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Image is Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes.

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Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes from a TV adaptation of "The Hound of the Baskervilles."

"Footprints?"

"Footprints."

"A man’s or a woman's?"

Dr. Mortimer looked strangely at us, and his voice sank almost to a whisper as he answered.

"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
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Shredder Transformation. Approved by James Saito himself 😭 #TMNT #NinjaTurtles #TheShredder

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Photo of a brown bear

The only other creature allowed at the Pack Council - Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs - rose upon his hind quarters and grunted.

"The man’s cub?" he said. "I speak for the man’s cub. There is no harm in a man’s cub."

- Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book"
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Two puzzled men look on as a man in a lab coat gestures furiously at a tiny worm on a pile of dirt in a tray.

One of the strangest stories featuring Edgar Wallace's 'Four Just Men' involved a man who hated earthworms. And here is demonstrating the fact (in a 1921 edition of The Strand Magazine).
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“Great God, what simpletons! Shew them Arthur Machen’s Great God Pan and they’ll think it a common Dunwich scandal! But what thing—what cursed shapeless influence on or off this three-dimensioned earth—was Wilbur Whateley’s father?"

(H.P. Lovecraft "The Dunwich Horror")

🎨 Franz Stassen

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Detail from Landseer’s Man Proposes, God Disposes, 1864. A dark scene of one of two polar bears in the remains of the Franklin expedition. Arctic scene of fallen mast with ice and polar bear with a rib in his mouth. Painting. 

‘He once told me about polar bears - what solitary animals they are.’…
'Then what do polar bears exist for?’
‘Then what do we exist for?’ ~ Haruki Murakami.

Tomorrow for #BookWormSat we celebrate Landseer’s birthday with literature’s horses, dogs, deer, falcons and lions. Oh, and Polar Bears.

“Peggy! We’ve been turned into pigs!”
“And just what are you trying to say about me, Hank?!”
“Dangit, Peggy, the boy’s lost his name to some kinda Got-dang yokai!”

Well, Morrison had previously written a lot of comics for Vertigo, which was a big thing with that brand. The most common Vertigo trope is some powerful demon is slowly awakening or manifesting, and as its aura increases, everyone in the vicinity starts acting out their most repressed evil impulses.

Den opens in 15!!! I’m all set up!! If you’re looking for me, head to the back nearby the entrance to the artist alley!!! See you there, vancoufur-goers!!

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Yeah. The nerd in "Frankenstein" using the Sheedas' power to convince the popular cheerleader to totally rewrite her personality is an especially memorable example.

3 panel comic of a woman running down a hallway as captions threaten "nothing can save her now" when 2 massive hands burst out of the ground, a huge figure of Frankenstein emerges from the concrete intoning "Was something left undone?"

🟠this was the COOLEST thing ever

International rules of war sound ridiculous, of course. How can war have rules when it’s an exercise in killing each other? But rules of war are co-travellers with hostile nations’ growing recognition of a shared humanity. The post-WW1 world is far from the only historical example of this.

others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Why the F#!@ Are We at War with Iran? with Reza Aslan Podcast Episode · Factually! with Adam Conover · March 6 · Bonus · 1h 4m

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Considering how big cats were in Egyptian culture, and how they actually mummified them, Cleolei is such a ghoulishly perfect fusion. Cat ears are such a cute accompaniment for Cleo's Egyptian-goddess hair.

courtside fang-out ghoulia sketch 🎾
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g3 cleolei design!!

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g3 dracubecca design!!

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What's that cow's problem?

🌹"there's something bothering me about this place...I know! this hay bar doesn't have a fire exit! Enjoy your death trap, bovines!"

Nocturne by Tyra Kleen 1905 #PhantomsFriday

How to Create a Social Media Setup for Publishing Scholarship YouTube video by Sequential Scholars

Happy to present our first online workshop on how other scholars can setup their social media to share their own work. We'd love to see more scholars taking this on and hopefully this can help get the ball rolling for some! #comicsstudies youtu.be/OD70PWiIFWY

Did Night Thrasher use his truncheons more often or his knives? His truncheons seemed much more of a thing in the few comics I read, so I was really surprised that the RPG had only his knives.

Image by John Quidor
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I have a feeling there are entire generations of comics fans who have never experienced how breathtaking some older comics are because of the meticulous and vibrant traditional coloring. Many digital recolorings utterly fail to capture that and make the story seem flat or boring.

The Headless Horseman throws a pumpkin at Ichabod Crane. A painting by John Quidor.

In the original short story and the Disney movie, the legend of the Headless Horseman says that he carries his own severed head. That Ichabod Crane gets hit by a pumpkin instead is a big clue that he's being attacked by a disguised Brom Bones instead of by the real Horseman.
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