I wrote a backup story in today's issue of Radiant Black, so I'm going around to local shops here in Dallas and randomly signing a few copies on the shelf.

My wife outdid herself with my anniversary gift this year.

Why the fuck did I agree to do four videos this month? Kill me. 🫩

I need the economy to get better so Waffle House can be less busy. 😭 There's been an influx of upper middle class folks at my local restaurant.

Why do people with AI avatars get so upset and defensive when you point them out?

If I were to have a very *ahem* relevant sponsor, what content would you like to see about Cyclops?

I think that the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience had a bigger cultural impact than Timothy Chalamet's Wonka movie.

It sure would be nice if people stopped misremembering bad takes they've heard from other comic influencers and attributing them to me. 🫩

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Silver is a lot cheaper than you might expect and with a recession looming, I've been starting to diversify my investments for retirement in more than just stock. I buy the occasional 1 oz round, currently going for $74, and it adds up. My safe deposit box is $50 a year.

Spider-Man Noir was originally a socialist that was radicalized by the Great Depression, but Disney has watered him down to "the Spider-Man in a trenchcoat that drinks egg creams". youtu.be/Ui7edb7i2fQ

YouTube never should have given me the ability to leave voice comments. 🤣

Tom Taylor's Nightwing is good. Dan Watters' Nightwing is also good. No clue why folks are getting into fights over it like you can't enjoy both.

Board games aren't too complicated for you. You just get overwhelmed when you see the pieces involved, decide in advance that you're not going to understand it, and you don't bother to listen to the rules because you're convinced that "Let's just start playing, I'll figure it out" will work.

I do a little background check when I sell things in Facebook Marketplace and MAGA people always get so offended when I don't want to meet up with them.

Now spinning: Magdalena Bay Mini Mix Vol 1-3. My most streamed artist for the past couple of years and I was so excited to see this at my local record shop.

One of my best friends has been building this commander deck full of cards from defunct CCGs and finally got to show it off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNHx...

~Super Mario RPG, Sonic the Hedgehog, Donkey Kong 3. Adventures of Lolo 1 and 2, King's Knight, Dig Dug, Chu Man Fu.~

Decided to stop being angry and just vibe.

Got fucked over by an editor AGAIN who refused to accept that my style is tedious and underestimated the job, forcing me to have to do a mad dash at the last minute. Time to pull two all nighters to meet deadline AGAIN and still fucking pay for the shitty work since I try to be a good person.

Made this quick thumbnail for my 10 year blooper compilation. It's always great to see how much my content has evolved.

Been a while since I've done a blooper reel. Now available for all $5+ patrons. www.patreon.com/posts/bloope...

Why does every scalper like to flex how much money they have, but use AI avatars? Are they just pretending to be loaded? AI makes you look like a broke bitch.

The biggest advice I can give for saving money is bulk purchases and ESPECIALLY bulk cooking. Find cheap and nutritious meals that you can cook in bulk. Slow cooker and pressure cooker meals are AMAZING for this and require next to no culinary skill.

I bit off way more brand deals than I can chew and my current output would not be possible without the amazing co-writing and script advisement that @pirateprincessjess.bsky.social has been doing for the channel. She's legitimately one of the funniest and most insightful creators out there.

For something I rushed in a few days, this Spider-Man Noir script is one of the ones I'm proudest of in a while. I just hope we can keep up the momentum get it fully edited for Saturday. 🤞

@eriklarsen.bsky.social Hey, Mr. Larsen. What's with the frog guy in your recent Spider-Man: Noir series? Is he from something or am I just bad a reading comics? 😅

That ecstatic high when the clerk at your local comic shop tells you that you have good taste.

I'm extremely luckily to live in a city with many great local comic shops, but folks need to remember that not everyone has an LCS and not everyone has the space to store hundreds or even dozens of physical comic books. Digital comics are amazing and I'm tired of people pretending like they're not.

Shout out to @lucas7yoshi.com 's amazing TomodachiDrawer program so I can have custom items get drawn while I work on my next video's script.

A more casual video this week about how DC has been making pro-consumer moves lately and making big money as a result. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOJe...

Separately from my content grind, I've been given the opportunity to design a board game for a huge IP and the pitch video went out today. 🤞 If it gets picked up, it's really going to open the doors to release all of the original tabletop games that I've been designing over the past decade.

There's going to be a ton of new content coming from me since I need to catch up on some expenses that have crept up in my life. I've been crunching really hard, but also working with co-writers and editors to keep up with the workload. Despite the stress, I'm happy with how things are looking.

Now that every single one of my videos have sponsors, I make sure that I'm paying everyone who collaborates on the channel. Anyone that does work for me gets paid in cash, not exposure. HOWEVER, Sir_Superhero insisted that our recent collab was too much fun to be considered "work".

Called it.

I need more custom items in Tomodachi Life. What have y'all made?

It's wild to have both of these pop up the same week. Pick up Comic Book Boom right now and get a free Comic Drake promo card and you can pre-order Radiant Black #42 right now for my one page backup story.

I teamed up with @panelstopixels.bsky.social for a retrospective of 1996, the worst year in comic history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q4b...

Taking these past couple of weeks off of Bluesky has been just as good as when I left Twitter, so I'm going to continue as long as I can I don't like the person that social media encourages me to be and how it encourages other people to act. Channel updates will still be posted on @comicdrake.com

I wrote a one-page backup story for Radiant Black #42, which releases on May 27th. Pre-orders end on May 4th, so tell your local comic shop that you want it!

Legitimately sorry to anybody who had my embarrassing internet fight show up on their feed. That kind of shit is why I left Twitter in the first place. 🙄 Probably stepping away from this app for my own mental health for a decent while. For channel updates, I'll be posting on @comicdrake.com

I think I'm going to just start blocking anybody that has an AI profile pic that follows me. Those aren't people I want to have in my fanbase because I talk about comic books, something that requires respect for art and actual imagination.

To make it clear, cash has been tight lately, but regardless of how good the money is, I DO NOT take gambling sponsorships.

Continuing to blaze through Taskmaster as my dinner show and I'm blown away how series 11-15 have now dominated my top ten. I'm genuinelly excited to get up to 20.

Modern Marvel Comics is hilarious, because they're stuck in this pattern of doing this big, colossal, highly controversial changes that p*ss everyone off, then will quietly walk it back in a "B" story rather than making it the centerpiece of an event that would draw attention.

Needed to take a break from reading comics for work.

Keep going. Save yourself.

The wonderful @comictropes.bsky.social has only a little bit left needed to hit there goal and let them repair their home after a disaster. If you have the means, help these two great people out in their time of need. www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-re...