cool and normal and good how it was never okay after this, and how marvel had literal decades of proof that this was an incredibly creatively AND financially successful model, proof of concept of their whole deal, And Yet
Immensely frustrating book counter to most of the things I enjoy about science fiction and indeed being alive. But only capable of being so bad because it was so close to being so good.
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*gagging noise*
couple of ink originals i did to sell at SPICE! sold em both!
dear the government:
in lieu of bombs, please give my tax dollars to twentysomething cartoonists who - if this were the world of even a decade ago, but especially two or three decades ago - would be three to five seasons into developing cartoons for stoners, children, and dreamers
xoxo,
me
you could be reading Amy Leach's THE SALT OF THE UNIVERSE right now, which is a balm, and very funny besides, and has lines like:
"I guess if you have no pull you have to push. Our moon, the moon, being so big, does not need to come down and push the ocean around, but a mini-moon would have to do that. I prefer pully moons to pushy moons, and pully people to pushy people."
are we ready to admit this about Kingdom Come yet, as a culture
The show feels very lived-in. A theme that runs through the entire series is that you don't abandon people for their quirks, because everyone has quirks. You learn to navigate people. You learn what they love, what they fear, how you connect with them. A community is the map of family you create.
If you grew up in a rural/suburban area, the portrayal of city life in Hey Arnold! was fascinating. It lent the show a distinct energy - Arnold, his friends and the curious people they ran into turned the show into a kind of patchwork quilt. A good mix of the optimistic and the heartbreaking.
but anyway do the high profile signings of that whole comics on substack initiative even do comics on substack anymore? it feels like everyone has just kinda moved on, they took the money, made comics that they own and then published them at actual publishers
I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
This piece by @benjaminjriley.bsky.social is outstanding. It takes on the AI rhetoric that too many are consuming and regurgitating.
I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.
Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning
American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV
french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts
British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault
"America will be a country of consequences" is a message that I think would really resonate
Leo, speaking to reporters on a flight to Algeria ahead of a 10-day tour of several African nations, said: “I have no fear of the Trump administration, or speaking out loudly of the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do.” Asked directly about Mr. Trump’s comments on Truth Social, Leo said: “It’s ironic — the name of the site itself. Say no more.”
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When the Vatican has the moral high ground in a fight with you, you know you've fucked up
But you know you've REALLY fucked up when the dispute pushes the actual living POPE to call YOU "neocolonial"
there's that buddhist koan about "the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon" and there's a whole hell of a lot of business bros forgetting that one
literally none of these is anything at all like any of the others. apparently this is not a winning strategy, you know. but here we are thanks to idiots with degrees in business who couldn't find their way around a library to save their lives
the worst part of "we're only going to publish stuff exactly like the latest viral success is that here's a list of viral bestsellers off the top of my head:
-twilight
-Sanderson
-King
-dog man
-the fault in our stars
-the hunger games
-heartstopper
-the girl with the dragon tattoo
-murderbot
this studio claims to stand for things as core to the 'ancient humans around a fire' thing as 'storytelling in general' and yet is clearly run and financed by needle-brained sicko little incels whose idea of Heaven is a techbro campus.
storytelling is either for everybody or it's a spreadsheet.
i realize I say this as a femme-ass little queer but so much of what is good and generous and healing in my life comes from girls women and various subversive limp-wristed folks of all sorts of genders, and it's so boring and disgusting that these people see nothing of value in that direction
come to our limitless world of possibility and imagination where bold visionaries weave the universal human story unless you have cooties. also we're all like 65.
Young boys need to read more goddamn books because this is an entirely rational market response to who actually reads and it drives me up the fucking wall when half the shelf space at any independent bookstore is this shit
The fact that reading, of all things, is now gender-coded makes me wish I could dose myself with some sort of amnestic.
who called it Beyond Meat and not Parallel Porking?
[becoming incredibly wise] The fight scenes in Silver and Bronze Age superhero comics have more in common with NFL broadcasts than they do with the action scenes in MCU movies
"If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be? In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.
so @tradespotting.bsky.social is now team "every superhero comic writer must read THE DISPOSSESSED"