July 20th, 2025
iamrman: (Franky)

Writers: Jerry Ordway, George Perez and Roger Stern

Pencils: Jerry Ordway


Superman: Exile.

Superman is forced to fight in an alien arena.


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cyberghostface: (Doom)
iamrman: (Squirrel Girl)

Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Robert Campanella


Starman in final battle with the Power Elite.


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July 19th, 2025
shakalooloo: (Dragonborn)
Of course, since Predator is very famous for a certain colour of blood that it bleeds, that gives this comic the licence to have black, white, red AND green colouring!

This series is an anthology, leading with a multi-part story set in Australia. There's also a completely nutso story about a woad-covered Celt taking on a Predator that weirdly ends up going very The Last Knight.

The third story, a third of which is under the cut, involves the rather genius idea of Predator going to a gun show.

Now, of the holy trinity - Alien, Terminator and Predator - I must confess that the last of the three is my favourite, even though it is objectively the least good. But even I, a moderate Predator fan, have to roll my eyes whenever someone tries to paint it as any sort of 'honourable'...




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shakalooloo: (Shortpack)
posted by [syndicated profile] fandom_secrets_feed at 06:33pm on 19/07/2025
posted by [syndicated profile] fandom_secrets_feed at 06:32pm on 19/07/2025
iamrman: (Bon Clay)

Writers: Gerry Conway and David Anthony Kraft

Pencils: Pablo Marcos

Inks: Bob Smith


The Secret Society of Super-villains add a confused Golden Age hero to their number.


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posted by [personal profile] case in [community profile] fandomsecrets at 02:25pm on 19/07/2025

⌈ Secret Post #6770 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 38 secrets from Secret Submission Post #969.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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posted by [personal profile] case in [community profile] fandomsecrets at 02:16pm on 19/07/2025
[ SECRET SUBMISSIONS POST #970 ]




The first secret from this batch will be posted on July 26th.



RULES:
1. One secret link per comment.
2. 750x750 px or smaller.
3. Link directly to the image.

More details on how to send a secret in!

Optional: If you would like your secret's fandom to be noted in the main post along with the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret. If your secret makes the fandom obvious, there's no need to do this. If your fandom is obscure, you should probably tell me what it is.

Optional #2: If you would like WARNINGS (such as spoilers or common triggers -- list of some common ones here) to be noted in the main post before the secret itself, please put it in the comment along with your secret.

Optional #3: If you would like a transcript to be posted along with your secret, put it along with the link in the comment!

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rocky41_7: (Default)
I first read The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison last year, but I never got around to reviewing it, in part because I didn't know what to say about it. My friends had loved it, and while I'd found it enjoyable, I was still percolating on what I liked (or didn't!) about it. Listening to The Witness for the Dead, a book in the same universe, got me thinking about TGE again, so this month I gave it a re-read. This time, it all clicked.
 
This book is truly such an enjoyable read. The basics of Maia's tale are not unfamiliar—a seeming nobody is thrust into a position of power no one ever expected them to have—but Addison puts her own fascinating spin on it. It has the same feeling I got from The Witness for the Dead, where the story prioritizes doing the right thing and many if not most of the characters in it are striving to be good people (whatever that means for them). It makes a nice contrast to the very selfish, dark fantasy where you know from the start every character is just in it for themselves (and I do enjoy those too, not to say one is better than other!) The protagonist Maia in particular is put in any number of positions where he could misuse his power for personal gratification—such as imprisoning or executing his abusive former guardian, Setheris—but he, with conscious effort, chooses differently. That is not the kind of person—not the kind of emperor—Maia wants to be. And honestly—there is very gratifying fantasy, particularly today, in the idea of someone obtaining power and being committed to some kind of principles of proper governance, of having some code of honor above their own personal enrichment.
 
  
 
 
 
 

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iamrman: (Sogeking)

Plot: Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema

Script: Bill Mantlo

Pencils: Sal Buscema

Inks: Joe Sinnott


Rom and the Torpedo team-up to take on the Dire Wraith Rocketeers.


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iamrman: (Buggy)

Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith


Just what is the Joker planning? Robin certainly doesn’t know.


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iamrman: (Marin)

Writer: Dennis O’Neil

Pencils and inks: Ric Estrada


Richard Dragon and his supporting cast are asked to investigate reports of a mantis-man threatening the tourist trade in the Caribbean.


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July 18th, 2025
rocky41_7: (Default)
Oof. Today I threw in the towel on Margaret Killjoy's The Sapling Cage because I'd rather be alone with my thoughts than sit through another three hours of this book. This is a fantasy book about a "boy," Lorel, who disguises herself as her female friend to join a witches' coven (She's a transgirl, but her journey on that understanding is part of the book, and she refers to herself as a boy for much of the story.)
 
First, I will say that I think Lorel is a protagonist written with love; clearly Killjoy wanted her to be relatable and sympathetic, and someone eager for a trans fantasy protag may be willing to forgive the book's many weaknesses for that. That said...
 
I was shocked to realize this book is not categorized as Young Adult/Youth literature. Lorel is 16 at the start of the book and she's very sixteen. She makes all the sorts of stupid, immature mistakes you would expect from a teenager, which makes her a realistic character, but also deeply frustrating to read as an adult, particularly since the first-person narration puts us right in her head. The book feels young even for a sixteen-year-old; it reads more like a preteen novel about teenagers.
 
The book itself feels incredibly juvenile, both in prose and in narrative. The writing is simplistic, the narrative barely there, and the worldbuilding painfully thin. The book infodumps on the reader constantly, going into detail about things that are then never relevant again and don't connect into any kind of overarching picture of what this world is like. Reads very much like the author just throwing a bunch of things she thought were cool at the reader without actually thinking about how they would impact her world or the characters in them.
 
 

posted by [syndicated profile] fandom_secrets_feed at 11:23pm on 18/07/2025

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