Just added a few new pages to the supernatural western webcomic I'm working on with @culturepulp.bsky.social ! You can read the comic here for free, though my patrons get early access to pages, so if you like to stay ahead of the game, consider joining my Patreon as well. greattrainhaunting.com
On KBOO this morning talking with my old pal D.K. about “The Running Movie,” ON THE EDGE, and Rob Nilsson.
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In which SPIDER-MAN 3 is fan-edited down into a TWILIGHT ZONE episode. youtu.be/YDzSjRKUXuA?...
"I believe it was the Blank Check spinoff podcast Critical Darlings who, earlier this month, said that the Oscars this year would feel like a birthday and funeral happening at the same time. Which proved to be extremely true last night."
www.garbageday.email/p/the-death-...
Didn't get a chance to pick up our GREAT TRAIN HAUNTING ashcan at ECCC? Cat is posting pages on her Patreon. Consider supporting! She's the best!
Oh, sorry -- meant to send you a screenshot of the passage in question:
Just wrote an absurdly long deep-dive on that movie (a personal-fave running film), and in fact there's a section where the writer/director and I talk about the genesis of that look: bymikerussell.substack.com/p/the-runnin...
When your grandson asks you to design him a bespoke Sabertooth Vampire 2026 calendar, you must oblige
... You'll find @cattifer.bsky.social at table K-10 at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social this weekend. She drew the heck out of this and I'm REALLY excited to start getting this story out there. Consider stopping by and perusing all her books. She's rad.
(BONUS: Script-to-page comparison!)
But that's not all! @cattifer.bsky.social and I also cooked up a bonus Gully Jump Gang story for @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social 's charity zine, which has a "fables" theme this year. Can our adorable Old West bandits rob the Tortoise AND the Hare? Grab the zine and find out...
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My mission statement when I wrote this was "come up with wild things for @cattifer.bsky.social to draw." If you ever wanted to see a bunch of tiny horses tumble through the air onto a riverboat deck, followed by a TNT-fuse poker game with a witch and a talking vulture, do we have a comic for you....
This 36-page, full-color ashcan (words by me, pictures by @cattifer.bsky.social ) introduces you to the Gully Jump Gang (Beckett, Phylo, Ivory, and Mell) as they rob a riverboat casino with their usual airborne panache....
If you're at @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social this weekend, you can grab an exclusive look at the all-ages comic @cattifer.bsky.social and I have been pulling together!
Cat's selling an ashcan collecting the first chapter of THE GREAT TRAIN HAUNTING, our supernatural comedy Western....
Right? Wall to wall!
Surprisingly good running songs (an ongoing series):
Incredible sweat-soaked cover of Fela Kuti’s all-timer; vocals by Fela’s son Seun. YouTube recommends this song to me pretty much daily. It knows.
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Made a four-page comic about my favorite running movie for issue 47 of my favorite running magazine, Like the Wind. Colors by the great @mudron.bsky.social .
Available here:
www.likethewindmagazine.com/shop/issue-4...
It’s #ShaneBlackFriday — time to gather round the Yuletide screen for a double feature of beloved holiday classics KISS KISS BANG BANG and THE NICE GUYS.
(Thx to @briannaduggan.bsky.social for the illustration)
![Kamasi Washington - Clair de Lune [Official Audio]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hs7brqlcwpwt7nc3r3ax2ggx/bafkreihbjyl2v43zaztoqmlj4duz5kihpxw3rrdqofvfipew7z4rdyb5mu)
Kamasi Washington’s jazz version of “Claire de Lune” is absolutely wrecking me today.
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Totally. A good chunk of the final race music samples this Pilhofer composition: youtu.be/cI6pWhvFYvs?...
(At one point I made a super-lofi bootleg of the score just for myself that minimizes the dialogue and sound effects. Listen to it on runs all the time. [Nerd.])
Agreed, and you might enjoy a thing I just wrote on that very movie:
open.substack.com/pub/bymikeru...
You can also download the essay in other formats (including a zine PDF) from here: www.bymikerussell.com/runningmovie
Here's an essay years in the making:
In 2019 I decided to run the Dipsea Race because of a movie I saw in 1986. The race got pandemic-delayed. So I started interviewing the people who made the movie — Bruce Dern, Pam Grier, and many others.
The result:
bymikerussell.substack.com/p/the-runnin...
As the Shane Black fan who commissioned this bit of handcrafted glory, please believe me when I tell you @briannaduggan.bsky.social
Is the goods and hiring her to make things is the smartest move imaginable
Proper advice from the great @lubellwoo.bsky.social ….
Pencils down on a longform essay I've been researching off and on for the past six years. Started as a pandemic hobby, ended with me on the phone with Bruce Dern for three-and-a-half hours. Whoops! Now in edits. More at some point.
It is possible that if you zoom in on Steve's extraordinary "Jimmy Olsen" cover and scan the crowd, you'll find a Sabertooth Vampire t-shirt under the face of a familiar-looking man. This man may be making the agonized expression of someone who bet his entire 401k on the fight's outcome.
