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What would the early greats have done, if they had had freedom?

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These characters revelled in life’s cruelty and ghoulishness…

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A world filled with mutants and monsters hiding beneath masks of respectability.

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Entire worlds snapped into being.

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Dick Tracy’s captivating villains lured me into an early monster love.

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Crystalline moment-to-moment logic in the service of broader absurdity.

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I never forgot its lessons about gratitude and love.

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It’s the wink of a lover of dumb superhero comics, mostly devoid of mockery.

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She could conquer the world… if she felt like trying to do so.

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An ongoing chronicle of growing into queer adulthood.

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The dialectical relationship between witnessing and being.

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The blueprint for the stark tone and shadowy sophistication of all the Marvel Netflix series.

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Spire Christian Comics helped make me the philosophical ironist I am today.

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Veronica’s mean-girl platter of boobs left me boob-hunting.

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Betty loses Archie, over and over, but she’s never a loser.