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Anonymous asked:

Ignoring facts and yelling "racist!" (or in this case posting a quote from a man smarter than yourself that bears absolutely no connection to the question asked) just shows you have no counterargument and want to deflect. Islam is not a race. It is a set of beliefs and should be treated as such. And their a set of beliefs that tend to incite violent beliefs and acts. Don't believe me? Just look at the polls or read the Quran.

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jons-and-block asked:

Where do I even start with the Astro City sale on Comixology?

kurtbusiek answered:

The sale page — https://www.comixology.com/Astro-City-Sale/page/8082?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC9kZXNrdG9wL2xhcmdlQ2Fyb3VzZWw — shows them in order, for the most part.

The 1995 series, then the 1996 series, then LOCAL HEROES, then THE DARK AGE, then the current series. 

The one-shots and specials listed at the end aren’t in order: 

The VISITOR’S GUIDE can go anywhere, but I think it came out between LOCAL HEROES and THE DARK AGE.

The SUPERSONIC special is actually the final issue of LOCAL HEROES.

The others were all published after DARK AGE arcs - SAMARITAN after arc 1, BEAUTIE after arc 2, ASTRA after arc 3 and SILVER AGENT after arc 4.

They didn’t include the ASTRO CITY FLIP BOOK — https://www.comixology.com/Astro-City-Flipbook/comics-series/12461?ref=c2VhcmNoL2luZGV4L2Rlc2t0b3Avc2xpZGVyTGlzdC9zZXJpZXNTbGlkZXI — but no worries about that not being part of the sale, since it’s FREE. It’s a prologue to THE DARK AGE.

So:

1. 1995 series, #1-6

2. 1996 series, #1-22. The #½ issue came out around #4, but it doesn’t matter when you read it.

3. LOCAL HEROES #1-5

4. SUPERSONIC special

5. VISITOR’S GUIDE

6. FLIP BOOK

7. DARK AGE Book One #1-4

8. SAMARITAN

9 DARK AGE Book Two #1-4

10. BEAUTIE

11. DARK AGE Book Three #1-4

12. ASTRA #1-2

13. DARK AGE Book Four #1-4

14. SILVER AGENT #1-2

15. Current series.

PS to everyone else: Hey, there’s an ASTRO CITY sale at Comixology! Check it out!

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Dr. Lepore’s Lament

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So I was the last person on the internet to find out about this little op-ed by Jill Lepore. When Harvard professors are throwing shade on you from the rarified heights of the New Yorker, you have officially arrived in life, or at least in comics. So I was rather chuffed by this piece, though I do want to respond to some of the points raised, because they tie into some of the broader conversations we’ve been having lately in the comics community. I’d like to give a shout-out to Valkyrie Leia Calderon for drawing my attention to this piece–you can read her thoughtful and candid open letter to Dr. Lepore here.

If you are an avid comic book reader and/or follower of industry trends, none of what I’m about to say will be news to you. However, for those of you who are new to the medium, returning to the medium, or just interested in the continuing debate on the role of gender in pop culture, I hope what follows will be useful and help flesh out the conversation.

First off, a funny tidbit: Dr. Lepore and I have met, though she probably doesn’t remember, as I was a scrappy teenager with a fauxhawk at the time. Way back when I was an undergraduate, she gave a guest lecture on the French and Indian Wars in an American History colloquium I was taking at Boston University. She struck me as very intelligent and thoughtful, a passionate historian.

So I was a bit surprised that someone who obviously values rigorous scholarship would analyze the first issue of a crossover event without any apparent knowledge of what a crossover event is, or what the heavily tongue-in-cheek “feminist paradise,” Arcadia, represents in the context of the Secret Wars and the wider Marvel Universe. (Does she know about the zombies? Somebody please tell her about the zombies.) Thus decontextualized, what Dr. Lepore is left with is a cover depicting a bunch of characters about whom she admits to knowing nothing, and one fifth of a story, which is perhaps why her analysis reads as so perplexingly shallow, even snarky.

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