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ModMonkey
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The latest incarnation of a universal constant stretching infinitely far backward and forward in time.

Writer. Podcaster. Historian. Physical Media Collector.

ModMonkey on the streets, Mike Jozic in the sheets.
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modmonkey.bsky.social
This is amazing to see.
duncanfegredo.bsky.social Duncan Fegredo @duncanfegredo.bsky.social · 6d
It's 20 years since @seanphillips.bsky.social and I exchanged a sketchbook back and forth in the mail, a drawn &painted call and response. INTERSECTIONS may be out of print but here is a flip through that sketchbook. You can still find the book out there :)
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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caasbrey.bsky.social
Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?” Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
modmonkey.bsky.social
I was rereading Nightwing 110 and am trying to figure out how I missed this obvious @gailsimone.bsky.social reference my first time through.😂
Two panels from Nightwing #110 written by Tom Taylor and illustrated by Sami Basri featuring underground Beast World animal fights and introducing Gail the Slayer, an obvious reference to writer Gail Simone.
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
I put out another new podcast episode. It's nice to have some regular releases after such a long hiatus.
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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ffrancavilla.bsky.social
GODZILLA
KING OF THE MONSTERS
#GodzillaDay
Poster for 1954 Godzilla movie with Godzilla emerging out of the ocean in the rain with a fishing boat is in the foreground.
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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colemooreodell.bsky.social
I can’t get over that the frame for this series is Barry Allen thinking he is writing a history of the universe, and filling it with things like “then Batman changed his outfit”
Cover of The New History of the DC Universe #4, with Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and some of DC’s newer characters such as Damian Wayne, Jon Kent, and Dreamer.
November 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
I'm always amused when people on dating apps think their musical tastes are broad and a bit all over the place but, really, they just listen to pop.
Screenshot of dating app prompt where the person states their music playlist can range from "The Weeknd to Shakira to Backstreet Boys. You never know what you're going to get," when, in fact, I think the reader knows exactly what they're going to get.
November 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Accurate.
Screenshot from the Simpsons with Lenny hanging a zero card on a Days Without Danielle Smith Embarrassing Alberta sign.
October 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Looks like the seller was just as befuddled as me. I get to keep the book & get a refund, which is nice, but I checked the website & seller's ratings are based on response times & number of returns so...even though the guy was super nice I think it has a lot to do with keeping their 5 star rating.
modmonkey.bsky.social ModMonkey @modmonkey.bsky.social · 12d
Oh, Internet Seller. You specifically featured the Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection on your listing, ISBN and everything, but you shipped me Vol 21 of the Marvel: The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection.

Why do you task me so? I was really looking forward to my order, too.
The cover to Vol 21 of the Marvel: The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection featuring the cover artwork from Ghost Rider #1.
October 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Truth.
blackcasebook.bsky.social The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 11d
I know people aren't as crazy about The Forever People as the rest of Kirby's Fourth World, but where else are you going to see a cowboy hippie demigod give a disabled child Cosmic LSD?
October 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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menotti.bsky.social
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Oh, Internet Seller. You specifically featured the Marvel Horror: The Magazine Collection on your listing, ISBN and everything, but you shipped me Vol 21 of the Marvel: The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection.

Why do you task me so? I was really looking forward to my order, too.
The cover to Vol 21 of the Marvel: The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection featuring the cover artwork from Ghost Rider #1.
October 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
I've been kicking myself for not doing an October horror movie marathon like I often do but then I realized that I've been reading dozens of Marvel horror books all month, and watching season five of the Twilight Zone, and I felt suddenly less negligent with the level of my Halloween spirit.
a man in a suit and tie is peeking out of a window with his hand on the curtain .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is peeking out of a window with his hand on the curtain .
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October 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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manruss.bsky.social
That feeling when a credit card company charging 20%+ interest sends you an email warning you about scams.
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
30% of eligible voters in Edmonton turned out to vote in the municipal election. That's...pretty shameful, really. Especially considering how many people bitch about wanting change.
Image from the City of Edmonton website showing eligible electors at 679,830 and the number who voted as 205,758.
October 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Seen it twice, now. Once in IMAX. I feel like the script could have used one more pass but, overall, I think the TRON of it all is satisfying enough. Gorgeous looking film.
TRON: Ares display at the theatre depicting a lightcycle driving up a vertical surface.
October 21, 2025 at 3:17 AM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Screams internally.🤬
bradwhipple.bsky.social Braddington @bradwhipple.bsky.social · 21d
whelp, I’ll be thinking about the Steven Soderbergh movie about Ben Solo until the day I die, I guess. we could’ve had it all.

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October 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Kind of unsettling how much Marvel's Sons of the Serpent are basically ICE.
Three panels from Defenders #25 by Steve Gerber and Sal Buscema depicting members of the Sons of the Serpent retreating from battle and shouting how they want to save the White race from blacks and Puerto Ricans.
October 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
I've been in a real Marvel horror reading space of late and noticed the Midnight Suns game is on sale in the PlayStation store. Wondering if this will help scratch the itch or if it's just another Avengers/Super-hero game?
Promo image of the Marvel characters from the Midnight Suns video game standing together and looking serious. Characters include Wolverine, Blade, and Ghost Rider, among others.
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Released a new episode of my podcast, today. After a year of being on hiatus I'm happy to be back with a conversation featuring writer and podcaster, Greg Ehrbar talking about H-B and his latest book.
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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paultobin.bsky.social
Another Ernest Chiriacka original. My two things of note on this one are those fantastic expressions, and the guts it took to just... no illustrate that foreground column in any way. It's nothing but an online. Not colored. Not anything.
October 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Of course, any Legion fan knows this to be truth and in a thousand years there will be a thriving society of telepaths, there.
October 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Today's vibe.
Panel from an old comic book by Steve Ditko. A man with a guitar and a case that reads TV Repair walks down a city street and he is saying "So my humming is no good, Huh! I'll hum for evil!"
October 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
modmonkey.bsky.social
Holy shit! I just finished reading Beware the Creeper by Jason Hall & @cliffchiang.bsky.social & I'm just...gah, I loved it. Literally felt made just for me & deals with so many of my interests.

Paris in the '20s, Café Society, sex, art, murder, class conflict, and a dollop of history. Brilliant.
Cover to the Beware the Creeper YPB by Cliff Chiang featuring The Creeper leaping over the rooftops of Paris with the title of the book in large font behind her.
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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evilgalprods.bsky.social
omg how mad would you be that your secret cinema in the Parisian catacombs had been rumbled
tylerhuckabee.bsky.social hucksgiving @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · Oct 12
In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible - among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said. Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said. A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said. "The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there." Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
October 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM