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I wasn't previously aware of Gammarauder until I stumbled across it while trawling the Internet Archive: originally a satirical postapocalyptic boardgame by TSR, it received a 10 issue comic series by DC.
Neither looks very intriguing or even good to me.

What it does contain in the first few issues is a simple roleplaying system based on the setting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammarauders

Content warning Science fiction violence and warfare

It's two weeks until the SIDEQUESTED graphic novel hits bookstores. I'm sort of freaking out.

Also if it hits a bestseller list I'm going to have to fulfill a campaign pledge and rent some goats.

I...yes. Goats.

https://sidequested.com/book/

The SQ book and the SQ movie poster side by side

Girl Genius for 3/2 (https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php) Still working on the taxes. I've done more math in the last two days than I've done in the last 6 months. I'm annoyed to discover that I'm enjoying grinding through the business side of things. My dad gets the last laugh after all.

Mickey’s theme song, “Minnie’s Yoo Hoo,” debuted in Mickey’s Follies (1929) đŸŽ¶

In the 1930 Mickey comic strips, the song wasn’t promoted but casually referenced, moving it from a commercial song to a cultural work.

Learn how Mickey’s 1930 comics turned popular songs into the foundation of Disney’s music & see the original strips —
https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/24/mickey-tunes-in/

Long before Disney songs became iconic, Mickey’s 1930 comic strip was already in tune with popular music đŸŽ¶

The musical moments weren’t incidental. By referencing hits like “Singin’ in the Rain,” Mickey participated in the cultural soundscape, building his own relevance & laying the groundwork for Disney’s musical identity.

Learn how Mickey’s 1930 comic strip turned borrowed hit songs into the foundation of Disney’s musical legacy —
https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/24/mickey-tunes-in/

Cartoon drawing of Mickey Mouse singing his theme song, "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" in the May 1930 edition of The New Movie Magazine.
Vintage cover of the sheet music for "Minnie's Yoo Hoo!" the Mickey Mouse theme song, featuring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse in a playful design.
Image of Mickey Mouse playing a piano with a huge sheet of sheet music, around which are musical notes and the text "all together now—", from the Mickey Mouse Book (1930), page 15.
March 10, 1930 Mickey Mouse comic referencing the song “Singin’ in the Bathtub”, a hit song from Warner Brothers’ The Show of Shows (1929).

So checking out Absolute Superman and... they are reframing the Superman S as the mark of the Kryptonian labor class.

Kal-El's parents are Kryptonian dissidents, questioning the upper classes (who are trying to flee a dying Krypton to leave the lower classes to perish). Kal is someone who actually works on his essays himself instead of letting the AI do it for him.

And on Earth he is fighting against exploitation of the poor.

Do I sense a certain theme with the titles of this line?

reading Absolute Batman now, and I'm only four issues in, but the interesting thing is how this version of Batman comes from a working class background (father a teacher, mum a social worker) and fights against billionaires manipulating the world from behind the scenes.

interesting choice considering