K. Winkler

Astro City is really good, it’s long-running, and it is its own world, so there’s no “homework” associated with getting into it.

Great stuff.

Samaritan by Brent Anderson, flyin thru Astro City

NEW EPISODE! Astro City turned 30 this year, and we consider its place in the revisionist superhero canon. Is its approach “realistic” or something else entirely? Is it a deconstruction or reconstruction of the genre? Are superheroes a “genre” at all?

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Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.

I’ve said this before, a lot, but when you’re an author and your book doesn’t sell your feelings can default to the premise, “Everyone in the world was offered my book and they all personally rejected it.” The truth is most people don’t know it exists. Awareness is the problem, not you or your book.

oops! all avant-garde

There's this little book I wrote that fits this niche, and it's called TONE-BONE. Perchance y'all will check it out....

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Same. Need to know. But my chat doesn't work!

I love the idea of a Celtic warrior flung into the star-faring future. Like an even grungier Star Wars.

Found out about the comic title STARSLAYER, & now I'm obsessed. Already ordered a bunch. The art is so good.

This film was a moment in my childhood. Pizza Hut did the promotional angle and had these Rocketeer cups with the helmet as the top. I still have mine, I think. I'm shocked that The Rocketeer didn't do more in a toy/cartoon way. I wish it would've kept going. The era/setting is perfect.

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

This is a cool ass cover.

I need to read both of these writers. Woefully behind on them.

I was using "weirdness" as shorthand for all the Horror. I agree with yr two examples, tho, yes, definitely.

Shit. I'm embarrassed. I don't know if I do!

Are you slow burn kinda guy or a rush in and blast in the face kinda guy?

Everything I've read of yours doesn't waste any fucking time, tho, so...hmmm...

Sure. Well, I guess I mean like when you start to realize in a horror novel that "not all is right with the world," so take that however you wish.

Hey, pals, I'm doing an AMA over at reddit/horrorlit on Oct. 20 from 3-5 pm, but it's up now so people can ask questions even if they can't be there on Monday afternoon.

Total agreement.

Thoughts on horror novels that slow burn their way to the fucking weirdness?

rainbow roses against a dark background

my book Queer Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays will be out early next year & I selected a cover image. I'm so pumped!

if you're interested, you can find the book synopsis herę:
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com/book-project

And we need to corroborate info, know what info is valuable or not, weigh different perspectives, & bring our past experience to bear. AI can’t do that for you. It will try to convince you it can. But it can’t. AI is the epitome of valuing banal expedience above accuracy & curiosity abt the world.

AI promises knowledge w/o the work to earn it. It assumes that the container theory of education is correct. Which we know it isn’t. Ppl are not merely vessels to pour info into. Students require the process of finding answers (& learning much else besides along the way) as a part of the knowledge.

Further, learning on yr own requires immense contextual work. & an 18 yo, even a smart one, needs lots of context to situate a field of knowledge, even a few concepts. & teachers act as prods on students, to get them to think beyond basics, to engage discipline & community. To work in tandem. (2 /2)

This info was ALWAYS free. That’s what libraries are for. Ppl have always been able to educate themselves if they want. The reason higher ed exists is b/c of need for continued research AND most ppl lack the wherewithal to teach themselves. Few are autodidactic. (1 of 2)

Well said.

There are ~66K WW2 vets still alive.

Where's the NYTimes, etc. with these guys/women? What do they think?

Can we get any living WWII vets, if they're around, to please comment on this absolute shitshow? They fought fascists. Do these R's not understand that they're holding hands and walking into the sea together?

What is the point of America anymore?