I Am Not Starfire has that immigrant parent and child flavor I love.

With a thousand apologies to the great @scottmccloud.bsky.social, Assorted Crisis Events 8 (out next month) is many things, but among them an ode to Understanding Comics, probably the most important comics text of all time, one I learn from each time I go back. It will be printed on newsprint!

Wishing them every success. Chicago has a wealth of "alternative/art house/repertory" movie venues. However, @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social is the only one that seems to advertise, promote, communicate, generate social media buzz, AND show movies I want to see, WHEN I WANT TO SEE THEM.

INTO THE UNBEING LIBRARY EDITION 09/16/26 Oversized at 8 x 12 inches and clocking in at 224 pages. This is the definitive way to experience the series. All 8 issues in one hardcover.

mitt romney vs. gavin newsom is gonna be

Reagan funded and armed death squads, left Americans to die during the AIDS crisis, destroyed the economic tools that built the 20th century, his allies committed treason in 1980 (at the bare minimum, above that Reagan might have been involved) and pioneered "own the libs" politics.

Reading "The Demon" by Jack Kirby and it really is the kind of horror comic you could only get from the King. 16 issues and here we go.

I would be a Tiktoker or actor if I wanted to be on video.

Lots of webcomics, free to read on my Patreon! There will be another update tomorrow morning at 10 AM, but there's loads to read and lots of illustrations like this one. Check it out at www.patreon.com/c/carlaspeed...

Tokyo Godfathers is now available to watch on the Criterion Channel ❤️

Been catching up on @gwillow.me Poison Ivy and man you know it's gonna be a lavish issue when you've got Mark Buckingham for an entire annual.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

Finding out Rob Reiner died is not the way I really wanted to end an evening. I grew up with him primarily for his work in All in the Family re-runs, but I don't know if we can even quantify properly how much impact he had over decades as a creative and political figure...

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

Wrote about how the late, great Rob Reiner had the most impossible 7-movie beginning to any director's career, and yet that's not even what he was most famous for:

Need to find some time for this one.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

I support this in theory but not in practice under current conditions. Things like “I have depression but can’t afford treatment” should not be how this goes yet that’s exactly the sort of outcome you get far too often

Finally catching up on D20 Fantasy High and I'm somewhat annoyed it took me this long to get into it. It's such a good synergy between players and DM.

In order to "protect women" Texas made it so that women have to go through armed guards with an ID check. They literally created a potty police.

Not only does this track, it pairs extraordinarily well with my 2020 feature on Kahane (and more importantly, the girlfriend he drove to suicide, Gloria D'Argenio): www.thecut.com/2020/04/the-...

The weather in Gaza grows worse and worse, and Sama'a has children to keep warm and fed. Please give what you can to help. tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily

Racists are not being let go for "thought crimes." They are being let go (IF they are even let go) for racist ACTIONS that harm business and people. If you don't want my business, just say so. Like Target did. But you don't deserve my money and the opportunity to abuse me.

Watching Nurse Jackie Season 3 and Coop might have had the most iconic crashout I've seen on TV in a minute.

Hearing all about the Steven Universe scuttlebutt from a friend of mine who's a fan and it's kind of wild how much the show went through in those halcyon days just for the crime of depicting lesbians.

Did a fair bit of writing on my recent gaming and reading exercises. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Please treat our treasured IP like trash

what we mean when we talk about Chicago excellence

Artists, shown us your red art

Artists, show us your red art

Looks like I know what I'm getting for Christmas.

My body is ready for some Moebius...

Did a fair bit of writing on my recent gaming and reading exercises. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Amanda Seyfried tells WhoWhatWear she won’t apologize for calling Charlie Kirk “hateful”: “I mean, for f**k’s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes.“

@steampowered.com better have a good explanation for this. Because it sure seems like the answer is they're completely okay with platforming bigots.

It's a day later and I still feel residual annoyance over the Kill Bill Fortnite garbage tacked on to the end of Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.

Trump’s obsession with me is beyond weird. He needs serious help. Since he has no economic policies to tout, he’s resorting to regurgitating bigoted lies instead. He continues to be a national embarrassment.

This is the long-term aspect that makes me believe the bubble will pop (along with the economy). Never mind they cannot turn a profit on it. What is it even useful for? It's all cargo cult magical thinking that seems to have no plan beyond force everyone to use it.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Watched the Fortnite collab included in the Kill Bill: The Whole Deadly Affair recut. It is one of the worst things Tarantino has ever done. Which is impressive considering this is the same week I found out about the whole Paul Dano thing.

Finally watched Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair. Actually my first time watching it in full beyond the first ten minutes. Really enjoyed it.

Reading Deadly Class HC vol 3. I gotta salute @remender.bsky.social, @wescraigcomics.bsky.social and co. for the sheer undying hatred of Ronald Reagan.

Finished up Tales of Graces f's main game... and now there's multiple post games. Sometimes I wonder if there's just too much.

Watching Ghosts of Mars and I had no idea how *young* Jason Statham is.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Watching Warner Bros actually doing good movies to suddenly getting sold off for parts is just... what are we doing here?

Bernie Sanders tells Democracy Now! that Zohran Mamdani’s successful campaign for mayor was a historic blueprint for the Democratic Party.

We're really just gonna be pressing the racism button for the next 3 years with minimal institutional pushback, huh?

So among the Joe Casey Wildstorm bibliography-- who else has read The Intimates? Enjoying it a lot right now.