I have this character I revisit every time something in the world pisses me off. He's a violent, angry, brutal vigilante who is, for all intents and purposes, The Punisher but explicitly left wing. First page of the new one below. Full story here: online.fliphtml5.com/hvxfj/One_Wa...

With superheroes, I don't think analyzing the politics of the characters simply enhances the reading, I think it's downright necessary to fully grasp the character's motivations, the themes of the story, and all the other connective tissue. From Green Arrow to Superman to the X-Men, it's needed.

I demand a release of the full, unredacted Long John Silver files

I was asked to cover C2E2 this year, and I'm really excited to do so. However, I learned today that the organizer, ReedPop, is owned by a company whose subsidiary, LexisNexis, has a contract with ICE that allows them to more efficiently do harm to people. That contract is set to expire in February.

A list of properties I don't really have a concrete idea for, but I sure would love to write anyway: 1. Resident Evil 2. Sailor Moon 3. Speed Racer Okay, thank you for listening!

The SHOES!

I read through all of Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum last night. What a wild book. It's such a post-modern superhero story, combining Silver Age fantasy with Bronze Age introspection. I really loved the issue with Billy Batson and Clark doing art therapy.

Imagine a Criterion Collection for comics--a line of international books deemed artistically and/or culturally significant packed with scores of extras. What comic books would need a place in the collection?

Started to see a trailer for a new Tom Cruise movie, then the screen said “From Alejandro G. Iñárritu,” and didn’t need to see any more. I’m sold.

“An Example” is the latest in my & Daniel Max’s short explorations of an expressly left-wing vigilante. We call him Lefty Punisher for short. Pencils/Inks: Daniel Max Colors: Franci Gouvea Letters: Rob Jones

“An Example” is the latest in my & Daniel Max’s short explorations of an expressly left-wing vigilante. We call him Lefty Punisher for short. Pencils/Inks: Daniel Max Colors: Franci Gouvea Letters: Rob Jones

Not tryin’a get political all over the TL, but I think Die Hard is a solid action flick

Hey WB! It should be against the rules to release a 4K without director’s commentary. Neither Superman nor Sinners (which I’m especially bummed about) have them!

New "How to Report ICE" zine: #StLouis metro area in Spanish! drive.google.com/file/d/122IW... Also, correction to the St. Louis zine in English: drive.google.com/file/d/1OuxY...

I feel bad for the people who read comics solely as a way to consume their favorite character and not as a way to enjoy storytelling. Inevitably, a creator will interpret a character in a way that you don't like, and the latest online craze is to loudly call that person a bad writer.

I spent a significant amount of my day off from teaching creating a presentation on the main reasons I think The Last Jedi is a top-tier Star Wars flick. Will I be sharing it with people? Who's to say?

"25 Things You Didn't Know About Batman!" Fuck you, YouTube. You don't know what I know. You don't now my life.

TEN new Vertigo titles? Hell yeah.

This is me pitching to DC my story about Fire fighting against immoral and unjust American immigration practices called Fire vs. ICE.

Posted late last night because I was thinking about this. Just a little short exercise in Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons' mirror technique from Watchmen in the tone of Busiek's Astro City. I love sentimental superhero stories, and I really hope to write a full-length one day.

"The Golden Age" Art by Andrew Brown I love writing superheroes doing normal, everyday stuff, liking trying on an old suit while reminiscing. Maybe I'm too influenced by Astro City?

The “Dating Me is Like…” prompt on Hinge perplexes me because I only know how to be a self-deprecating nerd. “Dating me is like seeing the Millennium Falcon: I may not look like much, but I’ve got it where it counts.”

In 1997, my dad took me to see the Special Editions as they were released in theaters. It felt like a massive, monumental thing at the time. I was 9 years old, and it sparked a lifelong obsession. I was already into storytelling, but Star Wars made me want to study storytelling.

