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[the order]

the order

meanwhile, maksim levin, brilliant reuters ukraine war photographer, has been murdered near kyiv. he was 40. he is survived by 4 children. he was wearing full recognised press-identifying markers when he was shot.

surely, after 45 years of a comic that would be absolutely nothing without its brilliantly written, thought-provoking (and hugely prescient) politics and satire ... it is a sad day to learn that contemporary politics on a forum devoted to said journal has to be shut down ... on the grounds, presumably, of repeated and targeted hate speech, extreme ableism, and the very worst kind of nudgenudgewinkwink conspiracy tropes. many of us repeatedly urged the offensive nonsense away. but here we are. just one person.
but elsewhere, just one deranged sociopath is holding the whole world to ransom.
rest in pieces indeed.

[day of chaos]

day of chaos (given that it is tour of duty part 2 - they must be read as one for the full scope of wagner's remarkable layering, control and astonishing wide-screen).

[the returners]

1. the returners
2. havn

[mazeworld]

mazeworld

[hondo city justice]

hondo city justice

[thistlebone]

thistlebone

superb characterisation, brilliantly plotting that understands the gothic need for constantly deferred terror, real chills, and an artist who became definitive and irreplaceable from the very first page.

[dan dare]

dan dare

[dandridge]

dandridge

just want a return of hardcovers, wordsearches, dodgy photostrips, bizarre reprint choices, black and red print thrills, and maybe even a risible spot the difference.

i loved it all. i miss it all. but nostalgia is a funny old beast.

[full tilt boogie]

1. full tilt boogie
2. thistlebone
3. hope

[sherlock holmes]

sherlock holmes!

london belongs to him.

for ages now, there has been so little drinking water in mariupol that there have been many accounts of people drinking from rivers and canals poisoned with corpses. so there may be no wars about drinking water, but water has definitely been employed as a weapon of war in the present horror.

ye gods the darkness rises