Rebellion Releases: Don't Miss Out on a Bumper 2000AD Prog!

This week's 2000AD is a bumper issue of the Galaxy ’s Greatest Comic — the first of four that will be seeded throughout the year, allowing for bonus stories to run alongside the ongoing Thrills

This week’s 2000AD is a bumper issue of the Galaxy ’s Greatest Comic — the first of four that will be seeded throughout the year, allowing for bonus stories to run alongside the ongoing Thrills. Publisher Rebellion‘s hope is that they should prove “jumping on points” for new readers to join the throng of 2000AD devotees, and this pulse-pounding prog is no exception. Joining the latest…

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Today's Free Comic Book Day Comic> 2000AD Regened: The Best Comic Ever!!

BW's first of this year's Today's Free Comic Book Day Comic deep dives review is the anthology 2000AD Regened: The Best Comic Ever!!

I know this is the family friendly comic but it’s 2000AD. Pretty sure they’re still about to kill me. 2000AD presents The Best Comic Ever!! 2000AD (Free Comic Book Day, 2023) Today’s comic returns for Free Comic Book Day but it’s more an acknowledgement that these are new comics rather than really old comics. This one is a three story anthology but the reason I picked up was curiosity. 2000AD…

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Happy birthday, Janis Joplin! 💙 (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970)

Quotes by artists influenced by Janis' legacy below:

"Janis put herself out there completely, and her voice was not only strong and soulful, it was painfully and beautifully real. She sang in the great tradition of the rhythm & blues singers that were her heroes, but she brought her own dangerous, sexy rock & roll edge to every single song. She really gave you a piece of her heart. And that inspired me to find my own voice and my own style." - Stevie Nicks "I think she allowed women to have their pain. Her thing was so borne from her pain. Her amazing talent was because of the pain she had...I think she was so misunderstood, and she was so intelligent, emotionally intelligent, and what came out of her was almost beyond what her physical body could even do as a singer, and what she was putting across." - Nancy Wilson (of Heart) on Janis "That’s really how I learned [to sing], and I was already listening to the greats like Janis Joplin, who I loved to death, and who was one of the greatest rock singers ever..." - Rob Halford (of Judas Priest) "I never knew Janis, I never saw her or heard her voice live, I never witnessed the fireball of fury that she unleashed onstage, but I think I understand. When a soul can look on the world, and see and feel the pain and loneliness, and can reach deep down inside, and find a voice to sing of it, a soul can heal. And hers did." - Melissa Etheridge "I saw Janis Joplin when I was 15. I heard her sing, and I couldn’t believe she was smoking on stage, she was drinking Southern Comfort, and she sang like no other. She could sing a song entitled, 'Take A Little Piece of My Heart' and deliver it so beautifully, amazingly." - Steven Tyler (of Aerosmith) "She was such a huge influence on me. Because she was so different to any other female vocalist of the time. I was used to Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield and those sort of singers, who were great, but Joplin was unique. She was not a pop star, but really belted out those songs. There was so much emotion in something like 'Move Over.'" - Enid Williams (of Girlschool) "You listen to a Janis Joplin record and she just puts — she wears everything on her sleeve, whether she's completely drugged up, it's on her sleeve. If she's totally just passionately screaming at the top of her lungs, it's on her sleeve. You feel like whatever she's talking about and whatever she's singing about, she sang it with no cares, no second thoughts, no looking back. She didn't say, 'You know what, let's take that take again.' She sang it and she sang it with every bone in her body, and that was that." - Alicia Keys

Can we talk about how Garcia is always compared to a phone sex operator, but no one ever talks about this? His VOICE in this scene. Excuse me? "Are your ears burning?"

His voice drops, he is practically purring. And it's not in response to anything, it's how he starts off the conversation.

In 13×11, "Full-Tilt Boogie," Tara, Luke, and Garcia all stay behind and consult over the phone, working together

Can you imagine the Garvez tension she was subjected to???

What I wouldn't give for her POV

Album Cover Wall (Hall) of Fame 2023 - Winter Inductees Day 3

Probably will be the final year of inducting twenty-five album covers twice a month.

1. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

2. System of a Down - Toxicitiy

3. Cannibal Corpse - Tomb of the Mutilated (Really pushing my luck with this one)

4. Our Lady Peace - Happiness... Is Not A Fish You Can Catch

5. Janis Joplin (And the Full Tilt Boogie Band) - Pearl

AISHA TYLER as TARA LEWIS CRIMINAL MINDS | 13.11 Full-Tilt Boogie

full tilt boogie!

Rebellion Releases: Aquila, returns in 2000AD,

The latest issue of 2000AD, Prog 2377, on sale now, features the return of "Aquila" by Gordon Rennie, Patrick Goddard, Dylan Teague and Annie Parkhouse

The latest issue of 2000AD, Prog 2377, on sale now with a striking cover from Cliff Robinson and Dylan Teague, Tharg blasting away at Thrill Suckers, features the return of “Aquila” and the finale to “Full Tilt Boogie“. Coming next week: “Brink” Book Six! Here’s this week’s intel for the new weekly issue, and Rebellion’s latest collection, Joe Pineapples: Tin Man, also out today… and don’t…

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Only Friends Character Rankings Episode 2

Hoboy these boys are all in over their heads in various ways and to various degrees. Add in some Real World-style confessional action and the mess is MESSING. This entire episode is just this gif:

Here's this week's rankings, with last week's rankings in parentheses

🔺1. Ray (3)

Some kind of friendship can start from having sex.

I knew all it would take was some time and a little bit of lore and Ray was gonna shoot up the rankings for me, and so said so done. The lonely little rich boy with the dead mom, the lack of self-esteem and the alcohol problem...yep yep yep, all seems right on time. The way those strippers sniffed him out and swarmed him...they know money when they see it. Sipping from that flask in the early daylight OK I SEE WHAT IS UP. Becoming a bugaboo to the first person to take any interest...yup this all tracks. Topping the toxique roster this week.

🔺2. Mew (5)

But I think I figured out your weakness now. Me.

This kid is so smug, he really thinks he's smart, he thinks he's in control. He really, truly thinks he can domesticate that alley cat. Trying to turn a hoe into a housewife for real. He's playing a game with Top, and he knows Top knows what the game is, but he's still confident he can win. Tale as old as time.

🔺3. Boston (4)

At least I beat Mew at this...You know no one can beat me at this kind of thing.

The jealousy radiating in WAVES off Boston this episode...OOF. Is this even about Top, or is this about beating Mew? Bit of both perhaps? This kind of love/hate friendship is SO REAL. Boston's probably felt like he was losing to Mew the entire time they've known each other. A 'friendship' built on longevity and resentment? Delicious.

🔻4. Sand (2)

I can be your friend. You don’t have to hire me.

Listen, when Sand asked that girl to come see his plants because he doesn't have a cat I cackled. He's like 'we both know what this is, does the excuse even matter?' and I loved it so hard. And then Ray begs a little and he tells homegirl to kick rocks and I--sir, down horrendous ALREADY?! That thousand yard stare in the confessional when he says you gotta be careful not to catch feelings fucking a friend? He knows he's screwed and he's still going in because he can't help himself, the softhearted fuck.

🔻5. Nick (1)

We’ve slept together many times. So what is this? What are we to each other?

OH NICK NICK NICK BABYGIRL. Nick took the mightiest fall this week in the rankings, because he has no game AT ALL. He had one move and he used it, and now he's just down the rabbit hole, just dickmatized. This is exactly what I wanted, but it's in the in between stage now before he gets truly desperate, when I'm sure he'll be back to reclaim his top spot.

🔺6. Cheum (and April) (7)

It's a blessing to have a lover who gets along with your friends.

THE LESBIANS ARE HERE and it seems will be providing the stability to everybody else's full-tilt boogie, but appearances can be deceiving. Listen, if Jojo and Ninew throw in some lesbian drama in this mix I may expire. In case you don't know, there is NOTHING like lesbian drama. Otherwise, Cheum being Top's biggest cheerleader is totally gonna come back and bite.

🔻7. Top (6)

Whenever I take aim, I never miss.

I dunno why Top is always near the bottom of the rankings because he's probably the biggest mess of them all, but I think it's because he is the most aware of what's playing off here and therefore the least in danger. Everybody else is working with either limited information or a misunderstanding of self, but Top knows EXACTLY who he is and what he wants, and he's clocked everybody else in this little group too. And I'm not sure I believe a single word that comes out of his mouth as a result.

was gonna say this rewatch is ass and next time i rewatch i’ll not be going past season 11 but I’ll be damned season 13 episode 11 Full Tilt Boogie spencer reid is back after several episodes of absence and he looks so good it’s like a heavy rain after a drought i feel replenished he’s so beautiful god i had almost forgotten his perfect perfect face . sometimes perseverance will reward you. keep fighting soldiers. you never know what gifts the heavens will bestow upon you

ok edit because that emo 13 year old he’s talking to is almost as in love with him as i am girl why are you looking at him like that

Born on this day: decadent and charismatic German-Italian actress, model, scene-maker, style icon, “Lady Rolling Stone” and ultimate rock chick Anita Pallenberg (6 April 1942 – 13 June 2017). Pallenberg was an alluring occasional presence in art-y bohemian nightlife in early 1990s London. I recall her DJ’ing at the Horse Hospital once, and coming face to face with her when I opened the bathroom door (“I always need to pee!” she cackled). But before that, buried in the listings of Time Out magazine (in the pre-internet days when it was a dense essential bible that we all relied on), I read about a screening of Pallenberg’s old home movies in East London. It announced she would be present, possibly hosting or emceeing. The venue was a palatial industrial loft in Shoreditch (possibly someone’s apartment), just before gentrification went full tilt boogie there. I sat alone in the back and overheard people conferring that a vintage Cadillac had been dispatched to collect Anita. She arrived late and alone - and sat next to me! Pallenberg – looking just like she did in that 1995 Calvin Klein ad by Steven Meisel with that other ravaged countercultural survivor Joe Dallesandro – radiated elegantly ruined glamour. I never got to meet Nico, but this was a very respectable equivalent. We made small talk. As Pallenberg’s friend Marianne Faithfull describes in her autobiography, “She spoke in a baffling dada hipsterese. An outlandish Italo-German-Cockney slang that mangled her syntax into surreal fragments.” Pallenberg glugged red wine and chain-smoked throughout (there’s a theory she was one of the inspirations for Patsy Stone in Absolutely Fabulous). She also kept up a running commentary on what was happening onscreen (mostly images of herself – clad in Ossie Clark and vintage finery – and Keith Richards in the late sixties cavorting on their jet-set travels). At one point, things turned intimate – a seemingly post-coital Anita and Keef canoodling in bed together. The camera zoomed in on her naked breast. “That’s my neeeple,” she declared in her gravelly Marlene Dietrich voice. I can’t wait to see the upcoming documentary Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg. Portrait of Pallenberg by Michael Cooper, 1967.

Notes while watching Full-Tilt Boogie:

A little bit after New year's: MHM = missed holiday meal or Mmmhmmm

"Put on your raincheck boots" - is an adorable turn of phrase. Penelope seems to be in a pretty good mood.

Briefing - Luke not there; Penelope comes in with Matt and JJ; no time to sit - teaming up with Marshall's

Buried alive victim; secrets; Spence just got back from seminar

First view of Luke - he and Tara are in the briefing room with Pen - rest of team in car on call. Spencer? Luke takes sigh-y breaths. Focusing on file. He looks rough. Luke calls Emily boss.

DANNY MASSA in Full Tilt Boogie ∙ S44E10