Chris Eckert (Not a Sailor)
@chriseckert.bsky.social
Running a superhero supply store in Brooklyn, now on yet another social media site
Like almost everything else, he already tweeted about it.
November 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Like almost everything else, he already tweeted about it.
In the next issue, Pete and Kitty take the whole team out to a pub and after downing some shots announce to all that they're dating. Everyone gets hammered and give their blessings to the happy couple. There's also this bit that sticks out:
June 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In the next issue, Pete and Kitty take the whole team out to a pub and after downing some shots announce to all that they're dating. Everyone gets hammered and give their blessings to the happy couple. There's also this bit that sticks out:
To be clear, the change of heart about "Kitty's "coming of age" is not the part about Ellis letting the very Warren Ellisy Pete Wisdom character have sex with the "very nearly 18" Kitty Pryde, that went through. They changed their mind about her having her 18th birthday a few issues later.
June 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
To be clear, the change of heart about "Kitty's "coming of age" is not the part about Ellis letting the very Warren Ellisy Pete Wisdom character have sex with the "very nearly 18" Kitty Pryde, that went through. They changed their mind about her having her 18th birthday a few issues later.
Apologies for dumping this on people on a Sunday morning, but Warren Ellis's "now that I'm writing Excalibur, Kitty Pryde is gonna FUCK" interview has been a staple of FBB4L lore for years now. I found the original quote and it's worse than we remembered. (Hero Illustrated #25, July 1995)
![Scan of an interview excerpt with Warren Ellis: "For the next little while, Kitty is the focus. I always figured Kitty Pryde had to be terrifying. [...] Kitty spent an awful lot of time in the Danger Room with Wolverine. She knows how to kill people.
Also she's very nearly 18, and her birthday will probably fall somewhere around Excalibur #94. Even with the way time crawls in ongoing books, she has to have aged four years. She better have, after what I'm doing in issue #90."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pjd7j6ylrpmng6ih3joolxqz/bafkreicziise2yzlbxula36vjdv3os72fddzg6tmymvr5exzrcoodghkbq@jpeg)
June 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Apologies for dumping this on people on a Sunday morning, but Warren Ellis's "now that I'm writing Excalibur, Kitty Pryde is gonna FUCK" interview has been a staple of FBB4L lore for years now. I found the original quote and it's worse than we remembered. (Hero Illustrated #25, July 1995)
2026: Zaslov's Final Gambit
May 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
2026: Zaslov's Final Gambit
Every once in awhile the Facebook Suggested Posts really hit it out of the ballpark. Thank you, all of my friends who like me never post on Facebook anymore, otherwise I never would have seen this.
March 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Every once in awhile the Facebook Suggested Posts really hit it out of the ballpark. Thank you, all of my friends who like me never post on Facebook anymore, otherwise I never would have seen this.
Can't believe Bart Sears's old Wizard column got adapted into an Oscar-winning film but god bless
March 3, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Can't believe Bart Sears's old Wizard column got adapted into an Oscar-winning film but god bless
Ricochet's Dad
February 6, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Ricochet's Dad
I found an even Christmassier movie though mathematically they can't ALL have Christmases
December 25, 2024 at 5:34 AM
I found an even Christmassier movie though mathematically they can't ALL have Christmases
These variant covers are getting out of control
October 7, 2024 at 1:25 PM
These variant covers are getting out of control
Oh sure, NOW you believe masks work
November 15, 2023 at 2:19 AM
Oh sure, NOW you believe masks work
RIP Keith Giffen. I started posting about comics on BBSs as "Ambush Bug" when I was 12. My first attempt at comics blogging was called Contempt of Comics. One of my first (and certainly one of my finest) original art purchases is pictured below. So formative, from JLI to every strange project since.
October 12, 2023 at 3:37 AM
RIP Keith Giffen. I started posting about comics on BBSs as "Ambush Bug" when I was 12. My first attempt at comics blogging was called Contempt of Comics. One of my first (and certainly one of my finest) original art purchases is pictured below. So formative, from JLI to every strange project since.
What is up with Ethans who go by initializations loving translating things from German so much?
October 9, 2023 at 5:10 PM
What is up with Ethans who go by initializations loving translating things from German so much?
Lightning Comics is little remembered, though they did have some hilariously quaint policies back in the day:
- No reprints!
