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#EventsDearBoy 5. DC ONE MILLION (1998, DC) This is the Grant Morrison event where they play nicely with others, crafting a fantastical future for the DC Universe and opening its gates for other creators to have fun with. And they do - no other event has such an excellent tie-in hit-rate
Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · 3d ago#EventsDearBoy 6. MARVEL SUPER HEROES SECRET WARS (1984, Marvel) The notorious focus group of small boys that decreed the most exciting words were "secret" and "wars" is the most consequential bit of comics market research ever done (runners-up "phalanx" and "covenant" got their due eventually)
Just Work. An all new comic about the gig economy, platform capitalism, delivery riders, and their battle for worker rights. You can read a responsive phone/desktop/tablet friendly online version of it - for FREE - here: tomhumberstone.com/just-work
Just Work | Tom Humberstone
Just Work
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this has strugatsky bros and tarkovsky, just to teach you how to avoid the omnipresence of the man who's name i will not mention
Mindless Ones@mindlessones.bsky.social · 3d agoThe (very nice) 69th issue of our newsletter is out now ft. 20th century superbeings, All the good men and the gods, Christopher Nolan: war accountant, dream calculations, longing with Sam Gellaitry, Stalker, Summer Fun and more!
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Mindless Ones@mindlessones.bsky.social · 3d agoThe (very nice) 69th issue of our newsletter is out now ft. 20th century superbeings, All the good men and the gods, Christopher Nolan: war accountant, dream calculations, longing with Sam Gellaitry, Stalker, Summer Fun and more!
The (very nice) 69th issue of our newsletter is out now ft. 20th century superbeings, All the good men and the gods, Christopher Nolan: war accountant, dream calculations, longing with Sam Gellaitry, Stalker, Summer Fun and more!
The first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup
I faxed my answer to El Segundo. Jacob's Room/The Odyssey. The Pilman Radiant 6: Life. Planks Constant. Summer Fun: Chaos. This thing called love real hard for me. Best Spider-Man film.
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I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends
Just pulling together this month's SCRIPT CLUB which will be going out (likely) tonight, so there's time to jump on. To kick off the 20th Anniversary month, it's the script for issue 1 of Phonogram: Rue Britannia. There's an upgrade link in the latest newsletter. buttondown.com/KieronGillen...
The only one of these newfangled “ages” that I’ve ever thought worked is the @mindlessones.bsky.social Prismatic Age
Mindless Ones » The Prismatic Age
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for the tribune, I wrote about the uk aids quilt display in my hometown of wakefield, examining its status as a great work of populist art (communal, genuinely anti-establishment) in the wake of the city’s newly elected populist-right reform council tribunemag.co.uk/2026/07/monu...
Monuments of the People
An exhibition of the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt in Reform’s heartland captures the contrast between artistic and electoral populism.
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TBT. This was a banger. Your intrepid hosts go up to their elbows in slippery groo in order to present the world with the definitive taxonomy of gore. You might want to don some overalls before you listen. Link in comments.
#EventsDearBoy 11. CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS (1985, DC) There are a lot of threads on DC Reddit about "does Crisis hold up" and for the olds it's one of the greatest works in the medium but for the youngs it's more like an ancient illuminated manuscript full of incredible drawings of weird snails
Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · last wk.#EventsDearBoy 12. NO MAN'S LAND (1999, DC) *Tammy Wynette voice* "All bound for No Man's Land..." - this Bat-monster gets the award for the highest placing of anything I hadn't read at all before. It just seemed too huge: the year-long central plank in a saga of catastrophe and rebuilding
Well, if that's true there is no point in buying his stock is there
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · last wk.The 'singularity' refers to the point at which AI outpaces human intelligence and becomes difficult to control.
Fan service is like sweets. It's nice, from time to time. But you can't live on it, and too much is going to make you unhappy and unwell.
Hello, it's Dan McDaid@danmcdaid.bsky.social · last wk.Is there a more depressing phrase than "we are finally giving the fans what they want"
Issue #68 of our newsletter is our now ft. "Anyone can be the Joker", Love Canal, prog decay, Spring/Summer 26, Tom Cruise, The War Illiad and more! mindless-ones.ghost.io/thank-the-su...
