Day 40 –
June 1996 – Issue 13 (2 issues this month):
G-Force is tracking Godzilla, assuming he has returned to the present
time, and get a reading a coastal village of Peru has been attacked by a giant
creature. Assuming it’s the Big G, they
go to investigate. They find that
there’s a new monster they name Burtannus, after Burton Helzer whose hunch that
it wasn’t Godzilla turns out to be true.
The creature burrow underground, so Kino and Take use jet packs (shades
of Jonny Quest) to investigate. Godzilla
arrives, the Peruvian air force attacks and Kazushi, Reiko & Helzer suspect
G is hunting for Burtannus. Godzilla and
Burtannus fight, but it turns out that Burtannus was just protecting its
eggs. So even after torching the village
and some of the people, Burtannus and its offspring get to leave the island in
peace. The artist for this issue saw fit
to return the G-Force men to their tight tee shirts and Reiko goes through the
entire adventure in any itsy bitsy bikini.
OK, I’m not calling sexism on this.
It’s just that in a movie no one would take seriously a scientist
dressed for a sports mag swimsuit edition photo shoot. Overall this is a nice, self-contained
story. Dark Horse announced that, due to
low circulation, they would not be continuing Godzilla beyond issue #16, so
there’s no continuing story arc.
Story: Randy Stradley. Cover Art:
Bob Eggleton.
Colombia’s FARC guerrillas are back. Across the nation, thousands of Marxist fighters who demobilized after the 2016 peace agreement are taking up arms again. The first “dissidents” from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, appeared in southern Colombia soon after the peace deal was signed, but the new groups have spread rapidly across the nation as ex-combatants feel betrayed by the government’s failure to live up to its promises.
Here, in the far north of the Colombian Andes, the dissidents spend their days training and fighting the so-called Gulf Clan, a cocaine cartel whose private army occupied the region after the FARC entered United Nations-monitored camps. Photographer Nicolas Bedoya spent a week documenting the daily lives of Colombia’s dissident guerrillas.
Hey, this post may contain sexually explicit content, so we’ve hidden it from public view.
I also want to make it abundantly clear this is why people say “fuck cops” and why “Blue Lives Matter” is bullshit. It may only be a “handful” of corrupt cops (which is also bullshit) but it’s the entire institution behind them that enables them and refuses to take any form of accountability. Every single cop is complicit. Every single one.
We are all chained to fortune: the chain of one is made of gold, and wide, while that of another is short and rusty. But what difference does it make? The same prison surrounds all of us, and even those who have bound others are bound themselves; unless perchance you think that a chain on the left side is lighter. Honors bind one man, wealth another; nobility oppresses some, humility others; some are held in subjection by an external power, while others obey the tyrant within; banishments keep some in one place, the priesthood others. All life is slavery.
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