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"Top c*ntributer"?

Yeah. There are two sides to every story, as we all know, but that's not helping sway anyone to his side.

Good to know there is actually going to be a volume 6!

I use it for the same reason as Lorenzo, except that for me it's musicians and record labels who I follow. I resent having to use it just to keep up with their releases, I wish they'd find something else to use, and I'm very happy to condemn it. Facebook too.

I haven't read a Stephen King novel in years, and not read the Dark Tower ones at all. I've read a great many older ones though. My favourite is probably the Langoliers, from Four Past Midnight. I don't remember the other stories in that volume, but I've read that one lots.

The biggest issue I have with King is his tendency to go off into multi-chapter-long flashbacks, remembrances, or some other sort of aside, and leave the "main" narrative hanging for an excessive amount of reading-time. It's a common technique, I know, but he does it to a degree that's beyond just irritating, and it actually puts me off re-reading the longer books, or reading newer ones at all.

Meanwhile, Lost Treasures from Hibernia has just plopped on my doormat (figurative - I don't have a doormat), so I'll be reading that!

Surely 95% of the market for Turbo Jones and Loner would be people who already know what Wildcat was?  And, given that Wildcat's stories were inter-linked at points, why package them stand-alone?

Wouldn't there be more sales potential in publishing all the Wildcat stories together, as a full set, split across a couple of volumes?

I had the same thought too, but since two already are out, and the remaining three are stalled (or abandoned), my assumption was that they'd decided not to bother with anything more.

Plus once the teams split up in issue 1, there's barely any crossover. Doesn't mean it's a bad idea though. I'd buy them.

If they can't put the work hours into faffing about with scans they can use my scans for nothing!

It's the equivalent of my parents' generation saying "we worked hard so you could have an easier life than we had", and the next day "bloody kids have it so easy these days".
It'll be the same for the generation after us. They'll inherit the Earth regardless of what we do, so as long as enough of them are better than us, that's what counts...

I got this about my pre-order at the end of last month.

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We have been informed that due to ongoing delays to global shipping, we have unfortunately been forced to push back the release date of this title. Both standard and slipcase editions will now ship on or before the 22nd of May.
 
While these delays are beyond our control, we are very sorry for the delay. We want to ensure that you receive a premium product to the highest possible standard and we are doing all we can to ensure that the dispatch of all orders will commence as swiftly as possible.
 
We greatly appreciate your patience as we work to get this book to your hands, but we believe the wait will be worth it.

Good point. It's not as if it's a clear cut issue of always-this-way-in-the-country and always-that-way-in-the-city. Obviously both are types of community and all communities are vulnerable to the same types of upset. The degree & proportions vary, is all. I think that the trend is enough to cause a geographical separation of left & right. And then, of course, people migrate to where they'll feel they belong. Naturally there are other considerations to within-borders movements (finances being one), but, again, the trend is probably enough to shift red & blue further apart.

I think it's probably mostly to do with a) the concerns that Trump addresses, and his non-politician origins, are in sync with rural dwellers and their sympathies. And that the population is more dispersed. In cities there are more interactions with others, and those interactions are more significant to an individual's own life. More opportunity to fall into a clique, and less room to defy the mainstream or suffer ostracisation (which is more of a nightmare for a close community). So if it becomes "trendy" (pardon the sledgehammer of a term) to think one way, thinking another way comes at a price. Doesn't happen so much in the rural areas.
Also, the things that Trump doesn't seem to give a poo about (social care and other typically left issues) are more important in a densely populated area.

I find it easier to navigate this argument when I think of the current debate around trans identity being played out noisily in the media. [snip for brevity!] The thing is, that violence against women by men is very real - and very prolific. So, her hatred is grounded in a lived reality.

Again I agree, although I don't really have an opinion on JKR as I've spent almost zero time reading about the matter and I don't think I can judge anything based on the murmurings drifting in on the wind on the rare occasions that I have the metaphorical window open.

But regarding your last paragraph, what usually gets overlooked (switching from racism to your violence-against-women illustration for a moment) is that, whilst it's true that the vast majority of violence against women is conducted by men, and it's also true that the vast majority of violence against men is conducted by men, and that the amount of violence against women outweighs that of violence against men (hope you're keeping up with this!), it's not true to say that "men are the problem". The problem must be something else because not all men exhibit violence against women or men. You might as well say that in the matter of terrorism, the problem is "Muslims" (equally untrue).

To couch this in a black/white illustration again, it's true that white people have perpetrated injustices of many kinds against black people, but to say that only white people have done this is untrue, and to say that all white people have done this is equally untrue. If you identify the problem as "white people" then you've misidentified the problem. Any plan to deal with it is going to be misdirected, and be ineffective at best, and at worst cause a good deal more harm.

I wish people would identify the issue correctly before harm is done by shooting the wrong target.

Maybe Hibernia could do editions of the remaining stories from Wildcat. I thought Rebellion would do volumes for Kitten Magee, Joe Alien, and the Wildcat Complete after they'd done Turbo Jones and Loner, but it's been a while now so I'm assuming it's not cost effective for them.

It'd be nice to see some of that fabulous Jose Ortiz & Ron Smith art collected properly.

I suppose what I'm trying to say is that white and black aren't equal, and because they're not, one can validly complain about the inequality. The phrase "black lives matter" does not mean the same thing as "white lives matter", because of the context we live in.

I agree with this. My exasperation comes from how this past inequality is handled now. The past differences are irrelevant to the remedy - or at least to what isn't the remedy. You can't fight bigotry against one group with bigotry against the "opposite" group. Racist aggressions (micro or not) against black people, for example, can't be negated with racism against white people. (And, please, let's not be a group who thinks it's not possible to be racist against white people.)  All you end up with is more racism, regardless of the past inequalities between the two groups, and increased us-and-them thinking and 'othering.'
Constant pointing out "white people" as being a problem, when the problem is prejudice based on skin colour regardless of what that colour is, is still racism. Where and who the racism is coming from and directed to is irrelevant. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Nowhere is friendly any more. The right is hating on the left, the left is hating on the right, the middle are labelled as whichever the 'other' side is. Could we all please stop hating.

When writing something, take a moment to mentally search & replace your text with the opposing version of each relevant term... white/black, straight/gay, cis/trans, male/female, left/right, etc, and re-read. If you'd be offended at that version, then what you've written is offensive.

Nowhere is friendly any more. 

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