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Piracy is killing comics, Biffo

“I really enjoy writing the Spidey Newspaper Comic” is not something I ever thought I’d say, or get to say. But it’s true! This week: Spidey attempts an unconventional solution to a Hulk rampage.

if your euro freelancers/colleagues are slow to respond or inactive right now, bear with us it is because we are being fried alive

Starmer’s wooing of the racist right wasn’t just morally repugnant, it was self-defeating. In the May local elections, far more Labour voters switched to the Greens (22%) than Reform UK (6%). yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Goodbye and good riddance to the most anti LGBTQ PM of my lifetime. Lives were ruined for absolutely no benefit, and now an entire marginalised group is going to suffer a generation desperately trying to claw back their hard won rights thanks so him.

Algae! At The Reflecting Pool

All adverts for any AI thing right now: “Are you the laziest piece of crap in the world? Can you not even cook a sausage without outsourcing your brain to the lake-drinking machine? HOORAY, FOOTBALL”

THE 120 MUPPETS OF SODOM

THE MUPPET WHO WAS THURSDAY

it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"

I’m in “laughing so I may not weep” territory this morning because - how much giftwrap can you put a country in before you hand it over to your beloved Sir Nigel? Lot of ribbons on it now Kier, it’s going to be hard to open.

Playing with his invisible cock throughout. He looks like he just emerged from a bush in the park, the dirty pervert

“We must ban kids from XYZ” = “some of you filthy little livestock still haven’t given your face data to our paymasters and we’re going to make life harder until you do”

I told you all I’m heading to #Flamecon this year, right? #FlameCon2926

AL EWING (@al-ewing.bsky.social) is a comic writer for Marvel and DC comics, currently working on ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN, THE MORTAL THOR, VENOM and the QUEEN IN BLACK crossover #FlameCon #FlameCon2026 @alewingpromotes.bsky.social

Set on Earth like the Pertwee years. Each week a standalone mystery based around a historical artefact (or “antique” if you will), the Doctor able to discern which are the real thing with his Gallifreyan “divvy” power. Instead of a Tardis, a motorbike with sidecar driven by a man named Eric.

If you read Immortal Hulk and thought Dario Agger didn't pay enough, check out Mortal Thor 11 for his showdown with Sigurd Jarlson. I'll miss Sigurd, his ways & equipment, when whatever comes next happens. If you didn't read this, you missed out on something special from @al-ewing.bsky.social.

Facts.

we are here. Trans folks blong everywhere.

Well, still no luck with Die In Three Hits Simulator. And if I somehow learn their needlessly byzantine combat system enough to survive the next thirty seconds I know my reward is probably going to be a lecture from a load of spotty herberts - sorry, cool young people - so motivation is low.

So far The Circle Button Is Not Enough isn’t beating Hitman. How can notorious glass jaw Agent 47 be better at fighting than James Bond is?

If I turned Wolverine into a roguish antiques dealer, would my Lovejoy addiction be tax deductible

if you're feeling down about genAI please remember that it is a) intensely unpopular b) immensely unprofitable c) being propped up by people who NEED it to succeed, will spend any amount to create an illusion of a win but still keep failing and leaving the people they work with caked in shit

Join @al-ewing.bsky.social for a Virtual Comic Creator Chat TOMORROW at 12pm EST, courtesy of the New York Public Library! More info and registration at: tinyurl.com/NYPLCCC3

The violent sequel to Lovejoy, Shoveboy, in which mysteries occur in the tangled world of jostling

As we get closer to june I am gonna need you to remember something: Yes, if you're queer at all, in any way, in any amount - you're queer enough to count. That's it. End of discussion.

Fuck this worthless lump of shit, then.

Everything’s an antique in the future

Found the one about the space frog

in the guidance on trans people, right where they say transphobia is not transphobia, they felt it necessary to add that homophobia is not homophobia just a little glimpse into the future

Ivara mech skin design idea #warframe #warframefanart #tennocreate

Issue #57 of our newsletter is out now, ft. the key to Being John Malkovich, Epoch: The Esotericon, the free energy hypothesis of consciousness, Andrew and Steven at the races, Slayer/Slayr/Slayyyter and much much more!

The disturbing feeling a man of a certain demographic gets when, pushing fifty, he realises he Might Be Into Genesis. I mean, a lot of bangers! A LOT of bangers. Still, time’s winged chariot etc. etc.

Trying out a new metaphor: "A.i." = cocaine. Cocaine is inevitable! Cocaine can enhance your creativity! Cocaine can make us all faster and more efficient! If your kid doesn't learn how to use cocaine, they'll get left behind!

On top of reasons of role deconstruction and bodily autonomy, this is one reason why it's so important to many people in power to eradicate trans folk. If you're secure with yourself, feeling good BEING yourself, they can't tell you you're broken and then sell you a "fix"

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

“Maybe we could introduce a character in the Absolute Universe BEFORE we meet them in the main universe?” they said. “Okay,” I said. EMILY HAWKE, OSS AGENT ZERO debuts in Absolute Green Lantern #13.

If you still haven't submitted your nominations for the RINGO AWARDS…just saying 👇👇👇

neuromatch.social/@jonny/11632... Look at this detailed analysis of Anthropic's leaked "100% generated by Claude" code, just pigshit awful absolutely unmaintainable garbage

got to do a very fun one pager for the MAD about DC comic, written by Al Ewing. Since the lettering (which was brilliant! but there's a very enjoyable amount of it) covered up this fellah's right hand, here's the top panel sans lettering... all the funny stuff is in the dialogue though so buy it!

The bedrock belief of the supremacist spirit is that life must be earned, and those who fail to earn it deserve to suffer and die.

I gasped like a rube at the last twist this issue, even though in hindsight it was all set up absolutely brilliantly. a gem of a single issue, truly, subtle and savage in equal measure. when you finish the story and flip back to the cover and realize Ross drew the last beat - hits like a mule.

The Old Man’s back again

With my self-promotion hat briefly on: Friends and co-workers who’ve been picking it up, what do you love about MORTAL THOR?

My shop is tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com My ko-fi is ko-fi.com/tessfowler If we make ten sales before Sunday night, we have rent. Late again, so late fees attached. But ten sales would bring us to safety for another few weeks. Thank you so so so much!!

God. This is awful, awful news. Just fucking heartbreaking.