertigo Visions: Tomahawk (1998)

Terror Titans (2008)

Terra (2009)

Nights (2023)*

Spider-Punk (2022)

Triumph (1995)

Anarky (1997)

Anarky (1999)

Jay Garrick: The Flash (2023)

A-Force (2015)

Vertigo Visions: Doctor Occult (1994)

Blood and Water (2003)

Midnight, Mass (2002)

Midnight, Mass: Here There Be Monsters (2004)

Prez (2015)

Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles (2018)

Angeltown (2005)

Vertigo Voices: The Eaters (1995)

The Books of Magic (1990)

The Trenchcoat Brigade (1999)

Mystik U (2017)

Books of Magic (2018)

Day of Judgement Secret Files (1999)

JLA: Black Baptism (2001)

Mister E (1991)

Vertigo Secret Files: Hellblazer (2000)

Hellblazer/The Books of Magic (1997)

The Sandman Universe (2018)

The Flintstones (2016)

4 Kids Walk Into A Bank (2016)

What’s The Furthest Place From Here? (2021)*

Break Out (2022)

Mouse Guard (2005)

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern (2023)

DC Power (2024)

Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (2019)

The Red Circle: The Web (2009)

The Red Circle: The Shield (2009)

The Red Circle: The Hangman (2009)

The Red Circle: The Inferno (2009)

The Web (2009)

The Shield (2009)

The Mighty Crusaders (2010)

The Mighty Crusaders: The Lost Crusade (2015)

New Crusaders: Rise of the Heroes (2012)

New Crusaders: Dark Tomorrow (2015)

The Mighty Crusaders (2017)

Archie’s Superteens Versus Crusaders (2018)

The Fox (2013)

The Fox (2015)

The Pride (2014)

The Fox: Family Values (2022)

The Pride Season Two (2019)

Soul Kiss (2009)

Hopeless Savages (2001)

Spider-Punk: Arms Race (2024)*

Arrowsmith (2003)

Arrowsmith: Behind Enemy Lines (2022)

Astro City: That Was Then… (2022)

Final Crisis Aftermath: Run! (2009)

Blacksad: Somewhere Within the Shadows (2000) [as Blacksad (2010)]

Blacksad: Arctic Nation (2002) [as Blacksad (2010)]

Blacksad: Red Soul (2005) [as Blacksad (2010)]

Blacksad: A Silent Hell (2012)

Blacksad: Amarillo (2014)

Blacksad: They All Fall Down (2021)

Suicide Squad: Dream Team (2024)

Batman/Dylan Dog (2024)

The Wrong Earth: Dead Ringers (2024)*

Project: Cryptid (2023)*

Justice Society of America (2022)

DC’s Ape-ril Special (2024)

Sandman Mystery Theatre (1993)

Sandman Midnight Theatre (1995)

Deadweights (2024)

DC’s Spring Breakout (2024)

DV8 vs Black Ops (1997)

21 Down (2002)

DC Pride 2024 (2024)

WildStorm Thunderbook (2000)

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack

Venom: Separation Anxiety (2024)*

Sabrina (2018)

The Weatherman (2018)

The Weatherman (2019)

The Weatherman (2024)

The X-Files/Transformers: Conspiracy (2014)

Xombi (1994)

Absolute Power (2024)

Local Man (2023)*

Local Man: Gold (2023)

Local Man: Bad Girls (2024)

Absolute Power: Task Force VII (2024)

Superman Y2K (2000)

Multiversus: Collision Detected (2024)*

DC’s I Know What You Did Last Crisis (2024)

DC All-In Special (2024)

Absolute Batman (2024)*

DC Horror Presents… (2024)*

Absolute Wonder Woman (2024)*

JSA (2024)*

Absolute Superman (2024)*

Black Lightning (2024)*

The Question: All Along the Watchtower (2024)*

[ultrameganicolaokay]

DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack by Rachel Pollack, Joe Corallo, Michael Allred, Scot Eaton and Rye Hickman. Cover by various. Out in June.

