I’m hooked.

I spent so long thinking about this and it has to be Star Trek Into Darkness. It was everything I was worried the first movie would be. Empty callbacks to a better version of the franchise. Generic blockbuster writing. That stupid Khan reveal. Ugh.

If you're not a comicbooks ultranerd you can scroll past this one but I just read an issue of FANTASTIC FOUR UNLIMITED from 1994 and discovering Herb Trimpe doing a Liefeld-influenced Image style is SO jarring. And yet in a way, he's doing it so well, because it's a note-perfect imitation. #comics

This drives me mad tbh. Multiple times I've come out of a gig/film/play even as early as 10:30pm wanting food or a place to hang and found nothing open other than nightclubs, which are not what I want. Once I tried going to VQ because I knew it was a 24-hour diner. It was fucking closed!

I see a lot of online discourse that is essentially "this thing I like should only be aimed at people like me" and like... I get it, it's hard to let go. But if your problem is that corporate IP continues to be corporate IP, you don't need Spider-Man to be aged up, you need to get new interests.

Just received the cheque for this. I will be reinvesting the money ($29.58) in a local cinema and reminding Alamo Drafthouse that, in future, they should ensure that the conditions of sale on their tickets are up to legal standards.

Not to get all "unconfirmed reports of a large ball of light hovering in the sky over England" but you know it's been bad when even I'm like "oh thank god, the sun's out."

I have two personas: with my mates I am posh and corporate, at work I dress up in a bat-themed costume and pummel the disenfranchised

This is blackout poetry to me

Fellow Millennials: Bryan O’Malley has drawn a new Scott Pilgrim comic as a lead-in to the new video game, and posted the full thing on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DUtNJrWjrQU/

My friend just called the UK-set Silent Hill Townfall “Silent Hull” and I think that’s its name now. #stateofplay

Legit this is the content I’m here for.

Michael Fassbender's ex and her kids have a restraining order against him after horrific abuse. Mark Wahlberg permanently blinded a man in a racist attack. Chris Brown horrendously beat Rihanna to the point of hospitalisation. That any of these men have careers and fans is baffling to me.

Just watching the Men’s Downhill Skiing and it’s nuts how fast they go. Tbh I think they should slow down and enjoy the view. Life is such a rush already.

Starfleet Academy has a lot about it that I like, but I'm finding myself put off by how much it's all modelled on US universities. The writers don't seem to realise how deeply fucked their education system is at that level and the idea the system would persist for 1000 years is sorta nuts.

There is an even sadder six-word story.

Winter Olympics is back baby, time to get obsessed with snowboarding for three weeks then completely forget about it again for four years.

There's a surprising amount of Macaulay Culkin in the Fallout TV show. By which I mean, literally any amount of Macaulay Culkin.

Wonder Man is easily the best tv show marvel has ever done, and I say that despite loving Daredevil Reborn *a lot*. This finally made good on the promise of WandaVision.

I just had cause to look up why Americans call Canadians “hosers” and while I was expecting the reason to be dumb, it turns out it’s WAY dumber than I expected. The answer is: because of a Rick Moranis tv sketch from the 1980s.

Bought this at the London Comic Mart earlier. Beautiful Neal Adams issue from 1969. I’ve got 56 more issues of X-Men between me and a full run which might be a mad goal but eh, it gets me out of bed. #comics

Nothing tells me I’m reading a comic from the right era like opening it up and finding one of these bad boys

Just wondered when that new Spartacus spin-off was actually happening and it turns out 9 of 10 episodes have already aired. Guess there hasn’t been much talk about it.

The Epstein Files are basically the IRL version of that Maison Derrière exposé sequence in The Simpsons. Just imagining Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor looking at the BBC site like:

Just heard that someone did “The History of Marvel Comics” on celebrity mastermind so I went to watch it and fuck me, the second hand embarrassment I felt

My youtube algo really wants me to hate Starfleet Academy. But I don't, it's fine! Can't make me!

Legit surprised that your local #1 New York head (me) didn’t realise that Insomnia Cookies has started opening UK locations until this week. I must go to one.

