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Diabolu Frank

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Ancient comic book blogger and co-host/editor of Rolled Spine Podcasts https://rolledspine.wordpress.com/

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Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 16d

DC Secret Files #DCSFP
The Definitive Podcast of the DC Universe 1993-2011
Episode VI: DC Universe Legacies #2
with guest Mark Baker-Wright
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Superman ✪ Lois Lane ✪ Justice Society of America ✪ Liberty Belle ✪ Vandal Savage ✪ Black Canary ✪ & More!

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Andrew Otis Wendigo @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 9h

TV Trash-o-ween continues with a platinum tier example of the form.

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Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 4h

If you're a comic book fan visiting Denver and you don't go to Mile High, you will regret it. The store itself needs to be experienced. I would be embarrassed for you if you just went to a random local shop instead. The prices are ludicrous, but there's nothing like it on Earth.

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Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 7h

I spaced mine out a couple weeks, leading with COVID, and I really wished I'd taken off the day after. Flu did nothing to me.

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Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 1d

Image Comics potential orders that I missed entirely because I didn't have a catalog in front of me:

Darkness #1
Invincible Omnibus
Private Eye tp
You'll Do Bad Things tp

A shortfall of a couple hundreds dollars, but for Ed Moore. Might not be so lucky next month.

Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 1d

I think Gold Key did this, too.

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dranj70 @dranj70.bsky.social · 1d

My weekly hope that @jamesgunn.bsky.social
can recognize this huge Supergirl fan by letting me join the fesitivies around the movie! Lifelong SG fan and have been running a fan site for 17 years!
This week - peek at my commission collection!
www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom....

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Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 1d

2024 Charlotte Heroes Convention The Maxx colors by Daniel Govar

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2024 Charlotte Heroes Convention The Maxx colors by Daniel Govar

Here's another testament to why it's best to get your art scans and blogging done in a timely manner. The last three portions of the jam t...

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Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 1d

Would have been a better fit at Valiant.

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Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 1d

Hey thanks-- I like that!

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Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 2d

I know it's an ask, but there's a reason why the top publishers have been continuing their own catalogs. I'm going to start missing Image books before long...

Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 2d

You can put out a digital catalog, but all that stuff hits the news sites weeks before I'm placing orders. I'm not doing your work of digging for solicits, and I don't want to peruse the internet to access print media purchasing anyway.

Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 2d

I can't stress enough to comic book publishers that with Previews gone, if you're not putting out some kind of physical circular, the odds of getting eyeballs on anything new are nil. I'm scanning an online outlet with a page of postage stamp thumbnails for a second or two, and then audition over.

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Fire & Water Network @fwpodcasts.bsky.social · 3d

New ONCE UPON A GEEK PODCAST! Our 1980s BLUE DEVIL comic coverage continues! Shag & @diabolu.bsky.social find their joy in Las Vegas alongside Dan Cassidy and Norm the cameraman! It's weirdness and chaos in Sin City in BLUE DEVIL #6 from 1984! #ouag33
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Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 2d

Sportsball Karen with an entirely predictable take on Bari Weiss was a no-brainer block. When audience is the coin of the medium, bankrupt them with permanent inattention.

Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 2d

TFW you've been nursing a grudge for half a century over no one being interested stocking Hi & Lois collections, "like they do that %*&@ Jim Davis!"

Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 2d

Sure, the politics are bad, but I'm more shook that Hi & Lois is still being produced?

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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 2d

A fun, forgotten Bronze Age gem is STALKER. It had a brief 4-issue run in 1975.

It was created & written by 19-year-old Paul Levitz, straight out of high school. The art job was given to Steve Ditko, his 1st work for DC since the Creeper in 1968! Even better, Wally Wood inked him. 3 Hall of Famers!

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Irredeemable Shag @onceuponageek.bsky.social · 3d

Who would you fan-cast as cameraman extraordinaire and best friend of BLUE DEVIL - Norm Paxton? Norm is a faithful friend, has a wonderful sense of humor, and is also a man of action! We discuss on today's ONCE UPON A GEEK PODCAST! #ouag33
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Irredeemable Shag @onceuponageek.bsky.social · 3d

New ONCE UPON A GEEK PODCAST now available! Our 1980s BLUE DEVIL comic coverage continues! Shag & @diabolu.bsky.social find their joy in Las Vegas alongside Dan Cassidy and Norm the cameraman! It's weirdness and chaos in Sin City in BLUE DEVIL #6! #ouag33
fireandwaterpodcast.com/podcast/ouag...

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 3d

Brian Bolland covered the Batman Official Annual 1982 (UK). Presented as published, and without lettering.

Under the Bat-Signal, Batman stands holding a joker playing card, as the Joker levels a gun at his back. Published cover.

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Irredeemable Shag @onceuponageek.bsky.social · 4d

Some more exceptional pages from BLUE DEVIL #6 by Paris Cullins & Ernie Colon! Things get chaotic in the casino, Dan's Weirdness Magnet leads to a colorful launch, and in the end Blue Devil is literally sawing logs!

BLUE DEVIL #6 on Sunday's ONCE UPON A GEEK PODCAST! #ouag33

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El Romero Mero @maxoromero.bsky.social · 4d

My old neighborhood in Chicago. This is the city I know and of which I’m so proud.

Flyer for Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, a whistle code to alert neighbors to ICE activities. Three short equals ICE is in area, three long means someone is being detained.

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Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 4d

Any port in a storm, but surely the cards were already canceled?

Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 4d

I topped the average America with a top ten blackout and (no disrespect) am 2 over on you. Mostly the same gaps, too. The entire center (starting in Kansas) and northwest quarter, plus the non-contiginous states.

Diabolu Frank @diabolu.bsky.social · 5d

TFW the celebrity you always thought of as a young person isn't, and you thought of them that way because you're so much older yourself.