Happiest of birthdays to Tess Fowler Gutierrez!

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Spoiler alert: Any discernible taste difference between the flavors was strictly a product of your imagination.

Trump’s smiling because he’s sitting and Mamdani is standing and he thinks this makes him look like the boss next to an intern. You know that fucked up handshake he does. It’s all prep school bully fake power play businessman theatrics with him. But the joke’s on Trump because he is a clown.

You entered a dance contest! Pick your partner.

Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey, and also a particularly nice mild cheddar hoop cheese.

Today I learned music legend Patti Smith reads manga!

I wish my iPhone typing skills lived up to my passion for democracy and human decency.

Flood warning and watch lifted, only the advisory remains until 8am. I’m so homesick for Japan. Bet Ume is, too.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter how conservative a Dem candidate runs. All you’ll hear is “He’s one a them danged crazy California socialists!” even if the Dems literally adopt the GOP platform word for word.* *Which, in 2020 and 2024, consisted entirely of “Whatever Donny says, his whims are law!”

Mamdani won (against Dem opposition no less) with a bold progressive platform and never watered it down or sought GOP retiree (cowards anyway) despite all the advice he needed to. Then when he blasted to the win he told them to stuff it in his victory speech. Can you take this nationally? Yes!

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Also why is relearning that type of masculinity offensive? Well, it’s strictly to appeal to white men. So racist at its core. But also it tells the rest of us we do not matter. Is that a winning message for a major political party, that the vast number of its voters don’t matter? Hey! Guess what!

The idea the Democrats need to “re-learn masculinity” to appeal to young white men (Rogan bros) is as offensive as it is wrong: horrifically. The Dems need to tack hard left and champion labor and progressive ideals and policies unashamedly and cheerlead them. Bold unapologetic ideas.

I was skeptical about this article despite being skeptical about Platner already (and not living in his state), but it goes on to make broader points I thoroughly agree with.

Huge for a toddler! They sure grow ‘em big down there on that Kansas wheat and corn!

I know! Let’s have theme days! Festive costumes! Like GOP voters can wear clown suits when they fly, but sitting officials can wear all-black uniforms with jackboots and red armbands.

Isn’t “criminal illegals” redundant anyway? I’d say the biggest crisis facing America is dumbfucks running government agencies.

I have a simpler answer: Trump.

Kibbles 'n' Bits 11/21/25: Tyrant, the freelance struggle and more - Some quick links that all seem to revolve around the tenuous state of making comics....plus a resurrected dinosaur classic

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Today I learned the Wright Brothers’ older sister Katharine, an Oberlin grad, managed their business affairs while Orville and Wilbur experimented and invented. She also spoke fluent French. I really should have known of Katharine Wright before this morning. The Wright Family!

Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

There are two kinds of people in the world: 1) Those who read the entire FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC novel series. 2) Those who just scanned them at their mall Waldenbooks out of morbid curiosity.

Fossilized salmon sashimi.

If you need even more incentive to do your holiday shopping at the Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery (besides the fantastic selection of graphic novels and comics), here it is: get a free sticker featuring art by xaimeh with every purchase, while supplies last! Ho, ho, ho!

Happy Friday, here’s a little excerpt from this week’s Fix The News for you ♥️

On the Runaways first Euro tour in 1976, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie got busted by British authorities for stealing hotel room keys on bad advice from Robert Plant. And Sandy West with them for taking her room’s hair dryer. Released from custody later with no charges.

I never stop having ideas. Kind of wish I could because it’s really annoying and never does me any good.* *$$$

I should be sleeping but instead I analyzed why previous STRANGER THINGS action figure lines haven’t really taken off and how to do one that will sell! But I’m not telling you here. A toy company with the license really should contact me and pay me to strategize and design this line. Seriously.

Not sure what to make of that weird shit east of Bakersfield.

"The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media... especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." ~ Carl Sagan Sagan knew exactly how bad it would get.

The bar for men’s behavior is so low and yet many keep knocking themselves out when they try to go under.

DALTON VS ALIENS leads to DALTON VS ALIENS VS PREDATOR leads to $$$$ for you. And me! Mostly me.

Job search boards stop teasing me with so-called “openings” from “companies” that are “hiring.” We all know job openings and paid positions are no more real than Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.

I’m curious to see that RENTAL FAMILY movie but guess what. Werner Herzog did it first, and Ben Affleck did it 15 years before Herzog!

In today's FLASH GORDON: The King of the Impossible takes a nap

Holy Moses, that FAST AND THE FURIOUS roller coaster opening at Universal Studios Hollywood features cars that drift!

Lighthouse Brings ‘Tyrant’ Back in Deluxe Edition

Instead of a ghost debunker who gets a comeuppance when they meet a real haunting, dare to make a movie about a ghost debunker who successfully debunks hauntings and “ghost investigators” as the frauds they are.

ICYMI I'm writing the Fantastic Four and Planet of the Apes!

I hope everyone enjoyed spooky season last month. I hope everyone enjoys spooky season next month.

Dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria…

X-Men and horror go well together, always the classic combo.

Woke up from a dream about demonically possessed sisters that never quite became a nightmare to news of a flood warning issued for LA because of heavy rain. Seems like old times!

At the end of ROADHOUSE (1989) everyone in town stops by to shoot Wesley, but when they go to find his body it’s gone, then you hear breathing on the soundtrack as they show different angles inside the empty bar.

Little known ROADHOUSE (1989) fact but if you pay attention when they show Wesley’s trophy room during the final battle you can see he has a xenomorph skull on display.

Oh shoot I keep typing Wade when I mean Wesley!