#Jenny's Diner Comic

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We could have done this over the blower.

#wildstorm 30th anniversary special #Jenny sparks #midnighter #zealot #mr majestic #Jackson king #blower #meeting #diner #no brainer #wildstorm #dan abnett #neil googe #dc comics #comics #2020s comics

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Spoilers for this week’s episode of Stargirl!

The JSA has a problem with Sylvester Pemberton.  The guy keeps flying off the handle and making everything worse, and he's got questionable ideas like taking Courtney out of class to teach her new tricks with the staff.  He continues to treat Pat poorly and just as a lowly sidekick, even though Pat's absolutely wiser and more cool-headed than he is.

Anyway.  The Shade goes back to his usual booth at the diner, and poor Maria the waitress is clearly terrified to get his tea wrong again, but for once he's pleased with it (he does however make a comment about it being about the 44th try, which is quite rude and he should know better.)  But that's when Sylvester and Pat show up to question him about the Gambler's murder, and Sylvester angrily accuses him of the killing, which annoys the Shade and frightens everyone else in the diner.  Later Sylvester and Courtney go to Shade's house to apologize for his aggression, but Shade and Sylvester needle each other so much that Starman blasts Richard across the lawn and yells at him for killing the JSA.  You may recall that the Shade had actually saved Dr Mid-Nite during the melee, and at worst is guilty of not saving the other JSAers who died.

This treatment seriously pisses off the Shade, who tells them that he'd enjoyed staying in Blue Valley but has got his own problems to deal with, and disappears into mist; the green light he saw earlier accompanies the use of his powers.  He later appears in full costume to apologize to Rick for not being able to help bring back Solomon Grundy, but tells him not to give up.  He appears somewhat regretful about his conduct, making a comment about his and Sylvester’s huge egos, and seems unwell or weak.  Then he leaves abruptly once again, and will probably be gone for a few episodes and may return with Jennie or Todd....he probably wants to learn what that green light is.  It's possible Todd's use of the Shadowlands may be affecting his own powers, or maybe he’s been infected by the Starheart.

I thought it unlikely that he'd be responsible for the murder, but before leaving he huffily tells Courtney and Sylvester that he'd been occupied with teaching Maria to make proper tea at the time of the killing.  I still think it's unlikely that Cindy did it, but she does have the Gambler's missing laptop, and that's rather incriminating.  The Crocks are clearly aware they're about to get into trouble for something, but it's probably something else (we know that Crusher wanted to attack Gambler but decided against it).  My bet is still on Helix or someone associated with them, but we'll see.

Meanwhile, Cameron Mahkent is troubled by his nascent powers and is acting unusually moody.  His evil grandparents tell him he's due for great things, and it seems likely that one day he'll be the new Icicle, just like his incarnation in the comics.  Comics Cameron is otherwise rather different, though.  It's nice to see the kindly art teacher (Paintball) back, but it seems he was permanently injured by the incident with Eclipso.

So a pretty good episode, and tensions are ramping up.  Hope it isn't long before we see the Shade again, and that someone reins in Sylvester before he turns into a complete disaster.

#the Shade #Stargirl #Starman #Icicle #Pat Dugan #Sportsmaster #TV #spoilers: Stargirl #Stargirl TV series #screencaps #reviews

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DC's Stargirl 3.08 "Chapter Eight: Infinity Inc. Part Two" has aired on the CW and I'm here to talk about it

Look at me, posting on release day for the first time since I believe the start of the season. Wild.

"Luckily you're with the one person who knows how to escape this place." Sure Jan. Sure.

I have a sneaking suspension that this episode is going to be one of those episodes where I do a lot of googling random names to see if they're anybody who actually exists in DC or was maybe a writer/artist for some JSA comics back in the day. Such as, these kids being shown as the alarm goes off. Tao Jones, Penny Dreadful, and Carcharo. Penny Dreadful is a character I've heard of before, but not the other two, though all three are real characters that are part of a group called Helix, which also included Mr Bones our BBEG.

Shadow Todd looks fucking awesome. But Jennie, sweetie. Maybe stop touching him? Because it keeps causing big explosions.

Maybe I'm the weird one because my grandparents had a rotary phone, so I know how to use one. But I feel like it's weird that Courtney doesn't. Like, it's not hard or weird to use.

Fuck you, Nurse Love. Your torture bullshit isn't how you help anyway, fuck that noise. Unrelated, but she knows Courtney is Stargirl. Which, yeah, obviously. But does that not raise alarm bells to Courtney? Or did she already know they know and I forgot about it? Also unrelated, but Courtney called Pat Dad!

Shadowland diner visions! The last time this happened, we saw the Zaricks again. Now, we see the Gambler again. And Pat's seeing his dad? Pat daddy issues reveal??

Odd they didn't take Jennie's ring. Maybe they can't.

Oh, I see, Pat's parents had him to fix their marriage. Terrible reason to have a kid. Some people aren't meant to be parents. And now it's the death of Shade's mom? Or sister maybe?

Now, why is Mr Bones watching the JSA? What's the point? What does he think they're gonna do, or prevent him from doing?

So, it was Shade's sister. And he regrets never saying goodbye to her.

Okay Bones, how do you know that if you can't get Todd's powers under control, it'll be the end of the world or whatever? That's a bold claim. I'm gonna need a second opinion. And of course, Courtney is like "the answer is the power of love" and it's probably gonna be true, but you know what? That's okay. Sometimes we want the tropes to be true.

Do I think shadowlands!Barbara and Pat's dad are telling the truth about Pat being a horrible father and whatever? No. But having been watching this show for two and a half seasons, yeah Pat could probably give Mike some more attention and work on meeting Mike at his level. But Pat's genuinely a good father. One of the few good fathers we see on T.V. Lord knows we don't get many. So don't listen to these fuckers Pat.

This psychic meeting between Jennie and Todd is so beautiful. I'm kind of surprised that the darkness leaving the ring isn't what they decided would give Todd his powers. But hey, Todd got everything under control! The power of love!! And also Pat and Shade are alive!!

Wait, so Helix isn't who's spying on everyone? Then who the fuck is? Please tell me it really was Dragon King this whole time, that'd be so fucking funny. I don't remember ever hearing about getting a second villain. And have these two episodes been called Infinity Inc because Helix is going to form Infinity Inc? Who are historically their enemies?? This mid-season has fully turned everything upside down.

And now a name drop of both the original and the second Sandman, Wesley Dodds and Sanderson "Sandy" Hawkins. Sandy for season four? Or maybe even later this season? We're probably going to see Jennie and Todd again later this season anyway.

Growth for Shade. I love it. I love seeing villains getting to grow and become okay people.

Now that this little side adventure is over, it's time to get back to the actual plot of the show. Let me know your guesses as to who the person spying on them really is. Right now I don't really have many guesses. I might spend some time this next week doing some research into JSA comic villains and see if there's anything that rings any bells. The promo for the next episodes looks pretty cool. I'm very into a confrontation between the JSA and the Mahkent family. And I do think that Cameron deserves to know the truth. It'll be great to see that train wreck. See that next week in DC's Stargirl 3.09 "Chapter Nine: The Monsters"

#stargirl cw #stargirl (dctv) #courtney whitmore #yolanda montez #rick tyler #beth chapel #cindy burman #pat dugan #barbara whitmore #mike dugan #stargirl #wildcat #hourman #dr midnite #shiv #s.t.r.i.p.e. #jakeem thunder #richard swift #jennie lynn hayden #todd rice #the shade #jade #obsidian #sheep talks superheroes

