Brendan Johnston
@brendanjohnston.bsky.social
Resident #NeverReader on @talkaranrhiod.com
Heavyweight Champion of the Moon
"Savagely fighting the OTHERWAR!"
Heavyweight Champion of the Moon
"Savagely fighting the OTHERWAR!"
339. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #665 (June 2007)
“The Black Casebook”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“The Black Casebook”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
339. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #665 (June 2007)
“The Black Casebook”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“The Black Casebook”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
This is basically a nonsense phrase but when I heard it this morning while returning home from a walk to start another day in the Insurance Mines, I thought “Yeah, man. That Tom Waits gets me.”
And that’s the power of music.
And that’s the power of music.
November 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is basically a nonsense phrase but when I heard it this morning while returning home from a walk to start another day in the Insurance Mines, I thought “Yeah, man. That Tom Waits gets me.”
And that’s the power of music.
And that’s the power of music.
Bonus photo: Grady waiting for me to drop and/or intentionally give him some.
Sorry, bud.
Sorry, bud.
November 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Bonus photo: Grady waiting for me to drop and/or intentionally give him some.
Sorry, bud.
Sorry, bud.
I have made pizza dough from scratch, and from that dough I have fashioned a serviceable-at-worst pizza. Thicker crust than I’d like, but okay for a first effort.
My logic behind this is if that if it requires me to expend effort to make it, the pizza is healthier than if I just ordered a pizza.
My logic behind this is if that if it requires me to expend effort to make it, the pizza is healthier than if I just ordered a pizza.
November 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I have made pizza dough from scratch, and from that dough I have fashioned a serviceable-at-worst pizza. Thicker crust than I’d like, but okay for a first effort.
My logic behind this is if that if it requires me to expend effort to make it, the pizza is healthier than if I just ordered a pizza.
My logic behind this is if that if it requires me to expend effort to make it, the pizza is healthier than if I just ordered a pizza.
Craig’s Bond having Connery’s car makes the Time Lord theory canon, do not @ me.
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Craig’s Bond having Connery’s car makes the Time Lord theory canon, do not @ me.
A friend just sent me this and between the username (my first name and a reference to one of my favorite shows), the profile picture (my favorite character from one of my favorite films), and the actual joke, I had to briefly consider the possibility that I wrote it myself and forgot.
November 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A friend just sent me this and between the username (my first name and a reference to one of my favorite shows), the profile picture (my favorite character from one of my favorite films), and the actual joke, I had to briefly consider the possibility that I wrote it myself and forgot.
Some producer at some point in 2001: “What this picture needs is a classic ‘guy gets bit by a zombie and tries to hide it’ gag.”
Guillermo Del Toro: “… well… basically everybody in the movie is a vampire, so…”
Producer: “Eh, you’ll figure it out.”
AND HE DID.
Guillermo Del Toro: “… well… basically everybody in the movie is a vampire, so…”
Producer: “Eh, you’ll figure it out.”
AND HE DID.
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Some producer at some point in 2001: “What this picture needs is a classic ‘guy gets bit by a zombie and tries to hide it’ gag.”
Guillermo Del Toro: “… well… basically everybody in the movie is a vampire, so…”
Producer: “Eh, you’ll figure it out.”
AND HE DID.
Guillermo Del Toro: “… well… basically everybody in the movie is a vampire, so…”
Producer: “Eh, you’ll figure it out.”
AND HE DID.
2.) While it has a lot to recommend it in general, possibly the highlight of Death by Lightning was Offerman playing Vice-President Chester A. Arthur as “What If Drunk Ron Swanson, but evil?”
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
2.) While it has a lot to recommend it in general, possibly the highlight of Death by Lightning was Offerman playing Vice-President Chester A. Arthur as “What If Drunk Ron Swanson, but evil?”
338. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #664 (May 2007)
“Three Ghosts of Batman”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“Three Ghosts of Batman”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
338. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #664 (May 2007)
“Three Ghosts of Batman”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“Three Ghosts of Batman”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
337. HELLBOY: THE WILD HUNT #3 (February 2009)
W: Mike Mignola
A: Duncan Fegredo
W: Mike Mignola
A: Duncan Fegredo
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
337. HELLBOY: THE WILD HUNT #3 (February 2009)
W: Mike Mignola
A: Duncan Fegredo
W: Mike Mignola
A: Duncan Fegredo
I don’t like to brag, but… I’m gonna.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I don’t like to brag, but… I’m gonna.
336. ARCHIE in “SOMETHING IS MISSING!” (from WORLD OF ARCHIE COMICS DOUBLE DIGEST #72) (October 2017)
W: Dan Parent
A: Bill Golliher
(It’s weird that this is a story about Betty and Veronica competing with Jughead but is titled as an Archie story. He doesn’t do anything!)
W: Dan Parent
A: Bill Golliher
(It’s weird that this is a story about Betty and Veronica competing with Jughead but is titled as an Archie story. He doesn’t do anything!)
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
336. ARCHIE in “SOMETHING IS MISSING!” (from WORLD OF ARCHIE COMICS DOUBLE DIGEST #72) (October 2017)
W: Dan Parent
A: Bill Golliher
(It’s weird that this is a story about Betty and Veronica competing with Jughead but is titled as an Archie story. He doesn’t do anything!)
