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man-creates-dinosaurs · 7 years

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THE HISTORY OF MARVEL COMIC’S DEVIL DINOSAUR Pt. 3 Due to the failure of their own stand alone comic series Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy eventually garnered the reputation of being something of a joke within the larger Marvel Universe. This was most fully expressed in the limited edition series Fallen Angels (April - Nov. 1987) and Nextwave (March 2006 - Feb 2007). In the former Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy are drafted by the Fallen Angels; a team of outcast mutant superheroes - basically the Marvel Universe’s biggest losers. Even in this group of misfits Moon-Boy and Devil Dinosaur prove awkward with Devil at one point accidentally killing one of their teammates by stepping on him. In Nextwave, the satirizing of Devil is taken to the next level with the tyrannosaurus being cast as the series’ final villain and depicted as speaking while wearing a smoking jacket, ascot, sipping a glass of wine and twirling a revolver on diminutive fore-claws. Devil’s motivation for going bad is explained as originating from a long standing hatred of “monkeys” (i.e. humans) even going so far as to reveal that Devil eventually ate Moon-Boy. Devil Dinosaur did not stop being a joke in Marvel Comics until fairly recently in what proved to be a fascinating example of a multi-issue multi-title story arc spanning nearly 20-years and multiple writers and artists. Beginning in Ghost Rider Vol. 3 #81-82 (Jan./Feb. 1997) New York City based sorceress Jennifer Kale, in a botched attempt to return the extraterrestrial anthropomorphic mallard Howard the Duck to his home-world, inadvertently teleports Devil Dinosaur and Moon-Boy from the past and into the present. Disoriented, Devil rampages through the Big Apple before being subdued by the demonic motorcyclist known as Ghost Rider. Then in Amazing Spider-Man Annual 1998 (July 1998) Spider-Man helps relocate Devil and Moon-Boy to the Savage Land - a Marvel pastiche of Edgar Rice Burrough’s Caprona. Next in Heroes for Hire #9-10 (April/May 2007), a Charlie’s Angels-style team of mercenaries are dispatched by scientists working for the government agency S.H.I.E.L.D. to travel to the Savage Land and capture Moon-Boy and Devil Dinosaur and bring them back for study. Upon arriving in the Savage Land and surviving the initial onslaught of dinosaurs, giant insects, ape-men and strange saber-toothed and tusked wolves(?) the Heroes for Hire manage to locate Moon-Boy and Devil only to make a shocking discovery - Devil has just laid a clutch of eggs! Yes, for the first time in the history of the character Devil’s presumed gender of male was demonstrated to, in fact, be that of female. Unwilling to try and transport Moon-Boy, Devil and her eggs, the Heroes for Hire kidnap Moon-Boy and leave Devil who is unable to rescue her friend without abandoning her nest. Moon-Boy and Devil Dinosaur would not be reunited until the obscure one-shot comic Avengers the Initiative: Featuring Reptil (March 2009) in which the dinosaur-human mutant Stegron the Dinosaur Man arrives in the US with an army of dinosaurs and begins attacking various S.H.I.E.L.D. bases. In response another dinosaur-human mutant, Reptil, is sent to deal with Stegron only to learn that he is merely searching for Moon-Boy who’s kidnapping has left Devil in a depressed state unwilling to care for herself or her eggs. Sympathetic to Devil’s plight, Reptil agrees to liberate Moon-Boy from S.H.I.E.L.D. if Stegron agrees to call off his attack. Stegron agrees and Reptil follows through on his end of the bargain returning Moon-Boy to the Savage Land and Devil. The final two installments of his saga - and arguably the highlight of the whole thing - occurred in two issues of Avenging Spider-Man #14-15 (Jan./Feb. 2013) written by Cullen Bunn who’s work includes the dinosaur themed series Terrible Lizard (Oni Press, 2014) and currently Marvel’s Monsters Unleashed! series. Here Peter Parker travels to the Savage Land as part of a scientific expedition. Unfortunately the expedition runs into the mad scientist Brainchild who has been capturing the local dinosaurs and transforming them into weaponized cyborgs. Brainchild has also taken Devil’s eggs and all that puts him on the wrong side of not only Moon-Boy and Devil but Spider-Man as well. Together the trio manages to defeat Brainchild and his army of cyber-dinosaurs. Issue #15 ends with Devil’s eggs finally hatching, thus bringing the adventures of Devil Dinosaur in the Marvel Universe to a close… At least until 2015 when Marvel would decide it was time for an All-New, All-Different kind of dinosaur.

