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ALPHA AND OMEGA The ultimate tyrannical dictator of Apokolips, and the villain behind the scenes of the upcoming Zack Syder Cut of Justice League,  Darkseid by Ramon Villalobos.

FEEL GOOD STORY OF THE WEEK Basketball player Dee Mitchell works 40 hours a week at Walmart, on top of school and workouts, to support himself and his mom after she lost her job during the pandemic. This is the moment his coach surprised him with a scholarship.

ROUND TWO Seth Rogen rematched with Senator Ted Cruz and a Pennsylvania Republican lackey on Twitter Sunday.

DOUBLE-MASKING is a sensible and easy way to lower your risk when you have to spend more time around others — in a taxi, on a train or plane, or at an inauguration. “Two Masks Are the New Masks,” says the New York Times.

JOE EXOTIC The Tiger Ting,  frustrated by Trump pardon snub, he pivots to Biden: “Exotic feels disdain for Trump, he says partly because 45 ended up just hiding out in the White House after the riot … never saying a word about the people who died. Long story short … it seems Joe is all pro-Joe now, and even claims in his emails to have new evidence in his case that he hopes the Biden administration will consider.”

FIRST LOOK DC: Future State: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 preview. Hero Dope says: Whatever happened to the Legion of Super-Heroes? The team is no more, and the United Planets are in total chaos as one of the Legion’s own has turned on the entire galaxy! Everyone is affected…and not everyone survived! Ultra Boy tries to put the Legion back together to face the future head on! Find out the fates of all your favorite Legionnaires like Shadow Lass, Triplicate Girl, Brainiac Five, and Bouncing Boy. Plus, a shocking twist in the Legion mythology-and a long overdue appearance by the Legion of Substitute Heroes! It’s all here in a truly way-out tale by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist extraordinaire Riley Rossmo.

QUITTER Dr. Debrah Birx who ran Trump’s COVID task force, told Face the Nation Sunday,  she “always” considered quitting. Birx told moderator Margaret Brennan that even close colleagues who she had worked with during decades of research into the AIDS virus questioned her political allegiance amid a flurry of criticism against the Trump White House’s response to the virus. “I mean, why would you want to put yourself through that every day? Colleagues of mine that I had known for decades… decades in that one experience, because I was in the White House, decided that I had become this political person, even though they had known me forever. I had to ask myself every morning, is there something that I think I can do that would be helpful in responding to this pandemic and it’s something I asked myself every night,” she told Brennan.

Questions surrounding Birx’s role in the current administration were also raised Friday, as CBS News’ Steven Portnoy asked the White House press secretary if Birx was still on President Biden’s COVID-19 response team.

REPRESENT! presents “real” stories from the DC Universe. DC’s diversity-minded series Represent! returns on February 1 with the first of five new 10-page stories about (and by) underrepresented voices, “spotlighting personal stories outside the regular comic book medium,” according to the mostly superhero-driven publisher

February 1’s Represent! chapter 2 will be a semi-autobiographical story by C-SPAN host Jesse J. Holland and illustrated by Doug Braithwaite. “Heritage” is based on Holland’s Mississippi farm, which has been in his family since their first ancestor was freed from slavery —  tended by his grandfather and his father before him,” reads DC’s description of the story. “But as Jesse grows into a man, he’s unsure if a patch of land in the Piney Woods and a life of tilling soil is his true destiny. But destiny can mean so much more than dirt and a tractor…”

Below: Two pages of Braithwaite’s raw pencils from the 10-page story.

20 MILLION YEAR MYSTERY Scientists in Taiwan noticed odd, L-shaped burrows in a set of rocks eight years ago. Since the rocks once sat on the Pacific Ocean floor, they thought the tunnels had been made by shrimp, or perhaps octopuses. But the shape and structure of the burrows didn’t match those made by such creatures, and the mystery lingered.

Now, it’s been solved: The architects behind the tunnels were 6-foot-long worms that lived about 20 million years ago, according to a study published this week. Fossil evidence helped the study authors figure out how these predators hunted and built their undersea lairs.

Above: The bobbit worm, Eunice aphroditois, ambushes prey from beneath the sand on the ocean floor.

“We knew that predatory worms have been around for hundreds of millions of years, but this is the first time we can actually see evidence of a behavior similar to the modern bobbit worms’,” Ludvig Löwemark, a geoscientist from National Taiwan University in Taipei and one of the study’s coauthors, told Insider.

