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The cover and title--“Teenage Biker Mega-Death!”--both have a cheeky charm, but don’t be fooled. I’d call this the darkest story of Giffen and DeMatteis’ run, more so than the funeral episode, Blue Beetle’s mind imploding, or even the Despero stuff. Warning for death, violence, body horror, and a sense of crushing hopelessness I normally associate with election night 2016.
( Even the first time I read this, I was like…‘‘JESUS.’’ )
The Healing Power of Spank Banks: JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #29 (JLI 35)
Dec. 10th, 2025 09:18 pmtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
(From two issues back.)
When we last left the Blue Beetle, his prognosis was grim: the Queen Bee has programmed his mind to attack not only Max Lord but also itself. He's comatose and circling the drain. Without the Bee, he’s just a “-tle”! Only two things can save him: an old man he’s sort of met before and his own horniness.
( But not for the old man. )
Absolute Batman #15
Dec. 10th, 2025 07:15 amcyberghostface posting in scans_daily
"It keeps revisiting this idea of who this clown was and what did he do, getting darker and darker. It asks, ‘What is a clown?’ ‘What does he love about clowns?’ It starts with, Oh he loves clowns because they’re funny and they make us laugh and then it goes to, ‘Maybe he loves clowns because they mock us.’ They’re a pantomime of our own buffoonery. In mythology, a clown is the only one who survives everything and laughs at us as we die." -- Scott Snyder
( Scans under the cut... )
Fantastic Four (2025) #6 [Legacy #732]
Dec. 9th, 2025 06:28 pmshakalooloo posting in scans_daily
Government oversight led by Maria Hill? Run away, run away!
( Read more... )
Also, the most HORRIFYING picture of Mr. Fantastic ever:
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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Dec. 9th, 2025 08:37 amicon_uk posting in scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
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In deeply unfortunate moves in the UK, both girlguiding and the Women's Institute have announced they will no longer accept trans girls and women as members, both made it clear that they still believe transwomen to be women, and are only doing so is due to concerns regarding possible legal action following the UK Supreme Courts recent ruling that gender, under law, is solely defined by biology at birth.
In more surreal news from the US, and in an inspired bit of trolling, FIFA presented POTUS 47 with an entirely made up "Peace Prize" at the World Cup Draw. The ultimate participation trophy, and a medal he hung aorund his own neck, grinning like a five year old.
An interesting piece from the Sedgewick County Zoo, on the dangers imlpicit in AI animal content videos, and how to spot them.
In the run up to the release of "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery", a tribute of sorts was shown by, of all things, "Sesame Street" with their guest star Beignet Blanc, starring in "Forks Out".
In fact the only thing which could make this cooler ALSO happens, as we got a reaction video
The UNIT based miniseries, "The War Between the Land and the Sea" debuted with two episodes on Sunday (in the UK at least, those accessing it via Disney+ will have to wait until January 2026) and, believe it or not, it was terrific! Classic RTD firing on all cylinders. We met new kinds of Homo Aqua, Russell Tovey as an everyman stuck into a high stakes situation more or less by accident carries the role brilliantly, and the effects were GORGEOUS! PLEASE let this be as consistently good as these two episodes!
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
In deeply unfortunate moves in the UK, both girlguiding and the Women's Institute have announced they will no longer accept trans girls and women as members, both made it clear that they still believe transwomen to be women, and are only doing so is due to concerns regarding possible legal action following the UK Supreme Courts recent ruling that gender, under law, is solely defined by biology at birth.
In more surreal news from the US, and in an inspired bit of trolling, FIFA presented POTUS 47 with an entirely made up "Peace Prize" at the World Cup Draw. The ultimate participation trophy, and a medal he hung aorund his own neck, grinning like a five year old.
An interesting piece from the Sedgewick County Zoo, on the dangers imlpicit in AI animal content videos, and how to spot them.
In the run up to the release of "Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery", a tribute of sorts was shown by, of all things, "Sesame Street" with their guest star Beignet Blanc, starring in "Forks Out".
In fact the only thing which could make this cooler ALSO happens, as we got a reaction video
The UNIT based miniseries, "The War Between the Land and the Sea" debuted with two episodes on Sunday (in the UK at least, those accessing it via Disney+ will have to wait until January 2026) and, believe it or not, it was terrific! Classic RTD firing on all cylinders. We met new kinds of Homo Aqua, Russell Tovey as an everyman stuck into a high stakes situation more or less by accident carries the role brilliantly, and the effects were GORGEOUS! PLEASE let this be as consistently good as these two episodes!
shfss shshss
Dec. 9th, 2025 02:48 amdavemerrillso this is my last year managing the Super Happy Fun Sell. The SHFS is AWA's garage sale/yard sale/used anime merch/swap meet sort of event, we sell tables to fans who want to unload their unwanted anime and manga and etc.
I honestly can't remember the first year we had it. I know AWA had been trying to find new events to fill up Thursday night to try and get people to show up early and get their badges so as to relieve the Friday lineups. I'd been doing some Thursday night panels before then.
Some of the other conventions had been doing swap meet type things, I know we weren't the first. It's my recollection that Lloyd - one of the other AWA founders - actually said "let's do this" and I think he came up with the "Super Happy Fun Sell" name, which is a play on the old Saturday Night Live fake commercial about Happy Fun Ball, Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Anyway I heard about it, and was immediately like, "this is a great idea, I wanna run it" and there we were. And that was at least twenty years ago. I'm glad I ran it because I got first crack at the weird old merchandise people didn't want any more, and because I got to sell my own unwanted merch at my own table, which I did not pay for, because Staff Hath Its Privileges.