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patheticphallacy · 5 years

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This is a tag I always see making its rounds on YouTube and in the blogsphere, and while I don’t do many tags anymore (that aren’t related to music, you can pry the Playlist Book Tag from my cold, dead hands) I saw a few really great takes on the tag and looked at the questions and figured this is one for me!

A little about my reading history:

Since April of 2018, I’ve found myself enjoying reading more than I have since around 2013 when I first joined the book community. It’s become a lot more personal and just reading on a whim, not hesitating to DNF and leave things half-read until I’m interested in the book again. My memories of what I read is a lot stronger, even though I’m reading more.

At this point in the year I’ve read 170 things, mostly manga and comics, which I’m honestly really happy about as they make me happiest as I read them. That also means I have a lot to choose from in my answers.

Without further ado: the questions!

1) BEST BOOK YOU’VE READ SO FAR IN 2019?

Okay, so a lot of my top books happen to be horror, and I promise you that’s purely accidental.

The Elementals by Michael McDowell: 80’s horror where two families journey to their Summer houses after the death of one of the matriarchs and find themselves at the hands of not just the elements, but forces that reside in the land.

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell: A gothic told across three different points of view centred around a widow who travels to her late husbands estate and is tormented by strange wood carvings who seemingly move by themselves.

Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl: A year after the death of her boyfriend, a teenager journeys out to visit her estranged friends, only for them to end up stuck in a time loop repeating the same day until they can come to a unanimous decision on which one of them deserves to live.

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson: Horror classic where four people travel to Hill House and experience strange hauntings that begin to send them mad. Also highly recommend the Netflix show!

Teen Dog by Jake Lawrence: The coming-of-age graphic novel with anthropomorphic animals you never knew you needed. Full of innocent existentialism and themes of growing up!

2) BEST SEQUEL YOU’VE READ SO FAR IN 2019?

They aren’t sequels, but these are my favourite volumes in longer series! It counts! They are all follow ups to previous volumes!

Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 9 by Hiromu Arakawa: If there was a Connie has to go more than 5 posts without mentioning FMA challenge, I would lose. Literally the best possible conclusion to this series, it broke my heart.

Haikyuu!! Volume 2 by Haruichi Furudate: My review for this on Goodreads was literally just ‘Oikawa AND Nishinoya?! In one volume?! I’m having a crisis!’ which sums up me reading this whole series.

My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Volume 3 by Hideyuku Furuhashi: Volume 2 of this series was an absolute goddamn mess but this volume? Wow. My review if you want to read me lose my mind. Some spoilers for extra content and some characters, but it’s not really overly spoiling plot points.

No.6 Volume 5 by Atsuko Asano: I have gone on so many spiels to my best friend about how amazing this series is. It honestly deserves recognition for being a very thought provoking and character driven dystopian, the character development is truly a work of art and I wish I could write a world and dynamics as well as Atsuko Asano does.

3) NEW RELEASE YOU HAVEN’T READ YET, BUT WANT TO?

I can’t really give much information on these seeing as I haven’t read them, so sorry everyone!

Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia: I confess, I am getting this because of Gabriel’s artwork. I’ve been a huge fan for a while now, so it just felt right to have this in my collection, especially considering I want to learn more about the Titans.

Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner: Very mixed reviews on this one, but oh well!

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman: Everyone and their mother is talking about this book, honestly.

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling: It’s like a space survival story but with these weird zombie creatures? I’ll be going for the audiobook with this one.

4) MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR?

I made a whole post about this that I worked very hard on so please check it out, but I guess I’ll include the only three I’ve been able to pre-order.

Tunnel of Bones by Victoria Schwab: This is the sequel to City of Ghosts, a middle-grade horror story I really love, and I’m looking forward to this one even more as it’s set in the catacombs of Paris!

Who Put This Song On? by Morgan Parker: Several people have described this as having some of the best mental health rep in young adult fiction, so I’ll be reading this for my dissertation that I’m starting in January.

The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen: I reallllly love the podcast this is based on (The Bright Sessions, also created by Lauren) and Adam and Caleb are my absolute favourites, so this book is my JAM.

5) BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT?

BOY DO I HAVE A LOT OF THESE. one of the cons of reading so much is that I end up being disappointed by significantly more books than others do, which sucks, but I honestly don’t find myself hating the reading experience. Even if i hate the book, for me, tearing it apart can become fun!

Slam Volume 1 by Pamela Ribon: I love roller derby, but the characters and the lack of narrative in this volume really didn’t do it for me. Maybe if more time was spent making sense of plot at the start I’d have enjoyed it, but there were so many time jumps I stopped caring.

It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne: One day UKYA readers are gonna have to sit down and properly talk about how the first maybe 5 years of the decade were spent crowning titles and writers as the leads of UKYA despite the fact that their books aren’t really good. They contain thinly-veiled misogyny, really bad writing that uses chat speak in-text as if it’s normal, stereotyping of characters (they really love the bitchy mean girl trope) and what the kids would call racism that doesn’t explicitly state it’s racism, like, say, dropping slurs or having outwardly racist beliefs, but when a character says someone ‘might be Asian or Jewish’ and then laughs about it and never addresses it again, you kind of guess it’s some kind of internalised racism nobody feels comfortable addressing.

Trouble by Non Pratt: SEE ABOVE, only this one has the most terribly written step-incest subplot that never properly gets resolved or treated with the disgust it deserves!

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne: Weird possessive vibes, references to stalking, and shitty love triangles. This received the best rating of the bunch (3), but the general disappointment I feel is at the continued inclusion of uncomfortably possessive male love interests dehumanizing and treating women like they are better seen not heard in romance fiction. Tessa Dare doesn’t treat me like this!

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham: This one is less hate, more just disappointment. I was so bored reading this, honestly, it feels unbearably long, and the romance is so unneeded and dull.

6) BIGGEST SURPRISE?

The Unsound by Cullen Bunn: I’ve learnt that my opinion on generally negatively rated comics and graphic novels is going to completely differ. This is very surreal, with a lot of graphic self harm and violence, and will definitely not be for everyone, but I very much enjoy it!

Sweet Blue Flowers Volume 1 by Takako Shimura: I literally heard about this, ordered the first volume day-of, and then read it as soon as it arrived and loved it. It’s predominantly a slice-of-life/romance following sapphic teenage girls!

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan: Everytime I think of this I feel soft. For a fantasy this is very easy to read, with snappy dialogue and a lot of wit from our main character. What surprised me most, however, was how deep and introspective it got exposing the fears of our main character, something not enough portal fantasies spend time doing, and I’m really grateful to have read this book!

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay: Can you really be surprised if you go into a book with no expectations? I knew vague details about plot, and a brief allusion to a dollhouse in a review I happened to scroll past, and I ended up loving this.

Lazaretto by Clay McLeod Chapman: This is an absolutely horrifying comic about a flesh eating virus that breaks out during the first few weeks of college and sends the campus into complete lockdown. It’s honestly tragic, and does not have a happy ending, but I love it? I usually hate endings that are bad for our main characters, but everything about this just really wrapped me in a blanket- horrified me, sure, yet it was weirdly comforting.

The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried by Shaun David Hutchinson: Again, I saw one person praise this book and listened to the audiobook immediately after and really enjoyed it. It’s very moving with some main characters that will test your patience but you’ll end up loving.

7) FAVOURITE NEW AUTHOR?

Paul Tremblay and Michael McDowell!

8) NEWEST FICTIONAL CRUSH?

Kirie in Uzumaki by Junji Ito! Makoto in My Hero Academia: Vigilantes! Charlotte Holmes in A Study in Charlotte! I’m noticing these are all women, which is kind of on brand for me.

9) NEWEST FAVOURITE CHARACTER?

Seeing as all my crushes are on women, I’ll try and pick some other favourites here! I’ve really fallen in love with Tensei Iida in My Hero Academia and eternally love Thirteen, Teen Dog in Teen Dog, Shion in No.6 (the character development!!!!), and basically the whole cast of The Avant-Guards by Carly Usdin! Tom in the Memoirs of Lady Trent series has really grown on me after book one, too.

10) BOOK THAT MADE YOU CRY?

BOY. I cry a lot. I cried reading Winnie the Pooh, which I finally picked up all the stories of earlier this year; Neverworld Wake; the Save Me Webtoon, a great webcomic based off of the BTS music video continuity; I Want To Eat Your Pancreas by Yoru Sumino, which beat me over the head with a frying pan while I was distracted. Sheets by Brenna Thummler didn’t make me cry but it did make me incredibly sad.

