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Even johnny Carson was calling out biden on his lies.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...gomez-dont-be-weak-gay-meme/73733135007/

I guess she doesn't want the gay vote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/style/harrison-butker-commencement-speech.html

It's just one guy's opinion. No reason to get upset about it.

The one Biden quote was a gaffe. The other one is just taken out of context. Biden was against bussing as a tool to desegregate but favored housing to battle segregation. Biden wasn’t pro segregation in the seventies. I’m sure you have read about Trump’s history in the 70’s dealing with racial issues and being sued by the DOJ. I have. Sad how much of maga land depends on disinformation.

Regarding this part...


"White hoods" sounds like an erroneous Ku Klux Klan reference. I think he means "white hats", like black and white pieces on a chess board, meaning the white hats are supposed to be the good guys, and black hats are supposed to be the bad guys. And implied hypocrisy of some posing as good guys when they are not.

Rep. Derek Gaetz (who represents a very conservative district in the northernmost part of Florida, west ot Tallahassee) was under public scrutiny for about a year by FBI and House investigators, and seems to have vindicated himself from false charges, and at considerable legal cost.
That Gonzalez said this on CNN of all places (anti-Republican Central) also doesn't lend this credibility. On CNN they just let him talk with minimal pushback, whereas on Fox or Newsmax or OAN, there would have been some factual pushback and challenge to these allegations. And on any network, that's how it should be. Some cross-examination, to determine and test what is alleged, and what the true facts are.

The allegations against Gaetz seem to nhave been a coincidental crippling of him, right while he led a push to remove Republican then-speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Likewise with Democrat Senator Robert Menendez, and Democrat mayor of New York City Eric Adams, these Democrats likewise went against their party's immigration narrative, and were immediately punished with FBI investigations.

I think this goes back to "Filegate" in the Bill Clinton administration, where the Clinton administration was keeping FBI files of Republican Senate and House members, surveiling them for alcoholism or drug abuse, extramarital sexual affairs, questionable corruption, any possible criminal actions, so as to blackmail them into supporting or not opposing Democrat legislation.

I think --as was obviously proven to have been occurring during the Trump administration, even though inittially denied, then unquestionably proven--- an even more fanatically Democrat-Bolshevik FBI, CIA, DOJ, ATF and other agencies, are doing the same now, and they keep these files, so that at any time, if a Donald Trump or a Derek Gaetz, or a Robert Menendez, or a Michael Flynn, or a Senator Ted Stevens, or a Scooter Libby becomes a threat to their plans, that person can have FBI / DOJ's hammer dropped on them at any time, smear them with enough scandal to prevent their re-election, drive them from office, if not put them in jail. All in the service of the Deep State uni-party cause.

David De Pape, hammer-swinging male prostiute friend of Paul Pelosi, is apparently part of a growing movement in the gay communiy.



The image is small, but gets the point across.
The "LGBFJB" communiy.

There are a number of other sign and T-shirt designs using the same acronym:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lgbfjb+meme&va=c&t=ho&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

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BLOOD HUNT 1-4 (scheduled so far)

And BLOOD HUNT DIARIES, that is a guide to all the frigging crossover tie-ins.

DRACULA: BLOOD HUNT
MIDNIGHT SONS: BLOOD HUNT
UNION JACK THE RIPPER: BLOOD HUNT
WOLVERINE: BLOOD HUNT
X-MEN BLOOD HUNT JUBILEE
X-MEN BLOOD HUNT MAJIK
X-MEN BLOOD HUNT on the rocks, with a twist of lime !

A RDCW game would be EPOCH!

WrestleMania 41 is heading to Las Vegas, Nevada, after weeks of speculation regarding its location following WrestleMania 40. The event will be held later in April than usual, but will remain spread out over two days, taking over Allegiant Stadium on April 19 and 20. The announcement was made during the NBC broadcast of the Kentucky Derby pre-show on Saturday. Former World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins and Women's World Champion Becky Lynch were seen at the event before the broadcast showed a video announcement narrated by WWE CCO Paul "Triple H" Levesque.

Well... it's nice to see Dick Van Dyke again, after many years.

But even at a minute and 12 seconds, he barely even implied a lucid thought about the gag order on Trump, over Trump's most recent trial by Judge Juan Merchan.

He said the mainstream news media pushed a recurrent narrative about the U.S. Supreme Court being "corrupt" because the Court had delayed a ruling about Judge Merchan's gag order on Trump (whether the U S Supreme Court either rules in support the gag order, or U S S C rules in favor of Trump's --and every U.S. citizen's-- free speech rights).

