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I, meanwhile, would hate it if Halloween went on for longer than usual

Great stuff!

I could convince Grant Morrison to cut it out with the AI shit. Get me in a room with them; twenty minutes tops

me, playing connect-the-dots in my coloring book: it's unearthed some kind of... image... a haunting representation of a dog wearing a fireman's hat. these godlike powers are beyond comprehension

Taking A Skeptical Look At A Film I Enjoyed Close Up: One Battle After Another

I liked, but didn't love One Battle After Another. To sort out my feelings, I took to the substack and wrote a slightly skeptical piece about the film, its style, its politics surrounding race, and how it also contains my fave sequence of the year:
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And in the next room over Tom King and Mitch Gerads are holding a panel about your "abuse of the Marvel method" tweet from a year ago

Bringing Sexy Back Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

wrote about how social media kills sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

Detective Comics: Mercy of the Father Review Detective Comics: Mercy of the Father, the first arc of Tom Taylor and Mikel Janin's run has ended and we're here to check it out.

After reviewing the first issue of Tom Taylor and Mikel Janín's Detective Comics run, @mobilesuitzero.bsky.social is back to review the now completed first arc. Check it out at the link below! gatecrashers.fan/2025/07/22/d...

Something about knowing he's 46 years old makes me even more annoyed with his whole schtick. Not only have you had decades to try writing something worth reading, where's the Gen X detachment? You can't be doing this thin-skinned Millenial act!

Praying saints on one arm, the damn Joker on the other...much to learn here about the duality of man

Comics Gate Guy tries to burn down the shop with everyone inside after noticing Lisa has been published in the letters pages of the latest Fallout Boy issue

Accosted by the kuchisake-onna, I say "omg there's just no winning with you" before being viciously cut in half

https://flashcs5.tumblr.com/post/689795652331388928/gay-meth

like a lot of things the original is way funnier than any of the variations of it

If you really want to get all falling dominoes meme about it "/pol/ is introduced as a 'containment board' for the contingent of right-wing cranks on 4chan" is probably a better starting point

"Tahrir Square is the Facebook revolution"-style delusion that has somehow persisted for a decade

Not everything currently happening is a consequence of Gamergate

The optical illusion above is inspired by @javierrodriguez.bsky.social 's wonderful Martian Vision page from Absolute Martian Manhunter #1

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Say...Marty doesn't look quite right! Activate your Martian Vision by concentrating on the + in the center of his eye. Don't even blink if you can! After about 20 seconds, he should be back to his normal, healthy glow.

to a lot of people a good character design is one you want to fuck or buy a figurine of or wear on a t-shirt. and good character writing is when you want to befriend or date or be a character.

The 99 Fiends when Serkis Alfred hits them with the One Way Out face...total collapse of the Black Glove

to fit the story into a broader picture. He did feel like a very real type of teacher or school administrator I've met, though

Have you ever read The Other History of the DC Universe? I found the portrayal of Jefferson Pierce as an increasingly conservative and homophobic (a bit more complicated but hard to explicate briefly) character interesting but I feel I don't have enough familiarity with Pierce/the Outsiders

To me Rowling exists entirely outside of the “should we support/work with artists with troubling views?” debate. She doesn’t just *think* her opinions, she doesn’t just *say* them, she’s a relentless 24-7 activist whose whole mission in life is terrorizing trans people.

Don't look at me, I voted for Amanda Waller

but his Suicide Squad limited series is almost more egregious. What could have been an Ostrander-esque look at Task Force X as a comic book exaggeration of real foreign policy rapidly devolves into "orange man bad, we need a level-headed and competent administrator of the deniable asset kill squad"

with real, world outside your window issues. And then, his power-serving liberal politics and draw towards clippable feel-good moments as a writer make them fall flat every time. There's the lionization of philanthropy and "the problem is PRIVATE prisons" of his Nightwing run,

In part because they came up around the same time Tom Taylor feels like King's other half. Where King "elevates" the material through self-conscious references and serious TV drama sensibilities, Taylor writes like every arc is his Demon in a Bottle, finally facing these unreal characters...

*than following

That the things people do to avoid losing reach/ad revenue are more superstitious and neurotic that following a discrete set of guidelines