Reading Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing for the first time since college, and I’m realizing now that a lot of it’s DNA is in Ewing’s Immortal Hulk.

Wrote about #BlackMirror and its season 7 premiere, in which the technology is cool but the material conditions that surround it very much isn’t.

Went to an anti-Trump rally today, and it was a weird mix of anarchists/socialists decrying the class warfare against the poor and liberals who think Trump is bad because he’s fat.

The Marvel Universe: The world outside your window :) The Current Ultimate Universe: The world outside your window :(

I wish DC would do the Marvel thing and let the creatives behind a comic write about their experiences in the last issue of their run. It adds a human touch and it can be an insight into what they thought of the work.

Felt like writing something, because the world’s getting worse, and I’m angry about it.

We can’t slow down now. Almost at 400 letters sent. Please like, repost and send a letter!! #mapoli #bopoli #massachusetts

Repost your Top 4 Generation 1 Pokémon

John Fetterman did one good thing before becoming an apologist for genocide—keeping Dr. Oz from having a position of power in the government—and now even that’s gone. Guy truly was useless, huh? apnews.com/article/trum...

Returning to Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and happy to say my preferred solution to issues still works: tossing an ignizol at any and all enemies and killing them with fire.

An idea that I think would have some legs in the comic book world would be to have new artists create comics from old, classic scripts. Have them go in blind (or as blind as possible by not re-reading the existing comic), and see how their take on a script produces a new work.

The Maker: Removing the Fantastic Four from the reality I’m tampering with is as delicate and intricate as a game of chess. Mr. Sinister: lol, get choked to death in space

I’m so stupid happy that Polygon published my article about House of the Dragon. It’s about the various thematic meanings of the dragons in the show. Give it a read if you’re keen :)

Do you think there’s a Star Wars version of Joe Biden who spoke at Emperor Palpatine’s funeral? Some centrist Galactic Senator who “wasn’t crazy about everything Sheev did, but, darn it, he could pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill [funding the Death Star]”?

My cat Pumpkin has been battling cancer and other health issues. If people could donate and/or share her GoFundMe, it would be immensely appreciated. #gofundme

No we DON’T @kotaku.bsky.social . Please, it’s been less than a week, it’s a 90 hour game, and I’m like three hours in. I have two jobs, how the Hell am I supposed to have gotten to the ending yet? 😭

The opening section with Zach in Final Fantasy VII Rebirth gives me vibes from the Doctor Who episode “Turn Left.”

You telling me these people are pushing 40 with two kids? Give them some grays.

I started playing Doom 64 the other day (my first Doom), and I’m really digging it. I already want to go back and play the original. I normally don’t like FPSes (I’m terrible at precision headshots), but I really jibe w/ the arcade-y, fast-paced gameplay, which only requires aiming along one axis.

Funnily enough, the original run of the Exiles comic parodied this idea 17 years ago, using a multiversal team made up exclusively of Wolverines as a joke about how overexposed the character was/is.

I feel like Saladin Ahmed’s run on Daredevil is starting on some murky ground. He seems to want to take on things like QAnon conspiracies and fake news with his story of Matt being falsely accused of doing shady things with children. The problem is, Matt’s a CATHOLIC PRIEST.

“Shin Godzilla” is about neoliberalism’s inability to deal with a crisis. “Godzilla Minus One” is about how mutual aid and community defense practiced by everyday citizens and workers are the only ways to promote human life and flourishing.

Things fall apart The center can't (HOLD) Mere anarchy Is about to un(FOLD) Up to my eyeballs In the blood-dimmed (TIDE) My falcon is missing 'Cause my gyre got (WIDE) The hour's come round So make some (NOISE) For the Bethlehem birth Of the BEA! STIE! BOYS!

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off has big “Last Jedi” energy. And while I think Last Jedi is probably the best Star Wars movie, I’m more conflicted about SPTO’s use of certain similar moves. I definitely respect what Lee O’Malley and team are doing, but, also, it’s kind of a bummer.

Spider-Man’s constantly punching above his weight class, fighting insanely strong and powerful beings, and getting by via speed, agility, and well timed dodges. That’s why I think there needs to be a Souls-like Spider-Man game.

