I got my copy of Ookla the Mok's Vs Evil on CD today! @randookla.bsky.social was super cool about shipping, and was spot on for timing, even though Bandcamp said I wouldn't get it till next Wednesday! Seriously check this band out if you love comics, Trek, pop culture, or all three!

Damnit Warren, your options were to make amends and re-enter the culture or ignore SMoU and stay away. Not making amends and not staying away wasn’t on the menu. You had such a clear path to reconciliation.

So Many of Us: Recognizing Abuses of Power

We are a collective of people from across the world who were targeted by Warren Ellis, a comics and television writer from the UK.

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My band Via Bella released a song today called "Let's Not Fight (About Star Trek)," about how people post "definitive lists" as if there is objective criteria to consult when creating listicles. #StarTrek #NerdRock #Filk

I’m not sure what it is — the writing or maybe the editing — but I’m really enjoying the NFL this season.

My mood, courtesy of Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Dear news media, Why not spend a few minutes today explaining how the process of going to war is supposed to work in a constitutional democracy? Because it ain't this.

Today is Bandcamp Friday, the perfect day to get a copy of the two EPs I released this year, Ookla the Mok’s Folk Song Army Men (from August) and Via Bella’s The Hope EP (from November). There is a link to Via Bella’s Bandcamp page (as well as my and Adam English’s solo pages) from the Ookla page.

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Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today. Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities. Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.

fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "

ALT: fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "

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Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

Reba says hello. #CatsofBluesky #RebatheSiberian

As you may have heard, starting June 2026, only 11 academic programs that will be classified as "professional" (as opposed to "graduate") starting June 2026. This distinction affects student loans and will likely decimate the newly non-professional programs. [1/3]

For those who long for the good old days, before comics got all political, here’s a page from Avengers 148 (released in 1976). #ComicSky

New Via Bella EP is out today! Available at Bandcamp (or wherever you stream music). viabellaband.bandcamp.com/album/the-ho...

"In her state of goofy grace, [Diane] Keaton possesses a kind of reality denied to ordinary beings. She is such an incandescent link to otherness that we introverts emerge blinking from our hiding holes and beg to have those strange hands touch us." -- Tom Robbins, 1987

i’m not here to tell the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social what to do, but they must know if they put out a coffee table book of all the read posters, people would buy that

Rick Veitch says this is really happening. (DC will finally publish the cancelled issue of Swamp Thing that prematurely ended Veitch’s run.)

#GregKlyma just dropped a new single, featuring backing vocals by #OoklatheMok!

"The Word is Greed" (ft. Ookla the Mok) | lyrics in description

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Johnny is fire and thus a hothead. Reed is water and thus cool headed. Sue (Johnny’s sister and Reed’s husband) is attracted to Namor, who is hotheaded water. Also of note: the Golden Age Human Torch was an android, so by pitting him against Namor, you had Cool Fire vs. Hot Water. #FantasticFour

Mark you calendars! New #ViaBella EP coming out on October 31! Track listing: 1. Everything Happens Here 2. The Will and the Hope 3. Everything Hurts 4. Rocket Bye Baby 5. After the Storm (EP cover by @robdumo.bsky.social)

49 years ago today The #MuppetShow debuted. I was there for it, but so young that I thought Scooter's name was Gopher for longer than you'd think.

OTD in 1998, @allredmd.bsky.social and Bernie Mireault (RIP) teamed up to tell a great story featuring their greatest individual creations in the second (and final) issue of Madman Jam. It seems like not calling this the "The Madman Jam Jam" was a missed opportunity.

Today is the day! You can listen to Ookla the Mok's Folk Song Army EP wherever you stream music, or buy it from Bandcamp. It's been a while since we had a new project so please share the news.

Rand Posts About Comics and Music@randookla.bsky.social · last yr.

New Ookla the Mok out tomorrow! It's also Bandcamp Friday, which means we get a bigger cut on August 1. ooklathemok.bandcamp.com The EP features our Ska/Reggae cover of #TomLehrer 's "Folk Song Army," as well as songs about #BillCipher and #InvaderZim #GravityFalls #NerdRock #Filk #TheFuMP

New Ookla the Mok out tomorrow! It's also Bandcamp Friday, which means we get a bigger cut on August 1. ooklathemok.bandcamp.com The EP features our Ska/Reggae cover of #TomLehrer 's "Folk Song Army," as well as songs about #BillCipher and #InvaderZim #GravityFalls #NerdRock #Filk #TheFuMP

Today is a sad, sad day for fans of comedy, satire, music and all combinations therein. A day we all knew was coming eventually, granted, but that doesn't make it any less sad. Tom Lehrer, THE greatest singer-songwriter of musical satire to ever walk the earth, has left us at age 97. 🧵

OTD in 1998, #JLA 22 was released. #GrantMorrison gets #Superman. They believe that Superman has to exist. Their proof? If Superman didn’t exist, someone would just create him. Oh yeah, and the Sandman (the Daniel version of Dream) makes a rare DCU appearance! [1/4] #IHadThatComic

OTD in 2021, I bought these comics: Ascender 17 by @jefflemire171.bsky.social & @duss005.bsky.social Bermuda 1 by #JohnLayman & #NickBradshaw Black Hammer: Reborn 2 by #JeffLemire & @caitlinyarsky.bsky.social Proctor Valley Road 5 by #GrantMorrison, #AlexChild & #NaomiFranquiz #IHadThatComic

That really Doctor Tarrs my Professor Fether.

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That really pits my pendulum.

OTD in 1989, #TimothyTruman 's Hawkworld 2 was released. This fantastic reimagining is famously hard to reconcile with Hawkman’s long history, but just strap in and enjoy the ride. Following the events of issue one, we find our (hawk)man looking at some hard time. [1/5] #IHadThatComic

#IHadThatComic: July 11, 2012 #WildChildren - @aleskot.bsky.social is a remarkable writer who should be getting way more attention. They first came to my attention through this book, illustrated by #RileyRossmo. Think #Invisibles meets #KillMyBoyfriend, perfectly updated for the 21st century.