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Maker of fine comics products, incessant scribbler, former garbageman, aging punk rocker.
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Imagine every statement by a Trump official as if it’s being screamed at their spouse.
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This has been in the works for a month.
Newsome is spineless--- and you obviously have a beef with him, which is fine-- but this is all Trump Regime. It's what he dreams of. Tanks rolling into a Latino district, local officials arrested. I predict he'll activate the Insurrection Act by August.
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That goon Tom Homan just said: "We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight."
"We."
I'd say the California Guard is already under Trump's control.
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That's unfortunately inaccurate. State National Guards are under the jurisdiction of the Pentagon. Normally the governor is a Guard's commander-in-chief but Trump can federalize them in an instant with one of his executive orders and take control.
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Well, if you had ask Chuck Jones of Friz Freleng they'd have said McKimson made Clampett's rep! That was a juicy feud.
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He has a handful of great shorts in the late 1940s, early 1950s. Later in the decade, it's one meh after another, and the 1960s shorts are just godawful. He's the weakest of the major WB directors, hands down.
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Yeah, I noticed that. A fuck-up nazi creep either way.
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Me too. In fact it is RIGHT NOW. I'm at 250 pages after 3 years of work!
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Fight me!
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Now, true, by 1975, DC was a mess, and by 1980 Mad was fading, too. But there were still all those lucrative copyrights. That first Supe film was a smash that made $300M in 1978. That's $1.5B in today's $$!
No, the parking lot goons did quite well for themselves.
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With Superman, Batman and Mad magazine? I don't think so. Mad alone in 1968 was shitting money.
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A mega win!.... with, I'm guessing, sprinkles on top.
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American citizens using their constitutional Right of Free Speech on the grounds of a public university. Something that is now verboten under the Trump Regime when that speech is not approved by the Regime.
Meanwhile "Very Fine People" can march with swaztika flags. That speech is just fine.
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At Kent State, an undercover op working for the FBI tried to plant a grenade launcher (!!) in the campus office of an antiwar group! He was caught doing so, and exposed. The CIA and Military Intelligence were also on campus in force. We still don't know what their activities were. Still Classified.
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In 1970, it was the Vietnam War. Today it's Gaza. But it could be anything. Speak out and you're a target.
One of these goons-for-hire pretended to be disabled when confronted by his target. Then yelled that he was being held up! They're working in cahoots with campus police, too.
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Unfortunately, what was illegal in 1970 is now perfectly legal, thanks to the Patriot Act, hammered through by the Bush-Cheney Junta during the 9-11 panic. It essentially outlawed the right to protest. We're seeing its effects now.
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Omac is a terrifying read now.
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And here in 2025, we live in a country ruled by Morgan Edge clones.
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Edge is a great character, so naturally DC quickly fucked him up. Once the Fourth World was inexplicably canceled, DC writers wrote away the Darkseid link by making THAT Edge a clone. Groan. God knows what they've done to him since.
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Jack based Edge's appearance on actor Kevin McCarthy, most famous as the lead in Invasion of the Body Snatchers!
His loathsome personailty and cruel ambition was based on the infamous head of CBS Television James Aubrey, known as "The Smiling Cobra."
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Remember also that DC Comics had recenttly been acquired by Kenney Inc., a sleazy corporation that specialized in lucrative parking lot biz. Kenney looked to expand and bought DC Comics, and its subsidiary Mad Magazine.
So the DC guys could relate to a cut-throat corporate creep.
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Morgan Edge is the blueprint for later media moguls like Rupert Murdoch and the sleazy billionaires who gobbled up all our current media.
He was also the only Kirby character the jealous old guard at DC in 1970 enthusiastically incorporated into the Superman mythology.
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The Korean edition!
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As usual, some clown on Instagram commented "Stop exploiting Dahmer."
Yes, I'll be basking in the several hundred dollars tops I make in royalties from this edition.
Secondly, like every author, I want my book to be read by as many people as possible. That's why we make books!