On TumblrThis is my friend TJ, wearing a costume she made for Halloween, 1977. She was 16 at the time.
Now, keep in mind: there was no internet to search for images. She could not have rented and paused the movie, because it wasn’t released on video until 1982. No, TJ just went to the movie a bunch of times, took notes with a flashlight, drew a bunch of sketches, and put this together.
In 19-fucking-77. So let’s bury this bullshit about how women didn’t grow up on Star Wars.
Some dude tried to explain why TLJ is an insult to real fans and since I liked it I wasn’t a real fan and SON, I GOT A DOT MATRIX PRINT OUT OF Star Wars: New Hope, The Journal of the Whills, Part 1 IN A DRAWER SOMEWHERE, COME AT ME.
My mother is 74 years old and knows what a Corellian blood stripe is. The ladies have been here the whole time.
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Because
Was anything more ever done with Earth 22 (the gender bent one) than the Wonder Man is evil storyline? I’ve got a weird heart for canon gender bends?
Wow what comic was that? I’ve never read it. Was it in Superman/Batman? To answer your question yes. The first instance of Earth 22 was in Elseworld’s Finest: Supergirl and Batgirl #1 written by Barbara Kesel. It’s a 66-page one-shot. The genderbend is done a little differently, instead of a female Clark Kent, Kara Zor-El is the primary Kryptonian superhero. Same with Barbara Gordon. But yeah if you like canon gender bends you’ll love this book.
someone just corrected us that its not earth-22. its earth-11. the point stills stands
Weirdly enough, the Flash of Earth-11 is the main Flash in a KFC promotional comic where the Flashes and Col. Sanders of the Multiverse team up to reassemble the secret recipe of herbs and spices, which has been scattered across multiple realities.
I swear I’m not making it up. You can find it on Comixology.
On TumblrReturn of the Supervillain Self-Help Expert
You’ve probably seen this panel of the Rainbow Raider triumphantly shouting, “I believe in me!” (especially if you follow Lia’a Rogues blog). It’s from Brave and the Bold #194 by Mike Barr and Carmine Infantino. As a motivational therapist, Professor Andrea Wye approaches Bivolo and D-list Batman villain Dr. Double-X about their failures as super-villains, and convinces them to “Trade heroes and win.”
So Rainbow Raider goes after Batman, and Dr. Double-X goes after the Flash. The heroes aren’t used to fighting each other’s villains, and actually get captured. Of course they turn the tables before she’s able to learn what she wants from them, and overpower the villains before going after the mastermind. She escapes, but Flash figures she’ll return sooner or later. As far as I knew, she disappeared at that point.
I recently discovered that she does return, after all, in the opening two-parter of the 1985 Outsiders series — no surprise, also written by Barr. This was when the team had just split off from Batman, causing a title change, and moved from Gotham to Los Angeles.
In “Nuclear Fear,” Prof. Wye stages a fake terrorist attack on a nuclear power plant near Los Angeles to observe how the city reacts. It’s research material for her next book on the psychology of fear. (Ethics, schmethics, right?)
The Outsiders stop her team before it can make a scene, but the scientist she contacted to help plan the raid wants to go further. He wants to actually blow up Los Angeles in order to make people understand the horrors of nuclear war, and he sends a group of robots modeled after his dead family to do it. Naturally they’re called The Nuclear Family, and they’re this weird idealized 1950s family — except for the fact that they want to kill everyone. (Strange that nuclear war and twisted nostalgia for the 1950s are suddenly topical again.)
Once Wye learns about her ally’s plan, she hightails it out of town. Meanwhile the Outsiders are in a race to find the robots before they detonate themselves. In the end, the only thing they can do is destroy the robots in a normal explosion before they go critical and take out the city. The Nuclear Family is never seen again, as far as I know…and neither is Professor Wye.
I wonder if she ever finished her book?
– Kelson.
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Heh, great post! I read the Nuclear Family story a while back solely because Wye was in it; she’s kind of a fun satire of the skeevy snake-oil psychologists who were proliferating in the late 70s and early 80s. It’s interesting how she doesn’t quite commit crimes herself, but manipulates villains into doing her bidding for her own ends.
The Nuclear Family actually appeared recently in the Justice League Action animated series, probably because they’re topical again as you say. (It’s a Firestorm episode, which IMO are some of the best in the series.) The DC Wiki tells me they also appeared in the Battle for Bludhaven series, but I’ve not read that myself.
Battle for Bludhaven? Wow. I don’t remember hearing much about that one. I didn’t read it myself, but I don’t remember it even rating the kind of reaction that Amazons Attack got. Anyone here read it? Is it any good?
On TumblrFour successful Republican scams that have changed American politics in the last 40 years:
1. That income tax cuts are good for poor, working and middle class people. (Compared to property tax and sales tax cuts, income tax cuts affect poor, working and middle class very little.)