11) BOOK THAT MADE YOU HAPPY?

A lot of what I read makes me happy! There’s Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren, a small collection of 5 stories based on the sex lives of different superheroes/villains/etc.; My Love Story by Kazune Kawahara which makes me eternally happy and soft every time I pick up a volume; In Other Lands, which, while sad at times, is also very funny and has my exact brand of humour; and there’s the Haikyuu!! manga series, which I love and adore and all the characters are hilarious, even while being serious.

12) FAVOURITE BOOK TO MOVIE ADAPTATION?

I haven’t really seen any? Does Boys Over Flowers count if I haven’t read the manga OR finished the show yet? Either way, Boys Over Flowers is great and so melodramatic. If you push through the drama and very strange and problematic behaviour, it’s honestly got a cute romance between two tsundere people and enough stupid hair to giggle at.

13) FAVOURITE REVIEW YOU’VE WRITTEN?

LOOOADS! I’m very proud of my reviews this year, and it seems like a lot of them are horror!

my review of haunting of hill house by shirley jackson

my review of a head full of ghosts by paul tremblay

my review of the elementals by michael mcdowell

my review of meddling kids, where i discussed harmful stereotypes and tropes within horror fiction

three horror reviews: this is not a test, the silent companions, uzumaki

my review of poetry book shame is an ocean i swim across, where i discuss body image issues

14) MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK YOU BOUGHT THIS YEAR?

Other Words For Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin! It’s really pretty and has beautiful pink sprayed edges, and I absolutely love the owl in the background. I think the mix of pink and gold on the cover is so striking, too, it really is a book that stands out.

15) WHAT BOOKS DO YOU NEED TO READ BY 2020?

I actually have a Summer 2019 TBR if you want loads of information on everything I plan on reading.

However, other than all the books I kind of have to read for my first semester back at University, I really want to read Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz and When the Truth Unravels by RuthAnne Snow.

What would you pick for these questions? Please let me know in the comments if you made a post of this tag, I’d love to read them!

Thank you for reading!

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comicsalternative · 6 years

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Episode 288: Reviews of Five Recent #1 Issues

Time Codes:

00:00:50 - Introduction

00:03:32 - It's our 6th birthday!

00:09:03 - The Seeds#1

00:36:02 - Euthanauts#1

00:54:51 - The New World#1

01:09:38 - Unnatural#1

01:24:00 - Bone Parish#1

01:40:02 - Wrap up

01:41:15 - Contact us

This is a special episode of The Comics Alternative, as it's the guys' sixth anniversary! The podcast began on August 1, 2012, and Paul and Derek discuss some of the things they've done over the past six years, the number of episodes they've published, the amount of interviews they've conducted, etc. It's a celebratory time, and the Two Guys hope that listeners will join in on the celebration and chime in with some of their favorite moments from The Comics Alternative's past.

After a brief discussion of the podcast's anniversary, Paul and Derek then leap into the episode's core, a discussion of five recent #1 titles. They begin with Ann Nocenti and David Aja's The Seeds, the latest in Dark Horse Comics' Berger Books imprint. The guys are fascinated by this first issue, not only with Nocenti's multi-layered storytelling, but also with Aja's signature art and design. They then look at the first issue of Tini Howard and Nick Robles's Euthanauts, part of IDW Publishing's Black Crown imprint. While they're intrigued by the series' premise, they're not entirely sure if this is a successful #1 issue. There are confusing moments and, arguably, too many unanswered questions that dampen any desire to read on before the trade.

After that, Paul and Derek discuss two recent #1 titles from Image Comics. First, they look at Aleš Kot and Tradd Moore's The New World, an intriguing futuristic narrative that juggles contemporary socio-political concerns along with a Romeo and Juliet-inspired storyline. They also review the first issue of Mirka Andolfo's Unnatural, an erotic -- but tasteful -- anthropomorphic tale that was originally published in Italian and now is available as a limited series.

Finally, the guys wrap up with the first issue of Cullen Bunn and Jonas Scharf's Bone Parish (BOOM! Studios). This appears to be a horror title -- after all, that's primarily what Bunn is known for -- but as Paul and Derek point out, this first issue reads more as a crime mystery than it does horror. It's an interesting premise, one that the guys are curious to see unfold.

So enjoy this week's episode, and celebrate The Comics Alternative's sixth anniversary!

