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Issue #1: “The Secret Origins of YOUNG MAN!”
Issue #1: “The Secret Origins of YOUNG MAN!”
Country house. Old. Gray. Almost a shanty.
Short and rotund, Mother works in small herb garden.
Her skin is dark. Her hair in a pony tail. Her hands dirty.
It is Mother’s Day and Young Man is not at home
when the blood vessel in his mother’s head falls in
on itself. Boxers call it “punch drunk”—
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All Hallow’s City
All Hallow’s City
In the city of black steel
I met a well-meaning child
dressed as the devil, pretending
to fly. I’d call him a paper tiger
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At Breakfast
At Breakfast
(The Thundergod’s Daughter)
On television, the weatherman predicts
rain over L.A.
because last night I orgasmed
under Brad Pitt—
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Issue #100: “Death in the Family!”
Issue #100: “Death in the Family!”
This is it: the tearjerker issue. The death of Young Man’s father.
The moment loyal fans have been writing and blogging about.
“What happened?” they all ask. “Was Young Man there?
How monumentally did he fight? What about the other heroes? Dive deeper…
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