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Doom Patrol #45: Bonkers. Man who can’t grow beard parodies the popular gun-toting gritty vigilante characters of the time...but only murders bearded men. Reads like an allegory for repressed sexuality and there are more than a few hints to suggest that. #OnDoomPatrol

Doom Patrol #44: Big issue, culmination of a lot of ideas...Flex, shape of the Pentagon, and all well-ordered and paced too, using classic tension-building techniques and reveals to keep things moving along. Case also outdoes himself here, best-looking issue yet. #OnDoomPatrol

No #OnDoomPatrol tonight for blackout Tuesday, but I want to highlight another book that Jamal Campbell drew recently (and is still drawing now)...Far Sector, which is a very different sort of sci-fi superhero comic with a slow burn and a lot of nuance, written by N.K. Jemisin.

Highly recommend cartoonist Ben Passmore's "Your Black Friend," which is told from the perspective of Your Black Friend and delves into everything from overt racism to misinformed obliviousness to the little things white people do to make life trying for Black friends.

A visionary work in comics if ever there was one, you should really do yourself a favor and read Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniel, if you haven’t already. Smart and tragic, everything in this story feels real, from the near-future science to the human desires driving the plot.

I’ve been saying for a while that the recent Livewire 12-issue run from Valiant — by Vita Ayala and several artists, including Raul Allen and Patricia Martin — is the best solo X-Men comic in like a decade, even if it’s not technically an X-Men comic.

Queen of Bad Dreams is a really unique concept that raises questions about the other, governing/liming the rights of others, and the nature of enforcement over disparate beings. It’s a really singular and immersive read. By Danny Lore, Jordi Perez, Dearblha Kelly, and Kim McLean.

Nighthawk is another must-read comic, by writer David F. Walker, artist Ramon Villalobos, and colorist Tamra Bonvillain. It feels especially timely this week with its story of police malfeasance and the spider-web of civic ills related to who benefits and why. Not for the faint.

Been a while since we’ve had a whole tier of pitches for other story ideas.

The thing about the Dave Johnson Detective Comics covers in the early 2000 were that while very much their own thing, they were just evocative enough of B:TAS to reel in kids like me who’d grown up watching that and were just then stumbling into shops with our own money.