Red, Dog: SECRET ORIGINS #34-35 (JLI 30)
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Elsewhere, I’ve covered the many identities of Reagan in superhero comics. Gorbachev’s portrayals are fewer but no less fascinating. In GREEN LANTERN CORPS #209, 1986, he is intelligent and charming…far more so than Reagan in the same issue (one of the few portrayals I missed). But he is also, at the end of the day, a two-faced bad guy.
( Not Two-Face, though. His scar isn’t THAT pronounced. )
The Holiday Elf Meme Thing
Nov. 28th, 2025 06:25 pmnyykiBack in the heyday of Livejournal this went around -- I'd like to revive it here.
Step One: Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD")
to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your journal so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two: Surf around your friends list (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the
important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and
if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound
for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday
elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll
have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
1. Someone to assist me in getting my live Rig working like it should. This will involve configuring a program or two on two laptops along with some stuff on a couple of keyboards, and following up with another bout of configuration. No one person has to do all of this. All of it is easy, I have manuals and the knowledge to do things, and it's fairly simple work.
2. Cover assistance for my finished novels/novellas. As a blind person I can't turn my cover ideas into reality, and I feel a good cover will increase sales a lot. I've got some AI generated covers, but as a blind person I can't get them included in a document; I'll need to find out how to put a graphic description behind the picture so people who cant' see graphics can know what the picture is, and for one series of books it's an issue of knowing how to set a different page background on the first page of a document.
3. I need about 33 digital versions of gear manuals for my musical stuff. Acrobat format is preferred, but if it's all graphics I can deal with that too, because I have an excellent OCR program. My biggest challenge for all of this is that many of the sites I find what I'm looking for have a Capcha on them that doesn't have an option for VI folks, so I can't get into the site to download the manual.
The Manual List: ( Read more... )
4. I really want a white ankle-length halter dress. I haven't found any that are decent quality and don't come from a country where the sizing is messed up. By white I mean white, not any of the false white shades, and i'd like it unornamented. I think a size 18 will do the trick if there's a tie on the back at the waist.
5. I could use some website help for my three domain sites.
6. Someone to help me with getting paperwork scanned and entered into the computer. Some of this will be simple scanning and some will be reading things to me as I type. Not all of this needs to be done by one person. Any contribution of an hour or two would be greatly appreciated. This project is going to take a lot of time, but it can be done piecemeal with no trouble. And I could probably scan some things too if folks want to help at home or remotely. The first task in all of this is to sort a lot of the paper I have here so it can run more smoothly, and that's going to take about an hour.
7. I lost my copy of The Can Opener Cookbook and a couple of others in one of the thefts of 2003-2004. I also lost several of my Foods of the World hardbacks, and could use any of those you happen to find while cruising through used book stores. I'm short about eight of the spiral bound recipe books that went with these, along with the master index and menu planning guide and the three supplement books. And if you find anything I'm looking for, an OCR scan to PDF of what you find would be great.
Foods of the World Books( Read more... )
8. I have a list of books I own in hardcopy that I need to get digital copies of. I suspect much of this will come from the web, while the rest will require scanning and will require either someone owning the work or it being done here. So for the first part I probably need some resourceful internet user to locate the books I'm trying to find and send them to me. I have comprehensive lists of what I need. A lot of the books are gaming books, fiction, or books about music or recording. (Again, this list is too long to put in this message)
9. Two to three Matheson clan hunting tartan bandanas so The Holy Terrier can display her clan affiliation (I consider her to be adopted into my household). And if someone wants to go the extra mile a matching dress for a Scottish lady would be great, same tartan (I like the blue in the hunting tartan and the ancient tartan isn't too bad either -- the dress and faded tartans aren't to my taste, and the Dress tartan is aimed at young women leaving girlhood and that's not appropriate for me) I almost feel guilty for mentioning this site, but for fabric arts types Spoonflower (https://www.spoonflower.com) is a major rabbit hole.
10. Whistles. I've got the standard whistle coaches and other such folks use, but different and interesting ones are useful for when I play in percussion ensembles.
So, let me see what I might be able to help you with. You can contact me at nyyki at gypsyheir dot com for location for any of this or to ask me questions.
Step One: Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD")
to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your journal so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two: Surf around your friends list (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the
important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and
if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound
for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday
elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll
have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
1. Someone to assist me in getting my live Rig working like it should. This will involve configuring a program or two on two laptops along with some stuff on a couple of keyboards, and following up with another bout of configuration. No one person has to do all of this. All of it is easy, I have manuals and the knowledge to do things, and it's fairly simple work.