The first episode of Wonder Man was really interesting and good. The shows often start out seeming good then go to shit but like, that actually had something to say.

Just arrived home to my copy of Spider-Man & Wolverine Vol. 1, which is emblazoned with the pull quote "It's a story fans of both characters will absolutely enjoy!" which you would think is the bare fucking minimum really.

I promised myself I'd make the next one of these something really accessible, so for the latest James Actually Reads His Comics I've hit up, er, two issues of Dazzler from 1980 which I bought approximately 30 years apart. Free to read on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/james-... #dazzler #xmen

I promised myself I'd make the next one of these something really accessible, so for the latest James Actually Reads His Comics I've hit up, er, two issues of Dazzler from 1980 which I bought approximately 30 years apart. Free to read on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/james-... #dazzler #xmen

Spent the day at Megacon in London today which was about half the size of MCM and had about a third of the attendees. Shame it barely had any comics there, really. Felt a little bad for Iron Man artist Bob Layton as he sat there basically ignored by hundreds of Amazing Digital Circus cosplayers.

Train announcer at Watford just said, approximately, “Change ‘ere for ‘arry po’er warner bruvvas” and I just hope some Americans were around to enjoy it.

Just got a promo email that implied that's it's time to switch on my out-of-office on because it's the weekend, and like... who the fuck turns on their out-of-office over the weekend? No-one sane is in the office then. If you email me at the weekend I'm not replying until at least Wednesday anyway.

This third episode of Starfleet Academy is more like I was worried the show would be. I almost admire American writers’ inability to imagine an educational system that isn’t entirely like theirs. This could have been an episode of Riverdale.

Feels like I used to download a new app or add a new podcast every week back in 2012 but now I’m stuck with the same few. Surely I can improve my life with some new ones.

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE manages the difficult feat of both continuing the story of the first movie, being about something totally different, and also being as good as that one was. Ralph Fiennes has stolen the show in both movies, too. I cannot recommend them highly enough.

Against all my expectations, Starfleet Academy is sorta great. Holly Hunter especially is giving the same kind of tonally-anchoring performance that Anson Mount is giving in Strange New Worlds. Genuinely quite relieved.

✨ New Episode! 🎧 In episode 156 Sam is joined by filmmaker Nia DaCosta, director of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Nia has chosen Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (71 mins), directed by Junta Yamaguchi. Listen now wherever you get you podcasts: pod.fo/e/379dda

@tombrevoort.bsky.social I know it's not technically your job but I imagine you might have some idea who to notify about this.

Saw this on the corridor wall at the hospital yesterday and immediately I was like “Banksy you absolute legend, you’ve done it again”

I know, you're always thinking "James, why don't you write more about stuff from the 1990s that everyone's already read?!" Well, here you go. I read GHOST WORLD for the first time. Free to read on the Cinematic Universe Patreon, the home of occasional comics reviews: www.patreon.com/posts/james-...

I know, you're always thinking "James, why don't you write more about stuff from the 1990s that everyone's already read?!" Well, here you go. I read GHOST WORLD for the first time. Free to read on the Cinematic Universe Patreon, the home of occasional comics reviews: www.patreon.com/posts/james-...

Sometimes in winter my co-workers bring up the fact that I’m wearing a t-shirt in my office on the Teams call and I’m like… you know you’re allowed to spend your money however you want? It costs 50p a day to heat this office to 20 degrees for 8 hours, that’s a bargain to ensure I can feel my fingers

If you’re a superhero nerd and haven’t played DISPATCH, I can totally recommend it. If they aren’t publishing comics of it soon it’ll be a huge miss.

"Please give this seat to a disabled person" would you like me to butter their walking stick too??

Saw this in Oxfam earlier. If Cher can turn back time then why did she write a song which is ENTIRELY predicated on the idea that she can’t?

The last few days did not move the main story forward AT ALL. It's just a guy eating little treats and doing nothing. And so many plot holes. He says, "no more little treats," and then he's eating another little treat in literally the next scene.