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1/2 And we are at 5x04! And this is where I officially start dying inside: the episode starts with the foursome ‘OH? OKAY! Look at them living their best life. You go boys! 4 years? 4 weeks? brian? Where have you been for the past 4 seasons? THEY FUCKED A COUPLE? Oh these two have it figured out. Nice. See this is what their finale will be: Together fucking couples.’ ‘OKAY WHERE THE FUCK IS HUNTER? Did they just forget about him? Its all about Jenny Rebecca now and no Hunter?’ ‘TED IS GETTING PLASTIC SURGERY? brian sees right through people. (brian says gay men are obsessed with youth and beauty and calls it pathetic) Bri Bri, you wanted to kill yourself because you turned 30.’ And we are at Justin/Mel/Linds scene ‘okay Lindsay this victim act you got going on is so fucking tiring. Yeah, where the fuck is Gus? I don’t know why but something about Justin being with JR is so weird to me. Give him Gus! He’s his step dad dammit!’ ‘HUNTER, HE’S ALIVE! Im glad someone remembers he exists. Look at him being the next Olympic swimmer’ he just saw Loretta/Rosie looking like Deb at the diner and pointed to the screen and yelled ‘IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE, ROSIE’ and then went dead silent. And we are now at the Brian/Mikey scene in the comic store ‘why is Mike being a bitch about superheroes party? He’s having a dinner party and wants Brian and Justin there? Sounds boring but at least Justin is invited.’ ‘Wait, Justin is gonna have a gallery show? That’s so fucking cool! Oh for fucks sake Lindsay, cry a fucking river. Not to be a horrible person but this whole victim act she is on needs to be called out by someone. Preferably Brian. Is she for real trying to start another custody battle over Justin?’ And we are back to Britin! ‘Why is Blondie suddenly hung up on other people’s relationships? If they cant make it? Blondie, mel and linds were the worst couple from the beginning. I actually agree with Brian, i hate when couples finish sentences for each othe- look at Blondie mocking him. I love my boys..*he goes dead silent while Brian talks about marriage* is it just me or does he sound very…*waves his cast in the air all awkward* season 1?’ And we are at the dinner with Monty and Eli ‘i was right this dinner is boring as fuck. I cant stand these two. You’re gonna actually tell me that Justin would enjoy them? I’m having war flashbacks to Ethan’s party. (Eli/monty mentions a petition to put in speed bumps) he said that to Brian as if that man cares. As if that man didn’t drive like he wanted to hit every kid in the pilot episode when he dropped off Justin at school. LOOK AT JUSTIN BRAGGING ABOUT HIS MANS JOB! I am living for him not remembering people’s names. Fuck these two. Justin wouldve HATED them, i know that for a fact so i don’t know why hes acting all mannered. Also fuck Mike, what kind of a friend just sits there and watches his best friend get attacked like that by two randoms?! (Brian just gave Mikey the swing gift) *starts laughing* oh fuck all of you that was funny, look up the word humor and add it to your personality because that was good’ And now we are at Hunter’s swim meet ‘i cant believe im agreeing with Ben but hold the fuck up. In front of our friends? And what is Brian? I thought he was your best friend? You’ve only reminded us of that every fucking episode. GO HUNTER! SWIM YOU LIL SHIT! (And the blood/callies parents moment happened) WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING SHIT JUST HAPPENED?! I AM GOING TO KILL HER PARENTS! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING SHIT WAS THAT?! FUCK EVERYONE.’ ‘Okay this is gonna sound weird but i swear Mel prefers the baby over Gus. Give gus to Brian and Justin for the night. I want to see how that would go! Why haven’t i gotten that yet?’ And we are back to Britin at babylon ‘i love that Blondie is just randomly visiting his man at work. Would’ve loved it even more at the office but i learned something with this show *looks at me and points at me with his cast* take what they give you cause they hate me for some reason. Why is Michael a topic of conversation with them? Fuck him.’

See this is what their finale will be: Together fucking couples. Cries in Britin.

*he goes dead silent while Brian talks about marriage* is it just me or does he sound very…*waves his cast in the air all awkward* season 1? AGAIN your brother sees it. I do sometimes wonder if as a fandom we just get into these vacuums of opinion that encourage us to see what we want to see (which is valid, art is up for interpretation) and would be completely nonexistent to someone watching for the first time without all the knowledge about the ship and the show. But your brother really sees how the writers erased Brian's growth and revert him to S1.

The comment about the speed bumps is hilarious. He really did drive like he was playing bowling for kids and his Jeep (rip) was the bowling ball.

Also fuck Mike, what kind of a friend just sits there and watches his best friend get attacked like that by two randoms?! MMHMM

That dinner is so awkward and cringe, I can't watch it. The secondhand embarrassment is too much and I die. (Seriously, I close my eyes and plug my ears and sing "la la la" and make my spouse tap me when the scene is over.)

#ask winderlylandchime #dear sweet anon #queer as folk #a straight man watches qaf us 2000 in the year of our lord 2023

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Chapter Select: The Rocketeer

Long before Disney ever imagined the juggernaut that would be the MCU, it made a small superhero movie that many have never even heard of. The Rocketeer is, in many ways, a movie ahead of its time. The Christopher Reeve Superman movies had declined to a point of being a joke, and Tim Burton's Batman had brought forth an inking of the gritty superhero movies that would become more a norm to modern audiences. The Rocketeer, however, embraced its premise well before Captain America embraced the WWII era and did so in a way many movies fail at.

The Roc-a-who you ask?(Wink at all those who got that). The Rocketeer is based on a comic from the 1980s and is a homage to serial heroes from the 30s through the 50s and the movie is very much made to be one of those serials. Although this movie was released in 1991 it has the feel of a classic black and white adventure from the 1930s and 1940s and that's were much of the charm comes from. It takes the era, 1938, seriously while still allowing room for some camp that a cheesy superhero from its set time would have. The world feels lived in and the characters relationships with one another are well formed and you don't find yourself asking who is this person to who. Not to mention many of the actions they take make sense and have been set up which makes the ultimate payoffs feel deserved.

As I mentioned earlier, The Rocketeer takes place in 1938 Los Angeles. Our protagonist is Cliff Secord (Bill Campbell), a stunt pilot, who in the opening of the movie crashes his racing plane after being involved in a car chase/shootout during a test flight. The event that lead to the car chase was the thief of a rocket powered pack that Cliff and his friend Peevy (Alan Arkin) discover following the accident. One thing that I enjoyed about his movie was that Cliff and Peevy tested the pack, not by immediately strapping it to Cliff's back, but by using a statue in his place. This action allow the two to discover the need of a helmet which many modern movies tend to overlook and just give the hero the fully functioning costume (Iron was a movie that got this right with Stark testing the suit). Another delightful moment comes from Cliff's first use of the rocket. While trying to save a friend who, for reasons that are set up prior, decides to fly a plane while drunk. His attempt is full of mistakes as one who assume someone strapping on a rocket powered backpack would have.

There is also the plot line involving Jenny (Jennifer Connelly), who is Cliff's girlfriend. She is an inspiring actress who is becoming bored with the routine the two have. The girl just wants one nice dinner instead of date night at the same diner. Jenny is an extra on a movie starring Neville Sinclair (Timothy Dalton). We learn earlier in the movie that Sinclair hired gangsters to steal the rocket pack so him being our main villain is no mystery though at this point his reasoning had yet to be revealed (it's a movie set in the late 1930s, so really not hard to figure it out). Through a series of mishaps, Sinclair discovers Jenny connection to Cliff and goes from firing her to giving her a speaking role. This all leads to a wonderful scene at the South Sea Club, an upscale restaurant that Sinclair takes Jenny to in order to seduce information out of her. Cliff shows up and mayhem ensues with Jenny being taken by Sinclair.

Now I know your think another damsel in distress. Thing is Jenny is the one who learns of Sinclair's true identity and even manages to knock him unconscious during an escape attempt. Girl did more than in one scene than most heroines do in two hours (looking at you Wonder Woman '84).

After some disposition giving by Howard Hughes (Terry O'Quinn), yes I know but go with it, Cliff heads to confront Sinclair. This all leads to the final confrontation involving the FBI, gangsters, Nazi's and, an airship. Yep sounds terrible on paper but remember this is a 1930s serial on the big screen so it's actually kind of fun. Admittedly the end battle suffers from 90s budget and technical restraints but it is a small blip on this otherwise entertaining movie.

There are many other small details that I haven't gone into, mostly dealing with set up and payoffs. I believe discovering these small gems on your own make the viewing experience more enjoyable.

The Rocketeer is one of my all-time favorite movies and is often forgotten due mainly to when it was released. It was released just a week prior to Terminator 2, so let's face it a fun early hollywood type movie didn't stand a chance. Hopefully, this will get at least one person interested in this movie because it really is worth the watch. In fact, I may go watch it right now.

#movie review #the rocketeer #opinion #Spotify

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Jenny’s Diner: Full Comic 

Life at its best is also bittersweet. How lucky are we to have people we’ll miss?

Sorry guys, I was going to put the last panel below the reading break, but that kept destroying the resolution. Once again, I’m not going to write down the story. The clues are in the details if you really care to look. 

Dedication and Artist’s apology 

In loving memory of Kim Votroubeck 1947-2021 No one ever goes un-missed.

Sorry guys this isn’t my usual MO. I’m actually terrified of posting this XD So...we will now return to our regularly scheduled broadcast of cute and fluffy illustrations. Much love and take care. 

#dc fanart #fan comic #batfamily #batfam fanart #batfamily fanart #nightwing #red hood fanart #nightwing and red hood #dick grayson and jason todd #causal #casual hero #casualwear #Jenny's Diner Comic #possibly triggering #Character Design #Character Concept #character death #domestic life #batman comics #DC comics #Fanart #DC Heroes #Jason Todd #dick grayson #dick and jason #costume design #alternatecostumes #Illustration #illustrator #art

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detention and the picture of dorian gray. | s.b

pair: f!reader x stanley barber

warnings: language, the word "slut" being used, mentions of food, weed in use. word count: 1.8k summary: y/n gets detention because she refused to change into something else. she then meet stanley barber, the king of breaking uniform himself.

a/n: big thanks to liane my love for helping me with this fic 😩👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 (@amourtentiaa). tags: @nothinghcppens @eunoniaa @isolemnlyswearpevensie @aspiringsloth20 @thatslovelymoony @amourtentiaa @vsawyer1989 @fives-cup-of-coffee

Y/N SAT QUIETLY IN MRS. JEFFERSON'S ENGLISH CLASS AS SHE PLAYED WITH THE EDGE OF HER SKIRT. she had gotten this plaid skirt from her aunt the other day. she usually doesn't go for skirts but this skirt just looked too cute to pass on.

she let out a yawn, glancing at the clock. she moved her gaze to her friend syd with a small smile. the girls were planning on getting milkshakes after school, and y/n was excited to leave school.

the bell rung and y/n got up as fast as she could, grabbing her backpack and pencil, heading for the door. syd was taking her time gathering her stuff, so y/n got to the door faster than her.

"ms. l/n, you know that skirt is against dress code?" mrs. jefferson eyed y/n, judgement in her expression. y/n narrowed her eyes on the teacher, knitting her eyebrows.

