on a very basic level it is astounding to me that seemingly half the country is hooked on the adventures of The Vision & Scarlet Witch, whose last series together was a precise contemporary of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and which was quarter box fodder for decades
and as a consequence of those stories Wanda permanently became the poster child of women who cannot handle their power because of female inconstancy ...
(my memory is that after looking forward to the trip for years it was kind of drafty and hard to browse)
there’s even a sampler of my work, available here as a free ebook:
https://t.co/jdiTY2k2P7
https://t.co/dc14d6w5iy
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2/The good news: It's now an issue that everyone's talking about, and that everyone cares about.
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4/Yet more good news: Michigan made it easier to vote. Again, by plebiscite, showing broad support for voting rights as an
5/OK, now the bad news.
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2/The good news: It's now an issue that everyone's talking about, and that everyone cares about.
3/More good news: Florida's proposition to give felons voting rights won. But it didn't just win - it won with substantial support from Republican voters.
That suggests there is still SOME grassroots support for democracy that transcends
4/Yet more good news: Michigan made it easier to vote. Again, by plebiscite, showing broad support for voting rights as an
5/OK, now the bad news.
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