Detective Comics #660

Jul. 21st, 2025 06:20 pm
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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Jim Balent

Inks: Scott Hanna


Knightfall.

Robin is snooping on Bane's goons when he gets caught in the middle of a confrontation between Bane and Killer Croc.


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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 5

Jul. 21st, 2025 01:10 pm
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 5 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers ahead for the earlier works.

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NS: Predator Badlands trailer

Jul. 21st, 2025 05:49 pm
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Maybe not directly comics-related, but I posted scans of a Predator comic only a few days ago, so I reckon it counts. This movie looks pretty fun to me, so far!



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Amazing Spider-Man #105

Jul. 21st, 2025 02:31 pm
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Writer: Stan Lee

Pencils: Gil Kane

Inks: Frank Giacoia


Spider-Man stops Jonah from getting in to a fight with protesters and his natural response is to unleash a new Spider Slayer.


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Uncanny X-Men #224

Jul. 21st, 2025 12:29 pm
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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Marc Silvestri

Inks: Bob Wiacek


Storm's search for Forge continues.


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Outlaw of the Outer Stars

Jul. 20th, 2025 04:53 pm
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Outlaw of the Outer Stars by John C. Wright

The adventures continue!

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Thor #279

Jul. 20th, 2025 07:09 pm
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Writer: Don Glut

Pencils: Alan Kupperberg

Inks: Pablo Marcos


You didn’t think you were free of Jane Foster, did you?


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Teen Titans #2

Jul. 20th, 2025 03:23 pm
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Writer and pencils: Dan Jurgens

Inks: George Perez


How many of these kids are still around? The Atom would eventually return to his proper age. I think Argent is still about. Everybody else became Crisis fodder as far as I can remember.


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Action Comics Annual #2

Jul. 20th, 2025 12:59 pm
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Writers: Jerry Ordway, George Perez and Roger Stern

Pencils: Jerry Ordway


Superman: Exile.

Superman is forced to fight in an alien arena.


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Starman #12

Jul. 20th, 2025 10:42 am
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Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Robert Campanella


Starman in final battle with the Power Elite.


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Sunday Word: Magniloquent

Jul. 20th, 2025 04:29 pm
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magniloquent [mag-nil-uh-kwuhnt]

adjective:
speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful


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Examples:

His star power is based on brains and brawn; he can recite magniloquent phrases while also giving the impression that he could fillet an enemy, Jason Bourne style, armed with only a Bic pen (Jody Rosen, Why Is Matt Damon Shilling for Crypto?, New York Times, February 2022)

The revealing, magniloquent letter is one of more than 1,600 records and documents relating to George IV from the Royal Archives published online for the first time. (Mark Brown, Letters shed light on lovelorn prince who became George IV, The Guardian, October 2019)

In such magniloquent language did the doctor describe the very simple process of fixing a door to the top landing of the house, which gave her the floor to herself. (Edgar Wallace, The Hand of Power)

His magniloquent western name was the moral umbrella upon which he balanced the fine problem of his finances. He was widely respected. (James Joyce, Dubliners)

It was empty, magniloquent, abstract, flatulent, pretentious, confused, and sub-human. I could have wept salt tears. But I couldn't do anything else; the young man wanted a clean heart and a new spirit, not a little top-dressing. (Logan Pearsall Smith, Unforgotten Years)

Origin:

1650s, a back-formation from magniloquence, or else from Latin magniloquentia 'lofty style of language,' from magniloquus 'pompous in talk, vaunting, boastful,' from combining form of magnus 'great' (from PIE root meg- 'great') + -loquus 'speaking,' from loqui 'to speak' (from PIE root tolkw- 'to speak'). Wycliffe (late 14c) translates Latin magniloquam as 'speechy'. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Magnus means 'great' in Latin; loqui is a Latin verb meaning 'to speak.' Combine the two and you get magniloquus, the Latin predecessor of magniloquent. English-speakers started using magniloquent in the 1600s, despite having had its synonym grandiloquent since the 1500s. (Grandiloquent comes from Latin grandiloquus, which combines loqui and grandis, another word for 'great' in Latin.) Today, these synonyms continue to exist side by side and to be used interchangeably, though grandiloquent is the more common of the two. (Merriam-Webster)

Predator: Black, White & Blood #1

Jul. 19th, 2025 11:14 pm
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Of course, since Predator is very famous for a certain colour of blood that it bleeds, that gives this comic the licence to have black, white, red AND green colouring!

This series is an anthology, leading with a multi-part story set in Australia. There's also a completely nutso story about a woad-covered Celt taking on a Predator that weirdly ends up going very The Last Knight.

The third story, a third of which is under the cut, involves the rather genius idea of Predator going to a gun show.

Now, of the holy trinity - Alien, Terminator and Predator - I must confess that the last of the three is my favourite, even though it is objectively the least good. But even I, a moderate Predator fan, have to roll my eyes whenever someone tries to paint it as any sort of 'honourable'...




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