The Nerd Inferno omnibus, out April 28th from Dark Horse Comics.

The out of print Eltingville Club collection

The out of print Milk & Cheese collection

The out of print Dork collection

ONE WEEK!

THE ELTINGVILLE CLUB is back in print!
MILK & CHEESE is back in print!
DORK is back in print!

In one big, bad clusterfuckathon 648-page omnibus of comics that have won 5 Eisner Awards, Two Harveys and an Ignatz.

NERD INFERNO! pub @darkhorse.com

It's real! It's $35! Beware! Prepare!

Oh good, it isn't just me. I was wondering what was wrong with my phone.

if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.

Also not shown: Walter Matthau, who played Columbo in the non-canonical feature films, "Lt. Columbo and the Smug Murder Suspects" and "Smug Murder Suspects' Invasion L.A. 1974 A.D.".

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ to try.

Also, FWIW:

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ to try.

"...it was almost inevitable that a weaponized DOJ would try something like this. Discrediting the SPLC is a way of retroactively rehabilitating everyone the SPLC ever exposed."

As a former donor (and now future donor), paying informants represents the kind of activities I was concerned they were less focused on in the 2000s. Donors not only wouldn't be shocked, the main/sole concerns/objections would be the strategic ones @andycraig.bsky.social is alluding to here.

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges related to past use of paid informants The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges related to its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.

These assholes are gunning for civil forfeiture partly because some of them are still hurt that the SLPC took the Aryan Nations' commune and IP from them in a successful 2000 lawsuit that bankrupted the AN. Goddamn fascists.

Ffs, the alleged fraud is that they took donors' money... and used it towards the kinds of "aggressive" efforts donors wanted it used for.

Folks on the broad left who'd become skeptical of the SPLC were afraid they were using donations for conferences and paying Morris Dees (until he was fired).

I'm not thrilled by how the SPLC has been managed over the last decade or so, but I'm even less thrilled by the government targeting civil liberties organizations on principle and fascists targeting them because their feelings are hurt by being called what they are.

I'll try to budget a donation.

An even weirder miracle when one remembers there was a kind of stunt casting aspect to RDJ (an actor with a troubled history) as Tony Stark (a character with a similarly troubled history).

Though maybe it's not irony. Maybe it made "don't fuck this up" a prevailing ethos throughout the era.

Thing is, that's the canon, notwithstanding generations of readers (deliberately?) misunderstanding "A Scandal In Bohemia".

Post a character that starts with the letter J (first or last).

Clicking back through the chain, and no one's done this one yet? Or did I just miss it?

#DnD character idea: A tax auditor who is following the rest of the party to ensure that they're declaring all of their adventuring income.

I found this educational, and it explained puzzles like Without A Clue existing despite the Doyle estate being so weirdly overprotective and humorless.

It also explains why there are Holmes pastiches like August Derleth's Solar Pons stories where you wonder why it's not just a Holmes story.

What's an Avatar sequel?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised Dersh was a Dem. I guess the fact I'm mildly but not really surprised also explains why he didn't need to write this, but I guess he really wanted to. Still, I guess there's no reason for me to read it.

Thing is, in all seriousness, this is one of the most important thresholds/crossroads you can reach in practicing an art or skill. And some people's inability to appreciate that fact is fueling a lot of resentment and toxic culture.

As an aside, I remember when Republicans seemed to consider public art and architecture a waste of taxpayer money. An attitude I used to resent but now feel nostalgia towards thanks to their decision to do a 180° for the benefit of a guy whose tastes have been notoriously gauche his entire life.

And is it really *that* hard to access help menus or to Google it?

Not that you're likely to get a great result from a search engine these days, thanks to....

remember that atlantic article that pretended to be a first person account of a mother's loss of a child from measles? this is the real thing and it's brutal.

Today marks 10 years without Prince

🙏💜🕊️☔️

Those are definitely good things for the '80s, I must admit.

Good 🧵

The point of the Court is to maintain general confidence in the lawfulness of the government

By creating a mechanism, as fair as it can be made, for ensuring that lawless measures do not go into effect

In the absence of this function, everything breaks down. Sound familiar?

Oh, and Donald Trump is basically a product of the 1980s and his brain being stuck in 1989 is a huge part of everything being fucked right now.

Hell, the main reason the music was so good (aside from the whole "best music is from when you were a teenager" phenomenon) is that everyone was pissed, depressed, or pissed and depressed.

Do I have to? Is a gun being held to my head? We had good music and some good movies (and some that were not good). We also had Ronald Fucking Reagan, fear of imminent nuclear war, the Satanic Panic, the high water era of televangelism, AIDS, Jack Welch, and Friedmanomics.

Dudes, it sucked.

Never forget: We've had Nazis running around our country since the invention of Nazis. Our generation must fight this battle anew, but we've won before and we will win again. If there's one thing Americans are good at, it's fighting Nazis.

In a world full of Prescott Bushes, be a Smedley Butler.