In article <m62araFl4tbU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:

In article <1lnnvjh4rhd3k3nvt40g5cp72jkjrkt553@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:05:04 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
By Philip Francis Nowlan & Dick Calkins, Edited by Robert C. Dille

A 20th century American wakes in the bewildering 25th century.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/on-my-way-to-mars

Although the name "Buck Rogers" is known, apparently I never read any
of the comic strips. So the review was very interesting and
informative.

The inserted panels, incidentally, expand when opened on a new tab so
that the text, while fuzzy, is readable.

I am sorry to read that this joins the group of books named "The
Collected Works of" when they are, in fact, only "Some Collected Works
of". I am familiar with this from reading older authors in Kindle
omnibus editions. One is tempted to blame Marketing.
--

As far as I know, there is no project that has ever or is contemplating >reprinting the complete run of the BR comic strip as there is for Thimble >Theater, Pogo, Dick Tracy, Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, & Barnaby for
example.

There are various other reprints which hit additional bits & pieces
including several of the reboots.

To my recall, the last book reprints of the seminal stories were somewhat >bowlderized by Spider Robinson, but the originals are available on
Project Gutenberg:

Armageddon -- 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32530

The Airlords of Han by Philip Francis Nowlan https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25438

The last reboot that I am aware of was in comics by Howard Chaykin
which cast early 20th Buck as a Wobblie (because Chaykin...) and
thus very forward thinking about racial equality.

Buck does take the time to explain to his audience that aside from
the genocidal tendencies stuff, Wilma was very accepting of other races:

"I never knew her to show to the men or women of any race anything
but the utmost of sympathetic courtesy and consideration, whether they
were the noble brown-skinned Caucasians of India, the sturdy Balkanites
of Southern Europe, or the simple, spiritual Blacks of Africa, today
one of the leading races of the world, although in the Twentieth Century
we regarded them as inferior. This charity and gentleness of hers did not
fail even in our contacts with the non-Han Mongolians of Japan and the
coast provinces of China."

That's from Gutenberg.

However, Wilma's admirable racial tolerance does not extend to the
Han. To put it very mildly.
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On 4/13/25 11:49, James Nicoll wrote:

In article <m62araFl4tbU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:

In article <1lnnvjh4rhd3k3nvt40g5cp72jkjrkt553@4ax.com>,
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:05:04 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
By Philip Francis Nowlan & Dick Calkins, Edited by Robert C. Dille

A 20th century American wakes in the bewildering 25th century.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/on-my-way-to-mars

Although the name "Buck Rogers" is known, apparently I never read any
of the comic strips. So the review was very interesting and
informative.

The inserted panels, incidentally, expand when opened on a new tab so
that the text, while fuzzy, is readable.

I am sorry to read that this joins the group of books named "The
Collected Works of" when they are, in fact, only "Some Collected Works
of". I am familiar with this from reading older authors in Kindle
omnibus editions. One is tempted to blame Marketing.
--

As far as I know, there is no project that has ever or is contemplating
reprinting the complete run of the BR comic strip as there is for Thimble
Theater, Pogo, Dick Tracy, Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, & Barnaby for
example.

There are various other reprints which hit additional bits & pieces
including several of the reboots.

To my recall, the last book reprints of the seminal stories were somewhat
bowlderized by Spider Robinson, but the originals are available on
Project Gutenberg:

Armageddon -- 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32530

The Airlords of Han by Philip Francis Nowlan
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25438

The last reboot that I am aware of was in comics by Howard Chaykin
which cast early 20th Buck as a Wobblie (because Chaykin...) and
thus very forward thinking about racial equality.

Buck does take the time to explain to his audience that aside from
the genocidal tendencies stuff, Wilma was very accepting of other races:

"I never knew her to show to the men or women of any race anything
but the utmost of sympathetic courtesy and consideration, whether they
were the noble brown-skinned Caucasians of India, the sturdy Balkanites
of Southern Europe, or the simple, spiritual Blacks of Africa, today
one of the leading races of the world, although in the Twentieth Century
we regarded them as inferior. This charity and gentleness of hers did not fail even in our contacts with the non-Han Mongolians of Japan and the
coast provinces of China."

That's from Gutenberg.

However, Wilma's admirable racial tolerance does not extend to the
Han. To put it very mildly.

Have you heard of the Chinese Menance? Promoted by Hearst in the
1930s and then the anti-Japanese propaganda of the 1940s.

I read the comic strips whenever I could find them
and comic books as well but was in my teens at least before
I found the foundational story.
Don't fall asleep in caves or you may end up on
Mars in an alternative time line or a few or more hundred
years in a future where you must struggle against
alien invaders. What a trope it was.

bliss-back from 12 weeks in hospital recovering
and rehabing from ankle fusion and now severely
deconditioned.