2. That “they” – racial and ethnic minorities – benefit from social programs like welfare, housing subsidies, public transportation, and higher education, but “we” – white people – don’t. (Since there are LOTS more white people in America, even now, than “not white” people, simple math suggests most beneficiaries of social programs are white. And they are.)
3. That the “free market” can lead to the least expensive, highest quality solution to social and political problems. (Many social and political problems, after all, involve situations where no one has any money, so the “free market” has no reason to touch them.)
4. That the “free market” means that government must not intervene in the market, and must allow whatever the market determines to actually take place.(The “free market” requires government to pass laws, create courts, and run a stable banking system to make the market work smoothly.)
These four ideas have convinced millions of Americans to smile and wave as rich people rob them blind.
SIGNAL BOOST THE HELL OUT OF THIS.
It’s always weird to see my pictures come back through fandom networks.
Great photo, and such great outfits!
It’s always weird to see my pictures come back through fandom networks. Cool, but weird. (Fun fact: the reason several of the cosplayers are looking off to the side is that a six year old is running toward them in order to photobomb the shot.)
Lying
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Fun fact: This was the one reblog that got flagged as “adult content” after the Dec. 2018 policy change. My guess is Tumblr’s AI recognized Lying Cat as a scan from Saga, which has been known to have adult content of its own.
Uprooted tree. Note the clump of sod still hanging off the roots.
Rainy day
It was intense in a lot of places, but our neighborhood did about as well as the last big storm. Northern California has been having it really bad, though. It’s weird to go from 6 years of drought to catastrophic flooding.
Checking the news
if global warming is false were left with a clean environment and a sustainable economic model
darjeelingandcoke:
The massive downside to meaningful action on climate change is that if global warming is false were left with a clean environment and a sustainable economic model. What a bummer
Unlikely Freedom Fighters
That’s the roof of a gazebo sticking out of the water. Correction: it’s an information kiosk.
Photo taken at: Polliwog Park
That’s the roof of a gazebo sticking out of the water.
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Correction: it’s an information kiosk. Same style of roof as the picnic shelters, but not as tall. #flooded
eighteenbelow says:
Oh geez, that seems pretty extreme! I’d heard you guys got a lot of rain and flooding, but I hope it’s a good thing in the long run and helps alleviate the drought.
Thanks, I hope so too. Our part of town did pretty well. We had an inch of water in our garage, but it only went halfway back (apparently it’s not level) and the only things that seem to have any damage are an old suitcase that might dry out ok, and some empty boxes. Power only went out for about a minute before it came back on, and we drove through some flooded roads yesterday before holing up at home.
This park is a basin in the hills, and apparently used to be part of the same seasonal marsh system as the preserve I’ve posted photos from. It’s all playground areas, benches, and picnic shelters. A friend who used to live here says flooded during heavy rain when she was here, so I imagine it’ll be fine when it dries out. Muddy, but the area near the pond is usually covered in duck and goose dropping anyway. Not my favorite part of the park, let me tell you.
The local paper reported one death a few miles away, believed to be the same person who went missing during a rescue from a flooding homeless camp. Lots of mudslides, flooded garages and damaged stuff, but not much structural damage. A retaining wall a few blocks from us collapsed and crushed an empty car.
Other parts of the LA area fared a lot worse, especially near the mountains, and especially areas downhill from last year’s fires, but we’re ok here.
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Notes: Flickr album with more photos, other commentary and pics here.
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Because we can all use 18 seconds of calm today.
Photo taken at: Point Vicente Interpretive Center
Because we can all use 18 seconds of calm today.
Whitney Frost Cosplay from LA Comic Con
Whitney Frost Cosplay on Flickr.
The Agent Carter villain, from this weekend’s LA Comic Con
Late afternoon clouds
Whitney Frost cosplay for Long Beach Comic Con
3 new photo(s) on Flickr: Whitney Frost cosplay for Long Beach Comic Con (though we didn’t quite make it to the Con). https://www.flickr.com/photos/kelsonv/
Putting the finishing touches on the chalk art.
Photo taken at: Redondo Beach Pier
Putting the finishing touches on the chalk art. Ocean view theme (easy to find inspiration), family division.
This photograph of children looking at their smartphones by Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’…
On Tumblr“…last
year this photograph of children looking at their smartphones by Rembrandt’s ‘The
Night Watch’ in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
[went viral.] It was often accompanied by outraged, dispirited comments such as
“a perfect metaphor for our age,” “the end of civilization” or “a sad picture of
our society”.…It turns out that the
Rijksmuseum has an app that, among other
things, contains guided tours and further information about the works on display.
As part of their visit to the museum, the children, who minutes earlier had admired
the art and listened attentively to explanations by expert adults, had been instructed
to complete an assignment by their school teachers, using, among other things, the
museum’s excellent smartphone app….The tragic thing is that this — the truth — will
never go viral. So, I wonder, what is more likely to bring about the death of civilization,
children using smartphones to learn about art or the willful ignorance of adults
who are too quick to make assumptions?” José Picardo, Medium