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Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

Dude, Avengers Twilight has been the highlight of my comic reading experiences these past few months! And your team choice not only works so well, but makes me wish for a main title with this exact line up, written by you of course, and drawn by the aforementioned in this post and adored artist, Ryan Stegman! Though the only thing I’m still trying to piece together is Ultron’s part. Whether he’s going to be an enemy now alongside skull…or perhaps be saved for a later date.

Also, as always, Batman is incredible! I also realllllllly dig the new Zur/Failsafe design you and Jorge introduced.

I was wondering, with the Absolute Power coming up, and Zur having a big role in it, have u been working a little with Mark with the story a bit, so that if there’s still more Zur to come after his mini, it doesn’t interfere any with ur plans?

Also, in X-Men related news, TODAY IS THE PREMIERE OF X-MEN 97!! So be sure to check that out when you can, you lovable Canuck.

✌️

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Thanks, man! And yeah, definitely been working with Mark on the upcoming event. He knows my plans, I know his, and everything works together perfectly.

And sadly, I was a little too old at the time for the original X-Men series, so I have no real affinity for the new one! But enjoy!

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Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

Well that’s good. I recall a time when plans for characters got derailed because of other things that other writers ended up doing with them. So I’m very pleased to see this level of communication and working together to make sure things like that don’t happen again.

Also, and you should know this, X-MEN TAS IS FOR EVERYONE!! NO EXCUSES 😆!!

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Oh, plans always get derailed because of stuff like that. That's just part of working a shared universe, you just got to roll with it!

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Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

Sincerely hope what ur cooking didn’t get spoiled by this. U have been on a role with ur Batman run, and I sincerely hope to see ur entire run finished out without too much altered by the closer.

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Nope! Things are playing out the way I wanted them to! A couple of characters changed for sure, and schedule stuff needed to line up, but I'm pretty happy with how things have turned out!

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Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

That’s awesome to hear. Nothing better than when a plan *mostly* comes together. Just ask Hannibal Smith, 😂.

Though I am curious, what character precisely was it that needed to be changed, if u don’t mind my asking?

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Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

I didn’t know about Absolute Power. Just looked it up. Sounds great. DC has done a good job lately with events, and I’ve been wondering where all these Amanda Waller storylines were headed. Things why one must read RC’s comments!

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Ha! I learn about most things happening in comics through those threads

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Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

Come for the Substack, stick around for all the comments! (As a side note, my 11-yr-old son is stoked that Failsafe is coming out in paperback form and has soooo many questions! Of course he will NOT be paging through SexCrim anytime soon!)

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Mar 20·edited Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

It’s nice how things work out: Ryan & X-Men and you & Batman.

Those Sex Crims editions look very nice and hawt.

Yes, I’m with you in the Aw Fuck that’s hot not hawt (Raleigh temperature in July)… I will focus on nice cool breezes within the convention site.

Oh, I realized I did not post my King DD fan art when I posted the Get Well Chip healing art (which I hope helped a little), but I wanted to post this to thank you again! for running Marco’s King DD ddesigns, Chip. Any chance to say Yes you created my favorite Daredevil run, I will say it.🥹

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFmQc6vZim9Lrvhy10edI9g9pqNnB2iJ12pCQKl_mxgyIqfzi82FCtFqE2irknrFBI1RX828bqiD4sf370VY14VfuOSWwmQdG1eScWXIx9_JLj1Bn2U437Bz37B49DFsvBBKbnXPyyBBBNRXeiILcfzqlpD2_LYP3ERkqAnrRjK4EqD4eca0A-eaxoiYl4/s741/IMG_0019.jpeg

Anyway, thank you Chip. Wishing you a great week.

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Nice! You really captured that Marco sultriness!

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🥹🥹😎😍 YAY! Even the turtleneck does not diminish the sultry.

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Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

Newburn's finally over? Good. One step closer to the hardcover. It's been fun. Avengers Twilight too. Thanks, Chip.

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from your lips to god's (Image's) ears!

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Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

Slipped her ear a few nibbles and some tongue so there's a restraining order.

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oops

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Mar 25Liked by Chip Zdarsky

Holy shit galaxy con is worth going to now???

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So, Avengers Twilight has been one of my favourite comics of the past few years, so much so it has motivated me to go back and read as many Captain America appearances as I possibly can.

There's something about "aged hero that refuses to change with the times" that works better for Cap than any other character the trope has been applied to, and I think it's that Cap and his villains don't NEED to change with the times. There's been a lot of weird attempts to modernize Cap and Red Skull by making them horror characters or making Cap a "commie smasher", but I think Twilight managed to get me to put my view on Steve and his cast into words; "The Red Skull and Captain America represent two forces still very much at play in the world; hate, and the desire to fight for what's right. Any attempt at modernizing the dynamic by making Skull into anything BUT a Nazi softens the reality of what Red Skull IS and the figures he was meant to stand in for.

And dude, Stegman is killing it on X-Men already! I'll miss the Krakoan era but I'll always be a sucker for that 90's status quo

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Yeah! I totally agree about Cap and Skull. It's a perfect dynamic.

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Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

Full Ass: The Stegman Experience

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Mar 20Liked by Chip Zdarsky

I know it’s weird to reply to one’s own comment, but honestly If there was a picture (preferably in Chip’s style) of Ryan liking his lips with the caption. Full Ass, I’d wear it c2e2

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That Balikbayan page - I must see this now. Backed!

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