hermanos.
@iamdavidbrothers.com
"For thy heart, for thy heart, who hast wronged me!"
probably thinking about OutKast, Flannery O'Connor, or Steve Ditko.
having a hard time with social media lately.
likes to draw when it's sketchy.
beloved.
iamdavidbrothers.com
probably thinking about OutKast, Flannery O'Connor, or Steve Ditko.
having a hard time with social media lately.
likes to draw when it's sketchy.
beloved.
iamdavidbrothers.com
Pinned
hermanos.
@iamdavidbrothers.com
· Nov 11
I don't really talk about my day job cuz I believe in the separation of church and state, but I used to write about comics at 4thletter! and ComicsAlliance.
I've always been doing side projects and have a fair amount in 2024 for you.
A picture of the writer at his keyboard, and a thread of works:
I've always been doing side projects and have a fair amount in 2024 for you.
A picture of the writer at his keyboard, and a thread of works:
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Combattler V for Vendetta
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Combattler V for Vendetta
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RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. Man was a towering legend and he was in EVERYTHING, so just want to mention a couple of minor roles I love. He’s such an electric wild card in Kon Ichikawa’s Conflagration as the lead’s unreliable bohemian friend - the movie shifts gears every time he appears. /
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 AM
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. Man was a towering legend and he was in EVERYTHING, so just want to mention a couple of minor roles I love. He’s such an electric wild card in Kon Ichikawa’s Conflagration as the lead’s unreliable bohemian friend - the movie shifts gears every time he appears. /
Nakadai is an all timer. Sword of Doom is an exceptional bad vibes movie. “Evil mind. Evil sword.“ It’s worth finding one of his films and getting familiar this week
Tatsuya Nakadai was brilliant in so many films. ‘Intense’ hardly covers it. The Human Condition, Harakiri, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, so many, so many.
I wrote an essay about my favorite performance of his, The Sword of Doom, and its final frame— his face forever trapped in rage.
youtu.be/HHCEaWpycdY?...
I wrote an essay about my favorite performance of his, The Sword of Doom, and its final frame— his face forever trapped in rage.
youtu.be/HHCEaWpycdY?...
My Essay About the Final Frame of THE SWORD OF DOOM
YouTube video by William J. Meyer
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Nakadai is an all timer. Sword of Doom is an exceptional bad vibes movie. “Evil mind. Evil sword.“ It’s worth finding one of his films and getting familiar this week
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Tatsuya Nakadai was brilliant in so many films. ‘Intense’ hardly covers it. The Human Condition, Harakiri, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, so many, so many.
I wrote an essay about my favorite performance of his, The Sword of Doom, and its final frame— his face forever trapped in rage.
youtu.be/HHCEaWpycdY?...
I wrote an essay about my favorite performance of his, The Sword of Doom, and its final frame— his face forever trapped in rage.
youtu.be/HHCEaWpycdY?...
My Essay About the Final Frame of THE SWORD OF DOOM
YouTube video by William J. Meyer
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Tatsuya Nakadai was brilliant in so many films. ‘Intense’ hardly covers it. The Human Condition, Harakiri, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, so many, so many.
I wrote an essay about my favorite performance of his, The Sword of Doom, and its final frame— his face forever trapped in rage.
youtu.be/HHCEaWpycdY?...
I wrote an essay about my favorite performance of his, The Sword of Doom, and its final frame— his face forever trapped in rage.
youtu.be/HHCEaWpycdY?...
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Nakadai is all over your Criterion jidaigeki classics. He’s the star of RAN, HARAKIRI, SWORD OF DOOM (a personal fav), the antagonist in YOJIMBO and ZATOICHI GOES TO THE FIRE FESTIVAL (another personal fav), he’s amazing in the Yuki Onna segment of KWAIDAN.
November 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Nakadai is all over your Criterion jidaigeki classics. He’s the star of RAN, HARAKIRI, SWORD OF DOOM (a personal fav), the antagonist in YOJIMBO and ZATOICHI GOES TO THE FIRE FESTIVAL (another personal fav), he’s amazing in the Yuki Onna segment of KWAIDAN.
