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That “war” lasted approx. 2000 years, so it can't really be called war. Still, it's all very interesting because the male genes passed along after this mostly belonged to the aggressive type, which would in turn explain the last few thousand years of history. So idk, perhaps we should all relax now?

My top 99comics, #67. The Saga of Vam by Igor Kordey and Vladimir Colin is a fantasy series about a man betrayed by gods. It's a story taking place in an imagined universe, that feels like one of the great mythological stories by ancient people from our own history.

The best way to watch Star Wars, in proper order: 1. Star Wars the original trilogy (the original cut, no CGI weirdness, Han shoots Greedo, period) 2. Andor 3. Rogue One And that's it. I just watched it that way, and it was beautiful.

17.9 points for each artist you can recognize.

My top 99 comics, #68. Ici Meme (You Are There) by Jean-Claude Forest and Jacques Tardi is a satire about a small island, where landowners have taken the land from the heir of a wealthy family, reducing him to life atop the walls that border these patches of land he used to own.

A reason to close your eyes: The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. My favourites, each a different experience: Anne-Sophie Mutter with Herbert von Karajan, Rachel Podger with Brecon Baroque, Giuliano Carmignola with Venice Baroque Orchestra, and finally Nigel Kennedy with English Chamber Orchestra

My top 99 comics, #69. Calvin & Hobbes was a daily comic strip created by Bill Watterson, syndicated between 1985 and 1995. Set in the suburban United States, the strip follows the humorous antics of Calvin, a mischievous six-year-old boy, and his friend Hobbes, a plush tiger.

Would be nice if something like this was seriously considered, but our reality seems to be in a tight grip of sociopathic oligarchs and their “public” servants.

A reason to feel with your eyes: Mark Demsteader

A reason to let words rearrange you: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

My top 99 comics, #70. The Nao of Brown by Glynn Dillon is a story of a Twenty-something half Japanese, half English girl working in a designer vinyl toy shop, and struggling to get her illustration career off the ground while fighting violent urges to harm other people.

My top 99 comics, #71. Torpedo 1936 is a series by Enrique Sánchez Abulí and Jordi Bernet, which tells the adventures of a hitman and his sidekick, in the context of the violent organized crime culture of New York City during the Great Depression era.

The only sensible approach to watching TV shows these days: wait until the whole thing has been released, then check ratings for the final season's finale. Because it doesn't make sense to invest your time into something that started great, but then producers saw the opportunity to milk it dry.

My top 99 comics, #72. Rebetiko (Self Made Hero) by David Prudhomme is a story of 1936 Athens, Greece, where a group of Rebetiko musicians wind their way through the backstreets, taverns, and market squares dodging the police while settling disputes over hashish and women.

This is the aftermath of a brutal attack on Ivica the Space Hamster's ship while they were enjoying breakfast on their first ever expedition into the outer reaches. I was there, on the attackers' ship, so I had the privilege of commemorating the event with this drawing. I'm afraid no one survived.

Tiura dominical de Tarzan, de 29 de março de 1953. Arte de Bob Lubbers

Brody King shared a post about what is happening in LA right now on Instagram. #AEW 🤼

So that's what the crack's for..

A beautiful interpretation of one of the most beautiful songs ever. Seems appropriate today considering the people of Los Angeles are under attack by fascists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ_b...

My top 99 comics, #73. The Park Bench by Christophe Chaboute is a wordless comic in which the author explores many, many subjects, and tells tales of many lives and destinies through a common everyday object: a park bench.

My top 99 comics, #74. The (Spiffy, Marvelous, New..) Adventures of McConey series by Lewis Trondheim follows a cynical rabbit McConey and his erratic funny-animal pals as they blunder and wisecrack their way through various adventures, from skiing holidays to monster mysteries.

Superman vs Muhammad Ali cover preliminary by Joe Kubert, 1976, black & white image. Legend has it that Kubert's image was dumped because Ali's management didn't like the way he looked, so the commission was passed to Neal Adams. Imo, the Kubert version is tighter, more dynamic, more interesting.

This is naughty of me, but when AI prompters start arguing that they're artists, what I like to do is use AI for the discussion, just paste whatever it generates as a counter-reply. So yeah, I let them argue with an AI. I so enjoy the irony of it.

My top 99 comics, #75. Scott Pilgrim by Brian Lee O'Malley is a series of graphic novels that revolves around Scott Pilgrim, a slacker and part-time musician wasting his days away until a mind-blowing, rollerblading delivery girl starts cruising through his dreams.

Beautifully imagined and executed

My top 99 comics, #76. The Arab of the Future by French cartoonist Riad Sattouf is a graphic memoir recounting Sattouf's childhood growing up in Libya, Syria, and France in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.

Life hack!

Some food for thought here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ7Q...

So I had this discussion with a guy claiming that, because art is an illusion, and what AI spits out is also an illusion, that AI is therefore art, and he should be valued and appreciated as an artist. This was my response, made it into a pic because it's a bit longer.

My top 99 comics, #77. Message to Adolf by Osamu Tezuka is a manga series with the story set before, during, and after World War II and is centred on three men, all named Adolf.

Tim Andraka just makes more sense.. www.timandraka.com

Is it crazy that I'm feeling happier about posting here with ~390 followers, than on Twitter, where I have ~35000 followers?

My top 99 comics, #78. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud is the comic book I think everyone should read. If you are interested in comics you absolutely should, and if you're not, you definitely should. Could have been #1 on that merit, but considering the rest of the list..

The Eternaut TV show is not the comic book. It's only based on it and so far it is not as great. However, the comic is a masterpiece and the bar it set is really high. What we got, once it cleared the awkward initial episodes, is still a more than decent apocalyptic television, and I like it so far.

My top 99 comics, #79. Rosalie Blum by Camille Jourdy is a story about a regular guy and his boring existence, who stumbles by chance upon a mysterious woman whom he is convinced to have already met. It is a story about how he decided to follow her, and about what happened next.

Ladies, you should definitely steer clear of me, for I have read six of these books and consider them fucking fan-tas-tic. As in must read if you want to call yourself literate. I also consider the writers of this text absolute morons. @dazeddigital.com is where culture goes to die.

GPT really let me down on this one :/

My top 99 comics, #80. Habibi by Craig Thompson is set in a fictional Islamic landscape with fairy-tale imagery, telling a story of the relationship between two escaped child slaves, a girl sold into marriage by her poverty-stricken parents, and a young boy whose life she saves.

On Twitter we used to tweet. On X we're still tweeting. But what do we do on Bluesky, we post? We sky? We BS?

My top 99 comics, #81. Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco follows the author's quest to uncover the truth about what happened in two Gaza Strip towns in 1956, when Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinians.

My top 99 comics, #82. Tekkon Kinkreet (Black & White) by Taiyo Matsumoto is a Japanese manga series that centers on a pair of street kids – the tough Black, and the childish White, together known as the Cats, as they deal with yakuza attempting to take over their town.

My top 99 comics, #83. Uzumaki by Junji Ito is a Japanese horror manga masterpiece, telling the story of a city struggling against a mysterious force, a supernatural curse involving spirals.

I grew up around that time ❤️ (artist: Davide Rossetti with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden)

My top 99 comics, #84. Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama is a fantasy manga series that follows the adventures of Son Goku from his childhood through adulthood as he trains in martial arts.