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Keep up the good work Derek. I'm sure your boss loves you

 

He does

 

I've been reading Zdarsky's Howard the Duck runs and it's been quite fun.

 

I'll do it! I'll think of which book I want to do and reply back with it later. Just remind me about the due date lol

 

I love the new Aquaman storyline, and I'm glad it now makes sense that the long hair is back in Dark Days because that was a little confusing. Also, was that Dolphin?

 

As usual, the due date would be the Monday of the week that the film comes out. (In this case, that'd be July 3rd.) I'm always flexible with people who are a couple days late, but I like to get everything early enough that I can have the post, with any necessary proofreading and the relevant links, ready to go on Friday morning without staying up late Thursday night, lol.

If you don't have a set title in mind, maybe you'd consider doing the first volume of the current ASM run, with the whole Parker Industries status quo? I know you're quite fond of modern Spider-Man stories, and I kinda like including that rec in part because it makes Spidey pretty similar to classic Iron Man, whose presence will be felt heavily in Homecoming. You obviously don't have to do that one, though! Just a suggestion.

 

@Tim I'll be out of town July 1-2 probably so just let me know as soon as you can if you'll need me to contribute.

 

Spectacular Spider-Man Delivers a Shocking Return from the (Recent) Past -

I didn't get to pick up the first issue yet, but as someone who really enjoyed the graphic novel this is working off of, I'm quite intrigued by this development. I'm honestly kinda surprised this hasn't been addressed yet in Slott's ASM "Worldwide" status quo.

Oh, yeah, spoilers.

 

Ok, I can do that.

 

They're Not Like Us is really great.

 

'Batman & Robin' at 20: Joel Schumacher and More Reveal What Really Happened

"This is back in the days when you kind of look at the can and there's no major skull and crossbones on it. So you think, 'This is OK to spray on someone's face.' Nowadays it's a whole different ballgame when it comes to safety and safety data sheets and all that. But back then, you'd smell it and go, 'It's extremely flammable, and there's some smoke skull and crossbones down here, but I think we'll be OK.' "

After months of work (and testing some perhaps unsafe materials on extras), the Mr. Freeze look was perfected, with safe-for-humans acrylic paint applied to Schwarzenegger. Mr. Freeze had an entire 11-person unit dedicated just to him for a prep that took four hours in the morning.

That long makeup time limited how much the production could shoot with Schwarzenegger, whose contract had a strict 12-hour policy.

"He'd always have tons of people around him," says Dawn of those long makeup sessions. "One person would be massaging his hand. He'd have an assistant there talking, he would be eating. I would have one or two people assisting me. It's a lot of bodies in a very small area around a big guy."

This is fascinating stuff.

 

*immediately saves to Instapaper*

 

Yes! That book deserves to get more acclaim.

 

The first issue of the War of Jokes and Riddles was incredible, this is going to be so good.

 

Echoing @Vivatoto that Batman #25 was incredible. I'm really digging the way King is writing Riddler so far.

Chip Zdarsky was born to write Spider-Man.

 

What's instapaper?

 

Cool article. <--- Ice pun unintended. The Silverstone Batgirl drawing bit made me both sad and angry, but everything with Schwarzenegger just sounded wonderful and made me like his corny cartoon character even more.

Another fun bit of trivia: The filmmaker Lexi Alexander was actually hired to be an extra in one of the fight scenes and was both the only woman and the only one who actually knew how to use whatever weapon they were all supposed to use, but she got fired because her eyes kept rejecting the contacts she had to wear.

 

I haven't read anything in forever and I hate it. I'm gonna read something from my backlog soon and almost picked up Snotgirl Vol. 1 to motivate me but I didn't...doesn't look up my alley.

I'm definitely not that guy that thinks if it's a female lead it's for a female audience (that's laughable) but this one struck me as a female comic.

 

It's a read-it-later service that I toss articles in constantly haha. http://instapaper.com

 

http://wordofthenerdonline.com/2017/06/defending-depravity-image-divided-states-hysteria/

Good to see everyone's favorite creator-owned comics company can suck like anyone else. (See also: the transphobic issue of Airboy from a couple years ago.)

 

First issue of Gail Simone's Crosswind was pretty good. Looking forward to where it goes. Looks like she's still hanging onto a few horror elements.

 

Looks like I might break my streak of not buying singles.

 

In love with this