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I discovered an albedo/erma trade and it’s wonderful, if a little reactionary lol, but I’m still in a wait and see with the story. making something heinlein-esque more introspective and mundane could be interesting. great art too
there is some feels w/ living with tragedy and feeling out of place, but it’s hard for it to settle within the nostalgia mogging and incoherent setting
been reading Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin mainly just because it’s popular. putting aside the immediate ick of tmnt, it’s just bad lol, no one has clear motivations, narrative devices are clumsy and obnoxious, themes punch way above its weight….
toothache, the ultimate class signifier
empathy is when you read my book and sympathy is when you tell me it’s good
the metaphor is extremely flimsy. if spider-man is this synecdoche that anticipates nyc’s crime wave, then wtf are they even saying. but you have to read old school spider-man as this ultra-malleable empty signifier of the atomized working class, and then you will also develop a perverse sunk cost fascination for old spider-man comics
the death of capt stacy in asm has a very blunt soap opera quality to it. but the aftermath is proving interesting, intuiting that political tragedy creates a vacuum for domination, and that fascism relies on extreme narrativization and aestheticization of tragedy (panels from ASM 91)
took a considerable amount of time but i think it was worth it
Narf (Fran Regen Period)
Oma the Thief
