July 26, 2024

The origin of Super Villians: Kanto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanto_(comics)

Publication history
Kanto first appeared in Mister Miracle #7 (March/April 1972), and was created by Jack Kirby.[1] His appearance is modeled after Renaissance nobleman Cesare Borgia and actor Errol Flynn.[2]

Fictional character biography
A former student of Granny Goodness on Apokolips,[3] Iluthin is accused of stealing weaponry from Darkseid's then-master assassin Kanto 13 and is exiled to Renaissance-era Earth. Subsequently, he trains under Italian teachers and falls in love with a woman named Claudia before Kanto 13 kills her. After Darkseid kills Kanto 13, Iluthin returns to Apokolips and takes on the latter's name and job.[4]

During writer John Byrne's Genesis comic mini-series, Kanto encounters Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, his former student and lover.

During the Death of the New Gods storyline, Kanto is killed by Infinity-Man while spying on Orion, Mister Miracle, and Superman.

During Final Crisis, Kanto appears alive serving Darkseid and Kalibak, with the three possessing humans on Earth and posing as businessmen.[5]

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July 25, 2024

Comic Book Reviews for This Week: 7/24/2024

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/new-comic-reviews-dc-marvel-image-july-24-2024/

July 24, 2024

this is the song that I have been humming the last few days...

Originally by Racid but I love this version by The Interrupters. enjoy!

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Hey, little sister, do you know what time it was
When you finally seen all your broken dreams
Come crashing down your door?

I said, they demand an answer and they demand it quick
Or the questions fade and the wasted days
Come crawling back for more

And I said
Do you know where the power lies and who pulls the strings?
Do you know where the power lies? I said, it starts and ends with you

The face of isolation
Well, that's one you recognize
When you can't get straight
It's a lonely place and
It's one you do despise

I said boredom is for sale now
And helplessness you feel
It's a wounded dove and the hawks are above
Blood splattered on a reel-to-reel

And I said
Do you know where the power lies and who pulls the strings?
Do you know where the power lies? I said, it starts and ends with you
Hey, hey
Hey, hey

July 24, 2024

The Weekly Pull: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, She-Hulk, and More

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/new-comics-this-week-the-weekly-pull-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-supergirl-woman-of-tomorrow-she-hulk-and-more/

July 24, 2024

Alien: Romulus Getting Prequel Comic From Marvel

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/alien-romulus-comic-movie-prequel-marvel/

July 23, 2024

with the power and momentum that is building behind Harris...

I firmly believe now, that will also translate to winning back the house and keeping the senate.

it's this kind of infectious enthusiasm that will do it.

Now where do I find my "we're not going back" bumper sticker!

July 23, 2024

Brazilian Sharks Test Positive for Cocaine

https://gizmodo.com/brazilian-sharks-test-positive-for-cocaine-2000477390

Cocaine Shark is already a horrible looking B-movie, but it’s also a reality as trace amounts of the drug have been detected in sharks near Brazil.

While a rampaging cokehead great white would undoubtedly make for an excellent antagonist, the reality is slightly less exciting and far more alarming in the grand scheme of things. Cocaine makes its way into the ocean through several avenues, including release from inadequate sewage treatment facilities and stray packets dropped into the water by smugglers that then get bitten open by wildlife (the latter scenario sounding rather familiar).

Due to these processes, traces of cocaine have been detected in sewage and surface waters in at least 37 countries between 2011 and 2017. The drug has also infiltrated various forms of aquatic life, including mollusks, crustaceans, and bony fish. But with all that said, no studies had ever looked into whether sharks are affected.

In a paper published last week in the journal Science of the Total Environment, Brazilian researchers sought to rectify that by capturing 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. The species is relatively small, measuring under three feet (0.9 meters) in length, and it feeds mostly on small fish and squid.

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July 21, 2024

If the Dems put up someone other than Harris

They can go fuck the right off.

It will be a matter of, I didn’t leave the party, the party completely fucked us all over and left me

July 21, 2024

Fascism: like a boot on your neck forever

Poor Joe. The monied assholes finally broke him.

This will be our clutherfuck to own

July 18, 2024

Rinse and repeat racism/bigotry by the repukes.

I'm currently reading a massive tome on the history of New York City, called "Gotham: a history of New York City to 1898" by Edwin
G Burrows and Mike Wallace.

the "modern" Republican Party really is nothing more then a retread of the past. .

In the book, currently I'm in the time period of 1840-1844.

And I'm going to type here 2 1/2 paragraphs. And just for note: The American-Republican party cited here, disbanded sometime in the late 1840's but I find it ironic, that that name and it's platform could still pertain to the "modern" republican party.

Here's the snip:

"Hughes's (Catholic priest) Carroll Hall gambit of 1841 raised fears of Catholic political ambitions, and in spring 1842 newly elected Mayor Morris rewarded Irishmen for their support by giving them jobs and licenses in the public markets.

Enraged Anglo-Protestant butchers, suddenly facing Irish competitors, spearheaded an anti-immigrant offensive. By August an American Republican Party was up and running, and in November it's candidates received and astounding 22.9 percent of the vote for local offices. Spurred on by this showing, a wide variety of New Yorkers clambered aboard the new party. Merchants, professionals, editors, and shopkeepers - furious at high taxes, financial profligacy, patronage abuses, outright corruption, and the yielding of Democrats and Whigs to Catholic pressure - hailed the American Republicans as a party of municipal reform. Small masters and journeymen in as yet unindustrialized trades like building, butchering, blacksmithing, and chipmaking signed on as well, in hopes that halting the immigrant flow might forestall the capitalist reorganization of work that had devastated the tailors, printers and shoemakers. The new party also exalted the artisanal republican values of manly independence, Christian brotherhood, and craft solidarity and promised to restore the Trades to prominence.

What tied these disparate groups together was a shared Protestant culture, a nostalgic belief that New York City had been far better place just after the Revolution, and a conviction that the evils now afflicting it - rising rates of crime, pauperism and immorality - were foreign imports. The party's platform reflected these premises. The American Republican wanted to extend the naturalization period to twenty-one years, effectively eliminating forreigners from politics and reserving government offices and markets licenses to citizens. The nativists aimed to repeal the 1842 school law to guarantee to preservation of the Bible reading and "nonsectarian" religion in the schools. The party also promised budget cuts, tax reductions, law and order, sobriety, bipartisan appointments, and the end to corruption."

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just thought this interesting to post.