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President Obama outlined his plans for reaching out to the Muslim world, plans that include Batman and Superman. According to USA Today:

There has also been cultural outreach, Obama said — including a comic book series in which Superman and Batman work with their Muslim counterparts.

“And I hear they’re making progress,” Obama said.

Apr 29, 201024 notes

Apr 29, 2010

“… But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective in this kind of story must be such a man. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor — by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. I do not care much about his private life; he is neither a eunuch nor a satyr; I think he might seduce a duchess and I am quite sure he would not spoil a virgin; if he is a man of honor in one thing, he is that in all things.
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He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could not go among common people. He has a sense of character, or he would not know his job. He will take no man’s money dishonestly and no man’s insolence without a due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man and his pride is that you will treat him as a proud man or be very sorry you ever saw him. He talks as the man of his age talks — that is, with a rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness.
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The story is this man’s adventure in search of a hidden truth, and it would be no adventure if it did not happen to a man fit for adventure. He has a range of awareness that startles you, but it belongs to him by right, because it belongs to the world he lives in. If there were enough like him, the world would be a very safe place to live in, without becoming too dull to be worth living in.” —

Raymond Chandler - The Simple Art of Murder

(When at my best, I aim to be a true detective.)

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Apr 28, 20102 notes

“I’ve heard comics creator say this: ‘I can’t believe in Superman because nobody would be that good.’ It’s like, God, what a sad life you must live. This whole practiced, disconnected, ironic, I’m-so-savvy — God, man, what part of you died when you turned 12?” —

Greg Rucka (via assertedbullet) (via supermanforever) (via love-and-radiation) (via grindlebone)

Yeah, for reals mang! I’m with The Ruck on this one.

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Apr 28, 201036 notes

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DC’s new co-publisher spills on what’s to come for DC Comics!

Apr 27, 20108 notes

#DC comics #comic news #newsarama

Write Club is a blog & podcast that Timothy Mucci & Kurt Christenson created to discuss comics, writing, and art…as well as to promote themselves as writers and comic creators.

My name is Kurt Christenson, Comicbook Rockstar.

I’ve written a novel that is five weeks from completion called the Tower of Brahma.

I also co-created the graphic novel LEGEND OF LIQUID FURY.

And I’m a founding member of TenTonStudios.

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Timothy Mucci Worships Cthulu.

He is the writer of the graphic novel adaptations of The Odyssey & Tom Sawyer for Sterling Publishing.

He is also a contributor to Slice Magazine.

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Together We Are Write Club! (and so are you).

Apr 27, 20101 note