J. Michael Straczynski
@straczynski.bsky.social
Writer/producer. Babylon 5, Sense8, Changeling, Thor. Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America. Together We Will Go, The Glass Box. DO NOT POST STORY IDEAS.
Scripts, behind the scenes posts and a lot of conversation at https://www.patreon.com/thejoepage
Scripts, behind the scenes posts and a lot of conversation at https://www.patreon.com/thejoepage
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J. Michael Straczynski - Career Reel 2026
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From time to time I update my career reel in service to the number of folks commenting, oh, I didn't know you worked on (pick a project). Here's the latest iteration.
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Yes, the Apollo 1 tragedy. Brain fart on my part.
Please refresh my memory. I was space happy af from Mercury through Apollo, and I don’t remember a *Gemini* capsule tragedy at any time.
Did you mean the Apollo tragedy that killed Grissom et al., or did I really miss something?
Did you mean the Apollo tragedy that killed Grissom et al., or did I really miss something?
February 8, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Yes, the Apollo 1 tragedy. Brain fart on my part.
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Synthetics Volume One comes to its conclusion this week with issue #4, available now! Details: https://bit.ly/49usMl7
Will life on this planet be saved?
By J. Michael @straczynski.bsky.social, @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, Carrie Strachan, Steve Dutro
Will life on this planet be saved?
By J. Michael @straczynski.bsky.social, @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, Carrie Strachan, Steve Dutro
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Synthetics Volume One comes to its conclusion this week with issue #4, available now! Details: https://bit.ly/49usMl7
Will life on this planet be saved?
By J. Michael @straczynski.bsky.social, @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, Carrie Strachan, Steve Dutro
Will life on this planet be saved?
By J. Michael @straczynski.bsky.social, @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, Carrie Strachan, Steve Dutro
Møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti
Reading this, i get vivid flashbacks of Londo's voice, saying "Mistär Morrdän"
January 27, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti
The audience.
@straczynski.bsky.social So, I was rewatching Babylon 5 with my boyfriend, who is seeing it for the first time, and I realized.
Who would win in a smug-off between Bester and Morden?
Who would win in a smug-off between Bester and Morden?
January 26, 2026 at 4:28 AM
The audience.
From time to time I update my career reel in service to the number of folks commenting, oh, I didn't know you worked on (pick a project). Here's the latest iteration.
youtu.be/zDJ6lIDI2-8
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J. Michael Straczynski - Career Reel 2026
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January 23, 2026 at 12:58 AM
From time to time I update my career reel in service to the number of folks commenting, oh, I didn't know you worked on (pick a project). Here's the latest iteration.
youtu.be/zDJ6lIDI2-8
youtu.be/zDJ6lIDI2-8
The Brothers Karamazov.
I watched it because you were involved and then got into the Wachowskis. It's one of my all time favourite shows alongside that other thing you wrote. What was it called again?
January 18, 2026 at 9:29 PM
The Brothers Karamazov.
Unfortunately that's how the media covered it, because they're use to covering filmmakers, but I was a TeeVee guy so most of the reporting ended up not mentioning me at all or basically as a pet monkey. But the fact is that we created, wrote and produced it as a team, as shown in the credits.
I actually never knew you were part of writing it! Up until now everything I’ve ever read referencing it only referred to it as “The Watchowskis show”. Knowing you had a hand in it will make me even more likely to go watch it.
January 17, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Unfortunately that's how the media covered it, because they're use to covering filmmakers, but I was a TeeVee guy so most of the reporting ended up not mentioning me at all or basically as a pet monkey. But the fact is that we created, wrote and produced it as a team, as shown in the credits.
When I came onto the book, Peter was no longer working for the Bugle.
I find it interesting that despite your long tenure on the book, you didn't write Jonah a whole lot.
Which I get, it'd be hard to fit him in with the story you were telling at the time. Just something I notice when he gets the spotlight like this.
Which I get, it'd be hard to fit him in with the story you were telling at the time. Just something I notice when he gets the spotlight like this.
January 10, 2026 at 2:39 PM
When I came onto the book, Peter was no longer working for the Bugle.
Four page preview of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: TORN, issue 4, from me and Pere Pérez, in which things get complicated for Peter, and dangerous for Evangeline, as her arc takes a sudden turn. Hitting stores this coming Wednesday.
January 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Four page preview of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: TORN, issue 4, from me and Pere Pérez, in which things get complicated for Peter, and dangerous for Evangeline, as her arc takes a sudden turn. Hitting stores this coming Wednesday.
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The problem here is not dissembling, it's inaccuracy on your part. Sinclair fishing was the projected end for a potential SEQUEL SERIES, Babylon Prime. The "reveal" you cite is my published original breakdown for the TWO series; in that outline B5 the series ends just as I said: with the explosion.
J. Michael Straczynski famously said he knew before filming began exactly how Babylon 5 would end, and what the final shot would be. He later revealed the shot would be of an unrevealed character sitting by a lake, fishing.
That was not how the show ended. Creators dissemble, and plans change.
That was not how the show ended. Creators dissemble, and plans change.
December 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The problem here is not dissembling, it's inaccuracy on your part. Sinclair fishing was the projected end for a potential SEQUEL SERIES, Babylon Prime. The "reveal" you cite is my published original breakdown for the TWO series; in that outline B5 the series ends just as I said: with the explosion.