And then the media went silent on the Supreme Court issue, and instead has focused entirely on a new news media narrative, the need for the public to sympathize for Palestinians in Gaza, and Van Dyke says how he "feels manipulated" by the sudden shift in narrative by the media. (and even that summary might have given some undue clarity on my part to Van Dyke's murky comments.)
Van Dyke APPEARS to be supportive of Trump, and critical of the news media narrative, but I really can't be sure what Van Dyke is trying to say.

But even that much is probably courageous for a Hollywood celebrity to say on the subject.
Whatever acting roles Van Dyke might have recently lined up have probably just been rescinded, because he gave the slightest whiff of supporting Trump.

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I just again ran across another good Sub-Mariner story, that ran in MARVEL FANFARE 43, April 1989, by Bill Manlo, with beautiful art and colors by Mike Mignola and Craig Russell.



Love that cover !

Here's the full issue online.
https://viewcomiconline.com/marvel-fanfare-1982-issue-43/
Or at :
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Marvel-Fanfare-1982/Issue-43?id=73368

Mantlo and Mignola also did another earlier Sub-Mariner story in MARVEL FANFARE 16 back in Sept 1984, that isn't nearly as nice.
https://viewcomiconline.com/marvel-fanfare-1982-issue-16/

Mignola's art made huge strides forward in quality during the 5 years between these 2 stories. It marks the point where Mignola made the transition from trying to exclusively be an inker, and left inking to become a penciller. Mignola in a COMIC BOOK ARTIST interview quotes Al Milgrom's "Editori-Al" here, where Milgrom said of Mignola, "As an inker, you make a great penciller", that in rhe inerview he says was Milgrom's way of telling him You're a really shitty inker.
And once he switched to pencilling instead, Mignola's popularity really took off.

Some other early stuff by Mignola that really got my attention were some covers for the fanzine THE COMIC READER (issues 196, 203 and 212, circa 1981-1983)

And the 4-issue ROCKET RACCOON series in 1985, after which Mignola said he never had to struggle to get freelance assignments after again.
And in 1988, Mignola's covers on BATMAN 426-429 for Starlin's "The Death of Robin" issues.

And Mignola's first solo writer/artist story in BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT 54, Nov 1993,.

Soon after which, Mignola ventured ino his first HELLBOY miniseries in March 1994. For which ongoing series over tha last 30 years, Mignola has achieved god status in the comics world for the massive universe of tiles expanding from that first miniseries. Not to mention 3 successful Hellboy movies.

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Continuing on the work Adams did for Pacific Comics, beyond SKATEMAN, And ECHO OF FUTUREPAST, Adams also did a few issues that got a lot of attention at the time in 1981-1982.
It was big news that Adams was coming back and doing work again in comics for Pacific, on the character MS MYSTIC.

The first appearance was a "Ms. Mystic" 4-page preview by Neal Adams, as a back-up story in
CAPTAIN VICTORY 3, cover-dated March 1982.
https://viewcomiconline.com/captain-victory-and-the-galactic-rangers-1981-issue-3/

And then a seeming eternity later, a full issue of MS MYSTIC 1 finally came out at the end of the year in 1982. And then after another eternity about 2 years later, in 1984, the second issue finally came out
. And before issue 3 had a prayer of being published, Pacific Comics was out of business, by August 1984.
There were a lot of jokes in fandom at the time about how sporadic and late these two issues were, and Adams' inability to meet deadlines. It was the very lack of deadlines and contracts with creators that caused Pacific comics to fold. Their books were beautiful, but consistently late, and that cost them readers and sales, because their announced publication dates were unreliable, and readers lost interest waiting.
And as was said in "The Rise and Fall of Pacific Comics" article by Jay Allen Sanford, when Neal Adams visited he Pacific warehouse, he'd disappear out back with a bunch of guys and smoke a lot of marijuana, and as Sanford said, did a lot to explain why Adams seemed unable to make deadlines.

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  https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2004/aug/19/two-men-and-their-comic-books/
  
  
  Ms Mystic was running later and later; Neal Adams always promised "more soon," but a year passed and only a handful of finished pages had arrived. Adams did manage to turn in a one-shot comic in 1983 called Skateman, a tale of a roller-skating superhero that made Marvel's Dazzler seem like Proust by comparison. Several pallet-loads of unsold Skateman comics gathered dust, and no amount of salesmanship could unload them on accounts who were by now too savvy to believe that a "marquee name" on a comic cover guaranteed sales.
  