"since when are skirts against dress code?" y/n replied coolly, as syd let out a small chuckle.

mrs. jefferson's eyes widened as she got up. "it's short. a distraction, if you will. you should try wearing something modest. i'll get you a slip so you can call your mother-"

"excuse me? modest? well sorry to break it to you, mrs. jefferson, modest isn't-"

"how dare you interrupt me? detention!" mrs. jefferson bickered as y/n rolled her eyes, as syd watched in amusement. the teacher gave her a slip, and watched as the girls walked out.

"whatever, and i'm not changing." y/n rolled her eyes in annoyance as her and syd walked down the hallway to their next class.

Y/N WALKED IN THE GYM WITH CROSSED ARMS AND A PINCHED EXPRESSION. she saw there was only two other people there - stanley barber (the king of breaking dress code) and jenny tuffield. she was a few minutes late, but she needed to use the restroom.

she sat down near stanley with a huff and put her backpack directly next to her. she tapped her foot as she waited for something to happen, for someone to talk.

jenny finally sighed and faced the two. "so, why're you both here? you seem like . . . goody two shoes."

y/n narrowed her eyes on the girl, "mrs. jefferson called me a slut, basically."

"a slut?" stanley choked out with a laugh, causing the girls to glare at him. "w-why? you're not a slut,"

"because my skirt is short." y/n let out a groan, and rolled her eyes at the mere thought of mrs. jefferson calling her skirt short. it wasn't short! and plus, she has shorts under it anyway.

"yeah mrs. jefferson is a sour old bitch who was way to much free time on her hands." jenny nods in agreement with another loud sigh, laying her head on the bench behind her. "what about you?"

"um, didn't do my homework," stanley said as y/n nodded along to his words.

"well, that sucks." y/n states as she gave him a small smile. she expected him to might've broken dress code or something, but it was something else.

the principal walked into the gym with a angry expression, as if to scare them. jenny didn't move her, instead she stared at the principal.

"you kids are here today because you disrespected teachers," he eyed y/n. "or didn't do what you were supposed to do. you are to clean this whole gym. and i will be checking it after." he seemed done with our bullshit, so he sighed and left the gym, "don't fool around, i will know."

"he doesn't actually check, i've been in detention a million times and i haven't done a single thing." jenny whispered with a smirk, turning her body to face us. "so . . ."

"so," stanley echoed, looking around the gym. y/n was not going to clean the entire gym, but the others didn't seem like they wanted to talk at all. she took out a book for her reading class, opening it. stanley took out a rubik's cube.

jenny yawned and took her bag, getting up and walking to the bathroom. stanley glanced at y/n with an interest etched in his expression. "what are you reading?"

y/n turned her head to stanley, "um, the picture of dorian gray. it's for mr. white's class."

stanley nodded with a smile. "do you like it? what page are you on?" he moved closer to y/n, looking onto the book with her.

"192, i'm pretty much in the middle. it's nice, but i probably wouldn't read it on my own. i don't read the classics unless i have to, i prefer modern romance - or like, greek mythology."

"oh, that's nice. i like comics more than books, i don't think i have a good enough attention span to read an actual book, y'know?" stanley spoke as y/n nodded along.

"same here, i guess it depends on the book." y/n smiled. "do you think the principle will actually come check on us?"

stanley shook his head, "uhh, no! why would he? plus, i'm sure jenny was right. who'd take the time out of their day . . . and use it to check if a bunch of kids cleaned an entire gym?"

y/n laughed as stanley smiled. "you're right." an awkward silence fell between the two as they looked around the gym. y/n decided she needed to use the restroom, so she put the bookmark in the book and got up. "bathroom,"

stanley smiled awkwardly and nodded. "u-uhh, have fun!"

y/n laughed and nodded, walking down the stands and walking to the door. she opened the heavy door, walking into the bathroom. she looked for any sign of jenny after a few seconds of silence, but there was no sign.

y/n scoffed, "bitch!" she quickly washed her hands before walking out of the bathroom. stanley was laying on the bench, playing with the rubik's cube.

"stanley, jenny left!" y/n crossed her arms walking up to the boy. stanley sat up, scoffing. "should we . . . ditch too? i mean, jenny did. why shouldn't we?"

"yeah, sure," stanley breathed out. he took his backpack, and gave y/n's hers. he grabbed her book, handing it to her. "where are we going?"

y/n smiled as she took the book and put the book in her backpack. "we should get milkshakes, at that diner."

stanley nodded and got up from the stands. "okay, let's go!"

y/n let out a laugh, walking beside stanley.

THEY WERE FINALLY ON THE MAIN ROAD, WALKING TO THE DINER. y/n lead the way, as stan was a few steps behind. "don't you have a car, stanley?"

he nodded, "i didn't drive it here today. my dad's home, so -"

"oh," y/n nodded knowingly. "you don't have a good relationship with your dad?" this was definitely not something you ask when you first meet someone, but if the shoe fits, the shoe fits.

he walked next to y/n, "yeah nope. i hate him." he paused, "well i don't really hate him, he's my dad. you can't ever really hate your dad, y'know?"

y/n nodded. "makes sense. dads aren't too great, if we're being honest."

he laughed with a nod, "yup, they suck. dads, who needs 'em?"

"yeah, as long as you have a good few friends and a good hangout place, you're good to go. that's what my aunt says," y/n smiled as stanley nods.

"well, she's right." stanley says with as he looked ahead. "i like your skirt, it isn't slutty. it's cute,"

y/n's face went red as she awkwardly laughed, "thanks. i like your jacket,"

he faced her with a smile, "thanks. i found it at the thrift store . . . pretty sure it's like, older than my grandpa. but i washed it! so we're all good."

"vintage and hand me down clothing is cuter, if we're being honest. if it has history, it's better." y/n spoke as stanley nodded along.

"yeah," stanley agreed as he took out a tin with weed, taking one out and offering one to her. "want one?"

y/n has never had weed before, and she's never thought she'd ever agree to smoke . . . especially in public. she nodded and took it from his hand. "i've never smoked weed before, i've vaped before-"

"vaping is nothing like weed, y/n. it is amazing," stanley winked at the girl, giving her a lighter. "do you know how?"

"you just inhale and exhale, right?" y/n whispered as she looked the weed.

"let me do it first," stanley says as you handed it back to him. he placed it in his mouth, and lit it slowly. he inhaled and took it out, and slowly blew it out. "here,"

y/n takes it and copies his actions - inhaling and slowly exhaling. she coughed out loudly, as stanley laughed loudly. "how'd i do?" y/n coughed out.

"you did good, uh, for your first time." stanley smiled as y/n rolled her eyes playfully.

"just say i did horribly and get it over with," y/n said in a joking manner as stanley shook his head.

"you did good! i promise," stanley laughed. "you want some more?" he took a long draw before handing her the blunt. she nodded, taking it. she a small draw, and this time she didn't cough as hard. "now that one, was good."

"i thought my first one was good!" y/n laughed loudly as stanley smiles.

"that one was better!" stanley spoke as she nodded. she handed him the blunt, and he took another draw. "you didn't cough, that's good."

they went back and forth with it, and soon enough, they were on their forth blunt and were very high. they decided not to go to the diner, but instead, a park.

it was around 6 pm, and they were on a bench. stanley had his head on y/n's shoulder as they talked. "so, you're dad's like . . . gone most of the time?"

he nodded. "yup, it's all good until he decides he wants to come home."

"i'm really sorry, stan. your dad doesn't deserve you,"

he looked up at her from her shoulder. "yeah, i can't wait til i can go to college, away from him. it'll be the best day of my life." y/n nodded, as they kept looking up at they sun setting. "hey y/n, do you . . . do you think there's like, a genuine meaning to life?"

"maybe. i-i don't think there is a genuine meaning to life." she paused as stanley looked up at her. "i think you have to create your meaning. if you think about it, nothing ever matters until you make it matter. your life can have a million meanings or one. it's your life, only yours."

she looked down at stan, "what do you think?"

"i think you're high off your mind right now, y/n. but uh, that was beautiful." he laughed as y/n scoffed.

"thank you,"

"we should get going, now." stanley sighed as he lifted his head from her shoulder. "let me walk you home."

"yeah," she sighed as she got up. "want some perfume? because uh, we smell like weed,"

he laughed. "nope, i'm fine. my dad'll think i have a girlfriend or something."

y/n smiled as they started walking. "we should hang out more."

he nodded, "sure. let's do that."

#stanley barber #sydney novak #i am not okay with this #ianowt #stanley barber x reader #stanley barber x f!reader #syds fics

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Saturday, October 2nd

BUFFY: Ew. SPIKE: It's not blood, it's bourbon. BUFFY: (slower) Eeeeew.

~~Crush~~

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THE WILD STORM #13-18 JULY - DECEMBER 2018 BY WARREN ELLIS, JON DAVIS-HUNT AND STEVE BUCCELLATO

SYNOPSIS (FROM DC DATABASE AND COMIC VINE)

It is raining in New York when Jacklyn King arrives in the alley, summoned by Director Miles Craven and Deputy Director Ivana Baiul. She is surprised to find a crimescene - and horrified to find the victim is Mitch Saunders, her subordinate. Baiul rattles off the timeline - forensics puts the time of death almost immediately after when they know he let IO headquarters yesterday. Baiul is condescending to Jacklyn, but offers to contact Henry Bendix, head of Skywatch, whose computers they just hacked, and who had both motive and means to order such an assassination.

