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| Dec 11, 2021 | » | Saga
4 min; updated Jan 17, 2026
Themes (Mostly War)Planet Landfall (Alana’s) and Wreath (its moon, Marko’s) have been in conflict as long as anyone can remember. Destroying either would send the other out of orbit, so they make peace at home, but outsource the combat to foreign lands. Most locals didn’t really think about the battles being waged in their names in distant lands. #societal-apathy ... |
| Feb 18, 2022 | » | The Department of Truth
2 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
The Department of Truth | Image Comics.
James Tynion IV; Martin Simmonds.
Expecting a modern take on 1984, which I didn’t finish because I lost interest. Plot Points[Lee Harvey Oswald] The more people believe in something, the more true that thing becomes. The more reality tips in the favor of that belief. What happened in Antartica was that a group of men managed to make enough people believe in the truth of a flat earth for it to manifest in reality… Retroactively, the earth would always have been flat. And the people would rightly rise up in fury having been lied to by everyone for decades. #tulpa ... |
| May 27, 2023 | » | East of West (2013 - 2019)
6 min; updated Dec 25, 2024
East of West.
Jonathan Hickman; Nick Dragotta.
SnapshotsThe things that divide us are stronger than the things that unite
us. Soon, the Union found itself fighting a war on two fronts – righteousness and
tyranny, and the resulting quagmire suited their hypocrisy. Conflict drug on
until finally reaching a protracted lull a decade later. A war that not war,
lasting twenty more years… until the fire in the sky. There are those that say
the comet should have struck some other land. That God, like with Joshua and the
Amorites, somehow held the world up, kept it from spinning, just so he could
deliver judgment. Divine intervention or not, that event marked the end of the
hostilities, the remarking of territory, and the formation of what would become
the Seven Nations of America. The Accords were signed at Armistice – the
epicenter of the event – on November 9, 1908. It was significant, historic, and
the third most important thing to happen that day. As in Atlanta, the Prophet
Longstreet penned the Second Book of Revelation. And in Cheowee, Red Cloud
shared a waking vision with his council of elders. The upon completion, and by
all accounts at exactly the same time, both men collapsed and died. |
Volumes 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 9 have been nominated for the the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story. A 6/9 nomination rate implies that the comic is pretty good!