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Miller is 100% using Sprang to model the appearance, but he was too much of a coward to also give him tiny hands and feet.
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Miller is 100% using Sprang to model the appearance, but he was too much of a coward to also give him tiny hands and feet.
I want to see these drawings and the fact that I didn't find them during a quick search has me unreasonably crushed.
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I want to see these drawings and the fact that I didn't find them during a quick search has me unreasonably crushed.
It's really tied to my interests but I think the Patlabor homework could be enjoyable. At least, I liked it. Can't speak for UY, but Beautiful Dreamer was pretty interesting with zero context.
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
It's really tied to my interests but I think the Patlabor homework could be enjoyable. At least, I liked it. Can't speak for UY, but Beautiful Dreamer was pretty interesting with zero context.
What I can't read is if the prevalence of Trotskyites in his work is an expression of his personal sympathies, or just a side effect of living on the Upper West Side. (I had a close friend as a teenager whose parents were Trots on the UWS, surrounded by yuppies, just like in Bleeding Edge)
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
What I can't read is if the prevalence of Trotskyites in his work is an expression of his personal sympathies, or just a side effect of living on the Upper West Side. (I had a close friend as a teenager whose parents were Trots on the UWS, surrounded by yuppies, just like in Bleeding Edge)
Against the Day in particular has many passages dedicated to a romantic notion of historical anarchism, I feel like that's gotta be him. There might be some limited Marxist sympathy. The relationship between economy, culture, and hegemony on his writing scratches a dialectical itch in my brain.
October 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Against the Day in particular has many passages dedicated to a romantic notion of historical anarchism, I feel like that's gotta be him. There might be some limited Marxist sympathy. The relationship between economy, culture, and hegemony on his writing scratches a dialectical itch in my brain.
Makes me think of Hicks and Porfirio on the boat. The narrator tells us he shot Hicks off the boat. Then they walk it back. That's what should have happened, here's what really happened.
October 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Makes me think of Hicks and Porfirio on the boat. The narrator tells us he shot Hicks off the boat. Then they walk it back. That's what should have happened, here's what really happened.
Was the Business Plot really foiled? Seems more like a temporary setback when you look back now. Bruno Airmont is given few details of their victory. Perhaps we already live in a world where the Business Plot succeeded.
October 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Was the Business Plot really foiled? Seems more like a temporary setback when you look back now. Bruno Airmont is given few details of their victory. Perhaps we already live in a world where the Business Plot succeeded.
Pynchon uses conspiracy as a method of analyzing history. In previous novels he challenges the notion that the Nazis were defeated by showing the ways their science/research, impossible to untangle from their ideology, were adopted by the US empire after WWII.
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Pynchon uses conspiracy as a method of analyzing history. In previous novels he challenges the notion that the Nazis were defeated by showing the ways their science/research, impossible to untangle from their ideology, were adopted by the US empire after WWII.
We don't get a lot of insight but while Hicks is in Europe we are informed that the Business Plot was successful. This book seems to take place in an alternate historical thread from our own. Or does it?
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We don't get a lot of insight but while Hicks is in Europe we are informed that the Business Plot was successful. This book seems to take place in an alternate historical thread from our own. Or does it?
Having now finished the novel I've been contemplating Pynchon's allusion to the Business Plot. Smedley Butler is kind of a Pynchonian name, don't you think?
October 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Having now finished the novel I've been contemplating Pynchon's allusion to the Business Plot. Smedley Butler is kind of a Pynchonian name, don't you think?
There are direct connections too. Lew Basnight appears in both, Hicks boards the Stupendica on which Kit was previously a passenger.
October 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There are direct connections too. Lew Basnight appears in both, Hicks boards the Stupendica on which Kit was previously a passenger.
The magical properties of silver during the process of developing photographs. Flight. Alternate timelines.
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The magical properties of silver during the process of developing photographs. Flight. Alternate timelines.
This feels more closely related to Against the Day than any of the connections between Pynchon's other books. Apportion/asportation being related to bilocation in ATD. Characters that function as doubles, particularly European equivalents to many of Hicks' Milwaukee allies and acquaintances.
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This feels more closely related to Against the Day than any of the connections between Pynchon's other books. Apportion/asportation being related to bilocation in ATD. Characters that function as doubles, particularly European equivalents to many of Hicks' Milwaukee allies and acquaintances.
I've been laughing at Squeezita Thickly for days
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I've been laughing at Squeezita Thickly for days
This is probably my favorite of his comics but it was a childhood favorite so maybe I'm biased. I love how loose his artwork was at this point.
October 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is probably my favorite of his comics but it was a childhood favorite so maybe I'm biased. I love how loose his artwork was at this point.
I like how in the Dick Sprang-era World's Finest stories, Superman's strongest recurring emotion is a sort of polite jealousy about Batman having Robin while Superman is all alone.
September 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I like how in the Dick Sprang-era World's Finest stories, Superman's strongest recurring emotion is a sort of polite jealousy about Batman having Robin while Superman is all alone.
I agree that the Moses/law-giver stuff isn't as rich as I'd like. I actually wish those original pre-Wayne Boring comics were better than merely interesting. It's more present in the baby in rocket/basket origin story than anything else.
September 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I agree that the Moses/law-giver stuff isn't as rich as I'd like. I actually wish those original pre-Wayne Boring comics were better than merely interesting. It's more present in the baby in rocket/basket origin story than anything else.
I think the punk rock talk in the movie is more concerned with aging gen x'ers and their anxiety about authenticity than any literal punk movement.
September 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I think the punk rock talk in the movie is more concerned with aging gen x'ers and their anxiety about authenticity than any literal punk movement.
As his creators' fingerprints are cleaned off the surface he slips into this adjacent mythic archetype. American/Arthurian myth. Thinking of the vintage Superman PSA's where he espouses post WW2 liberal idealism.
September 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
As his creators' fingerprints are cleaned off the surface he slips into this adjacent mythic archetype. American/Arthurian myth. Thinking of the vintage Superman PSA's where he espouses post WW2 liberal idealism.