Craven demurs on a diplomatic solution, ordering the mobilization of three CATs (covert action teams) and the beginning of a plan to kill everyone Skywatch Ground Division in New York. War between the agencies may have already begun.

On the Skywatch satellite headquarters, Henry Bendix and his XO Lauren Pennington are wondering if Craven will back off after what they did. Bendix admits that if it doesn't, they could target the families of agents - and also start disabling research facilities. Pennington interjects that wasn't productive when they did it last time, so Bendix gives her an order: he wants two sets of plans, one where they stealthily disable a research site, and one where they leave a public pile of corpses.

In Levin's Diner, in the desert, John Lynch is being watched. Looking up from his greasy breakfast, he locks eyes with a distracted man at the counter, who states that "they all know" what he did, and that he doesn't know what grew from his actions. Musing, Lynch leaves the diner immediately.

That night, he arrives at a farmstead in the middle of nowhere. Musing that the man he seeks used to like being around people, he almost doesn't notice the field of stakes behind the barn, each one topped by a crude arrow, all pointing at the same area of the night sky. Entering the residence via the back door, he sees his target is watching an adventure show on the television, but is also aware of his entrance. Lynch introduces himself, and identifies the man as Colonel Marc Slayton.

In shadows, Slayton tells him there is beer in the fridge. Lynch takes two cans, and throws one to Slayton. He wonders what drew Slayton here. Grinning, Marc explains he looked up his surname. It comes from the Norse word sletta, meaning "level field", and the Old English word tun, meaning a farm. So, he went to be a farmer on a level field, hunting and planting.

Lynch cuts to the point - IO is looking into Project Thunderbook. He tried to destroy all the files, but he left an index that he could watch, so that he could tell if someone ever came looking - and he might not have gotten all the files. So, he has come to warn Marc Slayton.

Slayton accuses him of not knowing what was done to the Thunderbook subjects. Lynch rattles off a potted history of the project - how IO found corpses in ancient burial sites which contained active genetic material they identified as alien. How their gen/active samples were found to plug easily into human DNA. How he went to his best and brightest, and offered them a place in a project to use the gen/active samples to become human enhanciles. And how, despite the unknown factors, despite the dangers, Marc Slayton had been the first to volunteer, stating his desire to push the possible forward and improve the world.

Slayton lashes back verbally, saying his position has changed. As his wrist starts to glow, he explains that the sample he was bonded to turned out to be a genetic engine that grew an organic computer inside of him. It grew other things, too, he says, as a glowing barbed tendril emerges from his wrist. And he has been feeding it. Feeding it enough that he has started to hear it talk to him, hear it pull him towards... something, possibly the other Thunderbook subjects, possibly beings far stranger. It wants to eat people. It can tell there is something unusual about Lynch. And it occurs to him that whatever IO knows, the only person who definitely knows his location... is Lynch.

Slayton strikes out with his barbed tendril, but Lynch dodges right. Firing wildly, Lynch punctures Slayton's beercan, which distracts Slayton, Slayton lashes out again, but Lynch tricks him into burying his tendril in the fridge, then knocks over the fridge and shoots rapidly into it as he runs. The resulting explosion wrecks the kitchen, giving Lynch the space to escape to his car, at which point, he considers Slayton warned, and drives away at high speed.

In the doorway of a closed-down music shop, the homeless man known as "the mayor" is trying to sleep when he is shaken awake by two women, who introduce themselves as Shen Li-Men and Jenny Mei Sparks. Opening a portal, Li-Men tries to recruit him by letting him sleep on Jenny's couch.

At his farm, Marc Slayton is bandaging small cuts in his face. He has decided that he does not like John Lynch, who always escapes the fallout of whatever the situation is, only to return and judge others. Slayton turns to self-pity, remarking he has "hunted" so many humans and "planted" them so that their souls could be launched to the world his alien implant came from. In the mirror, an alien creature with six glowing eyes seeks to calm him, saying he has done so much for it, and that to save himself, he should of course flee John Lynch or IO or whatever authorities they can summon and hit the open road. Crying tears of gratitude, Slayton identifies this being as "the Carer".

In her home, the popstar known as Voodoo sleeps drugged and deeply. A being emerges from the shadows, and placing one massive hand on her head, it orders her to "dream of the world as it truly is".

On the Skywatch satellite, a mission to Mars is undocking. With its drive running and its stealth systems operating, it will be at Mars in a week. On the control deck, Bendix and Pennington are making small talk, when Pennington says that Bendix and Craven have exactly one thing in common. They are afraid of a public scrap. A public scrap would reveal the power games both agencies have been playing. So, while she has compiled a list of people it would be useful to assassinate, and a list of facilities that could be destroyed or disabled, she has also written up a plan to break IO's control on Earth, radically destabilizing life and making it impossible for another polity to take their place.

It is night in New York, and John Colt is recording a video on his smartphone. Though he does not know his birthday by the reckoning of his home, he picked tomorrow as his birthday, long ago, and he makes a point of alerting Jacob Marlowe of its arrival every year, so that he starts the day angry. And he does this because when arrived here, on their spaceship from the homeworld, Khera, Jacob made them assume human shapes, to an unknown end. And then, for a reason he never explained to John, Jacob trashed the expedition by blowing up the spaceship, stranding the survivors here.

As he holds the camera, John marks his birthday as he always does - by temporarily shedding his human disguise to appear in his true form. Holding the phone in one hand and a glass of champagne in the other, John holds the camera to expertly frame his monstrous six-eyed face, and raises a toast to his own continued good health.

In New York, Lucy Blaze - Skywatch Ground Division, codename "Zealot" - is arriving five minutes late to work. However, before her co-workers can reassure her that this is fine, their office is attacked by a pair of I.O. covert action teams (C.A.T.s), who spray bullets across the office. Thinking fast, Lucy directs the last other survivor to the elevator banks to escape, then throws a desk at the attackers using superhuman strength. Using this as an opening, she proceeds to kill all six attackers using a silenced pistol. In the ensuing silence, she radios security for advice.

In a garage in the desert, John Lynch pulls in and addresses the lone employee by name: Alexandra Fairchild. Alexandra is suspicious, so John comes clean - someone in I.O. has started looking into Project Thunderbook, and he is warning all the project subjects so they can properly prepare. Accepting this, Alexandra brews him a pot of coffee and explains that she originally moved here because it is down the road from a town full of nice people who keep to themselves.

John asks if there is anyone around to eavesdrop, which gets Alexandra talking - about how she's been merrily surviving since she got out of the service, armed with nothing but some fake IDs, the "severance pay" that John gave everyone, and her skills as a mechanic who fixes things. How she tried to live with humans - mostly men, some women - and tried to fix them, before giving up in resignation. The tipping point was when she told her then-boyfriend that she was pregnant with their child, and he tried to kick the fetus to death, so she broke his neck with her bare hands.

The alien genetic implant that she got as part of Project Thunderbook wants her to fight. When she fights, it feeds on her anger, making her stronger and tougher every time. And realising the damage she could do to that child, she gave the baby up for adoption and vanished.

At this point, a plume of dust is visible on the road, and Alexandra mentions the other detail - the town down the road contains a family of ne'er-do-wells who like to mess with people. Recently, they stepped over the line, and Alexandra had asked them to stop. When they responded by targeting her, she killed the family matriarch. They are coming for her now. Today she will either die by violence, or vanish in the chaos - and she's not sure she can die. As Alexandra prepares to heft a pickup truck as a melee weapon, John Lynch asks what her daughter's name is.

Alexandra says her daughter should be in the system under the name "Caitlin Fairchild". She thanks him for warning her, and says that John ought to leave before the fighting starts.

As John Lynch drives away, he sees the garage explode behind him, and regrets that his life has led him here.

In New York, Miles Craven is having a video-call with Henry Bendix. Bendix is furious that I.O. would send C.A.T.s against his territory, and vows that Craven will atone. Craven responds that he took no pleasure from the attack, which was a punitive measure in response to the attack on I.O.'s Hightower facility and the subsequent hack on I.O.'s server - actions for which Craven will hold Skywatch responsible. Then Craven hangs up on him.

In Jenny Mei Sparks' London flat, Jenny and Shen Li-Men are explaining the world to the vagrant known as "the mayor", using Jenny's full-wall mind-map. The mayor is visibly agitated, and accuses them of talking about him as though he were not present. Li-Men thinks she has a solution to his predicament, and hands him a pill, saying it is medicine. The mayor responds with paranoia, but Jenny zaps him with electricity from her fingers - he is eating the damn pill.

Once he has swallowed the pill, Li-Men asks him his name. In amazement, the mayor says his name is Jack Hawksmoor.

On a country road with nearby foliage, Marc Slayton is experiencing car trouble. He flags down a passing motorist, who seems helpful, but Slayton undercuts him by asking which secret agency he works for. The man in the car demonstrates glowing eyes and says he works for Skywatch, prompting Slayton to tear the car apart with his whip appendage. Taking his attacker's spines, she starts singing.

In Skywatch Headquarters, Henry Bendix is fuming at the outcome of his last conversation with with Miles Craven. Skywatch has been blamed for an attack on an I.O. installation. Faced with the news from Pennington that their organization is not responsible, Bendix orders the deployment of the Little Stick - an experimental weapon developed in the Eighties, a foot-long diamond rod, which, when dropped from orbit, achieves sufficient velocity to strike the target with the force of a tactical nuclear device.

