True, but I will say Temper and Random are dating.
The most challenging and powerful part of comic writing isn't the way they show the people being fantastical, but the way that they show the fantastical being people.
A thought about comics:
Reading comics is reading.
Another thought:
Reading comics is a source of joy.
Last thought:
Rogue is super-neato.
One of my favorite books from the past decade is written by a trans author. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki from 2021. I picked it up on a latk and ended up falling in love with the story and the characters inside. It's wildly inventive and brilliant.
I want to find out what happens with the X-Men - Sarah Zellaby, Butterfly Effect by @seananmcguire.bsky.social
😍
#amreading #booksky
So very true, for 37 years and counting. Plus the latest run by @gailsimone.bsky.social amping up that motivation to Claremont levels.
Trans author here, writing about a pile of queer furry supervillains with a few other trans friends!
My book is about moving on after a life of unwilling isolation and eager self-sacrifice, struggling to fit in with "the community," and terrible puns.
furplanet.com/shop/item.as...
My beautiful gorgeous wife and I make this podcast? It's been exploring trans, general LGBTQ+, and neurodiverse themes for years before our eggs cracked. It'd mean a lot if anyone checked it out because truly it's a message of love.
www.youtube.com/@rpgforyouan...
I live in Missouri, which is its own special hell. I own my house. I like my house. I don't want to leave my house. I probably have the means to relocate, but I'm almost too old for it. FWIW, I write semi-professionally about movies and occasionally draw comics.
I'm just generally a fan of @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social. She'll be at @shoebox.gg this weekend, so if folks are into Magic and in the St. Paul area, go say hi!
I want @gailsimone.bsky.social and @scalzi.com to rest assured that, because of the hat, I have boatsman experience.
I’m really good with seamen.
It wasn’t me, it was your own hilarious self! But I am happy!
Way to go, @jococruise.bsky.social!
You don't get a better or more entertaining tale of how it all happened, from the inside, than this:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/67...
The constraint how many pages you'll get to scrupt can spark the greatest creative edits and enhance your story.
Nice!
In innately unrealistic genres like superheroes, "realism" should never be a factor.
Especially in costumes.
"How does that stay up?" should never be a question asked in a world where people fly and shoot heat beams from their eyes like Cyclops.
I did this gag already!
Hey, remember when Gail said our comic sounded good? Listen to her! We are in the last hours of our campaign and you can grab a copy!
(Sorry Gail, please ignore me)
I have, but also I have several NOLA residents and some genuine Cajuns helping me, notably Flash artist @gavinguidry.bsky.social!
One thing though, Gambit’s patois is also askew partly because he’s Gambit. It’s part Cajun and part weird card-throwing guy!
Inking is not tracing!
The two greatest and most important writing hires in comic history—Alan Moore to write Swamp Thing and Chris Claremont to write X-Men—were both made by the same guy: Len Wein
We tend to think of Wein as a writer and creator (and he was very good at both), but his real legacy is as an editor.
Mine:
It’s okay to have a casual interest. Even as a woman.
Or a black person.
You can just like the stuff without having to develop an encyclopedic knowledge in order to fend off gatekeepers.
I miss the soap opera-esque
format that the 80s and 90s were littered with when creative teams were just allowed to stay on books for years.
Artists do not get nearly enough credit
A page of panels without any dialogue or text boxes takes longer to read than a page with them.
All of my thoughts are about comics.
But, I'll leave one here. Cassandra Cain is the greatest comic character of all time, and everyone else is wrong.
@dailycasscain.bsky.social can back me up.
Almost all attempts at rendering accents in dialogue will be terrible unless it's Gambit or a font-accent in Astérix.
Stories where the hero beats the villain in one issue without a story arc are fun and there should be more
Comics are art
Say a thought about comics.
Here’s mine.
In superhero dialog, verisimilitude is better than realism.
