The Day of Blood has come and gone, so let's get to No. 18 of my #startrek anniversary reads:

"Star Trek - Defiant, Vol. 2: Another Piece of The Action" by @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social, @mikeseriously.bsky.social, Ramon Rosanas et al.

And thus I've reached my goal of reading twelve #startrek books (novels, comics, art books etc.) in the anniversary year. No reason to stop, so let's get to No. 13:

"Star Trek: Day of Blood" by @hivemindactual.bsky.social, @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social et al., edited by @heatherantos.bsky.social

Rebooting Star Trek is so lazy (I say as an unapologetic fan of the 2009 film) there’s 60 years of real history and 1000 years of fictional history to explore. Want to do something new and disconnected from previous stories? Voyager did that in 1995. It’s not that hard to figure out.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

SUPERMAN by Adam Hughes! This entire run of covers was insane! I posted more on ig

30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers.

#TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

To be clear, by framing Trump's aberrant behavior this way, CNN furthers Trump's white supremacist objectives.

Are...are you fucking kidding me? This is literally the "why would Hannibal do this?" meme. You fuckers strangled the protest movement in the crib, and now you wonder why its gone quiet?

While organizing my storyboards folders I was reminded of music video boards I did for an artist I wasn’t familiar with. I just looked at YouTube and that video has 86 million views. Production company couldn’t pay my rate though apparently 🙃

Jeez I’ve only drawn 17 full issues of published comics! And 4 anthologies. I’m working on more!

Finally did some file organizing and it turns out I’ve done storyboards for about 150 different projects (90% commercials, then music videos, tv shows and films) not including my own stuff. And I still feel like I have no idea what I’m doing.

"Schumer takes no action" will be on his tombstone

Genuinely like, it's astounding to me we can get to the precipice of Trump glassing 92 million people and liberals are just like "TACO Tuesday knew he'd chicken out." Dude needs to be GONE

Lily and T’Lir!

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

God help us.

Over the years I’ve met so many lovely people from Iran through the university and through climbing gyms. I don’t know how to process the fact that the leader of our closest ally is planning to destroy their home and kill their families because of oil.

93 million people live in Iran. This is a supervillain.

Happy First Contact Day but let’s be real about which timeline we’re in

I’ll bite.

MUPPET TRENT REZNOR: what have I become / my swedish friend?

SWEDISH CHEF: ervie wurr ye durr gurrs awerre en de ern

My tiktok feed is basically entirely $2 million real estate listings in Berkeley, and despite being in debt and living on the complete opposite side of the continent, I’m choosing to view this like a vision board

Moon

NASA is failing to ask the tough questions during this pre-launch show, namely: do these brave, incredible astronauts have faith-- of the heart. ARE THEY GOING WHERE THEIR HEARTS WILL TAKE THEM?

This is what it's like to live in Toronto, Canada.

You know when people run into a teacher 25 years later and tell them about the impact they had on their lives? I had that tonight with the old couple who owned the convenience store I used to go to for lunch in jr high. This sounds like a joke but saw them at a book fair I genuinely almost cried.

What do you do when you make a fake commercial for a business in another city because you thought it had a funny name and then the owner reaches out four years later