I had such a weird educational/career trajectory that every time I post about it I worry I sound like I’m lying. There’s not many people who go to art school and law school lol.

The kids would all go wild when you'd tell them the dirt is orange because it has iron in it. "Iron? Minecraft has iron in it!" The children long for mineral enriched soil.

You can feel the entire continuum of fantasy literature, from classic swashbuckling romances to post-pulp new wave fantasy to Howl's Moving Castle Tumblr fanfiction, all leading up to this moment.

I've been bouncing between "Concrete" from the mid-90s and "Prisoners on Dozmary Craig" from like last week and thinking about how few comics writers in between have even pretended to have ever read a book. "Literary comics" is mostly not something that exists.

Orion/Mr. Miracle sketch blank commission

Watching Blade Runner and getting excited whenever I see Deckard’s apartment from the iconic Syd Mead concept painting “Deckard’s apartment”

my favorite fun fact is that apartment wasn’t on a sound stage, they filmed in a real building that just happens to Look Like That

“Lone Wolf and Cub” Volume 14 by Kazui Koike and Goseki Kojima. I didn’t read the previous 13 books so I was very confused when this guy who apparently isn’t Lone Wolf gets murdered in the middle of killing himself.

So far discovered one (1) thing that I used Photoshop CC for that CS6 can't do, opening fucking Webp files 🤮. Found a plugin on github that fixes it: github.com/webmproject/...

So far the only real problem I've encountered using an operating system that is 7 versions out of date is that Adobe is pretending their website doesn't work. All the applications I use still run and some of them run better. Computer software hasn't advanced at all since at least 2018 lol.

Adobe found out I was trying to install an application that I legally purchased in 2013 and as punishment they are now blocking me from their website lol. It was working fine a minute ago.

Making it 2015 again by science or magic.

All the parts are attached in such a way that replacing the battery means they also replace the keyboard and trackpad, its like a brand new computer. I'm going to downgrade the OS to Mojave so I can run 32-bit apps again 😈

It’s so good when people share bad political takes from Mark Waid’s lawyer Mark Zaid and I get to think about the phrase “Mark Waid’s lawyer Mark Zaid”.

Not sure what’s left for Genndy Tartakovsky and team to do with Conan the Barbarian that they didn’t already do with Primal. It’s redundant.

Bug Eyed

I put my money where my mouth is and watched Godzilla vs. Hedorah yesterday. Great movie, would have been perfect if they used the real Godzilla theme music.

Playing around with the pencils for that JRJR cover. I'll give the nerds something to be mad about...

I actually have a bad habit of buying comics anthologies and then never finishing reading them. “Dagger Dagger 2” probably had some good stuff in it but I guess we’ll never know.

Salesman at the Apple store was visibly distressed when I told him I want to pay $250 to replace the battery in my 2015 macbook instead of paying $700+ for a new worse one.

Young new comic fans will always be drawn to the latest crappy Batman thing, that’s a fact of life, but I’m depressed by even the possibility of someone under the age of 45 reading those Rob Kirkman nostalgia-bait Hasbro Universe comics. The kids deserve better!

Playing around with the pencils for that JRJR cover. I'll give the nerds something to be mad about...

DISCLOSURE DAY: pretty decent. I like Emily Blunt. Felt surprisingly small in scale, I guess? Really starting to have trouble looking past what absolute car commercials a lot of modern Hollywood blockbusters are

Do you think Spielberg made the first two hours of Disclosure Day bad on purpose so that it would be more impressive by comparison when he locks in at the very end.

Nancy comic

You might think that this series would be a thematic continuation of Gillen's Eternals or X-Men comics, but "these superpowered hippies are constantly constantly on the verge of getting angry enough to kill the president" is actually The Power of Warlock.

I did a bunch of complaining about superhero comics and ending up starting the Gillen/Wijngaard comic "The Power Fantasy." This bit about how cool Telstar is great, I can hear it in my head.

From the Image comics solicits for September, interesting that DC is letting the rights lapse on 2010s Vertigo series. This one isn't even 10 years old.

here’s a little hideout #sciencefiction #solarpunk #digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #scifiart #procreate #comicart

I think it’s important to remember that John Byrne is also really bad at figure anatomy, the main thing he is supposed to be good at. He has no idea how people’s heads connect to their bodies. Lots of wasted effort by other people to clean up his new X-Men thing and it still looks like crap.

The announcement of a new Doom Patrol series has me thinking about how I basically stopped reading superhero comics because the last Doom Patrol comic was all about "metahumans" to tie into a Mark Waid event comic about Beast Boy from The New Teen Titans.

OK, there it is. The Prisoners on Dozmary Craig, full edited .pdf, 191 p

“Galaxy Quest” was the scariest when I was 5, the bad Nic Cage movie “Knowing” was the scariest when I was in middle school, and unfortunately nothing is scary enough for me as an adult because I know movies aren’t real 😔

You could never make a show like "Zargot's Place" today, because Zargot's Place is a holographic sitcom filmed before a mixed human/alien audience on Phobos Colony 3 in the 23rd century, and we just don't have the technology yet.

@conroyforreal.bsky.social Any chance you know which colors are going to be used for the upcoming DC Finest: Swamp Thing collection? I'd love to see it with Villarubia's color restoration, I already have a previous edition with the 80s recolor.

The main thing I want from DC comics is an affordable paperback reprint of Jose Villarubia's restoration Wrightson's Swamp Thing. They're putting out a new edition, but it appears to be using the 80s recolor. Who do we need to complain to to get them to fix it. www.amazon.com/-/es/DC-Fine...

High altitude explosion

Thinking about the gag where Patrick McGoohan asks Columbo if he likes music and Columbo pretends like he’s barely heard of it. “Sure, I’ve heard music. People listen to it right? I think my wife might listen to music.” He was so real for that.

Jack Vance’s critique of the “wizard boarding school” is so much harsher than Le Guin’s version in Tehanu 40 years later. It’s a colonialist hub that destabilizes peaceful planets and destroys their cultures so it can traffic their women to breed more boy wizards.

Beach reading:

Lol, the FBI is completely useless in an active ransomware attack, they flat out don’t do the kind of work this simulator would train for. Their claim to fame is temporarily taking down one (1) cyber criminal group.

When I watched Blade Runner in high school I didn’t like it because it wasn’t anime enough and now that I’ve seen it again I don’t know how I could have thought that.

Watching Blade Runner and getting excited whenever I see Deckard’s apartment from the iconic Syd Mead concept painting “Deckard’s apartment”

The news itself isn’t funny but it is a little funny seeing all the british posters treat the white supremacist race riots with the same or less importance than the cancellation of the 37th Doctor Who Christmas episode.