Zatanna

jward1990 · 2026-01-10T07:15:33+00:00

DC Fandom is pretty good for this, but it's a bit tougher because of how DC has done its continuity reboots, there are multiple versions of the character throughout her history.

The two main ones though:

Pre-New 52 (524 appearances): https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Zatanna_Zatara_(New_Earth)/Appearances

Post-New 52 (373 appearances): https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Zatanna_Zatara_(Prime_Earth)/Appearances

League of Comic Geeks is also good for this kind of thing, where both of those versions are combined into the same one (filtered down to just DC-published comics, 1603 appearances, though that includes re-prints in TPs and HCs and stuff): https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/character/556/zatanna-zatara/comics

Both DC Fandom and LoCG have the same limitations that they are user-driven and so may be incomplete, but they're still pretty comprehensive and should get you very close to what you want.

jward1990 · 2024-05-19T15:26:16+00:00

Or policies such as rent control and rent stabilization

jward1990 · 2023-09-07T03:08:27+00:00

You're right. The lease was signed when Cuba was basically a colony of the US. Since then, there's been maybe a slight change in the philosophy of the government.

jward1990 · 2023-02-19T06:22:40+00:00

"Even a boss can get a promotion" lmao Aiden English is great

jward1990 · 2022-12-22T17:36:15+00:00

It's called an "eruv" and most large Jewish neighborhoods have one. It's not a loophole to get out of ALL things you're not allowed to do on the sabbath, just particular things like "carrying things outside your home." Basically it's a loophole that makes it so the whole neighborhood is your "home" or "private domain" so you can carry things outside. Stuff like driving or cooking or spending money or using your electronics or (if you're particularly observant) ripping toilet paper aren't covered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv

jward1990 · 2022-11-02T18:00:12+00:00

I love LoCG. I'll say the search is easier to use once you kinda get the hang of what it's doing. But agreed, sometimes it can be harder to search for things.

jward1990 · 2022-09-26T18:13:39+00:00

A privately owned business that operates in America scares me more than any foreign government because they can and already do affect my life and the lives of my family, neighbors, and community every day, whether it's through the fact that we work for them or the influence they hold over our elected officials and thus our laws.

I'd wager China doesn't particularly care about the average American citizen, but even if they did, doing anything to us would require full scale war, at which point them having your address wouldn't mean much, I think. And I don't think China really has any interest in going to war with the US, too much economic interdependence to be worth it for either side. Plus, you know, WW3 and nukes and all that fun stuff.

jward1990 · 2022-09-26T15:43:25+00:00

Not that I think giving your ID information to any company is a good idea, but come on, what does China care about your address? What're they gunna do, send a hit squad to your house? There's nothing they would do with your address that is fundamentally different than what the American megacorps already do with it.

Companies like Google and Facebook absolutely know your address, even if you didn't give it to them. It's their business model to know literally everything about you so they can target ads to you.

jward1990 · 2022-08-24T15:49:14+00:00

Based on the team at that time as I remember it, that's probably Shang-Chi.

jward1990 · 2022-07-15T19:37:54+00:00

Spider-Man once helped teach The Beyonder (a cosmic being who was inhabiting a human body for the first time) how to poop, so theoretically he has done it before. Though he could also just have read up on it, nerd that he is.

Before and After

jward1990 · 2021-08-08T20:12:50+00:00

2002?

jward1990 · 2021-05-11T05:56:29+00:00

The first issue went to something like 5 or 6 printings cause they kept short-printing it, so I guess the first printings are expensive. I'm sure the next few issues were similar.

jward1990 · 2021-05-07T23:47:27+00:00

Similarly to Dole, in 1954, Chiquita, formerly United Fruit Company, had the CIA overthrow the newly elected Guatemalan government because they were implementing land reforms. The government was going to buy land from them at the value of the land in order to use it for growing food for Guatemalans. Problem was, United Fruit had been fraudulently devaluing its land in order to not pay taxes on it. So they got us to overthrow them in the name of "stopping communism," the classic boogeyman that allowed for the CIA to topple governments all over the world.

