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Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

Reba says hello. #CatsofBluesky #RebatheSiberian

As you may have heard, starting June 2026, only 11 academic programs that will be classified as "professional" (as opposed to "graduate") starting June 2026. This distinction affects student loans and will likely decimate the newly non-professional programs. [1/3]

For those who long for the good old days, before comics got all political, here’s a page from Avengers 148 (released in 1976). #ComicSky

New Via Bella EP is out today! Available at Bandcamp (or wherever you stream music). viabellaband.bandcamp.com/album/the-ho...

"In her state of goofy grace, [Diane] Keaton possesses a kind of reality denied to ordinary beings. She is such an incandescent link to otherness that we introverts emerge blinking from our hiding holes and beg to have those strange hands touch us." -- Tom Robbins, 1987

i’m not here to tell the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social what to do, but they must know if they put out a coffee table book of all the read posters, people would buy that

Rick Veitch says this is really happening. (DC will finally publish the cancelled issue of Swamp Thing that prematurely ended Veitch’s run.)

#GregKlyma just dropped a new single, featuring backing vocals by #OoklatheMok!

Johnny is fire and thus a hothead. Reed is water and thus cool headed. Sue (Johnny’s sister and Reed’s husband) is attracted to Namor, who is hotheaded water. Also of note: the Golden Age Human Torch was an android, so by pitting him against Namor, you had Cool Fire vs. Hot Water. #FantasticFour

Mark you calendars! New #ViaBella EP coming out on October 31! Track listing: 1. Everything Happens Here 2. The Will and the Hope 3. Everything Hurts 4. Rocket Bye Baby 5. After the Storm (EP cover by @robdumo.bsky.social)

49 years ago today The #MuppetShow debuted. I was there for it, but so young that I thought Scooter's name was Gopher for longer than you'd think.

OTD in 1998, @allredmd.bsky.social and Bernie Mireault (RIP) teamed up to tell a great story featuring their greatest individual creations in the second (and final) issue of Madman Jam. It seems like not calling this the "The Madman Jam Jam" was a missed opportunity.

Today is the day! You can listen to Ookla the Mok's Folk Song Army EP wherever you stream music, or buy it from Bandcamp. It's been a while since we had a new project so please share the news.

New Ookla the Mok out tomorrow! It's also Bandcamp Friday, which means we get a bigger cut on August 1. ooklathemok.bandcamp.com The EP features our Ska/Reggae cover of #TomLehrer 's "Folk Song Army," as well as songs about #BillCipher and #InvaderZim #GravityFalls #NerdRock #Filk #TheFuMP

Today is a sad, sad day for fans of comedy, satire, music and all combinations therein. A day we all knew was coming eventually, granted, but that doesn't make it any less sad. Tom Lehrer, THE greatest singer-songwriter of musical satire to ever walk the earth, has left us at age 97. 🧵

OTD in 1998, #JLA 22 was released. #GrantMorrison gets #Superman. They believe that Superman has to exist. Their proof? If Superman didn’t exist, someone would just create him. Oh yeah, and the Sandman (the Daniel version of Dream) makes a rare DCU appearance! [1/4] #IHadThatComic

OTD in 2021, I bought these comics: Ascender 17 by @jefflemire171.bsky.social & @duss005.bsky.social Bermuda 1 by #JohnLayman & #NickBradshaw Black Hammer: Reborn 2 by #JeffLemire & @caitlinyarsky.bsky.social Proctor Valley Road 5 by #GrantMorrison, #AlexChild & #NaomiFranquiz #IHadThatComic

That really Doctor Tarrs my Professor Fether.

OTD in 1989, #TimothyTruman 's Hawkworld 2 was released. This fantastic reimagining is famously hard to reconcile with Hawkman’s long history, but just strap in and enjoy the ride. Following the events of issue one, we find our (hawk)man looking at some hard time. [1/5] #IHadThatComic

#IHadThatComic: July 11, 2012 #WildChildren - @aleskot.bsky.social is a remarkable writer who should be getting way more attention. They first came to my attention through this book, illustrated by #RileyRossmo. Think #Invisibles meets #KillMyBoyfriend, perfectly updated for the 21st century.

We've got rules and maps And guns in our backs But we still can't just behave ourselves Even if to save our own lives So says I We are a brutal kind - James Mercer [1/2]

OTD in 2009, #DavidMazzucchelli released the masterful #AsteriosPolyp. Rarely has so much thought been put into the storytelling potential of color and shape in a graphic novel. This book is stunning visually and philosophically, and I need to read it again. #IHadThatComic

Mood. (From our Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #9 - art by Ken Lashley).

Beat Live in LA CD/Blu-Ray set coming! Details and track listing here: www.sonicperspectives.com/news/beat-an... #AdrianBelew #SteveVai #TonyLevin #DannyCarey #KingCrimson

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OTD in 1997, #GarthEnnis and #KilianPlunkett released the final issue of their #UnknownSoldier mini-series. After three issues of political intrigue, most of this issue consists of an expository conversation as our two main characters sit in a freshly dug grave. 1/5 #IHadThatComic #ComicSky

OTD in 2009, #GrantMorrison and #FrankQuitely 's Batman and Robin 2 was released. The choreography for Robin’s fight with Kushti (conjoined triplets who are acrobats in the Circus of the Strange) is perfect, as is the way sound effects are worked into the art itself. 1/8 #IHadThatComic #ComicSky

OTD in 2014, Ms. Marvel 6 was released. I love this series, and this is probably my favorite issue. @gwillow.me and #JakeWyatt absolutely nailed it. Kamala has two very different conversations with male authority figures, and neither turn out the way she expected. [1/?] #IHadThatComic #ComicSky

OTD in 1999, I bought these 4 comics: Avengers 19 @kurtbusiek.bsky.social #GeorgePerez Hitman 40 #GarthEnnis @johnmccrea.bsky.social Invisibles 8 #GrantMorrison @seanphillips.bsky.social JLA 32 @markwaid.bsky.social #DevinGrayson #MarkPararillo Pretty good day! #IHadThatComic #ComicSky

OTD in 1990, the final issue of #GrantMorrison and #ChasTruog 's #AnimalMan run was released. The hero finally confronts the mysterious Big Bad, and it turns out to be Grant Morrison. In a stunning inversion of the Job story, we realize that we're on the wrong team. #IHadThatComic #ComicSky

#IHadThatComic: June 24, 1976 #All-StarComics 62 - This one scared the crap out of me. I was 7, and not prepared for #KeithGiffen and #WallyWood 's horrific rendering of Zanadu. And it ended with #PowerGirl seemingly dying in quicksand, which, I'm not the 1st to point out, was a major 70s fear.

OTD in 2004, the #PatricktheWolfBoy Rock 'n' Roll Special came out. This one features ME! Well, my band #OoklatheMok. We interacted with Patrick in the comic, and made a photo appearance on the back cover! [1 of 3] #ArtBaltazar #FrancoAureliani #IHadThatComic #ComicSky

#IHadThatComic: June 23, 1981 #MarvelTeam-Up Annual 4 - Early #FrankMiller script on a massive team-up of #Spider-Man, #MoonKnight, #PowerMan, #IronFist, and (of course) #Daredevil. Huge moment for me when #PurpleMan made Spidey sing and he belted out #ElvisCostello 's "Oliver's Army."

#IHadThatComic: June 21, 1988 #MarvelFanfare 40 - My favorite #Angel story and #AnnNocenti comic, plus perfect art from #DavidMazzucchelli. Truly in contention for best comic ever! A solid #Storm backup from #ChrisClaremont and #CraigHamilton make a strong argument for best MF issue of them all!

OTD in 1979, #Avengers 187 was released. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver (whose real names are Wanda and Pietro) meet their “real” father, Django Maximoff, who uses their “real” names, Ana and Mateo. He’s wrong about that, and also isn’t their real (or even “real”) father. [thread] #IHadThatComic

#IHadThatComic: June 18, 1997 #TheDreaming 15 - I wasn't a regular reader of The Dreaming, but I wasn't going to miss #JeffNicholson writing and illustrating a #MervynPumpkinhead story. #comics

Doctor Strange: Into Shamballa was released OTD in 1986. Given the recent (re)release of @jmdematteis.bsky.social 's Dr. Fate and Moon Knight runs (and the forthcoming Spectacular Spider-Man Omnibus) can we hope for a deluxe reprint of this little slice of glory? RIP Dan Green

#HeroClix just released a #WreckingCrew set, and the identifying quote on each card is a line from #OoklatheMok 's Wrecking Crew song. Check 'em out! The back of The Wrecker's card even says "I've got your mystically-powered Asgardian crowbar right here!"

#IHadThatComic: June 16, 1999 DC One Million 80-page Giant 1 - This one-shot features 8 stories from the 853rd century. Part of the DC 1,000,000 crossover, it features "The Divided Self" and "Crisis One Million" by #GrantMorrison and "System's Finest" by #MarkMillar and #MikeWieringo.

#IHadThatComic: June 15, 1976 #Avengers 151 - Ground Zero for my #comics obsession. This issue featured pretty much every character in the Marvel universe, and I was fascinated by such a connected world. Some heroes were only mentioned, and I drew them in (terrible) costumes of my own design.

His doppelgänger is unconscious long before Cap runs out of things to say, so he turns to his audience. Best. Captain America. Speech. Ever. This was written in 1984. Thank you #PeterGillis.

OTD in 2018, I bought ten comics, including: #Bloodshot Salvation 10 by @jefflemire171.bsky.social and #DougBraithwaite #TheFix 12 by #NickSpencer and @stevelieberart.bsky.social #MisterMiracle 9 by @tomking.bsky.social and @mitchgerads.bsky.social (full list in comments) #IHadThatComic

DC's Piranha Press imprint was a noble experiment that resulted in at least one comics masterpiece: OTD in 1990, #KyleBaker released the mighty #WhyIHateSaturn. I was already a fan of his art, but was not prepared for him to become my favorite comic writer. [thread] #IHadThatComic

Speaking of comics, I highly recommend following my friend @randookla.bsky.social for comics posts! And check out his Ookla The Mok Vs Evil album for some *excellent* comics-themed nerdrock songs: ooklathemok.bandcamp.com/album/vs-evil #ComicSky

“I’m a cork on the ocean…”

#IHadThatComic: June 11, 1999 #LouisRiel 1 - #ChesterBrown has one of the best "cameras" in comics, so while there are long passages where nothing very exciting happens, the storytelling is exquisite and the pages are never boring. It also includes Brown's elaborate research notes.

OTD in 2018, @tomtaylormade.bsky.social and @mahmudasrar.bsky.social released #X-Men Red 5. This series was outstanding, full of good humor and desperately-needed hope. We needed this then, and need it even more now. If you missed it you should check it out. #IHadThatComic

Did I mention that #OoklatheMok has an EP coming out later this summer? Here's the cover to Folk Song Army Men, which will be released on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, etc. on August 1! Cover illustrated by Adam English, with color art and lettering by @robdumo.bsky.social.