Batman #489

Jun. 15th, 2025 06:52 pm
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Writer: Doug Moench

Pencils and inks: Jim Aparo


Knightfall prelude.

Killer Croc is on a rampage, but Bruce is in no shape to stop him. Tim gets the idea to have Jean-Paul dress up as Batman instead.


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Amazing Spider-Man #99

Jun. 15th, 2025 03:49 pm
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Writer: Stan Lee

Pencils: Gil Kane

Inks: Frank Giacoia


Desperate for cash, Peter goes to strong-arm a job from Jonah the skinflint.


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Uncanny X-Men #218

Jun. 15th, 2025 01:23 pm
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Writer: Chris Claremont

Pencils: Marc Silvestri

Inks: Dan Green


Rogue leads the newest X-Men into battle against the Juggernaut.


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The final part of the garden pictures from last week. Finally!


Bee!


Dogwood.

In the plains garden:


Nice vibrant paintbrush.


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Prickly pear.


Intensely blue larkspur.


Flax.

And then to the little river area that borders the plains on one side and the montane gardens on the other:

Which really just means more koi. :)


I love the classic tri-color ones.


Alex named this one "Patches."


Patches wants food. :o :O :o


I am always delighted to see this one! A really unique gold color, and the fanciest fins!


Another very striking one is this silver one. So getting the silver one and the gold one next to each other (plus a nicely classic orange one) seems like it should be good luck, haha.

Then we headed back through the montane gardens toward the alpine and rock gardens:


Solomon's seal. (Had to look this one up!)


A lovely mix of flowers!

Over by the orangery, and the other semi-indoor and greenhouses:


It was slooooowly closing up on its snack.

I do always love the carnivorous plants. :)

Then inside, to the pavilion where they have most of the orchids.




The dangling petals are so loooooong!


I was apparently quite taken with that feature.

Then a quick walk through the conservatory. I would have stayed longer, but I think Taylor was getting quite tired.


A hibiscus so perfect it looked fake.


Also had to look this one up: Rangoon creeper, apparently.

Thor #274

Jun. 14th, 2025 07:06 pm
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Writer: Roy Thomas

Pencils: John Buscema

Inks: Tom Palmer


The gods of Asgard play a prank on Balder by trying to shoot him with arrows. Here comes blind old Hoder. What could possibly go wrong?


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Superman #29

Jun. 14th, 2025 04:15 pm
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Words and pencils: Dan Jurgens

Inks: Brett Breeding


Superman: Exile.

Superman stumbles upon a seemingly abandoned planet.


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Starman #6

Jun. 14th, 2025 02:12 pm
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Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith


Starman helps with clean-up efforts in the aftermath of the alien invasion.


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Rom: Spaceknight #16

Jun. 14th, 2025 10:04 am
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Writer: Bill Mantlo

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Sal Buscema


Kids accidentally activate a deadly Wraith weapon.


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Last Friday was the other concert that we went to go see:


Aesthetic Perfection, doing an old-school set, plus genCAB and Whorticulture opening.

This one was cutting it a little closer to get there, since I wasn't able to leave work at all early, but luckily the class we were closing at work didn't keep me longer than usual, either. I was able to wear most of what I was going to wear to work, and change what little I needed to on the drive there, haha.

We actually wound up being down there earlier than needed, and had to circle like vultures for about fifteen minutes until one of the driving lanes turned into a parking lane at 7:00. As usual we car-bar/pre-gamed for a bit, then headed to the venue.

We weren't late this time, so we got to see our first opener, Whorticulture.



Whorticulture is a local band, and they've hit at least a little bit of success! We last saw them opening for Solar Fake (last year? the year before?). They got to play Dark Force Fest last month, which was pretty cool.

I've been impressed every time I've seen them, and even having only ever seen them live as an opening band, their songs have been memorable enough that I recognize them every time.

I always figure "hey, I should buy a CD!" and then don't have merch money, so this time was going to be the time! ...They do not have CDs at their merch table. I poked around on Bandcamp and discovered that this is because they do not have any albums... just nine singles released over the course of the last six years, haha. So I did buy their various singles, haha.

Their set was great, as they have been every time I've seen them, and even only getting to play four songs.


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"Okay, hold on a minute. Time for an on-purpose wardrobe malfunction!"






Here's their song from last year, "Faust," which I quite like. The video is them being dramatically gothy in the Molly Brown House Museum, which is fun, too.


After that was genCAB. They were supposed to open the last time Aesthetic Perfection came, but had to cancel because the singer had Covid.



Unfortunately I found them solidly... meh. They weren't terrible, but I found myself getting a little bored. I couldn't understand more than a handful of words out of each song (just kind of nondescriptly loud and yell-y.) The singer also seemed... shy? Like he didn't want to look at the audience, ha. He's the synth player for Aesthetic Perfection while they're touring, so I feel like he's had a good tutor in stage presence, but... I mean, I'd be petrified and hate being on stage, so. Glad to have gotten to see them, but not someone I'd seek out to see again/look for as a headliner.


Three more of genCAB





Not really a "good" picture, but I liked the dramatic silhouettes.


And then, Aesthetic Perfection!


This is by far the best picture I got for the night, ha.

It was exciting to see him back, since he swore that the last tour would be the last one in the US ever. (He doesn't live in the US anymore, and he's always very open about the business side of being an artist. Basically it's just prohibitively expensive to tour, in a way that doesn't work out as a financial decision. He's said he'd be willing to tour as a supporting act, and I think he did so last year, but I wasn't interested in the artist he was supporting.)
I think the old-school thing was really meant to be just a single special show, and then expanded to a very small tour, and it was exciting for Denver to have a date added. It's very possible that this one is in fact the last tour, so I'm glad we got to go. (Or maybe there'll be another in a year or two!)

I'm actually less a fan of his older stuff than I am his like... middle stuff. I'm a 'Til Death fan, sorry. Even so, his older stuff has grown on me quite a bit.

He opened with "The Great Depression," which was a good starting song. Having the first words of a set be "Hey you motherfucking son of a bitch!" is pretty good, lol.

Got a lot of other faves from A Violent Emotion (and I'll be honest, while I knew most of the other songs, I don't have the albums they're on. I'll have to get them from Alex, as I'm sure he does, ha.) I was glad we got "Pale," which is one of my favorites from that album, as well as "The Siren" and "Living the Wasted Life."

The final encore song was "Spit It Out," which is a great energetic song to end on. I'm pretty sure that was the song he opened with at the first AP show we saw, way back at Castlemans (RIP a great venue.) The energy of the crowd screaming along with "Spit it out scream, spit it out scream!" does make it a great one to hear live.

Could have done without a small cohort of girls who came in about halfway through the set and pretty viciously shoved their way in front of me, but ah well.


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Bought Alex an Aesthetic Perfection shirt (since the last one he tried to get, he wound up with the wrong one and didn't realize until later. The cut of the one he got didn't work for him, so I wound up with it.)
I bought a Whorticulture shirt, since there's not an album to buy, haha. (Forever sad to have missed out on their "Goth as Fuck" shirts, which were styled to look like the "Queer as Folk" logo.)
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Lee and Kirby were not being subtle, and right now I'm not in a mood to be subtle either. If you're anti-LGBTQIA+ right now, you damn well know whose side you're on and I'm not interested in sugarcoating that... -- Al Ewing

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Robin (1991) #1

Jun. 13th, 2025 06:01 pm
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Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith


Batman sends Robin to train with the great martial arts masters of the world.


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Richard Dragon: Kung-Fu Fighter #3

Jun. 13th, 2025 02:29 pm
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Writers: Dennis O’Neil and Jim Berry

Pencils: Jack Kirby(!)

Inks: D. Bruce Berry


The Swiss hires an army of goons to take out Richard Dragon.


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The Question #3

Jun. 13th, 2025 12:30 pm
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Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils: Denys Cowan

Inks: Rick Magyar


The Question must save a bus load of children from being blown up by terrorists.


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