Marvel Dimensions, by Alex Ross
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scans_daily"Stuff I did over at DC with Kingdom Come is regularly brought up amongst their various worlds of universes and futures of their characters and such. I would hope this sees the same kind of treatment and appreciation over time." - Alex Ross
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Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday
Sep. 8th, 2026 11:03 amicon_uk posting in scans_dailyIn the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
In the same day POTUS47 managed to:
1) Unironically post AI generated images for Space Force uniforms clearly based on a LOT of the "Starship Troopers" movie. You know, the thinly veiled political satire where the Government and were full on fascist, with the military wearing a lot of black, grey, leather and greatcoats, and the Director had, I'm sure coincidentally, grown up in the Nazi occupied Netherlands.
2) Posted an AI video of himself as a Green Lantern... which I might actually make it's own post about since it's ON topic, or might decide I don't need to subject us to that level of crap...
Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.
The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.
Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.
It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.
The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than scans_daily. But please, no doomscrolling, for your own sake.
In the same day POTUS47 managed to:
1) Unironically post AI generated images for Space Force uniforms clearly based on a LOT of the "Starship Troopers" movie. You know, the thinly veiled political satire where the Government and were full on fascist, with the military wearing a lot of black, grey, leather and greatcoats, and the Director had, I'm sure coincidentally, grown up in the Nazi occupied Netherlands.
2) Posted an AI video of himself as a Green Lantern... which I might actually make it's own post about since it's ON topic, or might decide I don't need to subject us to that level of crap...
Tireless feminist icon Gloria Steinem passed away at the age of 92. In the 60's and 70's in particular she was one of the most visible and audible proponents for women to be afforded the same rights and access as men, and she remained outspoken on the topic to the very end.
Strange New Worlds made it's most recent themed episode a Trelane one, as he turned the Enterprise into an actual soap opera. Full marks to Anson Mount though, for making his arc a rather powerful one. (I also suspect one's perception of the impressiveness of the guest star they got is directly linked to how familiar you are with the world of American daytime soap operas)
Oh, and I believe today is also the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek first airing on TV! :)
In terms of movies I should have caught up with a long time back, I finally watched "The Marvels", which was a whole lot of fun, and the Robert Pattison Batman movie, which I liked more than I expected, but was yet another example of a basically silly vigilante superhero movie having to be "real" to the extent they seemed embarrassed they were making a superhero movie.
Dystopias all around.
Sep. 7th, 2026 11:55 amselenakYou know, fictional dystopias have the advantage that there are usually far more courageous, intelligent and most importantly empathetic people in them than real life presents you with. People (as in, many of them, not just one or two) who do abandon plain human decency in favour of authoritarianism get motivation that amounts to more than “I feel dissatisfied and also these guys give me someone to hate and blame”, i.e. they often start out in genuinely awful situations that make them consider the authoritarians as a better alternative.
In fiction.
In real life, the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt has chosen to become the very first German state since 1945 with a Nazi government (and I’m not using the “right wing extremist” euphemism today, not today), and to choose the immortal words of painter Max Liebermann in 1933, “I can’t eat as much as I want to throw up”. Another awful aspect of this is that it didn’t come unexpected. Now you can soothe yourself by saying “well, there are less people eligible to vote in Sachsen-Anhalt than there are inhabitants of Berlin”, or, “at least they didn’t get the absolute majority (around 43% ish, if anyone is interested), but for me, that does not mitigate the shame. 🤮 The usual suspects and sponsors - Musk, Putin, the Orange Menace - have already congratulated.
I would rather live in a fictional dystopia. On to such a one, which has just finished its (excellent) third season.
Silo, season 3:
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In fiction.
In real life, the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt has chosen to become the very first German state since 1945 with a Nazi government (and I’m not using the “right wing extremist” euphemism today, not today), and to choose the immortal words of painter Max Liebermann in 1933, “I can’t eat as much as I want to throw up”. Another awful aspect of this is that it didn’t come unexpected. Now you can soothe yourself by saying “well, there are less people eligible to vote in Sachsen-Anhalt than there are inhabitants of Berlin”, or, “at least they didn’t get the absolute majority (around 43% ish, if anyone is interested), but for me, that does not mitigate the shame. 🤮 The usual suspects and sponsors - Musk, Putin, the Orange Menace - have already congratulated.
I would rather live in a fictional dystopia. On to such a one, which has just finished its (excellent) third season.
Silo, season 3:
( Spoilers want to know Why… )
Questions Raised by Bad Seeds: Sunset
Sep. 6th, 2026 07:30 pmshakalooloo posting in scans_daily
Tags:
- char: anarky/lonnie machin,
- char: batman/bruce wayne,
- char: catwoman/selina kyle,
- char: poison ivy/pamela isley,
- char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson,
- char: robin/red robin/tim drake,
- char: vandal savage,
- char: ventriloquist/arnold wesker,
- creator: cliff rathburn,
- creator: g. willow wilson,
- creator: giuseppe camuncoli,
- creator: matt fraction,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: batman
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The Doom Patrol #1
Sep. 6th, 2026 07:16 pmshakalooloo posting in scans_daily
A robot, a giantess and a guy named Larry is pretty much my ideal super-hero lineup.
