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22 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Happy belated Wonder Woman day! Who would have thought that a seemingly random one-off story in All-Star Comics #8 would start the career of the first lady of superheroics? Thank you W.M. Marston and H.G. Peter, you did a bang-up job establishing a modern mythology. Image
It's also funny to me that good old Wertham claimed Wonder Woman was a terrifying character to boys whereas actual reader surveys DC did in the 40s indicated WW had a LOT of male readers. I assume even then there were more than a few readers who wanted Diana to tie them up...
(No kink-shaming here either!)
Special shoutout to Brian Bolland for the "biker Diana" design. Image

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23 Oct
Alright everyone the time has finally come. I've put this off for so long because of reasons I will soon get into but now it's time for us to talk about Malibu Comics.

WARNING: This thread will contain discussion of sexual violence, theft, racism and other sensitive topics. Image
Why did I put off this retrospective? Many reasons.

Several of the people involved in the history of Malibu are very sordid or have very troubled histories.

The publishing history is a tangled mess.

And other things!
But now, strap in as we dive into the history of Malibu - the scandals, the allegations, the lawsuits... and the comics. Image
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4 Sep
Alright, I think the time has come for another topic. This time we tackle how comics publishers spread information to their readers before the internet and the inherent limitations therein.

Today we talk about handbooks.
Humans are creatures of order. We love to structure and process information into patterns we can understand and remember. Thus it is no surprise that reference texts date back as far as writing. The Egyptian book of the dead serves as a guidebook to the afterlife, discussing...
...the threats the soul must face to pass on to eternal bliss and naming and identifying hundreds of gods and spirits whose names and epithets must be memorized for the soul to gain passage. Essentially texts like these are early examples of humans charting the imaginary
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23 Aug
Retrospectives and musings master thread.

Unpublished Image comics part 1:
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22 Aug
After two weeks of talking little other than Marvel UK, let's move back across the pond and talk about one of the great 90s icons of Marvel US - Ghost Rider!
As usual the focus of this thread will be on the 90s years of the character, but in order to understand that era, let's start with a little history.
It may or may not be something you know, but the concept of ghostly huntsmen streaking across the night sky, always on the hunt for mortal prey or supernatural enemies is a mythic motif that stretches far back into the fog of prehistory.
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29 Jun
I'm pinning my series of explorations on Image comics here for anyone who needs a quick reference.

Part 1:
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27 Jun
It's time to wrap up our look at the many, MANY failed, abandoned and plain disapparated projects spearheaded by Rob Liefeld.

This took considerably more time and effort than I expected when I started. I thought I would have had time to check the other Image founders as well. Image
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It's not that the other founders didn't have plenty of canceled titles and titles that never came out. It's just that there are so much fewer of them due to how much Extreme published that they're drowned out by the tide.
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