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Erik Missio
@erikmissio.bsky.social
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A real piece of work in progress. Comics and music and wrestling and soccer and nature and, look, probably family stuff. Almost Toronto. (he, him)
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🎶 Dashiell in the snow…
Brown Havanese dog amidst snow in my backyard. He’s happy.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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It was a good, fun read!

Interested to see how it will translate to film.

Birthday chat this week?
My hand holding a Markham Public Library hardcover: Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary.
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Spent a fortune at @thebeguiling.bsky.social & regret nothing. Can’t wait to dive into comics from cartoonist geniuses one & all: Oima, Urushibara, @davidlapham.bsky.social, @gustaffovargas.bsky.social + Walsh, Otero & Malkasian. (Today was why I couldn’t make a Favourite Books of 2025 list yet.) 📚
A bunch of comics lying on a tartan tablecloth. Top row: Shadows of the Sea by Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics), Mushishi by Yuki Urishibara (Kodansha), Good as Dead #1 and 2 by David and Maria Lapham and Dee Cunniffe (Image Comics). Bottom row: the latest To Your Eternity by Yoshitoki Oima (Kodansha), Witchcraft by Sole Otero (Fantagraphics), and Nullhunter by Michael Walsh, Gustaffo Vargas & Becca Carey (Image Comics).
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Really enjoyed this one from @jeremyperrodeau.bsky.social & am confused why more people aren’t talking about it. Won the Fauve des Lyceens at Angouleme. Nice English translation from Canadian publisher @blackpanelpress.bsky.social. blackpanelpress.com/en/product/p...
Hardcover comic, Pavil’s Mask, standing upright. Published by Black Panel and created by cartoonist Jeremy Perrodeau. A cool-looking lands outside a giant statue in a forest on the water; birds scatter Wordless spread from Pavil’s Mask showing various activities during the day. Loved it. This stuff happens throughout Two characters discuss while paddling on the water in a two-page spread. One plays a flute and a jellyfish leaps from the ocean Two-page spread from Perrodeau’s Phil’s Mask. Dialogue amidst food preparation
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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Went out for dinner last night (Newmarket’s Made in Mexico; hell yeah cauliflower burritos with sides of tortilla soup y frijoles) and appreciated the beautiful religious iconography. 🤼
Giant colourful wall plaque adorned with depictions of the masked faces of various luchadores, including El Santo Dos Caras, Blue Demon, El Ídolo, etc
November 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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I saw three blue jays today, and I need this game to end so I can finally know if they were good omens or portents of doom.
View of the Rouge River a short walk from my home. I’m up high on a cliff and the river is bending around trees in the fall. North of Toronto.
November 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Here be dragon. 🐉
Close up of my brown Havanese dog, Dashiell, looking miserable in his green dragon costume Overhead shot of a sad brown Havanese dog in a green and yellow dragon costume. Eyes covered partially by brown fur and partially by green dragon costume, Dashiell the Havanese is on a table with a white cloth
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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If anyone is allowed to explain moths to you, it is Thistle followed very distantly by me. (Moths are cool. Let them devour your beautiful coat if they want to, I say.)
Eight spotted forester moth on concrete. Black wings, white spots, furry red legs, deserves to devour Sarah’s cool yellow coat.
October 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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A propos of a certain lil’baseball game, here is a nice piece I saw last week in Toronto at Queen’s Park by Kory Parkin (Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory).
Painting by artist Kory Parkin, part of the Indegenize series that reimagines Toronto sports teams. It’s a blue jay, flying in front of a baseball and red maple leaf on a blue background that includes baseballs.
October 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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This was unnecessarily cruel, factual, and direct.
Screenshot showing my result was “stop overthinking, you MF”
October 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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I’m not an entomologist or spider-man (amazing, spectacular, or otherwise), but I feel like this might not be anatomically correct? Where my arthropodic skeleton experts at?
A plastic toy for Halloween, at a Party City north of Toronto, depicting the bone skeleton (non-existent) of a tarantula.
October 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Stellar’s sea eagles at the Toronto Zoo with a bonus barn owl from the Mountsberg Raptor Centre west of the city.
Stellar’s sea eagle through the fence at the Toronto Zoo. Standing on the ground with its massive yellow talons Stellar’s sea eagle, on the ground, through the cage at the Toronto Zoo. Close up of a barn owl’s beautiful face in profile. Mountsberg Raptor Centre, northwest of Toronto
October 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Leopard slug!
Big ol’leopard slug, dark brown with black spots, cruising along the concrete between a wood deck and metal patio door frame
October 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Very dramatic building, that Queen’s Park.
Exterior of Queen’s Park at night.
October 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Doing a work thing at the seat of power of the Ontario government means i get to see some pretty paintings.
