Jon Reads Comics

Thinking about putting time and effort into new episodes of The Spider Diaries. Would you listen?

(Of course, with algorithm-driven social media these days, who’s to say the potential listeners would even see this post.)

Sara Century Made Some Good Points

On Thinkgeek tshirts this holiday season

And a Tom Hollandaise.

Sometimes a comic book relaunch describes a world with the bad guys in charge, using language and imagery that almost identically describes the actual state of the world.

(G.I. Joe 156, 2010)

It occurs to me that Elric of Melniboné was killing people with a sword and receiving the Quickening long before Connor or Duncan ever put on a kilt.

TIL AOL is still a thing

Watch. All. The movies.

My fame is known far and wide!

to like seven people

And they’ve just had a crossover. Jacob Anderson, who plays Louis de Pointe du Lac in the current television adaptation of The Vampire Chronicles, also plays [REDACTED] in the last two episodes of The Sandman.

I love this. This is amazing.

Okay so this is weird and amazing.

Interview with the Vampire and The Sandman. Two story properties that I am ONLY into cuz my brother Jim (died 2016) was into them. So they occupy very neighborly spaces in my head.

@saracentury.bsky.social you’ve been in my eareos from some Graymalkin Lane appearances back in ‘22 I think.

Okay, you know what? No. F**k you, you 1988 comic book.

His Yelp reviews are pretty terrible.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds might be my new all-time favorite iteration of the franchise. New season starts tomorrow, so we are finishing S2 today. And there is just so much good that they’ve done with these characters, some I’ve known my whole life but who have now grown in such unexpected ways.

Is that the recent Kickstarter TF volume?

You know he doesn’t have the power. I know he doesn’t have the power. But all he has to do to get the power is not have enough people tell him no.

Don’t. See. Superman.
We literally don’t want you anywhere near our fandom.
Stay home. Keep your hate. We don’t. Want. You.

If the idea of the Superman movie being political bothers you,
If you’ve ever uttered the word “woke” or “DEI” with the slightest hint of derision,
If you voted for FOTUS,
Then guess what.

Just gonna be peppering this into bigots’ Superman complaints. Feel free to do the same.

Superman Isn’t Trying to Be Political. We Just Have Real-Life Supervillains Now.

What a headline.

I loved the feelings I got from this film. I cried multiple times. And it was just. So. Good.

But this does. Blending elements from multiple eras, it creates a version of Superman that is both its own thing and feels true to the mythos and franchise as a whole. And since it’s not an origin story, it could be described as feeling like a sequel to the Superman franchise as a whole.

If you know me, you know I love deeply the last two Superman movies we got. But I’ll readily admit that they were a different kind of Superman story and didn’t necessarily feel like the kind of Superman story most people would expect most of the time.

The “feels like” factor is strong with the Superman film. It feels like Superman and it feels like a Superman story.

From The Flash 218. Certain people have always hated immigrants and always will. And the very idea that the Superman film might call out that attitude in a bad way infuriates some people cuz they hate seeing that mirror on their bigotry.

Meet the high school math teacher who is on a mission to read every Superman comic ever published One man’s never-ending battle to read every single Superman comic

I got interviewed recently for @popversesays.bsky.social regarding the #SupermanReadthrough, and it’s online now! Which is great timing with the movie!

www.thepopverse.com/comics-dc-su...

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