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Picked up the first two issues of the #NewMasters #comic by Shobo and Shof yesterday (I missed the first issue when it came out). So far it's an Afrofuturist sci fi heist to lift up lower classes in a heavily stratified future Earth, and I am absolutely _loving_ it. Highly recommend.

https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/new-masters

New Masters

2019 Creators for Creators Grant recipients, Nigerian brothers SHOBO and SHOF, present NEW MASTERS, a groundbreaking blend of science fiction, adventure, drama, and vibrant Afrofuturism. In a striking vision of West Africa under the thumb of alien colonizers, a motley crew of outcasts find…

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In other news, I may have spent longer than I'd like to admit this weekend implementing almost all of the Unicode Combining Diacritical Marks code chart as an .XCompose file just so I could type the comic arc's title: The Eye of Ọ̀rùnmìlá.

I mean, I only _needed_ a few combining characters, but once I was on it... yaknow... I figured I might as well be able to type phở and Erdős properly. And silly IPA things like m̥, s̪, t͡ʃ, L̝̊, or ð̼. TODO: the rest of IPA.