Cover of the Snocaps album
Mail call—I held off on listening to the Snocaps album for the past 5-1/2 months until my physical copy arrived and while the Crutchfields don’t try to recapture their PS Eliot glory this thing is positively lovely on its own terms. It’s great to hear Katie and Allison‘s voices together again.
Comic panel caption: You sit at the window all night long, and you hope, hope for death to strike the old man down…Hope that he won’t recover at all! Image: Man looking out window at night, saying “Die, then! Die, die, die! I’ve been waiting for you…a long, long time!”
All of us every day on Bluesky
Thor 337, Daredevil 131, Amazing Spider-Man 194, and a 9-issue run of McFarlane Amazing Spider-Mans
Tomorrow I’m taking these to go live upstate at the comic store credit farm
10-star comment, kicking myself for not seeing it, grateful for your existence
The cover of Uncanny Tales #17; “I Live With Corpses!”
The cover of Mystic #21: “The Honey-mooners!”
Bill Everett understood the Great Trinity of effective cover design: A full moon, a bat, and a headless dude carrying a lady
As someone who absolutely loved freak-folk Beck and Dust Brothers Beck, man do I thoroughly, consistently dislike mopey, Nigel Godrich-produced, Nick Drakey Beck. Sea Change, Morning Phase, this new track—not my bag.
A guy, we’ll call him Bill Stencil, convinced me that social media dynamics were making my outlook too negative, so I muted him and he’s right, now I feel much better
In this comic panel from Marvel Tales #94, 1949, miserly landlord Andrew Ashendrew is shocked to discover that his new bride is hideously ugly—the evil glasses given to him by a Devil figure had made her look beautiful to him
After murdering his wife and stealing his employers money for a beautiful gypsy woman, he learns that without the magic glasses she gave him she’s a repulsive hag; in a close-up panel she says “SORRY, MR. HOPKINS!”
Bill Everett sure loved magic glasses that tricked awful men into seeing ugly crones as beautiful young women
A line from the 1934 Raymond Chandler story I’m reading: “Mallory followed the path to the edge of a bluff that looked out over the lighted part of Hollywood.” I love thinking about there being lighted and unlighted parts of Hollywood.
Martian guy who’s only seen one machine: “This machine is giving me real Dr. Erdel’s machine vibes”
Celtics in 3
A piece of tape turns the sign for Bullock St. in Brattleboro Vermont into Buttock Street
If I knew who did this I would hire them for my creative department
Cover of the Atlas Creator Collection book focused on Bill Everett
This book is so good
A comic panel with a couple of rocket pilots in the far-flung future of 1963
Did Bill Everett cast Wally Wood in this story? Or did Wally just look like a Bill Everett character?
I thought I was numb to bad takes at this point but “I don’t think corporations should ever lose copyrights to public domain” wakes me right up, reminds me anew of the pain of being alive
Screenshot of bluesky scroll; “These 5 words make women want you” directly above a post saying “The Defenders of the Earth” showing photos of Flash Gordon, Mandrake, and The Phantom from serials and movies
Timeline victory
We are seeking a goal-oriented 7-foot tall Egyptian zombie Pharoah wrapped in gauze for a full-time position stalking archaeological dig sites and museum corridors. Experience with magic amulets preferred.
Talking about the US like he’s trying to convince a producer to put us on the next season of Big Brother is maybe his lamest behavior
Our duly elected low-rent PR flack
“The USA is killing it in the 25-44 demo! Have you seen our Q rating?”
Also Captain Atom—Broderick was great on that book
Promo shot from Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, close-up of revived dead little girl looking creepy
2026 Mummy: Zero credit for doing something different
“Mummy” as bald shirtless dude
1999 Mummy: cut it out
frame from cartoon; wrapped mummy with arms raised, being menacing
Scooby-Doo mummy: YES
A & C being choked out by a giant wrapped mummy
Abbott and Costello mummy: YES
The mummy in human form, wearing a fez
…then no for the rest of the picture
bandaged mummy in sarcophagus, arms crossed
1932 Mummy: Yes, for like two minutes
Now my helmet’s on, you can’t tell me I’m not in space (Kool Keith, Dr. Octagon)
I remember being in Newbury Comics in Cambridge MA in 1991, asking a clerk if they had The Pod by Ween, only to be told “Why would anyone want that, Ween sucks”
Platner is the Geese of politicians
A cartoon image of a mummy wrapped head to toe in bandages staggering forward from its sarcophagus with its arms out in front of it
If your mummy isn’t wrapped head to toe in bandages and staggering forward with his arms out in front of him fuck you you’re doing it wrong