The secret cheat code to breaking this dichotomy is to remember that other comics exist besides Spider-Man and Batman. You can start Walking Dead or Spawn or Saga at #1 too!

No!

After finally finishing off the sequel trilogy, here's about what I'm thinking on Star Wars. Haven't seen Solo or Rogue One or any of the TV shows and I'm not really in any rush to do so tbh. The cut off for "good" is either before or after TFA depending on my mood.

Started strong and just slowly collapsed from there

Not interested in your trolling. I’d rather listen to music and dance.

Really great storytelling going on this week, with TMZ pivoting to politics at the exact same time Marvel Studios reveals they're totally abandoning Hollywood for good

Yeah I read the news

Obviously some part of this is just media sensationalism but between stuff like this or the warehouse attacks or the congresspeople being threatened over AI it does kinda feel like things are Moving

Is this site barely working for anyone else these last few days? Every time I click on something new I have to reload the page 2 or 3 times to make it appear

Some of the best pop science drivel to ever get super popular was "the existence of the uncanny valley means there must have been some pressure for early humans to learn to fear things that look human but aren't..." with the subtext being, you know, aliens or demons or monsters

Look, man, I know that if this 15 years ago we'd be rolling our eyes at the overly-safe list of Nintendo adventure games and PS1 JRPGs, but, like... those were just better. We had better taste as a culture when we let Millenial gaming youtubers decide it versus zoomer video essayists.

Ass is going all-in on shit

Not a bad few weeks! I like movies with laser guns and cool monsters!

Watched Last Jedi. The Force Awakens is a 3-star flatline, rarely offending my taste but also rarely exciting me, while The Last Jedi is an erratic sine wave that wobbles between peaks and valleys every other scene.

Here's some reasons we HATE Return of the Jedi: 3 of the greatest Little Guys that George Lucas ever brought to the silver screen If you hate Salacious B. Crumb I hate you‼️‼️‼️

Okay so something big is about to come out, right

Over the years I have given this game 2 or 3 goes. Each time, something comes up in my life, or a new game or hobby distracts me and I don't go back. But with rumors of a remake on the horizon, I think it's time to really commit. Now playing:

I have only seen 4 (it's only April!), and it's not a very impressive list. Project Hail Mary will not be at #1 for long, I can promise you that

Increasingly, I'm reading the "ceasefire" not as an attempt to bring the region back to the pre-war status quo, but just to walk back Trump's apocalyptic ultimatums. They're trying to reload a previous save, further down the escalation ladder, so they can try this all again

When you come of age you should be required to pick a food group like a dystopian YA faction and only eat from that group for the rest of your life. If you can't pick you will be assigned one. If you want to make a meal involving multiple groups you must get approval from all involved clans.

American hearing that hundreds or thousands or millions of innocent people halfway across the globe are going to be killed: "ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME"

i will vote for dems who say this stuff and act on this stuff! i will give them money! i will tell my friends to do the same! it is what i want from government more than anything else right now!

"If you remove him you get Vance." You're familiar with Donald J Trump's foreign policy where we remove a country's leaders one by one until we get to one we can do business with? No reason impeachment can't work the same way

The President of the United States is publicly threatening to commit genocide. For love of country, for the freedoms we cherish and for the values we hold dear, the House must immediately reconvene and vote to impeach Donald Trump. Read my full statement: tonko.house.gov/news/documen...

So, has Europe put any thought into the kind of refugee wave that will be created when a "whole civilization" of 90 million people is destroyed in one night? No?

If you look at comic books NOT about superheroes...which I assume most comic book fans have read...

Isn't it just awesome how every single Marvel comic looks and feels like this now

It isn't gonna happen, but I do think it's funny that you can just talk about "it happening" and everyone online instantly knows what you mean

Trump's not dying but the rules of storytelling mean it's close. Next time a "Trump taken to Walter Reed???" story gets passed around by headline farmers no one will be dumb enough to believe it, but that's the time it'll actually be real. Boy Who Cried Dead President.

Can't think of a witty observation for this one. Wish Leech Women was less horribly racist or this would have been a really good week.

Idle thought that I WILL abandon with even the slightest pushback: alongside the many well-documented other reasons, the decline in casual readership in the last 10-15 years can be blamed, in some part, on George RR Martin failing to deliver the Winds of Winter

My thinking on this case is that Clarence Thomas should have been removed from office immediately when we found out his wife had plotted to overthrow our constitutional republic

My favorite first watches of March

Interesting little novelty: Billionaire owner of ULine and Republican megadonor Lily Uihlein has a regular column in the back of ULine's ordering guide she uses to push for conservative values. In the new edition, though, she gently pushes back against Trump's immigration policy

Since I made this tweet almost 4 months ago, I can now add The Apartment, One Battle After Another, and Birdman to this list. All good movies! Not a bad one among them. OBAA is probably my favorite, Birdman is probably the weakest.

An Ocarina of Time remake in 2026 would be a discourse bomb at a scale that absolutely no one is prepared for

Another interesting Eclipse Comics time capsule: EiC Catherine Yronwode using her column to write about the then-new Chernobyl disaster, condemn the comic book industry for ignoring it compared to the Challenger explosion, and call for an end to nuclear power. The 80s, baby!

Obsessed with how Derek Charm draws the Creepshow Creep. His eyes look like they're about to pop out of his head, it's great

Very funny to me that people are shipping Grace and Rocky given that one of my biggest problems with the movie is how much it dehumanizes the latter. Yeah people will ship anything but I just could not read that dynamic as romantic because of how dumb and childlike Rocky is.

Half the list is from the last 15 years and there's only 2 full feature films from before the Apollo 11 moon landing #AlrightMan

DC is publishing more retailer-exclusive variants for single issues of Absolute Batman than they are unique issues in a given month, Jesus Christ dude

There's a guy I occasionally see on my Shorts feed who tutorializes how to make high-quality, interesting comic lettering which is a respectable niche but every video is him answering a request from 12yos like "how do you letter someone whose soul is split between a fire half and an ice half"

Moana was one of the first big Disney movies to come out after I'd finally grown out of them, so I don't have any particular attachment to it (beyond memes, I guess). As an outsider, then, I can say: this stinks!! Why is it so grey!!!

Ah shit I left the dog in the metaverse and they pulled the plug. Grandma too

New issue of Zdarksy's Captain America is really lame, unfortunately. He has totally failed to make me care about either the new SHIELD stooges or the Latverian succession crisis, and Jan Bazaldua's art feels so weightless and impersonal; the action is near impossible to follow.

Gonna die fighting to defend this cover from the shockingly large "Frank Miller's art is and always was bad" crowd but damn what a hill to die on

What is possibly wrong with this post? Young men WOULD, in fact, have liked to hear that from Kamala. He was lying about it, but Trump still told them that and it helped him win!

Elm Street 2 is absolutely the best of these. I'm sorry, but I just don't know what you people see in Revenge of the Sith.

Revenge of the Sith is not very good but Im very distracted by a friend I watched it with INSISTING, to the point of getting mad when we questioned him on it, that the "Darth Jar Jar" joke was George Lucas's original plan for the prequel's climax lmao

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