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The Parker Legacy (Thanks for the memories, Pete!) @benreilly149.bsky.social · Nov 7
Like "my favorite Spidey stories" threads? Confidentially, we in the fan community refer to them as "long underwear rants"! And as you know, they're a dime a dozen! But, we think you may find our @benreilly149.bsky.social thread just a bit...different!
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Important for people to realize that like 30% of all the bad stuff in society is already explicitly illegal it's just not enforced.
January 30, 2026 at 7:52 PM
benreilly149.bsky.social
One of the funniest Simpsons bits this season was the rich quacks promising Homer if he followed their insane health regimen he'd have the libido of an 18 year old and he screams in terror "oh dear god NOT AGAIN!!"
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 AM
benreilly149.bsky.social
Lethal Protector and Venom's subsequent minis were Batman '66 for the 90s antihero, and like Adam West's protagonist, Venom is funnier for taking himself so seriously.
February 3, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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matthewdowsmith.bsky.social
Over my more than 30 years as a creative professional, I have slowly learned to be very wary of people who put a lot of time and energy into creating and nurturing a public persona.

I have often found that there is something really bad hiding behind that persona.
February 2, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Have a Very Merry #MutantMonday #XMEN
February 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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oceanmanex.bsky.social
You all have free range to use this image in response to any transphobia now
February 2, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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awamboldtart.bsky.social
Rowling: "we must eradicate transgenderism to protect women and children everywhere"

Also Rowling: [freely consorts with the unholy god emperor of pedophilia]
February 2, 2026 at 4:08 AM
benreilly149.bsky.social
Where does one apply for a transfer to a Ray Bradbury short story?
elvingjack.bsky.social Revolutionary_Jack 🕷🕸! @elvingjack.bsky.social · 17h
We do in fact live in a Pynchon novel
johnathanperk.bsky.social J. - Project 2025 expert @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d
FYI, Kristi Noem’s full
initials are K.L.A.N.
February 3, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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elvingjack.bsky.social
Why does Mario move like Donald Duck in the Goin Quackers video game?
theverge.com The Verge @theverge.com · 4d
Project Genie is an an experimental research prototype that Google gave @jaypeters.net access to this week, though he may not be using it in exactly the way Google intended.

Here's Jay's version of something like Super Mario 64:
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February 2, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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elvingjack.bsky.social
PTA and Pynchon somewhere
Art by Eddie Campbell. From Hell
February 2, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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mattbegins.bsky.social
My birthday was a few days ago and as a gift to myself (and you!) I released a bonus episode of DOES THIS COME IN CHROMIUM with one of my favorite people in the world, @bobbytrippett.bsky.social.