White Beavers, a painting by Norman Knott (Curve Lake First Nation). Hanging on the wall at Queen’s Park. Wild Calling, a framed piece by Metis artist Monica Loney. On a wall at Queen’s Park in Toronto. Untitled painting by James Simon (Wiikwemkoong Unceded Reserve) at Queen’s Park in Toronto. The interior of Queen’s Park in Toronto. Lots of tile and marble pillars and cool lights. It’s empty.
October 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Dashiell the Havanese is stressing me out by always shoving his head through stair pickets.
A brown, shaggy-haired dog’s face, thrust between two white wood stair pickets. He’s resting and looks possibly pensive or morose.
October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Hell yeah cedar waxwing—a personal fave, and a frequent visitor to my backyard, but they tend to be too high I. The neighbour’s tree or too skittish for a good photo.
A blurry photo of a cedar waxwing bird perched on a wood partition with tall cedar bushes in background
October 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Love these guys, despite/because of how terrifying they look. Never been stung, and they are quite charismatic though I can understand why others are terrified.🐝
Bald-faced hornet, close-up, on a ziplock bag of fruit Bald-faced hornet (black and white wasp) amongst the green grass. Bald-faced hornet (black and white wasp) amongst the green grass.
October 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Final day of masochism for the year! (whispers: not at the game, but i actually think we’ll win tonight) #tfclive ⚽️
Diagonally taken selfie. I’m in the 2024-2025 Toronto FC kit: it’s red and maroon and unfortunately has a big ugly banking logo. Wearing glasses. Bits of my living room (blue wall, white window, green mirror) in background.
October 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Look, I get that Superman is *probably* the bigger contribution to culture, but because of Keith Giffen's LSH 5YL work, I will always have the softest of spots for Brainy.
A page from Legion of Super Heroes #4 featuring Querl Dox, Brainiac 5 in his bloinde-haired green-skinned glory. Nine-panel pencils by Keith Giffen, inks by Al Gordon, colours by Tom MccCraw, script by Tom and Mary Bierbaum. Original art at https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=2153109. Long live the Legion!
October 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Tag yourself. I am “apologize.”
School playground graphic on asphalt. It’s a wheel (pie chart) with “it’s your choice” at the centre and various options: make a deal, share and take turns, walk away, apologize, tell them to stop, ignore it, talk it out, wait and cool off, and go to another game.
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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First order of @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social business: purchase the B. Mure, Jean Fhilippe, and Ben Sears comics, sight unseen.
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Cover of digital comic, Postcards from Tycho, by Jean Fhilippe. A person is upside down, eyes closed and mouth agape. Blue washes. Cover of Ben Sears' digital comic, Young Shadow: Tunnel Vision. The hero and his dog run through a tunnel, menacing eyes in the back. Cover of digital comic, On an Even Moon, by B. Mure. Two people stand on a hill, staring at a sun and a moon (maybe?) with their backs toward us.
October 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Oct'25 preorders from Lunar/PRH/Viz catalogues:
- more Lapham (both another Good as Dead and his Bad Idea book with Matt Kindt writing that I didn't know about because it's a Bad Idea book);
- the latest Asadora from Naoki Urasawa; and
- the new one from The Master (I LOVED Bowling with Corpses).
Japanese cover of Naoki Urasawa's Asadora 9. Lavender colours. Old photograph of the titular character amidst other black and white pics. Published by Viz Cover of Good as Dead#4 by Dave and Maria Lapham. A woman with a crewcut is upside down, with crossed guns above her head, in front of fire. Published by Image. The Hero Trade, published by Bad Idea. Art by Joe Quesada. A dead superhero in the trunk of a car while a guy is nonchalantly on his cellphone. Cover of Dark Horse Comics published Uri Tupka and the Gods--drawn by Mike Mignola and colours by Dave Stewart. There's a bearded old guy and statues and a many-eyed lovecraftian monster thing and stars.
October 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Me and my wife were childless for an entire afternoon so we went for a 14-km hike in a Markham portion of Rouge National Urban Park and, I am thrilled to report, saw so many cute sneks. The tiny ones. Dekay’s and, pictured, red-bellied species. The Rouge forever. 🐍
Little Eouge Creek from a bridge. Trees changing to fall colours. Within the city of Markham portion of Rouge National Urban Park in Ontario, Canada. One of my favourite trees (but I don’t know trees). It’s big and now red and standing beside another big green one. Central Trail in Rouge National Urban Park Dark brown snake sticking his tongue out. On light grey gravel. He’s very small. Cannot see the red belly from whence comes his namesake.
October 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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European mantis hell yeah.
A European mantis (big green long praying mantis) sitting on my thumb in Rouge National Urban Park in Markham, Ontario, Canada
October 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM