So that was Friday October 3rd 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes. (Out this very month in 1988, just 37 yrs ago, Jezebel Jade #1, with its truly splendid cover co-starring Race Bannon by Adam Kubert.) & so to bed. Sleep well, gentle sentients of Planet Earth.

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One thing I'll give Skybound Transformers credit for is how it takes the traditional setup of the Decepticons always starting out having the upper-hand over the Autobots and ranks it up to x10000. Each issue was very exhausting, but thrilling. The tone and some of the characters were ruthless.

Happy 75th, Peanuts! None of that 60-year malarkey: today marks the true Diamond Jubilee of the debut strip by Charles Schultz. From the archives,Gary Groth interviews Sparky himself www.tcj.com/charles-schu...

One thing that hit reading that history of East Germany book was that that the Western powers were discussing a careful slow reintegration of the two countries that would take years, maybe decades. The German people just decided themselves to do it overnight. Amazing.

It’s August 1968 and DeForest Kelley is having a right go at the makers of Star Trek in the pages of America’s massive-selling TV Guide.

Zohran Mamdani tells CNN: "If Netanyahu comes to deliver a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next year while I am mayor, I will move to honour the ICC arrest warrant issued in The Hague against him, just as I would against Putin. He is responsible for the genocide in Gaza.”

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

PSA for all YouTubers: they've been pushing auto AI language dubs onto channels recently, and for many viewers it's on by default and some can't even turn it off at all. To disable it for your channel go to YouTube Studio > Settings > Upload Defaults > Advanced Settings (cont.)

On D leaders deliberately refusing to threaten because they think pleading gets more votes. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/stop-plead...

Guess what? The Comics Courier Issue 3 Kickstarter is NOW LIVE!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...

This is huge news and I'm not sure why it's not getting much traction here. Scientists have created human embryos by fertilizing the nucleus of skin cells. www.bbc.com/news/article... Account-free link: archive.ph/So6go

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

The email I just received from ebay Ireland would make your head spin...but like (almost) every diaspora Palestinian, I'm in 35 groups that organize protests, raise funds, lobby for evacuations, etc. etc. so I don't have time to fight this. But you should boycott ebay Ireland for sure

Oh no. RIP Brian Patten. Unwittingly but significantly, Patten had a huge influence over the high summer of superhero comics in the 80s. Alan Moore loved Patten’s poem “Where Are You Now, Batman?” & it strongly influenced his Marvelman stories & more. Which then influenced just about everyone else.

I don't know if I have a lot of church type followers, but someone among my 22k followers might? This church fired their head of music ministry for talking/singing about Gaza (you know...in the spirit of Jesus 🙄) Maybe someone would like to grab this opportunity and hire an amazing musician?

BREAKING: At least 42 Palestinians, including five aid seekers, have been killed and 190 others injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, says Gaza's Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/baf35k

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Trapped by Kitten Mayhem & Kitten Pants, who have claimed my shoulders as sun-warmed sleeping spots.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people

Fuck the Microsoft Suite. All my homies hate the Microsoft Suite. We all use @libreoffice.bsky.social because it's better in literally every way

This European military just ditched #Microsoft for open-source #LibreOffice - here's why - www.zdnet.com/article/this... " It's not about the cost savings, either. Many government organizations are replacing Microsoft software for a more important reason." #sovereignty

5 million... that's a lot of Spider-Girl fans!

So that was Sunday Sept 28th 2025. Crikey. Another day done, another (more or less) here. So it goes. (Released this very month in 1998, a mere 27 years ago, Black Panther #1, with its iconic cover by Mark Texeira & Dave Kemp .) And so to bed. Sleep well, fellow citizens of Planet Earth.

The United Nations was created in 1945 to replace the ineffectual League of Nations after it failed to prevent the Holocaust. Here we are 2 years into a full blown live streamed genocide and they invite Hitler to the mic. Who gives a shit that some people walked out...he should have never been there

Today’s Across the Spider-Verse Lego Minifigure: Spider-Man Web-Slinger. I do like his Spider-Horse.

I have suffered the devastating loss of my six kids and my entire family, my mother, father, my six siblings, and their children 💔 While carrying this enormous grief I now face a struggle for survival with my baby Please help us and don’t ignore us🙏🏻 gofund.me/b4901a75

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage. Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

if you're wondering why we can't get a general strike done in the UK like in Italy, its because some of our largest unions are completely bought by and servile to neoliberal capitalism. Bridget Phillipson has done NOTHING for working class people in this country and her party have fucked us.

The Who, on Observer magazine covers from March 1966 & March 1972. The photos by Colin Jones & then Tony McGrath give a sense of how fast pop culture moved in the period. (In the second pic, Entwhistle can be seen trying to restrain Moon from continuing an unprompted attack on McGrath.)

“There is no superior race.” “There is no ‘chosen people of God’.” “It is neither the United States nor Israel.” “The ‘chosen people of God’ is all of #humanity.” —President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro Urrego youtu.be/ieqDlN6_bYQ?...

A case against video game remasters. youtu.be/82HsVcAhPro

Gaza is being ground into dust If you're feeling helpless, make a small difference right now by donating to my Gazan refugee friends, who are desperately trying to rebuild their lives now that they've been exiled

Wow www.bbc.com/news/article...

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

Fonts In Use is not active on Instagram. We’ve abandoned problematic platforms, embraced ethical alternatives, and survived to talk about it. More here: fontsinuse.com/uses/63903/f...

I think about The Rapture in the same way as I do civil honours. Neither are ever going to come my way, one being imaginary & one requiring a degree of achievement and/or patronage that I’ll never attain. But even if they somehow did, I’d decline. I just don’t think knees should be bent to monarchs.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

And if it did matter as long as Israel and America exist it literally doesn't matter what other countries say. They can literally block any attempt to stop the genocide via the UN cause the vote needs to be unanimous

The UK, Canada, Australia and Portugal oh so graciously recognising Palestine as a state is meaningless if nothing is done to make Israel suffer the consequences of its crimes. It's a token gesture that didn't even have the decency to be made 2 years ago. Pointless

Gary Groth, in this interview from Sequential Tart, on why it's pointless to “reform” mainstream comic publishers like Marvel or DC from the inside. www.sequentialtart.com/archive/feb0...

The sad reality is people care more about Kimmel than transrights.

The Professional: Peter David, 1956-2025 photos by Kathleen David, Emma Bull www.tcj.com/the-professi...

How petty is it that they won't even let children play around in their displaced settlements, let alone all of the other monstrous atrocities on top of that. Never have I seen a regime so evil like Isreal. I'm glad this video exists, it's a must-watch: youtu.be/2jHuCiB8s9A

fwiw, I'm also a lefty independent journalist/writer type person who's scrambling as mainstream media has decided to mostly stop commissioning people on the left. I have a newsletter sale today if you want to help me keep scribbling. It's 40% off, $30/mo. www.everythingishorrible.net/subscribe

Trailer for our new #inidegame called Penguin Colony! We are collaborating with Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium, Ultrakill) to bring this unique re-imagining to life www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylG...