Spider-Man ‘94 #1

Oct. 3rd, 2025 01:20 pm
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"The 1990s Spider-Man animated series has become a beloved part of Spidey lore—it was the introduction to Peter Parker and his universe for an entire generation—and I’m delighted to be diving back into that universe. We’re treating this as the next season of the show, which means introducing new villains, new challenges, new adventures for Peter—while doing our best to remain true to the creative spirit that John Semper and Company established with the original show." -- J.M. DeMatteis

Scans under the cut... )
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Shortbox Comics Fair launched on the first of October. It ends when November arrives.

The SCBF used to be physical comics, and is where you'll have seen books like I see a Knight by Xulia Vicente, the story of a woman followed throughout her life by a headless knight that only she can see. It is excellent. Or Joe Sparrow's Homunculus, which made me cry in a coffee shop. Or Lissa Tremain's Minotaar, about two friends confronting what lies at the heart of a Scandinavian influenced flat pack furniture store.

SBCF has made the move to digital only, as their official bluesky says Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.


You can, if you wish, buy the entire catalogue at the touch of a button. It only costs £997.89!

My first browse of the store has yielded a basket of 13 books for the bargain price of £92. Maybe I'll prune that list, maybe I'll add to it.

It includes...
Knightfall by Rowan Fartousi
The plan was simple: sneak into the Knights’ headquarters, steal what they need, and get out before sunrise. On the run and running out of time, Blue clings to a crumbling plan and a partner who barely believes in him. But when the past catches up in the form of the boy he left behind, Blue must confront the memories that refuse to stay buried.
I do love a heist. And I DO enjoy knights.

War and the Maiden by Riotbones
War and a historian meet in a library at the end of the world: what follows is a reckoning between memory and myth. As ruins smoulder beyond the walls, they trade stories—the historian, relentless in remembering and cataloguing every atrocity, while War, ageless and unrepentant, offers only more questions.
In the previews for SBCF, this book stood out as an obvious buy on sight.

Wide Open Spaes by Lara Joven
A coming of age short comic about two friends facing adult life in two very different ways, so different that it tears them apart without them even knowing. A story not only about friendship but also about how insecurities can blind us.

Summer of the Wondrous Salamander
A narrator's reminiscence on a strange childhood summer spent with a creature that eludes both definition and the authorities. Also a story not-quite about a grandmother, and a house.
Now THAT's how you title a comic book!

Laura by Marty Tina G
Ten years after the vampire Carmilla has been killed, Laura (her former prey) continues to be haunted by her ghost. How vivid can an apparition get? What do you do when you can’t find escape from grief?
Laura is a gothic horror comic directly inspired by the 1872 vampire novella Carmilla. It can be enjoyed as a standalone story even by people who haven't read the book.
Marty Tina G is AKA Geezmarty. She's very good. I've commissioned a few pieces from her in the past and always been delighted with the results.

Ladies of the Living Princess by Theo Stultz
The ladies of the living princess serve their mistress in the cloistered halls of the mysterious innermost castle. Ursa, ostracized by the others, carefully tends to the most respected young lady among them, Genevieve, who has been abandoned by her friends after being struck with a sleeping curse. But when those responsible for the curse seem to turn their attention to Ursa, a strange power makes itself known…
The Queen of the Underworld is dead, the dead spill vengefully upon the living. A medieval haunted-house fairytale about weird girls winning.

This looks weird, and maybe a little bit Ninth House. I love it.

How to be a good human by MIUWN
Three tablespoons of flour, two-and-a-half cups of baking soda, and a teaspoon of butter... if only being human was as simple as following a recipe. The official human guidebook is rather complicated, but as long as the instructions are followed carefully, everything will turn out well, won’t it?
The blurb didn't inspire me, but the art does. Nothing looks like this. I'm delighted by the idea.

A Little Beauty by Laura Knetzger
After an ordinary woman brings home a huge ugly bouquet of flowers, her personality changes. Suddenly intensely interested in creativity, she throws herself into making art and worshipping the bouquet as her muse. As she spirals further into obsession, her son has to choose between destroying his mother’s joy or saving her ‘normal’ life.
This sounds weird. I love it.

September books

Oct. 3rd, 2025 10:34 pm
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The Emperor of Gladness - Ocean Vuong
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
Blue Period 7 - Tsubasa Yamaguchi
Open - Andre Agassi
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
Kings of This World - Elizabeth Knox
You Are Here - David Nicholls
Legend of the White Snake - Sher Lee

buncha books )
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Fandom: Nail Polish (Industry) (the AO3 tag, probably worded to disambiguate from at least two bands by that name. I’m calling it Nail Polish Blogosphere, since the characters are using and reviewing rather than manufacturing the nail polish.)
Pairings/Characters: Gen; OCs
Rating: General Audiences
Length: Only Once: 449; Only Once Remix: 1,960
Content Notes: modern in-universe folklore, nail polish connoisseurship, possible unreality, the sad beauty of transience
Creator Links: (AO3)[archiveofourown.org profile] Sineala; (Dreamwidth) [personal profile] sineala; (Tumblr) [tumblr.com profile] sineala; (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] woodpusher
Theme: Uncommon Settings, Folklore & Fairytales, Friendship, Magic, Social Media
Summary:

[archiveofourown.org profile] Sinealla: The story of the most beautiful nail polish in the world.

