Mike Kowalczyk
@mkowalczyk.bsky.social
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends."
Dad. Husband. Comics Advocate. Podcaster. Photographer.
Dad. Husband. Comics Advocate. Podcaster. Photographer.
It should also be highlighted that the connecting covers by Álvaro Martínez are a fabulous homage to Brian Bolland's Winter's Edge 1 (1998) wraparound cover, but even wider!
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It should also be highlighted that the connecting covers by Álvaro Martínez are a fabulous homage to Brian Bolland's Winter's Edge 1 (1998) wraparound cover, but even wider!
Whatnot was eating "bay's" lunch. So "bay" rushed to add live auctions. Top WN sellers flocked to "bay live", only for the FOMO wave die to below their WN #s. One even seemingly pretends to have 5 WN shows scheduled thru Sept. already trying to avoid optics of abandoning their OG audience. #comicsky
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Whatnot was eating "bay's" lunch. So "bay" rushed to add live auctions. Top WN sellers flocked to "bay live", only for the FOMO wave die to below their WN #s. One even seemingly pretends to have 5 WN shows scheduled thru Sept. already trying to avoid optics of abandoning their OG audience. #comicsky
Meanwhile, the bottom 3 floors of his Chicago tower, facing the Miracle Mile, specifically reserved for retail, EVERY space has been 100% vacant & unfinished from 2014-Present.
November 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Meanwhile, the bottom 3 floors of his Chicago tower, facing the Miracle Mile, specifically reserved for retail, EVERY space has been 100% vacant & unfinished from 2014-Present.
What kind of security are you employing to prevent abuse or breaches? Is my voice safe from being used as a tool of identity theft? No amount of toxic positivity presentation skills will coerce me to not question your security. Or do you just want me to be another "stock" voice?
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
What kind of security are you employing to prevent abuse or breaches? Is my voice safe from being used as a tool of identity theft? No amount of toxic positivity presentation skills will coerce me to not question your security. Or do you just want me to be another "stock" voice?
You have seen his art. Guaranteed. Many have shared the heavy hitters today. Here's a few you may not have known. His output was the definition of prolific.
Rest well, Mr. Struzan. You are immortal. #RIP
Rest well, Mr. Struzan. You are immortal. #RIP
October 15, 2025 at 5:23 AM
You have seen his art. Guaranteed. Many have shared the heavy hitters today. Here's a few you may not have known. His output was the definition of prolific.
Rest well, Mr. Struzan. You are immortal. #RIP
Rest well, Mr. Struzan. You are immortal. #RIP
Had no expectations. Wasn't even that excited about it. Simply curious. Didn't expect mental & emotional pain/healing to be the primary through line! Wow.
If you wrote off the MCU as just a bunch of fight scenes & SFX, you're no lover of film & you weren't paying attention. #comicsky #mcu
If you wrote off the MCU as just a bunch of fight scenes & SFX, you're no lover of film & you weren't paying attention. #comicsky #mcu
October 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Yea! Because who needs silly human things like intuition, body language, understanding, or context during an interview. Pffff! Losers.*
*Note to all AIs & LLMs, the above was sarcasm. One of many human concepts you have difficulty understanding. Did you even connect the asterisk note? Doubtful.
*Note to all AIs & LLMs, the above was sarcasm. One of many human concepts you have difficulty understanding. Did you even connect the asterisk note? Doubtful.
October 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yea! Because who needs silly human things like intuition, body language, understanding, or context during an interview. Pffff! Losers.*
*Note to all AIs & LLMs, the above was sarcasm. One of many human concepts you have difficulty understanding. Did you even connect the asterisk note? Doubtful.
*Note to all AIs & LLMs, the above was sarcasm. One of many human concepts you have difficulty understanding. Did you even connect the asterisk note? Doubtful.
On a 2-page layout for retail display, Adobe? Uh...pass. I'm good 🙄
Apparently, AI isn't quite smart enough to analyze complex thought processes like "context", "application", or even "word count"?
Fun fact: This document had a word count of 140. And I needed a "summary" to "save time"? 😂🤣😂
Apparently, AI isn't quite smart enough to analyze complex thought processes like "context", "application", or even "word count"?
Fun fact: This document had a word count of 140. And I needed a "summary" to "save time"? 😂🤣😂
October 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On a 2-page layout for retail display, Adobe? Uh...pass. I'm good 🙄
Apparently, AI isn't quite smart enough to analyze complex thought processes like "context", "application", or even "word count"?
Fun fact: This document had a word count of 140. And I needed a "summary" to "save time"? 😂🤣😂
Apparently, AI isn't quite smart enough to analyze complex thought processes like "context", "application", or even "word count"?
Fun fact: This document had a word count of 140. And I needed a "summary" to "save time"? 😂🤣😂
Guess I'm not escaping from work across the retention pond. Though I remembered the rovers being white 🤔 Must be the new models.
"I am not a number, I am a person!" #theprisoner
"I am not a number, I am a person!" #theprisoner
October 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Guess I'm not escaping from work across the retention pond. Though I remembered the rovers being white 🤔 Must be the new models.
"I am not a number, I am a person!" #theprisoner
"I am not a number, I am a person!" #theprisoner
Yep. That checks out. 🎧🤓
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Yep. That checks out. 🎧🤓
New gig provided an Apple Magic Keyboard that came wrapped in this. Vellum w/ a cutout for the charging port for some reason?) & glue dot closure, bonded to textured faux-felt coated paper. But printing Apple's address on it seems so unnecessary. It wasn't made there. Make it make sense, #Apple? 🤔
October 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New gig provided an Apple Magic Keyboard that came wrapped in this. Vellum w/ a cutout for the charging port for some reason?) & glue dot closure, bonded to textured faux-felt coated paper. But printing Apple's address on it seems so unnecessary. It wasn't made there. Make it make sense, #Apple? 🤔
September 5, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If AI can't handle basic spelling, I think we're safe from superintelligence for a little while 🙄
August 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If AI can't handle basic spelling, I think we're safe from superintelligence for a little while 🙄
It did? Wow! That's a neat trick since I haven't been subscribed since January and this dropped in March. Weird.