"In the 1990s, writer Rachel Pollack did the impossible: she raised the bar for surprise and strangeness in her beloved run following Grant Morrison’s career-making Doom Patrol! This one-shot reprints the debut of the iconic Coagula, DC’s first transgender superhero, from Doom Patrol #70, along with the long-unavailable one-shot Vertigo Visions: The Geek (with superstar artist Michael Allred)! And in a final, original short story, Rachel’s most beloved creation, Kate Godwin, a.k.a. Coagula, returns to the spotlight in tale of triumph over death itself written by Joe Corallo, Rachel’s longtime friend and collaborator, and drawn by Rye Hickman!"

[ufonaut]

I know. I know. I’ll go on a trip. To the heart. I mean, the heart of America.

Brother Power the Geek in Vertigo Visions - The Geek (1993) #1

[beyondthespheres]

PMS chanting suffragettes, auto bombing while jumping the Volkswagen - Rachel Pollack and Michael Allred totally delivered for The Geek #1 in June 1993, aided by Laura Allred on colors and Clem Robins on letters. I guess The Geek’s creator Joe Simon is still rotating in his grave, but who knows, maybe he’s just happily turning around driven by sheer excitement. Vertigo Visions was a subline of the Vertigo imprint for more or less occasionally published one shots and lastet until 1998.

[aion-rsa]

What Sweet Tooth Changes From the Comic

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This article contains spoilers for Sweet Tooth, both the TV series and the comic.

Sweet Tooth, the live-action adaptation of Jeff Lemire’s post-apocalyptic comic, has now arrived on Netflix and it’s a hit! Or at least that’s what producer Robert Downey Jr. ‘s overwhelmingly prevalent promoted tweet claims. I can recite “#SweetTooth is now certified fresh with a perfect 100% critics score. So incredibly proud of the whole @sweettooth team and can’t wait for you to see ‘the show of the summer.’ All episodes are now streaming on Netflix!” more readily than my own name at this point.

Still, it’s easy to see why Sweet Tooth found an audience on Netflix. The story of a gentle deer-boy hybrid named Gus and his quest to find his mother in a virus-ravaged world puts a refreshingly optimistic face on a well-worn post-apocalypse genre. Actor Christian Convery is a real find as Gus a.k.a. Sweet Tooth and the series eight episodes feel like an ��80s Amblin Entertainment homage done right. 

Sweet Tooth is so inherently sweet that audiences might not realize just how much it deviates from its comic inspiration. Lemire’s comic miniseries, published from 2009 through 2013 by DC’s Vertigo imprint, has many fans, including some big pop culture names. Actor Michael Sheen wrote the foreword for the series first collected trade paperback. TV writer Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, Lost) conducted an interview with Lemire for the end of the final book. The comic is also decidedly less sweet than the TV show it inspired.

Arriving in an era before apocalypse fatigue fully set in for pop culture, Sweet Tooth really leans into the Mad Max side of its “Bambi Meets Mad Max” elevator pitch. The book is quite dark and unflinching. That Netflix and series creator Jim Mickle decided to go in a brighter direction for the show is an interesting commentary on entertainment’s priorities at the moment. But what if Sweet Tooth the TV series decided to hew closer to its source material? Read on to see how the comic and the show differ.

Tone

It cannot be overstated just how much darker the Sweet Tooth comic is than the TV series. The show acknowledges that the post-apocalyptic world after “The Sick” would feature some inherent violence. In fact, the whole plot of the show involves hunters trying to kidnap a child and deliver him to the military to be ground up into medicine essentially. That’s obviously dark. But the show still does its best to avoid as much onscreen violence as possible.

