Silver Surfer #72
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scans_dailyWriter: Ron Marz
Pencils: M.C. Wyman
Inks: Tom Christopher
The Silver Surfer and Firelord team-up to look for Nova.
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Aurora Australis readalong 1 / 10, The Ascent of Mount Erebus
Apr. 23rd, 2025 12:27 pmspiralsheepAurora Australis readalong 1 / 10, The Ascent of Mount Erebus, post for comment, reaction, discussion, fanworks, links, and whatever obliquely related matters your heart desires. You can join the readalong at any time or skip sections or go back to earlier posts. It's all good. :-)
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis/The_Ascent_of_Mount_Erubus
Readalong intro: https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/662515.html
Reminder for next week: Midwinter Night, a short poem by Ernest Shackleton:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis/Midwinter_Night
The Ascent of Mount Erebus, written by Tannatt William Edgeworth David, who also wrote the later published Narrative of the Magnetic Pole Journey about the same Nimrod Expedition's successful first visit to the magnetic South Pole (which was also the world's longest unsupported sled journey until the mid-1980s).
This is a ripping yarn of exploration and adventure with detailed descriptions of mountain walking through snow and ice, much specialised vocabulary about frozen landscapes and volcanic geology, and outbreaks of self-deprecating humour. Very much in the tradition of travel writing about extreme exploration (later perfected by Shipton and Tilman).
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Hurrah! Champagne all round! :D
Text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis/The_Ascent_of_Mount_Erubus
Readalong intro: https://spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org/662515.html
Reminder for next week: Midwinter Night, a short poem by Ernest Shackleton:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis/Midwinter_Night
The Ascent of Mount Erebus, written by Tannatt William Edgeworth David, who also wrote the later published Narrative of the Magnetic Pole Journey about the same Nimrod Expedition's successful first visit to the magnetic South Pole (which was also the world's longest unsupported sled journey until the mid-1980s).
This is a ripping yarn of exploration and adventure with detailed descriptions of mountain walking through snow and ice, much specialised vocabulary about frozen landscapes and volcanic geology, and outbreaks of self-deprecating humour. Very much in the tradition of travel writing about extreme exploration (later perfected by Shipton and Tilman).
( Info and links )
( Quotes )
Hurrah! Champagne all round! :D
Fantastic Four #289
Apr. 23rd, 2025 10:32 amiamrman posting in scans_dailyScript: Tom DeFalco
Plot: Tom DeFalco and Paul Ryan
Pencils: Paul Ryan
Inks: Danny Bulanadi
The Collector has come to add Lyja’s baby to his collection.
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Yet more superheroes dressed as wrestlers
Apr. 22nd, 2025 10:47 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyIt seemed appropriate to post these seeing that it was WrestleMania weekend just recently.
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Daredevil #110
Apr. 22nd, 2025 08:36 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Steve Gerber
Pencils: Gene Colan
Inks: Frank Chiaramonte
The Black Spectre revealed!
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Defenders #10
Apr. 22nd, 2025 05:48 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Steve Englehart
Pencils: Sal Buscema
Inks: Frank McLaughlin
Avengers/Defenders War. Continued from Avengers #117.
The Hulk Vs. Thor. ‘Nuff said!
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Tags:
- char: black panther,
- char: captain america/steve rogers,
- char: dormammu,
- char: dr. strange/stephen strange,
- char: hawkeye/ronin/clint barton,
- char: hulk/bruce banner,
- char: iron man/tony stark,
- char: mantis,
- char: scarlet witch/wanda maximoff,
- char: silver surfer/norrin radd,
- char: sub-mariner/namor mckenzie,
- char: thor odinson/donald blake,
- char: valkyrie/brunnhilde,
- char: vision,
- creator: sal buscema,
- creator: steve englehart
spiralsheepA tale of medieval women crossing the gender line LITERALLY: in 1417 the Bishop of Durham ordered two Newcastle women to dress as drag kings and parade around two churches on six separate days, because he thought it was an appropriate act of penance, and if the Bishop of Durham thinks parading around a church in drag improves one's chance of getting into Heaven then who am I to argue?
