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You want to read this novel. Subliminal and blatant messaging says you want to read this novel.

In 2015 I taught an experimental course on the appreciation of Anglophone Literature arranged by two universities and a factory. Among the authors we studied were Stephen King, Pamela Zoline, Natasha Tretheway, Amiri Baraka, Sylvia Plath, Meg Cabot & Leigh Brackett.

If the recent figure got you interested

I was a big supporter of assisted dying until quite recently. While I still support it, the lack of safeguards politicians seem to think are important is truly disturbing. The Assisted Dying Bill in the UK for example has turned from a potential positive into a truly concerning piece of legislation.

Cannot stress enough how much resharing art you like can help an artist reach new audience and, if they vanity search, cheer them up. Plus, it's always nice to know what you're enjoying.

Read The Complete Adelessa today. There's parody of fanfic and it's earnest. #booksky

Comics Beat closing that piece with a condemnation of audiences or critics "raising alarm" about generative AI and scammers in comics is enough you should feel cool never trusting a word they publish again.

If you put All-Star Batman and Robin in chronological order it's an even madder ride instead of being a more sensible one. Not a thing that happens often with nonlinear action-mystery. comic-watch.com/featured/a-t...

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You should read both comics in this collection. Mad good stuff and if you're in an anglophone nation right now, this is about us now, right now, too.

Love this book, and love this piece about it

Why are his arms so long!

The old Toybiz Colossus’ head looked more like Cassaday’s art than this… and Kitty look generic as heck…

Once more thinking of Tony Harris concretizing "fake geek girl" because he was envious of his boss at DC, Jenette Kahn, and then jealous of cosplayers at conventions for being cooler than him and not fucking him.

So he is taking credit for it…

Remember when Charlie Kirk was murdered, and people got fired for quoting his exact words? Just mentioning that today for no real reason.

For five bucks, you can watch the world fall apart and people we told how to live in the rubble by banks, armies, government and monopolies they will never really understand even if they work for them (and we all do). A chorus of voices each with their own song, crying a cacophony doom and hope.

"Robbie Bush and Clem Robins give Guy Davis’ art an extra spider-web flavor, as if it is old cobwebs standing for ages, catching dust, decked with the husks of insects no longer identifiable." When Vertigo became a brand, only brands will have Vertigo.

I keep seeing Weird Al described as "famously apolitical," and he's been vocally pro queer rights, he's self-corrected his own biases publicly & professionally, and he's been on the sensible side of the piracy issue the entire time. He's not apolitical, he's just not running for office.

Batman Inc and Leviathan fail because one is an earnest attempt to do the sort of retvrn/trad stuff with a multicultural modern vibe and the other is a war criminal mass murderer parodying the American tendency to those values and ad campaigns.

you can remove the word "parenting" from this and it all still holds

And, on the flipside, a revisit of the comics artist's tendency to show young people's underpants, something I think had a healthy influence on young people, here and there, but is largely now not even a fetish but an affectation which artists don't realize they do and can get into retirement.

John Constantine is an attractive mess. An amazingly unattractive pile of dog mess. A good bad influence. A brilliant dope. The kind of guy he hates. A man who changes his clothes but never his coat. Inspired by José Villarrubia's posts of late, here's a little retrospective on how I like my John.

Bet you didn't know We Wish You a Merry Christmas is actually the equivalent of the Freddy Krueger counting song.

I bring up Charlotte Salomon a lot, but she was born the same year as Jack Kirby and was murdered by Nazis shortly after completing her semi-autobiographical comic, Life? or Theater?, a daring multimedia piece of hundreds of paintings and acetate overlays creating a continually growing experience.

No Agency is a serious true crime program, a serious investigation into unexplained happenings, which is how they let this ad for beards get slipped in by an interviewee between murders and increasing brain fog and mania. ko-fi.com/travishedgec...

I mean, ahem ahem buy No Agency now. But, also read this. And, support the politics you want to see in your prose & authors everywhere.

some actor who looked a lot like mel brooks had a cameo in Death By Lightning so i googled to see if it was him and got this really helpful search result

What the heck. Pulling the trigger. As long as I can get the formatting sound, book is for sale tonight. If you love gothic mystery, small town quirky neighbors tv, true crime satire, U-Haul lesbians, romantic horror, ancient curses, shows hosted by actors who sound smart about cryptids & ghosts...

Do you want some horror romance? This is how you get horror romance!

I believe in the theory of karmics, aka karmic comics. We don't get the comics we deserve, which adds an element of moral causality. We get the comics we generate.

Hot reminder that applications for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant are OPEN! If you're a comics critic, please apply! forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...

Bleak, ugly and mean, The Wild Boys of the Road is a pre-Code flick about being broke, featuring fights, prostitution, starvation, crossdressing, classism, kid gangs, homosexuality, pederasty, rape, crime, age, ableism, mortality, sexual liberation, influential on Todd Haynes & William Burroughs.

Two lengthy essays looking at our modern politic and scenario via two runs on Batman comics written by Mariko Tamaki & Grant Morrison w/art by Dan Mora, Yanick Paquette, et al. One Trump Too Man & Batman Incorporated: An Image of a Culture in Decline.

The best thing about Taserface (other than he was named by an eight year old) is that's his given name. His supervillain name is Overkill. This is what happens when your ancestors made Tony Stark your god.

Satire is... weird. www.cbsnews.com/detroit/vide...

thanks so much - v proud of AVENGERS ACADEMY and of Qaari Beck. when I was a kid reading comics & Adam-Troy Castro's Sinister Six novels in the 90s, Mysterio was dying of an illness that dared not speak its name. Felt right to honor that and see how far we've come. Wish we'd been able to continue!

My eyes are killing me… I hate this so much… I wish I could just use them

The real answer to both of these is "what can you get your hands on easy." There's absolutely zero need to start with the first published pages of anything like Batman or or Dragon Ball. Or, to start with the very first media adaptation, and not episode x of whatever's on where you live.

The press will, largely, collude in supporting the University of Oklahoma student and obscure her hate rhetoric while ignoring that two co-teachers found her work subpar, not just the trans one they will focus on. Naturally she, and whoever's behind her, knew this and banked on it.

Religious conspiracy cult based on 1980s animated series, Dinosaucers. Diane Duane, Lydia C. Marano & Brynne Stephens as barely spoken of deities beyond divinity.

Alright #booksky and other interested parties, let's take a look at this affordably-priced and glorious novel about fanfic culture, werewolves, transvestigation, adolescence, queer romance, grief, murder, lies and threats in the form of the collected late 90s/early 00s work of an online writer.

The inevitable sequel (made by someone else).

Buy a couple early holiday gifts for somebody you love! (I'll buy the kids a dinner with it! Win and win!)

Creative folks (that is all of you), try to believe in what Richard Matheson said of writers: When they're having their cornflakes, they're working; when they're not having their cornflakes, they're working. You are in your process. Just don't tell someone you owe work to they should believe it.

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