Justin Pierce

Hot take: Calling a restaurant "California Pizza Kitchen" is like saying "North Dakota Taco Truck." There are a lot of great foods here, but pizza is the saddest trombone in this band.

Undertaker meme: foreground Underfaker shows ""Dick Cheney is the worst guy in America", background Undertaker forebodingly shows "2015"

Rest in RIP Dick Cheney, you were the worst until relative filth made you second worst.

It’s “your barista isn’t flirting, she’s just paid to be nice” but the speculative $1 trillion digital version.

Would I use AI if I had good ideas? No. Is using AI making me dumber? Yes. Let's skip the sugar coating and save like 300 trees.

The worst thing about AI (aside from the job losses, resource depletion and power grid havoc) is the cloying "That's a great idea - nice suggestion!" replies. My ideas are bad and I know they're bad! Don't gaslight me.

By the third monkey, the mama shouldn’t have to call the doctor for insight, like it’s pretty clear cut by then.

Whatever kompromat Jared Leto has that allows him to tank famous franchises over and over must be *incredibly juicy.*

Tom’s work has been dope as hell since I was a little kid.

Shout out to Spinal Tap for giving us a metaphor for "that person who constantly changes" even after Harry Potter went sour.

Save some money, Mario 3 is right there

I had assumed you were the Star Trek capitol of Canada.

Hey thanks! I have started to work up a Patreon with the pages at higher resolution and a bit of commentary on each. With 500+ pages and Patreon’s super clunky posting setup, it’s a slow process and I don’t want to charge people till I have it up!

Iron bench with Lucille Ball sculpture from I Love Lucy spread across it so nobody can sit there.

Meet me at the Lucille Ball hostile architecture bench

Sure! I’m doing one every few weeks though, so it may take a bit to get there. But they’re twice as long as they usually were so maybe it’ll balance out!

Also, finding an alternate place doesn't make this weird online "sanitizing" effort correct - it's pretty clearly a business tactic kowtowing to political leadership that wants to block free speech. But it's a good reminder that any online platform will cave with minimal pressure.

When I restarted Wonderella, I thought of asking @jrconlin.mindof.jrconlin.com.ap.brid.gy whether it was worth even having a website, vs just posting the art on social like everyone else. But it's pretty clear now that anything with even a *whiff* of controversy online needs its own home base.

Security analysts flag rise in Russian-created misinformation posts on social media following Kirk shooting In the wake of Charlie Kirk's shooting, cybersecurity analysts have seen a rise in social media posts that spread misinformation about the killing and inflame tensions.

I don't like news-posting, but a lot of the stuff on social media about the "radical left" is actually Russian-backed troll farms.

Don't engage with this stuff, don't quote-post it, don't screenshot post it; just block.

Also fixed the sizing on the last couple of comics! The taller comics were confusing my render settings but now everything is 100% better with absolutely no downside.

We're trying the new comics on Wednesdays!

Wake up, choom

Thing I love about carbon steel pans is they’re lighter than cast iron but come with the same crippling paranoia that you’ll ruin them with every use.

I told the guy at Subway how to make my sandwich so I’m basically a chef now.

A story about how Mantis’s creator Steve Englehart made her a DC character called Willow.

James Gunn has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

Do you think it’s worth making my CA-ness official, or do you think this is a slam dunk?

yes but it has to be long-form (like those bloody marys with the beef stick in them)

A graphic shows a young woman in bed, looking at her phone with a hand over her mouth, as if in shock or concern. A circular inset in the upper right corner shows an illuminated, abstract human brain. The text "STUDY: WATCHING SHORT FORM CONTENT HARMS THE BRAIN FIVE TIMES WORSE THAN ALCOHOL" is overlaid on the image.

This is why I'm trying to make my pages a little longer

Due to Little Kid Logic, my son thinks @katebeaton.bsky.social’s Ducks is a King Baby sequel about an adult Queen Baby

Bottle of ketchup labeled “33%”

So what’s the rest of it?

This picture is so powerful

424 segments for fewer than 10 college players and 5 K-12 players in the entire country. That’s more than 28 segments per school athlete.