Just hire a human artist, assholes
07.10.2025 23:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jo-maple.bsky.social
Indianapolis native, nerd, lefty, non-binary, and Cardinal. I mostly talk about politics and comics. (they/them) (21)
Just hire a human artist, assholes
07.10.2025 23:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wasnβt going to see the movie anyway, but now when I donβt see it I can feel morally superior about it
07.10.2025 23:27 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0And they used the worst one too
07.10.2025 22:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The cover for issue #1, drawn by Filipe Andrade. A woman shed in blue light is peacefully falling down to the orange city of Mumbai below her.
Creator-Owned Comics Day 15: Up today is The Many Deaths of Laila Starr written by @therightram.bsky.social (New Gods, Dawnrunner, Detective Comics, Justice League Dark) with art by Filipe Andrade (Captain Marvel, Fantastic Four), colors by InΓͺs Amaro, and Letters by AndWorld Design.
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Aloe plant "reading" a "How to Report ICE" zine.
"How to Report ICE" 10/2:
Buffalo, CA, Chicago, CO, DC Metro, DE, FL, Indianapolis, KC Metro, MD, MA, NC Triangle, much of NJ, NM, NYC, Phoenix, Philly, Pittsburgh, Portland OR, RI, Rochester NY, St. Louis Metro, St. Peter & Mankato MN, VA, WI, WY
San Francisco in Spanish
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delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI π€π€
07.10.2025 01:26 β π 976 π 443 π¬ 15 π 26I canβt believe I actually watched an episode of that show. Spite is a powerful marketing tool
07.10.2025 04:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Let me know how the fancy, high-dollar party fundraisers go. I won't be invited after this. www.tiktok.com/@hoosleft/vi...
#Indiana #SOS #Election2026
Immediately suspect any politician who uses that kind of language
07.10.2025 04:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Also yeah, being chummy with Hogsett is a red flag for any dem candidate. My city councilor stuck with Hogsett and wouldnβt you know it he (allegedly) groped an 18 year old this summer
07.10.2025 04:05 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The part about saying βgoshβ seven times is funny to me. Iβve lived in Indianapolis my whole life and nobody says βgoshβ here
07.10.2025 04:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0The wholesome gay uncles I wish I had
07.10.2025 00:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thatβs literally it
07.10.2025 00:04 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following
I could be wrong, but Dems should be centering entirely around messaging that Stephen Miller is the defacto POTUS despite no one voting for him and he's keeping a dementia ridden stroke victim Weekend at Bernies puppet in office while he illegally usurps control.
06.10.2025 21:38 β π 107 π 41 π¬ 2 π 1I am not a medical professional. I did, however spent my summer after high school working at an adult day center with about two dozen dementia patients, so I know what dementia can look like to different people and at different stages. I am 99% certain he has dementia. But again, not a doctor.
06.10.2025 23:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Theyβre so great!
06.10.2025 19:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The cover of issue #3. A woman is looking at you from the corner of her eyes while she puffs red smoke out of her cigarette, with said smoke coagulating in a red cloud above her.
The cover of issue #5. A woman with six arms is walking among the clouds, bending her back so her face looks at the sky, but her eyes are closed.
depiction of both fantastical elements and the city of Mumbai. The more simplistic but vibrant colors work with the sketchy, diverse character design to give a unique, surreal feel to this comic. This is definitely worth a read.
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The cover of Issue #2. A woman is standing in a lake with a crow and is looking right at you. All of these covers are by Filipe Andrade and InΓͺs Amaro.
This is a recent read for me, and one of the reasons Ram V is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers in the business. With Laila Starr, V shows of his proficiency in tackling high concepts grounded in deeply real humanity. The art from Andrade and Amaro is great too, beautiful in its
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The cover for issue #1, drawn by Filipe Andrade. A woman shed in blue light is peacefully falling down to the orange city of Mumbai below her.
Creator-Owned Comics Day 15: Up today is The Many Deaths of Laila Starr written by @therightram.bsky.social (New Gods, Dawnrunner, Detective Comics, Justice League Dark) with art by Filipe Andrade (Captain Marvel, Fantastic Four), colors by InΓͺs Amaro, and Letters by AndWorld Design.
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The cover of My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris. A sad woman is staring at you with the night moon and an apartment building in the background.
Creator-Owned Comics Day 14: Up today is another true masterpiece of a book, MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS by Emil Ferris. This original graphic novel drawn from the perspective of a little girl in late 60's Chicago's diary. The storytelling is wholly unique and inventive, a true piece of art.
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βThatβs how stuff that could never happen happensβ¦ βcause people are too busy saying it couldnβt.β -X-Factor (vol. 3) #21 by Peter David (Guido Carosella/Strong Guy)
05.10.2025 18:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0(by the way, how much I write about each entry to this thread is not a measure of how much I liked a book. It is more representative of how much time/energy I have to put into it each day, and a little bit of recency bias)
05.10.2025 18:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The cover of My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris. A sad woman is staring at you with the night moon and an apartment building in the background.
Creator-Owned Comics Day 14: Up today is another true masterpiece of a book, MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS by Emil Ferris. This original graphic novel drawn from the perspective of a little girl in late 60's Chicago's diary. The storytelling is wholly unique and inventive, a true piece of art.
05.10.2025 18:16 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends
05.10.2025 12:46 β π 4003 π 931 π¬ 75 π 89Something is Killing the Children is so good!
05.10.2025 17:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The cover of Issue #1 by MartΓnez Bueno and Jordie Bellaire
Creator-Owned Comics Day 13: We're taying in Vertigo-land for a moment for another one of my all-time favorites: NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE created by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and @amartinezbueno.bsky.social, with colors by Jordie Bellaire and letters by AndWorld Design.
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Oh, we know
05.10.2025 12:16 β π 613 π 178 π¬ 6 π 12"If it is inaccessible to the [marginalized/minoritized/oppressed], it is neither radical nor revolutionary."
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