I'm happy I finally have time time to feature the "Tales from the Frontier" comic, seen in #StarfleetAcademy's "Come, Let's Away".😊 I have assembled all the pages seen in the episode but as a special gift, here's the cover and back page of the comic, provided to me by its designer: Stu Pearce! 🧵 1/4

Hands down one of my absolute favorite authors, this deal is extraordinary! If you’ve never read any Terry Pratchett, what a great way to discover his magic!

btw: absolute serious pro-tip, here: if you, as a writer, have to cut pages from a script, DO NOT do it in a way that puts onus and stress on the rest of the team. Don't take two consecutive four panel pages, for instance, and turn them into one page with 7 or 8 panels. Clean up your room.

Laser Joan & the Rayguns is a one-shot, collecting the DHP serial in print for the first time. You can grab it now, and enjoy a story of the biggest band on earth and their spy days, and friendship. There are ninjas, and rival bands to beat up! Today let's focus on Liliana... 1/2

I'm sure I'm not the only one this happens to, but I find that things that happened just before the onset of the pandemic (six years ago!) still feel like they were just a little while ago, but things that happened in the last year or two sometimes feel like ages and ages have passed since then.

I picked up Alan Wake 2 on sale a couple of months ago, but then decided that I need to replay the first Alan Wake before playing it, and probably replay Control and all of its DLC as well... So it'll be a little while before I can play Alan Wake 2, I guess.

Confirmed: Comic Book From ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Ep. 6 Was NOT Created With AI##startrek #starfleetacademy #ai https://bit.ly/sfa106comicnotai

I recently came across my first drawing for this story in an old sketchbook. I scanned it and colored it for fun. Here's the only "The Adventures of Thing Thing: The Blue Cheese Affair" concept art (2009)

Whole comic in reply thread. Read it. It's good. 💜

Coming up with titles for new projects is always a struggle, but lately I've been trying to remember the lesson of "K-Pop Demon Hunters," and that maybe sometimes it's best to just cut to the chase and call the thing what it is.

Reprint before and after: when RL Stine became a bigger star than Indiana Jones.

Original .swf works even today thanks to Ruffle www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

25 years of All Your Base! deathgenerator.com#zerowing

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

While I loved Prey and thought that Predator: Killer of Killers was great, I went into Predator: Badlands a little unsure whether it was for me. But by the end I was completely sold. A tremendous amount of fun! I hope Dan Trachtenberg gets to do more fun stuff with the franchise.

This week I've worked out enough of the broad strokes of a new comic idea that it's time to start a project specific notebook to start figuring out the details, but that means I also need to come up with a title, and now I'm stuck staring into the middle distance, my mind a total blank...

I'm so excited to finally join in on saying YES there will be more Knights of Guinevere!!! I wonder who did those Bear and Dragon Monster noises??? ;) @glitchprod.com #KoG youtu.be/3oC8ta-7Rds?...

Something I've seen happen a few times recently is someone saying that they suspect a piece of media might have been made using ai without any proof or evidence, and then almost immediately it becomes accepted as fact that ai was definitely used (even if proof to the contrary eventually surfaces).

I ventured across the Willamette River in search of Thai food and books, and returned in triumph.

Been using this blocklist for awhile now and it's wonderful. A return to a better internet. Highly recommended.

Had a new idea for a comic series today, then realized it was a slightly reworked take on another idea that I'd tinkered with for a few months a couple of years ago but set it aside when I could never quite get it to work. Now the whole thing just fell fully formed out of my head.

This is so culturally important, holy shit. And just COOL as fuck

Just watched the Biggs Cut with my wife. Deeply satisfying. I completely get why 80% of Biggs was cut from the final film, BUT if you don't care about pacing and are just interested in character development, SO MUCH ABOUT LUKE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BIGGS 1/x 🧵

So if I just keep typing words eventually I'll string together the ones I'm looking for in the correct order, right? Isn't that how this is supposed to work?