Matilda Burgh and Margaret Ushar were ordered to do this penance after they dressed as men to visit the shrine of Cuthbert, one of England's most popular saints (defo Top Five), because the Bishops of Durham had literally built a misogynist blue line of exclusion into the ground around the shrine and only men were supposed to enter. There's more. The women's employer's wife, Mrs Baxter, who was accused of aiding and abetting the "crime" of female pilgrimage to a saint's shrine, disobeyed the Bishop's order to attend his ecclesiastical court and also disobeyed his order for her to attend the drag king parades because she claimed having twins to look after made her too tired ("& uxor prædicti Petri fic eſt fatigata cum duobus gemellis quod honeſte non poteſt comparere"). Clearly I love this entire escapade, although I did feel mild sympathy for the parish chaplain who had to deal with these three ungovernable women and an out-of-touch Bishop, lol.
( Sources in English and Latin. )
Matilda Burgh and Margaret Ushar were ordered to do this penance after they dressed as men to visit the shrine of Cuthbert, one of England's most popular saints (defo Top Five), because the Bishops of Durham had literally built a misogynist blue line of exclusion into the ground around the shrine and only men were supposed to enter. There's more. The women's employer's wife, Mrs Baxter, who was accused of aiding and abetting the "crime" of female pilgrimage to a saint's shrine, disobeyed the Bishop's order to attend his ecclesiastical court and also disobeyed his order for her to attend the drag king parades because she claimed having twins to look after made her too tired ("& uxor prædicti Petri fic eſt fatigata cum duobus gemellis quod honeſte non poteſt comparere"). Clearly I love this entire escapade, although I did feel mild sympathy for the parish chaplain who had to deal with these three ungovernable women and an out-of-touch Bishop, lol.
( Sources in English and Latin. )
Amazing Spider-Man #90
Apr. 22nd, 2025 12:33 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Stan Lee
Pencils: Gil Kane
Inks: John Romita, Sr.
I told you messing about on the roof was dangerous!
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Web of Spider-Man #2
Apr. 22nd, 2025 10:32 amiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Louise Simonson
Pencils: Greg LaRocque
Inks: Jim Mooney
The Vulturions want a rematch!
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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Apr. 22nd, 2025 08:30 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.
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 me. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
The UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of "woman" is defined solely by biological sex (Whilst also mentioning the protections are still in palce for trans people), crowed over as vindication by those who you never want to see crowing, and leaving trans people in vague limbo whilst Government bodies look to rework their policies.
Pope Francis died at 88, the day after Easter and the day after meeting US VP Vance... coincidence? A Pope who, more than any before, shifted the boundaries in terms of seeking out the excluded and the marginalised and caused uproar when he said things like "If someone who is gay is seeking God, who am I to judge?" and permitted priests to give a blessing to same-sex couples. Not a perfect man by any means, nor as radical as some had hoped, but in terms of the inertia he was working against, probably more progressive than any would have dared hope for ten years ago.
Star Wars Celebration happened in Japan this past weekend, with many new projects announced
A live colossal squid was caught on camera for the first time and is as beautiful as you'd have hoped
And Doctor Who gave us "Lux", which I won't spoil further but was certainly different, in a good way.
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 me. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
The UK Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of "woman" is defined solely by biological sex (Whilst also mentioning the protections are still in palce for trans people), crowed over as vindication by those who you never want to see crowing, and leaving trans people in vague limbo whilst Government bodies look to rework their policies.
Pope Francis died at 88, the day after Easter and the day after meeting US VP Vance... coincidence? A Pope who, more than any before, shifted the boundaries in terms of seeking out the excluded and the marginalised and caused uproar when he said things like "If someone who is gay is seeking God, who am I to judge?" and permitted priests to give a blessing to same-sex couples. Not a perfect man by any means, nor as radical as some had hoped, but in terms of the inertia he was working against, probably more progressive than any would have dared hope for ten years ago.
Star Wars Celebration happened in Japan this past weekend, with many new projects announced
A live colossal squid was caught on camera for the first time and is as beautiful as you'd have hoped
And Doctor Who gave us "Lux", which I won't spoil further but was certainly different, in a good way.
