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Look at that beautiful blue sky! â°â ď¸ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soonâŚ
roses are red gold is the key
1800 block of South Western Avenue in Chicago
Wow, that thread was...not great. The 'picnic theme doesn't make sense'? I guess if it's not a drab, serious tacked-on barley present theme, it can't be good. One even complains about the lack of historical wargames for this retheme and I'm like...sir, what?
I think any separation of the constituent parts of "board game" is basically just an exercise in autopsy.
It's why I enjoy your analysis of games and their greater artistic merits and analysis. You and @nopunincluded.com in particular engage with games as a part of a cultural discussion and their impact and intentions art, not just 'game good or game bad'.
Leder are masters of making games with something to say. If you look at John Company or Pax Pamir as just a collection of mechanics, you've missed engaging with it fully. These games mean to teach you something through engagement with the game (or at least express a point of view).
I agree with this completely, while also feeling deeply unseen, haha.
can we survive this much success
Still kicking myself for not getting Thunderbirds when it came out. I wasn't in on the KS and when my local store got a copy, seeing all the different stretch goals as extra purchases turned me off. By the time I changed my mind it was gone. Glad this exists, but I wanted Thunderbirds itself.
[Suddenly clutches his copy tighter, not having realized it was hard to find, squints eyes at Kyle suspiciously]
LOL they could not indict a ham sandwich âProsecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agentâ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
What did that Blockhead do NOW? Good Grief.
No no no no no hell no
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
#10 Dan Spiegle - an artist in the business for decades, Spiegle is almost unknown, but he's versatile and stretched from Gold Key adaptions to Disney work to Power Pack and Crossfire and DNAgents. A journeyman who never hit big name recognition, he was everywhere for decades, especially Blackhawk.
#9 - Babs Tarr - a freelance illustrator who DC tapped to reboot Batgirl (of Burnside), Tarr's electric artwork ends up more on covers and really deserves to be better known. That she was the first long-term female artists on a batcomic says a lot about the industry #comics #underappreciatedartists
#8 - Kyle Baker - you'd think a multiple Eisner and Harvey awards would be a household name, but you'd be wrong. Baker is viewed as a cartoonist, which he is...but compare his work on Truth and Plastic Man and you can see an amazing range #comics #underappreciatedartists
Continuing my #comics #underapprecitedartists list #7 - Nick Cardy - Some artists put in solid work and went largely ignored, even as their work wasn't. Cardy delivered amazing work for Aquaman and the Teen Titans but his work covered a lot of titles and styles.
#6 - Stuart Imonnen - How he isn't a household name is confusing to me; not unknown, but his stellar work is so polished and despite his years of work, he seems like a relative unknown to many people. He deserves to be better known.
#5 - Jose Garcia-Lopez - When Curt Swan left Superman, Garcia-Lopez took the mantle - but not merely copy Swan's style, he delivered his own thing that many people instantly recognize, but don't realize who did it.
#4 Sal Buscema - Buscema was never flashy so he was easy to dismiss. But he was a solid draftsman that was always delivered. He delivered solid storytelling reliably, time after time.
#3 Ross Andru - Spider-man has had many good artists over his lifetime, so it's no surprise that people pass over Andru on their way between the various Romitas and others. That's their mistake, IMHO. Few artists truly captured Spidey's athleticism better, Andru always has Spidey ready to leap.
#2: Jim Aparo. When I think of Batman, THIS is who I think of. Action packed and yet not somehow realistic in a way that makes it all believable. Aparo's Batman was not the 'bat god', but a dedicated and relatable human being with a human being's limits.
The world is on fire right now. Again. Again Again. So I need to think of something positive. So here it is: Underappreciated comics artists. #1 Dave Cockrum. Designed some of the most iconic costumes in modern comics. Dynamic and action-packed, the modern X-Men are built on his foundation.
100%. Aparo's Batman is the platonic ideal in my brain. He never received the full credit he deserved. There have been many great takes on the character, but I would take his version of pretty much any of them.
A real nice nuts-and-bolts look at the different cinematic Lois Lanes, a character who really does decide the quality of a Superman story. Points for avoiding the "but what does this mean for the culture" scope-broadening these things can sometimes drown in.
Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
I've said it before but I love to imagine Jack Kirby at the drawing board working on this scene. He pauses because he needs a quick visual shorthand to make it clear that this teenage fuckup doesn't care that the men around him are trying to work.
A new game from Paul Deneen is always an event!
Singing "He tried to kill me with a FORKLIFT...." and "Gamera is really neat, he is filled with Turtle Meat" are regular non-sequiturs around these parts.
What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%
I know it's the Onion but it still made my blood boil for a moment.
It occurs to me that the simplest difference between Democrats and Republicans is how the interpret the phrase of âwe need to take care of people â. Or rather one group adds the word âthoseâ before people.
Fred Astaire should be an unlockable character in Tony Hawk
Rattler shelf in place.