In London, Li-Men Shen is having a vision - a man, pinioned, his mouth in a gaping, silent scream, while science is perpetrated on his body: skin removed and reattached, treads on his feet, wires in his brain, bugs in his guts. Snapping out of this vision, she names the perpetrators as Skywatch, the secret space agency. The victim, the homeless man known as "the mayor", introduces himself as Jack Hawksmoor. He is still recovering from the drug Shen gave him, but he has a theory - Skywatch kidnapped and experimented on him, to make him into something that could survive and labor in a toxic city. And that he doesn't think he was the only one.

In orbit, a diamond rod - the Little Stick - breaks atmosphere, landing on the Hightower facility with a colossal boom.

In a gas station bathroom, Marc Slayton is having doubts. He regards his work for the being he calls the Carer as holy, but still he feels ill at the necessary killing. The being appears in a nearby mirror, and announce itself as "the Khera", and explains that it is what is necessary. Crying in gratitude and repentance, Slayton exits the bathroom, returning to the scene of three gruesome murders, and pausing only to craft an arrow to launch their souls as the Carer told him, he moves on.

In a small bar, John Lynch enters. Talking briefly to the barman, he sits down with a shy-looking man of Chinese descent in a corner table, and identifies him as Andrew Kwok. The shy man demurs, introducing himself as Philip Chang. John pulls out a scanner, insisting that this device identifies the shy man as Kwok - and that he came to warn Kwok that I.O. is looking into Project Thunderbook. At this, the shy man stops smiling. He explains that while Lynch gave him a new fake identity, he didn't trust Lynch to crack under torture, so he used his money to get plastic surgery and a new fake ID, and moved on with his life. He has a wife now, and two children - Hector & Percival, both named for their mother's love of Arthurian myth.

At this point, John Lynch starts to bleed from his good eye, as Chang explains that he will kill Lynch in the most painless way he can find, and then hide the body. Lynch responds by shooting him in the face, but Chang is able to slow the bullet in midair. Chang boasts that a single bullet will not be enough - so Lynch fires six more. As Chang sweats from holding all of them, Lynch explains that while Chang's ability to hyperfocus made him a great assassin, it left him unable to multitask, which is why he's about to die. Pausing to shoot the barman, who has pulled out his shotgun in response to the noise, Lynch questions why, despite the respect he has tried to show them by giving a fair warning, all the Thunderbook enhanciles have done is boast of their offspring, or try to kill him. As he struggles against the bullets, Chang stutters that this may be because the alien enhancements they have mean that the agents are no longer strictly human, but are driven by goals of conquest or colonization. Lynch muses, says he will see that Chang's kids are cared for, and then shoots Chang in the head. Pausing only to throw a grenade which starts a fire and covers his tracks, he flees the scene.

In New York, Miles Craven is having a videophone conversation with Henry Bendix. Bendix shows footage of the remains of Hightower, and insists that he does not care enough about I.O. to cover his tracks when he attacks them. That he truly believes that the Earth would be best used as a resource supply center for the space-based civilization Skywatch is building. And that if I.O. touches his people again, he will use one of the Little Sticks on I.O.'s New York headquarters, and leave Craven to bury the dead and explain the damage.

Craven responds by saying he will relinquish control of the Skywatch Ground Division offices, but that the surviving agent, Lucy Blaze, is officially barred from New York, on pain of death. With a gesture of contempt, he ends the transmission.

Walking back to his office, Miles Craven meets his head of Analysis, Jackie King, who explains that forensics on Mitch Saunders' phone showed the presence of spyware - spyware that Skywatch specifically tried to erase. Skywatch knows what they did, but not how they did it. But Skywatch's reliance on hardware leaves them vulnerable to basic electronic weaknesses - by deploying countermeasures against the recent bot attack, Skywatch showed where their space station was. Should I.O. require, they can just nuke them.

Miles asks Jackie if she wants a war, and Jackie responds in the negative - she wants an execution, and if Miles will not give the order, she will pursue her goal by other means.

Going to her office, Jackie throws a computer monitor through a glass divider in frustration.

In a Skywatch safehouse, Lauren Pennington is congratulating Lucy Blaze on her recent actions, and his informing her of a new, roving brief, where she covers cases all over America. Lucy wonders if this is a punishment for her actions during the I.O. attack on the New York offices, but Pennington insists - this is all good news.

Besides, says Pennington as she raises a glass of wine, given the current détente between Skywatch and I.O., New York might not be around long enough for Lucy to properly miss.

In Jacob Marlowe's safehouse, Angie Spica has "found" a copy of the machine telepathy data the wild CAT brought back from the Hightower blacksite, and has used it to change how she interacts with her implanted technology. Unprepared, she wonders if she can use it to access the internet... and her technology responds by logging her onto the internet, visualised as a set off central hubs with individual nodes splitting off them in neat patterns.

Angie is amazed at this scene, but is even more surprised when she is greeted by Jenny Mei Sparks, who immediately imposes herself on Angie's electronic view and introduces herself, saying that she is the person who lives here.

The two introduce themselves - Angie as a woman who built a robot suit into herself and is on the run from IO, and who has been taken in by the tech mogul Jacob Marlowe, but is also stealing from him; and Jenny as a woman who is over a century old, not entirely human, distrusts IO and Skywatch, can live inside communications systems, and carries a lot of electricity.

Jenny decides that she likes Angie, and that if Angie ever needs to escape from Jacob Marlowe, she only needs to call, and Jenny will come and help - her and every friend she can bring. With a lazy wave, Jenny Mei Sparks vanishes - leaving Angie's world a little stranger and a little nicer.

Somewhere west of there, John Lynch parks his car in a driveway. He walks a path through rocky grounds in a red twilight, towards a minimalist two-story house with a hexagonal tower sticking out of it. Seeing the front door ajar, he remembers the danger he faced at his previous stops, so he pulls out his gun and moves carefully through the building.

He finds nothing on the ground floor, moving through a spacious and expertly-cleaned house, before checking in the hexagonal tower. And there, a floating woman with glowing red eyes advises him to put his gun away before she makes him have an accident. John recognises her at once: Gloria Spaulding, the woman he came here to see. He compliments her on her house and warns her that IO may be looking into Project Thunderbook, the program which gave her an alien genetic implant, and that she should be careful for a bit, but that considering the obvious costly nature of her house, the care she has taken to protect herself, and her untroubled status, he thinks she will be fine.

Curious, he asks her if she has had a child since they last saw, like Kwok, like Fairchild. Gloria admits she felt a great compulsion to have a baby, but once she had given birth, her normal detached nature reasserted itself, and she abandoned the child with Gloria's mother.

Gloria's detachment always served her well in her IO role as a black bag operative specialising in retrieving items or data. It served her well in the private sector, where her skills have earned her money, and the trust of "all kinds of interesting and spooky friends". But her Thunderbook implant, in addition to granting her superhuman power, also worked to calm her anxieties, to the point where now she feels... nothing, neither positive emotions or negative.

Gloria says that Lynch needs to leave, as she has to pack up and go into hiding, but in thanks for the warning, she leaves him with one in turn: Marc Slayton's implant can remember where it came from.

As the floor tiles starts to float loose, Lynch runs for the door. He makes it to his car as the house disassembles, and as he drives away, in the rearview mirror, he sees a feminine silhouette against the red moon, dragging the substance of the house into the twilight sky behind it.

In Jacob Marlowe's fortress warehouse, Angie Spica is asking Cole Cash for help, as he knows more about guns than she does. Cole wonders aloud what she would do with such information - whereupon, Angie uses her implants to create an object the same size and shape as a handgun bullet cartridge. Without Cole's training, she can only create prop. With Cole's help, she can safely pull apart bullets and guns, scan them all - and she will never be unarmed again!

Stephen Rainmaker was the most dangerous man John Lynch knew even before he was inducted into the Thunderbook program. So much so that nobody could quite define how Thunderbook changed him. On his trip around America to warn his old team, Lynch left Rainmaker until last— for a reason. This is the visit that Lynch always knew could kill him. Meanwhile, Marc Slayton is discovering new things about America, IO and Skywatch.

Miles Craven needs a minute, but Jackie King, who has an appointment with him, insists that he do his job as the head of International Operations. Based on the data her team recovered from their illegal hack on the computers of Skywatch, Cole Cash—the former IO operative they presumed dead but who showed up as part of a wild CAT who interfered with an assassination—is not working for Skywatch, but they now have a positive ID on one other member of the wild CAT, who was an astronaut who died decades ago. She thinks they can investigate more.

Miles Craven lists off his problems: Jacob Marlowe, the tech billionaire whose death he ordered, is still alive. Angie Spica, the rogue IO engineer whose capture he ordered, is missing. Mitch Saunders, the IO office worker who was the victim of a Skywatch phone bug, is dead, and when he attacked the Skywatch office in New York in retaliation, the two heavily-armed teams he sent were singlehandedly shot to death by Skywatch agent Lucy Blaze. Michael Cray, the IO assassin who he ordered to be "retired", is alive and working for a San Francisco division of Skywatch. Hightower, the IO research station, was hacked by parties unknown, and then destroyed from orbit by Skywatch as a show of strength. Craven is left feeling like someone is pulling a con on him, and that they are winning at his expense.

