I’m pleased to finally present the big project I’ve been dying to reveal: the cover for a Polaris 50th anniversary minicomic!
I’ve commissioned Mlad for what will be multiple pages of what I think captures her history and core nature. The minicomic will be released as each page is completed over the course of the next several months.
I hope you all enjoy this and what’s to come as much as I have and will!
Since nobody else has posted it (at least that I’m aware of), @lordtimeblogposts informed me of this variant cover for Amazing Spider-Man #10.
If you’re not aware, what’s depicted up top is Lorna from New X-Men #132. This is a huge deal for me, personally, in a good way, because it’s the first time in nearly 10 years that Marvel’s acknowledging what happened to Lorna on Genosha. To me, this part of Lorna’s history is essential to understanding and valuing Lorna as her own character. It’s the biggest trauma she’s ever had, and it led to some of her most defining and moving moments.
Do not just assume that the Democrats are going to win…the only way we can GUARANTEE that the Democrats make gains in these midterms is for people to go out and vote
Whatever the polls say, get out there and vote democrat, whereever you are
Do not just assume that they’ll “Definitely win” and so it doesn’t matter if you go out and vote or not
Our elections are rife with voter suppression on multiple fronts. Voter ID laws, voter roll purges, shutting down of polling places in areas where voters are primarily Democrat, some early voting not getting processed because of supposed “mistakes.” None of that is even factoring in gerrymandering.
Every vote is important for this election. In a fair and proper system, Democrats would win in a landslide. But the system has been rigged. The only solution within the bounds of the system is to have such an overwhelming number of votes that either we beat the rigging, or it’s too obvious how rigged the system is for Republicans to maintain their narrative.
This is almost fifty years ago: I added psych as a major so I could access the books on homosexuality in our university library. They were locked in the back and you had to go through the librarian to get them. If you were not a psych major the Dean of Students would interrogate you as to why you wanted to read such deleterious material.
Seeing the newspaper that one of my professors and his friends had been arrested at his own house, having a barbecue in the backyard, for “associating with a known homosexual”. Believe me, these things twist you, and make you think twice when invited to a party at someone’s house.
Having a handsome young stranger make eyes at you at the all night diner as you study for finals, and wondering if he is one of the detectives assigned to entrapping gays. Going through the teeter totter emotions of wondering if he might be the love you are looking for, or is he the trap that will flush your whole life down the toilet.
Coming to barracks at the end of the day in the Air Force, and watching the swarm of OSI and Security Police escorting a friend out under arrest for having gone to a gay bar. Wondering if he would name you, because that was the only way you could stay out of jail – by naming at least five other gays.
All of the above were common experiences for many gays in America, not that long ago. Those of us who went through this are still among you. Don’t take for granted the new freedoms you have. Get out and vote this election no matter what. The Republicans mean to send us back to all this.]
salarta 