Why 12? Good question. Asked but not actually answered. But the answer is the same reason as any 12 in genre fiction. Because the zodiac. Because time keeping. Because the hero journey. Because mystery rite initiation allegories, I.e. a series of actions leading to an enlightenment. Just sayin.

Most posts are already statements of personal belief. Is Rockwell’s widely misunderstood painting doing anything to enhance these posts? You all know including it isn’t required, right? (I am using Emilio Longoli’s 1880 ‘L'oratore dello sciopero’ cause I’m fancy).

This cat is at least 770 years old in cat years, assuming they’re still with us, which I do.

Blue Night - Edward Hopper, 1914. Source : Whitney Museum of American Art 🇺🇸

It is very similar given the 3/4 view of the symbolically giant villain. The THUNDER Agents looks amazing, of course. Not saying the rpg cover isn’t inspired by TA, but both are following a cover trope likely begun by Silver Streak 6.

Bill Finger getting top billing on the Batman dc finest >>>>

uncanny!

On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”

I think a lot of people practicing art to improve skill focus on anatomy too much & composition not enough. Guides like this are interesting as a bunch of essentials get explained. Cool but artificial. It’s largely instinctual from regular exposure to visual narrative. More interesting than helpful.

Quote skeet a gif with a clue of where you’re from

We were all doing The Snarf in Summer '89.

Ann Nocenti was Right

I didn’t stop playing Snap because ladder is flawed, but not being involved with it has quietly felt good. I think recognizing that the game has more to offer than it’s being allowed to, so it could evolve, is thinking about the platonic ideal of Snap and not the gatcha reality SD is stuck on.

Ok, so, come on. All the smart people. Work together and figure this one out. Come on. Get your shit together. Mass Scooby-Doo it.

The Natural with Big Naturals

@rubenbolling.bsky.social's latest.

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 21 - song with a powerful live performance Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka Always loved this clip - a bit of joy youtu.be/XXee0_wJeNw?...

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

Make Marvel Mine no. 5 #makemarvelmine

Indeed, and why it’s nonsense when people worry over what is and isn’t ’canonical’. Which is why I advocate for people to seize the ip and do what they want with it. It was all stolen from its creators to begin with.

Me every day

Very timely and worthwhile comics history read. That it is about the excellent Uncanny X-Men 199 is icing on the cake.

A joke for the history buffs.

What’s a comic book costume you know is terrible but you love it anyway?

-Munich, everybody talk about pop music.

Cartoon for @airmail.news 🐟

The adoption of the Straw Hat Pirates flag as an international symbol of defiance of authority is giving me joy.

It’s too bad Hopper missed documenting contemporary phone culture.

Cosage the Cosmic Agent by Steve Ditko in Questar #1, 1978. Who else was doing 16-panel grids by then? #steveditko #artofthecomicbook

Hes so slutty here.

Share a television show that raised you.

In Marvel Doug Ramsey was a nerdy kid with a non-combat oriented power which created a great, storytelling tension in a superhero comic but that comic creators with lesser imaginations couldn’t figure out how to use. And this seems to still be the case today and I wish they had left him dead.

Did you know that obscure golden age comic writer Stockbridge Winslow, creator of the obscure, golden age private detective character The Ferret and his pet ferret/sidekick Nosey, also created Greenwich Village? It’s true. That’s goddamn impressive. Everyone loves the Village.

I demand a return of Moon-Man with these traits intact. Thanks.

It was the best of times, it was the best of times.

Seriously, even if this headline wasn’t from Bizarro World, all the votes taking place this year are about a lot more than just a referendum on the executive branch. For fuck’s sake, they should make people pass a long-form written exam on civics before they are able to be President.

Post a comic cover you love. Nexus no. 27, 1986. Steve Rude. What’s not to love.

Comic book retcons that redefine, correct, or interlink disparate elements from the past for no necessary reason are a lazy-form storytelling and worth ignoring. If you want to.

From Jack Kirby’s first art for Marvel, the Mercury back-up in Red Raven no. 1, 1940. Elegant line and striking design by Kirby.

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‘Make Art Not War’, 2006, Shepard Fairey

Notice the pattern: sweeping accusations, zero evidence. No names. No facts. No charges. Because it’s not intelligence or law enforcement, it’s propaganda. And it always is.👇

Refusal to release the Epstein Files is an admission of guilt so prosecute.

Tribute to Anne Nocenti by Art Adams.