2. Cover assistance for my finished novels/novellas. As a blind person I can't turn my cover ideas into reality, and I feel a good cover will increase sales a lot. I've got some AI generated covers, but as a blind person I can't get them included in a document; I'll need to find out how to put a graphic description behind the picture so people who cant' see graphics can know what the picture is, and for one series of books it's an issue of knowing how to set a different page background on the first page of a document.
3. I need about 33 digital versions of gear manuals for my musical stuff. Acrobat format is preferred, but if it's all graphics I can deal with that too, because I have an excellent OCR program. My biggest challenge for all of this is that many of the sites I find what I'm looking for have a Capcha on them that doesn't have an option for VI folks, so I can't get into the site to download the manual.
The Manual List: ( Read more... )
4. I really want a white ankle-length halter dress. I haven't found any that are decent quality and don't come from a country where the sizing is messed up. By white I mean white, not any of the false white shades, and i'd like it unornamented. I think a size 18 will do the trick if there's a tie on the back at the waist.
5. I could use some website help for my three domain sites.
6. Someone to help me with getting paperwork scanned and entered into the computer. Some of this will be simple scanning and some will be reading things to me as I type. Not all of this needs to be done by one person. Any contribution of an hour or two would be greatly appreciated. This project is going to take a lot of time, but it can be done piecemeal with no trouble. And I could probably scan some things too if folks want to help at home or remotely. The first task in all of this is to sort a lot of the paper I have here so it can run more smoothly, and that's going to take about an hour.
7. I lost my copy of The Can Opener Cookbook and a couple of others in one of the thefts of 2003-2004. I also lost several of my Foods of the World hardbacks, and could use any of those you happen to find while cruising through used book stores. I'm short about eight of the spiral bound recipe books that went with these, along with the master index and menu planning guide and the three supplement books. And if you find anything I'm looking for, an OCR scan to PDF of what you find would be great.
Foods of the World Books( Read more... )
8. I have a list of books I own in hardcopy that I need to get digital copies of. I suspect much of this will come from the web, while the rest will require scanning and will require either someone owning the work or it being done here. So for the first part I probably need some resourceful internet user to locate the books I'm trying to find and send them to me. I have comprehensive lists of what I need. A lot of the books are gaming books, fiction, or books about music or recording. (Again, this list is too long to put in this message)
9. Two to three Matheson clan hunting tartan bandanas so The Holy Terrier can display her clan affiliation (I consider her to be adopted into my household). And if someone wants to go the extra mile a matching dress for a Scottish lady would be great, same tartan (I like the blue in the hunting tartan and the ancient tartan isn't too bad either -- the dress and faded tartans aren't to my taste, and the Dress tartan is aimed at young women leaving girlhood and that's not appropriate for me) I almost feel guilty for mentioning this site, but for fabric arts types Spoonflower (https://www.spoonflower.com) is a major rabbit hole.
10. Whistles. I've got the standard whistle coaches and other such folks use, but different and interesting ones are useful for when I play in percussion ensembles.
So, let me see what I might be able to help you with. You can contact me at nyyki at gypsyheir dot com for location for any of this or to ask me questions.
Moonshine Bigfoot #1-4
Nov. 27th, 2025 06:38 pmzylly posting in scans_dailyThis year saw the publication of the greatest mini series of all time. Not DC KO, not One World Under Doom, not Age of Revelation…
No, I’m talking about the one, the only, MOONSHINE BIGFOOT!
Featuring Bigfoot, hippie chicks, moonshine, car races, Bigfoot Hunters, ghosts, degraded kids' show hosts, and the Cobra Commander you get on Wish!
We Interrupt This JLI Content for Some JLI Content: SECRET ORIGINS #33 (JLI 29)
Nov. 26th, 2025 07:57 amtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
I planned for the next part in this series to be the Max Lord spotlight in Justice League International #24, but that’ll come early next week.
Warning for some discussion of age-inappropriate relationships and creators with tainted histories.
DC’s Secret Origins series did all JLI-themed origin stories for three issues, after doing the Justice Society and the original Justice League of America. Each issue had three stories: this one includes Mister Miracle and Oberon, Fire/Green Flame, and Ice/Icemaiden. No, Fire shouldn't be able to fly on that cover; just go with it. YES, ice-bridges are more Iceman's thing, JUST GO WITH IT.
Mister Miracle and Oberon’s story is “Escapism” by Mike Carlin and Don Heck. It’s a split-page compare-and-contrast exercise.
( You see, Mister Miracle is...TALL, and… )
The First Appearance of Marvel's The Hulk...
Nov. 25th, 2025 09:48 pmmastermahan posting in scans_daily...but not that one. No, this is a backup story from Strange Tales #75, published in 1960, two years before the much more successful Hulk.
