Now that everyone’s asleep I am going to say what I’ve been thinking all day: Alan Moore should be the one to write the next Bond movie.

Acknowledging that this is specifically a "US Direct Market Comics Only" version of comics, but I bought a comic this week because it had a specific character on the cover. Was that character actually IN the comic? Were they fuck. Swear to god the US industry is TRYING to be impenetrable.

I’ve read Stereogum (on and off) for over two decades. I cannot overstate how much better it is to have a human talk to you about music than it is to just hear whatever an algorithmically generated playlist spits out.

Just rewatched Fantastic Four. I’m a little concerned I wasn’t harsh enough on it the first time around.

"While most people on social media mean well, the end result is a big echo chamber that fundamentally divides our culture. Also, I had sex with a maroon 2001 Nissan Maxima, and I am hoping to quietly bury my apology here in this think piece without too much fanfare."

PLEASE REPOST: a couple of bar staff urgently needed for shifts in Stratford tomorrow - it's a West Ham home game and I've had staff drop out so you can borderline name your price

Every now and again I have to take a break from my hobby of buying comics to actually read some. Ice Cream Man: The Mortal Coil Shuffle is a comic told as a deck of cards, imo, is a very good idea that has been executed very well. Worth picking up before its sole printing sells out!

Possibly a tough request but is anyone able to recommend any comics YouTubers/video essayists who aren’t, like, sensationalising, nitpicking or straight-up hating?

On the one hand this is great for New York, but on the other this is absolutely devastating for the next 5 years of Daredevil storylines.

Coca Cola's latest AI xmas advert apparently used the same number of workers as their non-AI ads and involved five AI specialists who "contributed" by prompting 70,000 video clips and sifting out the ones that worked. All that time and energy and it still looks, no joke, like a load of shit.

Whenever I see some dimwit take about how I “need” to see opinions I disagree with, it’s always from professional opinion-havers. Tbh what I need to see more of are opinions I agree with. For a huge number of reasons those aren’t coming from columnists at American news orgs.

Deeply enjoying Zadie Smith on Adam Buxton’s podcast essentially telling him that reading the comments is a waste of time and why Ezra Klein is an intellectual lightweight. Love Adam but his centrist tendencies deffo need that sort of nudge once in a while.

Went into Rough Trade yesterday promising myself I wouldn’t buy another book and then this laser-targeted me for a *fiver*. It’s brilliant, obviously, but one must wonder if the system is working when I, your local Fleet Foxes enjoyer, didn’t notice it was out until it was discounted.

Finally, a product that allows me to avoid the feminising effects of *checks notes* bed sheets.

We went to the Thrilling Adventure Hour live show and got a bonus Rose Matafeo appearance. What a win.

I’m really enjoying Taskmaster but I find it sorta grating that (whether it’s their comic personas or genuine reactions) Maisie Adams seems furious about everything she’s asked to do, while Sanjeev Bhaskar seems to actively resent that he’s on the show at all.

We did a Halloween "creepy crawlies" quiz at work yesterday and I won by so far a margin that people asked me if I had some kind of insect-related hobby and I had to be like "No, I'm just a huge fucking dork, thanks"

Saw this last month and it was such a perfect, uniquely live comedy show, if you can go and see it, you must.

Great start removing Andrew’s title, now we just have to do the rest of them and we can really go somewhere.

My body is desperately fighting the post-MCM con crud, successfully, but my mind is powerless against the urge to go back. My kid absolutely loves artist alley and I love that she gets to so enthusiastic seeing people who love the same stuff she does.

Asked my kid what her favourite tube line was and she said the Elizabeth Line. Now isn’t the time and place but I’m going to have to have a stern conversation with her later.

Optimism is, for me, defined by the people on this train who just gathered their things and headed to wait by the doors *at the advertised arrival time* even though the train left late and has been running slow during the trip.

I cannot shake my suspicion that the reason every new fast food joint is called like “WING FUCKERS” is because chicken wings are basically unwanted offcuts, so the potential markup on them is probs insane. Extremely 2025 vibes. Guaranteed in 5 years someone tries to open a fast food pig offal joint.

Science fiction is like sex - of you don't know any women who like it, that reveals more about you than them.

