Firefly was an okay show airing during a time when the bar was low.
Hollywood is really scraping the bottom of the barrel if they're bringing it back. They had 24 years to bring back a failed show. (Which also had a second chance movie.) Why now? It's creative bankruptcy.
The day after we put the final touches on issues #88-91 of “Swamp Thing”, news broke about the passing of Tatjana Wood, the original colorist on the series. Tomorrow, March 2nd, would have been Tatjana’s 100th birthday. Let’s raise a glass to one of comics’ originals.
The past few Mondays I have been showing my wife The X-Files.
We just watched "The Jersey Devil" (SE1, EP5)
"So salute him! Salute Deputy Chief Judge Fish!"
Up next on the site...
I swear this has something to do with ancient Rome.
Tank Girl, created with writer Alan Martin. It was serialised in Deadline magazine and currently reprinted by Titan Comics.
Tank Girl page by Jamie Hewlett.
A pop art inspired page from the 2000 AD series Hewligan's Haircut by Jamie Hewlett. Serialised in 2000 AD Prog 700-707. Written by Peter Milligan. Been collected a few times. Most recently in Best of 2000 AD vol 4.
Sooner or Later: Swift's Return page by Jamie Hewlett. Serialised in 2000 AD Prog 614-617. It has been collected with the original Sooner or Later story in TPB (probably out of print, sorry) and digitally
Gorillaz dropped a new album this weekend. Here's your reminder that the visual side of the project, Jamie Hewlett, has a comics background.
He co-created Tank Girl and has done some really cool comics for @2000ad.bsky.social.
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Gorillaz - The Mountain album cover.
Continuing into Saturday.
Gorillaz - The Mountain
I somehow missed the biggest release of the week.
After one listen: it's not bad. Nothing really stands out in the same way as when the group was in their prime. The song I enjoyed the most was the one with Sparks.
Bleach was this for me. Well, until the Aizen stuff finished up. I tried the filler arc that was after and kind of dropped off.
The one I had on DVD that I really digged was Gurren Lagann.
This hurts my brain so much as someone who works in marketing for their dayjob.
It doesn't matter what your discipline or project is, make it super easy for people to find and engage with it. Make it clear and have as few steps as possible.
Cootie Catcher - Something We All Got album cover. Features an photo of the four members of the band.
Cootie Catcher - Something We All Got
Fun jangly indie rock with some interesting textures.
Post old memes to confuse young people
Landowner - Assumption album cover
Landowner - Assumption
Rubber band-like punk (think The Damned meets Parquet Courts) that's slightly off kilter.
Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Mystic Suite
Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Mystic Suite
Now for something completely different. A cool soul-jazz album. Heaps of groove making for some easy listening while I work.
Nothing - a short history of decay album cover.
Nothing - a short history of decay
I didn't enjoy this one as much as I hoped. The heavy shoegaze meet IDM drum beats was interesting but a lot of the softer moments didn't do much for me. Maybe it will grow with subsequent listens.
deathcrash - Somersaults album cover.
First up...
deathcrash - Somersaults
Slowcore adjacent rock from this London band. I'm really digging it.
It's Friday (In Australia) let's start listening to a bunch of new albums releases that dropped today 🎶
A thread.
People act like newsletters didn't exist before Substack.
Did Jelly Roll ever get around to speaking about politics like he said he would?
I don't think he's having a good time.
Writers, if you could drop your novel into a blender that also sets your dick on fire, and every artist you admire laughs and calls you "burnt dick blender guy," would you do it?
Or I might just have to write it myself
When budget allows it, I'm going to have to open up pitch submissions for a piece about the intersection of comics and wrestling.
Cover to POPEYE #62, with Popeye and his friends and family in a sinking boat during a storm at sea, with Swee'pea bailing water out onto the Sea Hag.
I'm unhappy, so I'm going to look at this beautiful cover for POPEYE #66 (1962) until I feel better.
Is a facsimile edition really a facsimile if you give it a variant cover?
What’s an HBO Series (that’s not 'The Wire', 'The Sopranos', or 'Game Of Thrones') that You would Recommend? 📺
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Three panel comic. Panel one: a bush baby in sunglasses and a leather jacket sits outside a house on a motorcycle with huge handlebars. A starry-eyed ingenue in daisy dukes runs from the house. She says “wait, biker bush baby! Take me with you!” Panel 2: biker bush baby solemnly turns back and replies, “heh. Kid… you want nothin’ to do with this.” Panel 3: he rides into the distance while she watches him vanish on the horizon.
I honestly thought it was bot traffic since the impacted page is almost 10 years old.
InvestiGators are the kind of comics I wish I read as a kid.
An added bonus is that I don't have anyone asking for edit access for the sheet (when there are clear instructions on how to save a copy) this year.
I decided to put the tracker behind an email sign-up this year because I given away A LOT of stuff and asked for nothing in return in the past 13 years. I needed to do something that will help the site grow.
