All-Star Squadron #6
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Writer: Roy Thomas
Pencils: Adrian Gonzales
Inks: Jerry Ordway
The All-Star Squadron must stop a super-villain from allying Mexico with the Axis Powers.
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Uncanny X-Men #231
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Writer: Chris Claremont
Pencils: Rick Leonardi
Inks: Dan Green
Colossus is reunited with his sister, or is it all a dream?
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Absolute Martian Manhunter #5
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I think that there's nothing wrong with being influenced by comics primarily, but it can lead to a little bit of an incestuous thing where the ideas are constantly recycled and kind of the same thing over and over again. And I think, especially with something like The Ultimates and the Absolute Universe, you really want to be drawing not just from other works of art, and other types of stories, but also from life. -- Deniz Camp
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Quickies
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1. How do I ensure an HSV-2-positive new partner is taking their meds to reduce transmission risk? In a high-trust relationship, you trust your partner to take their meds. In a low-trust relationship, you insist your partner take their meds in front of you or send you a video of them taking their meds. 2. … Read More »
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Dad’s Being SCAMMED by a Findom!
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A man’s 80 year-old father is getting scammed and extorted by a findom. Should he go to the police? Change his account numbers? See a marriage counselor? A gay man in his 20s looks very young. He worries that the men who are attracted to him may be skeezy because he looks more like a … Read More »
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JLI 12: the sordid saga of Max Lord
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Thor #285
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Writer: Roy Thomas
Pencils: John Buscema
Inks: Chic Stone
The Deviant Karkas fills Thor in on what happened to the Eternals between the end of the Kirby series and this issue.
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[ SECRET POST #6814 ]
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⌈ Secret Post #6814 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 25 secrets from Secret Submission Post #973.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Teen Titans (1996) #8
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Words and pencils: Dan Jurgens
Inks: George Perez
It turns out that the Teen Titans going off to fight super-villains without adult supervision was a bad idea.
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Superman #34
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Writer: Jerry Ordway
Pencils: Kerry Gammill
Finishes: Dennis Janke
Superman assists Maggie Sawyer in the search for her missing daughter.
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Starman (1988) #14
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Writer: Roger Stern
Pencils: Tom Lyle
Inks: Bob Smith
A sparring session with Superman leads to a rematch with the Parasite.
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Code deploy happening shortly
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Per the dw_news post regarding the MS/TN blocks, we are doing a small code push shortly in order to get the code live. As per usual, please let us know if you see anything wonky.
There is some code cleanup we've been doing that is going out with this push but I don't think there is any new/reworked functionality, so it should be pretty invisible if all goes well.
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #66
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Writer: Bill Mantlo
Pencils: Ed Hannigan
Inks: Jim Mooney
If a rampaging Electro wasn’t worse enough, Spidey must put up with Jonah incorrectly publishing stories that he has just died.
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Mississippi site block, plus a small restriction on Tennessee new accounts
Aug. 31st, 2025 12:28 pm![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
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A reminder to everyone that starting tomorrow, we are being forced to block access to any IP address that geolocates to the state of Mississippi for legal reasons while we and Netchoice continue fighting the law in court. People whose IP addresses geolocate to Mississippi will only be able to access a page that explains the issue and lets them know that we'll be back to offer them service as soon as the legal risk to us is less existential.
The block page will include the apology but I'll repeat it here: we don't do geolocation ourselves, so we're limited to the geolocation ability of our network provider. Our anti-spam geolocation blocks have shown us that their geolocation database has a number of mistakes in it. If one of your friends who doesn't live in Mississippi gets the block message, there is nothing we can do on our end to adjust the block, because we don't control it. The only way to fix a mistaken block is to change your IP address to one that doesn't register as being in Mississippi, either by disconnecting your internet connection and reconnecting it (if you don't have a static IP address) or using a VPN.
In related news, the judge in our challenge to Tennessee's social media age verification, parental consent, and parental surveillance law (which we are also part of the fight against!) ruled last month that we had not met the threshold for a temporary injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law while the court case proceeds.
The Tennesee law is less onerous than the Mississippi law and the fines for violating it are slightly less ruinous (slightly), but it's still a risk to us. While the fight goes on, we've decided to prevent any new account signups from anyone under 18 in Tennessee to protect ourselves against risk. We do not need to block access from the whole state: this only applies to new account creation.
Because we don't do any geolocation on our users and our network provider's geolocation services only apply to blocking access to the site entirely, the way we're implementing this is a new mandatory question on the account creation form asking if you live in Tennessee. If you do, you'll be unable to register an account if you're under 18, not just the under 13 restriction mandated by COPPA. Like the restrictions on the state of Mississippi, we absolutely hate having to do this, we're sorry, and we hope we'll be able to undo it as soon as possible.
Finally, I'd like to thank every one of you who's commented with a message of support for this fight or who's bought paid time to help keep us running. The fact we're entirely user-supported and you all genuinely understand why this fight is so important for everyone is a huge part of why we can continue to do this work. I've also sent a lot of your comments to the lawyers who are fighting the actual battles in court, and they find your wholehearted support just as encouraging and motivating as I do. Thank you all once again for being the best users any social media site could ever hope for. You make me proud and even more determined to yell at state attorneys general on your behalf.