When the Big Man or another character rescues Gus from hunters, he does so in a largely bloodless fashion. Even when Big Man takes a bear trap to a poacher’s head, audiences are spared the grisly sights and sounds of it. Readers of the Sweet Tooth comic, however, are spared nothing. The pages of Lemire’s work are positively drenched in blood. Midway through the story, Gus is even forced to beat a fellow hybrid’s brains in with a brick. He says he feels bad about it, but not that bad.

The comic also delves into the realm of sexual violence as many post-apocalyptic stories have felt compelled to do before. Early on in the proceedings Big Man and Gus come across a town where a family captures women and forces them into prostitution. When Big Man rescues two women, they become permanent fixtures of their party. These characters, Lucy and Becky, do not appear in the TV show (though one character does borrow her name from one). 

If all the violence didn’t already make it apparent, the Sweet Tooth comic is particularly misanthropic. Nearly all of the human characters in the comic are monsters. Even Gus’s beloved Big Man Jepperd is useful because he’s a monster. Jepperd never loses sight of what makes him useful in this world, which is killing. He only becomes a hero when he applies that skill to those who deserve it. Throughout the series run, the comic continually intimates that perhaps planet Earth would be better off without all these humans anyway. 

Characters

Befitting the comic’s darker tone, the characters of Sweet Tooth are also quite a bit darker. While Convery’s depiction of Gus in the show is absolutely pitch perfect for a young Spielbergian hero, the Gus of the comic isn’t quite as self-assured or sophisticated. The education that Gus received from his “pubba” wasn’t necessarily top notch stuff so his vernacular is filled with more slang and abbreviations. He comes across as a true Nebraskan country boy. 

Meanwhile, Tommy Jepperds a.k.a Big Man (Nonso Anozie) gets an even bigger makeover for the show. Lemire describes the Jepperds of the comic as being inspired by the concept of an aging Frank Castle. There is absolutely no warmth in the comic’s Big Man. Instead of being an ex-football player, he’s an ex hockey player…and a pretty terrible one at that, only useful as his team’s “enforcer”. Anozie’s Jepperds is quite a bit more personable and open. Though he intends to sell Gus to the Last Men, he never goes through with it. In the comic, Jepperds does exactly that before changing his mind and rescuing the boy. 

The pig-girl hybrid Wendy (Naledi Murray) exists in the comic but her mother Aimee (Dania Ramirez) does not. Instead Gus meets Wendy at the Last Men facility after Jepperds sells him off. He meets Wendy’s little buddy Bobby there too. 

Gus’s “pubba” is a janitor at a medical facility in both the comic and the show, but as played by Will Forte in the show, he’s a lot more tender and smooth. The show Pubba is the perfect father to young Gus, open, communicative, and knowledgeable. In the comic, however, the character has lost some of his mental faculties in isolation. He is a God-fearing man who entertains and writes down his apocalyptic visions. Gus loves him and he loves Gus but he’s also not operating at full capacity. Also not operating at full capacity is Dr. Adityah Singh (Adeel Akhtar), who becomes inspired by Pubba’s writings and believes that Gus is a new god.

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The Animal Army is quite different in the comic. Instead of being a ragtag gang of Neverland-style kids, it’s a disturbing cult of adults in animal masks, led by a deranged man who has five dog-hybrid children. Becky a.k.a Bear (Stefania LaVie Owen) is an invention for the show but she does take her name from a comic character.

General Abbott though? He’s pretty much that villainous in both iterations of the story. Screw that guy.

Story

Though Sweet Tooth’s first season begins and ends in a similar spot to the first “Book” (12 issues) of the comic, the path it takes to get there is wildly different. 

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Why Sweet Tooth’s Ending is Ultimately Hopeful

By Nicole Hill

Scenes at Aimee’s Preserve and at Dr. Singh’s Stepford-ian community are invented entirely for the show. The Preserve is mentioned in the comic, but it’s never confirmed to exist (and likely does not, given the comic’s relentlessly dark tone). The first time Gus and readers meet Wendy and Dr. Singh is at the Last Men facility where Gus finds himself in the final episode of the season. Also new to the TV series are Gus and Big Man’s side quest through an outdoor sporting goods store, and the entire Animal Army’s arc. 

