The number of AI commercials is depressing

With nearly 20 creatives behind #SummitComics, we love seeing a coalition like this pop up in the indie space. Nothing brings us more joy than seeing indie creators thriving and making each other better. Review: lifelinecomics.substack.com/i/176985220/... KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sum...

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Loot that drops after defeating me: -Cherry Coke Zero -MacBook Air -vegan protein bar -comic books -Brooks Ghost running shoes -reward cards for five or six regional coffee chains, none with enough to score a free drink.

Reminder: Wear your Seahawks gear today or Sunday to get free admission at the Seattle Art Museum, open until 5 p.m.

I found the dumbest most pathetic post on the internet today:

My piping hot take on PLURIBUS is that it’s one of the most Ghibli-esque shows on TV today, and people who think its pacing is too slow ought to really sit with and examine why they feel that slow pace = bad. Its first season has several minutes worth of “mā”, and is much stronger for it, IMO

NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE AND COMIXOLOGY! A MANGAKA, A KAIJU, AND OMEGA ART, COLORS, AND LETTERING BY @lurnoise.bsky.social! Written by me SPECIAL 6 PAGE PREVIEW DOWN BELOW! TO READ THE REST CLICK HERE: a.co/d/0iglDvTr If you enjoyed, like & share!♥️ #BookSky #Manga #Comics #Kaiju #Tokusatsu 1/2

📸You Have The Right To Make Comics. Stretch Goal #2 is LIVE: When (if) we hit 20k in funding, every physical book comes with a bonus 11x17 fold-out zine poster with pertinent tips for easy ref. Art & design by @philipbond.bsky.social www.kickstarter.com/projects/sxb...

Magni the Mighty #0-2 : A Post Ragnarok Series www.kickstarter.com/projects/dev...

Super excited to be working with @chefjoseandres.bsky.social and @littlespain.bsky.social on this book. And more!

EVERYBODY CAN MAKE ART IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR HUMAN SPIRIT

International Clash Day. I named her Strummer for a reason. Know your rights.

Estuary: A Ghost Story is now available for pre-order thru your local comic shop! Let them know this weekend! W @timdanielcomics.bsky.social and me A @maanhouse.bsky.social C Steve Canon L @tayloresposito.bsky.social E @besspallares.bsky.social P @oni-press.bsky.social West Coast Horror at its BEST!

CRUEL UNIVERSE II no. 6 & 7 are OUT NOW! 🦈🦠 @oni-press.bsky.social

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Posting this again to remind you you dont have to be an amazing artist to draw comics!

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

The violently funny sword-and-sorcery epic by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows (Crossed, Get Fury) continues in BABS: THE BLACK ROAD SOUTH #2! @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social #garthennis @jacen-art.bsky.social buff.ly/iUObYXy

Two commissions came in recently for Toxic Avenger Comics #1 sketch covers. One person wanted Toxie as Judge Dredd, the other requested Toxie as Savage Dragon. Well, twist my fucking arm!

We had just been married for a few months when his story on Eddie Berganza broke, and for years after that, I saw him take jobs outside of comics because people in comics—people I liked and trusted to be good people!— told him they would never hire him because of that and similar work.

In stock now! Volume 2 of @ssnyder1835.bsky.social and @nickdragotta.bsky.social's bestselling Absolute Batman! This is the Dark Knight at his most raw and relentless. Stripped of comfort, legacy, and safety nets... This is Batman pushed to the edge... Order here: okcomics.co.uk/search?q=abs...

Post your favorite Star Trek character, wrong answers only.

When you’re reading a KS #ttrpg game and you realize they have an elegant solve to the dice system you’ve been hacking at for a year ... tons of great design, cool vibes (the apocalypse happened and it was directed by Dario Argento and vintage Sam Raimi) and solid writing. Well worth checking out.

Mourn Bedlam, failed rockstar turned failed superhero. Meet her soon in the pages of SUMMIT: Pinnacle (and give @readsummit.bsky.social a follow).

$4 to a great cause and a chance to win a booster box? Do it!

Just received notice from the IT department at my day job that AI features would be disabled for all of my software if I don’t complete my past due ‘use of AI’ training. I think…I think they think that’s a threat?

Incredible stuff happening at Spencer’s Gifts

Interview: Cartoonist Zander Cannon on the frontlines of the Minnesota resistance: "It's truly astonishing the way that life has changed just in the last couple of weeks."

Pitches are hard to write, but I’m particularly proud of this one.

If we could get Trump to acknowledge his bisexuality, it’d solve like half our problems.

The concept of “new characters” in comics is funny.* At this point in time, Deadpool has been around longer than Spider-Man had been around when Deadpool debuted. *by “funny” I mean, “hahaha holy shit I’m old.”

Did you know @limitbreakcomics.bsky.social is bringing our new cryptid eco-horror anthology to @wearezoop.bsky.social? And that @raphalobosco.bsky.social and I will be teaming up for a story about the Loch Ness monster? If not then you need to keep up-to-date by signing up! zoop.gg/c/bumpinthen...

Are you an artist interested in creating art for @magic.wizards.com? Well now we have this super rad portfolio submission tool to submit your best of the best work to, that gets looked at with human eyes! 👀 #wotcstaff company.wizards.com/en/freelance...

It’s Wednesday and that means it’s time to buy some comics for the week from @sweetshop.app!

Proud of this one. Give it a read. Maybe subscribe? It’s free and you don’t have to join Substack. You just get emails when I post (never more than once a week). Best way to stay updated on me. open.substack.com/pub/austinal... #substack #amwriting

Mourn Bedlam, failed rockstar turned failed superhero. Meet her soon in the pages of SUMMIT: Pinnacle (and give @readsummit.bsky.social a follow).

Proud to say I’ve never used ChatGPT. Not even once. #quitgpt

Did you back it, yet? I wrote a story for this and I’m joined with a whole crew of talented folks who are writing and drawing their hearts out to build something really special.

I messed up my back and the cause seems to be *checks notes* being old.

When I get a 100k followers on here (soon) I’m gonna live-smoke my first cigarette in an airplane bathroom

Straight Fuckin Word Yo! @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social @mikefrommtl.bsky.social @tonygregori.bsky.social @ramonvillalobos.bsky.social @ericpalicki.bsky.social @catrandall.bsky.social @fraserc69.bsky.social youtu.be/sU6s6VEJxrU?...

Yes, we literally did this, in our Angel runs few years ago Daniel Bayliss and I did a shot-for-shot of Angel and Cordelia in the Rockford Files intro…

Reading this is like watching Eminem destroy Anthony Mackie at the end of 8 MILE.

MELANIA is getting killed at the box office like President Trump killed Epstein.

I know this is silly, but the only easily-accessible metric I have for guessing pre-order numbers for IS TED OK? issue 1 is the League of Comic Geeks platform. The little number next to the green icon in the bottom left is at 475 right now. Help me get it to 500 by Monday Feb 2 (FOC)???

Spending my snow day by catching up on @leswrite.bsky.social , @ajomasonwriter.bsky.social HEADCASES #1-3!

Another great newsletter from @paulconstant.com, which calls to mind this panel from an upcoming thing I’m working on with @cpeterson.bsky.social, featuring a conversation between a police captain and his SWAT team…