So what’s the tea on Alexander the Great? Was his solution to the Gordian Knot outside-the-box (outside the knot?) thinking? Or was he just an obtuse asshole who didn’t understand the assignment?

Super Mario Wonder feels like Nintendo’s response to Celeste. They saw someone beat them at their (literal) own game, and they went all out to get back on top.

“I was forced to write fake news about alien abductions” says the man currently being physically and psychologically fused with an alien costume #Venom

It’s interesting that modern Spider-Man stories retelling the origin of Venom always make the symbiote-costume 1) make Spider-Man stronger and 2) make him more aggressive and violent. That really is nowhere in the original story arch.

Does the score for #FalloftheHouseofUsher really give Succession-vibes, or do I just not know enough about string-instruments to know the difference? 🤔

So far Mario Wonder seems to be “What if a game was made out of the ‘touch fuzzy, get dizzy’ segments in Yoshi’s Island?” and it kinda rocks

I don’t know what it is exactly about the early Pokemon games that drives me back time and again. I feel like the gameplay shouldn’t be nearly as compelling as it is; it’s rock-paper-scissors where, if you plan your party right, you’ll always have the “paper beats rock” typing you’ll need.

During my downtime at my second job, I where it’s been completely dead, I’ve been researching Pokemon on @Bulbapedia for teams to put together as I work my way through the titles I can play on my Analogue Pocket.

The group of 10 year old (?) girls in the back of the movie theater are singing along to the Eras concert movie with the kind of passion which suggests that they believe, if they do it hard enough, that Taylor will either hear them or they will BECOME Taylor Swift.

(Getting ready to hit the town with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke) “You’ve been trying on clothes forever, just pick something!” “This is my final fit!”

Picturing someone hooking up their Pokémon Gameboy cartridge to wires to keep it on while they replace the battery, in order to prevent their save file from being deleted, as if it were heart transplant surgery.

Being an adult means saying goodbye to the simple pleasures of sneaking your Gameboy into school to play Pokemon during lunch. Now, it’s about sneaking your Analogue Pocket into WORK to play Pokemon during your lunch.

In superhero fiction, I like both “this character with powers and no training is able to take down skilled martial artists” (Spider-Man type stories) AND “this character with training and no powers is able to take down god-like beings” (Batman type stories)

Congratulations to Kevin McCarthy on becoming a future $400 Jeopardy question

Deltarune is fascinating because, in its incomplete state, I have no idea whether the darkness that the game clearly has is there to be fulfilled or refuted.

Went to MICE today and met @lubchansky.bsky.social! Super cool and they signed my copy of their book!

My wife got me an Analogue Pocket for my birthday and I love it, but the Super Mario World level “Tubular” (aka the one where you have to keep Mario in his balloon form) might make me snap the thing in half.

There seem to be some interesting resonances in the new Thor run with images from the Hulk. I have to wonder if these are intentional (especially given the writer’s history) or just neat synchronicities (also a possibility given the writer). @al-ewing.bsky.social do you have any light to shed?

There’s something hilarious about Wikipedia saying the yo-yo has been “available” since 500 BC

Chilly mornings, we are so fucking back.

I see a lot of people assuming that this series is going to be about a Peter Parker. Maybe I’m alone in this, but hasn’t the title of “Ultimate Spider-Man” become synonymous with Miles Morales?

Trying to rebuild my following list on Bluesky after fleeing twitter is like trying to replay a videogame that doesn’t let you do things out of order. I go to follow someone who hasn’t (and may never) set up an account here, and it’s like they haven’t been unlocked yet so I just have to wait.

The Krakoa era is over for the X-Men, but I think a fun idea for a Marvel/DC crossover would be some kind of rivalry (not even necessarily a violent one!) between Krakoa and Themyscira.

Watching DBZ all the way through for the first time since I was a kid. On the Great Saiyaman storyline. Makes me wonder if Akira Toriyama read many, or any, American superhero stories as a kid/young man. Teen Gohan’s design has some Ditko-era Peter Parker vibes.