The Black Casebook

Hello Congressman Burchett this is your comms guy speaking. I am advising you to please keep saying this shit

Everyone seemed to have that “hating AI is classist and ableist” thread well in hand earlier this week, but I just wanted to add: you will never be the GOAT

I firmly believe that if I were given ten billion dollars, royal authority, and/or Magneto powers everyone would agree that I used them wisely

RIP to the people corrupted by absolute power but I'm different

I had this same realization last year. 33 is your Christ year, 35 is your Ramba Ral year

Everything about this is monstrous.

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue for the court of the Crimson King

Fantasy gods I think would be good hangs: Lightray and the Forever People, Kanto, Azura, Gan, Berath, and Mitra

The stubborn refusal to acknowledge Israel’s obvious central role in this is, of course, standard operating procedure

I didn’t expect American journalists to suddenly grow a spine about the Epstein files, but even I’m a little shocked at how consistently the “The international billionaire pedophile cabal isn’t a big deal, it’s pretty boring actually” line is being deployed

The word you're looking for is tetralogy, as in the 2024 Black Casebook Tetralogy of Batman Returns (I'm counting it), Cold Days, Dark Knight, Dark City, and Black Mirror

Cannot stress enough that the word quadrilogy was invented to market a box set of Alien DVDs in 2003

I think @klyart.bsky.social or @jug.bsky.social could give you a much more interesting answer than I could

An underrated skill of Mignola's: quickly developing immensely tragic side characters. The Troll Witch, Von Klempt's granddaughter ("Rubezahl..."), the new Bog Roosh, and most of all the little girl from the Wolves of St. August—a tale of utter despair sketched in only six panels.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Hearing concerning reports that all that is solid is melting into air, all that is holy is being profaned, and we are at last compelled to face with sober senses the real conditions of our lives

A wendigo and a were-jaguar tussle violently

Believe it or not, this is one of the most heartbreaking pages in all the Hellboy comics

It might be the only duel in the series where both guys involved seem to seriously believe that their swords can cut through anything, and that one tiny mistake will be all it takes

Ferguson taught me

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Five-year-old me: Oooh, that Batman cartoon! What adventures will he go on today?

*the villain is left in tears, unable to process their fears and obsessions. And Batman, a looming presence born of the inability to rationalize terror, is the only one there to comfort them*

Me: Oh. Huh.

This woman is a dissident who survived an attempted assassination by state security, and would be internationally recognized as a hero for democracy if that happened in any other country

Let's just say this clearly and as loudly as possible: Bari Weiss is now protecting people in the Epstein files. The head of CBS News is protecting people in the Epstein files. There's no "woke mob" about it. If she won't back down on this, what else is she doing with CBS's Epstein reporting?

I don’t want to give too much away, but there’s a particularly fascinating supporting character in an old version of The Mummy whose perspective I’d focus on

I have a great pitch for a mummy story, but I don’t think I can ever write it

I hate that our gerontocracy has given mummies a bad name. Ramses II, Imhotep, Panya BPRD? These are my friends

Finally solving the real problem here, which is that the fascist goon content creators didn't have enough GoPros

The Order of the Occluded Scepter. The New Agarthans. The Bermejan Fellowship