It’s baffling to me the number of grown people who believe in their hearts that writers of comics sometimes dislike a character so much that they attempt to deliberately harm the public’s perception of that character—instead of accepting that someone has an interpretation they just don’t like.

Catch me deadnaming the FUCK out of the Department of War.

Hey, friends (and non-friends, but preferably not enemies). What’s your favorite cryptid? Maybe this is for comics writing purposes.

My take on the "Why is Batman in the JLA??" question has always been: the JLA need people without powers to remind them what humanity is like. How can gods, aliens, time travelers, etc. make decisions for regular human mortals? They need human representation to keep them grounded.

Posted this late last night. A page from my comics & poetry collection that I'm really jazzed about. You might like it!

Piercings Words by me Pencils, inks, letters by Andrew Brown Colors by Mariam Yasser

There's a universe in which Jack and Alan collaborated on something, and that universe doesn't have any of the problems that we currently face.

One of my favorite bits of V For Vendetta that was left out of the film is the romantic love that Adam Susan (the fascist leader of the Norsefire Party) feels for Fate, the supercomputer that controls the media because it perfectly satirizes how fascists need the media to spread their agenda.

Big shoutout to everyone involved with making my first time at #SDCC so sick: @thekeegshow.bsky.social, Randy at DC Interactive, @jakebrianwilliams.bsky.social and Bobby Curnow at @idwpublishing.com, my pal Dave Baker, and so many more rad people. This was hands down the coolest con. Hell yeah.

"All the Way Teeth" is hands-down my favorite industrial album of the 90s.

It's true I made this account just to talk about my endeavors as a comic writer, but I really just need everyone to understand how badass of a song "Don't Fear The Reaper" is. It's at least 9 on the badass scale.

Hey look! Now there’s a picture to tell you about it!

I’m still so proud of that script. I’m glad it’s resonated with so many people. I was especially proud of Superman roasting Batman for not liking the suburbs.

I want to write: 1. Wild Dog 2. Firestorm 3. Shazam 4. Superman 5. Poison Ivy 6. (more) Secret Six 7. Deadpool For one of these, I have a pitch ready to go when DC is ready for me again.

If you've ever been curious about how I used comics like Watchmen, Maus, and @therightram.bsky.social's The Many Deaths of Laila Starr in my classroom, I'll be discussing it with @thekeegshow.bsky.social and other teachers at #SDCC! Check the details below: comiccon2025.sched.com/event/26wiD/...

When I wrote the Cult reference, I thought for sure someone at DC would object to it. They wouldn't let me use Constantine because he was too adult, but Batman getting tortured in the sewers was a-okay. I had a ton of fun writing that script. I'm glad people are still digging it.

“Dogs” Poem by me, extraordinarily illustrated by @lybonn.bsky.social. I love how this turned out.

"Apricity" Poem by me. Art by @artn000.bsky.social #comics #comicart #poetry #comicwriter

Another one from my comic & poetry collection. This one is called “This morning the sunrise” and features art by Giulia Stramaccioni #comics #comicart #poetry

Hey! I'm doing a panel on comics as educational tools at San Diego Comic Con this year! comiccon2025.sched.com/event/26wiD/...

It might sound crazy at first, but I’d argue that Superman (2025) occupies a very similar pop culture space as Barbie (2023), and I mean that so incredibly complimentary.

Another one from my comic & poetry collection. This one is called “This morning the sunrise” and features art by Giulia Stramaccioni #comics #comicart #poetry

As a comic fan who also loves Final Fantasy, I think often about the canceled FF comic that was to be written by Kurt Busiek and published by Disney (with covers by Mike Mignola).

I caught up on Absolute Green Lantern today, and I love the horror take on GL so much. It's atmospheric and paranoid as hell, like a really great Twilight Zone episode but with unspeakable terror (and also super powers).

I should've posted this yesterday, but I didn't think about it until now, so, y'know.

"Apricity" Poem by me. Art by @artn000.bsky.social #comics #comicart #poetry #comicwriter