  ... "The reason Pacific Comics failed can be summed up very simply," Steve Schanes informs me. "We had two lines of activity: publishing and distribution. Most of our comic books still made money hand over fist, but there was a big problem in distribution. We extended too much credit to retailers who didn't pay us on a timely basis, and we were already working on a minuscule profit margin, maybe 5 percent to 8 percent. We didn't push hard enough to get the money from receivables, who owed us hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you had to boil down the single biggest reason we blew it, that would be our poor cash management on the distribution side."
  
  Meanwhile, newer indie publishers, inspired by Pacific's success, competed with it for readers, as did resurgent underground publishers Kitchen Sink, Last Gasp, and Rip Off Press, whose titles were distributed through Pacific's warehouses. And surely other publishers -- Capital City (whose Nexus comic outsold several Pacific titles), Comico, Aardvark-Vanaheim, Educomics, Quality, Eagle, Eclipse, First, Vortex, New Media, Fantagraphics, Mirage -- feared that having Pacific, a rival publisher, as their distributor could result in their being cut off from comic shops.
  
  Seeing and exploiting this, dozens of smaller distributors were springing up all over the country, even in San Diego. Nearly a quarter of Pacific's 800 or so comic-shop accounts defected to alternate distributors in 1984, skipping out on paying Pacific for upwards of three months' worth of comic books. Compounding matters, often those distributors were getting their comics through Pacific, and they too would stiff us on the bill, using their unpaid booty to lure away wholesale customers already in debt to Pacific.

MS MYSTIC (1982, first series, from Pacific)
1 Oct 1982
2 Feb 1984

The first issue of MS MYSTIC was published with standard comics paper and printing.
Wih the second issue, Pacific had begun upgrading to offset printing and better paper.

And then both issues were reprinted in a better format as the first two issues of a new MS MYSTIC series by Continuity:

MS MYSTIC (1987 second series, by Continuity)
1 (r 1, first series) Oct 1987
2 (r 2, first series) June 1988
3 Story by Neal Adams. Pencils by Brian Murray and Neal Adams. Inks by Ian Akin, Jan 1989
4 Story by Neal Adams and Peter Stone. Art by Terry Shoemaker, Ian Akin and Brian Garvey, May 1989
5 Story by Neal Adams and Peter Stone. Art by Dwayne Turner, Mark Beachum and Brian Garvey, Aug 1990
6 Story by Neal Adams and Peter Stone. Art by Dwayne Turner, Ian Akin, Stan Drake and Brian Garvey, Nov 1990
7 Story by Peter Stone. Art by Andre Coates and Ian Akin. Aug 1991
8 Story by Peter Stone. Art by S. Clarke Hawbaker and Stan Drake. Mar 1992
9 Story by Peter Stone. Art by Dan Barry and Brian Garvey, May 1992

Followed by:
MS MYSTIC (1993 3rd Series, 3 issues, May 1993-Aug 1993)
1 Story by Neal Adams and Peter Stone. Art by Dwayne Turner, Ernesto Infante and Alberto Saichan., May 1993
2 Story by Neal Adams and Peter Stone. Art by Brian Apthorp, Ernesto Infante and Alberto Saichan., June 1993
3 Story by Neal Adams and Peter Stone. Art by Louis Small Jr., Rudy Nebres and Joel Adams.Aug 1993

and
MS MYSTIC (4th series, 4 issues, Oct 1993-Jan 1994)
1 Rise of Magic. Story by Neal Adams and Peter Stone. Art by Dwayne Turner and Neal Adams. Oct 1993
2 Shaman's Woe. Story by Neal Adams and Peter Stone. Art by Luke Ross, Rudy Nebres and Nelson Luty. Nov 1993
3 Story by Neal Adams and Peter Stone. Art by Luke Ross and Crusty Bunkers (possibly Neal Adams). Dec 1993
4 Story by Neal Adams and Peter Stone. Art by Steve Carr, David Dace and Matt Brundage. Jan 1994

That all look great, but have increasingly less Neal Adams, and more Continuity Associates staffers who draw just like Neal Adams. I didn't find the story content that enthralling, but I still am knocked out by the art, and pull out my Continuity collection every few years and enjoy looking at them. Similarly with the other Adams Continuity titles. But despite the number of hands involved, they look very consistent across the entire run.

Damn these are hard to separate from each other !
The only way I could separate the last 2 series from each other and get the right order was by the cover-dates on the first page indicia in each issue.
The person who scanned the online stories reversed volumes 3 and 4 (That they counted as series 2 and 3, apparently ignoring the first series from Pacific, since they were reprinted in the 1987 series. )

Duuuuuuuhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii heard that!

It never did take much to trigger you, *clears throat* little brother.