Angry, Jackie responds that Craven only feels like this because he is weak. Craven is angered by this, but becomes defensive, saying he has to be proportionate in his actions. Jackie recites the speech he gave when he took control of IO, about how the agency was beholden to a mission to save the world from chaos and anarchy, and in the service of that mission, they would do great and terrible things. Now chaotic events are assailing the world... and Miles Craven is sleeping in his office and complaining to her. If he cannot be equal to the burden of the times, she says, he should give the job to someone else.

On Skywatch's satellite, Henry Bendix, the agency's head, is talking to Dr Ragnar Helspont, the head of the agency's posthuman experimental reseach office. Helspont has good news—Christine Trelane sent him the medical readouts about Michael Cray, who Skywatch secretly implanted with something years ago which activated recently due to a surge of electromagnetism he received while trying to assassinate Jacob Marlowe.

Helspont boasts that he has been watching all the people Skywatch perpetrated posthuman research on, and says that his mind-control implants will perfectly when the time comes. Helspont wonders why Bendix does not keep these slave posthumans on this space station, to be teleported to Earth on his whim, but Bendix shoots down the idea, saying that if one got free, they could easily rupture the hull and kill everyone.

Helspont mentions that he used to work as part of Project Thunderbook, but left with all his research when John Lynch shuttered the program. Defecting to Skywatch, he was able to create fascinating—and controllable—human variants. Skywatch's previous subjects were prone to neural damage, but Helspont is confident in his work. "Everything in Heaven is fine"

In Jenny Mei Sparks' London flat, Shen Li-Men has recovered from trying to treat Jack Hawksmoor, who is in the shower with a shaving kit and a bag of new clothes. She says he has neural damage which is causing his amnesia and his eccentric actions, and while she can treat the symptoms, she needs to find the cause. Jenny says she just needs to know if Jack is able for the vigilante actions she plans to start, or if he needs to be somewhere quiet, to recover. Jack, clean-shaven, emerges from the shower and defends himself—though he may never fully recover, he is absolutely ready to get revenge on the people who gave him amnesia.

On a country backroad, John Lynch is driving. When he comes across Marc Slayton with, he responds fast, firing a flashbang from a grenade launcher to stun Slayton, and then another to further incapacitate him. Exiting the car, he spells out his position—the whole time Slayton has been trying to track him, Lynch had a tracking device on Slayton's car. Before, Slayton was able to surprise him, but that advantage is gone now.

Lych pulls out his handgun, and explains how fearsome his bullets are. Slayton pulls out his coils, and prepares to lash back, but Lynch fires first—and shoots a hole in Slayton's car's, from the engine to the license plate. As Slayton pauses in confusion, Lynch spells out his position—he does not want to kill Slayton. He does not care about Slayton. But if IO is coming for Project Thunderbook, then they will strike at him from their New York headquarters, and the only way for Slayton to defend himself is with an offense against IO and its head, Miles Craven. Confused, Slayton looks to "the Carer", the hallucinatory embodiment of his alien implant, and it agrees with Lynch. Wishing Slayton good fortune, Lynch gets back in his car and drives away.

In the wild CAT's safehouse, Angie is writing a goodbye letter, explaining her respect for Adri, how she is leaving all her data on Kenesha's computer, and how she hopes to meet them again but will not come looking for more favors. That done, she puts out a message just as Jenny Sparks told her... and Shen appears appears and invite to walk through a doorway in space. Perplexed, Jenny complies and finds herself in Jenny's London apartment. Shen introduces Jack, who Angie immediately recognizes as the New York homeless man known as "the mayor". Angie explains that what finally convinced her to join Jenny's gang was a phantasmagorial visitation from a being whose likeness she produces—who Shen recognizes from her magical knowledge—and who referred to Jenny as having "the authority". Jenny accepts this news without blinking.

On a train somewhere in America, Michael Cray is explaining to a fellow passenger that his former employers were all jerks and he is travelling to New York by train to give one in particular a piece of his mind. She accepts this information at face value, but in the reflection of the window, the face that represents Michael's superhuman implant is smiling.

In the wild CAT's safehouse, Jacob Marlowe, the team's patron, is reading Angie's letter in mild frustration, but before the team can read it, Kenesha bursts in and informs them that an IO research station has just trapped a cosmic particle of immense power, and they need to raid the facility at once to stop any research.

At an open air cocktail bar in Los Angeles, a pair of aliens whose faces resemble the true face of John Colt—and the faces of Slayton & Cray's implants—are ordering drinks and complaining about how difficult it is to manage Earth. They are both glad that nobody else can perceive as as strange—especially when Lucy Blaze walks into the bar and orders a water. The aliens recognize her as "Zannah of the Khera", a former underling of Emp, the rebel who sabotaged the Kheran mission to convert Earth into a slave state. Zannah in turn rebelled against Emp, and so today, the two aliens have to balance Emp & Zannah's agendas, and IO's, and Skywatch's, all in secret, just to give the humans a chance at evolving naturally. And for this thankless job, they have rewarded themselves by choosing to get drunk on this, their night off.

On the Skywatch satellite, Bendix and Pennington are looking out over a view of Earth and a backdrop of stars. Bendix is considering giving Helspont a higher budget. And doing something radical to make Earth more "useful". And killing Miles Craven. As he considers, he sings a children's song and grins maniacally.

REVIEW

By an annoying mistake, there are two issues #13. It will surely bug people forever.

As I said before, this story is too decompressed. Had it been bi-weekly, it would have been acceptable. But it took a bit more than two years to complete and it’s nothing but a big long prologue.

But I’ll tell you why that is great instead. Unlike DCU and MCU... and even the early Image Universe, the world of WorldStorm is cohesive. Everything was designed from the same world. It’s not a panache of properties, all banding together in the same universe. I feel like that is the strongest appeal of Wildstorm, well at least the properties around StormWatch. In these issues we are kind of seeing the groups forming (WildCATS, Authority, Gen13), but as I also said before, I do not know if these properties will take off anytime soon. But at least they are better now than at the beginning of the New 52 (Although StormWatch/Demon Knights was quite good).

Ellis and David-Hunt are also perfect for this title. It’s their work together that delivers amazing action sequences with some mind-bending graphics. Sure, it is pretty violent, but that was to be expected from WildStorm.

One of the moments that gave me the most pleasure, was seeing Apollo and Midnighter, even though, we do not actually see them, it is very obvious it’s them. They have history in the DCU as well, very recently, so I guess that may have... gone away.

Do you think Sam Elliott is too old to play Lynch?

I give these issues a score of 9.

#jon davis-hunt #the wild storm #wildstorm #dc comics #comics #review #2018 #post modern age #the authority #gen13 #stormwatch #wildcats

[gorogues]

Spoilers for the Stargirl season 3 premiere!

The season started this week, and our boy the Shade appeared a bit in town, doing his thing.  He's apparently bought a house in Blue Valley, and Jakeem tosses a newspaper to him; the Thunderbolt pops out of his pocket and tells Jakeem to pedal faster because the Shade is spooky.  Later, Richard is in the diner trying their latest iteration of tea, and politely tells the waitress it needs a litle more work...but the faces he makes indicates he thought it was a lot more horrible than that.  

That's when the Gambler shows up to bug him, and the Shade does not like him nor buy his claim of reform for the sake of his daughter.  Gambler had previously knocked on the door of the Whitmore-Dugan home, telling them he was back in Blue Valley to search for a previously-unknown daughter.  Courtney seems to be the only person who believes him, but as we see later, he did appear to be sincere about searching for her and making amends.  However, the Shade threatens him away with a display of power and tells Gambler to leave Blue Valley before he or the JSA find out what he's truly up to.  Richard then discovers that some of his shadows are leaking from his eye and they spark with green energy which may be related to Jennie or perhaps her missing brother Obsidian (their shadow powers are connected in the comics).

Anyway, the Shade appears in the preview for next week's episode, so he'll obviously be up to his business and it'll involve Sylvester Pemberton.  Sylvester is sketchy as hell so far, but we saw he was kind of a jerk in flashbacks too so maybe that's just how he is...there's obviously something going on with him here, though.

And the Gambler seemingly gets murdered at the end of the episode, after discovering a mysterious someone was watching his trailer through a video feed -- that same someone is watching the JSA members' homes and other places significant to them.  Could it be Mr Bones and Helix, who were hinted at last season?  I've tried to avoid spoilers for the show, so I haven't heard if or how much they'll be around this season, but they or someone connected to them seem like possible suspects.  The killer probably isn't Cindy Burman, no matter how incriminating the crime scene looked.  Anyway, I look forward to finding out who it is and whether the Gambler is really dead or if he/someone faked it somehow.  It'd be hilarious if his daughter Rebecca/Becky appears in future episodes and is played by the same actor who played her in the CW Flash series.  Probably not going to happen, but I can dream!

#the Shade #Stargirl #the Gambler #Starman #spoilers: Stargirl #Stargirl TV series #reviews #screencaps #TV #Shiv #Jakeem Thunder

[duckapus]

The Nicktoons as Ghosts

Timmy has two possibilities depending on how he died, in my opinion.(note: for the sake of this AU, none of them knew each-other beforehand, and fairies don’t exist)

Cleft, the Boy Chin Wonder: If Timmy died trying to save someone, since he is genuinely that self-sacrificing. Along with the basic ghost powers, he also has his utility cleft. He grows more powerful as more people put their trust in him to save them, but doesn’t realize that’s what’s going on since heroes in comics and Danny seem to gain more power in response to greater threats and he’s too wrapped up in helping people to tell the difference. He’s a really big fan of Valerie, and keeps trying to be her sidekick no matter how many times she sends him back to the Ghost Zone.

