This book is f’n gorgeous. Excellent story by Jim Zub and then a real treat to read an entire book with art by Alex Horley. Like reading a series of paintings. Just pure awesome. Conan the Barbarian 25 ✍️ Jim Zub 👨‍🎨 Alex Horley 🔠 Richard Starkings & Tyler Smith

@whynotpodcast.bsky.social I enjoyed your episode about issue 50 of Alpha Flight. This is an obvious inflection point in the Mantlo run and as such I thought I’d bring up 3 things that are neat about those first 21 issues that can get lost in all the talk about the rough parts: 1/4

Critical writing about movies/comics/books/etc is so important, moreso after years of the powers that be making it seem interchangeable with online reviews and listicles. I wrote a whole zine about Scream because I got so sick of surface-level takes on that franchise.

John Byrne: the inkers keep giving my characters hairy chests! Clayton Henry: the inkers keep giving my characters pubes!

#AaronTaylorJohnson #unf

TIL that Family Guy did a whole episode on Anne Murray and “Snowbird” (in which Anne actually guested as herself) and so I guess more of you actually knew what I was talking about in this thread than I expected 😂 youtu.be/g_RykGBOrYU?...

Halifax! Next weekend! Me and @peterbcounter.com and @elliottgish.bsky.social at various times and places! Check local listings!

Y'all ever go through your saved reaction photos? When would I ever have used this...

The new The Expanse comic is wonderful and check out this Here Comes Tomorrow homage cover from @justineflorentino.bsky.social starring my man Amos.

Kids today: why do I have to use punctuation its annoying The moon today: STFU

Hey.👋 Release your tongue from the roof of your mouth. Relax your jaw. Relax your shoulders and neck. Breathe awhile.

Wait, wait, wait! There's going to be a HIghlander reboot?

HUMAN artists, use only one cod piece to convince people to follow you

Completely written, penciled, inked, colored, and revised the script for the first ish of the next Solomon Kane series. An unlettered panel. Welcome to another world and time.

Alpha Flight inker through the first half of the Mantlo run. And pencils on one issue in the Hudnall run.

So Little Lorraine was not good but I’d be fine with mustachioed Stephen Amell roughing me up for that opinion 🥵

This is perhaps the most apt description of RRR I have ever seen

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings re-make, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

For those wondering if WAR 2 would be as homoerotic as RRR, I present my evidence if it please the court: youtu.be/9l5QY7BJmHQ?...

Daily Nerd Pic! Unless you’re a die-hard pulp fiction fan, you probably have no idea who this character is. It’s Sailor Steve Costigan (and Mike!), created by none other than Robert E. Howard (and it’s Howard’s greatest character, in my humble opinion.) Art by Mike Mignola. #dailynerdpic

I can’t believe it’s been >30 years since the last Wolverine and Puck adventure! 😭

Can’t lie—I’m mad about this. www.theglobeandmail.com/life/article...

In the silent era, the hunger for IP was so strong that a short story in Harper's? MOVIE! A novel that sold kinda well in Oregon? MOVIE! A news story about women being given POWs to work their farms? MOVIE! A sorta famous regional poem? MOVIE! A bestselling postcard? MOVIE!

Shaw,respects Alpha Flight as a mutant faction❤ Hellfire Club has interests in Genosha.

I feel like you could script a whole supervillain arc with real phrases from Skinner’s books. I wonder if anyone has actually done that?

Dreamqueen? Actually awesome

I enjoyed Fantastic Four but sadly it perpetuates the series of banal scores in the MCU movies. The exception is this gorgeous folk song by Andrea Datzman. In the movie it is a throwaway joke about a hippie Galactus cult, but the studio version is wistful and poignant: youtu.be/KFOESN23lKI?...

Daddy issues started here 🩶

This book is excellent!

Just back from the doctor, and as a former twink now officially overweight for the first time in my life, I feel like my ten years of lusting after hot boys on Instagram droning on about ‘caloric deficit’ is finally justified.

Alpha Flight fans take note. A comprehensive analysis of the series has just been released! Author Daryl Richard Lawrence provides a guide to serve fans and pros alike! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/true-north...

My Fantastic Four

Graham Groans has got a Patreon. Head on over there and check me out, why don't you? patreon.com/grahamgroans

Me as fuck! 😂

Crazy excited to dig into @maconfleetwood.bsky.social ‘s new book on my favourite Marvel super-team Alpha Flight! I know Daryl picked Barnes & Noble specifically because they shipped to Canada and here is your proof! Gorgeous cover!

At @theuncannyexp.bsky.social watching Chad Anderson interview @maconfleetwood.bsky.social about his new Alpha Flight book, True North. This book bangs! Pick it up! If you're at the show today Daryl is gonna be walking around with copies so wave him down 💖 photo by me of course

Not the dang Sea Honkers again!

Happy Canada Day!!!

New art! Continuing my love for Alpha Flight with - Shaman!!

Want more Alpha Flight? True North: A Complete Reference Guide and Analysis of Alpha Flight’s First Volume is available to order via Barnes & Noble now! #alphaflight

I'm posting my workplace muscle-fetish sitcom Employee of the Month to GayDemon. May revise as I go for a broader audience than MGN. Jeffrey is named Employee of the Month, during Pride Month, and sexy misunderstandings ensue with his jacked straight co-workers. www.gaydemon.com/stories/Empl...

Snowbird, an original Alpha Flight character who debuted in X-men #120 in 1979 was John Byrne’s most visually distinct original creation for Marvel. The contrast between her iconic design and her dog’s breakfast of an origin story makes her perfectly suited for a polarizing Bluesky thread! Let’s go!

Caught up reading my pull list, returned a book to the library, time for some Alpha Flight single ish read through fun while (kind of) watching NBA! These look promising. #AlphaFlight #slowestreadthroughever

Me, 10% through my latest story: Great. I got some words down. Whee. Me, 50% through: Jesus H. Christ, I hate writing. Me, 85% through: Who the fuck ever taught you to touch type, you fuckity fucking fucker? Me: finishing the first draft: 😭 It's the best thing I've ever written! 😭

Leave the gun, take the cannoli...

I really like text, prose, and narration in comics. It gives them a novelistic quality. Because, see, I like books. Books are good.

Saw some amazing transformation-themed Inuit art this past weekend at the Musée Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Quebec City and it has in has inspired me to update my old twitter thread on Alpha Flight’s Snowbird. Coming soon! Art credit Judas Ullulaq.

Some folks said some really nice things about the forthcoming True North: A Complete Reference Guide and Analysis of Alpha Flight's First Volume, which you can get here- tinyurl.com/328werdr Mind if I share them with you? #alphaflight

PRE-ORDER ANNOUNCEMENT True North: A Complete Reference Guide and Analysis of #AlphaFlight's First Volume is being released on July 1 (Canada Day) and you can reserve your copy RIGHT NOW by going to tinyurl.com/328werdr! Cover and logo by @inkboardstudios.bsky.social, promo image by Mark Eastwood

Puck reference in the Bullpen Bulletins column this month. He and Kaare Andrews share a birthplace! #AlphaFlight