As a reminder, in 2020, more than 60 people accused Warren Ellis of grooming and sexual impropriety, coming together to create the website somanyofus.com. In its most recent update, in 2023, the site posted: "To the best of our knowledge, Warren Ellis took none of the steps we hoped he would."
🧵 A nice thread on probably my favorite comics event. Legacy, hope, and optimism (DC’s strengths) are on full, unapologetic display.
Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · 3d ago#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
It’s #SpiderManDay! How about a look at the row inks I did for the wraparound cover for the new SPIDER-MAN BRAND NEW DAY soundtrack by Giacchino released by @madebymutant.bsky.social this week? The webbing pattern on the mask was also hand drawn, one hexagon at the time x2000 times because f*ck AI!
Charles Schulz took a big step toward desegregating the comics page when Franklin first appeared in "Peanuts" on July 31, 1968. Here’s that initial sequence.
My first original page for the BRAND NEW DAY era in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #559 back in 2008. And the final page with colors by @javierrodriguez.bsky.social.
Following Paramount’s agreement to pause its merger with Warner Bros., I asked 8 antitrust experts to weigh in on how this saga will end Not sure it got me any closer to an answer but the responses are worth a read www.status.news/p/paramount-...
Parsing Paramount's Pause
In a Status roundtable, eight antitrust experts assess the mounting costs, legal risks, and ultimate prospects of Paramount's blockbuster Warner Bros. Discovery deal.
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Have been a member of the @whca.bsky.social almost continuously since the 1990s. Our mission is to defend the First Amendment rights of White House correspondents to report on the president without fear or favor. Unfortunately last night did not advance that cause. Time to rethink the dinner.
“The result was a public humiliation for the White House Correspondents’ Association.” I’m just catching up on the news from Friday. @passantino.bsky.social offers a great summary and commentary on the WHCA’s dinner.
The White House Correspondents’ Disgrace
The WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.
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#JLA/Titans is still my favorite use of connecting covers.
Be Radtz@beradtz.bsky.social · 2w agoRemember when @philjimeneznyc.bsky.social gave us one of the greatest post Crisis images ever created with #JLA/TITANS? Such a seminal story, that helped return the #Titans team to greatness. Written by #DevinGrayson. I really do love this story. Worth picking up, if you haven’t already.
Dave Eggers? They invited the same Dave Eggers who wrote a prophetic novel about the evils of surveillance tech and wearables and the social media panopticon like a full half-decade before anybody else was worried about them? That's on them
Meg Elison@megelison.bsky.social · 2w agoWould have paid good money to be in this room.
Love this thread on the Romitas!
Sequential Scholars@sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 2w agoThe 1987 wedding of Peter Parker & Mary Jane Watson features work by legendary artist John Romita Sr. and his son, John Romita Jr., who would soon become legendary in his own right. It thus offers an opportunity to compare the Romitas’ contributions to the look & legacy of #SpiderMan. 1/13
Broke down some of the wild stuff that happened this week around the Paramount/WBD deal. Thank God @edzitron.com was there to put most of it all in one place.
Pressure from all sides could jeopardize the Paramount/Warner Bros. deal Paramount/Warner Bros. merger faces risks from lawsuits, investor woes
Pressure from all sides could jeopardize the Paramount/Warner Bros. deal
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Now I wanna go just for this. Evan was kind enough to introduce me to Mr. Cowan a few years ago and I got to tell him how much I loved QUESTION as a lad of 12/13 and he was like, “SON, HOW DEPRESSED WERE YOU?!” A+ interaction, no notes, great guy.
Evan Narcisse@evnarc.bsky.social · 2w agoMoney's tight and I wasn't going to do SDCC this year. But when one of your heroes gets inducted into the industry's Hall of Fame and asks you to moderate his spotlight panel, you find a way. Gonna make sure @denyscowan.bsky.social gets his flowers.
FML is one of the most sincere, funny, uplifting, heartbreaking, heartfelt, wry, life-affirming (its an absolute torrent of emotions that will absolutely sweep you away) comics out there right now, & cheers to my brilliant pal @kellysue.bsky.social & @davidlopez.me on a stellar first arc. READ IT.
Brian Michael Bendis@brianmbendis.bsky.social · 3w agoKelly Sue DeConnick Keeps it Close to Home www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... @kellysue.bsky.social
It has been immensely baffling to see people talking about this stuff as though it’s a real set of grievances and not a handful of whiners with an outsized platform. (Corollary: It does feel like this summer has finally proved that Twitter bears no relation to reality.)
A.A. Dowd@aadowd.bsky.social · 3w agoTHE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.
Is there a Bluesky account mainly devoted to comma-related disasters?
<Sigh> We shouldn’t have to constantly opt-out. FYI if you have a public Instagram account.
How to Prevent Meta From Using Your Instagram Images in A.I.
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Name a tv show you’re positive no one remembers but you.
Sam Adams@samadams.bsky.social · 2mo agoName a tv show you’re positive no one remembers but you (and yes, I did solve the clues)
the Jetsons had flying cars and a 9 hour work WEEK. we kept the job and cancelled the flying cars. who signed off on that?
Batman/Superman/Weird Al: World’s Weirdest #1 arrives Sept. 2.
Persepolis was read all over the world—a true international phenomenon. Assigned in every class subject under the sun. During the Obama years, West Point cadets were assigned the book. There's never been anything like it; never anyone like her. What an awful world that couldn't hold her longer.
