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More Diamond, Alpha Flight, and the Quest for a Good Superman Comi — The Comic Bookmark, June 15th, 2025

Krazy Kat by George Harriman

Forgot to hit publish this morning so this is going up late. It’s still out on Sunday so that counts for something.

Previously on FC2C

Headlines

The Diamond story and things related to it aren't going away as the companies who succeeded and dropped out of purchasing Diamond are now sniping at and suing each other. Heidi MacDonald at the Beat offers a fairly comprehensive "This Week in Diamond" summary.

This may be a human interest story but the new Chancellor for the University of Illinois is a comic book fan and spends a brief moment in this article talking about Absolute Wonder Woman.

The Funny Pages

New Jason? About Nick Drake? Where do I send my money?

True goals.

Interviews

Alpha Flight finally getting their due? Say it isn't so.

Reviews & Features

So lately I've been wondering to myself what are the iconic Superman stories? Brad and Lisa of Comic Book Couple Counseling asked a number of creators for the best Superman stories and the results are fairly... limited? Generic? Vanilla?

When you take out creators hyping their own work (not a good look, Jason Aaron and Dan Slott) it comes down to All Star Superman and Superman Birthright. There's a few others in there (Kingdom Come????) Is Superman just that limited or are people's reading just that narrow? Honestly, I think I would include the original Superman Red/Superman Blue story in there, such a great imaginary story. The first Superman/Spider-Man crossover is pretty spiffy as well (and recently reprinted in the Marve/DC omnibus.)

And Mark Waid calling himself Salieri to Grant Morrison's Mozart is a stunning bit of self-realization on exhibition.

In the award-winning memoir “Gender Queer,” Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir) deploys deceptively simple, symbolically rich visual metaphors to document eir search for an authentic identity and to create empathy & understanding for the emotional needs & social pressures informing that search. #PrideMonth 1/13

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— Sequential Scholars (@sequentialscholars.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Sequential Scholars has a whole Bluesky thread about Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer and how Kobabe uses a deliberate art choices to explore the eir gender identity.