When it Happens by Milton Lawson on Apple Music Playlist · 20 Songs

Hey folks, when it happens, I've got the playlist ready. Bookmark it: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

Review of "Black Zombie" -- new documentary at SXSW: screenreflections.com/sxsw-premier...

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It’s why I prefer to call them environments instead of backgrounds. They inform character and are crucial to visual storytelling.

The cover to IS TED OK? issue 1

Hey hi, MONDAY 2.2.26 is the last day for your local comic shop to pre-order the first issue of IS TED OK? so I’m gonna share some pages and nice things people have said about it. Sound good?

Please share if you feel like it. This book RIPS and I need everyone to buy a copy or two!

New film review by me up at Screen Reflections:

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Are Franchises Cursed? - Cathode Ray Zone Daniel Kaufman and Milton Lawson discuss the franchising of popular genre entertainment. The catalyst for this discussion was Dan's piece, "The Franchise Curse." This is the launch of a new CRZ podcas...

Comic writer extraordinaire @citizenmilton.com and I discuss the “franchise curse” plaguing contemporary popular entertainment.

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Kathleen Kennedy was a wonderful custodian for Star Wars; she attracted brilliant talent, supervised several amazing projects, continued LucasFilm's tradition of innovation, & had the balls to massively course-correct, saving Rogue One & Solo. I fear her replacement will be someone far less skilled.

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Download this image and shove it in her scowling privileged face everywhere she goes.

Rick Rubin should continue the AMERICAN album series originally featuring Johnny Cash to extend with Eddie Vedder on vocals. They could do an entire volume of Tom Petty songs to relaunch and it’d be incredible.

Cover for Made in Delco, a comic anthology. A cup of coffee, hoagie, Wawa-coded.

Digital rewards for Made in Delco have been sent out. If you read it, I’d love to know what you think. Physical copies should be here in a few weeks. Thanks to @hvon.bsky.social @wellsthomp.bsky.social & @batmanandsobbin.bsky.social for all their help. @comicbookyeti.com

I hope the No Kings folks organize a march on Washington on March 6th, Rob Reiner’s birthday. Meatheads unite.

Rob Reiner brought so much joy, wonder & laughter to the world. Meathead vs Archie, the Stand By Me kids, Misery's sledgehammer to the ankle, "You can't handle the truth," "I'll have what she's having," "My name is Inigo Montoya," & so many more. He lived a life turned to 11. He'll be sorely missed.

And here's my conversation with @citizenmilton.com about "franchises."

#comics
#scifi

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Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

Going to delete all of the video editor details on my resumé and replace it with this:

a woman is standing in front of a sign that says it 's true . ALT: a woman is standing in front of a sign that says it 's true .

PSA: before you post that critique of Stranger Things claiming to have found a period-specific inaccuracy: consult a Gen-Xer. And they will tell you--

IS TED OK? is a WILD ride; entirely original yet resonates with the madness of contemporary life in ways I haven't seen any comics do near this well. If you put NETWORK, THEY LIVE, BLACK MIRROR in a blender, then snorted DMT with Grant Morrison, you'd be halfway to where IS TED OK? sends you.

Perhaps you've been spared the discourse post the world series but what I am responding to are the surprising number of folks who seem to think that "owners spending more" would be a singular solution

Of course it does! It has a salary cap and floor. MLB has neither currently.

And last year's super bowl featured two teams with total team salaries in the bottom half of the league.

Converting MLB to an NFL system =/= "bottom owners spending more", it's a total partnership with revenue share etc

That assumes infinite elite talent. It's a finite commodity. Besides. I'm not interested in an economic arms race. An NFL style system is far superior. I'd rather enjoy a system where owner budgets are irrelevant and put more focus on the field.

MLB fans who want the system's problems "solved" by bottom-tier owners spending more are advocating for a business competition between billionaires. I'd rather see baseball outcomes decided on baseball fields, not on spreadsheets. Equitable talent distribution increases on-field competitiveness.

Stranger Things rewatch with my young Dachshunds. Discovering that season 4 sure does have a lot of doorbells and barking.

Chips Ahoy vs Keebler Soft Batch
VHS vs Beta
Leno vs Letterman

America always makes the wrong choice

My Mount Rushmore of "never had a bad episode" TV shows:
The Office (UK)
Better Call Saul
Late Night with David Letterman (NBC)
The Joy of Painting

Ooh boy. Y'all gotta order this one. Dave is on fire with his books!

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE flies by with such velocity when it ended I literally did a Sopranos-finale double-take thinking my TV had glitched or skipped ahead.

Bookmarking.