Graeme McMillan

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No spoilers but there’s a page in this week’s JUDGE DREDD: AND TO THE SEA RETURN which might be the best thing Henry Flint’s ever done, and puts the whole story in an entirely new light.

"Andy Ngo and other far right extremists have been targeting Avalos since at least as early as July and trying to paint her as violent and a 'member of Antifa.' On court record, Ngo has admitted that his social media posts can lead to violence."

It's projection from the right. All the way down.

A highlight of my week every single week.

DC Comics rejects AI-generated stories and art, with publisher/CCO Jim Lee speaking out as its boss and as an artist DC Comics president Jim Lee says the company will not support AI as long as he's in charge: "What we do and why we do it is rooted in our humanity."

"DC Comics will not support AI-generated story telling or art, not now, not ever, as long as [DC SVP and general manager] Anne DePies and I are in charge,” DC publisher and president Jim Lee announced at NYCC 2025 Wednesday.

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BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a court order blocking the president’s order to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Portland when a federal judge granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order. Read our statement.

#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon

A puppy with rollerblades skedaddles across the screen. The text is written in alphabet fridge magnet letters and reads NOT THE BEST, BUT HAVIN FUN

to be honest I've always found it kinda fun to end up being a little bit crappy at whatever I try to do... Takes a lot of pressure off, and I feel like everyone can tell when you're doing something just for the love of the game

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Oh. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trash Humper: The One About Obsession, Heroin, and Choons Sometimes I watch a movie sequel and want to throw things against the wall because it was just the cat's ass compared to the original thing that I loved and that has inspired me in the past. And then ...

First installment of TRASH HUMPER is now available on Gumroad, and you can pay whatever you want!

All proceeds going towards more ADHD meds that help me overthink the things I love!

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DC Comics cancels Red Hood comic book series The first issue of the 17+-rated Batman spin-off comic book series went on sale September 10, but DC Comics has informed retailers that orders for all future issues have been cancelled.

Breaking: DC Comics has cancelled the Red Hood comic book series.

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For those going to RCCC this weekend, new zine will be available for $5!

20 pages of b&w manually constructed and stapled diy fun featuring two entirely new essays.

The death of alt-weeklies didn’t just kill a publishing model; it gutted the last public square where curiosity had the right of way. The corporate dailies sanitized the world until it smelled like hotel disinfectant, and the internet finished the job by selling off the bones to Craigslist and Google. What we lost wasn’t just longform stories about drag queens, roller rinks, and shady bail bondsmen — we lost the habit of lingering, of sitting with the mess of reality until it revealed something worth knowing. Now, every damn thing is a “take.” Condensed. Opinionized. Algorithm-flattened until all that’s left is rage bait and a comment section war over scraps. Fascism thrives in that emptiness because it offers certainty where there should be questions, discipline where there should be curiosity. Alt-weeklies were graffiti against the blank wall of capital’s sterilized “redevelopment” projects. They taught people to ask: Who benefits? Who gets erased? And what’s hiding in plain sight? That isn’t nostalgia, it’s strategy. If you want to fight authoritarianism, you need more than slogans. You need the peculiar, meandering, hyper-specific stories about the oddball texture of life - the very stuff the right wants to scrub out with power-wash morality. The long form of lingering wasn’t a luxury. It was democracy in print.

A commenter on my essay on the age of alt-weeklies left this comment from "This Woman Votes," which states my premise so much more powerfully than I could--in the fight against fascism, the urgency of stories that linger--that I added it to the post. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-longfo...

We need a 2000AD Coffee Table book of the Titan and Eagle covers.

Jesse Lonergan’s Drome, from 23rd St Books.

Jesse Lonergan’s Drome is great. Plus, look at that lettering.

Today is a good day to spend some time thinking about what you want America to mean, and steps—however small—you can take to cultivate its growth in that direction

JAWS really is the quintessential* 4th of July movie that shows you America. Everyone is stressed out about money and jobs while a giant shark keeps picking us off and it's going to take three people from very different backgrounds in a boat to end this

*Quint-Essential, nice

Final Destination, but it’s just me having the first line of the Bee Gees’ “New York Mining Disaster 1941” in my head on a loop as I wait in line to board a plane. (“In the event of something happening to me…”)

As someone who read Green Lantern: Mosaic at an impressionable age (I know..!), this sounds like my dream project to read.

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Brian Wilson just days after Sly Stone hits hard. Holy crap.

FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

Sly Stone, Influential Maestro of Multifaceted Band, Dies at 82.

Rest in Peace to a great one. (And if you have Hulu, go watch Sly Lives.)

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president.

And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.

This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

Good.

YouTube video by Talking Heads Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Official Video)

The surprise new video from Mike Mills and Saoirse Ronan for Talking Heads' Psycho Killer is pretty neat. (As was finding it on the Criterion Channel last night by accident.)

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Alt answer: Quasi opening for Elliott Smith in 2000.

PJ Harvey opening for U2 way back in the early 90s. (An Achtung Baby tour? I think so?) Her amp blew up three times during Sheela-Na-Gig. I’m old.

I have had the Bee Gees' fake Beatles song "Have You Heard The Word?" in my head for three days straight now, and it is beginning to feel worrying.