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The first of these remains the greatest, under legendary emperor Justinian and his even more legendary general Belisarius, taking a damn good swing at reclaiming the fallen western empire, although in hindsight the Gothic War in Italy was probably a swing too far
Counting down my #top10 empires of #history
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(1) ROMAN EMPIRE (509 BC - 1453 AD)
THE Empire
Pax Romana
"The grandeur that was Rome" - enduring both as empire, and in its influence or legacy
FANTASY GIRL FLASHBACK
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Revisiting my Top 10 Girls of Anime - shuffling Makima to fifth place. Not bad for an anime yet to be released!
(5) MAKIMA - CHAINSAW MAN (2022)
Art by Raiko & cosplay by @haneame_cos
FANTASY GIRL FLASHBACK
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Revisiting my Top 10 Girls of Video Games with Ahri remaining in sixth place
(6) AHRI - LEAGUE OF LEGENDS (2011)
Art by @Artgerm and cosplay by Kalinka Fox
(13) GARTH ENNIS - THE BOYS
Diabolical!
Now a TV series on Amazon Prime
(6) GARY LARSON - THE FAR SIDE
Classic single-panel captioned comic by Gary Larson about cows, animals, nature, cavemen and other recurring gags or themes, including that recurring nerdy kid - apparently drawn from a real kid
(5) SCOTT ADAMS - DILBERT
At its prime, Dilbert ranks in my god-tier of comic strips, rivaled only by Calvin & Hobbes but an entirely different cynical beast from the former - reflected in the Machiavellian genius of Dilbert as opposed to the joyous imagination of Hobbes