Arguing with my friends about what Victor Frankenstein deserves at the hands of Frankenstein in Frankenstein (2025), like a positive version of this scene
youtu.be/10XXtoCjk5c?...
youtu.be/10XXtoCjk5c?...
Deserve's got nothin' to do with it
YouTube video by Ensign Pulver
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Arguing with my friends about what Victor Frankenstein deserves at the hands of Frankenstein in Frankenstein (2025), like a positive version of this scene
youtu.be/10XXtoCjk5c?...
youtu.be/10XXtoCjk5c?...
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Yumi Matsuzawa (singer of You Get to Burning) just released a cover of Mayonaka no Door "Stay with Me"
youtu.be/_xpJOHvqfGE
youtu.be/_xpJOHvqfGE
真夜中のドア "Stay With Me"
YouTube video by 松澤由実Yumi Matsuzawa Official
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Yumi Matsuzawa (singer of You Get to Burning) just released a cover of Mayonaka no Door "Stay with Me"
youtu.be/_xpJOHvqfGE
youtu.be/_xpJOHvqfGE
The Fable is pretty fun and you can set up some really nice combos, but listen: don't give me a series of 12-panel grids and then ask me to fill every panel. There's no room for mood in these layouts? No vibes? We're just maximizing???
This game is good. Demo on Steam
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R397...
This game is good. Demo on Steam
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R397...
"The Fable: Manga Build Roguelike" 2nd Trailer
YouTube video by 【公式】講談社ゲームラボ / KODANSHA GAME LAB.
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The Fable is pretty fun and you can set up some really nice combos, but listen: don't give me a series of 12-panel grids and then ask me to fill every panel. There's no room for mood in these layouts? No vibes? We're just maximizing???
This game is good. Demo on Steam
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R397...
This game is good. Demo on Steam
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R397...
Marshal Bass is coming out tomorrow!
Astiberri announced a Spanish version coming out 12/4/25, as well.
Astiberri announced a Spanish version coming out 12/4/25, as well.
I hope I'm not jinxing things, but Marshall Bass from Igor Kordey & Darko Macan is coming out in English on 11/11. It's been pushed back a few times since its original release date but...
I have a good feeling about this one!! It's almost here!
www.ablaze.net/products?c=105
I have a good feeling about this one!! It's almost here!
www.ablaze.net/products?c=105
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Marshal Bass is coming out tomorrow!
Astiberri announced a Spanish version coming out 12/4/25, as well.
Astiberri announced a Spanish version coming out 12/4/25, as well.
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Because I also exist in the overlap between Frankenstein and A Good Man is Hard to Find, this review from @iamdavidbrothers.com is real damn good. letterboxd.com/ohbrothers/f...
A review of Frankenstein (2025)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
letterboxd.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Because I also exist in the overlap between Frankenstein and A Good Man is Hard to Find, this review from @iamdavidbrothers.com is real damn good. letterboxd.com/ohbrothers/f...
they should give Skye Blue & Julia Hart an excursion in Stardom, in order to set up the Sisters of Sin vs Saori Anou & Natsupoi at Forbidden Door. a classic evil doppleganger match
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
they should give Skye Blue & Julia Hart an excursion in Stardom, in order to set up the Sisters of Sin vs Saori Anou & Natsupoi at Forbidden Door. a classic evil doppleganger match
I was having so much fun talking about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025) with friends that I forgot the Grand Lake played a trailer for Bonnie & Clyde But They're Frankensteins with a hugely stacked cast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-K...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-K...
THE BRIDE Trailer (2026) Christian Bale, Jake Gyllenhaal
YouTube video by ONE Media
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I was having so much fun talking about Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (2025) with friends that I forgot the Grand Lake played a trailer for Bonnie & Clyde But They're Frankensteins with a hugely stacked cast
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-K...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-K...
I used to live around the corner from Family Laundry, and saw how they pivoted during 2020 as well. This is pretty dope, it feels good.
