These photos of Claudia Cardinale feeding cats spaghetti should honestly replace the Italian flag

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

My afternoon

For the evening folks. To quote The Monarch, I’ve been blogging. Yes, it’s 2005 again. I’m once again doing Hooptober and writing about films over there starting with Tobe Hooper’s Spontaneous Combustion.

Hooptober 2025 Film #1; Spontaneous Combustion Spontaneous Combustion (1990)Directed by Tobe HooperWritten by Tobe Hooper and Howard GoldbergCinematography by Levie IssacksEdited by David Kern Starting Hooptober with the Tobe Hooper movie almost feels like a cheat. He's the kind of filmmaker you…

Well, I’ve started blogging again and hope folks might be interested in me writing about my Hooptober journey. Eventually, I’ll start my Fourth World read along there too

Hooptober 2025; a welcome return Once again, the Hooptober season returns. The yearly challenge, found on Letterboxd, once again asks horror film fans to watch 31 films based on certain criteria. And of course, it also asks them to write reviews on those films. This year sought to honor the late…

40 years since we had our brains rewired by this absolute classic masterpiece.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

@starfruitbooks.bsky.social has an In Memoriam regarding the passing of Matt Haasch. In it they state that while "all orders and projects will be placed on hold", "the core members of Star Fruit Books are committed to carrying on his dreams and ensuring that the projects he began reach fruition."

I appreciate @extremelyuncanny.com yakking with me about Imperial War: Exiles. There was a lot to talk about in terms of how Marvel’s shared continuity doesn’t synch up, how the constant event cycle becomes albatrosses for later stories but also how rad Deathbird is.

I'm mad that MAGIK is ending because I love this book. Dan and Jordan are perplexed by the latest Imperial War tie-in.

I’ve goofed around with Kirby pencils in my free time lately to get back in the art groove. Here’s my digital inks, colors, and Dark Throne inspired logo for The Demon #1.

With a little more than 2 weeks remaining, our campaign for Testament & Faster is scratching at 60% funded, why not pick up a signed copy or two today? www.kickstarter.com/projects/bul...

Absolutely loved this book for how it captured early Marvel Comics and clearly made by people who loved them. Read my review here.

We hit 50% last night! That means we're halfway there a quarter of time - I like those odds 😁

Over the next few years, you are going to see a LOT of Harry Pottter slop. WB has already thrown a Billion-with-a-B dollars at their new HP series and filming hasn’t even begun. They NEED it to be at the front of everyone’s mind. deadline.com/2025/08/harr...

Japanese poster for BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974), directed by Bob Clark and starring John Saxon, both of whom were BOTD

Had a great conversation with Michael Cho about The Avengers in The Veracity Trap. It’s a great book and I appreciated the insights he provided on it.

Damn.

Just got an interview done with one of my favorite artists working today. Lots of thoughtful answers and I’m excited to share them with everyone.

Okay relistened to all of the Black Sabbath original line up albums and here’e my personal ranking 1. Master of Reality 2. Vol. 4 3. Black Sabbath 4. Paranoid 5. Sabotage 6. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 7. Technical Ecstasy 8. Never Say Die

Someone make me this hat.

Congratulations to Heidi Macdonald and The Beat for their well deserved Eisner award! Heidi is not only a great journalist but also a mentor to many other writers—including me.

Woke up to this incredible news. Proud to be part of this team and put out what we do.

🦈 4️⃣ ❣️ #FantasticFour #Jeffthelandshark

So @gcarmona3.bsky.social, @extremelyuncanny.com, @urbaneturtle.com and I talked about our favorite FF stories. I appreciate the variety in this list and that none of us went for the same creative teams. If you want to see what makes the FF great, check out our pieces.

Gotta go fast 💨

Perfect albums from when I was sixteen

One of my favorite uses of music in a film in the last few years unsurprisingly features Black Sabbath. The opening scene of The Invisible Fight has three Asian guys dressed like Tony Iommi, flying around like it’s a King Hu movie and whooping ass on the Soviet army, & set to Sabbath’s The Wizard.

I really loved talking with Hayden Sherman about designing Absolute Wonder Woman a while back, and I thought it was a good time to share the feature piece I did highlight the work they did in designing that character and her world. It's a good one, and it's open to non-subscribers.

I revisit @jedmackay.bsky.social’s Moon Knight run as he hits his 50th issue and take a bit about his tenure. Content warning, I also make a truly groan inducing joke in it. Honestly, this run has secretly been one of Marvel’s best books for the last four years. www.comicsbeat.com/marvel-rundo...

RIP Ozzy 🧵

An incomparable legend.

Fuck, fuck, fuck. Just leveled. One of the all time great voices in rock. Diving fully into Ozzy-era Black Sabbath in my thirties got me through some truly hard times. Like I know it’s silly but I truly thought he’d live forever. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

So, I was laid off by my job this week after 13 years. Not only that, but it happened as bills from my recent heart attack-related medical visits come due. Because of that, I'm doing a big sale for SKTCHD/Off Panel related things, so now's a good time to subscribe if you can...because I need it!

Headlines I didn’t think would fly “Bring your barf bag to Predator versus Spider-Man” and now “Imperial #2 sees the galaxy explode real good!”

Reread this over the weekend and was glad that it remains one of the key texts of 00s Marvel for me. Crazy that this exists at all but glad it does. Disappointed this isn’t a key backlist title for them and honestly a shame it’s not in print.

Think anyone in 2004 watched the Dawn of the Dead remake and thought "I bet these guys will have radically different ideas of what a Superman movie should be like"?

About to see the World’s Finest (bowl cut)

Very excited to announce a partnership with London based Breakdown Press @breakdownpress.bsky.social ‬, to distribute their books to the United States. through Floating World. All titles now available for order and wholesale to retailers! floatingworldcomics.com/archives/25213

Gil Thorp(!) brings it today

Me watching Godzilla vs. Biollante “I love Godzilla movies”

The good thing about this is there'll now be a slew of other composers putting out an almost identical-sounding statement

[obligatory "Happy RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD Day!" post]

X-Men / Moomin crossover when

Comics are great because you can be a fan of the Tintin comics and be friends with a Tintin who makes comics

Weekend boost! Pages 411-412 went up this week!

The WEBTOON Legends contest shortlist is here! May 10 marked the opening of submissions for the WEBTOON 2025 Legends contest, where creators and artists—either solo or in teams—could submit a brand-new WEBTOON series or an existing Canvas series under four categories: Most Epic (Action/Fantasy),…