MAN MUSK  What is it about armpits that keeps it one of the ubiquitous gay kinks? Like other erogenous zones, your armpits are home to nerves.  Some guys might just be ticklish here.  Others might think it’s gross, thanks to all the sweat that gathers under there during the day.  But a few lucky guys can use their underarms for immense pleasure.

Smelling a male pheromone prompts the same brain activity in homosexual men as it does in heterosexual women.

The testosterone-derived chemical AND is found in male sweat and is believed to be a pheromone. It activated the anterior hypothalamus and medial preoptic area of gay men and straight women alike. Researchers led by Ivanka Savic at the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden believe this brain region integrates the hormonal and sensory cues used in guiding sexual behaviour.

Research demonstrates a likely link between brain function and sexual orientation, Savic suggests. She told New Scientist that the study “does not answer the cause-and-effect question”.

ANIME OF THE DAY Torakane-kun seems to be strong in the morning, but then seems to be weak in the morning.

 

DICK PIC Nightwing by by Jacob Edgar.

NIGHTWING Future State: Puts The Boy Wonder Back In The Spotlight: As Future State, DC’s line of titles showcasing alternate-future timelines, nears the end of its first month, Nightwing stars in his own miniseries as he continues to defend a dystopian, cyberpunk-tinged Gotham City. Written by Andrew Constant and illustrated Nicola Scott, the opening issue is an action-packed debut that shows the one-time Boy Wonder hasn’t lost a step. Indeed, this issue illustrates once more that Dick Grayson was always destined to take center stage.

Several new visions of DC’s future will be presented in early 2021 with Future State, and among those is that of Nightwing – with long-time Dick Grayson fan Nicola Scott drawing his story. In Future State, Nightwing is “the poster boy of the resistance” according to Batman group editor Ben Abernathy, and will be “bringing sexy back” to borrow a popular phrase.

Artists Nicola Scottt says of the series: If you’re a fan of Nightwing, this’ll make you feel very good about his impact on the world around him, and if you like the look of him I’m keeping him as classic as possible with updates that are appropriate for the story.

Meanwhile, future Nightwing writer, Tom Taylor tweeted: Oh, man. Can’t wait for people to see the villain @Bruno_Redondo_F and I are bringing to Nightwing. Thanks, Gail (still in a blood feud).

Taylor has big plans for his impending run on the title, which kicks off with March 16’s Nightwing #78, introducing a new status quo in which Nightwing fights crime in Blüdhaven alongside Barbara Gordon, who will take on the identity not just of Batgirl, but Oracle as well. Taylor says, “Dick Grayson has been a hero for eighty years. He’s lived in the shadow of the bat for much of that time, but my favorite Dick stories are his own when he’s the main man. When he’s leading the Titans or the Justice League or just standing against it all as a lone vigilante. Our series is definitely about Nightwing. It’s about why he’s such a good hero and pushing that further. In the first issue, an opportunity is going to come his way which will test him in a way he’s never been tested. What he chooses to do with this will demonstrate how different he is from Bruce Wayne. This isn’t about Gotham. This is about Blüdhaven. This is about a lost, corrupted city ruled by fear and calling out for a hero. This is about a hero stepping out of the shadows to answer the call and to push back against the darkness as a positive, entertaining, compassionate force for good.”

 

TWEET OF THE DAY 

SELFIE OF THE DAY Jake from Newport…

https://twitter.com/itspierreboo/status/1318297869867126784

SEX ED for betas practicing how to present to your Alpha.

STREETSMART Strip poker.

Manny might lose everything to Jacob.

MAN CRUSH MONDAY is Connor Peters, “Chillin.”

 

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Here he is “Chilling with Billy Bones.”

BLACK ADAM gets an impressive fan made promotional theatrical poster featuring Teth-Adam, Nabu aka Dr. Fate, and Prince Khufu aka Hawkman by Boss Logic.

THE GRAND CANYON “It is “too vast, too complex, too grand for verbal description.” It appears timeless and unchanging, yet it is clear evidence of the changing nature of our planet.” -This is Grand Canyon. I LOVE THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF OUR PLANET ????. please go if you’re ever given the opportunity. ????⛰???? (zoom into the 6th pic & look at the people on the edge ????).

 

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PARTING SHOT

NEW RULE  Hello, Douchebags. Bill Maher said on Real Time Friday night: Donald Trump may be gone, but there’s a new generation of right-wing Republican nutjobs that you’ll be cursing out for years to come.

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