[archiveofourown.org profile] woodpusher: Like a good manicurist, this story fills in some plot holes and smooths some rough edges from Only Once.

I was trying to boost my readership so welcome to the newly gifted.

Comments are welcome!


Author’s Notes: Cut_for_length. )

Reccer's Notes: Cut_for_length. )

Fanwork Links:
Only Once, by [archiveofourown.org profile] Sineala for [archiveofourown.org profile] Lysimache; Yuletide Madness 2011
Only Once Remix, by [archiveofourown.org profile] woodpusher for [archiveofourown.org profile] Sineala, [archiveofourown.org profile] Meltha, [archiveofourown.org profile] kuramas30, [archiveofourown.org profile] Viridian5, [archiveofourown.org profile] Qem, and [archiveofourown.org profile] Lysimache.
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I'm not counting every JLI appearance as a "JLI story." (If I did, I'd probably start missing stuff around this point.) Can't skip this, though: J'Onn J'Onzz is central to the JLI, and what happens in this mini is central to J'Onn's later development. It's also one of the most effective and beautiful stories of J.M. DeMatteis' long career, so I'll do this with minimal snark.

There’s a lot of ugliness too, however: warnings for disease, mass death, frightening hallucinations, discussion of suicide, and child murder. Oh, and for strobe FX at the end of the accompanying video.

It's the ol' 'everything you know is wrong' revisionist origin, except GOOD. )
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Sign-ups are now open for [community profile] hlh_shortcuts 2025, the long-running annual Highlander Holiday Shortcuts fanfiction exchange! (The name "Shortcuts" nods to the 500-word minimum, from the days when 1,000 words was the usual minimum.)

When:
  • Sign-up: October 1 to 11, 2025 at 11:59PM CDT on AO3
  • Receive assignment: By October 14, 2025
  • Default deadline: November 20, 2025
  • Submissions: By December 15, 2025 on AO3
  • Stories revealed: The first on December 20, 2025 (the winter solstice, Duncan's birthday) and the rest a few per day as long as they last, per tradition

How:

Yay, Highlander fun and friends! Come play with us?

All-New Venom #10 (LGY#249) + #250

Oct. 2nd, 2025 07:22 am
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Will the World's Strangest Roommates weather the ultimate house meeting, or is this the beginning of the end? Meanwhile, what's going on with Toxin? And what's that Skrull spy doing out on the far edge of space? You won't find the answers in the snippets clipped out so the content-farmers can farm you for their precious rageclicks... -- Al Ewing

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Extreme Justice #6

Oct. 2nd, 2025 12:49 pm
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Writer: Dan Vado

Pencils: Marc Campos

Inks: Ken Branch


Booster would have words with his swindling ex-manager.


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Doom Patrol (1987) #10

Oct. 2nd, 2025 10:33 am
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Writer: Paul Kupperberg

Pencils: Erik Larsen

Inks: Gary Martin


Metallo finds Cliff's stash of spare parts.


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It’s all about unknowability. It’s about the horror of unknowability. It’s Green Lantern as a cosmic horror. The thing about Green Lantern in the regular DC Universe is that it’s a known quantity. Everyone in the universe knows the Green Lantern rules. Everyone understands, at this point, that you have the Green Lanterns, Yellow Lanterns and Red Lanterns. They know that the Green Lantern is weak against Yellow, they need to recharge their rings—there are rules. The structure of the Green Lanterns and Guardians, they’re like a known police force. -- Al Ewing

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Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Pairings/Characters: Stede/Ed and Stede/Ed/izzy
Rating: G
Length: 2252 words
Creator Links: charlieloverboy
Theme: Uncommon settings, unconventional format & style 

Summary: FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Video title: “Blackbeard and the Gentleman Pirate Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED”
From WIRED Entertainment

Reccer's Notes: This fic is written like it's the transcript of a WIRED interview, the ones where the celebrities answer google's most searched for questions about them.   It's a modern AU where Ed and Stede are rock stars and its implied that Izzy is Ed's manager.  I'm not sure how the author did it, but they got the tone and how most celebrities speak in these interviews spot on, while also telling us a narrative about Ed and Stede and heavily implying Ed/Stede/Izzy.

Fanwork Links: AO3

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