I really don't ever go down those sorts of paths, the show has to stand on its own.
How different would Talia's arc have been from Lyta's if Andrea hadn't left?
December 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I really don't ever go down those sorts of paths, the show has to stand on its own.
You just have to feel how it will change, there's not one way to do it. It's a kind of dance...you change a step, or do a misstep, and you just sort of intuit the next step and fold it in so it doesn't look like you changed anything. At least that's how I handled it.
@straczynski.bsky.social you've mentioned in many places that for Babylon 5, you always had a way for a main character to depart the show in case the actor needed to leave. how did you manage the impact this would have on the plot and ensure the story could still be told?
December 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
You just have to feel how it will change, there's not one way to do it. It's a kind of dance...you change a step, or do a misstep, and you just sort of intuit the next step and fold it in so it doesn't look like you changed anything. At least that's how I handled it.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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December 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Synthetics Volume One issue #3 by J. Michael @straczynski.bsky.social, @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, Carrie Strachan, and Steve Dutro: bit.ly/48MDsuS
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Synthetics Volume One issue #3 by J. Michael @straczynski.bsky.social, @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, Carrie Strachan, and Steve Dutro: bit.ly/48MDsuS
Lettered preview of issue three of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: TORN, from me and Pere Pérez, hitting stores this Wednesday. The MJ/Gwen/Peter dynamic becomes even more complicated, and we discover things about Evangeline that will develop her far beyond who and what we think she is.
December 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Lettered preview of issue three of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: TORN, from me and Pere Pérez, hitting stores this Wednesday. The MJ/Gwen/Peter dynamic becomes even more complicated, and we discover things about Evangeline that will develop her far beyond who and what we think she is.
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Synthetics Volume One continues this week with issue #2, available now! Details: https://bit.ly/4rBJvv4
Nick and Denny finally have a thin lead in their case...
By J. Michael @straczynski.bsky.social, @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, Carrie Strachan, and Steve Dutro
Nick and Denny finally have a thin lead in their case...
By J. Michael @straczynski.bsky.social, @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, Carrie Strachan, and Steve Dutro
December 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Synthetics Volume One continues this week with issue #2, available now! Details: https://bit.ly/4rBJvv4
Nick and Denny finally have a thin lead in their case...
By J. Michael @straczynski.bsky.social, @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, Carrie Strachan, and Steve Dutro
Nick and Denny finally have a thin lead in their case...
By J. Michael @straczynski.bsky.social, @tonyparkerart.bsky.social, Carrie Strachan, and Steve Dutro
Preview of issue two of my creator-owned comic for Dark Horse, SYNTHETICS, hitting comic shops this week.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Preview of issue two of my creator-owned comic for Dark Horse, SYNTHETICS, hitting comic shops this week.
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Advance review (5/5 ⭐) in spanish/english of #SYNTHETICS #2 of 4
A powerful narrative blend of dystopian science fiction and social psychology!
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Art #TonyParker
Available on December 10th from @darkhorse.com
A powerful narrative blend of dystopian science fiction and social psychology!
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Writer @straczynski.bsky.social
Art #TonyParker
Available on December 10th from @darkhorse.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Advance review (5/5 ⭐) in spanish/english of #SYNTHETICS #2 of 4
A powerful narrative blend of dystopian science fiction and social psychology!
uncomicmas.blogspot.com/2025/12/rese...
Writer @straczynski.bsky.social
Art #TonyParker
Available on December 10th from @darkhorse.com
A powerful narrative blend of dystopian science fiction and social psychology!
uncomicmas.blogspot.com/2025/12/rese...
Writer @straczynski.bsky.social
Art #TonyParker
Available on December 10th from @darkhorse.com
I have a policy of not promising anyone anything unless I'm 100% sure it's going to happen, and that's not the current situation. I have no idea what their programming needs are going to be, the internal politics going on, and the deal still has a ways to go before being formally approved.
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I have a policy of not promising anyone anything unless I'm 100% sure it's going to happen, and that's not the current situation. I have no idea what their programming needs are going to be, the internal politics going on, and the deal still has a ways to go before being formally approved.
Thanks...it's an okay episode aside from the point of the story being lobotomized out by committee.
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I've been slowly working my way through the series, waiting for your first appearance. Finally, it is here.
I've been slowly working my way through the series, waiting for your first appearance. Finally, it is here.
November 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Thanks...it's an okay episode aside from the point of the story being lobotomized out by committee.
Busted and in the back yard, or I'd fix this shit.
@straczynski.bsky.social Hi Mr Stracynski.
I said this to you a while ago but with recent events I feel it's once again important to state that I really loved Bablyon 5. But I much preferred it when it was conspiratorial and paranoid not prescient to the point of wondering if you had a time machine
I said this to you a while ago but with recent events I feel it's once again important to state that I really loved Bablyon 5. But I much preferred it when it was conspiratorial and paranoid not prescient to the point of wondering if you had a time machine
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Busted and in the back yard, or I'd fix this shit.
No.
@straczynski.bsky.social I apologize for bothering you on bsky, but a random redditor asked that I confirm a supposition I made about Captain Lochley.
When crafting the character and her backstory (The Clark coup) did you draw from historical precedent to inform what side she was on then?
When crafting the character and her backstory (The Clark coup) did you draw from historical precedent to inform what side she was on then?
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
No.