Austin Gorton
@austingorton.bsky.social
Reviewing every X-Book from #1 on. Celebrating #XFactor40. Skeeting [...sigh] a #TradingCardADay. Writing fiction. Co-host @AVSEPod. Editor at ComicsXF. Bylines linktr.ee/austingorton. He/Him. https://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/
Runners-up amongst this week's #XFactor40 covers! Featuring art from Steve Geiger, Jim Lee, Tom Raney & Stephanie Hans! Which one is your favorite? #XMenADay #XMen #IncredibleHulk #XMenVol2 #MutantX #Generations #Cyclops #JeanGrey #Iceman #Angel #Beast #Havok
227 - X-Factor #242 - 8/15/2012 You don't see a lot of Darwin covers. Cover by David Yardin. Interiors by Peter David & Leonard Kirk. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactorV3 #Wolfsbane #Darwin
Continuing my (apparently) one-week-behind watch of Strange New Worlds S4, "Human Best Friend" is another one of those episodes that feels an act too long (Ortegas & Scotty's convo back on the ship felt like the logical endpoint). #StarTrek Loved M'Benga as a shitty Tom-Cruise-in-Cocktail
From the X-Men prequel The Further Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix.
NEW: A year-long investigative report that involves $1.8 million dollars, two dueling lawsuits, and 8 veteran comic artists working for no money at all. @comixace.bsky.social and I report for the @comicsjournal.bsky.social . www.tcj.com/comics-indus...
Comics industry veteran accused of secret dealings, unpaid bills in multiple business deals - The Comics Journal
Adam Fortier accused of misuse of funds, questionable practices, and a trail of unpaid bills.
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114 - X-Men: Blue Team Part 3 Not sure why Rogue's butt dimple is so front & center, but here we are. I like the cardback calling out the Blue Team as the sneakier hand-to-hand team, which is def how I thought of them. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JimSteranko #Teams #XMenBlue
New Snap Into Marvel column looks at the current "Fractured Frontier" season. How do you feel about Snap doing an "original" season, something not inspired by a pre-existing story or game? comicon.com/2026/08/14/s...
Tomato Basil chicken with spaghetti, the sauce made entirely from tomatoes out of the garden. #DinnerTonight
Mysaria's conversation with Helaena on her way out the door is presumably a nod to the fact that in Fire & Blood, it's unknown if Helaena jumped or was pushed, and Mysaria is mentioned as a possible suspect. #FireAndBloodFacts #HouseOfTheDragon #HouseofTheDragonSeason3
226 - X-Factor (vol. 5) #1 - 8/14/2024 The beginning of the worst volume of X-Factor! Cover by Greg Land. Interiors by Mark Russell & Bob Quinn. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactorV5 #Angel #Pyro #Feral #Havok #Frenzy
From the @comicsxf.com archives: as X-Men '97 Season 2 comes to a close, here's a story about the impact two episodes of the original animated series had on the X-Men's comic book history. #XMen #XMen97 #XMen97Season2 comicsxf.com/2025/11/28/o...
112 - X-Men: Blue Team Part 2 For whatever reason, it feels like we didn't get Beast and Gambit paired up much during the Blue/Gold Era. Love the little twirling motion of the card in Gambit's hand. #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JimSteranko #Teams #XMenBlue
ICYMI: My review of Spider-Man: Brand New Day for @popheist.com! #SpiderMan #SpiderManBrandNewDay #SpiderManBND popheist.com/spider-man-b...
'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Wisely Leans Into Marvel Team-Ups
Punisher and Hulk appear here not to set up a future project of their own, but to act as parallel cautionary tales for Spider-Man.
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Very excited to announce that I'll be speaking again at the Uncanny Experience, one month from today! Continuing my year-long celebration of X-Factor's 40th anniversary I'll be presenting "The Secret Origin of X-Factor" at 12PM on 9/13 in the lecture hall. Come check it out!
225 - X-Men Origins: Jean Grey - 8/13/2008 Featuring a rare appearance by Jean's sister Sara! Remember when Fox briefly tried to make a X-Men Origins sub-franchise of films? Cover by Mike Mayhew. Interiors by Sean McKeever & Mayhew. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XMenOrigins #JeanGrey
Hit Infinite late last night, helped along by the extra cube dealy. Started & ended w/Zombie Galacti, w/some Thanos FF (like everyone) in the 80s. Less frustrating climb than recent seasons, but still annoying how much the game is just “mitigate losses until you can pound a bot.”
What a delightful slice of literary history this thread is.
Brian Jay Jones@brianjayjones.com · 3d agoOn August 12, 1960, Dr. Seuss published what would become his biggest-selling book of all time. Written as the result of a $50 bet between Seuss and his publisher at Random House, Bennett Cerf, the book, by some estimates, has sold north of 200 million copies. The book? Green Eggs and Ham. /1
112 - X-Men: Blue Team Part 1 Continuing this set's efforts to convince us Sabretooth was ever an active member (this card hits differently given how his "X-Men prisoner" arc ends. But not gonna argue w/more Steranko! #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #JimSteranko #Teams #XMenBlue
The X-Men Gold triptych all in one! Still not great! #TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #TristanSchane #Teams #XMenGold
ICYMI, the Dobby grave story was completely fake. Like, just, totally not true in any way.
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d ago
Who won House of the Dragon Season 3? ✅ Ulf ✅ Alys Rivers ✅ Roddy the Ruin ✅ Caraxes #HouseOfTheDragon #HotD #HouseOfTheDragonS3
spider-man villains can be pretty cleanly sorted into two major categories (halloween and animals) and two minor categories for the ones who don't fit (crime boss and elemental)
My pick this week is The Fall of Kylo Ren #1, the beginning of the conclusion to Charles Soule's Kylo Ren trilogy. Legacy of Vader was one of the best Star Wars comics of the decade, so I'm excited to see what comes next, though I'm gonna miss Luke Ross' art. #StarWars comicsxf.com/2026/08/12/a...
Absolute Batman, Transformers, X-Men & more Staff Picks
This week's top comics include Absolute Batman #23, Transformers #35 and X-Men #35. What are YOU looking forward to reading this week?
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224 - X-Factor #10 - 8/12/1986 Cyclops looks like he's about to cry because of what's going to happen to Angel in this issue. Cover by Walt Simonson. Interiors by Louise Simonson & Simonson. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #Cyclops
Me (doing creative writing): I need to come up with a name that is meaningful and symbolic but also subtle and not too obvious or on-the-nose. G.R.R. Martin: The continent in the west is called Westeros. The one in the East is Essos. Roald Dahl: The kid likes watching TV. His name is Mike Teavee.
Worth reiterating every time that this is not some cancel-culture purity test: JK Rowling has pledged more than a billion dollars of her Harry Potter money towards bankrolling anti-trans lawsuits. This finances that.
Nicholas Hoult In 'Harry Potter' Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart - Excl.
Nicholas Hoult has joined Season 2 of HBO Max's 'Harry Potter. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, portrayed in the second movie by Kenneth Branagh.
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That's Garibald Grey over Daemon's shoulder; a Riverlands knight, in the book he had the line to Criston Cole about building a sept out of the bones of traitors & indirectly coined the name "Butcher's Ball" for the ensuing battle. #FireAndBloodFacts #HouseOfTheDragon
