Pixel Scroll 10/5 Manic Pixel Dream Scroll

spacesuite-exlarge-169(1) “Should Zurich ever hold a Worldcon, I think we’ve got the GOH’s hotel room,” says Tom Galloway. It’s the Grand Kameha’s Space Suite.

Always dreamed of going to space but never felt cut out for grueling astronaut training?

Soon it’ll be possible to (almost) indulge this fantasy without leaving Earth.

A hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, has just unveiled a new suite kitted out to look like the inside of a space station.

Grand Kameha’s Space Suite comes equipped with a “zero gravity” bed — built to look like it’s floating above the ground — and steam bath designed to simulate a view into the universe.

(2) Tor Books is celebrating 35 years with a new logo.

new tor logoAin’t no mountain high enough?

(3) Author Tom Purdom has been in the hospital since August 5 reports the Broad Street Review

You may know Tom as the author of five acclaimed science fiction novels as well as novelettes that appear in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. More likely you know him as the peripatetic and prolific chronicler of Philadelphia’s diverse classical music groups, whose scene he has covered for this and other publications since 1988. Tom’s relentless curiosity has also blessed BSR readers with thoughtful explorations of countless other topics, from arms control to religion to professional soccer to the growing appeal of older women in his senior years. As the paragraph above suggests, even at 79, Tom retains a youthful appetite for the cultural rewards of urban life and an eagerness to go public with his enthusiasms.

Hit from behind

At least that was the case until last month. Tom’s byline hasn’t appeared in BSR or anywhere else since August 11. Nor is he now living a life that anyone would describe as satisfying. Instead, Tom has spent the past seven weeks in a hospital bed, most of that time with his head held aloft by a neck brace, his arms and body connected to tubes, his lungs fed oxygen from a tank….

On August 5, Tom was enjoying his daily three-mile stroll along Philadelphia’s new Schuylkill River Trail. Behind him on bicycles, unknown to Tom, were a grown woman, a schoolteacher, and her elderly father. The woman, noticing one of her students walking the trail, waved happily and called to her father to share her discovery. The father turned his head and, in his distraction, crashed into Tom from behind.

In an instant, the active life Tom had savored for decades was shut down, at least temporarily. The blow to his back caused spinal injuries; his fall to the pavement caused a concussion, an enormous bump on his forehead, and two black eyes. His diaphragm was paralyzed.

(4) “Pluto’s Big Moon Charon Reveals a Colorful and Violent History” – read about it on the NASA site.

At half the diameter of Pluto, Charon is the largest satellite relative to its planet in the solar system. Many New Horizons scientists expected Charon to be a monotonous, crater-battered world; instead, they’re finding a landscape covered with mountains, canyons, landslides, surface-color variations and more.

“We thought the probability of seeing such interesting features on this satellite of a world at the far edge of our solar system was low,” said Ross Beyer, an affiliate of the New Horizons Geology, Geophysics and Imaging (GGI) team from the SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, “but I couldn’t be more delighted with what we see.”

(5) Genevieve Valentine reviews Ancillary Mercy for NPR.

Breq has spent two books trying to bring down the head of the Radch, a galaxy-spanning empire. It’s complicated work (for one thing, the imperial civil war is between cloned iterations of the Empress herself), so it’s just as well for the series that Breq accidentally keeps falling into broken things that need fixing on a more local level: Her devoted lieutenant Seivarden, captaincy of a ship whose human crew has no idea of their leader’s past, a planetary assignment with the expected imperial prejudice, and a space station awash in all the cultural minutiae the Radchaai empire can offer. And luckily for readers, that’s quite a bit.

(6) George R.R. Martin previews his big investment in Santa Fe’s arts scene in “Meow Wolf Roars”.

The House of Eternal Return, long adrift is time and space, is spinning back towards earth and its eventual landing on the south side of Santa Fe… courtesy of the madmen and madwomen of Meow Wolf, the City Different’s wildest artist’s collective.

Remember Silva Lanes? That derelict bowling alley I bought last winter? If not, go back to January and February on this very Not A Blog and read the old posts. Or just Google “Silva Lanes” and my name, and you’ll find plenty of press coverage.

Anyway… work has been proceeding down on the south side ever since. My own construction crew has gutted the remains of the old structure, torn up the parking lot, and has been working day and night to bring everything up to code. Meanwhile, Meow Wolf’s artists have been across the street, making magic… and now they’ve moved in and started the installations. The two construction crews are working side by side.

Meow Roar house

(7) The local papers have also featured the development.

Santa Fe New Mexican – “Meow Wolf banks on returns with ambitious new exhibit”.

Take a kernel from the Children’s Museum, a wrinkle from an Explora science exhibit and a seam from Burning Man, and one has the inceptions of what Meow Wolf is hoping to create in Santa Fe.

But the exhibit that is being developed, designed, programmed, manufactured, cut and cobble together by the arts group in a 35,000 square foot former bowling alley is perhaps unlike what has ever come before.

The House of Eternal Return, an electronics- and sensory-heavy exhibit, will feature a Victorian house with passageways, forests, caves, treehouses, bridges, a light cloud, a sideways bus, an arcade and workship spaces.

As planned, visitors will be primed with lasers, smoke, touch sensors, color, story and fantasy.

Albuquerque Journal – “Meow Wolf’s latest futuristic project bends time and space”.

George R.R. Martin, who bought the old Silva Lanes bowling alley for $750,000 on agreement to lease it to Meow Wolf, is now financing a $1 million to $2 million renovation of the building.

“Meow Wolf’s project is going to be exciting and strange,” Martin said in an email. “It’s something the city has never seen before.

Once open, the fantasy house will allow visitors to touch hundreds of digital connections imbedded in everything from walls and doors to furniture and personal items. Sensors will trigger a range of visiual and audio experiences, providing in many cases elaborate, visual transport to wild places.

(8) I doubt this has changed for all values of “we”….