In the comic, Gus, Big Man, and company’s journey stretches from Nebraska to Alaska (hey, that rhymes!). The show elects to shorten that a bit by having Gus venture from Wyoming to Colorado. In addition to introducing new stories, the show also abandons some comic stories entirely, likely in pursuit of its cheerier tone. 

Netflix has not announced Sweet Tooth season 2 yet. Based on the show’s apparent success, however, future seasons seem likely. When they arrive, they will undoubtedly have many more changes to make from the source material to ensure an appropriately sweet viewing experience.

Sweet Tooth is available to stream on Netflix now.

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[arcticdementor]

Earlier this month at San Diego Comic-Con, returning attendees noticed a major change on the show’s massive exhibit floor. The booth for DC Comics, which had been a massive standalone pavilion in the center of the publishers’ area in the center of the hall, was gone. America’s oldest and second-largest comic book publisher had retreated to the far back corner of the hall, where it was incorporated into the multi-level WarnerMedia exhibit, in the shadow of banks of giant monitors previewing upcoming shows and cast appearances.

The subtext of this move could not have been clearer. AT&T—now the parent company of WarnerMedia and its divisions, including DC Comics (previously known as DC Entertainment), HBO, Turner, and Warner Bros.—does not seem terribly interested in being in the comic book publishing business. It’s telling that in a long profile of AT&T CEO John Stankey this morning in Variety, DC was one of the only WarnerMedia brands that was not mentioned. To the extent that DC matters at all in the company’s future, it’s as a source of owned IP for other media channels and as a lifestyle brand to serve as an ambassador to geek culture.

…

In recent months, DC has dropped the axe on its prestige imprint Vertigo, the creative engine behind hits like Sandman, Preacher, Swamp Thing, Doom Patrol and Fables. On the eve of Comic-Con, the company announced the cancellation of MAD, the venerable humor magazine that changed the face of American satire and has been continuously published since the mid-1950s. Neither of these was a big moneymaker in terms of month-to-month sales, but both brands occupy some valuable real estate in the psyche of fans. Even if the properties built on that land are in disrepair, it seems shortsighted to vacate the premises entirely.

…

So where does all that branding leave the publishing business? A generation ago, faced with a similar situation, DC’s then co-President and Publisher Jenette Kahn appealed to Time Warner management that wanted to dramatically cut back on DC’s current publishing in favor of reprints, saying that the company’s new material was the lifeblood of the company, a source of new fans and new IP without which the characters and related merchandise would decline into obscurity. She won that argument and DC, under her stewardship, ended up minting many of the golden coins in which it still trades, including The Dark Knight, Watchmen and Sandman, despite never being a gigantic engine of revenue within the Time Warner corporate umbrella.

Today, DC Comics is in a similar situation. Following a demoralizing mid-decade move from its traditional home in New York to Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, CA, the company has stumbled through various events and line reboots, milking assets like Frank Miller’s once-fresh take on Batman and post-Alan Moore Watchmen for the last dregs of fan appeal and relevance, and relying on high priced milestone thousandth issues of long-running titles like Action Comics and Detective Comics to make up in dollar share what they are losing in unit share of an increasingly crowded comics market.

[wornic]

- you can call me mikey. mikey’s a good name. are you my friend?

- yes! oh goddess, yes, i’m your friend. i’m your friend forever!

vertigo visions: the geek (1993)

[impossiblelibrary]

Recommendation from Geek and Sundry’s Twitch stream: The Wednesday Club

Hello, I’m the Sorceress of Pens (aka SorcPenz), from the Twitch Chat.

I wanted to give ya’ll a nice list of all the titles thrown at us each Wednesday by the amazing Amy Dallen, Taliesin Jaffe, and Matt Key and the mythical Chatroom, creating a thirst for a comic store trip each week. It's a long list. Here's as many as I could catch from just Episode 1.

