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Comrade Bullski

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Freelance writer, editor, reviewer and (sometimes) artist. I write about comics, cartoons, pop culture and anything else that interests me. By day I work at a comic store. Resident of the land of ice and snow. https://ko-fi.com/comradebullski

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 13h

I'm sorry, I didn't know until I saw the pictures today.

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 14h

TRON: ARES having an official collaboration with Grok and having AI slop on display at he events is making me never want to watch that movie. Ugh

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 15h

With Saturn Girl's emblem. :)

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 15h

Love it, Ultraman-inspired?

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 18h

I forget, did Sinister work with HE or was it Essex with Wyndham? So many retcons there.

Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 18h

Come on Jean let's get you to the White Hot Room.

Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 19h

This is pretty in-character for the HE, honestly. He's so far removed form humanity he sees everything as an experiment, and he's always been an arch-Darwinist. Cool to see some bagley X-Men as well, even if that era of X-men was... not great.

I assume the "colleague" was Sinister?

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 19h

It's shocking that they didn't go to the High Evolutionary again after M-Day.

"Uh it happened again, could you..."
"Sigh okay fine."

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 1d

That's right. Blimey.

Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 1d

Marrow what did they do to you

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 1d

Good news, there's a ton of female Phantom comics with both Julie and Heloise in the role!

Bad news, you have to be Australian to read 'em cuz the US and UK don't get the good stuff!

Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 1d

Basically it's originally because Falk had the first Phantom swear the oath that his "sons" would follow him, not his children. It was a different time.

The later explanation is that the mantle goes only to the firstborn, and no Phantom had a daughter before a son. Equally weird.

Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 1d

One is an Italian story from the 60s where she pinch-hits for her husband, the other is a Swedish story from 1994 where she thinks her hubby is dead and dons the mantle to save her kids from Dogai Singh.

That last one is Diana in full Mama Bear mode, it's kinda amazing, awful cover aside.

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 1d

In those stories it's often specified that Heloise explicitly takes inspiration from Julie in becoming the Phantom, even if her brother is also wearing the tights.

There's also two stories I know of where Diana makes a concerted effort to become the Phantom despite not being of the bloodline.

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 1d

Spoiler alert since Falk wrote that story in decades past Julie ends up retiring as the Phantom because she wants to get marriiiiiiieeed and thus is one of few Phantoms who lives beyond the age of 40.

Both our side and Frew have also done What Ifs where an adult Kit and Heloise share the mantle.

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 1d

That would be Julie, most likely. She was the twin sister of the 17th Phantom and for a time shared the mantle with him. She was created by Falk himself for a one-off story but she's been revisited plenty by the Swedish (Team Fantomen) stories and even the US comic.

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Comrade Bullski @comradebullski.bsky.social · 1d

i didn't learn until recently that the comic was originally "The Family Circle" and that's why it's always round. so since yours doesn't have an outline i guess it's more of a Chales Addams deal