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'Pepe' doesn't sound very American. Have we seen its birth certificate?

Heads up! Comixology is having a linewide Vertigo sale. It's not on the sales tab and you have to enter the super-secret code (spoiler: it's 'vertigo').

Luke and Danny in PM&IF saying fuck all this fiddle-faddle and taking a pass on this fight was great. Unfortunately, the fight ended up finding them anyway. We'll see how it turns out.

Hader absolutely killed it!

"That's not what your mother said last night, Trump"

Oliver puts together an army and it's here to stay.

I guess I can give it a shot.

Lots of good stuff, but the MVP might go to Black Hammer.

edit: wrong reply

Totally different head. Totally.

What? Well, that just plain sucks. I was hoping it'd make it to 12. I hope Marvel at least gives Cain and Niemczyk another series.

I predict a 'Newhart' finale, with Vision waking up from a bad dream and Scarlett Witch in bed with him.

I haven't read the latest but I agree that so far Horizon is a bit muddled and difficult to follow.. I do sense there's payoff, though. We'll see.

The ones I read I love. I just focus on the creative team and the story they're telling. In the last couple of weeks, Mockingbird and Moon Knight have been outstanding.

To be fair, if you're comparing dollars to dollars, that plucky little sci fi flick released late last year kind of threw off the curve.

SF is very broad and allows for so many different kinds of storytelling. Saga is a space opera or planetary romance, whereas IR while not really hard sci-fi is relatively more 'realistic' or at least grounded in reality. That's the great thing about SF.

I've been reading Silver Age Marvel on MU, and it's clear the main purpose of any hero-hero fight was to settle schoolyard arguments their young readers had. They were fun because they lasted one or two issues and always were the result of a misunderstanding or hypnosis or something silly like that.

This is a really great sci fi political thriller. It's complex and compelling with realistic characters. Hardman's art can be both epic and intimate and it always makes good use of the setting. The sci fi isn't just a background prop for the politics.

The cramming is what I didn't like about COIE. I know that it's kind of the point but it felt so claustrophobic and confusing.

I'd love a Jen/Patsy road trip written by Kate Leth. Sort of an extension of the current Patsy series. It could be used to deal with her recovery and trauma in an intimate, nurturing way that doesn't mess up the character while still having time for fun adventures.