Hardboiled Babylon

November 7, 1885 - August 11, 1942

Canada RN

I have no answer. But when I go looking, I usually come back to this.

No, actually, I will not.

"It's a non-orientable surface!"

However, given that Marvel was often playing against convention (especially after Spider-Man) it wouldn't surprise me if the general idea was floating around. But if they knew a competitor was going forward with a similar idea, that might have prompted them to also commit.

If I had to guess, what got picked up was just the general notion of a superhero team that was oppressed by broader society plus the specific point of a leader in a wheelchair. After that, we can see the divergence.

Interesting. I was unfamiliar with AAF 14. It reads much like a combination of Odd John and EC's "The Loathsome" from 1953. Interesting how "The Man in the Sky" shares related, though different, issues with minority representation that the X-Men would also have while written by Stan Lee.

Copilot, kill my darlings.

Copilot, kill my darlings.

Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!

They didn't copy the published version, obviously. But I doubt anyone will ever be able to disprove (or prove) that things weren't circulating at the water cooler in the months leading up to initial publication.

X-Men was a Doom Patrol knockoff.

Doom Patrol did it better.

The Doom Patrol as related to disability is far more effective and accurate (even in its earliest issues) that any hand waving about X-Men being related to civil rights.

It works from the standpoint where most normal people in the Marvel universe (as with ours) are implicit eugenicists. Here gods, aliens, and super serums are fine. But the idea that something not of the parents could result from reproduction is the fundamental eugenicist fear.

She was known as Madame D’Gizarde, and, in the early ’40s, she used deceit, drugs, and her beguiling charms to become the bane of chicken farmers everywhere.

She was known as Madame D’Gizarde, and, in the early ’40s, she used deceit, drugs, and her beguiling charms to become the bane of chicken farmers everywhere.

Three panel meme from Seinfeld. Top panel. Screenshot of Jerry's perplexed face as he looks at Kramer. The hallway is bathed in red light. text: "Kramer, what's going on in there?" Middle panel. A screenshot of the stock market showing many red squares as tech stocks lose more than 4%. Bottom Panel. Screenshot of Kramer's face as he looks back at Jerry. He stands in the doorway, red light spilling into the hallway from behind him. Text: "It's a trade war, Jerry."

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

it's not FOR us

Maybe that nun can teach him.

First as tragedy, etc...

squared the circle

Without downloading anything where are you mentally rn?

i don’t like this ‘em-dash’ is a sign of ai thing.

i use em-dashes all the time.

Too late, was born here.

There is no possible world in which I wake up as a social media CEO.

Frame #275 from E68 Mingas Folly

Frame #1361 from 50s E08-09 the fantastic farmer

Frame #3935 from 60sE78 bully for gumby

The results of a strain of High Modernist agricultural thinking that predicates the elimination of perceived complexity to pave the way for an idealized mono-culture.