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I’m David Harth. I’m old and I love comics. I’ve written for CBR and now write for ComicBook.com. I also have a Substack, Crusty Old Fan. I was main character of Comics Twitter one time and AnneLovesComics’ fans spent two days sending me death threats.
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This was how I felt. Seeing him realize his place in the tragedy of Ghorman made me feel sympathy for a character who I hated with a passion. And his mom crying at the end of the episode? Chief’s kiss.
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Also, Phonogram!
If nothing else, it will make you a fan of the Pipettes. And then your wife will become a fan because you found a copy of The Singles Club #1 and you made her listen to “Pull Shapes” while explaining the comic.
You’ll understand after you read it.
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I ugly cried at the end. Beautiful.
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Gail, tell the truth - you’re a Claremont girl, aren’t you?
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George Perez was just insanely good.
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I’m overly emotional today for reasons, but it really got me. Just a sensational trailer.
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Your comics always bring my joy. You add to the joy in the world. Thank you.
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Oh my God, that’s gorgeous.
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The first one I read was The Light Fantastic. It’s amazing.
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I found the FCBD issue while dollar bin diving yesterday and I thought about asking you about it.
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Everything is falling apart. I’m scared and I’m lonely. But today, I found a comic that I’ve wanted for years. There are a lot of defeats right now, but I can’t let them stop me from savoring the victories.
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In people’s collections because they haven’t thought about it since. But it meant something to me. See, I had seen it after my father died. The fact that father and son did the art for it, and the title’s morbid overtones, made me want it. And I never found another chance to get it until today.
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I first saw this comic years ago when I was working at a comic store. I don’t know why I never bought it, but I didn’t, and one day it was gone. I’ve looked for it ever since and it’s just very hard to find. It’s a random crossover issue from almost twenty years ago, and it probably just sits
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I was all about Wizard. I think my first issue was like… I don’t know 14? The Art Thibert X-Men women cover. I read it to the end. I wish I still had them, but my mom got rid of my massive magazine collections.
I try to bring the love of comics Wizard had to me writing.
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Only a critic deals in absolutes, and that’s been my full time job for years now.
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We couldn’t be that lucky.
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Say it anyway. We’re all ban-worthy here.
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Yeah, that definitely comes off on every page of DIE. The way we can be ourselves in that world in a way we can’t in the real world.
God, I’m gonna blow off a day of work to read DIE again tomorrow, aren’t I?
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I feel like you and I had similar early 20s - clubs and madness but at home stacks of comics, magazines, records, and RPGs.
When I read Phonogram, I felt like I found the book that described who I was as a person.
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I was between 17 and 24 when the prequels came out. I grew up with the originals. I love both. The prequels have their problems, but it was nice to get to live through a Star Wars trilogy (I was born in 1980, so I only remember Return of the Jedi).
I don’t like the sequels, though.
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Oh my God, I want World Champion Dom so bad I can taste it.
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The Prequels came out when I was an adult with my own money, so I bought a lot of the lore books that Lucasfilm was putting out everywhere. So, I sort of remember the whys of things. Sort of.
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So, you can make the argument that Star Wars was better with the mystery or that what came next was bad compared to what came before, but there are a lot of people who just want more. That doesn’t make us toxic fans who ruined this thing that you liked. It means we want more. And that’s okay.
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I’ve been a Star Wars fan since I was like three. And one of the things I always loved about it was that imagination… but I also liked when those stories got fleshed out and we learned what they meant. I don’t really find anything wrong with that sort of thing as long as the stories are good.
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So, dredging the memory banks here - there are noble families among the Naboo. Those families send their children to special schools where they learn about governing. From there, I think it was just electoral politics. If your kid did well, and you had the money, they ran for office.
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Yeah, I always found it a weird thing.
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The last thing I noticed about that was the chain mail bikini. That’s gorgeous.
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I got a bunch of Ennis/Dillon Hellblazer and most of the first fourteen issues of Generation X the other day.
I love dollar bin diving.
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There was a lore reason that I knew twenty years ago, but I’ve burned a lot of brain cells since then. I think it was normal for the Naboo to do so.
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I never got the feeling that she thought of him as anything but a nice little kid back then.
He, however, was warm for her form immediately.
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So, apparently, Padme was elected queen at like fourteen and the movie happened when she eighteen. So, she’s definitely older, but when they met, she basically just became an adult.
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Speaking as something of a Legends scholar, that wasn’t made canon in Legends.
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Black is one of my favorite colors, but I completely understand why it doesn’t work for other people.
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It’s kind of funny you posted Adams and the OP is Lee. Lee has talked a lot in the past about Adams’s X-Men being extremely important to his art.
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So, Creole Creole.
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Yeah, she’s done for.
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I discovered Superman with the SuperFriends, but you’re one of the creators that made me realize my love for Superman.
Later in life, I read your Earth-Two Superman stuff and you made love him.
Thank you. You’ve done more for me than you’ll ever know.
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She is amazing. Compelling and ghastly, with a bubbling cauldron of trauma and pain under the surface.
A masterful performance.