- No comic will ever have more than a quarter million copies printed, to retain their collectability.
- Exclusive contracts so no one can steal their artists
- Unique Origins!
- No reprints!
- No comic will ever have more than a quarter million copies printed, to retain their collectability.
- Exclusive contracts so no one can steal their artists
- Unique Origins!
September 26, 2023 at 1:53 AM
Lightning Comics is little remembered, though they did have some hilariously quaint policies back in the day:
- No reprints!
- No comic will ever have more than a quarter million copies printed, to retain their collectability.
- Exclusive contracts so no one can steal their artists
- Unique Origins!
- No reprints!
- No comic will ever have more than a quarter million copies printed, to retain their collectability.
- Exclusive contracts so no one can steal their artists
- Unique Origins!
Out of all of the early 1990s New Universe, I did not expect BLOODFIRE to get a thirtieth anniversary return.
September 26, 2023 at 1:48 AM
Out of all of the early 1990s New Universe, I did not expect BLOODFIRE to get a thirtieth anniversary return.
Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang :
September 23, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Don't pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang :
Whoops, here is the fifth!
1. John & Yoko pictured, only John interviewed
2. "The President's Daughter"
3: Unnamed topless woman for a investigative piece on The Sensual Massage
4: A teaser about an unnamed Sally Struthers getting punched in the face
5: Another Beatle Wife not getting named
1. John & Yoko pictured, only John interviewed
2. "The President's Daughter"
3: Unnamed topless woman for a investigative piece on The Sensual Massage
4: A teaser about an unnamed Sally Struthers getting punched in the face
5: Another Beatle Wife not getting named
September 17, 2023 at 2:29 AM
Whoops, here is the fifth!
1. John & Yoko pictured, only John interviewed
2. "The President's Daughter"
3: Unnamed topless woman for a investigative piece on The Sensual Massage
4: A teaser about an unnamed Sally Struthers getting punched in the face
5: Another Beatle Wife not getting named
1. John & Yoko pictured, only John interviewed
2. "The President's Daughter"
3: Unnamed topless woman for a investigative piece on The Sensual Massage
4: A teaser about an unnamed Sally Struthers getting punched in the face
5: Another Beatle Wife not getting named
Five of the first ten Rolling Stone covers to feature a woman on the cover. It took them 153 issues to make it to ten women, but at least the other five covers named the woman.
September 17, 2023 at 2:26 AM
Five of the first ten Rolling Stone covers to feature a woman on the cover. It took them 153 issues to make it to ten women, but at least the other five covers named the woman.
Somehow a press release for a billion dollar publicly traded company in 2023 and not a direct to video fantasy-action film from the late 1990s
September 13, 2023 at 7:42 PM
Somehow a press release for a billion dollar publicly traded company in 2023 and not a direct to video fantasy-action film from the late 1990s
Belated fifth birthday wishes to this legendary wrestling sign!
August 20, 2023 at 9:41 PM
Belated fifth birthday wishes to this legendary wrestling sign!
No idea what any of this means except:
The existence of Hotep Jesus implies the existence of a Hotep Judas.
The existence of Hotep Jesus implies the existence of Hotep Chris Jericho.
The existence of Hotep Jesus implies the existence of a Hotep Judas.
The existence of Hotep Jesus implies the existence of Hotep Chris Jericho.
August 16, 2023 at 6:13 PM
No idea what any of this means except:
The existence of Hotep Jesus implies the existence of a Hotep Judas.
The existence of Hotep Jesus implies the existence of Hotep Chris Jericho.
The existence of Hotep Jesus implies the existence of a Hotep Judas.
The existence of Hotep Jesus implies the existence of Hotep Chris Jericho.
A truly terrifying book cover found in a Maine antique shop
August 15, 2023 at 12:26 AM
A truly terrifying book cover found in a Maine antique shop
"Everyone knows wrestling is fake, but these new wrestlers these days are all dumb theater kids who do too many moves, back in my day they were tough men who could really fight!" - The New York Times, 1949
July 30, 2023 at 9:31 PM
"Everyone knows wrestling is fake, but these new wrestlers these days are all dumb theater kids who do too many moves, back in my day they were tough men who could really fight!" - The New York Times, 1949