Latest News: Solar EV Charging Cuts Costs for Oakland Business: Family Laundry's solar-powered EV fleet reduces costs and emissions while advancing Oakland's equitable climate goals with community partnerships. #NorthAmerica #SmartCities #FacilitiesManagement Read More
Solar EV Charging Cuts Costs for Oakland Business
Family Laundry's solar-powered EV fleet reduces costs and emissions while advancing Oakland's equitable climate goals with community partnerships.
dlvr.it
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I used to live around the corner from Family Laundry, and saw how they pivoted during 2020 as well. This is pretty dope, it feels good.
I have said a lot of hateful, awful thing about fetch quests in video games over the years, but if you put an unfinished road in front of me in Death Stranding, I only need about five breaths to figure out the best zipline route to get the piles of ceramics and metals where they need to go
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I have said a lot of hateful, awful thing about fetch quests in video games over the years, but if you put an unfinished road in front of me in Death Stranding, I only need about five breaths to figure out the best zipline route to get the piles of ceramics and metals where they need to go
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our game has features and menus and like, buttons you can press.
read all about it here:
read all about it here:
BIRDCAGE Mini-Devlog #6: "Game Features" up now on Steam!
In this post we take a detailed look at the content, game modes and customization options you'll find in the full BIRDCAGE release, coming in just 8 days.
store.steampowered.com/news/app/215...
In this post we take a detailed look at the content, game modes and customization options you'll find in the full BIRDCAGE release, coming in just 8 days.
store.steampowered.com/news/app/215...
BIRDCAGE - Mini-Devlog #6: Game Features and Options - Steam News
What’s in the EGG?
store.steampowered.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
our game has features and menus and like, buttons you can press.
read all about it here:
read all about it here:
I sorta feel like as a black dude, if someone accused me of performative reading, I’d have to go punch their parents in the stomach and pray for an all-black jury
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I sorta feel like as a black dude, if someone accused me of performative reading, I’d have to go punch their parents in the stomach and pray for an all-black jury
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When you read what actually happened at the gig vs what the accusation was...
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
When you read what actually happened at the gig vs what the accusation was...
I reread V for Vendetta for the first time since probably the first time last week, despite forgetting the Fifth of November. Weird timing. Sorry.
Anyway, the Scottish guy in there—that's a great example of how writers can do "normal" voice for some folks and "They're Other" voice for "exotic" ones
Anyway, the Scottish guy in there—that's a great example of how writers can do "normal" voice for some folks and "They're Other" voice for "exotic" ones
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I reread V for Vendetta for the first time since probably the first time last week, despite forgetting the Fifth of November. Weird timing. Sorry.
Anyway, the Scottish guy in there—that's a great example of how writers can do "normal" voice for some folks and "They're Other" voice for "exotic" ones
Anyway, the Scottish guy in there—that's a great example of how writers can do "normal" voice for some folks and "They're Other" voice for "exotic" ones
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This is good one, and I'm enjoying the anthology format here. That conversation has gravitated to the micro form (tweets/posts/tiktok) or the indeterminable endless wander (essays, videoessays) seeing folks hit an idea with in 400 words and get out is just nice.
Issue #31 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Scotland as unicorn factory, Asimov's robots, The Red Dress Project, unsmashed pumpkins, Toxic, The Filth, Pricks, Jimmy Smits, Peter Watkins and more!
Love didn’t grow very well
Robots. The West Wing/Star Wars. Toxic! The Filth. Oscar Wilde's ghost. Pricks. The Red Dress Project. Unicorns. Peter Watkins.
mindless-ones.ghost.io
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is good one, and I'm enjoying the anthology format here. That conversation has gravitated to the micro form (tweets/posts/tiktok) or the indeterminable endless wander (essays, videoessays) seeing folks hit an idea with in 400 words and get out is just nice.
I'm gonna send another one of these today. I was going to do it on Friday, and then I remembered I had a signing the next day, and it could make for something interesting to write about. please look forward to it this evening (after I sleep a thousand hours).
essays.iamdavidbrothers.com
essays.iamdavidbrothers.com
I'm gonna try to do a bi-weekly...or so...newsletter. Again, I guess!! (me & you) was a huge hit. Will i am david brothers's newsletter be half as good?
