Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Herb Trimpe

Inks: Sal Trapani

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The Hulk joins the hunt for the Wendigo.

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Superman is out today! Have you seen the film? Do you want to? Or are you ambivalent? Feel free to discuss below, and as always remember to please be mindful of spoilers.

Writers: Barbara and Karl Kesel

Pencils: Rob Liefeld

Inks: Karl Kesel

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Kestrel empowers a street punk to kill Hawk and Dove.

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Writer: Beau Smith

Pencils: Mitch Byrd

Inks: Dan Davis

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Zero Hour tie-in.

Getting super powers from drinking magic water isn’t enough, so now it is revealed Guy is actually half-alien.

Warning for blood.

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Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Joe Staton

Inks: Bruce Patterson

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John Stewart's secret identity is revealed on live television.

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I mentioned that I did in fact read a couple of good books in my late-June travels to counterbalance the bad ones. One of them was The Pushcart War, which I conveniently discovered in my backpack right as I was heading out to stay with the friend who'd loaned it to me a year ago.

I somehow have spent most of my life under the impression that I had already read The Pushcart War, until the plot was actually described to me, at which point it became clear that I'd either read some other Pushcart or some other War but these actual valiant war heroes were actually brand new to me.

The book is science fiction, of a sort, originally published in 1964 and set in 1976 -- Wikipedia tells me that every reprint has moved the date forward to make sure it stays in the future, which I think is very charming -- and purporting to be a work of history for young readers explaining the conflict between Large Truck Corporations and Pugnacious Pushcart Peddlers over the course of one New York City summer. It's a punchy, defiant little book about corporate interest, collective action, and civil disobedience; there's one chapter in particular in which the leaders of the truck companies meet to discuss their master plan of getting everything but trucks off the streets of New York entirely where the metaphor is Quite Dark and Usefully Unsubtle. Also contains charming illustrations! A good read at any time and I'm glad to have finally experienced it.

The Voice is the Ventriloquist's Scarface - the Tower is Bledin Towers, a Gotham City apartment building.

Scarface's voice is guidance - he's a symbol under which some of " Bleedin' " Towers' residents've rallied, against the City's demolition plans. They've killed one Gotham cop and taken another hostage - Jim Gordon and others're outside while Batman's made his way in.

Issue #5 had Batman finding that the Ventriloquist wasn't from where Scarface was emanating - he was in the Tower, but his tongue was cut.

Someone else was speaking the gangster's words - not the Towers resident who was apparently his second, but that man's abused wife. She'd ended #5 killing her husband because Scarface told her to - and then turning to the hostage cop, who'd been restrained witness to the act.

#6 opened on Scarface's others rushing in: " What the hell happened here?! "

( She told them. )

Words and pencils: Alan Davis

Inks: Mark Farmer

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Brian in Wonderland.

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"The internal relationships have been the beating heart of this book since Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona created it. What I love about writing Runaways is that every character has a specific dynamic with every other character. There are the romances — Chase and Gert, Gert and Victor, Nico and Karolina; Nico and Chase’s domestic partnership; Gert and Nico’s spiky friendship; Chase’s insecurity around Victor; Karolina’s nurturing of Gib … No matter who is on the page, there are big, messy, ongoing dynamics." -- Rainbow Rowell

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Age of Apocalypse 2: Golden Boogaloo

... ahem, I mean

AGE OF REVELATION!!




Well... that's not overly promising as an optimistic future, now is it?



( The Re-Cyphering begins... )

HOw does your character(s) deal with folks being angry with them? Is there a difference between when the anger is perceived as warranted or when it is not?