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The youngest person to have read every issue of both Love & Rockets AND Dreadstar.

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · Jan 1

I'm going to try to keep a thread of all the comics I read in 2025, we'll see how it goes.

Starting off the year with a reread of Stages of Rot. This is the gold standard for me, full of forgotten little details to rediscover every time I read it.

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently it means generic "horror" comics from established with no nudity or politics allowed 😴

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 1d

I’m curious which ones you’re interested in (even the ones from artists I like aren’t grabbing me)

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple zombie books for a zombie imprint

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 1d

I knew the Vertigo relaunch was going to play things safe but its pretty boring that every single creative team is an established writer/artist duo that has worked together on a successful book together in the past.

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 1d

Its more that they need him to debut with the S logo because its iconic and the costume looks bad without it, but also don't want him naming himself Superman, so there needs to be some alternate reason why he has that logo.

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 1d

It’s stupid and embarrassing to have the symbol mean “hope” though 🙄

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 1d

The benefit of having it be a kryptonian symbol is they can have Superman debut already wearing the S and then have Lois assign him the name Superman so he doesn’t seem like an egomaniac for calling himself that.

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 2d

There are a TON of variant cover guys clearly heavily reliant on AI now, it’s endemic. Panosian is just the only one I know by name.

Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 2d

Would be a good statement if he wasn’t shamelessly lying lol. I’ve seen all those Dan Panosian covers…

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 2d

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”

The President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics spoke out at today's Retailer Day at New York Comic Con.

comicbookclublive.com

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Luc francoeur @lucfrancoeur.bsky.social · 3d

Pelvis with the Moon/
Georgia O'Keeffe

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peony gent ✸ @peonygent.bsky.social · 5d

this was a really special one to make for me, so happy to be sharing it with the world via @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social !

"what is happiness, anyway?"

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 5d

“Clanker” is ironically too humanizing. Even the evil droids in Star Wars are your lovable buddies.

Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 5d

My hot take on the “slurs against AI” discourse is that we should have gone with “toaster” from Battlestar Galactica instead of “clanker” from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. More rhetorically effective. “That was written by a toaster. You’re letting a toaster make decisions for you” etc.

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Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 6d

There should be way more comics about adults doing adult things. Most people are adults.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 6d

I can’t remember the exact details but I think the joint trademark was somehow the result of a weird ruling by a judge who didn’t have any experience with IP law. There was no precedent for it, and the term is clearly genericized. Don’t think either company ever successfully enforced it.

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 6d

It’s for the best, that joint trademark was always legally suspect

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 7d

When I was a boy scout we joked constantly about the stalking merit badge, so many missed joke opportunities because we didn’t know about the “nut culture” merit badge

depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 7d

List of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)

"discontinued merit badges (boy scouts of America)" wikipedia page shows "nut culture", 1928-1954

stalker merit badge 1910-1922, stalking merit badge 1911-1952

invention merit badge 1911-1917. only 10 scouts achieved it, required that they obtained a federal patent

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 7d

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 7d

i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 8d

"All the Effort You Are Making Will Ultimately Pay Off" by Peony Gent. All year I've been craving abstract comics and comics about nature. Obviously Gent's diary comics are the former, and I was pleasantly surprised that this is the latter as well.

Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 8d

I bought like 40+ comics in the 2023 one and only read like half of them so now I really limit how many I let myself choose. (9 only this year)

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Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 8d

If *I* was the mods I wouldn’t be antagonizing the core user base by trying to brute force a popular breakfast food into a symbol of opposition to human rights, but I guess that’s why I’m only a humble poster 😔

Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 28d

It’s not a real web forum if we don’t all hate the mods. It’s tradition.

Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 8d

As always, they’re going to capitulate so they don’t have to work on a Saturday

Cuber 2.0 @powercosmic.bsky.social · 9d

"There Comes for You A Day" by Artyom Trakhanov. A collection of moody little ghost stories from Artyom, perfect way to start off Halloween month 😈

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