You can sign up on the sidebar over here: essays.iamdavidbrothers.com
First one goes out at 6pm today, Oakland time, so please look forward to it.
You can sign up on the sidebar over here: essays.iamdavidbrothers.com
First one goes out at 6pm today, Oakland time, so please look forward to it.
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I'm gonna send another one of these today. I was going to do it on Friday, and then I remembered I had a signing the next day, and it could make for something interesting to write about. please look forward to it this evening (after I sleep a thousand hours).
essays.iamdavidbrothers.com
essays.iamdavidbrothers.com
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I heard a familiar melody on the air while reading Batman #1 before a flight. I wrote about it, and hope you'll follow me on a short journey about Bat-aesthetics, writers and visual styles, and why Batman is in its Jorge Jimenez era.
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨
Batman #1: Styles Upon Styles Upon Styles Is What They Have, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2025/11/05/b...
Batman #1: Styles Upon Styles Upon Styles Is What They Have, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2025/11/05/b...
Batman #1: Styles Upon Styles Upon Styles Is What They Have
By David Brothers Batman is one of the most popular characters in the world, and still a complicated sell for me. A side effect of reading a lot of really good Batman comics is that each new one ha…
shelfdust.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I heard a familiar melody on the air while reading Batman #1 before a flight. I wrote about it, and hope you'll follow me on a short journey about Bat-aesthetics, writers and visual styles, and why Batman is in its Jorge Jimenez era.
baby's first seven hour signing. thank you for coming out.
tomorrow, at Oakland's very own @capecowlcomics.bsky.social, me, @nickdragotta.bsky.social, and @danielwarrenart.bsky.social are signing for Cape & Cowl's 10th Anniversary Party! Catch us from 2-6pm. Bring donations!
(This is an older flyer—James isn't able to make it.)
(This is an older flyer—James isn't able to make it.)
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
baby's first seven hour signing. thank you for coming out.
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Reminder I’ll be at Berkeley Public Library Comic-con tomorrow! 🎉🎉🎉
I’ll be at @berkeleypubliclibrary.org with the Triple Dream Comics team Saturday, Nov 8th!! We’ll have plenty of copies of Agent Cupcake 🦄🔎 I’ll also be on a panel at noon w/ Chinaka Hodge, @anireal.bsky.social, @saraalfageeh.bsky.social, @moellennial.bsky.social, and @mychal3ts.bsky.social, eeeeek!
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Reminder I’ll be at Berkeley Public Library Comic-con tomorrow! 🎉🎉🎉
tomorrow, at Oakland's very own @capecowlcomics.bsky.social, me, @nickdragotta.bsky.social, and @danielwarrenart.bsky.social are signing for Cape & Cowl's 10th Anniversary Party! Catch us from 2-6pm. Bring donations!
(This is an older flyer—James isn't able to make it.)
(This is an older flyer—James isn't able to make it.)
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
tomorrow, at Oakland's very own @capecowlcomics.bsky.social, me, @nickdragotta.bsky.social, and @danielwarrenart.bsky.social are signing for Cape & Cowl's 10th Anniversary Party! Catch us from 2-6pm. Bring donations!
(This is an older flyer—James isn't able to make it.)
(This is an older flyer—James isn't able to make it.)
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people measurably don’t want to pay for AI-generated content. you can’t grow a business off of a product no one will pay for.
you don’t need to be an AI skeptic to understand that using AI like this will kill your business.
you don’t need to be an AI skeptic to understand that using AI like this will kill your business.
As machine translation tools under the banner of AI become increasingly accessible and easy to use, the light novel landscape is at a crossroads. Do light novel publishers compromise their product for more speed, and if so, by how much?
Does the Light Novel Translation Process Need AI?
www.animenewsnetwork.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
people measurably don’t want to pay for AI-generated content. you can’t grow a business off of a product no one will pay for.
you don’t need to be an AI skeptic to understand that using AI like this will kill your business.
you don’t need to be an AI skeptic to understand that using AI like this will kill your business.