The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

I am sitting at an outdoor cafe on Beverly Blvd in Los Angeles — which I drove to in my battery-powered car — and I have seen a dozen driverless cars and five delivery robots go by. I suppose this is the future, but I thought there'd be more utopia and less "I guess I'm just tired all the time."

If I didn't live in California I'd move to Illinois.

Huge Thanks to Everyone who came to our Comixology: Lights, Camera, Comix panel. More thanks to our panelists for bringing such lovely conversation: @pornsak.bsky.social, @marcbernardin.bsky.social, Thomas Jane & @marcguggenheim.bsky.social. And thank you to @comixology.bsky.social for inviting us!

My one panel at #NYCC! The one place I’m guaranteed to be! Come say hi.

Sad to hear about the passing of the Michelangelo of Movie posters, RENATO CASARO. The Man painted so many iconic posters, specially in the 70s/80s: CONAN, TERMINATOR, DUNE, TOTAL RECALL, DANCE WITH THE WOLVES, BLOW OUT, FLASH GORDON, RAMBO, NEVER-ENDING STORY, and the list goes on and on. 1/2

Heading back east next week to spend a couple of days under the New York sky for @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social. Lemme know if you’re gonna be there too.

I'm sure there's a completely sound engineering reason why electric vehicles don't have solar panels on the roof...right?

Nine-nine! We’re back in LA, baby! Next week, me and Kevin Smith are gonna shake the pillars of heaven (i.e., the Scum and Villainy Cantina) with a brand new #FatmanBeyond. Tickets at seesmod.com

I found a Carvel today in Freeport, NY and it was everything I remember from my childhood — hollow, sticky, and delicious. (They ain’t got Carvels in LA.)

To which I add this wonderful Bruce Sterling passage, which for many years I kept beside my keyboard.

I mean, Nazis are back. They’re just playing the evil hits.

I’m heading back to the coast of my birth where Kevin Smith and I will roll a Jersey Fatman Beyond! Sunday, August 31, at 6pm…come on down to SModCastle Cinemas and spend the last Dog Day of Summer with us! Tickets on sale now! www.smodcastlecinemas.com/movie/Fatman...

I'm waiting!

A behind-the-scenes look at Marvel's new animated Black Panther spinoff 'Eyes of Wakanda' with writer @marcbernardin.bsky.social today on @forbes.com #Wakandaforever #MCU #Marvel #Blackpanther www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

Looks like my @newyorkcomiccon.bsky.social attendance is solidifying. At least one panel, I'll see if I can roll a signing somewhere. But if anyone else is looking for a stray panelist, I'll be there on Thursday and Friday...

Have you had a chance to check out our Kickstarter for Take Us North? We're still working toward our $60k stretch goal to include more unique features and levels like La Bestia. Humanize migrant and immigrant stories. Promote healing through art. Back us now: shorturl.at/bBSnE #wishlistwednesday

You do you, but that is an astonishingly bad read of Wakanda. White people are, like, super-low on the list of things Wakanda cares about. Especially in this show.

I’ll take it! #EyesOfWakanda

Never, never, never, ever gets old. #EyesOfWakanda

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

Hurry up, Friday! Can't wait until everyone gets to see Eyes of Wakanda: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODHh...

Well, I guess since my boss announced it on Friday, I don’t have to be coy about the day job any more. I’m on the writing staff of the #GodOfWar TV show. Huzzah.

Best #SDCC moment of the day - @marcbernardin.bsky.social getting the whole room chanting "Let Phil in!"because the Blerd panel room was full, and they wouldn't let Phil F-ing Lamarr in.

Hey, friends! If you happen to be at #SDCC this weekend, I'd love to see you. Stop by and say hi!

Update #2: We’re pushing the #FatmanBeyond review of Superman until tomorrow night, to let folks get one more day unspoiled. (By us, anyway.) So, Monday at 8pm PST. Me and @thatkevinsmith will see you then.

For this piece, I interviewed @marcbernardin.bsky.social and @rothcornet.bsky.social, who hosted this phenomenal podcast about the time the Superman radio show took on white supremacists. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

The right-wing backlash against #Superman has happened before. Here’s my @vanityfair.com report w/ the full history —starting with April 1940, when the official SS newspaper attacked the comic book hero & its creators. Plus, that time Superman fought the KKK… 🔗 www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Sunday night, Kev and I will get down on the new Superman flick on #FatmanBeyond, streaming on the Tubes of You.

This looks pretty sweet. Of course, I'm a bit biased, since I'm a writer-producer on it. But still... www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1uw...

The administration is threatening to strip the citizenship of a man voters chose to serve as the Democratic Party’s nominee for Mayor of New York City because they don’t like his political views. Just straight up fascist shit, no chaser.

William Gaines (and Al Feldstein) literally yelled "FUCK YOU!" into the phone Charles Murphy, hung up on his ass, and ran this as-is. The Comics Code Authority had no stated rules regarding this content, but tried to block it anyway, which is all you need to know about how the CCA was implemented.

AILF #NaughtyASitcom

Tony Gilroy has really done America a huge service by cleverly reminding audiences how fascism slowly constricts freedom through what appear inevitable consequences.

Los Angeles, 2025 📸 afpphoto

Happy birthday, Prince.

second best

There's a practice/custom in fine dining restaurants called staging. (Pronounced "stahzh-ing." It's kinda French.) It's where chefs will audit another kitchen for a week or so. It's a relic from when there were no culinary academies. You may remember it from The Bear. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ABx...

Time to post it again.

5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

I've been thinking about this question for a long time. Seriously, I wrote about it for The Hollywood Reporter like eight years ago: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I would like someone who does #StarWars to produce a scene for me. A quiet scene, really. Probably post Endor. In which Mon Mothma, in a private moment, lights a candle for Luthen Rael and another for Cassian Andor. That she makes a point to remember them every year, even if history has forgotten.

Who better than writer/producer/director @marcbernardin.bsky.social to dissect two movies about making movies? 🍿 Tune in tonight at 8PM ET/5PM PT for a Double Take double feature of JCVD and THE STUNT MAN on Shout! Movies. www.shout-tv.com

#FBF a few years back during lockdown, my friend @marcbernardin.bsky.social created a charity event online to support #blacklivesmatter he gathered a bunch of his nerdy friends to shoot monologues from some of our favorite genre films. This was my humble offering.

Man, this was so much fun to do. Hope you dig my awful posture...

I haven’t been able to keep this thought out of my mind all day: I bet Beyonce doesn’t own a pull-out sofa bed.

“Bustin’ makes me feel good”

I'm staying with my mom for a few days, which means we're watching a fair number of game shows. I never gave Pat Sajak or Alex Trebek enough credit for being engaged, because Ryan Seacrest and Meredith Viera look bored as FUCK hosting Wheel and 25 Words or Less. Like, you signed up for this. Try.

If you were curious about how Ryan Coogler and his team constructed that musical sequence in Sinners, here’s a clip of him explaining it. (Via The NY Times 😒)

Seriously. If there were actual vampires in the work, Stoker woulda gotten staked.