John

15 Jan 2025

Okay, starting my thread of comics threads. You can find the older threads (for now) on X/Twitter. First thread: 5501-5594 is here, with Scott Summers fighting a giant octopus. bsky.app/profile/john...

John@johnlk.bsky.social

I'm moving my comics tweeting (skeeting?) over here to Bsky, with Cyclops and a giant octopus, I guess. This thread will be #5501-5600 of the Complete Marvel Reading Order (cmro.travis-starnes.com). I did the first 5500 (!) comics over on Twitter. Anyway, Cyclops! Giant Octopus! Let's begin.

No thanks, don't think I will.

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

A+ panel, no notes

When Jen is asking this she's not asking about a fictional movie character, but about an actual giant lizard named Godzilla, who was defeated by the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and SHIELD.

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

Fixer looking particularly deranged.

Drunk On Mystery, but like....Spooky

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For all you sickos who wanted a giant close-up of Namor's face.

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I'm not trying to bash anyone here, but it seems really weird how excited people are about Lula kissing a trans-Congresswoman on the cheek as a revolutionary show of support, when Joe Biden wrote the forward to Sarah McBride's book:

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

God this guy is the fucking worst.

Monica doesn't get a full character assassination over the next year of comics, but it's definitely too bad we don't get a chance to see her mature into a good leader instead of being sabotaged by the creative team and taken off the board for years and years.

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

If you like Jan so much, Dane, why don't you marry her? Oh, that's right.

I remember when the She-Hulk show came out and a bunch of random lesbians were angry that Jen was straight and, I mean, Jen is extremely straight.

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

The Awesome Android is back. Apparently he's been living in a barn in Ohio since a Cap issue I don't remember very well.

Marrina, Namor, the Black Knight, She-Hulk, Doctor Druid, and the Monica version of Captain Marvel is maybe the least iconic Avengers line-up of all time.

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

Namor treating Marrina, an actual veteran of a real superteam (well, Alpha Flight, but still) the same way Cap is treating Vagabond, a girl who likes to cosplay.

Monica is onto Druid being a shifty fuck.

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

It's 1987, so the Fixer straight up murders the dude who he mind controlled to free him. I generally think it's unwise to make all your chump villains into cold-blooded murderers like this, but I am not a comic writer working in the wake of Watchmen, I guess.

I dunno about an Avenger who's a Newfie.

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

This guy is sweet for Monica.

*That's* what the Fixer looks like? I had no idea.

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

Namor knows he's bad in court.

Dane still brooding about Jan. Look, you either talk to her and tell her how you feel or you put it behind you. No brooding.

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

Honestly pretty classic exiled monarch shit.

Costello is no Lord Vashti

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

Doctor Druid: so sketchy

I love that Namor is getting sued for, uh, property damage from invading the surface world repeatedly.

Mantlo is promising the end of Alpha Flight, but somehow there are 70 more issues of just this volume of Alpha Flight

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Time for Heavy Metal, which is sort of the last story of Roger Stern's Avengers run (he plotted the first two issues) or else the beginning of the four year period of short runs between Stern and Harras. (Macchio, Simonson, Byrne, Nicieza, Hama all get short runs here. Longest is Byrne with 13)

politico.comMamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friendsThe choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.

The Fixer!

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We’ve seen the Mayor of a major US city clash with their own Police Academy before* and only tragedy** came from it. *Police Academy 6: City Under Seige **Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Remember when "serious" Republicans were mad about "lawfare"?

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Man likes a winner. This is what will happen in the immediate aftermath of next Tuesday, too -- Trump's impulse to suck up to the winner will overwhelm any attempted election stealing

George Pearkes@peark.es

*TRUMP: I LIKE LULA

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That phase probably doesn't last long, though.