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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Resurrections - New Wounds
Sep. 6th, 2026 07:08 pmshakalooloo posting in scans_daily
Okay, I think I'm about ready to forgive Mike Costa after his Transformers run, so let's give him a chance on one of my other favourite franchises. No plot spoilers below.
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Fic: Web of Fate, Chapter 16
Sep. 6th, 2026 11:49 amrodoTitle: Web of Fate
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author:rodo
Chapter: 16/17+E
Length: 4,288 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.
Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.
( Jonah Breakspear winced. )
Fandom: Carnival Row
Author:
rodoChapter: 16/17+E
Length: 4,288 words (77,000 in total)
Rating: 16+
Genre: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Worldbuilding, Adventure
Characters: Rycroft Philostrate, Jonah Breakspear, Vignette Stonemoss, Runyan Millworthy, Darius Prowell, Absalom Breakspear
Pairing: Philo/Vignette
Warnings/Labels: war, and mentions/occasional depictions of associated atrocities; canon-typical fantasy racism
Disclaimer: Everything you recognise belongs to Amazon, of course
A/N: I started this story in August 2021, and I finished the draft in 2022, so this was all written prior to the second season. So some of the worldbuilding contradicts what was shown in season 2. Still, I had so much fun re-reading this lately that I thought I’d polish it up some more and post it anyway, in case some of you will like it as well. Since it’s an AU, the plot of the second season is not that relevant anyway.
Summary: A year after the attempted assassination of Chancellor Absalom Breakspear, The Burgue is at war, and it’s not going well. In order to break the stalemate at the front, some unlikely soldiers are recruited to fight in a place nobody expected, and Philo and Jonah find themselves caught up in it against their expectations.
( Jonah Breakspear winced. )
Vacation-ish Recap
Sep. 3rd, 2026 07:50 pmrodoTwo weeks off work left me some time to spend on things that don’t involve tedious meetings and somewhat less tedious coding. Such as:
- I finally got around to rewatching the second season of Carnival Row, and while I still don’t like it as much as the first one, it improved on rewatch for me. I think there’s this phenomenon where your hopes and expectations can mess with you when a new season doesn’t live up to them, and that probably hit me, even though I didn’t hate the season like most people. Now that I’ve had three and a half years to let those things go, I had a lot more fun! It’s definitely something to keep in mind when ambivalent feelings keep me from rewatching a canon in the future.
- After my holiday, I went on a business trip for the first time. It was very stressful but also very fun. I was beat after, though – we took the train, and there was a one hour delay on the way back. As usual.
- I started writing stories for fandomgiftbasket. I won’t be able to finish as much as I used to in some years, unfortunately. In part it’s because I am a productive adult now, but there also aren’t that many requests that speak to me this year. *shrug* I’m doing my best for the ones I do like, though.
- I hit my getyourwordsout target! I’m doing the lowest possible tier, as always, but it usually takes me a bit longer. So yeah, I’m pretty happy right now!
- Also, I used my vacation to travel a bit again (Colmar, France, this time). I think I need to travel more – it’s really good for my health (mental and otherwise) even if it’s stressful. There’s just something about exploring an unfamiliar place that I think is like a mental cleanse. Maybe human brains just weren’t made to be in the same place for a long time, rather than moving about and seeing new places all the time.
Batman #12 - "Verity"
Sep. 3rd, 2026 01:35 amlaughing_tree posting in scans_daily
Grant [Morrison] famously said at the onset of their run ‘oh wait, what if you had actually lived through all this stuff? What would it do to you?’ And I think there’s some part of me that is like, what if all that stuff is still happening? What if it’s Killer Croc today and then it’s a squad of ninja assassins on motorcycles tomorrow, and then it’s cartel gangs. It’s a little bit like, we can do it all. -- Matt Fraction
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Spider-Man Today #9-12
Sep. 2nd, 2026 02:33 pmlaughing_tree posting in scans_daily
[Paul] would make a really great Hobgoblin. I think somebody already is the Hobgoblin. Someone already is the Hobgoblin, can't do that. -- Al Ewing
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The Spider-Woman 50th Anniversary Special this week sets up her next ongoing.
Sep. 2nd, 2026 10:26 amthanekos posting in scans_dailyThat's starting this November, written by Dan Watters, who's taking an aggregate approach:
" Jessica Drew never really had a consistent writer during [her] original run.. she had Wolfman, Gruenwald, Claremont, Nocenti, etc. All had different ideas about what a Spider-Woman comic might look like.. [t]aking her from the UK to the West Coast, from monster stories to mystery stories, from a bounty hunter to a private eye.. We'll be pulling on a lot of [that] in this title. "
The anniversary issue set-up handles the weight of her history by being matter-of-fact about her latest status quo.
( It opens on a day of it. )
" Jessica Drew never really had a consistent writer during [her] original run.. she had Wolfman, Gruenwald, Claremont, Nocenti, etc. All had different ideas about what a Spider-Woman comic might look like.. [t]aking her from the UK to the West Coast, from monster stories to mystery stories, from a bounty hunter to a private eye.. We'll be pulling on a lot of [that] in this title. "
The anniversary issue set-up handles the weight of her history by being matter-of-fact about her latest status quo.
( It opens on a day of it. )