Today’s lunchtime read is The Spectre #12 (2002)

I love him. 🌳

Ah fuck… I really really like this series and I honestly think @kellythompson.bsky.social has done a fantastic job on this run.

Michael DeAdder @deadder.bsky.social

When your Bane in Batman day and the Dark Knight doesn’t even text back anymore… #batmanday2025 #Batman #Bane

LOVE muting accounts who want to show me “dIfFeReNt” perspectives, when that prospective is feel bad for Nazis when they get hurt. No.

I think it's becoming clear that if you like indie creators, you're going to need to support them any way you can. And that doesn't mean money, just spreading worth of mouth can be powerful as well.

Not me having a peek at the Clayface movie set in Manchester today…

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

I have *never* used ChatGPT. Not once. I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.

14 issues in and this current series of Witchblade is fucking awesome.

The thing I did. Listen - I can explain, my friends were pondering possible pride skin ideas for Marvel Rivals, and then they proceeded to beg me to draw the Thing in leather daddy gear... I couldn't refuse them. I'm praying a modder sees it and makes it a mod skin for pc lmao #MarvelRivals

EMERGENCY - is *anyone* I know going to NYCC willing to pick this exclusive up for me?? I need it to live. Pls, if you do it you'll literally be saving my life 🙏😩

I’m not surprised by Wrexham as it’s an area that is sadly rife with racism and unsurprisingly poor education.

Happiest of birthdays @gailsimone.bsky.social ❤️

Criminal.

Kill 616 Hank McCoy and have Dark Beast be the only Hank McCoy in X-Men as a villain forever. My rationale is the X-Men have made former villains into heroes. To have an O5 character become a villain is a reversal of something that’s happened often and it’s new. (Well Krakoa X-force did it best).

"The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams at us the loudest." -Mon Mothma (Andor)

*clears throat EAT SHIT FUCKERBERG.

@gailsimone.bsky.social it’s the best time of year! Have they made you a judge yet if not why not?

ITS FAT BEAR WEEK!

Two months to go until Thought Bubble Comic Convention 2025 opens its doors! Please purchase your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment, as some types may not be available on the door: thoughtbubblefestival.com/tickets

Ever avoid seeing a film because it had been hyped so much and you knew it was good, but you just kept putting it off time & time again? Even owned the DVD for years but still not watching it. Then one day you see it and it’s great and the anxiety is over. 25 years later - In The Mood For Love.

I finally got one!

Up next from my hugh to read pile… I’m excited to read this one I’ve heard some good things.

Why is the aging whiny-boy pundit class so constantly mad and red about Bluesky? Theory: Bluesky attention metrics do not behave the way they’ve been conditioned to expect social media attention metrics to behave. They are pigeons irate that the skinner box isn’t dispensing treats anymore.

I’m spending the weekend rotting on my couch with a cold. So I’ve gotten myself some funky snacks.

This heart-stopping @danparent.bsky.social cover from the upcoming romance issue of THE TOXIC AVENGER COMICS is one hell of a #FridayFeeling. Gaze lovingly at it (as well as the equally dreamy @deadredfred.bsky.social cover) over at @monkeysrobots.bsky.social: monkeysfightingrobots.co/toxicavenger/

Words are violence. A message of hate provokes people into following that intolerance through fear and anger, and those who the hate is aimed at's world then fills with fear, hate and aggression. Don't let people pretend that a physical act of violence is not comparable or equal to an oral one.

Batman butchering Nazis with a battle axe? Love to see it

Today’s lunchtime read is The Spectre #11 (2002)

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

I love Doom Patrol, it’s utterly wild and makes you work for it sometimes. I like that. Halfway through book 3 now so the Grant Morrison era is almost over on this book.

Philip K. Dick’s wife Tessa is in desperate financial straits and struggling to keep her home. If you can donate anything at all to her GoFundMe it would be great. gofund.me/ee00d19de

Thought Bubble Month 2025 at Broken Frontier – Guidelines on Reviews Submissions and Possible Interviews as Part of our Annual Celebration of All Things TB! @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social #ThoughtBubble www.brokenfrontier.com/thought-bubb... (We've added in a couple of extra points due to FAQs!)

Today’s lunchtime read is Secret Origins #9 (2014)

Nah l'm not gonna be anywhere close to sympathetic or show any amount of respect for some vile racist Nazi dipshit (I know that's redundant) who encouraged hate, literally didn't believe in empathy and was firmly okay with other mass shootings in the name of keeping his guns safe.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”

From our friend David Chelsea comes the sad news that Gary Faigin has passed away. Gary's work on facial expressions was an invaluable resource for myself and thousands of other artists, and his curiosity and enthusiasm for his chosen subject was infectious and inspiring. Rest in Peace, Gary.

She’s a beauty!

"Bluesky is boring." Social media *should* be boring. Being algorithm and dopamine poisoned is bad, actually. When your feed dries up for the day, that's your cue to go do something else until new stuff shows up later.