Listen as Bobby shares his infectious love for SLEEPWALKER!
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Does This Come In Chromium?: Sleepwalker #19 with Bobby Trippett
On this episode Matt and special guest co-host Bobby Trippett (host of the GRINDBIN PODCAST)  mask up and enter the Mindscape so they can discuss 1992's SLEEPWALKER #19. If you love deep dives in...
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February 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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mattbegins.bsky.social
Here’s the full episode description for the true believers out there!
Cover of SLEEPWALKER #19 alongside the full episode description text which reads: On this episode Matt and special guest co-host Bobby Trippett (host of the GRINDBIN PODCAST) mask up and enter the Mindscape so they can discuss 1992's SLEEPWALKER #19. If you love deep dives into lesser known characters, then this is the episode for you! As per usual, Matt thought he knew a decent amount about Sleepwalker, but it turns out that he was wrong. Fear not though because Bobby reveals himself to not only be a superfan, but a true Sleepwalker expert/dream master. But can Bobby answer the question - Is Sleepwalker a bad teammate? And what does he think about Matt's theory that Sleepwalker is the A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Part 2 of superhero comics? You'll have to stay awake and listen to find out!
February 1, 2026 at 9:18 PM
benreilly149.bsky.social
The Spectre is just in a different class when it comes to covers
realmarkrez.bsky.social Mark Reznicek @realmarkrez.bsky.social · 19h
This arrived in the mail over the weekend, the last issue I needed from this run. There’s some early Berni Wrightson art inside, too.
The Spectre no. 9 shows the title character reaching his gigantic white hand over a book called the Journal of Judgment
February 3, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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Reading a Steve Gerber interview on JoeGuide.com, and it's really funny. Helps explain a whole lot of what I've been seeing in the show
The question was how do you take all of those individual characters and, of course, whole tapestry woven into the mini-series, make it work as a bunch of individual episodes. The requirements are very, very different. It took a little while to figure it all out. In the beginning, what everyone wanted to do, the natural thing...my own first script for G.I.Joe was a Cobra-tries-to-conquer-the-world-and-the-Joes-stop-them script. We real quickly got away from that kind of story. It was the natural inclination to do something like that, first of all because it's the kinds of shows the networks would do all of the time and basically what everybody's experience is or was out here, and secondly because that was the way the mini-series was structured and that was the model that people were working from; therefore, we craft everything to conform to that model. Everyone assumed that. It was only about, I would say, like four or five or maybe even six scripts that into the series we began to realize how weird we could actually get with that show. (laughter) And then once it started it couldn't be stopped. It got stranger and stranger right up until the end. The last script that I did of G.I.Joe - I wrote three of them all together for the first season - the last story was a two-parter that bears virtually no resemblance in structure, in pacing, in tone, in everything, to the first script I did. DJZ: It sounds like you were actually given a heck of a lot of freedom on how to determine things. SG: God, yes. I am prouder of that show than of anything else I've done in animation! We were given an immense amount of freedom. I was working with possibly the most intelligent producer I've ever dealt with. The guy's name is Jay Baccall. His actual title is creative director at Griffen-Baccall, which is the advertising agency of which Sunbow Productions is a subsidiary of a sister company or something. Jay is just incredibly sharp; a real good sense of drama, a real good sense of character, a wonderful sense of story, and a tremendous imagination - moreso, I think, than he realizes. Jay is perhaps the only producer I have ever heard actually say to a writer, “Gee, are you sure this is weird enough?” (laughter) He felt exactly the same way about it that I did: I mean that we had to push people into new directions and into stretching their abilities in ways that they simply hadn't before. We developed, over a period of time as we were doing the show - we've been doing it on TRANSFORMERS this year, too - a way of sort of browbeating the writers. We would bring them in and use certain North Vietnamese techniques to steer them away from the network style of writing. (laughter) “No! you don't have to make everything audibly and visually redundant!” The example I'm using for TRANSFORMERS, you know, is if you have fifty Decepticons flying out of the sky all lasers blazing and attacking Autobot City, nobody has to point up into the sky and say, “Look! The Decepticons are attacking Autobot City!” (laughter) Which is again, the way that every single Saturday morning cartoon show is written. DJZ: You brought in a number of comic book people on G.I.Joe. What was your reasoning behind that? SG: Well, there are a number of reasons. First of all, the level of writing in the animation field in L.A. is not that good. I would say it is pathetic. I felt that we would gain a real advantage by using some people who were used to writing for print, used to actually seeing their own words on a printed page, and who had therefore developed a certain amount of care about the way they put those words together. I was making a concerted effort to raise the level of writing in the field, and so I went out and did get some of the better comic book people to contribute to the show. I wanted a group of people, also, who didn't bring to the show the prejudices of Saturday morning, the training of Saturday morning. I wanted an entirely different consciousness working on the show - people who understood that a sympathetic character could have a negative side, that a character could be more than one-dimensional, how to write a story that was motivated out of character as opposed to just a bunch of plot devices put together randomly and nonsensically, which is what you get on Saturday morning a lot. Most Saturday morning scripts are a collection of network executives’ own prejudices as to what make a good script, and they have virtually nothing to do with the way a series or the way a character should be written. DJZ: What do you feel were the big successes that you were able to do in ‘85? SG: ...Well, the biggest success was an episode written by Stanley Ralph Ross .... It's an episode called “The Wrong Stuff” in which Cobra manages to disable all of Earth's communication satellites and then puts up its own satellite up there and in effect takes over television, and you see Cobra's version of pro-social programming. ... Cobra Commander has redone old movies... He's changed the ending of KING KONG so that the last airplane comes up and King Kong swats it down. All of the people flying the planes are dead and he's still up on top of the Empire State Building, pounding his chest and roaring, and Carl Denham and the cop...are down at the foot of the Empire State Building... and the cop says to Denham, “Well, he got the airplanes.” - and Denham says, “Yes. You can never win if your enemy is stronger than you are.” Then, we did a segment of the show that was about 30 seconds of a Saturday morning show called THE LIKABLES. They're little green elves flanking a purple elf, walking down the street of this little elftown,... and the little purple elf is saying... “Gee, Likables, how come nobody like me?” - and the Likables says, “Well, Purpie, it's because you are different.” SG: ...And then both of the little green elves pull out fistfuls of little green fairy dust and start flinging it at the purple elf and saying, “Only when everybody looks alike and acts alike and talks alike and thinks alike and never ever gets angry about anything will we achieve world peace.” And at this point, the purple elf has turned completely green, and he says, “You're right, Likables! Now everyone will like me!” ...then the announcer actually comes on and says, “Tune in next week for more pro-social fun with the Likables!” The screen goes completely black...and you pull back and you see that the Joes have been watching this......and [Duke] just says, totally deadpan: "This has got to stop.”
February 2, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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jamesgunn.bsky.social
Happy Anniversary to one of my very favorite comics characters, Krypto, who first appeared in ADVENTURE COMICS #210 written by Otto Binder with art by Curt Swan. Krypto returns to movie screens in Supergirl this summer.
January 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
benreilly149.bsky.social
Alas, Film Freak, we hardly knew ye.
February 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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annecomics.bsky.social
“I know John Constantine, he’s an old friend of mine.” is the DC comics equivalent of a Star Trek red shirt
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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comicfoil.bsky.social
Now that’s how you do a wraparound cover!

