Stephen Polakiewicz

“What’s the new screenplay about?” #scriptsky

"They had this look in their eyes totally cold, animal... I think they were young Republicans."

If you don’t “feel,” watching The Great British Bake Off, you’re a terrible person, with a fetid soul.

I always leaned toward swashbuckling Daredevil and his mid-card villains, the Mr. Fears and Gladiators of the Marvel universe. Waid leans into the Marvelness of it all (FF Omega Drive) and delightful sensory language (“Her perfume cuts through the rain like a siren”), so hard. It’s pitch-perfect.

Getting in the spirit, and filling in Universal monster blind spots. Lon Chaney's dogged pursuit of Gwen is a rough watch. She's fiancé’d up, and the dude just hounds her- popping up at her work, peeping through a telescope, all before he gets bit.

“What’s the new screenplay about?” #scriptsky

Firing on all cylinders with this one.

Motorcycles, ultra-violence, monsters and guns. What more could a thirteen-year-old ask for? Spirits of Vengeance screamed ’90s, and for the life of me I don’t understand why the full run hasn’t been scanned.

What a bonkers series. Dripping in imagination and dense with Apocalypse lore, which, scrolling through my reading habits, is apparently my jam? (That and Jerome Opeña.)

Watching: The Deep. Proto-Into the Blue. Spielberg had Bruce the Shark. Yates had Jacqueline Bisset.

Prey, you had me at quicksand. You had me at quicksand...

“What’s the new screenplay about?” #scriptsky

I still don’t understand what a Fantomex is.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead. It’s a COVID movie. Look at what we can do, together. Move heaven and earth.

Kirkman and Ottley's Battle Beast. Like Liefeld's Bloodwulf and Marvel's Champion of the Universe made it.

Thanks to Kanopy and the glory of a library card, I finally caught Peter Yates’ Robbery.

In my old age, I’ve become an iPad-comics guy. Other than a few random Classic X-Mens, I’m reading Claremont’s run on Uncanny for the first time. It’s gloriously bonkers. Overstuffed with ideas and ambition.

Ellen: Professor, my dreams grow darker. Does evil come from within us, or from beyond?

Or he loses and then Okada has a credible reason to go for the title and Take needs to prove himself.

Tim 'Fucking' Meadows: Motherfucker looks like he caught all the Pokémen.

Watching: Peacemaker Season 2

I remember being ape shit when I picked up Infinity Gauntlet #4 and it was Ron Lim instead of George Perez. Starlin's Strange Tales was in my uncle's stack of comics at my grandma's house. Wild then, wild now.

Unofficial Labor Day weekend tradition, catching up on all the shit I missed. The Amateur. Bourne meets The Fugitive. Low-key killer.

F1: The Movie’s editing captured speed in this breathlessly effortless way. Slick stuff.

Watching a Kings Road playlist, thanks to ClassicPuro83, in anticipation of Eddie's return. #AEW

Aaron’s Ghost Rider is grindhouse VHS box gloriousness. Frenzied, trashy, terrific. Rekindling Mackie’s Spirits of Vengeance buddy-movie magic. (@jason-aaron.bsky.social here’s an attaboy to start your long weekend right.)

Listening to Powerwolf, reading Wolfman and Colan’s Tomb of Dracula. All is right in the world… Wait. Strike that. The world is horrendously broken.

Digging into my inspiration folders gives me life, man. Especially with all this moral rot. THE ROGUES' GALLERY GRAND PRIX. Just a lil' story about integrity... and a Batmobile heist. A Fury Road demolition derby with Suicide Squad dirtbags. #scriptsky

In this Age of Horrors, I'm escaping into used horror paperbacks. Possession and the Anti-Christ, comfort food.

Reading: Paperbacks from Hell

Sure... let’s end it all with an homage to The Great Waldo Pepper and Ethan Hunt power cycling the world. Fuck it.

Claremont must have pitched Wolverine's ongoing as his WWII adventures in the South Pacific. A setup that gave Marvel an ongoing while he handled X-Men business in the present. Uncanny #268 nails how the idea could've worked.

Always with the killer prompts. This is such my jam. Any project I start, I have an ever-growing inspiration folder. DIVE BAR. A genre-blending feature about overcoming self-imposed limitations… and smooching a were-shark. #scriptsky