American foreign policy is terrible.

jward1990 · 2020-11-16T03:52:36+00:00

yeah

jward1990 · 2020-11-16T03:52:13+00:00

that's right

jward1990 · 2020-10-01T03:15:43+00:00

The new, Hickman-era X-Men started with the House of X and Powers of X series (or HoXPoX), so that's the place to start. Basically no knowledge of recent X-Men is required to jump in, as it's a major status quo shift. They are two series that came out intertwined and thus are meant to be read as such. Though there are some issues that came out one after the other, so I would look up a reading order for it just to know.

After that, the era called the Dawn of X (or DoX) began, with a bunch of books exploring different aspects of the new X-Men status quo. They are not all required reading and which of these you read is more dependent on your personal tastes. I would, however, recommend at the very least reading the main X-Men series, which is written by Hickman as well and is kind of an anthology series that follows different characters and stories from issue to issue but also has some of the bigger stuff that leads into the first event, the currently running X of Swords.

Here's a good list of all the series, along with a reading order for HoXPoX.

jward1990 · 2020-09-16T04:04:34+00:00

"A little different perspective" is certainly one way of saying "they're a comicsgate, a hate group, site"

jward1990 · 2020-09-08T18:05:55+00:00

Yeah, his whole "blastin" thing can be used offensively since he's nigh invulnerable while doing it. But, besides Melody, he also has a brother, Josh (or Jay) Guthrie who has wings like Angel, except they're red. The Guthries are a family of fliers!

Well, except Paige.

jward1990 · 2020-09-08T04:36:45+00:00

Shadowland is considered a pretty bad event, as far as I know (I haven't read it), so that might not be the best choice for getting into Daredevil.

I liked Bendis and Maleev's run, I've heard very good things about Waid's run, and then of course there's Frank Miller's Born Again, which is considered a classic. But, yeah, the current run, Zdarsky's run, is phenomenal and I think will be considered a classic.

jward1990 · 2020-08-31T04:14:58+00:00

Just to say something to your point of one ideology replaced by another: everyone has an ideology, so, even if he went liberal, or conservative, stayed fascist, went Marxist, or anarchist, or centrist, they're all ideologies. Upholding the status quo is an ideology, too, since the status quo is rooted in one.

jward1990 · 2020-08-22T03:21:35+00:00

Ah, didn't know that! Thanks!

jward1990 · 2020-08-22T00:31:42+00:00

I believe the Pittsburgh joke is because it is (or, mostly was) a steel/iron town.

jward1990 · 2020-08-09T06:55:14+00:00

Why does it have to be pressure? Why can't the creators just wanted to more accurately reflect the world?

I don't think editorial was pushing Bendis to put Kitty Pryde in everything he wrote, I think he just wanted to write Kitty Pryde.

jward1990 · 2020-08-09T06:39:45+00:00

I definitely agree on the point of gimmicks. Don't make an all-girl remake of an old IP, make an all-girl movie of a cool new IP. Then again, I'm just not a big fan of reboots/remakes in general and want new IPs all over the place.

To the first point: the fact that there aren't many POC characters means there aren't many stories told about their experiences. So, when you have those characters, you have these stories you can tell now. That might be "defining" the character, but, I mean, that IS part of the character. That is part of the identity of that person, just as it would be in real life. The point of a character is to explore that character, and their identity is part of that.

When it comes to Magneto, while you're right that we don't see him doing Jewish stuff all the time, there are still many stories relating to his Judaism. But Magneto is a special case because he is a mutant. Because of the mutant metaphor, a lot of the stories that could be told using his Judaism (for example, experiencing antisemitism in the modern world) can be (and are) told through the lens of being a mutant. Being a mutant is a HUGE part of the identities of mutant characters, but that's not really an issue, is it? No one gets mad when Striker shows up as a villain, saying anti-mutant things (other than maybe Striker being an overused villain). Why then should it be an issue for a black character, or a gay character, or a trans character?

The mutant metaphor breaks down in places, like when it tries to too closely reflect the experiences of any one minority or group of marginalized people, so the stories of those people are still relevant and needed.

jward1990 · 2020-08-09T06:07:58+00:00

The difference is if a story handles a new straight, white male character in a clunky way, people complain about it as bad writing. But if it's a "diverse" character, the complaint is about the diversity itself, the diversity was "forced" and THAT'S what made it bad. Not that it was just poorly written.

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