Didn’t spend loads at MCM today, but I DID get prints of both Noodle and Noriko, which if nothing else proves that they’re willing to cater for the rapidly aging nerd demographic. Back again tomorrow for more obv!

Convention cosplay idea: J. Jonah Jameson. Buying, and soliciting, as many pictures of Spider-man as you can.

Instagram (well, Meta, but I’m not on Facebook) just offered me the chance to pay £4 a month to use their stuff ad-free, and honestly about ten years ago I would have jumped at the chance. Unfortunately they’ve enshittified their products to the point where they’re not worth actual money to me.

The suggestion in this article is that he's been told to "take himself off to live in private." Could we not go a step further and maybe, you know, get him arrested?

Deserves to replace the established version imo

Went to the local Lego brick festival and someone had made custom Star Trek Brickheadz for Lower Decks, TNG and Voyager!

My take on the Ultimate Universe cancellation is that maybe it IS a good idea to end some stories when they are still considered good, rather than run the into the ground until they become unprofitable and shit like the original Ultimate Universe did. #comics

This went live last night - a big PDF bundle of the books I've written at Image. Includes The Wicked + the Divine, DIE, Phonogram, Ludocrats, the first Power Fantasy, We called them giants, etc. Basically, this is the stuff I got into comics to do, and a great chance to grab it.

Oh there's a @kierongillen.bsky.social Image Comics Humble Bundle going right now, featuring all our Image work together as well as DIE and The Power Fantasy! www.humblebundle.com/books/roll-f...

Had cause to visit on Twitter (latterly X) and it wasn’t long before I was reminded why I don’t go there voluntarily.

Just got out of seeing Elis and John (with Dave) at Hammersmith Apollo. I had such high hopes for that live show and it did not disappoint. The thrill of seeing Cymru Connection occur live will never leave me.

I have the Rogue one of these framed in my office and it's honestly fantastic.

Starbucks has stopped doing peppermint syrup in the UK within weeks of yazoo stopping their peppermint milkshakes. I don't know why this country is so hostile towards mint-flavoured things unless they're toothpaste or gum.

Oh I got another one: Professor X works better as the mentor with a genuine dream rather than daddy child soldiers hypocrite. Someone (I wanna say Brubaker?) did a sort of post-modern analysis of his 60s incarnation that stuck hard and ruined him as a character.

Cyclops/Emma is more interesting that Cyclops/Jean. And wolverine/Jean is more interesting than Wolverine/anyone else except nightcrawler

I was once at Reading festival and there was a rumour that some band listed as “the FFers” on the smallest stage would actually be the Foo Fighters doing a secret set. Of course they were not, and those kids played to a huge (but hostile) crowd of people who turned up expecting to see Dave Grohl.

Our train was announced as having “reverse formation” (I.e. first class at the back) so we got to watch all the train company bootlickers do a walk of shame up to the far end of the platform.

📚 Our new book is out today! 📚 The Animation Atlas, our round-the-world trip through the global history of animation, is now available from all good bookshops!

Just saw Max & Ivan’s Clash of the comics. It was obviously great but like, mostly I’m just impressed no-one got killed. And also that Ivo Graham compered it with 3 hours notice.

The one I always think of is that the final guillotine execution in France happened after the release of Star Wars

Just in case you haven’t seen the Mr. T PSA such from Key and Peele, I enjoyed it very much: youtu.be/1g-s-pghtYQ?...

IMO trains should turn their interior lights off after 10pm, like long haul flights.

My ill-advised side quest of reading 1990s trash comics brought me to Medieval Spawn/Witchblade. Written by Garth Ennis, it begins with the lead character finding the Witchblade buried in a heap of dung. Subtext.

Just in case you’ve never seen it, CITIZEN KANE is on BBC iPlayer and you really should give it a go. In the era where multimillionaires are shitting their pants publicly on the reg because money can’t buy the love they want, it feels as relevant as ever.

Just in case you’ve never seen it, CITIZEN KANE is on BBC iPlayer and you really should give it a go. In the era where multimillionaires are shitting their pants publicly on the reg because money can’t buy the love they want, it feels as relevant as ever.