(9) Everybody needs a hobby. Emily Stoneking’s is making “Cruelty-Free Knit Anatomy Specimens”.

Will R. adds, “The alien autopsy is pretty good.”

Uh, yeah….

(10) Larry Correia responded to a comment on his “Fisking the New York Times’ Modern Man” post —

Well, since I get far more traffic than File 770, somebody must care.

Really? Let’s see what Alexa has to say about that.

File770.com

  • Global Rank – 140,439

Monsterhunternation.com

  • Global Rank – 175,887

But in the interest of full disclosure, I will tell you who is way out in front of this race —

Voxday.blogspot.com

  • Global Rank – 78,211

(11) Adam-Troy Castro’s review of Upside Down concludes —

A pretty dumb story partially redeemed by some downright amazing visuals, it’s actually the second best movie where Kirsten Dunst kisses a guy upside down…

(12) Dave Freer starts the week by sharing his opinions about “Cultural appropriation and Political Correctness in writing” at Mad Genius Club.

Enter the newest shibboleth of Arts world (along with 23 sexes) intended to divide and exclude.

Cultural appropriation.

I’m a wicked man because I talked about Yogurt (Turkic) and Matryoshka dolls (Russian) and shibboleth (Hebrew). These words, and a meaning of them have all become quite normal in English, understood, accepted… and maybe not quite what they meant (or still mean) in their root-culture.

But the culture of the permanently offended (the one I adopt nothing from, because yes, I consider it inferior, and overdue for the scrapheap of history.) has discovered it as a new and valuable thing to… you guessed it!… Be offended by. Demand reparations for the terrible damage done. Exclusivity even. Heaven help you if you’re not gay, and write about something that could be considered gay culture, or Aboriginal, or Inuit or quite possibly of sex number 23 (is that the one where you identify as coffee table?). Contrariwise, you are to be utterly condemned, pilloried, attacked, decried as a sexist, racist, homophobic misogynist if you don’t include all the possible groups (including number 23) in your books, in the prescribed stereotype roles.

(13) Do not be confused by the last post – the following movie is not a documentary. “’No Men Beyond This Point’ Sci-Fi Comedy Lands At Samuel Goldwyn”.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired worldwide rights (excluding Canada) to writer-director Mark Sawers’ sci-fi comedy satire No Men Beyond This Point, which just had its North American premiere in the Vanguard section at the Toronto Film Festival. The pic is set in a world where women no longer need men in order to reproduce and are no longer giving birth to male babies, leaving the male population on the verge of extinction. A 2016 release is in the works.

(14) Today’s Birthday Boy –

1952 – Clive Barker

(15) Apex Magazine publisher Jason Sizemore has announced a significant change to the magazine’s publication model. Subscribers will continue to get the new eBook edition delivered via email or to their Kindle account on the first Tuesday of each month. While Apex Magazine’s content will still be available as a free read, instead of posting the entire issue’s contents on that first Tuesday, they will be released over the course of the month.

Example: On the first Tuesday of the month, the entire issue becomes available to our subscribers (and to those who pay $2.99 for our nicely formatted eBook edition through Apex or our other vendors). That day, we will only post one of that issue’s short stories. One Wednesday, we will publish one poem, and on Thursday we will publish a nonfiction piece. A week later on the following Tuesday, we will repeat the cycle.

We at Apex Magazine feel like this is an ideal situation for our readers and our administrators. It rewards subscribers further with early access to content. It also allows us to focus on each contributing author singularly each week on the website. Readers win, authors win, subscribers win, and Apex Magazine wins!

(16) Councilmember Mike Bonin represents the 11th District in the city of Los Angeles. And the councilman says he has “the best collection of Justice Society of America action figures in all of Los Angeles.”

[Thanks to Steven H Silver, Will R., James H. Burns, JJ, Tom Galloway, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Soon Lee.]

284 thoughts on “Pixel Scroll 10/5 Manic Pixel Dream Scroll

  1. Vasha on October 6, 2015 at 11:47 am said:
    @Rose: What is the problem with female characters in Watchmen? I have only read it once, but recall it as definitely better than mainstream comics (an extremely low bar to clear, true!)

    There is a significant list but key issues are the treatment of sexual assault and the overall lack of agency of the women characters. In its defence it is intended to be a pulling apart of the superhero genre and nearly all of the characters lack agency in multiple ways but I think this is how it fails. Moore has complained about people who read it and love Rosarch as a character when he is meant to be appalling but the same issue works for the book as a whole – it is saying: this is awful and that was cool at the time- but that becomes “Watchmen” is cool and it isn’t cool it is intentionally appalling. The Snyder film was the epitome of the “this is so cool” take on it and it just made me dislike Watchmen more. Yet I still love it!

  2. IN JAPAN, “-A” IS NOT A FEMININE ENDING
    Nimona, Noelle Stephenson
    Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo

    THE DARK KNIGHT VERSUS THE MOON ROACH
    The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
    Cerebus the Aardvark, Dave Sim

    IF WISHES WERE BEAGLES
    Peanuts, Charles Schulz
    Dragonball, Akira Toriyama

    I’m actually quite into Dragonball – the manga, not the unspeakable boredom of animated versions I’ve glimpsed – but this just isn’t a fair contest.

    ETA: okay, it’s fair but nevertheless a mugging of DB by a titan when it could reasonably have expected a mere sumo wrestler.

    POTTER VS. POTHEAD
    The Tale of One Bad Rat, Bryan Talbot
    Doonesbury, Gary Trudeau

    GHOSTS AND ZOMBIES
    Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
    The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard

    THESE SHADOW DEMONS ARE CRAZY
    The Adventures of Asterix, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
    Crisis on Infinite Earths, Marv Wolfman and George Perez

    I can only thank any deities there may be it wasn’t Asterix versus Tintin this round.