The Twerp: If he died due to the neglect he went through. Twerp is extremely creepy, looking like his living form at first glance, to the point where he doesn’t even have a glow, until you notice that his mouth is too wide, his hair is limp and lifeless, and he looks far too skinny. And then you notice his eyes, more like empty black voids with little blue pinpricks of light, and his teeth, razor sharp except for his signature overbite, and you wonder how you could have possibly missed that. He doesn’t fly, or turn invisible, but he doesn’t have to. He’s basically one of those horror movie ghosts who do off-screen teleports and mess with their victim’s head. He also has two pet ghost sharks named Cosmo and Wanda, who are thankfully far more normal as ghosts go. He absolutely hates people who have authority and abuse it, especially if that authority is over children, and he’s one of the few ghosts who’s plan always involves killing someone.

Jimmy Neutron, Apprentice of Technus: However it is that Jimmy died, Technus ended up taking the young inventor under his wing. Jimmy isn’t as powerful as his teacher, seeing as he can only control things that he made himself, but he’s also more versatile, branching out into all scientific disciplines rather than sticking purely to machines. He’s not really as invested in world domination as Technus is, content with his experiments. Honestly, the main reason that he's counted as a threat is because his projects have a tendency to spiral out of control.

The Mad Fryer: A fry cook scorned, the Fryer prefers to haunt the Nasty Burger, creating ectoplasm-filled burgers he calls Krabby Patties. He seems to know better than to serve them to human customers, thankfully. He only becomes dangerous if you treat the employees poorly, especially if it involves pickles. Nobody is entirely sure why he looks like a dish sponge, and quite frankly they’re afraid to ask. His Lair is a floating diner called the Krusty Krab 2(he insists on the 2) and it’s a favorite hangout spot for many of the more sociable ghosts.

The Shaman: A ghost residing deep in the Spirit Jungle, who guards a mysterious power only known as Juju. The only other ghosts he spends time with are the animals, along with the occasional visit from Skulker, so he's rarely up-to-date on things going on outside of his little patch of the Ghost Zone.

El Tigre/Black Jaguar: Even in death, Manny is torn between good and evil-literally, nowadays. As El Tigre, he very much attempts to hold up the virtues and legacy of a hero, while as Black Jaguar he mainly just wants to destroy everything in sight. He usually keeps away from other ghosts and especially in case Jaguar gets out again, but thanks to a natural portal that dropped him in the middle of a forest that’s no longer really an option. Unless, of course, he can reach the artificial portal rumored to be in Amity Park.

Invader Zim: His obsession in death is much the same as it was in life; to conquer the Earth and gain the respect and praise he deserves from his people. Honestly the only things that have really changed are that he no longer needs his disguise and being a ghost has given him a lot more options. Though he was somewhat annoyed at having to move his base to the Ghost Zone.

Ectoplasmic Entity Acquisition Unit XJ-9/Jenny Wakeman: Originally meant as a GIW ghost hunting superweapon, the project was temporarily shelved following the death of lead scientist Nora Wakeman’s daughter. While most believed it was to allow Dr. Wakeman time to mourn, the truth was far stranger. Her daughter, Jenny, had formed a ghost- inside XJ-9′s incomplete CPU. Memories, emotions and half-written programming jumbled together to create a half-ectoplasmic half-computerized mind, just as complex and real as a humans, if not more-so. Once they got over the shock (and a few biases on Nora’s part) the two realized that Jenny would be in serious danger if the GIW realized what she was behind the machine. So she pretended to be their shiny new weapon, their emotionless hunter, until they gave her just the right opening to run. Run fast and far, all the way to the Ghost Zone thanks to the miniature Ectozooka her mother had hidden in her. But the mechanical ghost new what the GIW would do to Nora after her escape, and vowed to save her.

And tear the Guys in White to the ground.

#nicktoons #danny phantom #au #timmy turner #cleft the boy chin wonder #jimmy neutron #tak and the power of juju #manny rivera #el tigre #invader zim #jenny wakeman #xj9 #a few of these got a bit dark

[april-is]

April 1, 2017: Better Days, A.F. Moritz

Better Days A.F. Moritz Never anymore in a wash of sweetness and awe does the summer when I was seventeen come back to mind against my will, like a bird crossing my vision. Summer of moist nights full of girls and boys ripened, holy drunkenness and violation of the comic boundaries, defiances that never failed or brought disaster. Days on the backs and in the breath of horses, between rivers and pools that reflected the cicadas' whine, enervation and strength creeping in smooth waves over muscular water. All those things accepted, once, with unnoticing hunger, as an infant accepts the nipple, never come back to mind against the will. What comes unsummoned now, blotting out every other thought and image, is a part of the past not so deep or far away: the time of poverty, of struggle to find means not hateful—the muddy seedtime of early manhood. What returns are those moments in the diner night after night with each night's one cup of coffee, watching an old man, who always at the same hour came in and smiled, ordered his tea and opened his drawing pad. What did he fill it with? And where's he gone? Those days, that studious worker, hand moving and eyes eager in the sour light, that artist always in the same worn-out suit, are my nostalgia now. That old man comes back, the friend I saw each day and never spoke to, because I hoped soon to disappear from there, as I have disappeared, into the heaven of better days.

==

On this day in:

2016: Jenny Kiss’d Me, Leigh Hunt 2015: The Night House, Billy Collins 2014: Tim Riggins Speaks of Waterfalls, Nico Alvarado 2013: Nan Hardwicke Turns Into a Hare, Wendy Pratt 2012: A Short History of the Apple, Dorianne Laux 2011: New York Poem, Terrance Hayes 2010: On Wanting to Tell [ ] about a Girl Eating Fish Eyes, Mary Szybist 2009: A Little Tooth, Thomas Lux 2008: The Sciences Sing a Lullabye, Albert Goldbarth 2007: Elegy of Fortinbras, Zbigniew Herbert 2006: When Leather is a Whip, by Martin Espada 2005: Parents, William Meredith

National Poetry Month! IT BEGINS.

#a.f. moritz #time #the everyday we spoke of #feast on your life

[ghostpainters]

I love your art so much, especially the way you design the costumes! That last comic of Jason and Dick at the diner was so sweet, and if you're open to requests I'd love to see Nightwing and Red Hood hanging out there 😭 (No worries if not though!) Thanks!

Hello Luv,

Thank you so much for the compliments 😊 I’m so happy you’re enjoying my work!

I am planning to continue the Jenny’s Diner comic into the Red Hood years. Don’t know if that counts as a spoiler or not, but we all know the story. In the meantime, there actually is a Red Hood and Nightwing at the diner drawing somewhere on my blog...or wait, I’ll just put it here for you XD

Thanks sm. Sending all my love and take care ❤️

[mittensmorgul]

oh god sorry but that's a clusterfuck of promo video, we have a new jenny klein in the writers team reducing dean to a gross frat boy, and as a dean fan i'm seeing red, if the whole episode is like that they're making a disservice to dean's character, can't they go for intelligent humor instead of dumbing down characters for comic relief?

I think… that’s actually the point of this episode though? The entire conceit of it is that THERE IS CLEARLY SOMETHING WRONG WITH DEAN HERE.

He’s under a curse? That is making him act this way? And that is literally the point?

And I really, really, REALLY don’t think the point of it is for “comic relief.” This is gonna hurt like hell.

Dean is losing himself, his memories, and it’s not “funny” at all.

I was talking with *spends five minutes trying to remember who I talked about this with and of course it’s lizbob…* So anyway we were saying that it seems like this is the first time Sam’s seen Dean since the previous night (we saw in one of the other promos that he gets blasted with a weird light in the woods, and then wakes up curled around a bunny… still in the woods). Sam finds him in a diner where he’s gorging himself on TWO huge plates of waffles with syrup and whipped cream and chocolate and berries and… wow that’s weird even for DEAN.

And Dean seems REALLY out of it. Really kind of… uncaring. Forgetful. And Sam’s first thought is that Dean went on a bender, got drunk, and passed out ~somewhere~ and that he might STILL be drunk…

Because that’s Sam’s read of “performing Dean.” Not that he’d actually been snoozing in the woods curled up with a bunny rabbit after being CURSED BY A WITCH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

THIS IS SAM’S FIRST ASSUMPTION of what’s “wrong” with Dean.

Especially since they seem to be working a case involving ~weird circumstances~ like this. And when Dean normally realizes his phone is broken, his first thing he usually does is find another means to contact Sam… NOT TO GO TO SOME DINER AND GORGE HIMSELF ON SUGARY PILES OF WAFFLES.

(have I mentioned that waffles have a similar standing to El Sol beer in the visual language of the show, in that they are sort of a PG rated version of DECEPTION? Whenever you see waffles on spn, LOOK FOR THE LIES! Just like when you see El Sol).

no really I have a list of every waffle ever on this damn show:

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/156133372175/have-we-ever-seen-waffles-on-the-show-outside-of 

They are a red flag that THIS IS NOT AS IT SEEMS! YOU ARE BEING TRICKED SOMEHOW! PAY ATTENTION HERE!