Contrary to expectations, Lightning Train does not include magic. And I mean that in both senses. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/08/20/l...
I admit Wild Tiled West is not his greatest, but I do enjoy it for what it is. I had high hopes for this but, well, they can't all be gems, I guess.
Formatting LAVENDER JACK VOLUME 2 officially begins today. The idea is for Dark Horse to release these three books six months apart. In a year, I will rest. Maybe find religion. Who is to say
Finding out who this guy was and why the feds were there to talk him took this from 100 to 0 so very quickly. :(
*in my very best Masshole voice* FACK YOU, ASSHOLES
whatever you think of the country as a whole there are still a whole lot of great people here who deserve better than this
Good morning
Today's FLASH GORDON âĄď¸
8/ So CNBC is basically a more liberal Fox Business News...which is like comparing chocolate ice cream to double-fudge swirl, I suppose. It sure ain't vanilla.
7/ Simply put, they clearly are advertising to older white men approaching retirement or past it. At least three different regular recurring commercials are for selling your life insurance policy so you can enjoy your retirement. 50% of their ads are for funds - which I assume also for that crowd.
6/ I guess I was surprised by that aspect. I expected not challenging administration officials directly, perhaps...but not that they'd echo those talking points outside of those interviews. But then I remember the advertising I see on the channel.
5/ But it's more annoying because they let basic financial policy arguments go unchallenged, even when they KNOW how the economy works and that the guests are effectively lying, like when discussing the tariffs. And you can be sure their online hosts aren't going to ask tough questions about it.
4/ They don't call their guests on what are blatant misrepresentations of positions or data. Granted, this is generally true of their interviews with CEOs. They love having access and challenging positions doesn't get guests to return. No one is giving Elon Musk hardball about self-driving cars.
3/ Now understand that CNBC is a largely biased channel that tries to pretend that they are not. Republican lawmakers are on twice as often as Democrats and the administration's narrative is never questioned, even when the KNOW that there is intellectual dishonesty happening.
2/ But it's telling that they've had two NYC mayoral candidates on for personal interviews. Curtis Sliwa and Cuomo have been on for live interviews, but not Mamdani, despite extensive daily coverage of him and referencing him as a topic. Seems very telling.
1/ One thing that interests me is how much Zohran Mamdani seems to live rent-free on CNBC. Daily commentary appears about how all the rich people will leave NYC if he gets elected, how he wants to make NYC free for EVERYTHING, etc. He's a daily topic for them.
As someone who is forced to watch CNBC all day long at my workspace, it's because (as I'm sure you know) that they love having access as much as people like Hassett, Lutnick and Navarro love to blather on, knowing they'll get a softball reception. They will never hold their feet to the fire.
These tech bros make the same â5 to 10 yearsâ predictions because thatâs what investors want to hear. Altman said AI would wipe out developers by 2020. Musk said weâd have self-driving cars in 2-3 yearsâŚ.in 2013. Zuckerberg claimed AR glasses and VR would be huge: 5 years ago. Itâs always a grift.
Still blows my mind that editorial and Millar thought they were presenting equal arguments on both sides. One side is hunting people down and putting them in extra-dimensional prisons while the other side is saying âDonât do thatâ. Surely it will be a 50/50 split!
Fake president; wannabe dictators.
If you know me at all - here, elsewhere, or irl - you know how important I believe it is to understand history. That itâs being perverted in this way and for this reason is obscene.
If youâre trying to erase history, youâre on the wrong side of it.
Like, it turns about being inside of a running gun battle IS REALLY AWFUL AND NO ONE SHOULD WANT TO BE THERE.
Seriously, though, 'Cloud' is really great. The first part of the film feels like all tension and was worried it would be all sizzle, no steak. Then a switch flips and it GETS NUTS. It's a stinging indictment of online hustle culture, but also an action movie of sorts, if the action is UNDESIRABLE.
Hey, did I mention I saw Kiyoshi Kurasawa's movie 'Cloud' this past Friday? It was a taught psychological thriller that I enjoyed more than his most famous film 'Cure'. Why do I mention? Oh, NO REASON.
It can go either way, really. My kids loved the 1978 Hobbit movie, but both were traumatized by the Dark Crystal. My oldest was terrified of the Red Bull in the Last Unicorn, but wanted to go see it in a local theater recently. Often, they appreciate some of it DIFFERENTLY. Or not. It's all good.
One of the (many) dumb things about this is that the Natl Mall is *already* one of the most policed areas of the entire countryâmore than a dozen agencies cover it. Using fed special agents for line police work here is asking the Lakers to skip the NBA to staff high school games as ball-boys.
ICYMI: Comic artist @danschkade.bsky.social's Webtoon webcomic 'Lavender Jack' comes to Dark Horse in a beautiful print edition! Volume 1 releases in March. Pre-order your copy: bit.ly/3JaIzfn By Dan Schkade, @jennmanleylee.bsky.social, and @dylantodd.bsky.social
it would honestly be hard to sell a movie with an alien invasion plotline today because can you imagine an alien occupation worse than how we're governed right now? i say we let the aliens from Independence Day try their best
Listen, I had to.