Tim Drake: Origins- Part 4
Apr. 21st, 2025 08:47 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Marv Wolfman
Plot: Marv Wolfman and George Perez
Layouts: George Perez
Finishes: Tom Grummett
Inks: Bob McLeod
The New Titans #61.
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Superboy #4
Apr. 21st, 2025 04:51 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Karl Kesel
Pencils: Tom Grummett and Mike Parobeck
Inks: Doug Hazelwood and Ande Parks
Superboy: The Animated Series!
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The Other History of the DC Universe #4 - "1992-2007: Renee Montoya"
Apr. 21st, 2025 06:21 amlaughing_tree posting in scans_daily
With Batman, with Superman, it’s not like I said, I’m going to make these guys cyphers for the worst of the worst of American perspectives. But I think there’s a reality that it’s getting harder and harder for people to deny that there are biases that are baked into the system. -- John Ridley
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New Warriors #42
Apr. 21st, 2025 10:38 amiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Fabian Nicieza
Pencils: Darick Robertson
Inks: Larry Mahlstedt
Super-Nova has empowered Richard Rider to recreate Xandar.
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In which Our Heroine's habitat remains unimproved this week, 16
Apr. 20th, 2025 07:22 pmspiralsheep- Readalong Wednesday's ancient mar-reminder stoppeth one of three, "Until the thrilling tale is told, this link within me burns..." :D
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis/The_Ascent_of_Mount_Erubus
- Happy dyed potato day to everyone who celebrates! And for all my neighbours voting in the next couple of weeks, for all our sakes please choose a ticky box as unlike Badenoch / Sunak / Truss / Johnson as possible, thank you. P.S. remember that the potatoes who dyed for our sins are edible unless fertilized when they become treyf. Dark chocolate eggs are safer as they're always both unfertilised and unleavened! ;-)
- Birb log: when I put food out this week I only got half the numbers of birbs feeding at any moment because half of each pair is now on the nest until shift change, so even those birbs who are paired for the rest of the year are temporarily eating alone.
- Potentially improving everybody's habitat: honestly don't know where this last week went.... 13-19. Biologging. Deleting spree on mobile to clear storage. (And keeping up with regular household tasks but not improvements, lol.)
- Writing: I did commit a few prompt acts of versification.
( Lakes, bananas, laboured rhymes, and lock keys. )
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Aurora_Australis/The_Ascent_of_Mount_Erubus
- Happy dyed potato day to everyone who celebrates! And for all my neighbours voting in the next couple of weeks, for all our sakes please choose a ticky box as unlike Badenoch / Sunak / Truss / Johnson as possible, thank you. P.S. remember that the potatoes who dyed for our sins are edible unless fertilized when they become treyf. Dark chocolate eggs are safer as they're always both unfertilised and unleavened! ;-)
- Birb log: when I put food out this week I only got half the numbers of birbs feeding at any moment because half of each pair is now on the nest until shift change, so even those birbs who are paired for the rest of the year are temporarily eating alone.
- Potentially improving everybody's habitat: honestly don't know where this last week went.... 13-19. Biologging. Deleting spree on mobile to clear storage. (And keeping up with regular household tasks but not improvements, lol.)
- Writing: I did commit a few prompt acts of versification.
( Lakes, bananas, laboured rhymes, and lock keys. )
New Mutants #15
Apr. 20th, 2025 07:11 pmiamrman posting in scans_dailyWriter: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Sal Buscema
Finishes: Tom Mandrake
Kitty has gotten herself captured by the White Queen, so it is up to the New Mutants to fix her mess.
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Tags:
- char: cannonball/sam guthrie,
- char: magik/illyana rasputin,
- char: magma/amara aquilla,
- char: mirage/danielle moonstar,
- char: shadowcat/kitty pryde,
- char: sunspot/roberto da costa,
- char: white queen/emma frost,
- char: wolfsbane/rahne sinclair,
- creator: chris claremont,
- creator: sal buscema,
- creator: tom mandrake