This year mine was to unsubscribe to the first annoying/spammy email I deal with every day. Trying to do more than that is overwhelming, but doing at least one each day is so easy and satisfying

Do any comics writers/ letterers I know want to answer a quick couple questions about emphasis in dialogue, on the record?

Here's my regular pitch: if all you want to do is log, track, and tag things, use the Book Riot Reading Log. Adjust the date to 2026, but everything else should work as expected. You can skip GR/SG/whatever other *social* sites if your goal is to track and tag! bookriot.com/2025-reading...

The people who talk about expanding the tent are never, ever actually expanding the tent. They want to pick up the tent and move it rightwards. If the tent were getting bigger, letting in new people would not require pushing other people out, which the metaphorical expansion somehow always does.

I think how we understand time is core to how we conceptualize revolution.

I believe that I have the best idea for what the beginning of Avengers: Doomsday should be. Here’s a hint. (This is me pressuring myself to finish this zine, which is about the movie.) #Avengers #AvengersDoomsday #MarvelCinematicUniverse #MCU #Loki #Thor

Taking away podcasting equipment is an important part of the Swiss Cheese Model.

I’m not sure if these type of comments are normal over on the Mother Jones Instagram account but the “we shouldn’t be focusing on this/who cares about this/don’t pick on Jon!” comments on this post over there stink! This is literally the publication’s disability and public health beat reporter!

Because when Jon Stewart mocks mask wearers, he gives permission to the "polite liberal consensus" to do the same. Maher is just a jerk making content for other jerks

In a moment where RFK Jr is taking away life-saving vaccines and spreading health misinformation on an unprecedented scale, making comments that stigmatize other important layers of public health protections like mask wearing is not the play.

I am surrounded by lamentations that we are in silos, silo-this, silo-that, and I agree. But I’m starting to think a lot of people (those same people lamenting) like it that way. Or are ok with it. Defend it even, knowingly and unknowingly.

I went back to listening the the Neuromancer audiobook and, honestly, I’m just listening for the vibe now. I’ll re-read it later. I’ll listen to the audiobook again and read it in print. I actually want to! I’m glad I picked it up this year. Now I get the references!

Always grab a few fonts each year and send to my students to put it on their radar…

I still see so many posts from people with the "mystery cold that's the worst they ever had" after already mixing with elders and children. The "mystery cold" marches on.

must've had the date wrong, turns out it's actually TOMORROW that i'm fixing my brain/entire life

Expecting kids to be 100% calm, polite, or quiet in public is legitimately absurd.

You better watch out you better not cry you better not pout I’m telling you why because based on the data about flu and Covid levels Santa Claus is not the only thing coming to town.

If you think you honor Christmas, what you should honor is Palestinian infancy. Donate to the SAMEER PROJECT linktr.ee/thesameerpro... and, if you have a workshop to offer, donate it to @workshops4gaza.bsky.social - it was a great experience when I did this (www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/the...).

So I am going to say something about romance as a genre. A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>. This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.

It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first. You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.

PLURIBUS FINALE SPOILER HERE, TOO: The way they up and left, walked right out of the village was SO weird! It emphasized how much of a set it was for their act. As a viewer, it felt like a strange fourth wall broke… Horror!

How…did I not put Earth X on my Christmas wishlist?

When Zosia explains what the hive intends to do, and Carol iirc and enough viewers go “whats the point, what’s the goal?” it reminds me of “you might not care about Covid, but Covid cares about you”. The virus is trying to virus! I mean, radio waves? But still. #pluribus

I can really respect people who don’t want to film themselves for their YouTube channels but now I have too many experiences of going, “Is this voice over using an AI-generated voice?” ugh

I worked so hard this year that I broke my desktop. My misfortune is now your gain. Signed copies of Roots of Madness are available on my Ko-fi, including a bundle of all three issues. Please like, share, or treat yourself or a loved one to Roots of Madness. ko-fi.com/s/d52d044a1b

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (November)

not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so

The return of thin culture fueled by medical intervention happening at the same time as attempts to ban gender affirming care is too much

It’s probably not just coincidence but I did became much more interested in Doctor Doom this year. So many people talk about him do I was mostly just curious. Then I read some comics and was like, huh, ok, I could keep reading this character.

Getting into and becoming a fan of Marvel stuff in Phase 4 of the MCU is so weird. People lament a time I didn’t experience during the Infinity Saga (that I even refer to it as that…) while I’m over here enjoying plenty since 2021.

At this point they really should just make the posters read ‘LOOK!! WE GOT RDJ AND CHRIS EVANS! PLEASE COME BACK!’.

I seriously think most problems today are due to an increased inability to experience empathy. An epidemic of people psychologically incapable of putting themselves in someone's shoes and understanding how people feel unless it literally like-for-like is happening to them.

If someone is aware enough to not just hear that I like comics but also ask me “what kind?”, my recent reading experiences are such that I could say “comics about birds”.

I’m not in academia but I’m interested in learning AND crediting work so AI-generated academic papers stress me the hell out.

Someone should make a reality show that's just comic book people on dates.

Of all the reasons I hate GenAI, I think the feelings of distrust it encourages between teacher and student, between colleagues, within communities, might just be the part that upsets me most.

If you see this listing pop up on Amazon, just know that it is NOT the comic by @stephwilliams.bsky.social and @ignitionpress.bsky.social It's an author who had the cover copied to sell his own book. Ignition is on it, but this is brazen theft.

So many fonts are starting to look like ChatGPT-derived fonts to me now, whether they are or not. Stop it!

My favorite part of the holidays? It’s the rats in productions of The Nutcracker dancing on social media season!

Ew. And no.

Reject AI and annoy a billionaire.

Physical manifestation of an economy focused around futures speculation.

I'm not even going to pretend I'm not anti-AI. But you can really see the massive flaws when people attempt to get AI to produce sequential art. AI can't replace a comic creator or movie director. I don't think it ever will.

First, this ad was hot garbage and I'm glad it's gone. But second, why are we so capable of seeing this slop for what it is in commercial advertisements yet so relatively passive in the face of AI intrusion into education? Is it just that it's less visible? A conundrum.

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

I know a professor who makes sure to bring donuts to the last day of classes. And I know a professor who makes sure to bring candy to the last day of classes. And I know a masked professor who makes sure not to bring viruses to the last day of classes.

It’s free unfortunately, in fact they got rid of late fees so it’s the most free it’s ever been Sorry if that’s a deal breaker

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

The way people tell me not to bother speaking out against gen AI because ‘it’s too late’ like I’m sorry tell that to NFTs and other such nonsense. Interest speaks, fam …