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"If you feel like you’ve left yourself behind, go to the nearest check point that you were last seen together." -Taz Skylar

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Sir Patrick Stewart... in Conversation with Jonathan Frakes | Film Indep...

I just love this conversation between the two!

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If we think back to March, there was some very binary thinking going on around two options. One was: Let’s just stay home until there’s a vaccine. And the other was: Let’s just go back to business as usual. Of course, there’s a million things in between; risk is not binary. I think we’ve gotten out of some of that binary thinking. But, in a way, I think we have unfortunately continued to apply binary thinking, not just to staying at home versus business as usual, but also to masks to schools to Sweden, you name it. Any hot button topic right now has become dichotomized in a way that I find really concerning, especially around scientific decision-making and also for people making everyday decisions who are trying to navigate this. There has to be nuance in all this, and I feel like nuance died sometime in March.

How to think about coronavirus risk in your life  - Vox

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But I also love that she’s really a character who is set up to be villain. She has all the tools to be the most bad-ass supervillain. And instead, she chooses to be a hero. And I think there’s something really powerful about that.

SHADOW OF THE BATGIRL Puts Spotlight (and Floral Cape) on CASSANDRA CAIN

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Johns: Yes. It’s about celebrating everything that’s come before and that is coming in the future. Look, Earth-2 happened because there was a great era of DC Comics that needs to still exist and be there, because it deserves to be. And that’s true for the Silver Age. I think the moment that Crisis on Infinite Earths created this new, main Earth - there’s an Earth-1985 out there that exists pre-Crisis and that carried on and evolved. Who knows what that world looks like now? It’s probably a really interesting world to explore. And the same goes for Earth-52. You know? And by the way, moving forward too. The DCU will change. It will continue to change, because that’s the nature of what it is. And the Multiverse was built on - first created for - the preservation and existence of the first era, of the Golden Age. That’s what it was originally created to do, and it expanded from there. And it still does that. So any era we’ve ever had, you can still revisit it. It still goes on. It still carries on.

Inside DOOMSDAY CLOCK With GEOFF JOHNS After its Finale

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Archie's New SABRINA Title Inspired By Classic Stories, TV Shows, Miyazaki's KIKI

Kelly Thompson and Veronica Fish are up to some magic.

Nrama: Now the most important question of them all, does Salem talk?

Thompson: He talks and he’s sarcastic as hell. I love him.

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Lobdell: I think Jason remembers every slight, every mistake, every act of violence whether committed by him or upon him. I think he is driven alternately and equally by rage, revenge and redemption. He is acutely aware of every busted and put back together again relationship with any of the other bats. And he feels his life was a disaster almost from the day he was born into poverty by his drug dealing father and his addict mother.

New NIGHTWING Writers Take 'RIC' GRAYSON in a New Direction

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Nrama: Well, I can’t say he’s wrong. But you know, one of the other drastic changes is that, in the past, Dick was always the more upbeat, fearless Robin, and that carried over into his role as Nightwing. But now, he feels a little more like Jason Todd in some ways—detached from the world and more comfortable around outcasts (and, dare we say it, outlaws?). Scott, have the similarities come to mind as you’re writing both characters? Or are there more differences? Lobdell: I think Jason remembers every slight, every mistake, every act of violence whether committed by him or upon him. I think he is driven alternately and equally by rage, revenge and redemption. He is acutely aware of every busted and put back together again relationship with any of the other bats. And he feels his life was a disaster almost from the day he was born into poverty by his drug dealing father and his addict mother. Nicieza: That was the one thing I had to feel my way through as I started helping out with the script. Scott really nails Jason well in his answer, I can only assume that in writing the character for what seems like 15 years he might have picked up a clue along the way. Differentiating Ric from Jason became a lot easier by the time I started working on #52. Just took a little bit of understanding Ric's headspace better. Lobdell: Ric has zero baggage and he's good with it. I get that some people think, "But Dick was always the happy free-wheeling one who got along with everyone!" And I don't think that's changed at all. When he was young his parents taught him from an early age that in order to get from one trapeze bar to the next, you have to let go of one bar in order to grab the other. Nicieza: In that regard, Ric Grayson, ironically enough, is truer to who he would have been had his parents not been killed than the Dick Grayson who was saved by Bruce Wayne ever was. Lobdell: This is quintessential Dick Grayson. He can try to hold both bars at once and get nowhere—or he can let himself swing through the air and grab the next bar in his life. Long before the bullet, long before he met Bruce Wayne, this is a kid who was taught to be both disciplined and fearless. To let go. To be. That is who Ric Grayson is — and he couldn't be any farther from Jason Todd.

New NIGHTWING Writers Take 'RIC' GRAYSON in a New Direction