I wonder what he refused to do.
I mean, if you dig the songs, COOL. I just think it's silly that news outlets are like 'the song of summer is dead' and I'm like 'guys, democracy is under assault. Maybe this isn't the big thing you want it to be.' 6/6
Which isn't to say stuff didn't go overplayed in summer's past...we just didn't declare with hubris that 'Pass the Duchy' was the Song of Summer (tm pat pending). It was just a song you were TIRED OF HEARING. [thus concludes the old man yells at clouds rant]. 5
Is this another 'the Reagan administration removed restrictions on an industry and ruined it' complaint? IT IS. I realize this is like every Scooby-Doo mystery, where you find out the Galloping Ghost was just some jerk farmer trying to scare people off. But, you know, it's true. 4
And they were different! WMMR was the middle of the road classic and contemporary rock. WYSP focused on metal and more guitar rock. WIOQ was album-oriented, playing deep cuts. 91.7 played prog rock. And college stations played fringe stuff. 3
When I think of the variety station used to have, it's stunning. Punk, new wave, classic rock and heavy metal would never be on the same station now, for example. But before massive market consolidation, it was a regular thing. The Philly market had three different rock stations in the 80s. 2
I might care that there's no 'song of the summer' this year if it wasn't for the fact that it's such a recent idea that it going away doesn't really seem like a novel idea. I stopped being into commercial radio as soon as there were other options & stations are so polarized now, it's no surprise. 1
The problem is that it's just right enough to fool people into thinking it did the thing, while just wrong enough to make people look foolish and mislead people who might depend upon it.
I thought to myself, is it really this bad? And discovered that when I tried, not only did it not do what I asked (note the image it gave me dropped the names of the last 4), but its easy to miss ol' Andrew Joekson there and that these are approximations of art of those presidents, not actual images
This is fucking wild, that AI would produce this, and that apparently our fifth president defeated the Cylons.
I frequently list Michael Maltese as a writing influence and one of the great comedy writers of the 20th century, absolutely in the Top Ten for the entire century. Lots of blank looks until one starts listing his work. Then eyes light up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...
It's basically: 'we know it really probably has a benign reason but the fact that we even can think it's a possibility is in and of itself, a problem.' I know that generally this sort of thing is due to stupidity instead of malice, but there's so much incompetence in play these days.
When I was a kid (long ago), one great joy I found was when I found some hardbound collections of classic comic strips, such as Little Nemo and Thimble Theater. I'd love to see if that can happen for you. Especially if it's in color, which I know raises the cost, but it's such a component here. 2/2
That's great. Your strips truly capture the joy of daily adventure strips in a way that isn't common any longer. I see these in the vein of Milt Caniff or Alex Toth, exciting, economical story-telling that takes advantage of the medium instead of being limited by it. 1/2
Is there any possibility that these strips will be collected in printed form? (sorry if this is a common question).
It occurred to me this morning that credit card points are just basically updated S&H Green Stamps and now I am useless for the rest of the day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26H_G...
Washington Post: âIs fascism bad? The answer may surprise youâ Teen Vogue: âHere are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrierâ
Turns out AI is mostly useless, and it ends up being humans who have to do the job in the way it needs to specifically be. Who would have thought. AI is mostly a con. And it's only a matter of time before the realisation kicks in.
Reminds me of the story that @straczynski.bsky.social told about his time on 'Murder She Wrote' where a prospective writer pitch was just 'Amnesia!', the single word, and thought he had brought fire down from the heavens like Prometheus.
âWe felt like weâd made a profit. But we hadnât. Not reallyâ: Chroma Arcana creator Mo Shawwa on the financial wrinkles behind even a target-smashing crowdfund, and what tariffs mean for his next project Smallfolk: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20... @rocnestgames.bsky.social
Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe. From the Chief Economist at Moody's.
I often take this for granted - then I go elsewhere and am quickly reminded of how unique (and better) this is.
Expansion: Sea Salt & Paper: Extra Pepper (Bruno Cathala & ThĂŠo Rivière) has 12 cards. At the end of each round, the player with the most/fewest points gets one depending on whether itâs a nerfing or boosting card. Each player can have only one. BGG game page: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/44... âWEM
This is incredibly stupid on a number of levels, but itâs also enraging to hear from a guy who led a government program that destroyed some of the most effective anti-poverty and disease prevention programs we had.
I don't disagree, but it's not clear to me what they specifically could have done. If Congress and the Supreme Court are willing to let the Executive branch do whatever it wants including violating the law, what magic could the outgoing administration accomplish to stop them?
Wally Wood designs a pitch-perfect fake "Nancy" strip, then reimagines it in the styles of four radically different classic newspaper strips Oh Wally (MAD #32, 1957)
macksting 