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And the next original New Mutant to get their own series is...
Nov. 25th, 2025 10:58 pmicon_uk posting in scans_dailyWell, Illyana has had a couple, Sam and Berto were apparently due to get one in the Krakoan era but it got shelved, and Doug has had his own "upgrade" but now it's someone who has definitely earned one.
Yup, Dani Moonstar is getting a solo miniseries!
( Better image and more info under the cut )
Yup, Dani Moonstar is getting a solo miniseries!
( Better image and more info under the cut )
Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Nov. 25th, 2025 10:57 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 scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it.
The US presented a new "peace plan" for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it appears that things got confused somewhere along the way and they presented Vladimir Putin's Christmas wish list instead.
Trump and New York Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani had a bizarrely cordial meeting last week, which perhaps shows that flattery DOES get you everything.
Six US Lawmakers who are also veterans of various military and security services released a video reminding folks that "Following orders which are unlawful is a very bad idea", which apparently was seen as such a controversial move that at least one of the six is now being investigated by the Pentagon. Presumably for "Remembering the lessons of the Nuremberg trials" or something.
The website-formerly-known-as-Twitter added a new feature last week, which allowed you to see what country an account was created in, and hilarity ensued as any number of pro-Trump accounts claiming to be proudly American turned out to be not remotely American at all. The new feature has now apparently been turned off.... the more paranoid among us might wonder why.
And the UK has an exciting (there might be other, better, words to describe it) Budget to look forward to tomorrow.
Also to note the passing of reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, at 81.
To those working retail on Black Friday, may your shoes be comfortable, may your breaks be enforced and may your customers be as mellow as possible.
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 scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it.
The US presented a new "peace plan" for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it appears that things got confused somewhere along the way and they presented Vladimir Putin's Christmas wish list instead.
Trump and New York Mayor elect Zohran Mamdani had a bizarrely cordial meeting last week, which perhaps shows that flattery DOES get you everything.
Six US Lawmakers who are also veterans of various military and security services released a video reminding folks that "Following orders which are unlawful is a very bad idea", which apparently was seen as such a controversial move that at least one of the six is now being investigated by the Pentagon. Presumably for "Remembering the lessons of the Nuremberg trials" or something.
The website-formerly-known-as-Twitter added a new feature last week, which allowed you to see what country an account was created in, and hilarity ensued as any number of pro-Trump accounts claiming to be proudly American turned out to be not remotely American at all. The new feature has now apparently been turned off.... the more paranoid among us might wonder why.
And the UK has an exciting (there might be other, better, words to describe it) Budget to look forward to tomorrow.
Also to note the passing of reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, at 81.
To those working retail on Black Friday, may your shoes be comfortable, may your breaks be enforced and may your customers be as mellow as possible.
Power Man - Timeless #4
Nov. 24th, 2025 02:32 pmmastermahan posting in scans_daily
Power Man is a future version of Luke Cage who's also the Sentry and the Hulk. He's also Iron Fist, though you'd think that wouldn't matter much compared to the other two.
Last issue: punching. Apocalypse was there. This is the conclusion.
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Deep Thoughts With Dixie #29 - Walking
Nov. 23rd, 2025 04:44 pmnyykiDixie leaned against my leg while I rested from all the organizing and decluttering I was doing. I said, "Hello, Dix, what's up on the dog world?"
"Sparky's been stuck inside because of the rain. The dog next door, who never tells me her name, doesn't say anything unless she's singing to the sounds that come and go fast."
"What? Oh, yeah, the sirens on fire trucks."
"What's a truck?"
"A big car that has space in the back so people can carry things; that's open to the sky."
"Oh, those – there are ones made of fire?"
"No, they're made of the usual stuff, but they go around putting out fires people don't want."
"Oh."
"What about Morris?"
"He's not part of the dog world – you've told me that before, and he also says it a lot."
"Well, he's right, he's a cat, so he's different from dogs and Two Legs."
"Pack leader?"
"Yes Dixie?"
"You're quiet."
"Yeah, I am."
"Why?"
"Why is someone like they are? That's a deep question that often takes a while to explain."
"Oh."
"Let me try – I spent what you would of think of as my puppy time in a place that wasn't always safe. My brother got into trouble a lot, so I learned how to be quiet so I didn't draw attention to myself. I didn't want to be noticed."
"Your brother? That's Molly's and Boo's pack leader?"
"Yes."
"He scares me. He's loud."
"Ah, and I'm quiet, so you're used to me. That explains something, he wonders why you shake when he's around – not shake paws, but shake your body. I'll tell him what's up with that."
"So you move so quiet because you were scared?"
