Hmmm. Not seeing much here that looks any different than Fury Road or any other action blockbuster. Certainly doesn't match the visuals of David Lynch's glorious mess of a film. They should've just replicated those visuals and made a better movie.
Or brought in Jodorowsky!
And a Pink Floyd cover as background muzak? Really?
Sorry, new Dune. This one still looks better. even though, yeah, it stunk.

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Feb 26, 2023
The only self-destruction comparable to the Dilbert guy in comics history was Al Capp. In the 1950s, L'il Abner was the biggest strip in the land. Film, broadway, wildly popular, adding phrases to the national lexicon. Capp was a celebrity w/ regular spots on the Tonight Show.
10 years later he's overcome with hatred for the Sixties counterculture and went full Nixonian rightwing. No Youtube, of course, so he destroyed himself live on stage, going from campus to campus ranting at 20somethings to a cascade of boos.
Concurrently, it turns out he's serial sex predator, and attacked dozens of young co-eds on the lecture circuit. It all came out in court in 1971, and his career & rep were destroyed.

Abner limped along in a handful of papers & ended pathetically in 1977.
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Jan 8, 2022
46 years ago, in Jan. 1976, the first big comics ”event” hit, “Superman & Spider-man: the Battle of the Century.”

It spawned nearly 50 years of similar attention-grabbing events, which have been the bane of both Marvel & DC.

But it's an interesting book.
By 1976, traditional comic books were in big trouble. Readership was plummeting, the biz was a mess, popular young creators were abandoning the field rather than be underpaid and exploited, and old guard giants like Kirby were past their prime. The “magic” was lost.
It was a Hollywood agent who pitched Supe vs. Spidey… as a film!

But the first Supe film was in the works, as was the wretched Spidey live-action tv show, so the companies weren’t interested. But as a comic book event? Publishers Carmine Infantino & Stan Lee dug that.
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Dec 14, 2021
Drawing bare trees takes a lot of patience. And you can't do it fast or you'll screw it up. I had to redraw quite a few of them in KENT STATE because I wanted to move on to other things, and they looked like hell.

Done beautifully here. This is how you do it, kids.
The trick is to stick to the proper sequence. You start with the main trunk and major branches, which gives you the basic shape of the tree. Ash, Oak, maple etc all have different shapes. Then you draw the smaller branches, then smaller still
But too many branches, especially for trees in the distance, and the visual gets clogged up. I'm right on the edge of that here, especially those trees dead center.

I used a .05 pen for the big branches, then a .o3, and finally the .01. Can't get any finer than that!
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Dec 12, 2021
Don't get me wrong, I adore Gil Kane's art. But his covers? Meh. They all look the same!

#comicbooks #BronzeAge #GilKane ImageImageImageImage
I guess this is what Marvel bigshots wanted, but every cover is a crowded fight scene, usually with a superdude flopping over backwards with one of Kane's signature limp-wristed poses. ImageImageImageImage
Kane drew like 75% of Marvels covers in 1972, 73, 74 and 75 and one is pretty much the same as the other. Sweet gig for Gil, but I would've MUCH rather had him drawing stories. ImageImageImageImage
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Dec 12, 2021
"(Roger Stone) protege Jacob Engels appeared at a School Board meeting, blending in with concerned parents, to discuss sex education books. When Engels took the mic, he read aloud an explicit passage from (the graphic novel) “Gender Queer: A Memoir.”"

washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/1…
This is exactly what I've been tweeting about. And again here's Maia Kobabe's graphic novel GENDER QUEER being used as scare tactic in school board meetings.

This is the book outraged zealots and professional rightwing plants wave around at school board meetings.

#bookbanning
This exact same performance is happening all around the country. The playbook was written by Christian Nationalist "think" tanks & creeps like Steve Bannon, & is bankrolled by dark money.

This is their plan of attack for 2022 and 2024.
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Feb 7, 2021
Since everyone is talking about the crisis at the @usps and the Trumper creep #DeJoy, the Postmaster General. These are mail sorting machines at the main Cleveland postal facility last August.

DeJoy ordered them torn out and they were left to rot in the parking lot.
Not removed and reused at another facility. TORN THE FUCK OUT, and purposely left outside to get rained on and ruined so they could NEVER be used again.
And no effort was made to mask what they were doing! You could see (and photograph) these things from the street!

When called on this, DeJoy insisted they were torn out "months" ago. Postal workers revealed it was just days.
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