Anthony Oliveira

I saw the Gad clip which was fantastic! I think poor John had like 15 minutes of rehearsal but it was cute

"Total Eclipse", "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" AND "I Would Do Anything For Love" all owe Cocteau royalties imo - they're basically Cocteau + Tom of Finland mashups

it immediately sounds wrong to me tho bc while it's great it's a CHATTY movie more than an artfully composed one...its scariest shot owes all its power to its hyper-mundanity i think

i know he was parachuting in for josh gad and i can't imagine the stress of learning that choreo that fast but surely jack black would smash thru the wall like kool-aid man to do it

John Stamos not knowing the words to King Herod's Song....unforgivable i fear

(watching someone fish, which I don't know how to do) why are you gatekeeping fishing from me? why are you gatekeeping eating a delicious fish? (starting to cry) why are you dd oing this to mme

"Well what if I'm a fucking talentless moron, huh? What if I suck and have nothing to say and no ability to say it? What if I follow the neighborhood dogs around and eat their succulent poops, does that make me some kind of doodoo-eater? Check and mate."

does the camera flip around while Danny is on his big-wheel? that feels like it happens....

god it feels like....maybe is it EXORCIST 3? something like that. it could be a Polanski? Or maybe it's THE SHINING? it's very much a "the world is now upside-down" moment....

OH MY GOD THAT'S TRUE!!!! Also a @bailierosenlund.bsky.social special!!! still our longest one yet I think!

here's how it looked in the script.

(Issue #50 was designed to show off what the Infinity Comics could do but the second page with Stilt-Kid running TRACKS with them rather than TILTING.)

Belle amid drapes

belle in candle-lined hall

Prior Walter in same hall

Lumiere

here's the hallway from B&TB that I wanted Billy running down - replicated in Mike Nichols's ANGELS IN AMERICA production, in which Prior falls asleep while reading Cocteau

the idea of the Beast's castle having living candlesticks obviously had long-term consequences Disney-wise

billy runs

hmm the script mentions Cocteau's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST for the drape reference but I don't think the camera turns upside-down on Belle in that one...what IS it?

(you can tell i had horror on the mind - billy gives the POLTERGEIST "they're here!" while he books it lol)

love when that camera TILTS!!! i think the 1st time we tried it was Billy was running from Blackheart while the windows all exploded in issue #25

(and i KNOW i stole it from a classic horror movie where that happens so if you know which one please remind me!)

Bailie's become a MASTER at them!!

lineart of Shela Sexton and Brielle Brooks in club outfits standing in line for the gay club, The Invisible Light. Cindy Shears stands in the doorway as a bouncer

lineart of Justin Jin and Marcus Wetherall kissing. Marcus has grabbed Justin by the shirt and pulled him in, much to Justins surprise

Lineart of Blackheart and Nate Richards in his young immortus attire. Blackheart sits, boredly, on a set of spiraling stairs, watching Nate as her conducts some time magic on the M'Kraan crystal

Lineart of Jara in her ice cream uniform, and she reaches upwards with the gorath stone ring. It emits a bunch of energy crackle. as the image pans down, the Avengers Academy is seen in a fisheye lens, from above, so the the academy is seen in an upside down curvature--creating a surreal camera view when scrolling the comic panel

a few more Avengers Academy 33 inks! It's always fun to throw in a weird camera movement in the infinity scroll--and always funny to see it zoomed out because what the heck is going on there lol #comics 🌹✨

hey man just heard and wanted to say i'm so so sorry for your loss.. can't even imagine... you must be insanely butthurt

that is my speaking voice yes

Tone/Visual Language We are firmly in gothic horror here, in the French Belle Epoque/English Decadent period. We are in a world of gaslight and shadows, darkness and dreams, the penny dreadful demimonde. Think about The Phantom of the Opera, think about Dorian Gray and Oscar Wilde, think about Aubrey Beardsley, think about League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, think about Tchaikovsky and, relatedly, the movie Black Swan, think about Nijinsky, think about Bizet, think about Lovecraft and Robert Chambers and Poe, think about Bloodborne. It is the turn of the last century, and the dark of Hell feels always just around the corner. Sfumato effects, darkness, creeping horror and madness. The King in Yellow stalks our dreams.

some folks were wondering about some of Loki's fashion moments and inspirations in BRING ON THE BAD GUYS - this was the tonal note i gave at the top of the script!

oliveira

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Possibly the most 2025 event of all time

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

blaspheming against the holy spirit notably has NO PARTICULARLY TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES so

listen my superhero team has a time traveller AND the anti-christ on staff...i feel like I could make this happen by issue #75

obsessed with the idea that i am gatekeeping the good jesus lore

REDDIT: Loki Bring On The Bad Guys - POST: Loki said Jesus was a noob (Bring On The Bad Guys: Loki #1)

I hate how the past decade, they've been dropping all these insanely interesting nuggets of lore about Jesus (he's a reality-warping mutant, he fought demons, etc.) but will never actually bother to follow up on it because we all know they'd be dragged all over the internet by religious zealots if they greenlit a "Jesus: Heavenly Warrior" series. Same with Yahweh (God). Every other Sky-Father can be in play because anyone who worshipped them is long since dead, but Yahweh is somehow more sacred just because he's still relevant?

buddy i would write JESUS: HEAVENLY WARRIOR in a heartbeat

the order is restored

Campion casting Ben Whishaw as Keats in BRIGHT STAR was...very kind to Keats but also exactly right imo - no one does sad and sexually anxious like Ben

spending a few hours with Keats this afternoon after watching Gregg Araki's "Totally Fucked Up" last night and thinking about sad death-obsessed twinks

a cat beneath my butt

cat has decided he is done sitting on laps; on a go-forward i am to sit on him now