I've reached the age where the youngest of the latest Eisner Hall of Fame nominees is still a few years older than me, but it's a threshold that I'm rapidly approaching.

We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel! The Owl House: The Long-Lived King Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social We're so excited to tell a brand new story.

I'm a little self conscious about the number of books I have on hold and ready for me to pick up at the library this week...

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk. enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...

In today's Writers Panel, I sample Star Trek! STARFLEET ACADEMY showrunners Alex Kurtzman (Picard) + Noga Landau (Nancy Drew) discuss what they look for in a collaborator, story from the inside out, learning storytelling through Trek + more. benblacker.substack.com/p/star-trek-...

C'mon, man. This is the most winningest strategy I ever seen.

I have locked down plans to attend ECCC next month, but for the first time in a LONG time I won't be tabling at the convention, but instead will just be wandering around, gabbing with friends, and buying comics. Basically, what I always end up doing when I should be manning my table, in other words.

I'm getting out of the hospital today and I could use some help, if you're able. Even taking the time to check it out or share means more than I can say. gofund.me/1c96e422c

There are few things I like better than checking out the first volume of a long running creator-owned comic series that I've never read before from the library, and when I end up loving it I've now got loads more volumes to look forward to.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

These are important posts.

Just remembered that I've got both a new episode of Starfleet Academy *and* a new Muppet Show special to look forward to tonight, so things aren't all bad.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT As of January 1st 2026, John and I are **no longer** the owners of Complexly (the educational media company we started 15 years ago that makes Crash Course, Eons, SciShow, Study Hall, and a bunch of other shows.) We have been the sole owners for all that time...

In 1946, cartoonist & illustrator Noel Sickles was sent by Life magazine to sketch the Nuremberg trials. Here is his sketch of the execution of Joachim Von Ribbentrop, who claimed at trial that his boss had made all of the important decisions, & that he was only following orders.

Just remembered that I'm planning to make tacos for dinner tonight, and just for a moment things don't seem quite so bleak...

Since the middle of last year I've been slowly rereading all of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels, taking my time so I didn't get through them too quickly. Tonight I'm starting on the last book Mostly Harmless, which I've somehow never read before now.

In the not-too-distant future, RiffTrax is making four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000! Support us on Kickstarter: rifftraxmakesmst3k.com #RiffTraxMakesMST3K @mst3kofficial.bsky.social

Oh wow. The invaluable Mike's Amazing World site now has a subsite devoted to public-domain-era newspaper comic strips! Which you can read! In black and white from microfiche, but it's a resource I've always wanted! www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/strips/

Boom! Another chapter of NEXT DOOR DUNGEON this Sunday morning! I'm now up to 11 chapters, all of them just waiting for you, totally free, shyly hoping that you'll enjoy, follow, review, have some moments of peace in your day. www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...

On more than one occasion recently I've been watching a British movie or TV series and struggling to remember where I recognize one of the actors from, only to recall much later that they had been a contestant on Taskmaster.

Last night I rewatched Marvel's Eternals for the first time since 2021, and I still liked it a lot. I know a lot of folks didn't, but for those that did it's a shame that none of the dangling plot threads teased at the end will likely ever be resolved at this point.

Just thinking about comic strips.

The full run of SCTV for free. God bless and keep the Internet Archive.

Folks! Here's one of the big prose projects I've been working on! It's now live, starting today, with 5 chapters already up! At least two more chapters today, and eventually it will be three chapters a week. www.royalroad.com/fiction/1507...

What a wonderful interview with Greg Ketter -- someone who clearly deeply cares about community and books -- and great questions from @zachrabiroff.com!

I'm not sure how the math of it works, but somehow the thing that I'm currently writing is always the worst thing I've ever done, the last thing I finished somehow turned out better than I expected, but the next thing I've got lined up will be great from the jump, I'm sure of it. Every time.