Everyday a newsflash in Hebrew tells me about a few dozen more dead in Gaza. It becomes ordinary. Accepted. Normalized. I keep trying to see a way out but I can't. Just endless bloodletting for two years straight. With no end in sight.

I read a lot. I enjoy little.

Tom Shapira on Glenn Fleishman’s HOW COMICS ARE MADE: A VISUAL HISTORY FROM THE DRAWING BOARD TO THE PRINTED PAGE solrad.co/i-am-into-th...

I can't believe they have a sale just for @teganoneil5000.bsky.social

This is what The Omega Sanction looks like

A little bit of goodness

Horrible. Just one crime after another. War without end.

This year I read DEAD SOULS, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and OBLOMOV. But sometimes you want to sit down with a TRUE classic

These books have an 'odd' sense of pacing. Not bad, just odd - 'oh, the climax action is over already? But there are fifty more pages in this book..."

I love the Aubrey-Maturin books because a serious discussion about strategy and duty can easily veer into "we are drinking rat poop again" without loosing a step.

While I was away the third issue of the new @zarjaz.bsky.social fan comics came out - featuring a story by @conorboyle.bsky.social, Jim Campbell and myself (with a little help from John Milton) Copies still available I believe zarjazvol3.blogspot.com/p/buy-vol-3-...

Toth

"Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered a copy of ABSOLUTE RONIN for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare?"

A horror pitch: a website that has all the rare books / DVDs / albums / etc you want for cheap cheap price - but whenever you order an item someone close to you dies! (Or maybe their next shipment comes broken - to balance the scales)

Have received a copy of the haunted VHS from THE RING. Unfortunately, for the evil entity therein, my concentration is shot to shit and I spend all the viewing time scrolling my phone in search for a cheaper copy of KRAMERS ERGOT 7. I remain unhaunted.

Someone should pay me to write another book.

I would like to be two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Sounds fun.

Comics criticism

Just Imagine... Ilan Manouach Creating the DC Universe

Frankenstein was neither the monster nor the doctor. It was the dance craze.

Batman and Superman Power Man and Iron Fist Master and Margarita

Comics vs Manga... Are we talking Queensbury rules? Royal Rumble style? And if they get weapons I think the Americans (and Canadians) have the advantage...

Hiring Brandon Sanderson to write the missing chapters in The Satyricon.

I have returned from a long exile working on my first movie spec-script, SPEED METAL DEMON LOVERS, did I miss anything important?

Sorry folks, the Comics Columbo thread will only return when the Stars Are Right and mighty Cthulhu awakes from his eons-long nap time.

I don't think you can be both 'definitive' and 'expanded'

Happy news: I've been given the righta to complete the next volume in the SONG OF ICE AND FIRE series instead of G.R.R Martin; it will now be written in the style of DUCKS, NEWBURYPORT.

Run Rabbit Run: The Life and Times of Bucky O’Hare, by @tomshaps.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2022/07/18/r...

"Slice of life comics" are comics in which Ogami Itto, sometimes known as Lone Wolf, slices someone - thus taking their life.

Against my better judgment, I am still alive.

For fans of classic comics strips being collected in a decent package gofund.me/93c60c67

"Like its hero, it is a story that forever looks for itself, and finds something new" @tomshaps.bsky.social reviews Slaine: The Definitive Edition, Volume 1 for @comicsjournal.bsky.social: bit.ly/3SPrCc1

Fuck Bibi and rest of this murder government all the way to hell. They will burn the world to keep their ass on that fucking chair.

My book "How to Build a Torment Nexus" was misunderstood as vicious and righteous satire, leading to the outlawing of Torment Nexus technologies in over 80 countries.

Just for you: @tomshaps.bsky.social reviews the latest Jaime Hernandez collection, Life Drawing www.tcj.com/reviews/life...

Video obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances. Story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

Today on SOLRAD, Tom Shapira looks at the shortcomings and successes of THE FAREWELL SONG OF MARCEL LABRUME by Atillio Micheluzzi, published by Fantagraphics @tomshaps.bsky.social solrad.co/drawing-that...

The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.

Frank Miller's Cinnabon City

Question to @darkhorse.com @josevillarrubia.bsky.social y.social - are there any plans to reprint Creepy Presents: Richard Corben as part of the Corben Library (or otherwise)

On the @comicsjournal.bsky.social - Thrice Upon a Time... In which I take a look at three different versions of Tintin in America and see what comes out (a lot of words, at least) www.tcj.com/thrice-upon-...