!!!

Submitted for your perusal, a story Kevin and I have been thinking about for years, its hour come at last, slouches toward you this April Fool's Day! The eponymous creature brought to glorious life by the great Nick Pitarra.

Come onnn, look at this beauty. Bizarro: Year None. Coming April. Be there or be square. We've been working really hard on this.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

He said he was quitting comedy and, by God, he’s a man of his word

Read this book urgently, and with your whole body.

Simply start your movie with a new actor and after +/- 5 minutes of intrigue, have him identify himself with 1.5 units of his name. Easy!

It's so, so good.

The most absurd thing about Cuomo saying his opponent is inexperienced is that Mamdani keeps dropping a load of bricks on Cuomo's head every time he turns around, old school take no prisoners style.

If I find out you were recording me with Meta glasses and you have gone to the trouble of disabling the recording light, I will break your Meta glasses while they are still on your face.

An unsung hero of the ALIEN franchise (and terrific ad copy) has departed. deadline.com/2025/10/barb...

The weekend is here!

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

I’m no movie art expert, but the thing that always grabbed me about Drew Struzan’s art was that the figures in his work always looked like they were made of light. (Yeah yeah, “luminous beings.”) It’s a quality that, of course, maps to movie imagery so perfectly.

With illustrations by my brother, Robert!

For #HalloweenMonth I am also flogging my #gaslampsteampunk series #EnchanterChronicles #booksky #readersky #booksky.club Magician Leopold Kazsmer has learned the dangerous art of summoning Jewish daemons to perform true magic to fight the supernatural. www.jeriwesterson.com/series/the-e...

This is still our cultural apex, I think

Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League is the kind of book I have sorely missed - @gregrucka.com and @nicolascottart.bsky.social just nailing their own little corner of the DC universe. Issue 3 was beautiful and lived-in and fully realized. And a cameo from the Black Magick logo too. Gimme more.

“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.”

I realize there's a lot going on but I want streamers to stop alphabetizing movies so that anything with a "the" in the title ends up in the Ts.

FYI: The Academy Award-winning makeup artist behind such films as BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, and THE CELL has passed away.

"And most importantly, we are total alpha males..."

Star Trek: The Next Generation started 38 years ago today. The future began again at this (Encounter at Far)point.

Once again, the moderate position is for ICE to be abolished and Border Patrol to be gutted, and massive civil rights prosecutions leading to prison time. Anybody running on anything less is kicking the can down the road.

Today in 1983 Stanislav Petrov saved the human race. On duty at the Soviet early warning command centre, he refused to warn superiors of radar reports of an incoming US strike. It proved to be a false alarm. If the Soviets had responded it would have been all out nuclear war.

Alan's scripts were conversations with the artist, and as such, highly readable and pleasurable to work from. Here's a scan of pg. 1 of SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #20, Alan's first-ever issue, when he didn't know who the artist would end up being (it was Dan Day, pencils, John Totleben, inks)...

At school a teacher gave us part of an Alan Moore Swamp Thing script for an assignment. It was detailed, but not like this. I loved doing that homework. Working with @stephenrbissette.bsky.social & John Totleben, his scripts were full of helpful scene-building detail. Inspiring, not smothering!

Out today: I read THE LAST STARSHIP early, and what I said then was true—it was one of my favorite beginnings of any Trek story ever. I knew @hivemindactual.bsky.social first as fans, then as friends. This is high, gothic TREK. And @adrianbcomics.bsky.social does something extraordinary here.

Illustrations by the great Noel Sickles for the 1955 Reader's Digest Books edition of Alan Le May's The Searchers

PLAYLIST: All tracks written, performed, produced or remixed by Trent Reznor in the order they were released to the public. Singles, b-sides, collabs, soundtracks, remixes of his own music (no remixes of NIN by other artists). A fascinating 35 years of evolution. open.spotify.com/playlist/2Vh...

I liked this one, and you might too.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

🎵Take my love, take my land, Take me where I cannot stand. I don't care, I'm still free, You can't take the sky from me.🎵 Firefly started 23 years ago today on Fox.

Happy Batman Day - I remain proud of this dive into the character. Winston Duke made a great Bruce Wayne, and I think we had some great takes on some Rogues Gallery personal favorites like Cornelius Stirk, and Hugo Strange. open.spotify.com/episode/5dEd...

Batman Year One art by David Mazzucchelli. #comics #art

People legit yelled at me for 24 hours when I said it's extremely dumb to RSVP to a protest. Why hand your name over to a group organizing a protest/rally? Do you *want* to have to talk to the FBI? Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.

"I can't believe Brazil of all places managed to do this while the US couldn't" My brother in Christ, what do you mean by "of all places"? We have public healthcare, actual vaccination policies and advanced electronic voting. Your prejudice against South Americans is showing

Style lessons from Robert Redford, one of the most stylish men in the last century. 🧵

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

!!!

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Some of the best stuff I worked on for the show is in here. Fun sliding doors curio if you love the show.

When people ask what I'm watching right now:

We had a long talk with Foundation showrunner David S. Goyer about the twists in the season 3 finale, the lesson he learned working with Chris Nolan, and more.

One thing you can't accuse the season finale of #foundation of is predictability.

Foundation Finale Interview: Bayta Mallow Actor Synnøve Karlsen

WIRED spoke to Lee Pace on the eve of the season finale of “Foundation” about clone consciousness, robot gods, and what’s next for the newly renewed show. www.wired.com/story/lee-pa...

It mostly obscures spoilers, but if you are very averse, beware.

Roxann!!