Just decided to only buy Mylar bags and full back boards from now on. Yes, it costs more but the condition of some Copper Age books I bought off eBay is alarming and I suspect down to the low quality bags/boards they came in.

I played a record earlier and it didn’t even offer me a discount code for my first website built with SquareSpace. It just kept playing music — track after dreary uninterrupted track. I tried clicking all over the huge square of artwork and I couldn’t find anywhere to leave a review.

It has arrived and it’s very good. Thanks @voxparlour.bsky.social !

Currently promoting the platform across social media Zines.co.uk is being billed as a new, dedicated UK marketplace for independent artists and publishers who create and sell their own zines

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

Today’s solution…

Check out the gorgeous covers for IF DESTRUCTION BE OUR LOT... #2 from @andymacdonald.bsky.social & @francescosegala.bsky.social / @cliffchiang.bsky.social / Chip Zdarsky / @tulalotay.bsky.social FOC is this weekend so if you want a copy, which you do, let your local comic shop know now.

Replaced my original copy of Detective Comics #583 and relegated it to reading status. This is clean and so nice. Mylar time!

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

It's a pick your O-Rama kinda episode of @11oc.bsky.social where we speak on fanzines, Image titles, some Ultimate highs and lows, and graphic novel goodness, plus Absolute Green Arrow by @pornsak.bsky.social and @rafaelalbuquerque.bsky.social and lots more! bit.ly/4fwz8oI

Conversation topics at my LCS today 23/05/2026:- Android phones, CGC, Matt Fraction’s Batman, Adventure Time, Ras al Ghul, Evri, Peebles Comics, TwoMorrows Publishing, Lawless Comic Con.

Found my new look and direction.

Wow, the ease with which someone can say evil things and not even realize how horrific they sound.

introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live Kraftwerk Motörhead Jane’s Addiction Lush Primus Napalm Death Midway Still Sonic Youth Buffalo Tom The Orb

RIP Michael Keating, my favourite of Blake's crew and the only one to appear in all 52 episodes.

And how the merry fuck are they going to police that then? I’m not going to carry a gender ID for anyone, neither am I going to show them my fanny. Leave trans women alone, ffs.

Up the Villa!

Another beautiful variant cover, this time a Martin Morazzo cover for the first issue of If Destruction Be Our Lot. I’m an Ice Cream Man fan, so had to pick this up.

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Comics friends, if this account just followed you, block them. It's an AI platform for "comics" -

Sounds like a great time to switch your browser’s default search to DuckDuckGo, gang.

This is why it’s useless for weirdos like us to talk about the best comic to give to someone first. The best comic to give someone first is whatever random Bronze Age issue from the middle of a lengthy run you can find in a quarter bin.

Who broke Reddit? It was one of you…

Another great David Aja cover to add to my little collection of his work. Just stunning.

Scrappy Doo voted for Brexit.

We're throwing things at you from a whole bunch of publishers this week on @11oc.bsky.social Episode 1034! bit.ly/49oHgUD

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Sun Ra & June Tyson.

www.maptap.gg May 17 99🎯 99🎯 99🎯 99🎯 98🎯 Final score: 987

"It was on a cold and misty morning in March that Holmes and I prepared to make an aerial survey of the countryside. Holmes had found the addition of a helicopter to his crime fighting arsenal to be of material assistance."

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

Pick a new Bond from the photos you already have in your phone.

God those wretched fucking losers on their racism and cocaine march. Not a single one a kind person. No joy to their soul. Vile, sad, cruel pricks. The opposite of civilised.

Apparently, Drake has ‘dropped’ a load of new music.

Conversation topics at my LCS today 16/05/2026:- Comics continuity, Swamp Thing 88, Superboy, NFL fixtures, Sean Bean, damaged comics, Monster Trucks, Evri, Maddy Prior (both X-Men and Steeleye Span)

My review: wearecult.rocks/young-marble...

I don’t watch much TV these days, especially channels with adverts, so I was completely unready for the volume levels on some of these adverts. I’ve seen Motörhead live, so volume doesn’t bother me but this is ridiculously loud.

Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper, Chrome, Modern.

Fun times tonight, as usual. Episode 1034 of @11oc.bsky.social will be available shortly. #ComicTok #creatorsearchinsights #ComicBookPodcast #ComicBooks

If I had the money and the resources, I would love to collect every single one of the gorgeous slabs of vinyl. mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records...

If you're immensely wealthy, and you dodge millions in tax, that's totally fine. If you're not wealthy, and you try and save a bob or two on tax or tax advisers, the Gods will strike you down. Them's the rules in Britain and Rayner and Polanski have only themselves to blame.

Been through this myself at Cardiff University and it was not fun. Signed and shared!

Spend all this money on an iPhone and I play Tetris on it…and badly at that.

Totally forgotten about the utter nightmare that is M$ Word! It really is shit. (Yes, I'm writing up my PDR)

George Perez and Gene Day covered Marvel Two-in-One 65 (1980).

Music to match my current brain wave patterns. Macintosh Plus - Floral Shoppe

"Ten years ago I managed to drag the UK out of the EU based on a racist poster and various nonsense claims that I had made up and now ten years later I'm still unable to name a single tangible benefit from having left the EU but look here's my racist poster again so please vote for me."

Distracted by memories of my last few trips to the US. So I'm now digging up details about the Pan Am Terminal at JFK that I saw being demolished and the PDX carpet.