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On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 16:14:56 -0700, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

On 4/13/25 11:49, James Nicoll wrote:

<snippo>

However, Wilma's admirable racial tolerance does not extend to the
Han. To put it very mildly.

Have you heard of the Chinese Menance? Promoted by Hearst in the
1930s and then the anti-Japanese propaganda of the 1940s.

I've always heard of it as the "Yellow Peril". But that doesn't mean
"Chinese Menace" didn't exist.

I read the comic strips whenever I could find them
and comic books as well but was in my teens at least before
I found the foundational story.
Don't fall asleep in caves or you may end up on
Mars in an alternative time line or a few or more hundred
years in a future where you must struggle against
alien invaders. What a trope it was.

bliss-back from 12 weeks in hospital recovering
and rehabing from ankle fusion and now severely
deconditioned.

Welcome back!
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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On Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:32:15 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

... The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter
elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial alliance
of [indentured servants] and slaves. Word of Bacon’s
Rebellion spread far and wide, and several more uprisings
of a similar type followed. In an effort to protect their
superior status and economic position, the planters shifted
their strategy for maintaining dominance. They abandoned
their heavy reliance on indentured servants in favor of the
importation of more black slaves. ...

Most indentured servants were only bound for a given time period. My
first North American ancestors (roughly the 1720s) were indentured for
5 years to pay off the cost of their passage from Europe. My first
North American born male ancestor went on to marry the eldest sister
of the woman who married Nelson Rockefeller's great great grandmother. Unfortunately none of that money rubbed off on us <grin>

His son went on to invade Canada in 1812 with the NY state militia
which causes a smile since two of his six children (including my
father) went on to marry Canadians and to settle in Canada.

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The Horny Goat wrote:

Don wrote:

... The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter
elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial alliance
of [indentured servants] and slaves. Word of Bacon's
Rebellion spread far and wide, and several more uprisings
of a similar type followed. In an effort to protect their
superior status and economic position, the planters shifted
their strategy for maintaining dominance. They abandoned
their heavy reliance on indentured servants in favor of the
importation of more black slaves. ...

Most indentured servants were only bound for a given time period. My
first North American ancestors (roughly the 1720s) were indentured for
5 years to pay off the cost of their passage from Europe. My first
North American born male ancestor went on to marry the eldest sister
of the woman who married Nelson Rockefeller's great great grandmother. Unfortunately none of that money rubbed off on us <grin>

His son went on to invade Canada in 1812 with the NY state militia
which causes a smile since two of his six children (including my
father) went on to marry Canadians and to settle in Canada.

The time term of a bound obligation is marginal to the USA elite's
invention of "black" and "white" as a legal precedent for today's law.
"Black" and "white" divide by design.
Predictably, a teaching moment recently occurred. Ironically
the headline is correct in the sense of USA elites heading off
dissent directed at them.

Workplace Raids in LA? Or a Targeted Attack on Dissent

It was never about 'removing criminals.' It was always
about white nationalism. Stephen Miller, the architect
behind Trump's immigration policies, is a known white
nationalist. Trump himself has said he believes
immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of America.' Did
the administration target LA - a city that opposes
Trump - with workplace raids to provoke a reaction so
Trump can use federal power to 'take America back?'

<https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/workplace-raids-in-la-or-a-targeted-attack-on-dissent/vi-AA1GoodD?ocid=socialshare>

Presumably, Hispanics are supposed to pass for "black" at this event.
The psyop only works when USA citizens self-identify as either "black"
or "white" based upon an idiosyncratic interpretation of ill-defined
legal labels.

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Inventing Black and White

... Virginia's wealthy planters were shaken by the fact that a
rebel militia that united white and black servants and slaves
had destroyed the colonial capital. Legal scholar Michelle
Alexander writes:

The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter
elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial
alliance of [indentured servants] and slaves. Word of
Bacon's Rebellion spread far and wide, and several
more uprisings of a similar type followed. In an
effort to protect their superior status and economic
position, the planters shifted their strategy for
maintaining dominance. They abandoned their heavy
reliance on indentured servants in favor of the
importation of more black slaves.

After Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia's lawmakers began to
make legal distinctions between "white" and "black"
inhabitants. By permanently enslaving Virginians of African
descent and giving poor white indentured servants and farmers
some new rights and status, they hoped to separate the two
groups and make it less likely that they would unite again
in rebellion. Historian Ira Berlin explains:

Soon after Bacon's Rebellion they increasingly
distinguish between people of African descent
and people of European descent. They enact laws
which say that people of African descent are
hereditary slaves. And they increasingly give
some power to independent white farmers and
land holders ...

Now what is interesting about this is that we normally say
that slavery and freedom are opposite things-that they are
diametrically opposed. But what we see here in Virginia in
the late 17th century, around Bacon's Rebellion, is that
freedom and slavery are created at the same moment. ...

<https://web.archive.org/web/20250330000053/https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/inventing-black-white>

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Danke,

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