Jack Rourke

(6) …yeah! As if I wasn’t 100% in-the-bag for a comic whose pitch is “Frazetta-ass Wonder Woman…FROM HELL!!!” but the artwork is truly something special, it’s the freshest the character’s felt on the page in ages and thus the highlight of DC’s Absolute experiment, I reckon!

(5) solid meat-&-potatoes adventure pulp, just like the doctor ordered! Cracklin’ back-and-forth dialogue, economic prose; my kind of “warm bath” book.

(4) my only gripe—and it’s a tiny gripe!—is that 90% of it is Rolling Stone/Almost Famous stories and kinda papers over the rest of his work. Otherwise? More than just playing the hits, emphasizing why the hits resonate at all, more like. Naturally, I adored it!

(3) there’s some stuff here that’s quack-ish at best and retrograde/TERF-y at worst but overall there’s some real fascinating mythological history that undoubtedly reverberates throughout culture (I’m sure James Cameron and George Miller had this on the brain at some point)

(2) reads like a fractured mosaic travelogue hybrid of Kerouac and Ballard; a unique flavor of pitch-black human darkness

(1) Every time ya think it’s a little long in the tooth or starting to wear out its welcome, he hits you with a line so wonderfully, disgustingly guffaw-inducing that it regains momentum. Hilarious front-to-back; best thing Waters has done since the ’90s!

Kickin’ off my reading thread for 2026! Novels! Comics! Fiction! Non-fiction! The works! 📖👓

musicboard still down when i've been listening to albums left and right is foul

The cover shows Miss Cosmek in space, standing on a small, round asteroid. Behind her is the moon with a profile of the Spirit’s face on it. The title “The Spirit by Will Eisner” is over the dark side of the moon.

The Spirit from February 13, 1949. Art by Will Eisner and letters by Abe Kanegson.

Computers cannot create art because they cannot consider what it means to be aware. They aren’t aware in the first place.

A computer doesn’t know the thrill of breaking a rule for the first time or the shame of getting caught. It doesn’t feel anything. It doesn’t feel (and can’t be) responsible.

Nobody Asked Me and I Will hit me like lightning rods in ways few songs this century ever have. Heavy Metal Heart also slams pretty hard! ❤️‍🔥

Yeah…but also Night Time, My Time is a wall-to-wall perfect album, one of the best of its decade and because of that deserves more than to be stuck in Tumblr’s grubby mitts.

Strange Adventures #10 (1951). On the cover, Captain Comet and a woman appear to be on a space ship. Most of the green aliens inside are i. suspended animation, but one is bursting from his chamber and coming towards them.

Cover by Carmine Infantino.

METROPOLIS (2001, Rintaro)

Black and white sketch drawing of a woman knight in armor, her sword on her right shoulder, cuts and blood on her face This was done as a study of a pic, for the pose and armor

bloody knight

It's so funny how many people have had their brains pickled by X and Fox News and can't believe that SF remains one of the most amazing cities in the world.

Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

Drop something into this brave leader’s campaign. We need strong people fighting for us.

Western faves (not even gonna bother with numbers)

THE WILD BUNCH
DEAD MAN
McCABE & MRS. MILLER
HUD
THE PROPOSITION
WALKER
BLOOD ON THE MOON
THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
the entire Leone Western oeuvre

It’s cool that we have to endure this indignity because the press finds it entertaining and voters are morons

Hope Davis, it's your time

illustration of Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz for the Beetlejuice Tarot card, "Queen of Swords"

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In this five-panel strip, Flash and Dale Arden are lost in the jungle when Flash gets entangled in a strangler vine. Dale retrieves Flash’s gun to save him but gets too close to the plant and is caught as well. Fortunately, a bolt of lightning hits the tree and frees them both.

Flash Gordon by Alex Raymond from January 31, 1937.

I know it’s been said a million times but it’s pretty funny how many short king steroid comedians with corny ass manchild tattoos called themselves free speech warriors right up until the moment free speech was actually under attack.

Between "clicktatorship" and "slopagandist," this has been a banger week for portmanteaus

Barack Obama has like the third largest platform of anyone on earth and he’s using it to tell us to listen to a podcast by Ezra Klein, who has famously been one of the most embarrassingly wrong pundits of the second Trump term.

Congrats dude!! 🍾🍾

Big news that I'm delighted to no longer be keeping a secret: Next week I join @wired.com as a senior writer!

As everyone knows, this is a top-tier publication and indispensable record of digital life today. I'll be covering internet culture in all forms, as I have for almost 15 years now.

don’t let him stop here. call him to abolish ICE (glad to see this though)

Waiting for the Truth social post where he announces we’ve just declared war on the equator.