Also, it's an event people love, people love the vibe, people love bargains, people love cleaning out their closets and making a little scratch. Putting smiles on faces is the best thing.
So, if I love it so much, why am I stepping away? Well, this kind of event that involves registrations and table layouts and conversations about lines and scheduling, that event really needs someone in Atlanta who can go to staff meetings and really be involved in the planning and make sure the event is integrated well with the rest of the schedule. And that person is not me, I don't live in Atlanta any more and I don't have the, shall we say, the spoons to keep up with this event long-distance, alongside all the other things that demand my attention throughout the year.
Don't get me wrong, things usually turn out OK, but that's because I'm on site hours in advance, making sure all the tables are where they need to be (if not, I gotta find somebody to fix it), someone's controlling the lines (if not, I gotta find staffers to do line control), someone else found the event signage (if not, I gotta find someone who knows where the signage is), and making sure somebody else is moving all the tech equipment out of the room because there's usually tech equipment sitting around in the room when I get there. There's always someone I need to find, and I don't know where to find them or how to find them or who they are, because, again, I haven't been to staff meetings in twenty solid years.
Usually there is someone on staff or staff-related who was promised a table by somebody else on staff, and that information never gets to me until the day of the show, at which point I usually don't have any tables left. Somebody in Atlanta would probably get that memo.
When you add this kind of thing on top of the pile of things that already need to get done for the SHFS - sending out confirmation emails, printing maps, answering the same fifty questions every single year about "what is a used item" and "can I sell my own artwork or plushies or keychains that I made" and other already-answered questions, well, it gets kind of overwhelming. And overwhelming is not a thing I need, particularly at a convention which by its very nature already has me amped up and on edge, at a time of year when I'm also amped up and on edge, and also have a ton of other things to do that are grabbing more and more of my bandwidth.
So, I'm not gonna do it any more. I still intend to show up and try to get in there early to grab the weird old cool stuff, but I'm sure AWA has staffers that can take over and run the event perfectly well.
I honestly can't remember the first year we had it. I know AWA had been trying to find new events to fill up Thursday night to try and get people to show up early and get their badges so as to relieve the Friday lineups. I'd been doing some Thursday night panels before then.
Some of the other conventions had been doing swap meet type things, I know we weren't the first. It's my recollection that Lloyd - one of the other AWA founders - actually said "let's do this" and I think he came up with the "Super Happy Fun Sell" name, which is a play on the old Saturday Night Live fake commercial about Happy Fun Ball, Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Anyway I heard about it, and was immediately like, "this is a great idea, I wanna run it" and there we were. And that was at least twenty years ago. I'm glad I ran it because I got first crack at the weird old merchandise people didn't want any more, and because I got to sell my own unwanted merch at my own table, which I did not pay for, because Staff Hath Its Privileges.
Also, it's an event people love, people love the vibe, people love bargains, people love cleaning out their closets and making a little scratch. Putting smiles on faces is the best thing.
So, if I love it so much, why am I stepping away? Well, this kind of event that involves registrations and table layouts and conversations about lines and scheduling, that event really needs someone in Atlanta who can go to staff meetings and really be involved in the planning and make sure the event is integrated well with the rest of the schedule. And that person is not me, I don't live in Atlanta any more and I don't have the, shall we say, the spoons to keep up with this event long-distance, alongside all the other things that demand my attention throughout the year.
Don't get me wrong, things usually turn out OK, but that's because I'm on site hours in advance, making sure all the tables are where they need to be (if not, I gotta find somebody to fix it), someone's controlling the lines (if not, I gotta find staffers to do line control), someone else found the event signage (if not, I gotta find someone who knows where the signage is), and making sure somebody else is moving all the tech equipment out of the room because there's usually tech equipment sitting around in the room when I get there. There's always someone I need to find, and I don't know where to find them or how to find them or who they are, because, again, I haven't been to staff meetings in twenty solid years.
Usually there is someone on staff or staff-related who was promised a table by somebody else on staff, and that information never gets to me until the day of the show, at which point I usually don't have any tables left. Somebody in Atlanta would probably get that memo.
When you add this kind of thing on top of the pile of things that already need to get done for the SHFS - sending out confirmation emails, printing maps, answering the same fifty questions every single year about "what is a used item" and "can I sell my own artwork or plushies or keychains that I made" and other already-answered questions, well, it gets kind of overwhelming. And overwhelming is not a thing I need, particularly at a convention which by its very nature already has me amped up and on edge, at a time of year when I'm also amped up and on edge, and also have a ton of other things to do that are grabbing more and more of my bandwidth.
So, I'm not gonna do it any more. I still intend to show up and try to get in there early to grab the weird old cool stuff, but I'm sure AWA has staffers that can take over and run the event perfectly well.
Red Hair, White Hair, Blue Fare: JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #28 (JLI 34)
Dec. 8th, 2025 12:21 amtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
Was Guy Gardner mellowing or not? Since his return to his original personality in issue #18, he’d been sending mixed signals (#19, #23, #26, #27, Wonder Woman #26, Invasion #3).
( Which itself is a classic asshole move, so add that to the mix. )
So let's start the week with something both hot AND cold
Dec. 7th, 2025 11:42 pmicon_uk posting in scans_dailyBy which I mean, my pick of this years DC "Sweater Weather" covers, due in February 2026.
And it wasn't exactly a difficult choice as it's: Nightwing #134
( Travis Moore draws m'boy again )
And it wasn't exactly a difficult choice as it's: Nightwing #134
( Travis Moore draws m'boy again )