Home from surgery. Pretty wrecked. Kidney updates next week. More surgery 12/5. He’s hanging in there.

Damn right this is going on the drive @zackquaintance.bsky.social. Can’t wait to read the book!

Bullshit:

Okay. Hellcat thread. Leth’s run is phenomenal. It captures Patsy’s buoyancy but is sincere in what she’s trying to accomplish, how she views her life’s work. It’s completely legitimate. I think what Alex & I asked ourselves was: how do you reckon with all of it in one person?

Splash page of Patsy Walker, a.k.a. Hellcat and the toll of her hero work. One of my favorite pages in the entire book by @alexlins.bsky.social. Evolution of a teenage sweetheart. Still proud of that book. We tried to do the definitive Patsy story, capturing every aspect of her complicated soul.

While I love Tony's relationship with Emma, I also enjoy his previous relationship with Hellcat. Knowing how much Tony hates magic, it's a testament to how much he cared for Patsy in how quickly he was willing to throw himself into magical danger to help her Iron Man/Hellcat Annual - June 2022

Simple: in the new movie James Bond should be dead the entire time

We set up a small TV / VCR combo behind the couch to ambiently play old tapes and we started off with the right one.

Finally figured out the perfect laptop stand for my office

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

People are going to die and it will be these democrats’ fault.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real

There is no opposition party in the United States. Any official resistance is performative.

"This is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time." - Neville Chamberlain, 1938 "Reopen our government, and then we can find a way to lower our costs about health care." - John Fetterrman, 2025

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Our 3rd grader is holding a book club for Bunnicula. There is only screaming, shrieking, spilling juice, and a massive squishmallow fight happening. For Celery Stalks at Midnight, we’re going to install an octagon and institute a no-holds-barred / no tap rule

If Dems just roll over on ACA subsidies… I dunno man. It’s like

Now we are watching a 1983 documentary on Sterling Hayden that's on the Criterion disc. Great actor, crazy bastard.

New arrival from @impulsecreations.com, which came with an exclusive book plate signed by @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social and @mrtylercrook.bsky.social. So stoked to read this. #ThisIsWhatJamsReads

One last pitch for this. It’s today! Party starts in half an hour! Comics, art, pinball, food, toys, friends, community! I’ll be signing from 1-2pm, but I’ll be lurking around long than that. I’ve got stuff you can snag but bring whatever you want. I’ll sign your dad.

Folks always have cool banners and signs at cons, so for tomorrow’s Revenge Of Block Party, I took an 8-yr-old poster from my garage & nailed it to a piece of plywood then put some old pins on it. The lowercase letters were @eccantwell.bsky.social’s idea and I think it really puts it over the top.

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Fuck, I brought my older children through LA Confidential. And it was a bit too much. Sharing only as a failing as a dad.

There are no words for how evil this is

Back yard projects. Plus I discovered my kids’ Marvel Legends figures like they were hanging out behind the gym getting high

Don’t forget—COMIC BOOK CREATOR BLOCK PARTY this Saturday at Revenge Of in LA. It’s ALL DAY, food, fun—and I’ll be there during this signing block with a boatload of other cool folks.

Having a 16 year old dog means 3100 dollars in sudden medical procedures which is actually WAY BETTER NEWS than discovering his kidney disease has advanced so far he can’t undergo the surgery, the scenario where the doctor started saying phrases like “end of life options” and I cried in the office

Frankenstein is a masterpiece. See it in a theater.

RED SHIRTS #4 drops (dead) today. A triangle of death with Romulans & Klingons, no way out. SHOCKER FINISH next month! A: @meganlevens.bsky.social C: @charliekirchoff.com L: @longtalljodie.com E: @heatherantos.bsky.social Covers by @chrisshehanart.bsky.social & @skyepatridge.bsky.social.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Come on, y’all. We’re gonna finish this thing strong. And bloody.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

This is how I felt watching All the President’s Men this past weekend. In the final scene, I realized the reporters are now gone, the newspaper has been hollowed out and sold to a billionaire for parts, and the same is true for the television broadcast.

On this day in 1918, Robert William Feller was born in Van Meter, IA. Considered one of the best pitchers of his era, I still think he’s under-appreciated today. Here’s my painting of the great man after dealing to Joe Kuhel on April 16, 1940–the first Opening Day no-hitter in history.

I added Concrete to a painting of the town green of New Milford, Connecticut, which we once lived near. It has a traditional bandstand gazebo and a vintage tank. My mechanic there said he worked on the car of George Wunder, the Terry and the Pirates artist. 1/2 tomkidd.myportfolio.com

It's absolutely true that marketing budgets vary GREATLY. However that was always true! It's just that now some shows/films have almost no marketing budget. And it doesn't help that media companies have laid of many employees who used *do* to a lot of that marketing!

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

As a Dodgers fan, I literally feel like Sarah Connor at the end of the first Terminator. That’s how good the Blue Jays were. Like we won but I’m so traumatized I’m going to lose custody of my son because I trained him to shoot weapons in Nicaragua and I’ll end up in a max cell at Pescadero

I don't have a feeling about baseball but Los Angeles has been through hell this year and something that makes this city feel good is good

Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball

The Good Samaritan, by Joseph Highmore, 1744, 📸 by @patricksmith04

I’ve long carried the torch for Miguel Rojas. An unsung hero of there ever was one. A defensive and stalwart master. Still remember him talking to Shohei last year in the dugout to make sure he watches the 3rd base coach when he tanked a run. Quiet seasoned leader, takes drills for hours. Love him.

Literally yelled OVERRR NINE THOUSSAAAAAASND right before that pitch