pg 16 - You wait around for a half dozen decades and then you die.
The End.
pg 16 - You wait around for a half dozen decades and then you die.
The End.
A Public Service Announcement
Page from Greatish magazine.
Superheroes are a virus, and I'm infected.
Mask up.
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Dinosaur Walks into a Wall
Possibly my favorite doodle ever. A dinosaur walking into a wall.
The death of the Monoculture means soon all jokes will be inside jokes, like that time Corbin bought too many fish fillets from that one guy.
Birth.
I don't get these references.
I get some of these references.
I get all of the references.
What are these new references?
People are missing my references.
No one gets my references.
I don't get these references.
Death.
Note to headline writers: Weird AI and Weird Al are indistinguishable in most modern typefaces but mean two very different things.
To clarify outside the character limit. I'm not talking about the comics form, but the book format. The young audience reads online, paper is expensive in comparison to pixels, and the vertical scroll, when used well, isn't conducive to reformatting. Without original work, the medium will end.
If Marvel starts publishing Vertical Scroll comics, it's likely to lead to the end of the comic book form as a popular medium. Unlike webcomics, which could take any form, but were often easily formatted into books, Webtoons don't fit the format without revision. The beginning of the end.
Oh and I still have every issue of Transformers up through 57 bagged and boarded. Those same copies.
One is a retcon, the other is revisionist history.
This cover is the reason I read comics. Seeing it on the stand. Buying it. Buying the previous mini-series in a pack at KayBee toys. Ordering a subscription from the ad in the back. This is it. Ground Zero.
It only feels like magic when someone else is doing it.
James Gunn and Dan Harmon are better when they are constrained. Community>Rick and Morty. Superman>Peacemaker. Not because of freedom, but because of constraints.
MHO
Every hobby-based podcast I try to listen to, I want them to discuss the thing they made.
Every hobby-based podcast I try to listen to, they want to discuss how to make money on the thing they made.
I don't care how you make money. I care how you make art.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and they never finished it.
Money can't buy happiness, but you can subscribe to it. Rates rise yearly as do the number of advertisements. But what else can I do? Make myself happy?
The future is unwritten, but I think we can get ChatGPT to autofill it for us.
Knowledge is power. But power is not knowledge. It's kind of a "square is a rectangle" situation.
Very sad to hear that Christopher H. Bidmead has passed away. His name will always be burned into my mental pantheon, not just for his time as script editor on the classic series, but for the novelizations of his stories that I read and reread again and again in the time before VHS and DVDs.
Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying βhow do I pack this down into something I can actually share?β While swirling rainbows labeled βINFINITE POTENTIALβ float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming βall that work for THIS?!β Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guyβs hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying βHere you go, I made this, it sucks.β Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
Sometimes weβre unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when itβs done we know all the things that it isnβt, but we canβt see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. ποΈπ¦
A wonderful visual storyteller and an incredibly nice guy. Loved working with Don on Defenders.
"Hamlet:
Denmark being one oβ the worst.
R:
We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet:
Why, then, βtis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
it is a prison."
-When everything clicks into place, and then a second later you mess it up with old patterns.
There's also one that dropped exclusively on HBO Max and of course the very recent Last of Us Part 2, so ... Into the Pascaliverse!
Mercutio died laughing. Be like Mercutio.
$15,000, which is roughly one share (one eight billionth) of the $123 trillion that exists, as long as everyone else has one share as well. I think you'd be surprised at how quickly prices would come down.