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In case you're wondering how Dredd escaped being dinner, two of his cadets managed to escape and returned with all the Lawmasters, guns blazing as the metaphorical cavalry @StrontiumDugs

MEGA-CITY LAW @comicsandroses @General_JWJ @WeaverAPredator Judge Dredd Case Files 26: The Hunting Party - Lost in Americana 3 (prog 1036) A fitting end to Americana's cannibal Uncle Sam - impaled by his own flagpole

Fantasy Girl Flashback @comicsandroses @WeaverAPredator Top 10 Girls of Comics (Special Mention) (1) Jungle Girl & Cavewoman - represented by this Sheena cover by @JScottCampbell Top 10 Girls of Video Games (Special Mention) (1) Girls of Final Fantasy

Which brings me to the third and deepest reason – the philosophical significance of prehistoric war in understanding the origins of war itself. Hobbes vs Rousseau in other words @Evolving_Moloch starkafterdarkonline.com/?p=25152

The second reason is that prehistory didn’t just disappear with the advent of recorded history – and prehistoric war hasn’t even ended now, hence my use of primal war as a type of war, exemplified by ambush and raid, to which humanity regularly returns

Top Tens - History: Top 10 Types of War @LaocoonofTroy @dyingempires @ViciousRicardan (1) PREHISTORIC & PRIMAL WAR Wait, what? I know my rankings are mostly in chronological order but does that really justify this in the top spot? To which I say yes - and for 3 reasons

@dyingempires True - I was tempted to use the doge now and then meme

@0starkafterdark The Persia of Alexander's day was not the Persia of Themistocles' day. Agesilaus had already demonstrated its weakness in the 390s.

Trope of the Day: Top 10 Wars (Special Mention: Art of War Rankings) @LaocoonofTroy @dyingempires @ViciousRicardan A-TIER (TOP TIER) (4) GREEK-PERSIAN WARS Almost contemporaries of Sun Tzu - but I’m inclined to favor the Greeks over Sun Tzu when it came to art of war

I'm a fan of the Harlan Ellison short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" that inspired it (as well as a trope in TV Tropes) - and kudos for it directly referencing that inspiration with a nod in a musical number in the 8th episode

For one thing, it's an (Australian) indie web animation on Youtube but has been picked up by Netflix. For another, it started in 2023 but the final two episodes are screening in 2026 including a limited theatrical release. I also discovered it this year so I'm counting it

Top 10 Films / Top 10 TV Series @comicsandroses @General_JWJ Starting with 10th place as best of 2026 - I've already touted Project Hail Mary as best film of 2026 so far but I'm bending the rules a little for Amazing Digital Circus

Cyberpunk! starkafterdarkonline.com/?p=25149

Top Tens - Fantasy & SF: Top 10 SF Books (Special Mention) @comicsandroses @General_JWJ @ViciousRicardan (16) WILLIAM GIBSON - NEUROMANCER (1984) “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

However, I just can't rank the Greeks in the same tier as Alexander's conquests - given that Alexander conquered the Persian Empire rather than just repelled it and with a similar disparity of forces as faced by the Greeks

Hence the Greek art of war, consistently fighting at geographical bottlenecks or chokepoints, including Salamis. "They avoided catastrophic defeats, stuck to their alliance, took advantage of Persian mistakes” and possessed tactical superiority with their hoplite forces

>Kneesocks-centric episode of New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt Suteki desu nee

Spoiler - my Top 10 Films does not actually contain Citizen Kane. I tend towards the view of the film expressed by Peter Griffin in Family Guy. It could be worse. It could be his opinion of The Godfather – “it insists upon itself”

Ditto for my Top 10 TV Series as a master or super top ten list for all TV Series across all genres - documentary and drama, animation, fantasy & SF, and comedy

Top Tens - Film & TV: Top 10 Films / Top 10 TV @comicsandroses Yes, I've decided to overhaul my Top 10 Films to a master or super top ten list for all films across all genres - action and drama, fantasy and SF, horror, animation, films adapted from comics, and comedy