Brian Ruckley

The Corner Box Welcome to The Corner Box, where we talk about comic books as an industry and an art form. You never know where the discussion will go, or who’ll show up to join hosts David Hedgecock and John Barber....

We've got some great new podcasts up on the site. Superman movie review, original comic art price discussion, a fun interview with @jimmccann2.bsky.social, and a bunch of other nonsense meant to dazzle and entertain you. Go give a listen! www.thecornerbox.club

Read a thing long ago (can't remember who) that characterised depression as pathological sadness. Very imperfect description, but a nice construction. Similarly imperfect but suspect a lot of what's going on the 15 years, across many domains, is to do with pathological disappointment.

Which animal on Earth has the biggest claw? It's not a tiger, a bear, or an eagle, not anything remotely like that ...

thewildepisode.com/2025/06/16/g...

Gave up on trying to get this accurate, cos life's too short and who can remember all these places, but I've definitely *seen* the UK. So my conviction that Scotland is the easily the best must be entirely objective, right?

smstone0.github.io#/uk-map

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Been catching up on recent episodes, and you and @johnbarber.bsky.social are doing great stuff. Really like your behind the scenes/retrospective bits like the Absolute/Ultimates/etc talk. Hearing insiders talk about how the sausage is made is fun in a voyeuristic sort of way (to me anyway :))

In case anyone's interested, this is very fun comics podcast from @johnbarber.bsky.social & @dhedgecock.bsky.social, two guys who really know their behind-the-scenes stuff on IDW, Marvel, independent comics, all sorts.

Hanging Thieves (not a policy suggestion, just some amazing predators!) Have some amazing photos to start your week

A new photo post at The Wild Episode Substack about some predators that hunt predators - flies that hunt, amongst other things, bees, wasps, damselflies and even dragonflies. But why are they called Hanging Thieves?: thewildepisode.substack.com/p/hanging-th...

#nature #wildlife #insects #zoology

Most 'personal' of the stuff I've written, in the sense it's all about my hometown and based on its very real and kind of mad history ... part horror, yes, but maybe more like a weird historical thriller?

The rhinos we have and the ones we lost.

In the late Pleistocene, about two thirds of the worlds terrestrial megafauna went extinct. Rhinos fared better than average, but still, all the temperate and cold climate species are gone. Those that remain are endangered and in dire need of protection.

Have some amazing photos to start your week at the Wild Episode substack. Surprisingly beautiful fish with surprisingly science fictional jaws: t.co/9NsXYNmAXT #nature #wildlife #zoology #fish

My podcast The Wild Episode - nature, history, science in the Animal Kingdom - now has a substack. thewildepisode.substack.com A place to get some amazing animal content that'll brighten your day and if you support the show there you'll get even more, incl bonus episodes! Bargain!

Experimenting with linking to my podcast here ...

What connects feasting Japanese fish, a swimming pool in southern France and Alexander the Great’s encounter with the Gordian Knot? The extraordinary horsehair worm, a simple animal capable of astonishing things …

thewildepisode.com/2023/11/30/p...

Not new folks exactly, but only just (hesitantly) waking my account here from dormancy. Worth it, though, to find out you're at Boom - I'd missed that. Hope you have an awesome time. Sounds like a potentially great fit.

Time to slowly test the bluesky waters? Maybe. Baby steps and all that.