I(nvidious) Q(uarantine): JUSTICE LEAGUE QUARTERLY #9 (JLI 77)
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Warning for animal abuse, homelessness, trans issues (sometimes handled with offensive cluelessness), and implied child sexual abuse. Not all in the same story, though, this ain’t Crossed.
“Frenzy” by Mark Waid and Rod Wigham is a tense sci-fi thriller with a dynamite elevator pitch: Which of these six trapped heroes will kill the other five?
( You might think the answer is ‘‘obviously Guy Gardner,’’ but maybe that’s just what they want you to think. )
Batman #7
Apr. 1st, 2026 12:50 pmcyberghostface in scans_daily
"There's something I believe Grant Morrison came up with in Arkham Asylum with Dave McKean: that the Joker has super-sanity; he has to reinvent himself every day to try and keep up with all the stimuli the world throws at him that he can't regulate. And I have a friend who's a neurobiologist, and we were talking about stuff, and I read things about people with profound, untreatable depression issues.
"And this guy built a cap that regulates electricity. He had a patient whose entire life was depressive episodes, suicide attempts, institutionalisations, in an endless cycle, and at some point, on an MRI or a CT scan or something, he saw that some part of her brain wasn't lighting up as it should be. And he went to RadioShack and just made it; it literally just pings the dark parts of her mind. And at the time of the article, her life had changed. She had held a job for more than one year, and she was engaged to be married, like everything was different for this woman. It's just kind of playing with all this stuff like, what if that super sanity is generating like all this electrical activity beyond what people are supposed to have in your brain, and that's why he's so thin all the time, he's like just burning like a marathon's worth of calories every day, just being alive… And what happens if you stop that? That's where we meet our boy is in a tube, and because now his metabolism has stopped, he's not wraith-like and thin anymore." -- Matt Fraction
( Scans under the cut... )
Sleep #8: "...Anyone."
Apr. 1st, 2026 12:11 pmnumeronone in scans_daily
"When Jonathan Reason falls asleep, he becomes... something terrible."
(Oversized final issue; 12 pages of 36.)
( Read more... )
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Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
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The Artemis II mission is due for take off this week, and we wish them well
The newly recovered Doctor Who episodes will be available in the UK on BBC iPlayer at 6am this coming Friday.
"Chag Pesach Sameach" to those who celebrate Passover
"Happy Easter" to those who celebrate Easter
"Happy Cheap Chocolate Egg Eve" to those who celebrate that.
"Happy Long Weekend" to those who celebrate neither and don't like chocolate.
and "We're Terribly Sorry" for those who have to work over the aforementioned long weekend.
Lot going on in real world today, so that's about it.
Justice, Like Lightning…: JUSTICE LEAGUE QUARTERLY #8 (JLI 76)
Mar. 30th, 2026 01:54 pmtcampbell1000 in scans_daily
I have a few tangents to explore with this one! The main story part will be quickish: three out of four of the stories in this JLQ volume are better placed elsewhere (we’ve seen one already). It’ll also be quickish because two of the three characters in the remaining story (Flash and Thunderbolt) can autocomplete the phrase “Quick as a…!” ( Could’ve been three for three if the third character had been the Crimson Fox. )
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Pat McGreal and Mike Vosburg’s “Homeward Bound” reveals that the JLI’s Russian member, Dmitri Pushkin AKA Rocket Red #4, is not actually Russian. He’s…( Canadian? )
S t r e t c h e d: JUSTICE LEAGUE QUARTERLY #6 (JLI 74)
Mar. 26th, 2026 01:16 pmtcampbell1000 in scans_daily
Two of the stories in Justice League Quarterly #6 are better recapped later: one’s another Global Guardians bit, and one’s a Blue Beetle story that ends a phase in his development we’ve only seen foreshadowed so far. The other two, we can get to right now! Unfortunately, they're both mysteries with flawed premises, leading to climaxes that misfire even if there's some pleasure to be found in the buildup.
( They’re still better than the later Praxis arc, but…low bar. )