Oh, I very much DO get hung up on penciller/inker combos, and this is a great one. In an age where everybody’s inking themselves, this specific kind of chemistry feels like a lost art.

So. Religion was wrong, again.

Welp. My family's bank account is negative. It'll be at least a month or more before my book advance arrives. If anyone wants a signed Bowie book or wants to subscribe to my movie Patreon at the $5 level, now would be a great time. Thanks!

If you live in: California New Jersey New York Pennsylvania Virginia The deadline to register to vote in the November elections is coming up. Check your registration now: IWillVote.com.

Load up your favorite film or TV show. Pause the show 5 times and take a screenshot. Now look at the costumes and background design elements for each shot and understand how someone had to research the design and build something that made sense in the world of the show…

Kids would read more American comics if they were encouraged to crumple, tear, throw them in backpacks and generally beat the hell out of them. Big advantage of manga and scholastic ogns is that they’re sturdy and no adult is telling you to delicately put them in a plastic sleeve in a cool dark box.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

I don't think it's overdramatic to say that we must consider whether we want "working artist" to be a viable prospect in the near future, and how to materially protect the field from corporations, execs, and managers all too happy to automate creative production with AI.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

Pardon me, but while MAGA and Trump may want to use it that way, we don't need to let them. I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October. But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.

I walked 18 blocks to get my teeth cleaned today, an appointment I rescheduled twice because it costs me $275, out of pocket. On the way down, alone, I got asked for money by 3 homeless people, in a relatively affluent neighborhood. So…

Seems kinda unrealistic that everybody is going, “Release the Epstein files” considering we’re shouting it at the guy who’s IN the files. “Give me the evidence to bury you!” Shouldn’t it be something like, “Somebody HACK the Epstein files!”?

Listen to me: Our profit from the post office is the post office. Our profit from a library is the library. Our profit from a school is the school. And our profit from our lives is life. Our life. Ours.

Please god learn the difference between "This isn't good" and "This isn't for me, or something I enjoy"

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it. It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

important to reiterate from time to time: "artificial intelligence" does not exist. there is no sentient artificial being. no threepio. no demerzel. no terminator. what the tech publicists call "a.i." is just big, crappy databases and mindless and often incorrect autocorrect.

Really enjoying @markwaid.bsky.social & co.'s The New History of the DC Universe. Read #2 this morning, and from @allredmd.bsky.social & @iambradwalker.bsky.social's artwork to the piecing together of the DCU's grand story from multiple eras and sources, it's excellent comic book. #dccomics

Every artist deserves to be able to paywall all their art in a setup that would earn them a living wage, from an ideally financially-healthy supporter-base. But we love art and communication and sharing so much we do it for free. Which has caused society (especially tech) to devalue art as labor.

The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”

They’re worried about this one, particular form of harming children. Yet…

Great week for people who are like once I saw a black person, therefore it’s time for martial law

These adult men talking about how scary cities are... I mean I would personally be humiliated to be such a goddamned loser.

it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist

*co-creator of Watchmen *co-conjured the trench-coated etc I think we should be harder about this stuff.

Here’s some more art from New History of the DC Universe #2, out now! Buy it before everything is made by shitty robots!

The 2 page spread of New Teen Titans history from “The New History of the DC Universe” by @iambradwalker.bsky.social is giving me life.

Time for our #NCBD picks! What are you pulling? #comics #comicbooks #[email protected] @iambradwalker.bsky.social @allredmd.bsky.social @alexpaknadel.bsky.social @hackintimseeley.bsky.social @nikolacizmesija.bsky.social @peposed.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com @dynamitecomicshq.bsky.social

#NewHistoryOfTheDCUniverse 2 @dc.com #silvered and #bronzed @iambradwalker.bsky.social @allredmd.bsky.social art #explodesAndSeduces #timeTossed #Cyborg (blame #Darkseid) tweaks #New52JusticeLeague precedes #NewTeenTitans 🧐#JusticeLeagueOfAmerica logo glimpsed #thisWeek in JLU #9 nowhere in sight 🧐

Do we post art on here? Does anybody care? Or is this just a place of rage and despair? Oh, well. Here’s some hope and justice, from New History of the DC Universe #2, out tomorrow. Mark Waid, myself, Mike Allred, Trish Mulvihill, Laura Allred, and Todd Klein.

Here’s a quick peek at New History of the DC Universe no. 2 from @dc.com, one of the many great comic books coming out this week! W: @markwaid.bsky.social A: @iambradwalker.bsky.social A: @allredmd.bsky.social #comicbooks #superman

When Trump lets the CBS merger go through and starts dictating their programming, they can just change the name to MAGA-BS.

I think about this often but also, with all the widely available evidence that he’s a pedo, rapist, sex pest, there’s still some evidence on the cusp of becoming public that he’s obviously TERRIFIED of. 😳

I literally don’t have this many pictures with any one single person.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I genuinely think the safest way to engage with AI is, so far as possible, not to touch it at all. Do not let it into your life. Do not let it digest you

I cancelled my Amazon Prime membership when Bezos pulled endorsements before the election and I’ve boycotted them as much as possible. It’s not as hard as you’d think. I’ve only ordered from them three or four times since November. Speak with your money.

As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger. “Workers are more intuitive than a lot of the pundit class gives them credit for. They know this has been a naked attempt to get rid of people.”

I hope Lisa Murkowski is okay after the House passed that bill she didn’t like.

Is one of these people your Congress person? Call them. Right now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

RIP MELISSA HORTMAN 1970-2025 The funeral was today. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and honor their memory.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Thread... I was 19 when 9/11 happened. I lived through post-9/11 hate, the "anti-Shariah" movement, & hype around the Muslim ban. But with Zohran's primary win, I don't think I've ever seen THIS level of Islamophobia & anti-Muslim hate from BOTH GOP and Democrats. And the sad truth is this— 1/4

I miss having a human president.

A reminder that the @nytimes.com told New Yorkers to not rank Mamdani at all, & instead endorsed former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson. Tilson sits at a whopping .8%. Corporate media trust is dead. They killed themselves by failing to fulfill their promise of holding the powerful accountable.

It's really wild the things that people will just openly say about the role of money in politics now. "Oh, yeah, we just decided to preemptively buy this guy off on a whim." Journalists used to muckrake for stories like that for months on end and now the money guys just... tweet it out

Boy. Steve Geppi seems like a real fuckin creep.