Quick 5 minute overview of the newest R Crumb comic in decades.

Good for him.

Undeadpool debuts a new superhero team. Their first villain: low print runs

I've tried dipping my toe into hyperpop without finding anything that grabbed me. Now it looks like Danny Brown is going to be my gateway drug. www.nme.com/features/mus...

TMNT + Godzilla is one of those crossovers nobody asked for and suddenly everyone claims they always dreamt of.

Good news for me! Fantagraphics is putting their full editorial and curation powers into Takumigraphics, focusing on Asian (not only manga) comics. We probably won't get the contextual essays we get from Holmberg's stuff, I'm still happy to see the gates opening to get this stuff in my brain.

Movement by New Order sounds a lot like Joy Division, which I'm happy about, because I've become a Joy Division stan over the last couple of years. I know New Order starts moving away from the gothiness of JD later on, but this was a good intro when I'm ready to expand into their catalog. 7/10

I just finished "I Wish I Was Stupid" by Ebisu Yoshikazu. I'm also knee-deep in reading the Divine Comedy and deserve punishment from multiple circles of hell after reading this: so you should read it too.

Aesop Rock drops a new album before I had time to fully digest his May release. Too much content man.

A great comics magazine's new issue hot off the presses. This about as expressive as things get. Disappointed to read this might be the last issue.

We could all be in bed right now if they'd just pitch to Ohtani.

’You have to reinvent yourself every 10 years’: Ram V interviewed by Ritesh “do you like scary movies“ Babu www.tcj.com/you-have-to-...

Who cares if free speech is on the ropes, there's new Danny Brown! youtu.be/RA2BB5o0Hp4?...

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I just listened to two and a half hours of KMFDM. Now, I feel like a cyborg in a dystopian future.

There are so so so many books I want to fucking read.

This book I'm reading that I didn't realized was going to be somewhat comics adjacent has made go, "okay fuck I guess I'll read a bit of Krazy Kat."

Never gotten a first guesser, and second time getting a second guesser. Wordle 1,541 2/6 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Just like that, the unbeatable fighting nerds take two losses.

New season of The NY Comics Symposium! Curated by Ben Katchor, Lilli Carre, @kartalopoulos.bsky.social and myself, it starts 9/2, with legendary cartoonist Michael McMillan in conversation w/ Gary Panter & Dan Nadel. All events FREE/open to public! nycomicssymposium.wordpress.com/fall-2025-co...

I complain about the abundance of horror in comic books today, but there are a few horror genre items I want on the To Read pile. Rodney Barnes' work is a significant amount of those items. His new book Crownsville sounds diabolical.

"Daddy, can we listen yo Dio?" ::blushes at what an incredible father I am::

Cool to see my library catalogs Joe Sacco's Paying the Land with other non-fiction and not buried away with the graphic novels.

The licensed stuff that is comics adjacent but isn't born from comics (Gi Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, ect) is really outperforming all the comic book native super hero stuff today. Maybe there's a limit to rehashing ideas and culminating in a summer event every year?

Billy Woods is back at it. Chloroform on my pillow, best sleep I ever had. Gabe: genocide will be televised till it's normalized...immortalized in the oil price. youtu.be/yw_D2L6lYZA?...

Roadrunner in the middle of the city. Couldn't get close enough because he was too fast. #birds #birding

But I bet Mars doesn't have a single casino.

To the Sea by Mukoubi Aoi, published by Glacier Bay. So much Japanese material (especially in the doujin/gekiga) is written with a light and dreamy touch but can then go dark so quick -- then right back to light and dreamy. #currentlyreading

I was pleased to assist in proofreading the super-deluxe issue #2 of “dummy,” the editorial project of longtime comics-focused journalist and museum director John Kelly. It’s 92 pages dedicated to a century of artists parodying America’s best friend, Mickey Mouse. Recommended!

Occasionally, the hype is real, and that's the case with the new Clipse album. There's some great stuff in here. I hope to see them in a couple of weeks along with Earthgang.

I like Fantastic Four a bit more than Superman, but Superman is more rewatchable. I'll end up having to watch both again since my wife didn't watch either one.

Good podcast so far. I love how Tyler Cowen is somehow friendly with Nate Silver and Taleb. 😄 youtu.be/EEnB4jS82T0?...

I would have really liked to have watched Hamlet Hail the Thief. Hopefully, it finds its way to video soon. youtu.be/XoEU1pA5HOA?...

Finally, I can get back to all the satanic metal and violent hip hop polite society has no idea passes through my ears all day.

::don't get duped into buying fucking Muppets variant covers:: 🤞

I haven't watched this video yet, but respect to the title and subject. 😁

Just started dipping my toe into the world of Homer. This video from Mayfair Bookclub muses and shows some of the different Iliad and Odyssey translations in his personal library.

Twitter is funny.

Rowlf by Richard Corben: comparison between the new Dark Horse black and white version and an older German color version. youtu.be/qnjnT8ftzjA?...

The new AFI song is good. It's another in a long line of bands covering Atrocity Exhibition and other Joy Division songs without having to pay royalties.

@plasticgrapes.bsky.social Great questions in Canon 5. I think you squeezed out answers, feelings, and info that wouldn't have come out with more standard questions.

A new Crash Rickshaw project 24 years after this first album quietly came and went is surprising. That 2001 album was a little diamond in the rough. Listening to the new EP now.

Short term this will do for the disgusting lack of spaceships in comics today outside Star Trek and Wars. How many more crime and horror tropes are their left to rehash vs. the number of spaceships we NEED!

The facsimile trend has jumped the shark.

Canon #5 is here! Available at canonzine.bigcartel.com Interviews with Kayla E, @maggieumber.bsky.social , art dealer David Slatkin, and critic Jake Zawlacki. Articles, reviews, and More! @ftmou69.bsky.social @fourcolorryan.bsky.social @plasticgrapes.bsky.social

In the spirit of reading stuff laying around: The End of the Fucking World by Charles Forsman. This is one where the story was more interesting than the art, which is often the other way around for these kinds of random fantagraphics books. #comicbooks

Well, I tried to stretch it out as long as possible, but I've finished Akira, the best action comic I've ever read.

Every now and then, we have to talk Shakespeare and weed and reference the cannabis traces found on pipe fragments in his garden.