If you can’t wait for the titles from last week’s horror episode, be sure to check out Geek and Sundry’s articles on The Wednesday Club.

From the hosts:

Comixology as an online place to get sales on comics

Rumiko Takahashi- one of the richest women in Japan because of comics. Inuyasha horror and comedy. Strangers in Paradise America Chavez solo comic Patsy Walker Hellcat- for awesome Letters column with fans' cat pics.

Comics that changed you:

Tal- Invisibles-by Grant Morrison published by Vertigo

Promethea

Jack Kirby anthology, early DC stuff

Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow

Amy- Sandman, Funhouse, High Cost of Living, V for Vendetta

Matt- Nightcrawler- for a Catholic superhero that talks about god

Squirrel Girl, Dr. Strange, X-men

X-men Legacy 2012 run, Volume 2 (or 2nd run) The Last Boy on Earth by Jack Kirby Adam Warlock Generation X

Squirrel Girl The Wicked and the Divine Grant Morrison's Dune Patrol- psychotropic nightmare fuel Grant Morrison's Filth- gave nightmares to @erikredin Y the Last Man- same writer of Saga Runaways Avenger's Arena- Marvel's take on Battle Royale, horrifying, you have been warned DC Bombshells Gotham Academy Champions-where Ms. Marvel goes once parting from the Avengers Kamala Khan Ms. Marvel- tumblr girl with superpowers, Pakistani-American Muslim who writes fanfic Vision Kids Man Thing- swamp monster, RL Stein will be doing new run Secret Wars Ironheart- Female Iron Man East of West by Jonathan Hickman

Videos and other non-comic book recommendations: Legion TV show *!! Japanese 90s X-men intros !!* *!! The LARPosal (and trailer) !!*

From the chat:

@figure_04: Pathfinder, Rat Queens- medieval comics for beginners @Quaraxkad1: Fables, Y the Last Man, Alias, The Pulse, Powers @chaoticcloony: Avengers Annual #16 (1987), TMNT, Elf Quest @JJ_Dane: Superman Annual #11, Divinity @CosmicVoyagerX: Superman Peace on Earth- for idealistic inspiring stories @mogodontsocialize: Dark Horse Star Wars @Sorin_ Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-men, Man Without Fear (1993 run) @starpilotsix: Marvel 1602, Brian K. Vaughn @Readrlady: Allstar Superman @sorcpenz:Books of Magic, Tanpopo @Lwnasidh: No prize book @Toonimator: She-hulk #21 by Dan Slott- first talk on the A-holes @Serenitywake: Grifter, Godeater @niconico666420ni: Panorama Island, noir bySuehiro Maruo @chuckytheclown11: Blackest Night @TenguBruxo: Old Man Logan @bluelinnet: Finder by Carla Speed McNeil @Ser0nionKnight: Avenegrs Academy after Avengers Arena, All New Wolverine @charlierose11: Mockingbird 2016, Princeless, Lady Castle @esweed3: Unworthy Thor @Triamas: New Mutants Asgard Adventures, Warren Ellis's Moon Knight @RiskyPixels: Uncanny X-men, Wolverine Unleashed @jrobie_1970: Hulk #180 @Darthpapas: Iron Fist #14 @JodyHouser: Narbonic, start into webcomics @WDM1262: American Alien

Comics that changed them: @JodyHouser: Things from another world, Mad Love @HonoroableDiscord: Neil Gaiman's Death, Alan Moore's Kingdom Come @ThatNerd: Watchmen @niconico666420ni: Shoko Tsubaki @alanmac9: Doctor Fate by JM Dematteis, late 80s run @Greekheat: Paul Dini's Dark Knight: A True Batman Story @rhammpy: Logicomix: An Epic Search for the Truth, made them love philosophy again @0606evan: A History of Violence @kalrany: Order of the Stick changed D&D for them

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Ten Things About Me

I was tagged by dear @lazuliblade ...and I have taken too long to answer this...let me just get this right.