Thank the sun for vanishing, wishing it would fall faster
JLA: Rock of Ages. Planks Constant. The Pilman Radiant 5: Toxic. Mind the Gap: 2000AD Prog 226. Charli - Cassel - Cronenberg. The War Nerd Iliad.
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Issue #68 of our newsletter is our now ft. "Anyone can be the Joker", Love Canal, prog decay, Spring/Summer 26, Tom Cruise, The War Illiad and more! mindless-ones.ghost.io/thank-the-su...
Thank the sun for vanishing, wishing it would fall faster
JLA: Rock of Ages. Planks Constant. The Pilman Radiant 5: Toxic. Mind the Gap: 2000AD Prog 226. Charli - Cassel - Cronenberg. The War Nerd Iliad.
mindless-ones.ghost.io
New graffiti in Sandown for my Sandown Clown cryptid enjoyers @mindlessones.bsky.social @travishedgecoke.bsky.social
I wrote a piece last year after thinking about it for a long time and Steve published it today. It's about my birthday, growing up in the afrocentric era, the joy of elbow grease, Gil Scott-Heron, and the voice you use with your father after realizing you're taller than him. On All-Star Superman #6:
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Superman Lover ’83, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2026/07/22/s...
Worms is a gothic horror comic loaded with catholic guilt, rot, complicity with evil & doom set in Vatican City. Volumes 1 & 2 are available in print now erikapriceart.bigcartel.com/category/com... Or you can follow the comic each weekend on my patreon www.patreon.com/erikapriceart
I think that the terrible programs that are used to label work as "likely made with AI" are just there to normalize the use of AI goo content.
You can get the cut of The Savage Beast's jib by having a browse through the articles on our Substack. This here, initially written as a failed job application, is as good an intro to our wired and wild cinematic world as you can get.
Some Things I Love About the Movies
A job application...
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Whilst working on the illustration for this episode my brain kept playing Bjork's "Army Of Me" but changed it to "Army Of Bums". This is what suffering for your art means (probably).
The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · 3w agoThe countdown to the It’s a Superpower?? launch is on & we’re dropping daily exclusives for Patreon supporters at all levels in the run up! Today’s uh… treat for the eyes?? is the episode artwork for Chapter Two - An Army of Bums, by the excellent @frasergeesin.bsky.social
Issue #67 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Chris Morris, comics as hand/eye interface, Enemy Mine, Ezra Pound, gaelic Seaspray, the 'gland, Sleeze Brothers, and oh so much more!
What mattered the wind that was howling outside
The Pilman Radiant 4: Survival. Planks Constant. ABHOBC: The Sleeze Brothers. Mind the Gap: Closing Time. Chris Morris. Annoyance. Canto XLVII.
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Loved Enemy Mine as a book and then the movie, I had all 6 issues of Sleeze Brothers, I must have seen My Wrongs ten times, this issue is spying on me
Mindless Ones@mindlessones.bsky.social · 3w agoIssue #67 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Chris Morris, comics as hand/eye interface, Enemy Mine, Ezra Pound, gaelic Seaspray, the 'gland, Sleeze Brothers, and oh so much more!
Issue #67 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Chris Morris, comics as hand/eye interface, Enemy Mine, Ezra Pound, gaelic Seaspray, the 'gland, Sleeze Brothers, and oh so much more!
What mattered the wind that was howling outside
The Pilman Radiant 4: Survival. Planks Constant. ABHOBC: The Sleeze Brothers. Mind the Gap: Closing Time. Chris Morris. Annoyance. Canto XLVII.
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I am once again looking for illustration work! Hit me up if you need something illustrating x
Jules Scheele@julesscheele.bsky.social · 5mo agoHiya! I'm once again available for freelance illustration work! I’m an illustrator with 10+ years of experience, specialising in graphic storytelling that translates and brings a human touch to difficult concepts. You can visit my portfolio and contact me here: www.julesscheele.com
a big piece from me on my one true love, fanzines, for @theguardian.com. tried to include as many beloved titles as possible— thank you so much to everyone who contributed their voices to this!
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago‘More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk