Today I found out that there's an HP Lovecraft poem, "Nemesis", that has the exact same meter as Billy Joel's "Piano Man." Now you did too.

...and then there was the time Venom smothered a guy to death with his man-tits.

Saw somebody trying to rebrand their ai-generated slop as "synthart" and I threw up in my mouth a little bit

This is the real punk rock

Happy Columbo’s Day

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Back on Bsky and back on my bullshit! For the past seven months or so, I've been comicsposting on Tumblr, but haven't really talked about it here. Now I'm posting my work onto a reputable platform where I can expand on my writings. Welcome to the Gutters, a year-by-year history of superhero comics!

More longposts about comic books to distract myself from the horror that is existence!

Blog post I wrote up yesterday. I'm beginning an overview at Superboy before the Silver Age started, and how these comics were the stealth introduction to DC's Earth-One.

My thoughts about comics have grown too big for bsky to contain. I've ascended to the second best platform on the internet - tumblr. www.tumblr.com/sarksarkos/7...

Me, trying not to start a religious movement: "People should invent a second type of dish you can eat cereal from."

Comics Books Hot Take: Justice League Detroit was good, actually! Sure the characters were b-listers, nobodies, and actual walking ethnic slurs; and a massive downgrade from the headliners of the DC universe; and Vibe is a walking punchline, but at least they were interesting!

Invented some absolutely cursed math gender last night. It haunts me so much I needed to share it. Even numbers are male, odd numbers are female. Single digit numbers are asexual, but two digit numbers are straight or gay pairings depending. 87 is straight, 42 is gay, 69, appropriately, is lesbians.

I'm getting a lot of good, timely, well-reasoned political discussions on this app and it's kinda bumming me out. I find myself going back to the bird app to find the most piss-brained takes and it is like crack. Where's the best place on bsky to load myself up with absolute fandom nonsense?

Dear @strongbadnofoolin.bsky.social The world is on fire, but at least we have SBEmail youtu.be/x6eaEa5Jz5M?... Crapfully thine,

I recently read through the Black Suit era of Spider-Man, which didn't take very long because it lasted less than a year. Spider-Man first wore the black suit in ASM #252 (5/1984) and stopped wearing it in ASM #2 (11/1984). Counting other Spider-Man comics, it only appeared 22 times. 🧵

First off, fuck #NYT Second, does anyone else feel like the Democrats are becoming controlled opposition? I can't be the only one but I don't think I've seen anyone else saying it. Maybe I'm just not looking right. But everything I've seen about their "opposition" feels like...

Random fact I learned last night. In modern English, and presumably, we stopped using the familiar "thee/thou" pronouns and only use the deferential "you". Tolkien, presumably, reflected this in Westron, the language he constructed that was then "translated" to English. 🧵

As a theologian, if you think god is a *top* you're deluding yourself.

One thing that surprised me about DC comics is how long its non-superhero comics lasted. One example, Marvel's longest-lasting war comic was "Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos", which Stan Lee created as a joke. This lasted until 1974. DC's Sgt. Rock series lasted until 1992. 🧵

I generally like Wonder Woman not being as overwhelmingly powerful as Superman for a lot of reasons, but mostly because then you get sick shit like this. Hit em with the TRUTH KNUCKLES.

DC basically started the Aquaman damage control plan as soon as this fishy bastard escaped containment. Both of these versions of Aquaman were active at the same time. While he was on the Superfriends, Comic Aquaman was watching his infant son die. Absolute tonal whiplash.

"When you're being mean to me, just know this is who you're being mean to."

...and then there was the time Thor fought Bad Box Art Mega Man

Death of Captain Marvel is the one Superhero death that hasn't been undone yet because it was just too good. Published in 1982, this story recontextualizes Mar-Vell's first encounter with Nitro, in 1974, into an inciting incident that gave him an incurable form of cancer.🧵

Tried to search for a horny sea shanty and YouTube recommended me 1000 Names of God.

GAYS OF BABYLON

Accidentally cosplayed as Master Roshi today.

We have to keep bullying these weirdos out of their jobs.

Damn I just realized a truth about the human existence but I can't find a meme to convey it.

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source

I've been trying to read through as much DC and Marvel as I can, in something roughly approaching chronological order. I've been a lot more impressed with Marvel, but around the 80s is when DC really began to cook. A lot of their new series took off and most of their old ones massively improved.

...and then there was the time Wonder Woman fought a Disco Galactus (Wonder Woman v1, #291-293)

Officially auditioning to be the next actor in the role of Alex Jones

I am not a big DC fan, I feel like they were playing catch up to Marvel for actual decades. And with that in mind, I was absolutely stunned to realize that Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, something that should be a walking punchline on Superdickery.com, is one of the best comics I've ever read.

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