"Children found special satisfaction in Superman, a fantasy adult wholly unlike other adults, perfect in his childlike purity, who wields amazing powers to undo wrongness in the grown-up world and who treats the doing like play."

Can. You. Believe it?!

They do not make it easy! But another wild Red Sox win! Can you believe it?!

IT WAS ALWAYS WILYER!

Wilyer does it again!

“I’ll pass on the salad and just have those fries. I’m trying to eat healthy.” - instant hall of fame dad joke thanks to cyclospora

It me, dad

Evan “Doc” Shaner, doing the Big Two.

Sweep dreams. 🗒️ bit.ly/4oSjYNl

I was on BBC 4 Radio last Friday talking about the wonderful Scottish soccer fans at Fenway. Here's an abridged version of the piece (edited for Bluesky length limit)... the full version -- complete with snippets of fans singing and me playing organ -- is at instagram.com/p/DZ8pE36KzJh

Happy Father's Day 🖤

Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing

Scottish soccer fans in town for the World Cup made a side-trip to Fenway on Sunday and brought actual magic with them. It was such a delight and honor to get to accompany their singing.

I pored over this design when I was kid. I absolutely wanted this to be a thing. The only critique I had was that I thought the car in the parking lot should’ve been the Batmobile.

I sure do talk a lot

New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind

OMFG, I can not remember the last time I read something that resonated with me more than this piece. I'm so grateful to see this perspective represented -- I was beginning to think I was the only one! TL;DR: selling out is still bad!

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

In honor of the NBA Finals, 13th Dimension reprinted my article on the greatest basketball comic of all time (next to me and Joe Cooper's COMIC BOOK STORY OF BASKETBALL): Jack Davis's 1970s Spalding ad featuring Dr J! and Rick Barry! 13thdimension.com/dr-j-rick-ba...

When EMI pulled funding on LIFE OF BRIAN days before shooting, the Pythons turned to a fan. George Harrison put up around £3 million of his own money to make the film, simply because he wanted to see it. Eric Idle called it "the world's most expensive cinema ticket."

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." ~Rod Serling

Weirdest / best hit of the night!

oh no how will we generate pure unrefined mediocrity from the midden heap of stolen human interactions where will I get my fresh artbarf, my hot steaming infoslurry

not a dumb question! yes some of the people who wrote the Voting Rights Act are still alive and we do have documentation (from then & now) about what the legislature intended, all of which the Court's Republicans ignored I discussed this in the 'stealing elections' chapter of The Originalism Trap

Jack Kirby in 1983, talking about his experiences in WWII and the brutal reality of war compared to some people's romantic or simplistic view of it... "Some people think about war like they think about comics...

For those of you already missing Stephen Colbert, he's resurfaced on community public access in Monroe, Michigan, and no, I am not joking: youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4

Heidi’s reporting remains the best in the biz…

Not now, Elder Gods From Outside Reality Frozen Under The Ice For Aeons

pour one out for a real one

The VRA *has always* been there to stop racial vote dilution, not to give Black people some kind of bonus districts. The reason we have the VRA (especially the 1982 version) is because Southern white politicians reliably define the political parties in such a way as to make sure Black voters lose.

"I have cryogenically frozen my penis and filed it down to a fleshy icicle to replace any feminine roundness on my body with a masculine point."

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Steranko speaks recalling visiting Kirby and him making toasted cheese sandwiches. All beneath an art collection on the kitchen walls. Kirby drew Captain America and “he started drawing him at the belt buckle.” #jackkirby

Jack Kirby Way naming day! Steranko, Starlin, Evanier and the Kirby family are here to mark this momentous day. Also many folks from Marvel who helped make it possible.

Shut 'em out on Fenway Friday. 🗒️ bit.ly/4dvXy06

"Jack Kirby Way" 👊

“And now - Boba Fett…”

Enjoying Fenway Park

Golden Tempo wins the Kentucky Derby as Cherie DeVaux becomes the first woman to train its winner.

What a finish - Golden Tempo wins the Kentucky Derby

Can't stop singing this to the theme of the Muppet Show

Few comic book writers have had as truly insane a resume as Gerry Conway. Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, Legion, JLA, and on and on and on, not to mention co-creating Punisher, Jason Todd, Power Girl, Firestorm, and so many others. One of the greats. RIP Gerry Conway. nerdist.com/article/comi...