Most of the characters in my Spider-Man Noir series were new--including this guy. I created a bunch of new supporting characters and villains.

And the big moment for me was that I got to meet @eriklarsen.bsky.social, who made the first comic book I ever read (Marvel's Spider-Man) and who I've spent the last ~33 years reading his creator-owned character, Savage Dragon

Comic Con Oakland

These deaths are on him as well as the parents he has misled.

"The Greatest Comic Character Of All Time Is J. Wellington Wimpy," by Tom Spurgeon www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/br...

If you can read Alter Ego #199 and not want to dig up Julie Schwartz and strangle his rotting corpse you're a better man than me. It details how Julie absolutely shut down C.C. Beck, drove him off the book and essentially torpedoed the first SHAZAM series. An infuriating read.

Superman and Batman by @eriklarsen.bsky.social

As I recall, we were talking about a crossover that would continue from one of our ongoing books into the other ongoing book. So, it would start in Gold Digger and continue into Savage Dragon or vice versa. The timing just didn’t work out.

Great moments in animation: The Dragon and Alex round a corner in the Savage Dragon animated series but don't change size when they cross in front of the camera in this epic don't-blink-or-you'll miss-it screw up.

Not to be a noodge (while acknowledging that I’m perfectly capable of being a noodge) but there was a time when people pasting up covers would make the logo as big as possible so that readers could easily see it. I left plenty of room on this cover (see figure 2)! What happened?

Before may take you a couple hours max, after will take a letterer up to a full work day, where they aren't doing pages and earning their page rate. Even at just $10/page (a woefully low page rate these days), that's $200 a day you've cost your letterer.

And you may ask "but Taylor, what's the difference between before and after?" and the answer is because you will be wasting the letterer's time and costing them money to do it after.

That includes restructuring dialogue to better match the art, cutting down dialogue if it won't fit, and clearing things that the art is already addressing. And this needs to be done BEFORE the script gets to the letterer.

Something that came up in class today, that is also just good info for everyone: writers, it is your responsibility and part of your job to review your script after the art comes in and make changes/adjustments.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Two more oil tankers have been turned around in the Strait of Hormuz, Tasnim reports.

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

What do you do when your reprint title ends but the last story you're reprinting was a continued story? Well, if you're Marvel in 1982--you do THIS--!

Trump has launched three more boat strikes this week, bringing the total death toll to 177. Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it. This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.

It's reverse Robin Hood.

John Eastman has been disbarred. 👏

The United States is in an unprecedented crisis. A convicted criminal has attained the presidency. And he has decided that a crime is not a crime if it is committed on his behalf.

“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.” @heathmayo.bsky.social

I’m gonna side with the pope on this one

So here’s the question no one can ignore: how did he know who to send those letters to if they were anonymous? 2/2

I just want to make one final point tonight. A number of women received cease-and-desist letters from Eric Swalwell. My wife did not. Every woman involved, except my wife who went on the record, has remained anonymous. 1/2

The $117 billion tax break Trump handed the 1% is more than federal spending on: -The Agriculture Department at $89.2 billion -The Education Department at $46.9 billion -The Labor Department at $22.7 billion -The Energy Department at $20 billion The rich are getting richer by robbing us.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

There are a few. Savage Dragon 104 & 105 have comic strips in them with something of that vibe. In SD 120 Angel and Mr. Glum go trick-or-treating as Calvin and Hobbes, SD 236 has alternating Sunday strip pages that are reminiscent of it and SD 252 has a straight up Calvin & Hobbes Sunday homage.

Here's the process for my Youngblood 100 cover: Step one: pencilled the image, then outlined the figures and background with a marker, giving it a dead line. Step two: erased the pencils. Step three: added shadows with a blush. Step four: added rendering and detail with a Hunt 102 and white out.

This is literally what DEI was supposed to combat--so that LESS qualified white men couldn't get promoted ahead of more qualified candidates. Trump and Hegseth are as racist as unexceptional white men come.

Great speech, dude.

I think we need to find a better metric for electing a leader than "who would you most like to have a beer with?" While it might be more fun to have a beer with Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris, both would have been far better leaders.

The Atlantic sucks for a reason.

just a breathtaking self-own here from Ted Cruz

Oh. So they want Obama’s nuclear deal minus Obama’s signature. Got it.

h/t to @adammockler.com for pointing out this gem from 2016.

Saddened to hear of the passing of Sam Kieth, a brilliant artist, writer, and all around human being. One of the earliest artists to jump aboard Image in its infancy. Sam used Mako and Savage Dragon in the Maxx and I used the Maxx in Savage Dragon. We only collaborated once and Sam bailed on that.

I am not okay with that. Sam was an absolute sweetheart and a terrific artist. That is tragic.

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

what a smorgasbord of assholes

The recent Golden Age-sized DC reprints are actually slightly larger than real Golden Age comic books. At the same time, the interior art is being reproduced proportionately too small. Actual Golden Age comic books didn’t have such gigantic margins.

What kind of Game of Thrones-level multi-front war was going on between The Comics Code Authority, Marvel's production department, and Bill Everett's penchant for delineating Natasha Romanoff's nipples?

I am shocked to learn this is actually underestimating costs, because it ignores the infrastructure costs. This video is lowballing it.

Same. I think the movies should aspire to match the comic book costumes--not have the comics emulate the compromised movie costumes. We should be flaunting our advantages not caving.

The one thing I would suggest to any comic book costume designer is to keep it simple. The early Batman design was simple and strong--it could be rendered like crazy by Neal Adams or Jim Lee--or kept simple and iconic like Alex Toth or David Mazzucchelli, without any artist having to redesign it.

In this article, CNN quotes Trump's comments today at length but leaves out the part where he refers to the CA governor as president of the United States. I thought maybe the viral clip had been poorly edited, but nope: He said it. And CNN, et all, just cover for Trump youtu.be/VwxCMXfYIFk?...

Because of course he didn't.