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A collection of notes/impressions from titles where I didn’t find enough to necessitate a dedicated page. Usually short works of fiction. Unknown Number Unknown Number. Blue Neustifter. twitter.com . genderdysphoria.fyi . Jul 27, 2021. Accessed Sep 6, 2022. tells the story of a person who has gender dysphoria. In an alternate universe, they never transitioned but went on to become an established physicist who could communicate across parallel universes....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/batman-white-knight.jpg'); } Batman: White Knight. Sean Murphy. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . 2017. #vigilantism First time encountering a comic where the same person wrote, pencilled and inked the work. The panels should be truer to what the writer intended. Snapshots [Joker] Admit it – I gave you Gotham City! This corrupt war zone is the home we created together....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/simone-clean-room.jpg'); } Clean Room (2015 - 2017). Gail Simone; Jon Davis-Hunt; Walter Geovani; Sanya Anwar. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . 2015. #extraterrestrial-possession Snapshots [Chloe] The Haverlin brothers from next door came to visit, when my mother did not. They pulled me out. I told them I was grateful because I didn’t want to make them sad. Sometimes the truth hurts the people with the best hearts the most....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/morrison-animal-man.jpeg'); } Animal Man. Grant Morrison. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . dc.fandom.com . 1988. Accessed Mar 5, 2023. Snapshots He took himself into the desert. And rose up. And went into the presence of God. And God spoke unto Crafty saying, “You must be punished for this rebellion against my will. Nevertheless, I am a good God and my judgment will be tempered with mercy....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/kingdom-come-1996.jpg'); } Kingdom Come (1996). Mark Waid; Alex Ross. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . dc.fandom.com . Accessed Mar 4, 2023. Snapshots The world Wesley left is filled not with his heroes… but with their children and grandchildren. They number in the nameless thousands … progeny of the past, inspired by the legends of those who came before if not the morals....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/king-mister-miracle-2017.webp'); } Mister Miracle Vol. 4 (2017 - 2019). Tom King; Mitch Gerads. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . dc.fandom.com . Accessed Mar 13, 2023. There’s something that I’m missing. I don’t get the ending. Is Scott dead? Snapshots But though our great hero now occupies a seat of comfort and tranquility… Mister Miracle never forgets that somewhere out there… Darkseid is....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/gray-house-of-el-book-1.webp'); } House of El. Claudia Gray; Eric Zawardski. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . 2021. Snapshots [Tribune Member] Krypton is the most advanced civilization known to exist in the galaxy. For generations, its citizens have been genetically engineered to make them the greatest examples of their kind. We have the best soldiers that can possibly exist. The best scientists. The best leaders....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/superman-birthright-2003.webp'); } Superman: Birthright. Mark Waid; Leinil Francis Yu; Gerry Alanguilan; Dave McCaig. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . 2003. Accessed Mar 24, 2023. Snapshots JOR-EL. For the thousand orbits, a shining planet circled a celestial font of heat and light. The people of that world grew tired of war so they achieved a united society. They feared the unknown… so they conquered it with the marvels of science....

Batman: Year One. Frank Miller; David Mazzucchelli. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . dc.fandom.com . 1987. Accessed Apr 8, 2023. body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/batman-year-one-1987.jpg'); } Miller and Mazzucchelli also did Daredevil: Born Again (1986) together. In 1986, DC embarked on a reinvention of its characters' origin stories to match the times. However, Batman’s origin story didn’t change as it already captured the fears, frustrations and hopes of a readership coping with the realities of 20th-century urban life....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/sheriff-of-babylon-2015-2016.webp'); } The Sheriff of Babylon. Tom King; Mitch Gerads. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . dc.fandom.com . 2015. Snapshots KING. I decided to do something set during my time at Baghdad. In terms of goals,I wanted to write something that wasn’t political or didn’t feel like homework, that wasn’t about whether it was good or bad to be there; I just wanted to write about what it was like to be actually there then....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/catwoman-lonely-city.jpg'); } Catwoman: Lonely City. Cliff Chiang. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . batman.fandom.com . 2021. aims to handle a Gotham without Batman. Maybe there’ll be fewer super-villains as there is no Batman. There’s an arms race between villains and heroes. I expect more systemic villains that skirt legality such that they can’t be imprisoned. Snapshots Middle-aged Catwoman trying to reintegrate into society....

