Al Kennedy

@michaelspicer.bsky.social has a brilliant take on this type of programme:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjnm...

Map of the Glasgow subway showing that it is in fact a single circle

somebody just stuck their head into the subway carriage and asked where this train was going, which caused some bafflement

Thought about tweeting something about Iran and Starmer, realised it would not make your lunchtime better, decided against it, this I do in service of you

Congratulations! It's so well deserved, you all created something exceptional

GLAAD MEDIA AWARD WINNER: OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK Avengers Academy: Marvel’s Voices By Anthony Oliveira, Elsa Sjunneson, Carola Borelli, Bailie Rosenlund, Pablo Collar, Charles Stewart III, Alti Firmansyah, Minkyu Jung, KJ Díaz, Ruth Redmond, Dono Sánchez-Almara, Ariana Maher, Joe Caramagna (Marvel Infinity Comics)

I am so thankful for the gift of this recognition on behalf of myself and all of the crew on Avengers Academy. We strove week after week to make art worthy of our community – to deepen and enrich the world for queer, trans, and HIV+ representation and readership, to insist we belonged in these worlds of fiction and in the world that dreams them. We wanted both to illuminate queer stories told long ago and to trailblaze new paths forward. It was not always easy, but it was always worth it. I am so proud of this work, and so honoured to have it so celebrated. Thank you. Thank you to all the impossibly gifted collaborators on this project for all your brilliance, enthusiasm, and generosity: our regular artists Carola Borelli, Bailie Rosenlund, and Pablo Collar; our colorists KJ Diaz and Ruth Redmond; our letterists Ariana Maher and Joe Caramagna; as well as our numerous guest talents – who enriched this book week after week with their gifts and perspectives. Thanks too to our editors, Lindsey Cohick, Sidney Stubbs, Wil Moss, and founding editor and Sarah Brunstad who willed this book into life. Time and again this book redefined what could happen, how it could look and read, and above all who could be in a superhero comic, and I could not be prouder. And, with great admiration and profoundest appreciation, thank you to my community, for always lifting me up. Finding all of you has been the great gift of my life. This category is full of the fellow artists who showed me there was a place for us to create and to live in this world, and I live in the enduring blessing of their work. I said it when we ended, and I will say it here again: comics will mend your heart, if you let them. When I was a scared, lonely, closeted kid, the Marvel universe’s heroes were there for me when very little else was. That is a debt I can never pay back, but one I’ve tried with great travail to pay forward. I want to believe we have afforded a little of that same refuge to those who soug…

Amazed and honoured that AVENGERS ACADEMY has won the GLAAD Media Award for OUTSTANDING COMIC BOOK!

This book pushed every boundary in this industry, and I am so grateful for the gift of these talented collaborators and this generous, uplifting community of readers. deadline.com/2026/03/glaa...

Q: What do you call a Mafia boss who says no to everything?
A: Veto Corleone

Me on a Saturday night at Thought Bubble

#TheTenX5 Day 31

20. OK Go - This Too Shall Pass (2010)

OK Go get painted with a novelty act brush in some ungenerous corners, but they have the songs, like this lighters-up singalong, to back it up. They're not just all about the videos. But this is admittedly a v good video

youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

This, but for “here’s the thing” in “Since U Been Gone”

Some poor lady who just got ratio'd like a Democratic senator, Tammy Komoff, saying looks like Firefly may be coming back! Announcement coming March 15. You all excited? With an original cast photo included Adam Baldwin who I'm pretty sure we cancelled like 20 years ago and also this is a Joss show I thought we cancelled Joss Whedon back then too actually It has 76 likes 5 reposts And 253 quote posts lol

This ratio has like 6 different C suite guys sweating from the hair lmao millennials are killing the bringing everything from our youth back from the dead industry

If it turns out Big Finish have the Firefly licence I will laugh so hard

Two things can be true about Mike Richardson:

-He was responsible for some major genre hits
AND
-He did not protect staff if they were not a white man and is responsible for a generation of queer and female editors leaving comics rather than continue in a toxic environment

Weird that just last week there were a bunch of articles about how Rogan and all that lot were actually regretting being terrible facilitators of fascism and this week he's pumping out screeds of transphobic bullshit with the reliable regularity of the sausage roll oven in a train station Greggs

You could pop them in one of those beer hats, with the two straws?

Probably sensible, though there's some high quality schadenfreude on offer

NOBODY TELL HER SHH SHHHH

Markwayne Mullins has to bang Lewandowski now. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules

Those were the days

I once went with Adam Hills to open a comedy festival in Kirkcaldy, hung out briefly in Gordon Brown's constituency office while there in an unsuccessful attempt to speak to him about establishing a new time zone, then helped Hills deliver 20 large pizzas

#TheTenX5 Day 30

21. Taylor Swift - Shake it Off (2014)

What does Taylor Swift do if she finds a spider in her hair? Blank Space is probably technically a better song but I've had more fun dancing to this

youtu.be/nfWlot6h_JM

Sorry, that came into my head and I had to make it somebody else's problem

Super Mairzy Doats Brothers

It's okay, we're all just very very very old 😔

Good time t’say I’ve followed the House to Astonish podcast w/ @alkennedy.bsky.social & @ifdestroyed.bsky.social since its 2015 start, even when not buying comics. Love the analysis and dynamic, and they’re like old friends now. Try it!

#comics #comicsky #comicbooks

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Thank you!

(2008, if you can believe it!)

Man, exactly

What truths am I unleashing about the X-Men on this episode? You'll have to listen to find out!