Hitman debuted 30 years ago, and over its 60 issues, it became one of the weirdest — and best — comics in DC's history. But how did Garth Ennis, John McCrea, and friends turn a Bloodlines breakout into an iconic character? There's only one way to find out. This is the oral history of Hitman.

“There Was Something About Tommy”: An Oral History of Hitman - SKTCHD

Let's celebrate one of DC's weirdest — and best — comics by telling its story.

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Astro City, by @kurtbusiek.bsky.social, Brent Anderson, Alex Ross, et al, is one of my absolute favorite comics of all time, and I reread the whole series every couple of years. This bundle contains some of the best comics I've ever read, and is well worth any price you'd wish to pay.

Humble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image Comics

Explore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics!

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Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 4w ago

FBI Reportedly Loosens Hiring Rules So ‘Prostitution and Bestiality’ Are No Longer ‘Automatic Disqualifiers’

It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · 2w ago

We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net

This really is the fundamental toxicity of this technology that just can't ever be escaped; even if it wasn't the object of economically destructive hype, even if it wasn't being overdeployed in environmentally harmful ways, etc, it's like asbestos for the brain

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was trying to get through to one of the staff of this site yesterday but like, this is psychosis. The people who run this site think AI is alive. How do you come back from this

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Mr. Tyler Crook@mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 2w ago

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

FIVE stretch goals unlocked! Funded in four hours! #kickstarter #kickstartercomics #ncbd #selfpublished www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

Louise Sprouse Stole My Heart

A coming-of-age hitman comic from the three time Eisner nominated cartoonist Kyle Starks (END OF LIFE, RICK AND MORTY, LOBO, PEACEMAKER

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Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w ago

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Favorite movie from each year you’ve been alive : First decade: 86: Aliens 87: Full Metal Jacket 88: Die Hard/Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Tie) 89: Batman 90: Edward Scissorhands 91: Terminator 2 92: Aladdin 93: Jurassic Park 94: Ace Ventura 95: Se7en

Favorite movie(s) that came out when I was 20:

Gregory Paul Silber (but you can call me Greg)@gregsilber.bsky.social · 3w ago

Favorite movie that came out when I was 20

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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A note re Warren Ellis: I've seen the narrative floating around that the process of transformative justice between Warren and SoManyOfUs fell apart for reasons outside of Warren's control, sometimes with an implication that these reasons were on the side of SMOU. This is not true.

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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Popverse@popversesays.bsky.social · 3w ago

Image Comics & Warren Ellis have been developing new comics together since 2023, with Ellis joking back then that the publisher was "trapped." Details: www.thepopverse.com/comics-warre...

“Why didn’t scientists warn us?”

This is where Texans can check their status. Please text this link to your family and friends who vote the good way, and ask them to double check theirs. goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...

tyrannusrexbook.bsky.social@tyrannusrexbook.bsky.social · 4w ago

6% of Texas’s Voters Have Had Their Voter Registrations Suspended (Over 1M People) Suspensions in big Democratic urban areas could sway close Senate race to R Affected people have until October 5 to update their voter registrations NB: Faux Elections newrepublic.com/post/214832/...

For far too long, business and tourism have plagued this country.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

WASHINGTON (AP) - US is preparing to rescind up to 200,000 business and tourism visas in largest mass visa revocation ever, officials say.

I'm sure AI destroying every entry level job will work out fine. Societies famously stay stable when youth unemployment hits 50%, right?

randomly giving out genuine compliments is such an easy way to make the world a little nicer, i'm always surprised more people haven't figured that out and have a ton of respect for those who have

@wordsfromapenn.com checks in on the last of the DC Teen Titans graphic novel series.

ComicsXF@comicsxf.com · 4w ago

H.I.V.E. has been experimenting on teens with superhuman abilities, and Kori Anders is next on their list. Check out our review of DC's Teen Titans: Together.

Are you a comic creator looking to jump from Webtoons to your own website? I'm offering $500 quick and easy website creation using the Comicpress theme. HMU in DMs if interested!

This shit is why you can't separate continuing to financially support the Harry Potter IP (whether by buying the games, merch, watching the new TV show when its out) from the consequences of what JK Rowling does with that money She's become so stiflingly powerful that even private docs arent safe

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last mo.

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

idk man i just don't think the question is "is ai (claude, chatgpt, etc) useful?" more than it's "can we use ai ethically / safely" and the answer to the latter is no

Psst we’re about 120 signatures away from 6000 on our petition calling for a moratorium on AI — help us get to 6001 by Friday? actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl... @gregpak.net @comixaction.com @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social

Please enact a two-year moratorium on the use of AI in NYC Public Schools

The use of AI in the NYC schools is expanding, despite the lack of rigorous protections and the growing evidence that it can undermine student privacy, cognitive skills, creativity, critical thinking,...

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SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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