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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 3h

I’d like to see the original Jack Cole semi-serious Plas in the DC Universe, vs. the zany sub-Jim Carrey (or worse, zany masking tragedy) version we’ve mostly had since Crisis.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 4h

(Chuck D voice) this is what I mean an anti-Blackhawk machine

Crooks talking about placing orders for Anti-Blackhawk Machines to stop the crimefighters

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 4h

Hey, I’m running to the store, do you need anything

In this panel from Blackhawk #135, a villain floats as he shows a crook his Supermart for Crime, with criminals pushing carts around to pick up weapons

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 6h

I stumbled across a local bookstore’s outdoor sale in an alley today and got these collections by two of the greatest cartoonists of all time free with a $5 donation to the Humane Society. Cats win, dogs win, I win.

The store was blasting Born to Die by Lana Del Ray at 11 AM, it was great.

Comic strip collections by Lynda Barry and Winsor McCay

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 8h

The reason not to bet against Weiss is that her singular talent is an enthusiasm for flattering the sensibilities of asshole billionaires; her career demonstrates that’s all she needs to continue floundering upwards. The traditional skill set, which she profoundly lacks, is meaningless.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 8h

If you’ve ever been anywhere near an MFA program you understand the dynamic of a circle of mediocre talents puffing each other up all day

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 9h

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Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

Also when I saw the Batcave exterior

The cave used as the Batcave exit in the 1960s tv series, with the Hollywood sign in the distance

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

I had something like that feeling on the Warner backlot when I saw the fire escape from the Purple Rain album cover; just awe that it was real, still exists, and I was looking at it in person

The fire escape from the cover of Prince’s Purple Rain

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

*seemingly* unrelated

Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ve been playing Soulcalibur IV for two weeks straight and Sophitia’s Athenian sword and shield fighting style still pwns my controller”

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

This feels like a corollary to that realization from a few months ago that so many dudes in comics back then talked like that because they desperately wanted to sound like Kevin Smith, who they sincerely thought was *cool*

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

The guy left her four years ago to go become Evil Bald Sorcerer #437, and she hired Conan to track the guy down

Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

Every day after school when we showed up for work he would look at us and say “You’re fired!” That was his joke. His other joke was “I love working in a cemetery, I have so many people under me.”

Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 1d

One fall as a kid I had a groundskeeping job at a cemetery. The head groundskeeper was a man named Dana who constantly sang “Oh why’d you leave me Bo Derek?” to the tune of Kenny Rogers’ Lucile. Every day his mom brought him a Pepsi. It was known among the crew that he had had a nervous breakdown.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

Conan the Exposition

Speaking to a villain, Conan relates “I had made a vow to your wife—whose name is Annia, in case you’ve forgotten—“

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

None more erotic

Miles O’Keefe as Tarzan, Bo Derek as Jane, an orangutan as an orangutan, strolling along the beach

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

So erotic it has Richard Harris on the bagpipes

Richard Harris in Safari gear playing bagpipes in a still from Tarzan the Ape Man

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

Great Tower Records ad on the back

Headline: 30,000 take up residence in Portland
Ad copy: But you mind mind, with neighbors like Billy Joel, Christopher Cross, Kim Carnes, Neil Diamond, Grover Washington, Pat Benatar, Count Basie and the Oak Ridge Boys.These and thousands of other artists are represented by over 30,000 different record titles at Tower. We heard you needed us, so we’re bringing along the whole neighborhood!

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

Found this in a 1981 Conan the Barbarian comic book. I salute you across the gulf of time, Horny Enough to Cut Out a Newspaper Ad Kid.

Ad for Tarzan the Ape Man starring Bo Derek and Richard Harris, with the line “The most beautiful woman of our time in the most erotic adventure of all time” and art of Derek in a straw bikini swinging on a vine against a white background

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

My Rudolph collection:

The Rudolph digest and five of the six treasuries

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently DreamWorks (via Columbia, via Screen Gems) owns the Fox and the Crow, which is at the very top of my reprint wish list along with Sugar and Spike

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

The rights to the character are held by the Rudolph Company. In a time when Marvel is cutting deals left and right on Shang-Chi, ROM, Micronauts, etc. you’d think it might happen but I guess it’s not a priority for DC.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

My treasury grail is the very first Rudolph one, but alas those seem unreprintable

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

This also gives me hope that DC might reprint the Christmas treasuries

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 2d

I hope they follow up next year with the Ghosts treasury, as I’m missing that one

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