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"He's a master at being clever and counteracting the clever." -- Steve Ditko (about me, probably)

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I write dumb, vulgar shit about cool comics (and dumb comics (seldom vulgar comics)) which I pretend are reviews but are actually deep stares (too deep!) into my worthless soul.
Review of Invasion! Book Three: World Without Heroes by Keith Giffen, Bill Mantlo, Bart Sears, and a bunch of other people. But not Todd McFarlane this time:

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Invasion! Book Three: World Without Heroes (December 1988)
Looks more like Heroes Without a World, amirite?! The Cover Somehow Bart Sears pulled a cover out of his ass that I appreciate. Did ...
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January 24, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Me too, Guy. Me too.
January 24, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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The hottest DOS game sound card test 🥵

📺: System Shock, Looking Glass Studios, 1994
June 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What's that thing Bluesky does? "Introduce yourself with a piece of your art"? Here you go, baby!

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Green Lantern Annual #1 (1992)
I wouldn't mind getting behind that moon myself. Literally. To have sex with it. Usually when you see that much ass cheek on a DC cover...
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January 24, 2026 at 12:28 AM
"Hey kids! This comic was approved by the Comics Code! Enjoy this feel good family friendly treat!"
January 24, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.

1149:
Something was wrong with the faces.

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Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 64: Line 167 (1149)
Something was wrong with the faces. * * * * * * * * * * It's weird reading a paragraph by Thomas Pynchon that actually has multiple senten...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:35 AM
Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.

1148:
Merle peered uneasily.

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Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 64: Line 166 (1148)
Merle peered uneasily. * * * * * * * * * * Look, I really am doing this blog one line at a time. If I knew this line was next, I would hav...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.

1147:
It happened to be the Newburgh asylum, with two or three inmates standing in the foreground, staring.

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Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 64: Line 165 (1147)
It happened to be the Newburgh asylum, with two or three inmates standing in the foreground, staring. * * * * * * * * * * The picture that...
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January 23, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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Let’s create a world where former ICE agents are nostalgic for the days when they only got spat upon.
January 23, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Review of August 1993's Batman: Shadow of the Bat #15 by Alan Grant, Joe Staton, and Steve Mitchell:

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Batman: Shadow of the Bat #15 (August 1993)
The design team decided Baby Diarrhea Green would be too off-putting. So they went with Baby Diarrhea Yellowish-Brown. The Cover I d...
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January 23, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Against the Day by Pynchon. One Line at a Time.

1146:
Come in out of the pale Invisible, down into this otherwise explainable world, clearer than real.

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Chapter 1: Section 7: Page 64: Line 164 (1146)
Come in out of the pale Invisible, down into this otherwise explainable world, clearer than real. * * * * * * * * * * Sometimes I can't he...
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January 22, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Answering "God" to any question about reality we don't currently have an answer to is like playing The Game of Life and when you need to pay your taxes, you just grab some money out of the Monopoly box.
January 22, 2026 at 9:44 AM
"Before I get into my review or commentary or memoir or whatever the fuck this is I'm doing, I'd like to ask that you not look at The Regency Elf's butt like that. She's my fictional hump mistress. You can go jerk off to Scarlet Widow or Lois Big-Titties or whatever." -- Me being earnest
January 22, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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The minds that cheered at a lynching still exists .
The minds that stripped and murdered the inmates at Auschwitz still exist. The minds that beat gay men to death and hanged women as witches still exist.
We hoped we’d moved on, changed , but it is increasingly clear this was a liberal delusion.
January 22, 2026 at 1:10 AM
So proud of Jeremy for finally speaking up in class.
January 21, 2026 at 2:22 AM
My problem is I never learned when to hold them and when to fold them and when to walk away and when to run or how to count even.
January 21, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Review of Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka by L. Neil Smith (1983):

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Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka by L. Neil Smith (1983)
First let me get the petty gripes out of the way: the title of this book, like the other books, is terrible. But it's more terribler in a ...
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January 21, 2026 at 2:07 AM
What’s a comic book costume you know is terrible but you love it anyways?
January 21, 2026 at 1:53 AM
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January 21, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Ambush Bug
Without saying Lex, Brainiac, or Zod, who’s your favorite Superman villain?
January 21, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Review of Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon by L. Neil Smith (1983):

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Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon by L. Neil Smith (1983)
I joked about not liking the first Lando book after discovering that L. Neal Smith was known as a libertarian science fiction writer. But ...
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January 20, 2026 at 4:58 AM
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If you're still posting regularly on Twitter and bullshitting every day as if nothing is wrong I genuinely think less of you. Low stakes for sure but those are the stakes!
Damn Twitter is good again now gotta get back on there.
A tale of three apps. Identical post sent at the same time:

Twitter: 136,000 likes, 20,000 shares

Threads: 46,000 likes, 4,000 ahares

Bluesky: 149 likes, 45 shares

To be clear, I have 60k followers on Twitter, 15k on Bluesky, but only 7k on Threads.

I love Bluesky, but this isn't sustainable.
January 19, 2026 at 10:31 PM