Al Ewing Writes Comics

We have a few days to accomplish this. Trying to stay housed at least through both of our surgeries. My consultation is this month. We're still waiting to see ortho for his hand. Ko-fi is in the bio alongside the shop. Thank you!!!!

Sal Buscema was, for me, the best Spider Man artist ever. RIP to a truly underrated great. The cleanest line, the most dynamic figure work and character design, the best layouts and backgrounds, and the extraordinary consistency, month after month.

Posting a favorite Sal cover. RIP.

Panel from Spectacular Spider-Man (#197 I think?), art by Sal Buscema.

Just hearing we've lost Sal Buscema, an absolute giant of comics and one of the true greats. His long run on Spectacular Spider-Man is as good as mainstream comics get. RIP to a genuine master.

R.I.P. Sal Buscema. Decade in & out, he was a storyteller of such remarkable quality that I’ve yet to hear anything but the fullest measure of praise for his work from his collaborators. Me, I discovered his work in 1970’s Avengers #72. I absolutely fell in love with it. It helped make a fan of me.

Oh man. This one hurts. Thread incoming.

My favorite Marvel character will always be the Hulk. And if you had to ask me, gun to head, who the definitive Hulk artist is? My answer will always, ALWAYS be Sal.

The ape-like, perpetually howling green skinned monster is the Hulk I see in my head.

If you needed even more convincing, how about praise for SYTI from the legendary @gwillow.me @alexdecampi.bsky.social and @al-ewing.bsky.social!!

Abolish "A.i." from your life and your business.

Make sure to do this, folks - it's not very long and, most importantly, fuck AI

It's so quaint how in the 90s we worried that kids were gonna get fucked up by tamagotchis and now they're just giving every kid a free robot that generates child porn and tells you how to commit suicide

This isn’t a claw hammer, it’s a kneecap amplifier tool

Heron Man

My New Year’s resolution is to be even more of a hater to “A.I.”

A soul-murdering scam to create a generation of dead-inside drones - if you use it on the reg you’re a clown at best and if you promote it you’re lower than the shit on Satan’s hoof, sorry I don’t make the rules etc.

Linus telling Charlie Brown, who is lying on the ground looking up with a blank stare, "I have been asked to tell you that your cries of anguish are keeping the whole neighborhood awake!"

2025

Aw get in, relight my fire, 2026 is doing well already

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I haven’t had the best Xmas so indulge me in my little games, please and thankyew

🎵 There goes Mr Tiny, there goes Mr Tim
If there was a prize, for smallest size, the winner would be him
If these shadows remain unaltered then the child will die
It’s possible that he will NOT but we can’t imagine why 🎶

you’re gonna need a tinier tim

YouTube video by Merge Records on YouTube Tracey Thorn - Joy

Merry Christmas, hope we’re all dealing with it as best we can

youtu.be/3YATi-BzC-U?...

and Tiny Tim, who was NOT plurbed

I was visiting the Cratchits, late one night
when my eyes beheld a very alive sight

I sometimes wonder if I'm just an auld fella shaking my fist at clouds when I back off from modern tech, but the truth is, most big tech products are no longer built to be useful, they're built to rinse you for a minimum standard service. And even children can see this.

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.

I mean, how is this hard for them?

INT: A Burger King restaurant kitchen. A cook flips a burger.

PAN OUT to reveal cameraman, director, grips, lighting engineers - all human beings. “Burger King ad, take one” the director says.

Pan to the craft services table - all BK. A crew member eats & is happy.

BURGER KING. NEVER ARTIFICIAL.

Announcing my variant (cover D) for issue 6 of Adventures of Superman: Book of El! out February 4th! Get those pull lists ready!

Wanted to try something a rural for this one. :)

#superman #adventuresofsuperman #dccomics

screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

You Won’t Find It Down There, Charlie Brown