    ALL OUT METAL
    Fullmetal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa
    Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka

    COSMIC, ATOMIC, IT’S ALL RADIATION
    Fantastic Four 1-102, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
    X-Men 94-150, Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum / John Byrne

    GLOBE-TROTTING ADVENTURERS
    The Adventures of Tintin, Georges Remi
    Nextwave: Agents of HATE, Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen

    REVENGE OF THE NERDS
    XKCD, Randall Munroe
    The Invisibles, Grant Morrison and various

    ALEXANDER’S EMPIRE
    Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
    Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

    The translated into French extra-large format, hardbound Watchmen in 6 volumes my local library had where I grew up was awesome. All of you who grew up outside la Francophonie should be very angry with someone.

    STRONG-WILLED GIRLS
    Omaha the Cat Dancer, Reed Waller and Kate Worley
    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki

    WOLFRIDERS AND RAT CREATURES
    Bone, Jeff Smith
    Elfquest, Richard and Wendy Pini

    There is nothing even remotely close in Elfquest to the genious of “Stupid, stupid rat creatures!”.

    KINDS OF POWER, KINDS OF RESPONSIBILITY
    Amazing Spider-Man 1-38, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
    Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud

    OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE AXIS
    Urusei Yatsura, Rumiko Takahashi
    Maus, Art Spiegelman

    IT’S ALL IN THE STORIES YOU TELL
    Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
    Fables, Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham and various

    An adversary far stronger than any Mr. Willingham ever imagined – tough luck. At least C&H isn’t eligible for the 2015 Hugos.

    THE FAR-FLUNG FUTURE! 1965 OR 2023?
    The Nikopol trilogy, Enki Bilal
    Zot!, Scott McCloud

    NEW STYLE VS. OLD
    Planetary, Warren Ellis and John Cassady
    Krazy Kat, George Herriman

  3. @Camestros

    The Snyder film was the epitome of the “this is so cool” take on it and it just made me dislike Watchmen more.

    &

    Arrghh – I meant I still love the book, not the film. I hate the film.

    Oh, but how can you hate a film with such an unintentionally hilarious sex scene? I’ve rarely laughed so hard in the cinema.

    But, yeah, not a good adaptation. The treatment of violence was bizarre and, in my opinion, totally counter to the original work. Zach Snyder in general doesn’t mesh well with me. I’ve got my fingers crossed for Suicide Squad but I’m not holding my breath. (Christopher Nolan usually leaves me cold, too. I haven’t had much luck with the DC films.)

    ———

    Abstentions are, as always, for various reasons, but usually because I hadn’t read one of the comics and didn’t think the other one was so omg best thing ever that I wanted to vote regardless.

    IN JAPAN, “-A” IS NOT A FEMININE ENDING
    Nimona, Noelle Stephenson

    Although it would probably go the other way if it was Akira the film, Nimona is such a charming odd little book I had to vote for it. (Also: DRAGON.)

    THE RIPPER AND THE VEGETABLE
    Swamp Thing 20-64, Alan Moore and Steve Bissette and John Totleben and Rick Veitch

    GHOSTS AND ZOMBIES
    Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

    THESE SHADOW DEMONS ARE CRAZY
    The Adventures of Asterix, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo

    ALL OUT METAL
    Fullmetal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa

    GUIDED BY DREAMS
    The Sandman, Neil Gaiman and various

    GLOBE-TROTTING ADVENTURERS
    Nextwave: Agents of HATE, Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen

    Arrrgh this is awful. Nextwave is one of my all-time favourites, but I grew up with Tintin and I’m literally in the middle of building a tiny nanoblock Tintin rocket right now. Nextwave but only by a hair.

    DEALING WITH GODS
    Digger, Ursula Vernon

    I haven’t read much of Digger yet, but while I love The Authority I’m already voting for Ellis twice and I think both of them are better than The Authority (although if it was Jenny Sparks’ arc specifically… Or Stormwatch… This would be much harder). So: Digger seems pretty great, and it gets my vote.

    OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE AXIS
    Maus, Art Spiegelman

    NEW STYLE VS. OLD
    Planetary, Warren Ellis and John Cassady

  4. The most amazing thing of all is that for a brief moment in time, DC seriously considered doing all of that to its Charlton Comics characters: Question, Blue Beetle, Nightshade, Captain Atom, Peacemaker, and Thunderbolt.

    It would have been as jarring for Americans as Moore’s Marvelman was to Brits, except there didn’t exist a 20 year gap for a few generations to forget about the characters.

    Silly but True

  5. First one in a while I’ve read nearly all of (and at least one in each category).

    IN JAPAN, “-A” IS NOT A FEMININE ENDING
    Nimona, Noelle Stephenson
    Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo

    THE DARK KNIGHT VERSUS THE MOON ROACH
    The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
    Cerebus the Aardvark, Dave Sim

    WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY…
    Why I Hate Saturn, Kyle Baker
    Pogo, Walt Kelly

    SO WHICH ONE WILL KURT HIMSELF VOTE FOR?
    Astro City, Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson
    Marvels, Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross

    IF WISHES WERE BEAGLES
    Peanuts, Charles Schulz
    Dragonball, Akira Toriyama

    THE RIPPER AND THE VEGETABLE
    Swamp Thing 20-64, Alan Moore and Steve Bissette and John Totleben and Rick Veitch
    From Hell, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

    POTTER VS. POTHEAD
    The Tale of One Bad Rat, Bryan Talbot
    Doonesbury, Gary Trudeau

    GHOSTS AND ZOMBIES
    Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
    The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard

    THESE SHADOW DEMONS ARE CRAZY
    The Adventures of Asterix, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
    Crisis on Infinite Earths, Marv Wolfman and George Perez

    NEAR FUTURE VS. FAR FUTURE
    Kingdom Come, Mark Waid and Alex Ross
    Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga, Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen

    ALL OUT METAL
    Fullmetal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa
    Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka

    GUIDED BY DREAMS
    Nexus, Mike Baron and Steve Rude and various
    The Sandman, Neil Gaiman and various

    COSMIC, ATOMIC, IT’S ALL RADIATION
    Fantastic Four 1-102, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
    X-Men 94-150, Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum / John Byrne

    GLOBE-TROTTING ADVENTURERS
    The Adventures of Tintin, Georges Remi
    Nextwave: Agents of HATE, Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen

    FAMOUS NAMES
    Girl Genius, Phil & Kaja Foglio
    Superman: Secret Identity, Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen

    THE SCHOOL AND THE SEA
    PS238, Aaron Williams
    Corto Maltese, Hugo Pratt

    REVENGE OF THE NERDS
    XKCD, Randall Munroe
    The Invisibles, Grant Morrison and various

    DOG, CAT, BUNNY, MONKEY
    American Splendor, Harvey Pekar and various
    We3, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely

    ALEXANDER’S EMPIRE
    Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
    Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

    STRONG-WILLED GIRLS
    Omaha the Cat Dancer, Reed Waller and Kate Worley
    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki

    WOLFRIDERS AND RAT CREATURES
    Bone, Jeff Smith
    Elfquest, Richard and Wendy Pini

    NEAR FUTURE VS. FAR FUTURE, DYSTOPIAN EDITION
    The Incal, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius and various
    V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd

    KINDS OF POWER, KINDS OF RESPONSIBILITY
    Amazing Spider-Man 1-38, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
    Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud

    ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, OR MINERAL?
    Tales of the Beanworld, Larry Marder
    Animal Man 1-26, Grant Morrison and Chas Truog

    OTHER REALMS
    Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay
    Fourth World (New Gods, Forever People, Jimmy Olsen), Jack Kirby

    DEALING WITH GODS
    Digger, Ursula Vernon
    The Authority, Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch

    OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE AXIS
    Urusei Yatsura, Rumiko Takahashi
    Maus, Art Spiegelman

    IT’S ALL IN THE STORIES YOU TELL
    Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
    Fables, Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham and various

    THE SIN-EATER AND THE DEMON’S DAUGHTER
    Finder, Carla Speed McNeil
    The New Teen Titans, Marv Wolfman and George Perez

    HEROES OF MYTH
    Age of Bronze, Eric Shanower
    Mage: The Hero Discovered, Matt Wagner

    THE FAR-FLUNG FUTURE! 1965 OR 2023?
    The Nikopol trilogy, Enki Bilal
    Zot!, Scott McCloud

    NEW STYLE VS. OLD
    Planetary, Warren Ellis and John Cassady
    Krazy Kat, George Herriman

  6. Meredith on October 6, 2015 at 1:15 pm said:
    @Camestros

    Oh, but how can you hate a film with such an unintentionally hilarious sex scene? I’ve rarely laughed so hard in the cinema.

    But, yeah, not a good adaptation. The treatment of violence was bizarre and, in my opinion, totally counter to the original work. Zach Snyder in general doesn’t mesh well with me.

    Every adaptation of Moore’s work has been awful. There is a point at which this can’t be coincidence! 🙂
    The awful must be always there and I don’t see it when I read Moore and the nice film directors then find all the awful and put it on the screen.

    Note that Gaiman doesn’t magically transmute into awful with a change in media. I think Moore is one of Gaiman’s fearie creatures – he gives you wonderful treasures but when you return to the real world and show people it is just dirt and twigs.

  7. @Dex,
    The long sordid history of McFarlane’s decline from creator-rights champion against corporate exploitation into corporate exploiter against independent creator rights is startling, indeed: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Gaiman_v._McFarlane/Opinion_of_the_Court

    It’s like he sold his soul to a hell spawn who then harvested it.

    Towards the end, he was reduced to working hard and going out of his way to dick over Gaiman, like with the Marvelman of Mystery plans.

    Silly but True

  8. I’m at an airport on the second day of Author Death March, so popping in to say that you don’t have to apologize for voting against Digger! It’s okay! I’ll still love most of you.

  9. The book gods are kind today. Quite apart from Ancillary, GRRMs Knight of the Seven Kingdoms dropped through the door. It’s three previously published Dunk and Egg stories, but with copious new art. Seriously, there must be well over a hundred illustrations, it’s a beautiful looking book worth having in a dead tree edition.

  10. Mark on October 6, 2015 at 1:34 pm said:
    The book gods are kind today.

    Hmm
    I’ve got Ancillary 3 and Three Body Prob 2 waiting and I’m stuck reading a John C Wright I bought as a joke. I only need a Goblin Emperor sequel and it would feel like a Hugo flashback.

  11. That reminds me, I also need to get the GRRM, but for that I’ll probably wait until next time I go to Uncle Hugo’s for the physical copy.

  12. Guy Middleton:

    And the overall winner is:

    grrm.livejournal.com
    55,331

    It’s George’s world, we’re just living in it.

    Why not Cory Doctorow? Boing Boing’s global rank is 2,655.

  13. Oh, but how can you hate a film with such an unintentionally hilarious sex scene? I’ve rarely laughed so hard in the cinema.

    god, the sex scene
    But the key bit for me was the prison break with the slow-mo scenes of our heroes kicking ass and breaking bones. That was a diamond-hard lump of didnotgetit.

  14. Boingboing’s not just Cory Doctorow, though. I know several people who go there specifically for Xeni Jardin.

  15. Hmm. Ancillary Mercy is less than 30K points for me. That’s less than 2.5 days of TV and trivia.

    @Mike: “Why not Cory Doctorow? Boing Boing’s global rank is 2,655.”

