Four twists/reveals/shock moments from comics that are burned into your brain. Don't overthink it. #comicsdna

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

There’s nothing wrong with Bluesky that a revival of the 2014-era media ecosystem where people could get paid employment for being good at posting wouldn’t fix

I loved visiting the Billy Ireland last year. You wouldn’t think it would make a big difference to read Calvin and Hobbes strips from the original art, but they really are funnier that way

The difference between having a cat and having a dog is staggering. Having a dog is like having child who’s disgusting. Having a cat is like having a painting that’s mad at you.

The music of Seinfeld, divorced from the show itself, is nothing short of disgusting. Imagine if the show didn’t exist but the music somehow did. Hearing it, your face would twist in angry revulsion

BEN: Then the Emperor has already won. You were our only hope. LUKE: Yoda spoke of another. BEN: Oh yeah he must’ve meant Ahsoka Tano, a fully trained warrior badass who’s alive just offscreen. She’s got two lightsabers LUKE: That’s badass. BEN: You only have one and you lost it

Some classic 1991 dialogue here, will we ever see its like again

Wondering if the person who coined the phrase "you can’t polish a turd" did so after a particularly catastrophic experience with a hotel room shoe buffer

I took this ferry last decade just because I wanted to drive around Chappaquiddick. Total sinecure for the ferry operator, takes about a minute to go the length of a city block, can only exist because the locals think being a single ferry ride from the mainland isn’t enough to keep out the riffraff

The lesson of Watchmen is that if you're going to do a 400-page monthly series based around the nine-panel grid you need to find someone whose first professional drawings involved walking around buildings in London holding a theodolite to draw it

Non sequitur but the one time I saw Paul McCartney live (Hampden Stadium 2010!) I got this mental image that watching the Beatles back catalogue being performed by a Beatle was like there was a huge spaceship in orbit and he was the only person on the planet able to fly it

me: (explaining ssh to a turtle) turtle: yea, the shell is what makes it secure i already knew that

[JFK voice] Ask not,

which way western man

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Sad to hear Gerry Conway has died. He played a big part in my becoming a comics fan, since one of the first issues I bought off a newsstand was written by him and had Spider-Man being shoved in a fridge and dropped down an elevator shaft. He was my first favourite comics writer. RIP

Damn what a stupid post (sees that they follow me) lets hear them out

CHARLIE BROWN: Yes mistress, you're right, mistress, I'm a blockhead! a hopeless blockhead! DOMINATRIX: wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah

ads peaked in 1891 i guess

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

I’ve never skipped reading a prologue, but my actual opinion is that a huge proportion of them are redundant and should have been cut

My favourite thing about the screenshotted post is that the Gunn Superman movie is all about Clark refusing to be a coloniser the way his parents wanted

I always used to cite this as one of my favourite tweets but Mamdani has ruined it for everyone

Gosford Park (2001) Gosford World (2015) Gosford World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

The Larry Sanders Show. Without Larry Sanders there’s no 30 Rock, no The Office or Extras, no The Thick of It or Veep or Curb Your Enthusiasm, I could go on at great length,

Had to get off the JoCo Cruise ship and head straight to the airport but San Diego already No Kings-ing it up. Think it’s going to be a big one, levels of "fuck that guy" reaching unprecedented heights

I don’t have strong feelings about the British Royal Family but I do support abolishing the monarchy purely so I can upset Americans by telling them I’m a republican and also a socialist

RIP Jim Wheelock, a good cartoonist and a great guy. He used to be found every year propping up the bar at various UK conventions and at Angoulême, where half the passers-by would think he was George R. R. Martin. Here he is with the man himself, in happier times

Sam Kieth did not bend for comics. Comics bent to him. I won't call his manner of drawing merely a style because that implies some level of artifice. Maybe not since Kirby had mainstream comics seen an artist with less filter between his imagination and the printed page.

So I read this pilot the other night and it really is incredibly bad. Which is baffling, because Nora and Lilla Zuckerman wrote the good season of Poker Face, and after they left that show to do Buffy the season without them wasn’t nearly as good. So what went wrong?

I have problems with Loss Angeles as a city, there’s so much of it. I assume if you move here you have to attend evening classes that explain everything but as a tourist I’m simply dumbfounded by its baffling profusion of neighbourhoods

There have been recent years where I've seen almost none of the top movies and didn't know anyone with strong opinions on which one should win Best Film, so this was a good Oscars. But Benicio was robbed

ICYMI: I wrote about Marvel yesterday. And here’s Millie pondering what Spider-Man comic she would recommend if a guy in a bookstore asked her about it

Taking a break from stressing about the problems of the world to focus on a much cheerier topic: the problems at Marvel Comics thecommasplice.com/marvel-comic...

Facebook toy pages all have riveting stories in the comments such as “I had that and then I lost it” and “my parents wouldn’t buy me one” and also “I never seen that one before”

I feel like a good and socially useful writing prompt for sf writers would be to turn out a bunch of plausible scenarios where a new technology automates 40% of jobs and the result isn’t just "40% of people are unemployed forever; the hunger games"

Large number of Aronofsky films in the replies here but I didn’t see anyone mention Caught Stealing so I guess it falls to me. Fuck that film!

Googling stuff after watching this I learned that The Hangover had its initial release in The Hague, which feels like exactly the opposite of what should have happened

I used to think fart noises made with the mouth were so funny. Now I only laugh at the fart noises from a butt

The Canton Express in Glasgow. Walking distance from my flat, open until 5am most nights, huge amount of amazing food for not much money. I lived off their chicken in black bean sauce and crispy pork with gravy for years. Heartbroken when I went there one night and it had closed with no warning

Sunday night timeline cleanse please tell me about your favorite lost restaurant (closed for at least 5 years, like I really want you to go back into the vault), why you loved it and what you ate there

rip

As well as all the other good stuff about this film, it’s an incredible document of how busted New York looked in 1971

I can never quite fully invest in the sexy vampire. Things get weird when you think too deeply about a cold undead phallus that, at best, I imagine, feels like being fucked by Vicks vapo rub