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Critical Thinking: The World’s Greatest Detective vs. the Ghetto
This installment of Critical Thinking examines why the cultural inheritance of the World's Greatest Detective makes him the ideal pioneer.
www.comicsbeat.com
"the saviors have become settlers; the iconography of protecting the innocent is rewritten as the pioneer guarding his stake... as comics attempt to set batman in the same world as his readers, the role of violence to perpetuate the state demands to be addressed"
i do not write like the others
i do not write like the others
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sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive
February 2, 2026 at 5:50 PM
sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive
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Our capitalists don’t envision automation as a bridge to human prosperity, otherwise they’d advocate for the types of fundamental societal changes that would make that possible such as UBI or investment in infrastructure through taxing their income. Their vision for automation is a robot with a whip
February 5, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Our capitalists don’t envision automation as a bridge to human prosperity, otherwise they’d advocate for the types of fundamental societal changes that would make that possible such as UBI or investment in infrastructure through taxing their income. Their vision for automation is a robot with a whip
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It really sucks that Microsoft sunk its claws into so much of the game industry and is attached to a ton of games I wanna play.
What sucks even more is supporting genocide, which is something Microsoft loves doing. I’m very in favor of Microsoft fucking off until it stops loving genocide so much.
What sucks even more is supporting genocide, which is something Microsoft loves doing. I’m very in favor of Microsoft fucking off until it stops loving genocide so much.
Anyway, Microsoft's gaming products are subject to a boycott from the BDS movement, due to Microsoft's ongoing support for the IDF. Bethesda is owned by Microsoft.
nogamesforgenocide.com
nogamesforgenocide.com
No Games For Genocide
The games industry is complicit in genocide. It’s time to divest.
nogamesforgenocide.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
It really sucks that Microsoft sunk its claws into so much of the game industry and is attached to a ton of games I wanna play.
What sucks even more is supporting genocide, which is something Microsoft loves doing. I’m very in favor of Microsoft fucking off until it stops loving genocide so much.
What sucks even more is supporting genocide, which is something Microsoft loves doing. I’m very in favor of Microsoft fucking off until it stops loving genocide so much.
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This is what I mean whenever I utter “Comics will break your heart.”
It's not just the women and girls we know of. It's all their future work, and everything they could have been, and how we build structures that shelter their abusers. It's how a man's future has always been worth more than my past, present, and future combined.
February 5, 2026 at 9:42 PM
This is what I mean whenever I utter “Comics will break your heart.”
more fucked up finglas comics, this time from the shitty past instead of an intolerable future
Austere and robust, Aaron Losty's CLEARWATER captures the small-time crime of growing up @aaronlosty.blsky.social
Graphic Novel Review: CLEARWATER, hard times and lost friends
Clearwater Vol. 1 Writer/Illustrator: Aaron Losty Illustrator: Artyom Trakhanov Publisher: Battered Brush / CA$20 Jan 2026 This is how Mousey became John. The first collection of Aaron Losty’s comic, Clearwater, is about growing up in the Dublin suburb Finglas. A crime drama about coming up poor, and Mousey the runt of the social circle. He got his name because all he does is squeak when you push him around.
www.comicsbeat.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:21 AM
more fucked up finglas comics, this time from the shitty past instead of an intolerable future
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I am 43 and I don't make a living in comics anymore largely because I want the freedom to say things like this without trading it for my livelihood.
That's pretty fucked up.
(cont'd)
That's pretty fucked up.
(cont'd)
February 6, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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Anyway.
I am pretty sure that there is no woman or other person of marginalized gender in comics whose career has not been substantially impacted--whether they saw it or not--by the extent to which misogyny, expressed partly by harassment and assault, are normalized in the comics industry. (cont'd)
I am pretty sure that there is no woman or other person of marginalized gender in comics whose career has not been substantially impacted--whether they saw it or not--by the extent to which misogyny, expressed partly by harassment and assault, are normalized in the comics industry. (cont'd)
February 6, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Anyway.
I am pretty sure that there is no woman or other person of marginalized gender in comics whose career has not been substantially impacted--whether they saw it or not--by the extent to which misogyny, expressed partly by harassment and assault, are normalized in the comics industry. (cont'd)
I am pretty sure that there is no woman or other person of marginalized gender in comics whose career has not been substantially impacted--whether they saw it or not--by the extent to which misogyny, expressed partly by harassment and assault, are normalized in the comics industry. (cont'd)
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small-time crime comics from @aaronlosty.bsky.social
Graphic Novel Review: CLEARWATER, hard times and lost friends
In Aaron Losty's first printed collection of small-time Irish crime comics, CLEARWATER, the kids aren't alright.
www.comicsbeat.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:17 PM
small-time crime comics from @aaronlosty.bsky.social
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Such a great comic book.
February 5, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Such a great comic book.
small-time crime comics from @aaronlosty.bsky.social
Graphic Novel Review: CLEARWATER, hard times and lost friends
In Aaron Losty's first printed collection of small-time Irish crime comics, CLEARWATER, the kids aren't alright.
www.comicsbeat.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:17 PM
small-time crime comics from @aaronlosty.bsky.social
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the forbidden candy
February 4, 2026 at 10:32 PM
the forbidden candy
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white readers aren't interested in marginalized stories unless there's something they can extract and use to pathologize the behavior of that marginalized group
Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?
October 4, 2025 at 12:24 AM
white readers aren't interested in marginalized stories unless there's something they can extract and use to pathologize the behavior of that marginalized group
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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.
This is perfect for those who want granular detail on their comics reading or have a goal to read more in 2026.
Log, track, and analyse (with automated stats) your comics reading I'm 2026!
Log, track, and analyse (with automated stats) your comics reading I'm 2026!
Track All Your Comics Reading With The Latest Version Of Our Reading Tracker
Track your comics reading this year with the 2026 edition of the Comics Reading Tracker.
www.howtolovecomics.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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.
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last year me and @grumpyducky.bsky.social made a 4 page sci-fi war comic called Norman Belisario as part of an anthology. The story is about an afro-Jewish Jamaican solider in world War Two and who later becomes a Nazi Hunter. unfortunately, a very topical story.
grumpyducky.com/norman-belis...
grumpyducky.com/norman-belis...
February 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
last year me and @grumpyducky.bsky.social made a 4 page sci-fi war comic called Norman Belisario as part of an anthology. The story is about an afro-Jewish Jamaican solider in world War Two and who later becomes a Nazi Hunter. unfortunately, a very topical story.
grumpyducky.com/norman-belis...
grumpyducky.com/norman-belis...
forty years of CONTROL. thank you ms. jackson
Janet Jackson - When I Think Of You
YouTube video by JanetJacksonVEVO
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:38 AM
forty years of CONTROL. thank you ms. jackson
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The third issue features Emmanuel Guibert (Alan's War, The Photographer) talking about a comic ('Kwapiszow and the Mysterious Key') by Polish graphic designer Bohdan Butenko from 1980. The whole thing is scanned in blog style, which I very much appreciate
February 4, 2026 at 7:56 PM
The third issue features Emmanuel Guibert (Alan's War, The Photographer) talking about a comic ('Kwapiszow and the Mysterious Key') by Polish graphic designer Bohdan Butenko from 1980. The whole thing is scanned in blog style, which I very much appreciate