It's surprising that M.A.S.K. wasn't more popular, given that it was a mix of Transformers, GI Joe and comic superheroes. Transforming vehicles + Hi-tech operatives + Masks, gadgets, super powers and secret identities Not to mention the cartoon was 🔥🔥🔥 with one of the best 80s cartoon theme songs.

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Issue 7 of @idwpublishing.com 's Twilight Zone by @tonyfleecs.bsky.social and @andypriceart.bsky.social is the best issue since the first one, and might be the best overall. A very human story told with pathos and I really didn't see that particular twist coming. Which is to say, it's very TZ.

It gets asserted that "every villain is the hero of their own story" but the 'every' makes that statement false. Some villains do see themselves as the hero of their story. More are the protagonist of their story, or at least want to be. Others know, however, that what they're doing is not heroic.

@themonstersaredue.bsky.social Are you both going to be at SerlingFest in August?

@themonstersaredue.bsky.social Are you going to stick with a simple alternating draft where one party gets to pick first each round, or are you going to switch to a snake draft? Admittedly with two people it's not much of a snake. Maybe more like a slinky.

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RIP Gerry Conway. Writer of so much but for me the highlight of his work is Justice League of America 200. The first comic book I remember reading was a black and white reprint of JLA 200 that my mum had. I read it a number of times and I colored in some of the group pictures. ...

@danpgwatters.bsky.social With all the positive buzz about Dark Patterns, will there be more Batman from you and @cleanlined.bsky.social ? Thanks again for one of the best Batman runs in some time!

Best Batman run in some time. The writing gets Batman right, and showcases his long neglected detective side. The art is a PhD in graphic storytelling. If you don't have the individual issues - and maybe even if you do 😁 - then this should be on your LCS shopping list.

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He's here. The Batman: Dark Patterns tpb is out today from DC. Me, @cleanlined.bsky.social, @treecolour.bsky.social, & @gofrankgo.bsky.social. Who is the Wound Man? What is the voice in the tower? Have the Red Hood Gang truly returned? And why is Gotham burning? The Dark Detective is on the case.

Rewatching 'Private Security', one of my favorite episodes of #YoungJustice, and I just noticed that the setting for Zatanna and Zatara's conversation on the swings has a similar vibe to a certain other tragic conversation on swings in a different animated DC series. >>>

Friendly PSA that this Wednesday sees the release of the third volume of the collected Batman and Robin by Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason. A bonus in this volume is that you also get art by Doug Mahnke and Andy Kubert. One of the best Batman series in recent years.

@cybertronicspree.bsky.social Fo you have any special events or performances planned for The Transformers The Movie Apology Tour?

@straczynski.bsky.social today is Groundhog Day. They always talk about the groundhog seeing "his" shadow. Does the groundhog have a Shadow the way Morden had Shadows? If so, is that why the little bugger keeps predicting more winter?

Hey western Michigan, want to do something tonight other than reinact the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back in the ice and snow? Then join us for a comic book trivia night! Special guest Vince Locke will sign books and show some art from Swamp Thing 1989 1. At the Comic Signal in Grand Rapids.

They say don't meet your heroes, but "they" never met @markwaid.bsky.social. Nicest guy and despite so much writing and time spent in comics, he is still clearly a fan first and foremost. A class act. It was great to meet him at #MotorCityComicCon.

Just to reiterate, Dark Patterns by @danpgwatters.bsky.social and @cleanlined.bsky.social is the best Batbook in some time. If you haven't read it, get in that Batmobile and see if your LCS still has any copies left.

Was really trying for 'be glad that it happened, not sad that it's ending' with this. Kinda worked up until @cleanlined.bsky.social dropped that Neal Adams homage. Then it's 'damn, I'm not getting any more of this'. Great to see @danpgwatters.bsky.social maintain the stellar writing to the end.

@thetwilightzonepodcast.com Hi Tom, I'm still catching up on your great podcast and I've just listened to your ep on 'Little Girl Lost'. In discussing it, you asked the question about Twilight Zone justice and why would this family be the subject of it. In your musing on that, I think...

@thetwilightzonepodcast.com Do you still have your Facebook page going? I can't find it. Has it moved into a land of shadow rather than substance?

@thetwilightzonepodcast.com So for Halloween I'd like to host a mini-marathon - for want of better and far less oxymoronic term - of the original Twilight Zone. Given that it's Halloween, I'm focused on sci-fi and horror eps rather than moral or philosophical eps. Which four episodes would you pick?

@thenightgallery.bsky.social So for Halloween I'd like to host a mini-marathon - for want of better and far less oxymoronic term - of the original Twilight Zone. Given that it's Halloween, I'm focused on sci-fi and horror eps rather than moral or philosophical. Which four episodes would you choose?

@danpgwatters.bsky.social So for Halloween I'd like to host a mini-marathon - for want of better and far less oxymoronic term - of the original Twilight Zone. Given that it's Halloween, I'm focused on sci-fi and horror eps rather than moral or philosophical eps. Which four episodes would you choose?

@straczynski.bsky.social So for Halloween I'd like to host a mini-marathon - for want of better and far less oxymoronic term - of the original Twilight Zone. Given that it's Halloween, I'm focused on sci-fi and horror eps rather than moral or philosophical eps. Which four episodes would you choose?

Whew! With the eleventh issue of Batman: Dark Patterns, @cleanlined.bsky.social continues his PhD dissertation on visual storytelling. His panel design leads the eye so smoothly yet so stylishly from one panel to the next but each panel is such a feast that you want to stop and take it all in.

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@themonstersaredue.bsky.social In Nicole's evaluation of 'A World of His Own', she asked wouldn't the neighbors ask about what happened to Victoria. There's another possibility that wasn't raised during this ep of the podcast that might address that question and many others about this episode...

Hey @20thcenturystudios.bsky.social , I got your next #Predator movie right here. A Predator comes to Earth during the 800-900s, lands among the Vikings but noone notices that he's not a Viking. It's your classic heavily-armed fish-out-of-water-even-though-no-one-realizes-he's-a-fish action comedy.

@danpgwatters.bsky.social I finally got the chance to read the first issue of the TZ comic and you did not disappoint. Opening and closing narration was comfortably Serlingesque. You pulled together certain elements that were familiar from TZ but put together the whole was fresh yet still very TZ...

@thetwilightzonepodcast.com still catching up on the podcast but thank you for posting Serling's speech and Q&A at UCLA in 1966. Very enlightening, and sadly still all too relevant. Maybe we haven't made as much progress as we like to think we have. Maybe it's just that history does rhyme, but...

I was just watching the #Godzilla cartoon from 1978 and now I'm wondering if Captain Carl Majors somehow escaped the two-dimensional universe and changed his name to Jonathan Frakes. 🤔

@themonstersaredue.bsky.social There are five seasons of the Twilight Zone, and you use a five tier grading system for each episode. I'd be interested in seeing you grade each of the five TZ seasons using your tiers but you can use each of the tier grades only once.

Batman 1 was good but I really don't see why it had to be a new #1 or even how it should be counted as a new #1. Same artist as prior to the Hush 2 storyline, and the in-story status quo seems to be largely the same as pre-H2, too. ...