#comics

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https://www.runawaytothestars.com/comic/rtts-page-1-and-2/ is live on Kickstarter for its first book.

If you like this sort of thing - cool aliens, emotional growth and spaceships, check it out. Or just read it online, it's pretty cool.

I've been reading superhero again the last few days and...
... you know, ten years ago the villains in those comic books felt over the top in their motivations and actions.

I think we all took a wrong turn in the whole "comic books are becoming more realistic" trend. It wasn't reality that was supposed to get supervillains!

World's Greatest Detective everyone, can afford a hot-rod, can't afford a road map.

Imagine if he hadn't stumbled into a dastardly plot by sheet incompetence. Imagine knocking at the door of someone late at night, just to ask for directions back into town. In his Bat-costume.

(Panel is from Detective Comics 37, March 1940)

Panel from Detective Comic, showing Batman getting out of his car, writing reading: "The Batman, having lost his way on a lonely by-road, stops before a lone house to ask directions. Suddenly from the house comes a scream like that of a wild beast in pain..."
Panel from Detective Comic, showing Batman getting out of his car, writing reading: "The Batman, having lost his way on a lonely by-road, stops before a lone house to ask directions. Suddenly from the house comes a scream like that of a wild beast in pain..."
Panel from Detective Comic, showing Batman getting out of his car, writing reading: "The Batman, having lost his way on a lonely by-road, stops before a lone house to ask directions. Suddenly from the house comes a scream like that of a wild beast in pain..."

reading Alan Moore's Top 10 again right now, and considering if you haven't read it the last 25 years I doubt you are gonna read it now I leave this unspoilered:

The resolution of multiple storylines in the series is that a group of rich, famous, and powerful superheroes never actually did any of the superheroics they claimed they did, but instead were a pedophile ring. (and a serial killer in one instance)

I don't know, I kinda feel some resonance here...

cover of Top 10 issue 12, titled : Court on the Streets
cover of Top 10 issue 12, titled : Court on the Streets
cover of Top 10 issue 12, titled : Court on the Streets

The Comics Code Authority was a self-censoring body created by the American comics industry after the moral panic following Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent"

Most comics decided to publish the CCA seal of approval hidden in some corner of the cover somewhere.

Not so Quality Comics' Plastic Man who decided to absolutely lean into it.
"Well, if you want us to tell people you approve of me, so be it!" it seemed to say, as they basically made the seal the book's subtitle.

Cover of Plastic Man no. 62, showing Plastic Man finding a bunch of people looking definitely high from a cigar billboard's smoke rings. Tagline reads: "See the ingenious, sleep-producing SMOKE WEAPON"