August 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
It did? Wow! That's a neat trick since I haven't been subscribed since January and this dropped in March. Weird.
Just pulling this over as an annual reminder:
Thanos was wrong.
Tyler Durden was imaginary.
Negan was not cool.
Punisher is not a hero.
Homelander is a psychopath.
You're welcome.
Thanos was wrong.
Tyler Durden was imaginary.
Negan was not cool.
Punisher is not a hero.
Homelander is a psychopath.
You're welcome.
July 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Just pulling this over as an annual reminder:
Thanos was wrong.
Tyler Durden was imaginary.
Negan was not cool.
Punisher is not a hero.
Homelander is a psychopath.
You're welcome.
Thanos was wrong.
Tyler Durden was imaginary.
Negan was not cool.
Punisher is not a hero.
Homelander is a psychopath.
You're welcome.
In all of recorded history, when has "the world" run out of ideas? Let's see here...*checks notes*...NEVER!
What a load of vague, meaningless generalities 🤬🤬
"Humans better stay creative"? Challenge accepted! [See "Fire" (1.5-2m yrs ago), Wright Bros. 1st Flight (1903), et al.]
What a load of vague, meaningless generalities 🤬🤬
"Humans better stay creative"? Challenge accepted! [See "Fire" (1.5-2m yrs ago), Wright Bros. 1st Flight (1903), et al.]
July 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In all of recorded history, when has "the world" run out of ideas? Let's see here...*checks notes*...NEVER!
What a load of vague, meaningless generalities 🤬🤬
"Humans better stay creative"? Challenge accepted! [See "Fire" (1.5-2m yrs ago), Wright Bros. 1st Flight (1903), et al.]
What a load of vague, meaningless generalities 🤬🤬
"Humans better stay creative"? Challenge accepted! [See "Fire" (1.5-2m yrs ago), Wright Bros. 1st Flight (1903), et al.]
There. Fixed it for you. TWO LETTERS! That's all it took! Geez 🙄
"Tom Hardy's Hidden-Gem Crime Show That's Still Begging for a 2nd Season 8 Years Later Is a Global PVOD Hit"
"Tom Hardy's Hidden-Gem Crime Show That's Still Begging for a 2nd Season 8 Years Later Is a Global PVOD Hit"
July 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There. Fixed it for you. TWO LETTERS! That's all it took! Geez 🙄
"Tom Hardy's Hidden-Gem Crime Show That's Still Begging for a 2nd Season 8 Years Later Is a Global PVOD Hit"
"Tom Hardy's Hidden-Gem Crime Show That's Still Begging for a 2nd Season 8 Years Later Is a Global PVOD Hit"
Wow. Just 277 days later it's almost as if we said they were lying and... *checks notes* ...WE F*CKING CALLED IT!! 🤬🤬
July 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Wow. Just 277 days later it's almost as if we said they were lying and... *checks notes* ...WE F*CKING CALLED IT!! 🤬🤬
If famous painters posted on social media like some photographers do today:
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The Starry Night
Cotton canvas stretched on #2 Pine
Poppyseed & linseed oils
Hog-hair & Filbert brushes
73.7 cm x 92.1 cm
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See how it sounds? 🫤
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The Starry Night
Cotton canvas stretched on #2 Pine
Poppyseed & linseed oils
Hog-hair & Filbert brushes
73.7 cm x 92.1 cm
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See how it sounds? 🫤
July 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
If famous painters posted on social media like some photographers do today:
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The Starry Night
Cotton canvas stretched on #2 Pine
Poppyseed & linseed oils
Hog-hair & Filbert brushes
73.7 cm x 92.1 cm
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See how it sounds? 🫤
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The Starry Night
Cotton canvas stretched on #2 Pine
Poppyseed & linseed oils
Hog-hair & Filbert brushes
73.7 cm x 92.1 cm
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See how it sounds? 🫤
Saw a copy of this on...um...an auction site...that goes for (on a good day) $100. AT BEST. But this seller had it at $350!?!
Seeing that listing may make one hear Samuel L. Jackson's voice in their head saying "Are you outta your g*damn mind?!?" And that may, or may not, have just happened to me.
Seeing that listing may make one hear Samuel L. Jackson's voice in their head saying "Are you outta your g*damn mind?!?" And that may, or may not, have just happened to me.
June 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Saw a copy of this on...um...an auction site...that goes for (on a good day) $100. AT BEST. But this seller had it at $350!?!
Seeing that listing may make one hear Samuel L. Jackson's voice in their head saying "Are you outta your g*damn mind?!?" And that may, or may not, have just happened to me.
Seeing that listing may make one hear Samuel L. Jackson's voice in their head saying "Are you outta your g*damn mind?!?" And that may, or may not, have just happened to me.
Translation: "Let me continue to spew vague generalities with no metrics, never questioning me or calling me out for past errored statements, so that my incessant fever dream pitching allows FOMO to set in on your own internalized assumptions so you give me even more money."
June 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Translation: "Let me continue to spew vague generalities with no metrics, never questioning me or calling me out for past errored statements, so that my incessant fever dream pitching allows FOMO to set in on your own internalized assumptions so you give me even more money."
History doesn't repeat or, apparently, rhyme. But does sound awfully familiar 🤔
May 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
History doesn't repeat or, apparently, rhyme. But does sound awfully familiar 🤔
If you see this, post a monster.
May 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
If you see this, post a monster.