Finally watched THX 1138. Only George Lucas could read 1984 and think it needed a climactic racecar scene.

Incoming Green Heron, on a mission for tiny fish and tadpoles.

"All the Cameras in My Room" by Michael DeForge. All DeForge stories follow the same "yes, and" formula that I often find grating in large doses. Ironically, this collection fixes that by having (most of) the stories focus on variations on the same theme: internet bad.

Actually, Godzilla gets bloodied up in Godzilla vs. Gigan also. Hazard of fighting a monster made of knives.

Cuber 2.0@powercosmic.bsky.social · 4d ago

Its jarring how much more violent Ultraman is than Godzilla movies from the same time. You'd think movies would have been able to get away with showing more blood than daytime TV but no. Ultraman really beats up on the Godzilla vs. Mothra suit in its cameo appearance as "Jirahs"

last point: i also think they intentionally shift into The Conspiracy Surrounds Us mode ahead of elections they expect to lose as a way to prime their voters to smoothly transition into election denial.

elias isquith@eliasisquith.blog · 3d ago

it’s also a sign that they still don’t know why they won in 24. they think there’s a giant mass of brain-fried voters who picked trump because of the lab leak theory and not because of inflation — and because they can’t get the president to spend 5 minutes pretending to care about inflation.

The internet slang from 1995 is so good. You meatspace noobs better watch out because I'm jacking into the clickstream 😎

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 5d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

clean skies, blue days

Its jarring how much more violent Ultraman is than Godzilla movies from the same time. You'd think movies would have been able to get away with showing more blood than daytime TV but no. Ultraman really beats up on the Godzilla vs. Mothra suit in its cameo appearance as "Jirahs"

“The Woman in a Black Dress" by Japanese illustrator Tatsuro Kiuchi. #Art

Was Michael DeForge always such a big 9 panel grid guy? His new book is full of them. I associate him more strongly with the social media optimized 4 panel grid.

It’s always funny whenever a new Marvel comes out and people start posting “finally, a Marvel that feels like a real movie.” You’re allowed to enjoy junk, no need to dress it up as anything more.

UNION UPDATE: tl;dr Dark Horse leadership is attempting to reduce union membership by claiming supervisory status for Senior Editors, who have never been allowed management roles. 🧵

Have been trying to figure out my ranking of Godzilla monsters. 1. Mothra 2. Hedorah 3. Rodan/Anguirus/Baragon 4. Destroyah (www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGi7...) 5. Manda 6. Gigan 7. Space Godzilla 8. King Ghidorah 9. Mechagodzilla

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

King Ghidorah is a bum aftermath.site/king-ghidorah-...

Have now seen 3 Robert Altman films (Long Goodbye, M.A.S.H., and McCabe & Mrs. Miller). Why didn’t anyone tell me about this.

Do we know for sure whether David Lynch saw "Perfect Blue?" There's too much of it in Inland Empire for it to be coincidence right?

Nancy 7/28/26

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 28,1947

"Orion" by Ngozi Ukazu. I don't need any more reboots, revivals, or spinoffs of Jack Kirby's NEW GODS, but if DC is going to insist on it anyway its nice that they finally found someone who Gets It even a little bit.

Since I have superhero comics on the brain today I'm checking out Ngozi Ukazu's Orion kids comic. This is the first New Gods revival with any interest in Kirby's ideas, by which I mean Orion is really gay in this.

When superhero comics zoom in too far you get "I must protect my son from the Dangers of Crime." When they get too macro you get faceless masses dying in multiversal collapse. The sweet spot is in the middle: the president of the United States is a werewolf and only Adam Warlock can stop him.

The emotional core here is supposed to be a (literally) alienated cop relearning how to be human ala Rick Deckard, pure fantasy and there's not enough space for convincing character growth. Its too Iconic for its own good.

Cuber 2.0@powercosmic.bsky.social · last wk.

"Martian Manhunter" #1-6 by Camp, Rodriguez, and Otsmane-Elhaou. Camp wants to ask Big Questions but the format and genre conventions get in the way. What drives people to crime? Its a mind virus spread by space aliens putting fentanyl into oreo cookies.

A weird thing about being a comics reader for so long is seeing the hot new writer desperately trying to become the guy who was the hot new writer 10 years ago. How to become the new Batman writer in 1 easy step.

As a public figure he's very annoying but Cory "Enshitification" Doctorow was the standard-bearer for cyberpunk fiction for long enough that he had to switch to writing nonfiction full time because the problems became too real.

The exact middle ground between the two camps of "Post-Cyberpunk" is of course The X-Files.

Cuber 2.0@powercosmic.bsky.social · last wk.

In the 2000s "Post-Cyberpunk" split into 2 camps: 1. work with the cyberpunk aesthetics but cop heroes and conservative politics (Altered Carbon, GITS:SAC) and 2. work that eschews the aesthetics in favor of the themes (Inception, Michael Clayton, late-period Gibson books, Adventure Time: Islands).

People forget that "Cyberpunk" started out as an attempt to modernize "Hard Science Fiction" for the modern 80s, it was a rejection of a stagnant genre. There's a reason Gibson & Sterling abandoned most of the trappings associated with their early works in favor of political and eco-thrillers.

Going to just reblog this every time someone forces me to see superhero casting news. This is my number one priority as a superhero fan:

Cuber 2.0@powercosmic.bsky.social · 2y ago

The only thing I ever want to hear about superhero movies is that they’re putting Swamp Thing in another one of those things so that DC we be forced put out an affordable paperback version of the original series with Jose Villarubia’s color restoration.

The Godzilla and Ghidorah designs in Final Wars are lousy, but Anguirus never looked better lol.

A Cedar Waxwing missing the bright red wax droplets on the wings, pointing to this being a younger bird. The older the bird, the more wax tips a bird can have.

I like to close my eyes and imagine the audio is Yoda being waterboarded for his crimes

prime time crackervision@lewmo.bsky.social · 2y ago

2. dogs are so funny, man