    Are you saying that by comparison, we’re all Little Brother? 😉

  16. I’ve read significantly more of the works listed in this comics bracket than I have of the works in Kyra’s brackets. Not all, however. So I’mma italicize the ones I haven’t fully read, and only vote in pairings of which I’ve read both. Rather than risk the vagueries of markup, I’mma put a “==” in front of whatever works I actually choose. Pretty standard, really…

    IN JAPAN, “-A” IS NOT A FEMININE ENDING
    Abstain.
    Nimona, Noelle Stephenson
    Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo

    THE DARK KNIGHT VERSUS THE MOON ROACH
    == The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
    Cerebus the Aardvark, Dave Sim

    Hmm. Cerebus got preachy and bizarre towards the end. Miller also succumbed to the brain eater, but that wasn’t really apparent to me until sometime after DKR.

    WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY…
    Why I Hate Saturn, Kyle Baker
    == Pogo, Walt Kelly

    “Deck us all with Boston Charlie!” for the win! The bits of Saturn I’ve read didn’t impress me.

    SO WHICH ONE WILL KURT HIMSELF VOTE FOR?
    == Astro City, Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson
    Marvels, Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross

    Both good. Astro City is just better.

    IF WISHES WERE BEAGLES
    == Peanuts, Charles Schulz
    Dragonball, Akira Toriyama

    Haven’t read more than a few chunks of the Dragonball manga, nor seen all that much of the derived anime. That little exposure to it was enough to persuade me that I just don’t like it very much. Peanuts wins in a walk.

    THE RIPPER AND THE VEGETABLE
    == Swamp Thing 20-64, Alan Moore and Steve Bissette and John Totleben and Rick Veitch
    From Hell, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

    Haven’t red From Hell cover to cover, just some parts of it. Don’t care for Campbell’s artwork, personally, and I don’t find the Ripper all that interesting to begin with. Moore’s Swamp Thing, well, the Anatomy Lesson story impressed me enough that I actually nominated it for a Hugo that year!

    POTTER VS. POTHEAD
    Abstain, as I haven’t read any of the Talbot at all.
    The Tale of One Bad Rat, Bryan Talbot
    Doonesbury, Gary Trudeau

    GHOSTS AND ZOMBIES
    Abstain. Haven’t read any of Saga; only looked at a few pages of Walking Dead, and zombies just don’t do it for me.
    Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
    The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard

    THESE SHADOW DEMONS ARE CRAZY
    The Adventures of Asterix, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
    == Crisis on Infinite Earths, Marv Wolfman and George Perez

    Asterix is inoffensive fluff wrapped around a core of Francophile chauvanism. Crisis was just friggin’ amazing.

    NEAR FUTURE VS. FAR FUTURE
    == Kingdom Come, Mark Waid and Alex Ross
    Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga, Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen

    Gotta go with the Waid here. The writing is better, and it would take a much better artist than Giffen to induce me to judge GDS’s art as better than KC’s art.

    ALL OUT METAL
    Abstain. My only exposure to either has been thru short bits of the derived anime.
    Fullmetal Alchemist, Hiromu Arakawa
    Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka

    GUIDED BY DREAMS
    Nexus, Mike Baron and Steve Rude and various
    == The Sandman, Neil Gaiman and various

    Gaiman can write rings around Baron on the latter’s best day, and Gaiman’s collaborators tend to be on a higher level than Rude.

    COSMIC, ATOMIC, IT’S ALL RADIATION
    Fantastic Four 1-102, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
    == X-Men 94-150, Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum / John Byrne

    I own some FF issues from the first 102 issues. I own all the X-Men issues in the listed range. ‘Nuff Said!

    GLOBE-TROTTING ADVENTURERS
    Abstain. What I’ve read of Tintin never grabbed me, and I’ve managed to miss pretty much all of Nextwave.
    The Adventures of Tintin, Georges Remi
    Nextwave: Agents of HATE, Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen

    FAMOUS NAMES
    == Girl Genius, Phil & Kaja Foglio
    Superman: Secret Identity, Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen

    I fear I have managed to completely miss the Busiek of this pairing. Gonna give it to the Foglios anyway, as Busiek rarely (if ever) achieves the peaks of glorious madness that Girl Genius scales on a regular basis.

    THE SCHOOL AND THE SEA
    Abstain, as I’ve not read the Pratt at all, nor have I sufficient familiarity with Pratt’s other work (if any) to judge whether it’s got any chance of beating Williams. I will say that I like PS238 a whole lot, though.

    PS238, Aaron Williams
    Corto Maltese, Hugo Pratt

    REVENGE OF THE NERDS
    == XKCD, Randall Munroe
    The Invisibles, Grant Morrison and various

    Too much of Invisibles struck me as “Morrison being freakyweird for the sake of freakyweird”. Meh.

    DOG, CAT, BUNNY, MONKEY
    American Splendor, Harvey Pekar and various
    == We3, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely

    American Splendor, I’ve consistently bounced off of. I just don’t like concentrated, unadorned Slice Of Life stuff; I mean, I already live that shit, so why should I waste any time reading what I already lived thru?

    In We3, Morrison is again letting his Animal Rights flag fly, but unlike his Animal Man, this time he didn’t let the AR propaganda overpower everything else.

    ALEXANDER’S EMPIRE
    == Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
    Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

    Have not read Persepolis at all, nor have I ever heard of Satrapi. Voting for Watchmen on the grounds that my Bayesian prior for “is this work of higher quality than Watchmen?” is, like, 10^-7 or so.

    STRONG-WILLED GIRLS
    Abstain.
    Omaha the Cat Dancer, Reed Waller and Kate Worley
    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki

    WOLFRIDERS AND RAT CREATURES
    Abstain. Haven’t read enough of either to give ’em a fair shake.
    Bone, Jeff Smith
    Elfquest, Richard and Wendy Pini

    NEAR FUTURE VS. FAR FUTURE, DYSTOPIAN EDITION
    Abstain. haven’t read enough of either to give ’em a fair shake.
    The Incal, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius and various
    V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd

    KINDS OF POWER, KINDS OF RESPONSIBILITY
    Amazing Spider-Man 1-38, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko
    == Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud

    Going with McCloud. Don’t really care for Ditko (and it’s possible than my distaste for D’s Objectivism may be influencing me here), and while Spider-Man is a competently-executed superhero thang, McCloud’s work is an admirable attempt to construct the intellectual underpinnings of the entire comics medium. Props for chutzpah if nothing else.

    ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, OR MINERAL?
    Abstain.
    Tales of the Beanworld, Larry Marder
    Animal Man 1-26, Grant Morrison and Chas Truog

    Animal Man was Morrison’s mouthpiece for animal rights propaganda. More than once, the preachiness got in the way of the storytelling. As for Beanworld, that’s just too surreal/weird/freaky for me.

    OTHER REALMS
    == Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay
    Fourth World (New Gods, Forever People, Jimmy Olsen), Jack Kirby

    Another one where I’ve read some, but not all, of each work. Kirby… well… I am intellectually aware of Kirby’s stature in the field, and the works on which that stature is grounded, but I just don’t see it, myself.

    DEALING WITH GODS
    == Digger, Ursula Vernon
    The Authority, Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch

    I haven’t read the entirety of Digger, no. But I have read enough of it to know that it’s got more heart and soul than the summer-blockbuster-with-slick-and-expensive-production-values which is Ellis’ Authority.

    OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE AXIS
    Urusei Yatsura, Rumiko Takahashi
    == Maus, Art Spiegelman

    Honestly, I tend to bounce off manga in general, so Takahashi would have to be really damned good to entice me to choose it over pretty much anything else.

    Against Maus? No friggin’ contest.

    IT’S ALL IN THE STORIES YOU TELL
    Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
    Fables, Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham and various

    THE SIN-EATER AND THE DEMON’S DAUGHTER
    Finder, Carla Speed McNeil
    == The New Teen Titans, Marv Wolfman and George Perez

    Haven’t read much of Finder; from my limited exposure, it was competently executed, but if there was anything really great about it, that greatness did not reveal itself to me in the bits I read.

    HEROES OF MYTH
    Abstain, as I haven’t read more than occasional pages of either. Shanower’s art is immensely better than Wagner’s, however.
    Age of Bronze, Eric Shanower
    Mage: The Hero Discovered, Matt Wagner

    THE FAR-FLUNG FUTURE! 1965 OR 2023?
    The Nikopol trilogy, Enki Bilal
    == Zot!, Scott McCloud

    Haven’t read Nikopol at all, but what I’ve seen of Bilal indicates that I’d prolly bounce off it anyway, just because. Zot! is just way cool.

    NEW STYLE VS. OLD
    == Planetary, Warren Ellis and John Cassady
    Krazy Kat, George Herriman

    Okay, I know that Krazy Kat is a foundational work and historical value and all that, but… well… what I’ve read of it never did grab me. Planetary, on t’other hand, is just a mind-blowing thrill ride thru popular culture and epistemological issues and just holy shit this is good.

  17. @Camestros

    They do tend to suck the magic out of Moore’s work and replace it with rubbish, don’t they? I’m not his biggest fan, but I’m quite sure someone somewhere could make a better adaptation than the ones produced so far.

    @Ray

    But the key bit for me was the prison break with the slow-mo scenes of our heroes kicking ass and breaking bones. That was a diamond-hard lump of didnotgetit.

    You could almost see the point whooshing over the heads of all those involved in making the film. I suppose the original just wasn’t shiny enough.

    PS @ everyone who hasn’t read Nextwave – I think it would look very attractive on the top of your Mount 770’s. 😉

  18. Since the discussion is on graphic novels, does anyone have any thoughts on “Empowered” by Adam Warren? On the face of it, it’s manga-style softcore exploitation, but there’s something with considerably more value going on. And you have to love a milieu where the most honorable and capable superhero is a transvestite in a French Maid costume…

  19. I love Empowered! It morphed pretty quickly from being a funny comic about sex to being one of the best superhero stories around. I actually need to check back in, I think the last book I read was 6 or 7.

  20. @Meredith,
    Moore himself agrees with that sentiment which is why he’s made a point after his terrible experience with LXG to have his name excised from adapted works.

    And as crazy as people think he got, his stance on Marvel’s nicely done reprinting of Miracleman is the hallmark of a true gentleman. This was the impossible holy grail of all of comicdom: unwinding the rights issues of Marvelman/Miracleman. Gaiman and Marvel did the heavy lifting. But what everyone most wanted was to be able to read the Moore run without using their kids’ college fund. He recognized that his entire shebang was copyright-theft bootlegged fanfic and sought to have Mick Angelo appropriately compensated.

    He may be batshit crazy, but he has his moments.

    Silly But True

  21. As I’m kicking myself for not realizing it until someone mentioned it in a comic, there’s a major missing contender in the brackets. Namely, Will Eisner. Y’know, the person who the major comics awards are named after, and was still doing significant enough work into his 80s to win three Eisners for new work, in addition to several for reprints. Also winner of a Reuben from the National Cartoonists Society.

    The two most obvious candidates are The Spirit and A Contract With God ; I’d go with the Spirit, since even in the space of just 7-8 pages, Eisner managed multiple brilliant separate stories.

    David has told me that if there’s sufficient demand here, he can insert The Spirit in the next brackets as part of a 3-way entry. All in favor?

  22. @RDF:

    I mentioned Empowered a few scrolls back. I quite like the way it’s been developing, especially with the bit about gur fhvg orvat n pbafpvbhf nyvra orvat jvgu novyvgvrf naq qhenovyvgl qrevirq sebz Rzc’f frys-rfgrrz – be qrgrezvangvba, jvyycbjre, fbzrguvat yvxr gung. At least, that’s my take. I’m still two volumes back, waiting for word on a third hardback before buying volumes 8 and 9 separately.

    (And it’s typically “cross-dresser” these days, not “transvestite.” Ze times, zey do change…)

  23. Couple of comicsy links:

    The Humble Books Bundle ending soon includes some of the bracket comics.

    And I tripped over this today:
    Nigerian Comic Startup with some very nice art and interesting characters of the superhero type.

    @Tom Galloway

    I’m in favour of a hastily inserted second round to even out the gender ratios a lil bit (should that be possible) (David Goldfarb, I’m entirely willing to pretend you Meant To Do It All Along) (and if you do The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage would be an excellent addition, honest) (where do I send the bribe..?) but yes, Eisner probably deserves a spot.

  24. @Chris S

    The only way Seveneves should be in a Hugo conversation is “There’s no way that hot mess Seveneves should be nominated for a Hugo”

    I’m still pretty sure that it will end up on my list of nominees.

    Gur 100% fhpprff engr bs gur guerr “fnivat znaxvaq” cebwrpgf

    Fheivibe ovnf? Jung vs gurer jrer gubhfnaqf bs cebwrpgf, naq jr bayl urne nobhg gur guerr gung fheivirq?

    V’z abg fher vs gur fhesnpr jnf gung ubg (rabhtu gb rkcnaq gur ngzbfcurer hc sne rabhtu gb rssrpg YRB), vg’q pbby qbja gb orvat uhzna gbyrenoyr va whfg 5,000 lrnef – gubhtu V’ir abg qbar gur zngu.

    Gurer jnf n zragvba bs gur fcnpref qebccvat znffvir nzbhagf bs vpr gb nppryrengr gur pbbyvat, vs V erpnyy pbeerpgyl.

  25. > “… does anyone have any thoughts on “Empowered” by Adam Warren?”

    I’m a big fan. Watching it evolve from light-hearted softcore fun to Pretty Darn Deep has been a great trip.

    > “David has told me that if there’s sufficient demand here, he can insert The Spirit in the next brackets as part of a 3-way entry. All in favor?”

    I’ve been plugging for A Contract With God, but The Spirit is as worthy a work and I’d be just as happy to see it on. I’m in favor.

    I’m thinking of doing mini-reviews of a number of comics I think deserved to be contenders.

  26. I am not willing to do this amount of work a second time, sorry! For all its flaws this bracket is what it is.

    That said, I am willing to insert some popular write-ins into the next round, accommodating them by means of IRV 3-way matchups. (After my campaign for The Dragon Waiting it would be pretty hypocritical of me not to!). So if we can get three or four people backing The Spirit, or A Distant Soil, or Dykes to Watch Out For, I’ll add ’em. (Drawing the line at, say, four items.)

  27. @David:

    I think we’ve got at least three people willing to write in Empowered, including myself…

  28. Actually, matryoshka dolls are already cultural appropriations.

    They are not Russian in origin, but Japanese.

    A Russian artisan saw a traditional Japanese nesting doll, thought it interesting, and made his own versions for sale.

  29. Really think Bechdel belongs in the brackets. My pick would be Fun Home, but I wouldn’t quibble with Dykes to Watch Out For.

    I will also make a push for Shaenon Garrity, for her webcomic Narbonic. Skin Horse is great, too, but doesn’t have the virtue of being a complete story.

    Finally, I will reiterate my shoujo manga suggestions, Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya and Banana Fish by Akimi Yoshida.

    If anyone wants descriptions or squees about these, let me know. 🙂 Always happy to squeeze.

  30. I will definitely put in a vote for Alison Bechdel, no question. I’ll flip LunarG’s comment and say Dykes to Watch Out For would be my first pick, but if more support builds behind Fun Home that would be fine with me.

    Still thinking about all other options, for the moment.

  31. If female creators were to be added, I’d stump for TAMARA DREWE by Posy Simmonds, except that no one will have read it, so it’ll get voted out first round. But it was the best thing comics had to offer the year it came out. And would have been many other years, too.

    But adding Eisner’s SPIRIT (single best story: “Ten Minutes,” written by Jules Feiffer), something by Bechdel, HARK A VAGRANT by Kate Beaton, Jo Duffy/Kerry Gammill on POWER MAN/IRON FIST, Lynn Johnston’s FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, something by Gail Simone, a Roz Chast collection, Faith Erin Hicks’s FRIENDS WITH BOYS or ADVENTURES OF SUPERHERO GIRL, Raina Telgemeir’s SMILE, Vera Bristol’s ANYA’S GHOST…

    …I’d be up for that!

    I wish there was something obvious to pick for Marie Severin or Ramona Fradon, but alas, despite great art, most of their work had stories that were functional at best (unless you count Marie’s colorist on the EC books).

    Lucy Knisley’s RELISH!

    No one much will have read that, either. But it’s great.

  32. THE DARK KNIGHT VERSUS THE MOON ROACH
    The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller

    Although I wish I could keep both

    WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY…
    Pogo, Walt Kelly

    SO WHICH ONE WILL KURT HIMSELF VOTE FOR?
    Marvels, Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross

    IF WISHES WERE BEAGLES
    Peanuts, Charles Schulz

    THE RIPPER AND THE VEGETABLE
    Swamp Thing 20-64, Alan Moore and Steve Bissette and John Totleben and Rick Veitch

    POTTER VS. POTHEAD
    The Tale of One Bad Rat, Bryan Talbot
    Doonesbury, Gary Trudeau

    Abstain. Never read either.

    GHOSTS AND ZOMBIES
    Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

    THESE SHADOW DEMONS ARE CRAZY
    Crisis on Infinite Earths, Marv Wolfman and George Perez

    NEAR FUTURE VS. FAR FUTURE
    Kingdom Come, Mark Waid and Alex Ross

    ALL OUT METAL
    Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka

    GUIDED BY DREAMS
    The Sandman, Neil Gaiman and various

    COSMIC, ATOMIC, IT’S ALL RADIATION
    X-Men 94-150, Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum / John Byrne

    GLOBE-TROTTING ADVENTURERS
    The Adventures of Tintin, Georges Remi

    FAMOUS NAMES
    Superman: Secret Identity, Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen

    THE SCHOOL AND THE SEA
    Corto Maltese, Hugo Pratt

    REVENGE OF THE NERDS
    The Invisibles, Grant Morrison and various

    DOG, CAT, BUNNY, MONKEY
    We3, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely

    ALEXANDER’S EMPIRE
    Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

    STRONG-WILLED GIRLS
    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki

    WOLFRIDERS AND RAT CREATURES
    Bone, Jeff Smith

    NEAR FUTURE VS. FAR FUTURE, DYSTOPIAN EDITION
    V for Vendetta, Alan Moore and David Lloyd

    KINDS OF POWER, KINDS OF RESPONSIBILITY
    Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud

    ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, OR MINERAL?
    Animal Man 1-26, Grant Morrison and Chas Truog

    OTHER REALMS
    Fourth World (New Gods, Forever People, Jimmy Olsen), Jack Kirby

    DEALING WITH GODS
    The Authority, Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch

    OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE AXIS
    Maus, Art Spiegelman

    IT’S ALL IN THE STORIES YOU TELL
    Fables, Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham and various

    THE SIN-EATER AND THE DEMON’S DAUGHTER
    The New Teen Titans, Marv Wolfman and George Perez

    HEROES OF MYTH
    Age of Bronze, Eric Shanower

    THE FAR-FLUNG FUTURE! 1965 OR 2023?
    The Nikopol trilogy, Enki Bilal

    NEW STYLE VS. OLD
    Planetary, Warren Ellis and John Cassady

    And now I want to go and reread some of those… 🙂

  33. It’s a question of what you’re looking for with the Bechdel. I think “Fun Home” is self-contained, but “Dykes to Watch Out For” is foundational. (I use that word a lot, I think)

    I also will need to think a bit more if you’re only taking a handful of write-ins. And I won’t even suggest Rachel Hartman….

    (I will second the recommendation of RELISH or SMILE — that’s why I need to think more about what to Officially Write In)

  34. Some of the names near the top of my list I’m not going to back because I think they’re too obscure here to get traction — no one else seems to be mentioning Ariel Schrag or Phoebe Gloeckner, so I’ll leave them off.

    Some I suspect I might otherwise support I haven’t read yet, such as The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua or Stand Still, Stay Silent by Minna Sundberg.

    In addition to Bechdel which is a definite for me, some of the names remaining which are pretty high up include
    Y: The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra
    Secret Six, Gail Simone, Brad Walker, and Jimmy Palmiotti
    A Distant Soil, Colleen Doran
    Ms. Marvel, G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona
    Doom Patrol, Rachel Pollack and various artists
    Captain Marvel, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Dexter Soy
    Hark, A Vagrant, Kate Beaton
    Narbonic, Shaenon Garrity
    … And on preview looking at Kurt’s selections, I’ll add Roz Chast, any collection.

    Since Vaughan already has a comic on the list, maybe not Y: The Last Man … and I’ll narrow down the rest by, um … I’ll get back to you …

  35. For what it’s worth, I’ve read Tamara Drewe. Kurt’s got me on Relish though.

  36. I’m not sure how it happened, because I really am dyslexic and a lot of comics give me a headache (why, hello, Sandman!), but I’ve read more pairs here than I have in Kyra’s recent brackets.

    WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY…
    Pogo, Walt Kelly
    Walt Kelly taught me about the world and made me skeptical without being cynical.

    IF WISHES WERE BEAGLES
    Peanuts, Charles Schulz
    Peanuts made Sundays the best day of the week.

    GHOSTS AND ZOMBIES
    Saga, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
    The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard
    Uh, yeah, read enough of each to abstain.

    REVENGE OF THE NERDS
    XKCD, Randall Munroe

    ALEXANDER’S EMPIRE
    Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
    Never, ever Moore, but most particularly never, ever Watchmen, plus I really liked Persepolis a lot.

    WOLFRIDERS AND RAT CREATURES
    Bone, Jeff Smith
    I liked Elfquest way back when, but I loved Bone and so did my kid, when he was otherwise a very reluctant reader.

    OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE AXIS
    Maus, Art Spiegelman
    This is my one vote where I didn’t read both entrants. Maus is something else entirely, though, and I don’t feel like I’m violating the spirit of anything.

    IT’S ALL IN THE STORIES YOU TELL
    Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson
    I really loved Fables up until the first big bad was vanquished and…went right back into peril. No. As much as I love the characters and the art, it violates some internal need for pacing. Plus, Hobbes!

    I’d also vote for Dykes to Watch Out For. I liked Fun

  37. Kurt Busiek on October 6, 2015 at 5:24 pm said:

    If female creators were to be added, I’d stump for TAMARA DREWE by Posy Simmonds, except that no one will have read it, so it’ll get voted out first round. But it was the best thing comics had to offer the year it came out. And would have been many other years, to

    I haven’t read it but I used to be a big fan of Posy Simmonds’s work in The Guardian – and it is a good example of how it is easy to fall into narrow thinking when considering a genre.

  38. I like this idea of recommending All The Things (which, of course, brings to mind Hyperbole and a Half).

    Empowered (Adam Warren)
    Hark, A Vagrant! (Kate Beaton)
    Fun Home (although Dykes to Watch Out For is also appropriate) (Alison Bechdel)
    Spirit (Will Eisner)
    Smile (Raina Telgemeier)
    Relish (Lucy Knisely)
    Narbonic (Shaenon Garrity)

    I was less enamored of Rachel Pollack’s run on Doom Patrol, but I clearly need to read “Y The Last Man”

    Heard great things about “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage.”

    I forgot about Ariel Schrag. It could be because I have her comics stored separately from most of mine due to their odd (magazine-ish) sizing.

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