Dark Night: A True Batman Story. Paul Dini; Eduardo Risso. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . dc.fandom.com . Jun 15, 2016. body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/dark-night-2016.webp'); } Snapshots DINI. Now you’d think that one invisible kid might find comfort in another one’s company. But at that age, the last thing a nothing kid wants to be is lumped in with another nothing. Proof that cruelty, even garbed as self-preservation, is contagious....

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. Tom King; Bilquis Evely; Matheus Lopes. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . dc.fandom.com . 2021. body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/supergirl-woman-of-tomorrow-2021-2022.webp'); } Justice #justice-motif RUTHYE. If a child, which I was at the time despite my many protests to the contrary, could claim the weapon with a simple tug… what was it that prevented Krem from rescuing it? I had meant to ask him, and even had the question on my tongue when Supergirl and I eventually found the filthy man and he was begging for his life with tears in his eyes....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/sandman-nightmare-country.webp'); } The Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country. James Tynion IV; Lisandro Estherren; Yanick Paquette; Andrea Sorrentino. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . sandman.fandom.com . 2022. Tynion IV won Eisner’s “Best Writer” award for 2023. Snapshots MR. ECSTASY. Dreams are a trap. They comfort and they coddle. They comfort and they coddle. They give false hope, and false understanding....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/batman-one-bad-day-2022-2023.webp'); } Batman: One Bad Day. www.hoopladigital.com . dc.fandom.com . Snapshots BATMAN. Mr. Tierney, despite the rumors in the press, I am not omnipotent. I have an unfortunate weakness for mercy that has too often led to careless mistakes and lingering pain. However, the moment you fired that gun at me, I lost my taste for any… mercy. So, as you pull that trigger, know that the weapon is aimed at you....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/dano-riddler.jpg'); } The Riddler: Year One. Paul Dano; Stevan Subic. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . batman.fandom.com . 2023. EDWARD. Do they deserve a chance? How do they go on in a city that tells them day after day that they are fractured and broken… that there is not way out or up? EDWARD. The pieces don’t fit. C’monnn, Edward, think!...

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/spurrier-blaze.avif'); } Suicide Squad: Blaze. Simon Spurrier; Aaron Campbell; Jordan Bellaire. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . dc.fandom.com . 2022. Snapshots Suicide Squad is the quintessential trolley problem story. The anti-heroes have done terrible things to get where they are, but the how can the writer make the reader care about them? Amanda Waller is as amoral as they come, but to a point, she becomes unjust to villains....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/wonder-woman-historia-2023.avif'); } Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons. Kelly Sue DeConnick; Phil Jimenez; Gene Ha; Nicola Scott. www.dc.com . wonder-woman.fandom.com . www.hoopladigital.com . Accessed Oct 5, 2024. The subjugations and abuses of not-men by men are too numerous to catalog in a library… let alone a book. “It’s just his nature,” they say. We say nature may be brutal, but it is not sinister....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/poison-ivy-virtuous-cycle.avif'); } Poison Ivy. G. Willow Wilson; Marcio Takara. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . Accessed Nov 17, 2024. Ivy is usually used to explore the continuum between environmental activism and eco-terrorism. Contrasts with Swamp Thing who is portrayed as a heroic figure. IVY. I don’t like killing animals. In fact, I don’t like killing anybody. But here’s the thing. Humankind has warped the natural order so completely that even out food has become an ecological cancer....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/gaiman-sandman.png'); } Path to comic: Lucifer (Netflix) -> Lucifer (Comic) -> The Sandman (Comic) Netflix is also adapting the comic, so interested in how it deviates from the source. Ser Brienne of Tarth will be Lucifer. Hype! Love Dream: Sister – you know how I felt for Nada one. What I feel for her still. But she defied me. I gave her due earning, and she still spurned me, so… Death: So you sentenced her to hell....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/wilson-dreaming-waking-hours.webp'); } A spin-off from Gaiman’s Sandman , featuring the reincarnated Lord Dream. Notable Plot Points [Morris] Professor Dunbar… The reason I asked you to be my advisor is because I thought you of all people would understand what it’s like to be a woman in academia. [Professor Dunbar] You mean you thought I’d cut you a break. But I never got a break....

body { background-image: url('/img/fiction/tynion-their-dark-designs.jpeg'); } Batman: Vol. 1: Their Dark Designs. James Tynion IV; Guillem March; Tomeu Morey. www.dc.com . www.hoopladigital.com . Tynion IV’s Department of Truth is entertaining in its treatment of truth. Coming in with a bit of bias for Tynion IV’s writing. Snapshots [Batman] It happened in the little moments. I’d sketch on the edge of a napkin, or at the corner of a page in an old casebook....