1. Ask anyone who knows me, they will say I love reading. It has been a hobby and a habit of mine to read which has been ingrained in me since childhood. Not one day passes without me reading a story, novel, fiction or a textbook. I get edgy when I have no reading material with me...so my phone always has something.

2. I come off as anti-social most of the time. This maybe due to the fact that I somehow cannot relate to what my friends talk about and I am very bad at saying the right, or well not saying the wrong thing, in a given situation. 

3. I used to watch anime as a kid but it stopped when the cable said the channel was to expensive and cut it...that was when I was 12 years old...my brother had started watching anime again when he was in what 10th grade? but I was not bothered. But one fine summer week when I was 20 years old and exams had just finished I started watching Nagi no Asakura on his recommendation....which now leads to the present me who knows nothing of current trends except anime.

4. I don’t drink any alcoholic drink. When a friend, who I knew didn’t also drink, asked me if I had ever drunk ever...I wondered that if that drink which my mother handed me saying it was grape juice was alcohol..seeing as it was bitter...I still don’t know. (My mother does not drink and me and my brother have inherited that habit.)

5. I have only been to a movie hall 3 times, two times through school and one time with my parents.

6. On my obsession of reading, if I like a genre or an author I have this desire to read all the related works. This started when I finished my high school and had a long break before college started.

7. On that note, first I fell into contemporary romance, then ya novels, then historical romance, then shoujo and shonen manga (yes after becoming an anime fan again), then bl manga, then m/m fantasy novels...the fanfics...where I am currently resting at. And if I loved an author I would read all their works, and yes, I have read other stuff than this as for variety.

8. Despite all this, I am a science geek...I took science for my 11 and 12 grades and studied physics, chemistry and biology. If I did not have so much problem understanding physics, I might have a chance in engineering since I was interested and strong in mathematics. 

9. I have wore makeup only once in my whole life, in 3rd grade in a cultural program, and the eyeliner got smudged.

10. I discovered I need glasses after I had a severe bout of vertigo...which my mother claimed that I walked like a drunkard...and after taking iron supplements and meat and green leafy vegetables for treating anaemia (I hate dysmennorhea but I have to live with it) did which was said to be the cause of the vertigo did not work, my dad took me for a checkup to an ophthalmologist and an otorhinolaryngologist, and I found out that - voila- I am suffering from myopia. And I always thought that the teacher’s handwriting was small, not my vision poor.

I am tagging:

@adrianmenagerie, @yukination, @shadowblack2, @vivecenta, @huhwhereshouyou, @error-missing-url

If you want to do it then only, no pressure!

[augustheart]

vertigo books i've read this year, not including rereads:

vertigo visions: the geek

vertigo visions: dr. thirteen

vertigo visions: tomahawk

vertigo visions: doctor occult

greatest hits (dnf)

blood and water

midnight, mass

midnight, mass: here there be monsters

bite club (dnf)

angeltown

so that's an entire third of my list that's vertigo lmao

[ufonaut]

ik you dont like dp which makes sense bc i dont think its really up your alley but literally rachel pollack doom patrol has the most amazing covers and tbh the most hands down phenomenal writing of any dp comic but its like. SO overlooked lmfao like dude, look at the cover of #67 and tell me it doesnt go hard as hell (not sending it bc it features gore/body horror—severed head). tom taggart id do anything for you. he SCULPTED that shit

okay, that DOES fuck hardcore & i generally tom taggart's covers -- i'm pretty sure he did a lot of swampy too besides dp and also the cover for my literal fav issue of the spectre 1992 (#45 aka the gay issue)!

i'm laughing a little though because the only rachel pollack thing i've ever read is her vertigo visions one shot about brother power the geek & i thought it was like. abysmally written. i ALWAYS stand in solidarity with lovers of obscure comix tho