I don’t know much about British politics but what I do know is that “Wes Streeting” is Keir Starmer’s biological son.

Ironically treating the dinosaurs like regular animals instead of monsters makes the idea of a Jurassic Park type scenario much scarier. This is why Jurassic Park is an undisputed classic and Jurassic World fucking sucks.

"Dinosaur Sanctuary" Vol. 2 by Itaru Kinoshita and Shin-Ichi Fujiwara. Doing a story about a big carnivore on the loose and then immediately following it with a story about the main character taking a tiny hatchling home with her creates real tension. How much damage can a dino out of its cage do?

This is true except there are no good diners in Vineland. Do NOT go to the Golden Palace.

New York City has more in common with Jersey than it does with the rest of New York anyway.

"Dinosaur Sanctuary" Vol. 1 by Itaru Kinoshita and research consultant Shin-Ichi Fujiwara. "Cute girl explains the writer's special interest" is a tried and true comic genre, and it was a smart choice to bolster it with little science essays from a real-deal expert.

I would just drop it, Snyder's always been better at starting stories than finishing them so I would assume its only going to get worse.

"Sidetrack" by Sophie Anderson and Arnaud Nebbache. This is so heavily inspired by the life of a real guy that I don't understand why they didn't just make it a biography.

Season 5 of Columbo. I think this is somehow the first time he’s solved a regular locked-room mystery?

I know I complain about the Image Comics solicits every month but I added it up and 40% of the single issues they are releasing in July are part of some form of "shared universe" thing. They've morphed into Dark Horse but without the manga.

My conspiracy theory about this is the shooter was an idiot fanboy using his gun scope as a telescope and fired by accident.

The whole time I was ready this I was wondering if readers in the Netherlands already knew about Guy Peellaert when this came out, and then the very first thing in the backmatter is an interview with a guy who's like "I read this as a kid and of course I already knew about Guy Peellaert."

"Iris: A Novel for Viewers" by Lo Hartog van Banda and Thé Tjong-Khing. This has two appropriately mean Twilight Zone twist endings back-to-back to really hammer home how much these guys think the pop music industry is corrupting the youth.

It’s a shitfaced Thor* saying “all I need do is let them battle until the very death—-“ Lee/ Kirby! Thor 179! *it’s actually Loki

New LET THEM FIGHT just dropped.

I'll go back to tumblr probably. Anything but x dot com.

You joke but Seth would make a better kids Spider-Man comic than anyone at Marvel right now could.

If DC/Marvel/Image/etc. aren’t going to make comics for kids, they should try making comics for adults for once.

Nothing cooler than a dog wearing sunglasses 😎

there are two things in life which I like very much.

bananas, & my dog Dave.

for this reason I have come to the tropics

with my dog Dave.

"Dave," a 1985 comic by the Portuguese cartoonist Miguel Branco from El Tebeo de la Biennal #1. My translation in the alt text

Strongly recommending Kurumizawa's Folly to anyone who has ever enjoyed one of those anecdotes about Bob Kane embarrassing himself in front of his editors.

For years the small press comics scene has been circling closer and closer to doing a modern version of the "Paradise 9" anthology-within-an-anthology from Heavy Metal Magazine #13. This one is so close it has to be intentional.

Tyler Landry

Miranda Smart

Izzy Liu

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"Hostile Planet" presented by Strangers Publishing. A good mix of newcomers and more established artists (is it really a small press anthology without a Tyler Landry story). Miranda Smart is new to me, I need more of that please.

I would trade every manga about a school for exorcist assassins for one (1) preachy science fiction comic.

I started reading "Kurumizawa's Folly" about a washed up manga artist in the 70s and the stuff about how no one reads science fiction manga anymore because its too preachy is killing me. War never changes.

"A Bride's Story" Vol. 11 by Kaoru Mori. The bride in this one is so sad, even when she's happy she's sad, she has long beautiful hair and dresses like a huge caterpillar. You can feel Kaoru Mori going sicko mode every time she gets to draw this sad woman glancing down.

I’ve read that one already

“It Never Happened Again” by Sam Alden. Just look at those fat pencil lines, no one does it like Alden 😌

You have to assume the impetus for BIRTH was Yoshinori Kanada's frustration that he wasn't getting to do enough lingering closeups of Nausicaa's butt, and the result is some of the most influential animation of all time lol.

It rules that BIRTH came out the same year as Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. One of the best movies ever made and also the schlock direct-to-video version for perverts made by a bunch of the same animators.