Jake Cole

Rocking the camera like how they used to jiggle the camera on Star Trek when a phaser struck the Enterprise

Shoutout to Gary Kurtz for holding court on Carl Barks

I do wish that L&R trades were less about separating out the bros/storylines and retained the anthology feel of the original issues but at the end of the day this is a bargain for legitimately one of the great works of postwar American literature

Sir John Franklin, he tried to find the Northwest Passage and it didn’t go too good. Some say they awakened the TUUNBAQ, a very nasty creature. But we are gonna find the passage, very soon.

In both cases the IA leads would make a beeline for Munch and he would stymie them with an uncomfortable story about his ex-wife

I love a messy film maudit to sink my teeth into and even typically give too much grace for trying something even if it doesn’t succeed at developing its ideas but The Bride is a movie with no actual ideas to develop. Just a baffling “what was the point here” from top to bottom.

It’s genuinely insane how many cop dramas hinge on the idea that Internal Affairs is an omnipresent, suffocating entity trying to ruin cops’ lives for being too damn good at their job when in real life we get a steady drip of videotaped executions that don’t even go to trial.

Congrats to Denis Leary on the new gig

Oh lord it probably was.

God it’s been so long but who was the Republican rep or senator whose on the record response to school shootings was “everyone should just rush the shooter, they can’t kill everyone?” I thought it was Michele Bachmann but a search didn’t turn up anything

The face I make at my desk while I listen to 50 minutes of Mike Patton screaming gibberish over industrial bass and John Zorn’s saxophone shrieks

I think largely this happened because he knew his erstwhile campaign of “I’m a uniquely talented and hard-working actor, anyway lemme get my Chet Hanks on” had already sunk him.

Unfortunately I do have to hand it to him, this is exactly how Louis XIV kept dipshit nobles in line, too.

A psychedelic tableau Urm the Mad by Druillet, from Heavy Metal May 1978

Art by the ever godlike Phillipe Druillet

It’s really beautiful that when you first learn of The Police’s implosive tensions you just naturally assume it was Sting being a diva and then every bts clip you ever see of them is Stewart Copeland screaming until he looks like when they get exposed to Mars’ atmosphere in Total Recall

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Dems are so encased in their content spheres they have no concept of just how furious their base is. Those “Hillary/Kamala warned yall” accounts are the last of a dead breed and the default position of the most “normie” constituent rn is roughly equivalent to a Jacobin

There are many people of Ye Olde Film Twitter with whom I used to have contentious relationships online bc my politics were wildly left of theirs while they were still faithful democratic voters and now all of them are so fed up that even I am like damn, didn’t expect this!

And for the record, Bernie’s “tax our 900 richest people for a one time stimulus check” is only slightly better. Taxes are what makes civilization possible and have been since civilization was invented and it would be nice to run on “make a better country for the collective”

Dems are so scared of attack ads and so unwilling to even try for the New Deal/Great Society programs that gave them massive majorities that they have completely internalized an irreconcible position that taxes are indeed bad but should be used exclusively for band-aid sops to the designated leeches

You suck so much fucking shit oh my god

When the Black Death tore a hole in the European population, kings had the authority to decree that peasants suddenly able to negotiate a wage for the first time due to a labor shortage were not allowed to do that. Putting the republicans back in charge was the closest the rulers could come to that

There are millions of people who were stupid enough to believe this but a bank exec wasn’t one of them. She just can’t go on tv and say “pushing the plebes back to indentured servitude after forgetting their place during COVID was exactly what we wanted but we didn’t expect total depression”

Yeah lol I thought I was so damn clever, had no idea it was the linchpin rhetorical blow of the most famous church and state case of the 20th century

Didn’t realize until much later that the question “where did Cain’s wife come from?” is an entire wing of Bible apologia studies but since I went to a literalist interpretation church no one had an answer for me and then the questions started spiraling

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown Aesop first draft manuscript, “Oops All Scorpions”

Trump and Israel do nonstop Red Weddings where they specifically open negotiations so they can launch attacks during them. Iran was giving them even more than they demanded and they still just need to kill ppl. There is no off-ramp, only the Highway of Death.

Begging people to please stop saying “time for TACO!” He was spitefully driven to stop folding like a month after he found out about that term and also poisoning millions of people with oil rain is not something you can smack the undo button for.

Tubi has a programming strategy that can be best summarized as “your cool uncle.”

“Your one cool uncle” ass programming, it rocks.