Monday, July 7th, 2025 03:42 pm
For a long time the only Orwell I'd read was Down and Out in Paris and London, and the power of that book is the inside/outside view it gives on how the machinery of exploitation functions on the ground. The constant exhausting useless work of being poor was already familiar to me as a teen. All these time-wasting rigged games of survival serve to manufacture and control a desperate labor pool that demeans, crushes, and ultimately indifferently slaughters human beings. A system is what it does, after all.

The slog to find a job continues to grind my very goddamned soul. I feel like a filter trap for cognitive dissonance, crushingly frustrated by such conundrums as how to be charming and reassuringly competent while curbing vast amounts of anxiety and rage at the state of, well, everything being mismanaged to hell and back in a glory of destruction.

"Our interview in 20min is cancelled, as we're suddenly not funding this position after all."

"Can you show me your home office? No, I don't have any technical questions about your set-up, I just want to see it for reasons."

"My camera is 'glitchy' (so weird that this always happens!) so you'll be performing engaging humanity to a default blank pfp and your own strained countenance."

"Oh we're owned by a private equity firm, so we believe we're shielded from the 'current instability' in related fields. I will not take it well when you ask for the PE firm's name."

"I'm actually remote/contract HR, so I can't tell you anything about that location, team, work environment, or current challenges this position is meant to address. Please be specific about how you would contribute to our business."

"Sell yourself to us, why should we hire you?"
That one pissed me off, it totally came off as 'dance for us, monkey'. Real talk here, I give sommelier energy. I care way more for the craftsmanship and artistry of the product than the sale of it. I did well with luxury treats to middle class punters, and both are in short supply these days. So yeah, if you need a successful impromptu sales pitch about the thing we've already been discussing for forty minutes -- namely my interest and qualifications for a non-sales or even development-adjacent role at a nonprofit -- then we should both not waste our time.

But wasting time is partly what this is all about, isn't it? 
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Monday, July 7th, 2025 05:51 pm

Writer: Bill Mantlo

Pencils and inks: Sal Buscema


Back on Earth, Rom encounters some more old friends. Or so he thinks...


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Monday, July 7th, 2025 02:33 pm

Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith


Robin and King Snake duke it out. Also, he should probably do something about that plague bomb as well.


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Monday, July 7th, 2025 12:31 pm

Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils: Ric Estrada

Inks: Wally Wood


Dr. Moon and Shit Tie get their henchmen hopped up on steroids and send them to kill Richard Dragon.


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Monday, July 7th, 2025 10:29 am

Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils: Denys Cowan

Inks: Rick Magyar


The Question comes to the aid of a mobster who was raised by wolves.


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Sunday, July 6th, 2025 05:07 pm
I know I had some stuff I wanted to post about but now I can't remember what it was. Oh well.

I finally watched Captain America: Brave New World and it was fine. spoilers )

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RIP Julian McMahon and Mark Snow.

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Sunday, July 6th, 2025 03:06 pm

Words and pencils: Jack Kirby

Inks: Mike Royer


Mister Miracle and Oberon stumble upon the lair of Madame Evil Eyes.


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Sunday, July 6th, 2025 12:58 pm

Writer: Mark Waid

Pencils: Andy Kubert

Inks: Jesse Delperdang


The Plunderer sends the Rhino to take out Ka-Zar.


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Saturday, July 5th, 2025 06:37 pm

Writer: Steve Englehart

Pencils: Herb Trimpe

Inks: Sal Trapani


Steve Englehart ties up some loose ends from the Beast's short-lived solo series.


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Saturday, July 5th, 2025 04:36 pm

Writers: Barbara and Karl Kesel

Pencils: Rob Liefeld

Inks: Karl Kesel


Kestrel strikes!


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Saturday, July 5th, 2025 12:06 pm

Writer: Beau Smith

Pencils: Mike Parobeck and Butch Guice

Inks: Dan Davis


Zero Hour tie-in.

Guy is transported back in time to the day of Coast City’s destruction.


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