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patheticphallacy · 5 years

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by That Artsy Reader Girl (originally The Broke and the Bookish). For information on how to participate and the topics of each week, click the link!

This week’s TTT prompt was to pick ten recommendations from my favourite genre. As I’m doing my month of TWENTIES for my twentieth birthday, I’m doing 10 contemporary reads and 10 horror reads just to give a bit of variety!

Without further ado… the reads!

Kulti by Mariana Zapata: Slow burn romance following a football player and her manager. (Latina MC, content warning for lesbophobia)

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro: Alternate history following the descendants of Holmes and Watson. (CW for substance abuse, past sexual assault)

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli: A girl who has only ever had crushes finally gets the chance to have a romance. (Anxiety rep, fat rep, LGBT+ side characters)

Teen Dog by Jake Lawrence: An anthropomorphic dog makes his way through high school. (presumed LGBT+ rep)

Sweet Blue Flowers by Takako Shimura: Two girls who used to be friends in kindergarten reunite in highschool. (Sapphic romances)

My Love Story by Kazune Kawahara: Takeo, used to being rejected in romance, finally experiences love after saving a girl called Yamato on the train. (CW for harassment, some small discussions of loss of a child)

Sadie by Courtney Summers: Dual narrative following a podcaster who is trying to track down Sadie, a girl who has disappeared after the murder of her younger sister. (Sadie is attracted to both a boy and girl, West is gay; CW for sexual assault, rape, pedophilia, violence and murder, substance abuse)

The Accidentals by Sarina Bowen: After the death of her mother, a young girl finds herself whisked into a world of music and fame when her rockstar father finally enters her life. (CW death of a parent, some dubious consent and pressure into sex)

Coffee Boy by Austin Chant: Graduate Kieran finds himself working as an intern for a political campaign, and falls in love with campaign strategist Seth along the way. (gay trans male MC, bisexual love interest; CW for some transphobia and deadnaming)

I Was Here by Gayle Forman: After the suicide of her best friend, Meg, Cody travels to her college town to collect her belongings and begins to learn what led to Meg’s death. (CW for suicide, depression, suicidal thoughts, loss of a loved one)

Just a general CW is that all of these feature horror; I’ll make it explicit if there’s body horror emphasis, but if you’re not a fan of scary things, maybe avoid these if the synopsis doesn’t catch you.

Uzumaki by Junji Ito: A town becomes haunted by spirals. (CW: body horror, violence)

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell: After the death of her husband, widow Elsie moves to their country estate, only to be haunted by the presence of wooden companions. (CW for some violence, loss of a baby)

Small Spaces by Katherine Arden: Eleven year old Ollie finds herself on the run with two classmates from evil forces who will stop at nothing to get to her and the book she saved from destruction. (CW: loss of a parent, bullying)

Demonata Series by Darren Shan: A series following multiple characters as they grow and come into supernatural powers, facing up against demons and corrupt magicians and humans. (CW: body horror, major and minor character deaths, a lot of violence and gore, loss of loved ones)

Survivors’ Club: The Complete Series by Lauren Beukes: Six survivors of major occult activity in 1987 come together and must escape the horrors that plagued them as young people. (CW for violence and gore, horror imagery)

The Elementals by Michael McDowell: After the death of the matriarch, two families go back to the Summer homes they lived in years before, where the same horror that pushed them out years ago returns. (CW for hauntings, child deaths)

Lazaretto by Clay McLeod Chapman: A college campus is locked down after a flesh eating virus breaks out amongst the students. (CW for body horror, character deaths, assault and harassment, horror imagery)

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay: Now an adult, Merry recounts her experiences as the child star of a reality TV show The Possession that tracked the breakdown of her family and her older sister’s mental health. (CW: violence, mistreatment of mental health, psychological horror)

The Unsound by Cullen Bunn: A young nurse is thrust into the middle of a supernatural mystery on her first day at a psychiatric hospital. (CW violence, body horror, graphic self harm and suicide, addiction)

This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers: Six students find shelter in their old high school during the zombie apocalypse. (CW: depression and suicidal ideation, suicide, violence)

And those are all my recommendations! If you want to know anything more about these, feel free to message me, especially if it’s to make clarifications. See you next week!

Thank you for reading!

Top Ten Tuesday: TWENTY HORROR&CONTEMPORARY READS Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature created by That Artsy Reader Girl (originally The Broke and the Bookish).

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