"Wow, way to cut to the root of the situation, Dixie Pup. Yeah, that's probably it. I like being quiet too, it's better, in my mind, than stomping around like the roommate and some other people I know."
"Hey, talking about stomping, did I hear someone stomping on the roof?"
"Yeah, I need to get some work done on it."
"How do they do that?"
"They scrape the shingles off and put new ones down."
"I bet they're tall."
"No, they have things they can climb up on to get up there."
"That's the big difference between dog people and two legs people, you have all those things to do things."
"Yes, it's part of what makes us who we are. It took a long time to develop those things."
"Okay, so if you have all those things you can use, why can't you turn the backyard into inside?"
"Not this again, Dix, we've already talked about this."
I got up and got back to work before she drug me into that conversation again.
"Sparky's been stuck inside because of the rain. The dog next door, who never tells me her name, doesn't say anything unless she's singing to the sounds that come and go fast."
"What? Oh, yeah, the sirens on fire trucks."
"What's a truck?"
"A big car that has space in the back so people can carry things; that's open to the sky."
"Oh, those – there are ones made of fire?"
"No, they're made of the usual stuff, but they go around putting out fires people don't want."
"Oh."
"What about Morris?"
"He's not part of the dog world – you've told me that before, and he also says it a lot."
"Well, he's right, he's a cat, so he's different from dogs and Two Legs."
"Pack leader?"
"Yes Dixie?"
"You're quiet."
"Yeah, I am."
"Why?"
"Why is someone like they are? That's a deep question that often takes a while to explain."
"Oh."
"Let me try – I spent what you would of think of as my puppy time in a place that wasn't always safe. My brother got into trouble a lot, so I learned how to be quiet so I didn't draw attention to myself. I didn't want to be noticed."
"Your brother? That's Molly's and Boo's pack leader?"
"Yes."
"He scares me. He's loud."
"Ah, and I'm quiet, so you're used to me. That explains something, he wonders why you shake when he's around – not shake paws, but shake your body. I'll tell him what's up with that."
"So you move so quiet because you were scared?"
"Wow, way to cut to the root of the situation, Dixie Pup. Yeah, that's probably it. I like being quiet too, it's better, in my mind, than stomping around like the roommate and some other people I know."
"Hey, talking about stomping, did I hear someone stomping on the roof?"
"Yeah, I need to get some work done on it."
"How do they do that?"
"They scrape the shingles off and put new ones down."
"I bet they're tall."
"No, they have things they can climb up on to get up there."
"That's the big difference between dog people and two legs people, you have all those things to do things."
"Yes, it's part of what makes us who we are. It took a long time to develop those things."
"Okay, so if you have all those things you can use, why can't you turn the backyard into inside?"
"Not this again, Dix, we've already talked about this."
I got up and got back to work before she drug me into that conversation again.
Nightwing #132 features Olivia Pearce's face.
Nov. 23rd, 2025 10:09 amthanekos posting in scans_dailyThis year's annual'd shown her mind a bit, gone into her serving the Zanni and his need to make the world a circus.
She's been the head of Spheric Solutions, the super-weapons company militarizing Blüdhaven's police - legitimacy that's not looking so much to police commissioner Maggie Sawyer.
Sawyer and Nightwing knew her tie to recent disappearances of children. Nightwing went after Pearce for that - and for what a scheme of her brain'd done to Bryce Moran in issue #131.
( She met him. )
She's been the head of Spheric Solutions, the super-weapons company militarizing Blüdhaven's police - legitimacy that's not looking so much to police commissioner Maggie Sawyer.
Sawyer and Nightwing knew her tie to recent disappearances of children. Nightwing went after Pearce for that - and for what a scheme of her brain'd done to Bryce Moran in issue #131.
( She met him. )
Max, Out: INVASION #3 (JLI 28)
Nov. 23rd, 2025 07:28 amtcampbell1000 posting in scans_daily
(Running this early because I might have some laptop issues imminent.)
The 80-page Invasion #3 has such a misleading cover that I wonder if it reflected an earlier, discarded version of the plot. AAR, the actual plot (by Keith Giffen) has enough impact on the Justice League that it deserves its own section here. Finished art (over Giffen layouts) by Bart Sears, who had a long future with this League ahead of him. Script by Bill Mantlo, whose work on the series was his only DC Comics job ever.
The war is over, but like Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese holdout of World War II, one Dominator geneticist refuses to give up the fight.
( Not that one should encourage too many comparisons between the Japanese and the yellow-skinned Dominators, who attach great importance to a red circle, are known as planners, have a pluralistic society, attacked the Southeast Indies…uh, but they also have castes and forehead dots, like Indians…Fu Manchu fingernails…you know, I’m starting to regret that I brought this up… )