W: Dan Parent
A: Bill Golliher
(It’s weird that this is a story about Betty and Veronica competing with Jughead but is titled as an Archie story. He doesn’t do anything!)
335. HELLBOY: THE WILD HUNT #2 (January 2009)
W: Mike Mignola
A: Duncan Fegredo
W: Mike Mignola
A: Duncan Fegredo
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
335. HELLBOY: THE WILD HUNT #2 (January 2009)
W: Mike Mignola
A: Duncan Fegredo
W: Mike Mignola
A: Duncan Fegredo
334. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #658 (December 2006)
“Batman & Son Part 4: Absent Fathers”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“Batman & Son Part 4: Absent Fathers”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
334. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #658 (December 2006)
“Batman & Son Part 4: Absent Fathers”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“Batman & Son Part 4: Absent Fathers”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
333. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #657 ( November 2006)
“Batman & Son Part 3: Wonderboys”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“Batman & Son Part 3: Wonderboys”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
333. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #657 ( November 2006)
“Batman & Son Part 3: Wonderboys”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“Batman & Son Part 3: Wonderboys”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
I read a whole bunch of these Future State issues and I feel like I never understood any of the actual context of them.
But I DID understand that they brought back the mf’ing HYPERCLAN and that’s all I need.
But I DID understand that they brought back the mf’ing HYPERCLAN and that’s all I need.
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I read a whole bunch of these Future State issues and I feel like I never understood any of the actual context of them.
But I DID understand that they brought back the mf’ing HYPERCLAN and that’s all I need.
But I DID understand that they brought back the mf’ing HYPERCLAN and that’s all I need.
332. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #656 (October 2006)
“Batman & Son Part 2: Man-Bats of London”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“Batman & Son Part 2: Man-Bats of London”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 AM
332. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #656 (October 2006)
“Batman & Son Part 2: Man-Bats of London”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“Batman & Son Part 2: Man-Bats of London”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
331. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #655 (September 2006)
“Batman & Son Part 1: Building a Better Batmobile”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“Batman & Son Part 1: Building a Better Batmobile”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
331. BATMAN (Vol. 1) #655 (September 2006)
“Batman & Son Part 1: Building a Better Batmobile”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
“Batman & Son Part 1: Building a Better Batmobile”
W: Grant Morrison
A: Andy Kubert
No kidding, one of the high points of my week, every week, is getting to the end of Good Movie post and seeing what next week’s is going to be, and this week may have been the high point to date.
Blade II is so good, I can’t wait.
Blade II is so good, I can’t wait.
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
No kidding, one of the high points of my week, every week, is getting to the end of Good Movie post and seeing what next week’s is going to be, and this week may have been the high point to date.
Blade II is so good, I can’t wait.
Blade II is so good, I can’t wait.
THE TIME HAS COME.
November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
THE TIME HAS COME.
A fun thing about rereading older comics is that as my knowledge of & tastes in the genre have grown I appreciate & enjoy things I wouldn’t have the first time around.
Like I wouldn’t have been too into the Aurakles stuff back in 2006 but now I wish there were a million issues about him.
Like I wouldn’t have been too into the Aurakles stuff back in 2006 but now I wish there were a million issues about him.
November 6, 2025 at 12:08 AM
A fun thing about rereading older comics is that as my knowledge of & tastes in the genre have grown I appreciate & enjoy things I wouldn’t have the first time around.
Like I wouldn’t have been too into the Aurakles stuff back in 2006 but now I wish there were a million issues about him.
Like I wouldn’t have been too into the Aurakles stuff back in 2006 but now I wish there were a million issues about him.
330. SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY #1 (December 2006)
Part One: The Miser’s Coat
W: Grant Morrison
A: JH Williams
Part One: The Miser’s Coat
W: Grant Morrison
A: JH Williams
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
330. SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY #1 (December 2006)
Part One: The Miser’s Coat
W: Grant Morrison
A: JH Williams
Part One: The Miser’s Coat
W: Grant Morrison
A: JH Williams
Finally, a mayor who would definitely hurl debris at the Green Goblin.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Finally, a mayor who would definitely hurl debris at the Green Goblin.
If I was as bad at anything as publicly and consistently as Jack Ciattarelli is at running for Governor of New Jersey, I would put bricks in my pockets and walk into the ocean.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
If I was as bad at anything as publicly and consistently as Jack Ciattarelli is at running for Governor of New Jersey, I would put bricks in my pockets and walk into the ocean.
329. SEVEN SOLDIERS: FRANKENSTEIN #4 (May 2006)
Part Four: Frankenstein in Fairyland
W: Grant Morrison
A: Doug Mahnke
Part Four: Frankenstein in Fairyland
W: Grant Morrison
A: Doug Mahnke
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
329. SEVEN SOLDIERS: FRANKENSTEIN #4 (May 2006)
Part Four: Frankenstein in Fairyland
W: Grant Morrison
A: Doug Mahnke
Part Four: Frankenstein in Fairyland
W: Grant Morrison
A: Doug Mahnke