Mike Costa

It’s sad to think that if these people knew the names of literally anyone affiliated with Broadway other than Dylan, they’d have so much more to rage-tweet about. Just another way an uncultured life leaves you missing so much, even if you’re an evil swine shilling poison. Fund the arts!

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.

Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”

Really listen to it.

This Buried ’70s Marvel Comic Was Made With Actual Blood, No Lie This deep-cut Marvel Comic was printed in blood.

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This is a man of taste

Is this post about me

Yeah why should people be able to enjoy a hobby that previously had a self-sustaining market so they could still pay their bills? Fuck em, right? Necessities are all they deserve!

To quote this asshole I just saw being a dipshit online: “can you even hear yourself say this stuff out loud??”

FYI — people who do this are largely middle-class people. The margins are a few thousand dollars. It’s the same with comic books (I don’t know a lot about watches but I do know about that.) Collector markets for these kinds of things are aficionados with day jobs, not billionaires.

I try and keep my eye out for that. I’ve seen it plenty too. I haven’t seen it from her yet, but if I’ve missed it, I’m always willing to go look. No sacred cows, just good policy.

Well that’s definitely true. And she actually agrees it’s a fine idea to restrict kids’ phone use in school. What she’s pushing back on in that thread is the “smartphones are bad for kids’ brains,” messaging which is moral-panic junk science that’s being exploited by tech-bros pushing bad laws.

Sure! What would be the best way to do this?

I’m willing to be wrong about your stance here! I’m responding in the spirit that there might be dimensions of Taylor’s work that I’m unfamiliar with. But I’ve been keeping up with her work on Power User for a year now and she seems pretty consistent on this, and well-researched with good guests.

As someone whose opinion on most things I respect very much, my initial reaction to your take here is that it’s not based in Taylor’s actual positions, which is that basically that every single bill that’s been floated to “protect kids” from the internet is actually pro-surveillance-state panopticon

I’m good at the grousing part

I don’t know why I’m tagged in this but it feels like a mistake

I wish I had the stones to sue my asshole school for the dumbass things they did when I was 13. I’d have made a lot of money. All power to Becky standing up against evil shit.

Is it Spider-Man?

I totally agree. We should change the laws so they have to pay more.

If I’m the first person to notice a bug why does some rando scientist who didn’t do any noticing get to name it? What the hell

Cancel culture is over and we’re free again, says comic book writer Mark Millar, who sold his Millarworld empire to Netflix in 2017, said he was looking forward to ‘crazy’ stories on screen and in print once more

Not to be posting so soon again about Mark, but he’s really on the hype-train after the failure of his Netflix projects and the vanishing sales of his recent uninspired comics, and he wants you to know he can say the n-word again, which must be a huge relief to him: www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

TRUTH

As a 20 year resident of LA I am once again embarrassed for my city. This is some bush-league “rioting.” The news is showing a live feed of people slowly walking with a crawl saying “objects thrown onto police cars.” Absolutely pathetic. Philly outdoes this with an average Eagles win. Do better, LA!

Is this story even true? Well his own self-reported history is a tissue of exaggerations and lies so it’s impossible to tell. This is just a reminder that he’s a grifter, and to ignore everything he says the way you do your sad, sweaty coworker who can’t stop lying about what he did on the weekend.

This is just the latest in the decades-long history of Millar’s lies, scams and grifts. But possibly the most egregious because he cloaked himself in the righteous cause of supporting a vulnerable part of the industry, only to drop the concern the moment it benefitted him to tell a different story

…and today he announced that he was actually asked to do that very thing (by, in an unlikely twist, BOTH companies) but instead he decided to launch an online fundraiser for an original book that would be sold through Kickstarter and nowhere else, with all proceeds going to his own company.

Mark Millar spent the last few years beating the drum that publishers need to support brick and mortar comic stores and cheekily implying that maybe he’d do a big event book for one of the Big Two in order to help rejuvenate the sales market and create a bonanza for stores to benefit from…

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RIP to Peter David, the greatest (and certainly among the last) of a certain generation of comic book journeymen who wrote absolutely everything. TV episodes. Novelizations. Games. Also maybe the first writer to be significant pundit in the industry, a before-its-time trend. Relentless innovator

This implies Adam Lanza could always reconcile with his son and make it to Jedi heaven.

A Godzilla attack requires Chicago’s finest