I think this one still works

SCROOGE: you there! what day is today? BOY: today? it's Christmas Day SCROOGE: the spirits did it all in one night! BOY: NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE [Life on Mars plays, a Ford Cortina suddenly crashes into Scrooge's front room] GENE HUNT: OI, DI Scrooge, get in, we've got a nonce in Didsbury to bust

Okay, I'll bite: what is Christmas?

Assuming this means they'll be wrestling Gaten Matarazzo www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ylo...

Because it's Christmas, and at Christmas you tell the truth: The absolute losers in the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences better give Rhea Seehorn an Emmy for Pluribus, or else. comicbookclublive.com/2025/12/25/y...

Because it's Christmas, and at Christmas you tell the truth: The absolute losers in the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences better give Rhea Seehorn an Emmy for Pluribus, or else. comicbookclublive.com/2025/12/25/y...

12 hours until Steve "The Hair" Harrington dies on national television!

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Just watched a little movie called Die Hard, and it is legit insane that there is any question about whether it's a Christmas movie or not, you all are just being obstinate a-holes if you think it isn't. No, I don't want to debate this.

Probably would made an alternate choice for the last two words, personally

if you are bored by pluribus and my curmudgeonly queen carol sturka that's a skill issue*!!! *reasonable minds may disagree but I tried to work through that disagreement in writing variety.com/2025/tv/colu...

My goal is to increase our Patreon donations enough so that I can bring on a regular freelancer for the year. It's a stretch goal but hey, I'm putting it out there!

Important question about Pluribus, post-finale... What do YOU call them? A) Others B) Weirdos C) The Hive Mind D) Plurbs

Just hit Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 7: 407 Proxy Authentication Required in my rewatch, aka one of the most devastating single episodes of TV ever produced.

Beyond the politics of it — I can’t imagine that for the majority of artists there’s any benefit to being on that site. The algo kills outside links, you have to pay to reach your followers, it suppresses whatever it sees fit, and now it’ll eat up your artwork…??

New comic reviews can’t stop, won’t stop!

Groo is back for another adventure. Red and Blue Venom is back in a new one-shot. Paul Jenkins takes on Captain Marvel.

Watched Hamnet and I kept getting distracted by it starring Paul Mescal, who was the main guy in Normal People, and also Joe Alwyn, who was the main guy in Conversations With Friends, two different Hulu shows based on Sally Rooney books. This is the movie’s problem, and not mine.

Just a reminder that @comixaction.com is a really cool group of anti-authoritarian, pro-community group of comics creatives in NYC and you should follow us.

A very happy “okay you can stop sending pitch emails for a little bit” eve to those who celebrate.

Hot tip to tech companies: I am still not going to want to use your AI features if you make the buttons to use them larger or flip the AI features to the main login page or make them pop-up over everything I'm doing in your app. In fact, that's actually going to make me want to use them less!

Imagine you're watching Avengers: Doomsday in theaters. You see the Steve Rogers scene. But there's more! From offscreen, there's a banging. Steve looks shocked, holds his kid tight. The door explodes, revealing a figure in the smoke. "I will eat yer baby!" says Fat Bastard. The crowd goes WILD.

Those of us very online are imo mistaking how the regular viewer will be excited by the Doomsday trailers. They like Chris Evans as Steve Rogers. They like Chris Hemsworth as Thor. The third one will probably be Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow. Then they’ll do Robert Downey Jr as Doom for a twist.

Here are our 15 best comic books of 2025! Plus, we pick the 2025 Man of the Year, and drop a few bonus picks as well:

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Paul Jenkins returns to The Sentry. Resident Alien ends at Dark Horse. Tarzan goes Beyond.

Regular reminder that the name of the song where the Chipmunks sing about Christmas and talk all about Christmas is actually titled “The Chipmunks Song”

True Life: I Have The Pluribus Theme Song Stuck In My Head

🎵 I'll be ham for Christmas You can eat all of me Please eat my bones and flesh Because we can't afford ham

HEATED RIVALRY (2025):

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Mr. Robot Season 4 is a Christmas movie.

This is a great piece, but also it's perennially insane that TV execs are constantly flummoxed about why they can't appeal to 18-year-olds and also 34-year-olds at the same time.

It doesn't matter what he says, they're never going to let him into the Christmas Adventurers Club

ACAB also means Osmosis Jones

I like Pluribus a lot but I can understand why some people might not like it. It's because they're bad people with awful taste in television

With some regularity I get comments on the piece I wrote about Neil Gaiman and Sandman & they're invariably of the sort below. Making the choice to comment like this shows you are not only not separating art from artist, you are actively approving of the abuse. comicbookclublive.com/2025/07/02/t...

Here's the DCU's new Brainiac doing a two hour long DJ set at the Schlegel Club in Bochum, Germany www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW_t...

Meet the Brainiac of the DCU: actor Lars Eidinger

We talked to the legendary Troy Baker about playing The Joker on the upcoming podcast adaptation of The Killing Joke, plus we've got the exclusive debut of Baker singing an original version of the song "Loony" from the episode: comicbookclublive.com/2025/12/19/c...

Today on @ign.com I wrote about Broadway (and Stranger Things, I guess): www.ign.com/articles/the...

Seeing a lot of negative criticism about movies these days being too "long" but I'd counter: are they also "strong" and "down to get the friction on"?

Late breaking Friday night podcast! I talked to the legendary Troy Baker about playing The Joker on the upcoming podcast adaptation of The Killing Joke, plus we've got the exclusive debut of Baker singing an original version of the song "Loony" from the episode: comicbookclublive.com/2025/12/19/c...

Bucket list interview alert: For @indiewire.com I talked to Frank Darabont about coming out of retirement for Stranger Things, what it would take for him to direct again, and he even helped correct an oft-reported story about his history with The Dark Tower www.indiewire.com/features/int...

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Yuh-oh.

Continuing our chats about the upcoming renewed Vertigo line at DC Comics, here's Kyle Starks on End of Life, and a whole lot more: