Danielle Lorick

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Think of a comic page as a symphony where every panel plays a note. Each must be visually driven, with no throwaway wordy frames. Pair exposition with imagery that enriches it. Plan space so words and art share the page, using text to pace the reader, more to slow, fewer to quicken.

Copies of Simplicity by Mattie Lubchansky and Sloppy by Rax King in a bookstore

It’s Sloplicity Summer baby @raxkingisdead.bsky.social @mattielubchansky.com

If you give any of these hacks money you are a fool.

PBS whistleblower Terry Chi exposed entrenched RACISM, sex based discrimination, retaliation and a hostile workplace; Asian exclusion, credible SEXUAL misconduct findings against Tavis Smiley; and harassment suits settled by Charlie Rose #PBS

a very long grilled cheese sandwitch on a griddle

therapist: long grilled cheese isn't real, it can't hurt you

long grilled cheese:

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Bithell Games, a respected indie studio behind a John Wick tactics game and two TRON titles, saw all three underperform. If a team with that track record and major brands struggles to find sales or funding, it shows how hard it is for small developers to survive. #bithell #tron #johnwick

Having ChatGPT is not like having a team of PhD-level experts in your pocket. That would be uncomfortable and unpleasant for everyone

It's hard to narrow down my favorite song by them but the vocals and lyrics on FEVER are hard to beat.
#ateez #zero #fever #yunho #yeosang #jongho #wooyoung #hongjoong #seonghwa #san #mingi

Tyler, the Creator
I Killed You.

A creative masterpiece. I just sit and think about the writing process and how it started as a pen on paper and turned into this.

Check out this stolen art.

People fear AI will kill originality in art, but comics were recycling long before algorithms. Compare Fantastic Four vs. X-Men #1 (1986, Bogdanove) with Fantastic Four #7 (1997, Booth). This isn't homage, it's duplication. AI just learned from the pros

#ai #marvel #xmen

Check out this stolen art.

People fear AI will steal from artists, but comics have quietly done it for years. Uncanny X-Men 175 by Paul Smith and Firestorm 75 by Joe Brozowski are nearly identical panels. This isn’t innovation. It’s institutionalized imitation dressed as tradition.

#marvel #dc #ai

Super-Pets Bitewing,Batcave bats; Flip cat, Corny Crow, Flexi Plastic-Bird; Elizabeth Elephant Robin Robin,Jarro, Starros; Battlepug; Beppo Super-Monkey Qeelocke, Dex-Starr; Hoppy; Bernie Beaver; Element Dog; Chauncey Cheetah; Topo; Nathan Dachshund; Dawg; Wonder Dog; Bud, Lou, Penguin Commandos
#dc

Phoenix/Jean Grey model notes by Dave Cockrum (1977 X-Men; Marvel)

#Phoenix #xmen #jeangrey #marvel

Organic Soul

"Nourish the body and feed the soul "

I will be hanging and eating with my cousin LaDonna this weekend from 12-2pm on Saturday and 11-4pm on Sunday.

Please stop by!

Let the Wookie win.

D&D hot take

Y’all need more 1-4 session modules and fewer 1-20 campaigns published

The Machine Stops The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.

The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.

If you don't have these two books, Web of Spider-Man 6 and the Amazing Spider-Man 268, displayed next to each other, you are missing out. #asm #Spiderman #spidey #secretwars #marvel

Feeling flirty, may take her home with me. #starwars #ahsoka #shinhati

My ex girlfriend bought me and the girl she was cheating on me with the same perfume once. I caught on because I switched mine a few months later and kept smelling the old one on her.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Archie Comics 1992 character sheet/bio

Name: Krang

Height: 3'4"
Weight: 66.6 Ibs
Hair: None
Eyes: Crimson

Art: A.C. Farley
#tmnt

Dr. Katie Bouman at her laptop, visibly reacting as the first ever image of a black hole appeared on her screen, I saved it yesterday.

Fantastic Four #276 (1985; Marvel)
-Suffer a Witch to Live-

Writer: John Byrne
Penciler: John Byrne
Inker: Jerry Ordway
Colorist: Glynis Wein
Letterer: John Workman
#marvel #fantasticfour #ff4

Superwoman, Black Canary
Justice League of America #30 (1964 DC)

-The Most Dangerous Earth of All-

Writer: Gardner Fox
Pencils: Mike Sekowsky
Inks: Bernie Sachs
Letters: Milt Snapinn

7. Maybe the real magic is that Middle-earth wasn’t a single fantasy, it was a bookshelf where the books didn’t always agree. And the only real evil was the desire to make them obey one voice. One story. One narrator, to bind them.

6. The destruction of the Ring isn’t just Frodo’s release—it’s yours.
Your need to own the story.
To see everything.
To control the outcome.
Tolkien ends The Lord of the Rings by unbinding it. The world moves on. The shelf remains.

5. Tolkien resists.
He gives you characters that don’t explain themselves.
Songs that go nowhere.
Appendices bigger than plots.
Heroes who fail.
Villains who don’t show.
He refuses to let one story dominate the others. That’s how he breaks the Ring

4. The Eye is you. The reader.
You don’t want Tom Bombadil or Entwives. You want battles, betrayals, dark lords, chosen ones. You want everything to serve the arc. You want resolution. That’s the Eye: reader as voyeur, judge, devourer.

3. The Ring’s true power? Binding.
“One Ring to rule them all… and in the darkness bind them.”
“Binding” isn’t just control. It’s a bookmaking term. The Ring wants one book, one plot, one voice. One canon. It wants to close the library.

Tolkien didn’t write one story. He wrote a bookshelf: different books with different voices; hobbits, elves, songs, laments, legends. Some contradict. Some vanish. That’s the point. It's a mythic library, not a clean narrative.

I cracked The Lord of the Rings code.

What if I told you the One Ring is actually a metaphor for a single book, the one that tries to control all stories? And the Eye of Sauron? That's you, the reader. Watching. Wanting. Craving conflict, power, plot. Here's the theory. 🧵