Stephen Polakiewicz

Hawking my wares. How about THE BOYS on wheels?

THE ROGUES' GALLERY GRAND PRIX: Yearning to escape the dangerous world of costumed criminals, a hardass bail bondsman must hunt down one last wayward rogue obsessed with stealing the city’s champion’s supercar.

Clarissa: When you can lie about everything, how do you tell the truth about anything?

Idris Elba is so great at adding his gravitas to the most silly-ass shit. I love it so much, and I respect Amazon's continued commitment to the Commander-in-Chief-with-a-Shotgun genre. A president with a moral code. Now that’s pure fantasy. Might as well throw in aliens... wait...

I look forward to Paramount filling the Late Show time slot with reruns of Ridiculousness. Fuck... man.

Reading: Silver Surfer

I came to The New Mutants when Liefeld and Cable did, but the early Claremont/Sienkiewicz run nails overcoming teenage limitations and growing into your true potential.

Strength of spirit versus enforced conformity.

DIVE BAR is a PAGE Quarterfinalist! It’s an adventure romance about self-sabotage, second chances, and a were-shark with baggage. #scriptsky

Taz: Yambag Yahtzee.

AEW is something special, man. Spoiled.

I wrote a Superman-inspired feature, built around the idea: could Metropolis rally to save itself without Superman?

Rooftop: After witnessing the assassination of the world’s greatest hero, a lone parkour runner becomes the last hope to unite a fractured city before doomsday strikes. #scriptsky

With Superman (like picking a comic off the spinner, who starts on issue #1? NOBODY) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, @jamesgunn.bsky.social seems to adore Pee-wee's Big Adventure as much as I do.

This is the post accurate reaction I’ve seen.

Zsa-zsa Korda: What matters is the sincerity of your devotion.

Danny Jarabek: It’s a movie about losing faith in the systems we build, families, fortunes, filmographies, and the flickering hope that something honest might still be found in their collapse.

They're taking advantage of our attention span. A new atrocity, a new keyboard cat. They're counting on us to forget HOW things got here and just notice that things are bad, five years later... Oh look, Amy Poehler has a new podcast.

Still reading: Nocenti & Junior's Daredevil.

The entirety of human knowledge at my fingertips, and I'm reading The Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix... Good times.

“I beg of you to take this warning seriously, even though these people may be crazies. Since the invention of gunpowder, crazies have been bad news.”

They don’t want workers. They want labor. They want fucking serfs.

Reading: Casey & Ladronn's Cable

If you’re new: at some point for me time becomes a smear… when did Drive come out again, fuck if I know. So, I use BlueSky to track my consumption, with a quick scrollie-scroll. Reading Hickman’s Avengers opus. Cannonball and Sunspot are going to smooch at the end just like Ted Lasso's Colin, right?

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

I feel like Jason Aaron and I are cut from the same cloth. Grew up southern, with comics, wrasslin', and imagineering. Bug Wars reads like he only heard about Sectaurs and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids on the monkey bars and imagined something better.

Barney: Oh, but Moe! The dank. The dank!

Nocenti's Hell Kitchen swells with heart and grime. As a kid, I was over my skis. Bigger ideas than my GI Joe mind could comprehend at the time, but infused with cool, you could just smell it. Fantasy-booking her and JRJR’s take on No Kings

Marie: Can I walk around or is that gonna leave any footprints? (Goggins flyby.)

Louise seems to loathe the conceit of Layton's X-Factor, mutants disguised as human mutant hunters. And I don't blame her. It's a goddamn mess, especially when you have to re-explain it every issue, obeying Shooter's “every comic is someone’s first comic.” Plus, Cyclops is a straight deadbeat dad.

At the height of the Kirby run on Captain America and the Falcon, I wonder why they went with Falcon over Eagle?

Revisiting The Loners, washed-up Marvel super-hero support group. Those covers… Jason Pearson was something freakin’ else, man.

McClane: Guess I was wrong about you. You're not such an asshole after all.

Grant: Oh, you were right. I'm just your kind of asshole.

Congratulations to the Feature and TV Pilot QUARTERFINALISTS of the 2025 JumpStart Writing Competition! 🥳

Check out the list here: www.roadmapwriters.com/pages/2025-j...

"When you tune in to the creativity that is still pulsing in these disorienting times, you can hear the story that most needs telling: Keep going." Is This The Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture? by Spencer Kornhaber.

Watching: The Pitt

“I got swept up in the mad rush of defying an impossible task. I don’t like impossible. I can’t take no for an answer, and I knew that the only way this would exist was if I muscled that monster into the world.” No one embodies sweat equity and DIY drive like Michel Fiffe.

Reading: Death of Copra

The Gorge felt like a sci-fi flick you uncover at a second-run theater, in all the best ways. Something like Mimic. Custom-made for me.

Fun Widow: Oh... I needed that face