When the internet 2.0 was young i thought about making a blog page about comics and he would have been the first entry because despite his stellar success on JLI and Legion i felt like not enough people knew about him.

I own a few pages by him. Nothing great, just what i could afford as a student. One of my favorites is a Legion page with one panel drawn and photostatted eight more times and dialogue pasted on top. I love it because that was the kind of tongue in cheek story telling you got. Never a dull moment, always a new take. Farewell.

His JLI and Ambush Bug are hilarious, and JLI is of course where the “bwahaha” comes from. His runs on Legion of Super-Heroes are fan favorites. But you probably knew that. Just making sure.

Is 007 a british series? I only order through US-Previews and i believe that would be published by Titan, am i correct?

I assume that scene actually isn’t in the book, right? It’s a shame that word balloons on covers have gone out of fashion. But at least we’re past the bland poster covers of the 2000s.

Maybe if they pay extra to be featured at the top?

Ads themselves are just annoying but tolerable. But we’re talking about targeted marketing. Ad companies keep data on you, the user, so they can squeeze out a bit more money from avertisers. That requires the users’ consent in many parts of the world and ad companies still try to weasel around that. When you don’t want them to have your data, a word from you should be enough. No hidden options, no clicking through a dozen pages, no ifs and whens.

I know i’m really late to the party, but this video gave me an idea how blockchains could actually be useful for art. Not to sign a digital image to your name, that’s bullshit. But to link an actual piece of art to you as a certificate of ownership. So in case it gets stolen, you can prove you’re the real owner. This requires first time entries to be verified by certified experts, but after that you’re good to go. You would need to solve a bunch of problems, like what happens when someone dies and the objects are inherited, or what if you buy it, but the owner doesn’t update the chain or makes a mistake, etc. You would probably need a group of mods/experts who can amend the entries. But then you could more easily contact the owner, manage reproduction rights and in general make art theft less attractive, because all art dealers can easily check the current state.

Who would be the right one to sue? Reddit is hosting it, but they are using admins to keep discussion civil and legal; the admins of PCM are most likely not employed by Reddit, but are they responsible for users egging each other on? At what point is a mod responsible for users using “free speech” to instigate a crime? They should have picked a few posts and users and held them accountable instead of going for the platform. People will keep radicalizing themselves in social media bubbles, in particular when those bubbles are not visible to the public. Muting discussion on a platform will just make them go elsewhere or create their own. The better approach would be to expose them to different views and critique of what they are saying.

Wait, you’re saying that the Aztec empire was just 64 years old when Columbus discovered America and ships with conquistadors followed to butcher and enslave everyone?