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“Who are you?” … “I’m a Japanese boy”.
Concept drawing from Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises, as printed in Empire 300.
Tonight’s read: Beasts Of Burden - Occupied Territory. A fine series, and I’m very much looking forward to this …
Winter Mine-Laying Off Iceland, by Muirhead Bone, c.1942.
André Juillard's original art for the cover to 2007's 80 Semaines / 80 Weeks.
Should you not be hundreds of years old as I am, the source material for the lovely homage above is this, JLA#102, main illustration by Nick Cardy and roll-call heads by Neal Adams.
An Enrico Marini page from 2018's Batman: The Dark Prince Charming #1. I've not read the comic. In fact, in the incessant blizzard of Batman comics, I haven't even heard of it before. But this is an enticing introduction to the title.
And here's the final published version of the above cover.
I enjoyed tonight’s Doctor Who. You can go far with interesting ideas & a furious pace. I can’t imagine watching it again. Not soon anyway. There’s plot-holes & askew storytelling a-plenty. But first time through, it was a rush. It was fun. That’s more than enough, in the moment.
I didn't know Christopher Priest invented Everett K. Ross as a riff on Friend's Chandler Bing/Matthew Perry, as a "motormouth (who) could give voice to the skeptical readers & validate their doubts & fears about the (new Black Panther) series". That's such an inspired idea.