And I think the trick this time is SAM’S MISUNDERSTANDING OF DEAN ON A FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL.

Sam has always, as much as Dean could manage, received a Sanitized for Sammy version of the truth. Think 9.07 and “the story became the story.” Sam sees Dean’s swagger and his performing mask and STILL believes that it’s at least a LITTLE bit true to Dean’s personality.

Heck he’s so wrong.

But Dean has worked his entire life to maintain that mask for Sam, like a PARENT would hold that mask up for a child, because that’s what parents DO for their kids. They protect them from the harsh realities of the world. They tell them placating lies. They try to let their kids just be kids… (and no, I’m not saying this is a healthy thing to do, but the shit that Dean had to keep from Sam when they were kids– often on John’s orders, such as don’t tell Sammy about the hunting– when DEAN WAS ALSO JUST A CHILD HIMSELF… I mean there are miles of essays written about this stuff… )

And I watched that promo and thought, WTF SAMMY HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY NOT RIGHT WITH DEAN? And Sam just sat there befuddled and assumed Dean was “still drunk.”

I think this is going to be an excellent way to shine a little bit more light through the cracks in the codependency. Not only is Sam going to be confronted with the horrific truth of Dean’s situation (that he’s not drunk and fucking off on the job, but LITERALLY A VICTIM OF THE MotW), but his own long-held misperceptions of who Dean truly is as a person, and how hard he works to keep that mask in place.

Not to mention the fact that with Dean’s memory loss and seeming childishness here, SAM is going to be forced into the role of “parent” or “caretaker” in ways that even Dean’s PHYSICAL regression to 14 or so in 10.12 didn’t even come CLOSE to touching on. Because this isn’t a physical regression. This is gonna HURT.

Also, remember that we don’t actually have any context for this scene yet, aside from trying to piece it together with little hits from other promos, interviews, and our own meta theories.

tl;dr? THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING INTENDED TO BE FUNNY IN THIS PROMO VIDEO. EVERYTHING HAPPENING HERE IS A SYMPTOM OF THE CURSE DEAN’S BEEN SUBJECTED TO AND SAM HASN’T EVEN NOTICED IT YET BECAUSE DEAN SPENT HIS LIFE BUILDING THIS “STORY THAT BECAME THE STORY” TO PROTECT SAM AND NOW IT’S COMING BACK TO BITE THEM BOTH IN THE ASS. AND IT’S GOT BIG POINTY TEETH.

#spn 12.11 #dear anons do not come at me with this sort of bs attitude please and thank #i got big pointy teeth too #Anonymous

[achraf1149]

100 MUST-READ HILARIOUS BOOKS

Mara Carlyle’s senior year goes as usually as might be expected until—we-bam!—fellow senior Katelyn Ogden explodes throughout playing period pre-calc. Katelyn is that the 1st, however she won’t be the last juvenile person to increase unexpectedly or clarification. because the seniors still pop like balloons, sensible and humourous Mara narrates the tip of their world as she is aware of it. however, inside associate degree, explosive year punctuated by romance, quarantine, long friendly relationship, and also the hope of creating it to graduation lies a funny, super honest, and moving story of being a teen and also the sorrow of claiming auf wiedersehen.

There’s virtually nothing I like quite a literate comedy. If you, like me, fancy each an excellent book and a deep belly-laugh, I’ve compiled an inventory of must-read books only for the U.S. (in no explicit order as a result of they’re all hilarious).

I know you’ll have felt regarding this list, as a result of all book lovers have felt regarding book lists, am I right? Let ME grasp what I incomprehensible, what you're thinking that I got wrong, and what you're thinking that I got right.

1. Is everybody Hanging Out while not Me? (And different Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

2. Has Anyone Seen My Pants by wife Colonna

3. Neil Patrick|St. Patrick|Apostle|patron saint} Harris: opt for Your Own life story by Neil Patrick Harris

4. The transient Wondrous lifetime of honor Wao by Junot Bartholomeu Dias – This one has each mirth and poignancy, therefore it’s a small amount a lot of mixed than another title on this list.

Crazy wealthy Asians5. Crazy wealthy Asians by Kevin Kwan

6. A enter The Woods by Bill Bryson

7. symptom by Nora Ephron

8. Varano by César Aira – Translated from Spanish, it’s got a small amount of Monty Python-esque shtick hidden in beautiful prose.

9. My Man Jeeves (Jeeves #1) by P.G. Wodehouse

10. Gil’s All Fright Diner by A. Lee Martinez

11. the way to Be Black by Baratunde Thurston

12. mindlessness by Horatio Castellanos Moya

13. Texts from Jane Eyre: And different Conversations together with your Favorite Literary Characters by Mallory Ortberg and Madeline Gobbo

See You Next Tuesday14. See You Next Tues by Jane Mai

15. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

16. Bossypants by Tina Fey

17. solace Farm by Frank Stella Gibbons

18. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

19. Go the Fuck To Sleep by Adam Mansbach

20. to mention Nothing Of The Dog by Connie Willis

21. Misconceptions by Blu Daniels

22. Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman

23. The poor Diaries: The fully True and humourous Misadventures of a decent woman Gone poor by Angela Nissel

24. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

25. a foul plan I’m on the point of Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and spectacularly Awkward journey by Chris Gethard

the lake affair by opaque gem Fforde26. The lake Affair by opaque gem Fforde (a whole awing series!)

27. The blue blood Bride by William Emma Goldman

28. The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by easy lay Brooks

29. the way to Be a lady by Caitlin Moran

30. Blonde Bombshell by Tom Holt

31. The perfidy by Paul Beatty

32. exaggeration and a 0.5 by Allie Brosh

33. I speak Pretty in some unspecified time in the future by David Sedaris

Lamb34. Lamb: The Gospel consistent with Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Saint Christopher Moore – the sole Good Shepherd comedy I do know that's beloved by nonbelievers and Christians alike.

35. The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage – This book honestly had ME in stitches. If you liked A Confederacy of Dunces, browse this one.

36. The company by easy lay Barry

37. You Can’t bit My Hair And different Things I Still need to justify by Phoebe Robinson

38. the color of Magic (Discworld #1) by Terry Pratchett (You don’t even have to begin at #1 in Discworld; I believe I started with #33 and it was extremely pleasurable. There’s a graphic here that outlines the various sub-series and their 1st books, just in case you wish to leap around.)

39. smart Omens: the great and correct Prophecies of Agnes oddball, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

40. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by The Little Giant Adams

41. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Such a fairly Fat42. Such a fairly Fat: One Narcissist’s Quest to get if Her Life Makes Her Ass Look huge, or Why Pie isn't the solution by Jen Lancaster

43. Don Quixote by Miguel Diamond State Cervantes Saavedra

44. Home Land by Sam Lipsyte

45. Typical Yankee by Gish Jen

46. The Importance of Being Earnest by writer

47. I used to be Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley

48. life story of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a fake Adulthood by Laurie Notaro

49. The Regional workplace Is beneath Attack! by Manuel Gonzales

50. trendy Romance by Aziz Ansari

Adulthood may be Myth51. Adulthood may be a Myth: A “Sarah’s Scribbles” assortment by wife Hans Christian Andersen

52. What If Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd hypothetic queries by Randall Munroe

53. somebody may Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century parentage by role player Magary

54. The Adventures of Holly White and also the unimaginable Sex Machine by Krissy Kneen

55. Killing aunty by Andrzej Bursa

56. I'm Not thespian by Percival Everett

57. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

58. The Grass is often Greener Over the storage tank by Erma Bombeck

59. Shrill by social dancing West

60. On Beauty by Zadie Smith

61. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

62. the net may be a Playground by David Thorne (side-splittingly funny)

63. A summer solstice Night’s Dream by a poet (SHAKESPEARE IS HILAIRE)

64. Blackass by A. Igoni Barrett

65. Let’s fake This ne'er Happened by Jenny Lawson

I Hate Fairyland66. I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young

67. Mother, are you able to Not? by Kate Siegel

68. Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

69. The Misadventures of Awkward Black woman by Issa Rae

70. saint Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

71. It Gets Worse by Shane town

72. Octopus Pie by Meredith grandmother (fave webcomic ever . . . perhaps favorite comic ever)

73. Redshirts by John Scalzi

74. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

75. Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut

76. ar You There, Vodka? It’s ME, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

77. Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed by Lance Carbuncle

78. The completely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

79. vocalizer and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan

80. I'm America (And therefore will You!) by author sauce

Dora A Headcase81. Dora: A Headcase by Lidia Yuknavitch

82. the space by Jonas Karlsson

83. American state Roadkill by Tim Dorsey

84. associate degree simple Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington by Karl Pilkington

85. The Gun merchant by Hugh Laurie

86. The unabridged Devil’s wordbook by Ambrose Bierce

87. I’m judgment You: The Do-Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi

88. Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen

89. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Clown Girl90. Clown woman by Monica Drake

91. this is often wherever I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

92. biscuit by Fran Ross

93. The Sugar opaque Nutsack by Mark Leyner

94. part Blues by patron saint Wensink

95. The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle

96. The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Hector Hevodidbon Hernandez

97. a woman Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel

98. Job: A Comedy of Justice by Henry M. Robert Robert Anson Heinlein

99. Ella cyprinid fish Pea: A increasingly Lipogrammatic epistolatory Fable by Mark Dunn

100. Super unhappy True story by point of entry Shteyngart