Artists Mike Zeck and Tom Palmer pulled out all the stops for this one, the first of three issues reprinting classic X-Men stories drawn by Neal Adams and (the aforementioned) Palmer.
colorful costumed adventurers battle against giant robots X-Men Classics starring the X-Men #1 (1983) cover art by Mike Zeck & Tom Palmer
February 1, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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tompeyer.bsky.social
Batman #142, 1961.
Dear Editor: Many times, I've seen BATMAN and ROBIN capture criminals who use super-weapons. How come they just destroy those weapons or keep them in their TROPHY ROOM? Wouldn't they be better off using them to fight crime? Butch Shaw, Cincinnati, Ohio (Most criminal super-weapons are much too dangerous and destructive. BATMAN and ROBIN fight crime using weapons that don't risk lives.—Ed.)
January 31, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
January 31,1948
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- SLUGGO IS WALKING DOWN THE STREET WITH HIS HANDS IN HIS POCKETS. SLUGGO: HERE COMES NANCY-- I WONDER IF SHE'S STILL MAD AT ME P2- NANCY WALKS PAST SLUGGO AND HAS A FEW WORDS FOR SLUGGO AS SHE IS WALKING BY… NANCY: DON'T TALK TO ME, SLUGGO- I'M BOYCOTTING ALL BOYS SLUGGO: OH - - IS DAT SO P3- SLUGGO: WELL ---FOR YOUR INFORMATION - - P4- SLUGGO STARTS TO WALKS ON DOWN THE STREET, HE’S TALKING OVER HIS SHOULDER … SLUGGO: - - I’M GIRLCOTTING ALL GIRLS
January 31, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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flopscomics.bsky.social
Wonder Man fucking rocked.
Just amazing tv, and so many different tiny expressions and glances that made my eyes water
January 31, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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jmdematteis.bsky.social
Today at 1:30 pm Eastern.

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Remembering Our Pal Sal Buscema with Tom DeFalco, J.M. DeMatteis, Roger Stern and Danny Fingeroth 📱
YouTube video by Spider-Man Crawlspace
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January 31, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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“Hey Wonder Man! What do you think about that Wednesday Pull guy?”

Wonder Man:
January 31, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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moongirlsgonemad.bsky.social
Wonder Man is not only an antidote for so-called “superhero fatigue” but also an antidote for irony poisoning. A show that lowers stakes but increases the heart, Wonder Man is quite possibly the greatest MCU project ever made.

My review of Wonder Man for @cultureslate.bsky.social is out now!
'Wonder Man' Season One Review — CultureSlate
“We will make the last movie on Earth ‘cause no one will have the balls to make another!” It’s not a unique observation to say that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has experienced peaks and valleys o...
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January 29, 2026 at 9:35 PM