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Ryan North
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You know, the @qwantz.com guy! The Fantastic Four / Squirrel Girl / Krypto the Super Dog guy? The How To [Invent Everything | Take Over The World] guy? The non-linear Shakespeare guy? The "stuck in a hole with his dog" guy?

Look.. I'm a lot of guys
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Out tomorrow: FANTASTIC FOUR #5, guest starring The Black Cat AND Sue Storm (who hates her guts) and a HEIST. :0

I texted @jedmackay.bsky.social a ton to make sure I was writing Felicia well, which is how I lost texting privileges with Jed. But NO REGRETS
The boys are going fishing in the Negative Zone, leaving Sue and Alicia home alone. and who is at the door but Felicia Hardy, Sue Storm's least-favourite person! And she's covered in blood WHOOPS Felicia's in jail and flirting with Sue, trying to get her to help her. She says she's innocent! And in a flashback, we see Felicia's version of events. HOW IS SHE GONNA GET OUT OF THIS ONE?? You'll just have to read the issue to find out!
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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scottmccloud.bsky.social
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!

Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
ryannorth.ca
WORDS ADDED TO SPELL-CHECK TODAY:

- punchable
- workin'
- shotgunning
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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qwantz.com
behold! a vision into a dystopian world in which one might look down on Gamers

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T-Rex: Guess what, cats and kittens! I SOME PERSONAL NEWS FOR YOU! T-Rex: This guy, your friend T-Rex... T-Rex: ...spent the WHOLE WEEKEND playing VIDEO GAMES!! Dromiceiomimus: Oh T-Rex, I'm so pleased! Congratulations! You must be so happy! T-Rex: Thank you! It means a lot, Dromiceiomimus. And I am! I'm VERY happy. Utahraptor: Let me add my congrats to the pile, T-Rex! Well done. Proud to be your friend, bud. T-Rex: Thanks, friend! T-Rex: Yes, things certainly changed for the better when we realized that being able to spend the whole weekend playing video games REQUIRES a life that's SUPER pulled together - and thus is really a CELEBRATION of success rather than anything lazy or wasteful! Utahraptor: And how! T-Rex: Of course, if even ONE slacker ever played video games instead of doing the things that REALLY needed doing in their life, that would RUIN this conception. Off panel: And society as a whole. T-Rex: AND society as a whole!!
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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ianzpotter.bsky.social
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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mojoversepod.bsky.social
We love @ryannorth.ca ‘s Fantastic Four and we were so excited to sit down with the inimitable @owenlikescomics.bsky.social to discuss what makes it one of the best runs of Marvel’s First Family, how it pulls off its magic trick of one shot sci-fi excitement. #comicsky
Our Extended Mutant Family: Fantastic Four by Ryan North with Owen Likes Comics | Escape the Mojoverse: An X-Men Comics Podcast
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November 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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bradwinters.bsky.social
I have it on excellent authority that Lower Decks was, in fact, made for people who hadn’t seen any other Star Trek shows.
aplante.com Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 2d
i can’t believe people were trying to dissuade me from starting trek with lower decks because i “wouldn’t understand the references” as if it isn’t super accessible on its own with incredible joke density that all land perfectly on the merit of excellent characterization and absurd plot lmfao
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're in Picard's ready room. Picard is sitting like a normal guy at a desk in his uniform and across him is a hoighty toighty looking Vulcan lady with a tall hat and some fancy official looking clothing and accessories sitting across from him. Standing with hands resting on the 3rd chair is Mr. Data, in uniform. Closed caption reads, "Mr. Data, based"
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I'm one of the panelists on this week's episode of Because News! I wore a suit because you ALWAYS dress up for radio

www.cbc.ca/radio/becaus...
me and Gavin and Emma and Miguel looking fiii-yi-yine
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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qwantz.com
just casually tossing out "vampires but for other bodily fluids" like it won't revolutionize at least three distinct genres

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T-Rex: It's time for... Narrator: THREE STORIES THAT ALWAYS WORK T-Rex: Story one: a character who up to this point has been very serious and lives in a very serious universe wakes up and discovers that they have been shrunk down to Tiny size and needs to alert everyone that they are now Tiny, but nobody can hear him, and when they do they hear him in a really adorable high-pitched voice. Dromiceiomimus: Perfect story, everyone loves it. Utahraptor: Story two: enemies to lovers to activist investors to nodding acquaintances to lovers again. T-Rex: Tale as old as time! T-Rex: Story three: werewolves but with other animals, vampires but with other bodily fluids, ghosts but with other species, and Frankensteins but with dogs. Utahraptor: I would love a Frankenstein dog! T-Rex: EVERYONE WOULD! T-Rex: If you are an author who is stuck, give your character a dog who is a Frankenstein, and I promise your story just got 10 times more interesting. T-Rex: Fun fact! Why this is NOT done more often is one of the great enduring mysteries in the liberal arts!!
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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graphicpolicy.com
Fantastic Four #5 exclusive preview. When Reed, Ben and Johnny leave on a fishing trip to the Negative Zone, Sue Storm and Alicia Masters are left to their own devices. #comics #comicbooks @ryannorth.ca @ramosland.bsky.social
Exclusive Preview: Fantastic Four #5
When Reed, Ben and Johnny leave on a fishing trip to the Negative Zone, Sue Storm and Alicia Masters are left to their own devices.
graphicpolicy.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!
A sketch of two steam trains, human faces on the front. The title above them says 'The Broad Gauge and the Narrow Gauge'. The narrow gauge train is looking unbearably smug, then broad gauge absolutely raging. In the smoke, they are communicating, the broad gauge saying "You are a locomotive" and the narrow saying "You are another".
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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qwantz.com
utahraptor! i know this will only hurt me after I'm dead, and yet somehow, I think it's hurting me right now???

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T-Rex: When I die, suppose they want to make a documentary film about my life? But then suppose there's not enough resources, or documents, or film clips... T-Rex: ...and so they bail on the whole project?? T-Rex: This is why I'm determined to leave as many documents and film clips of my life as I can! T-Rex: I want the first thought after "I should make a documentary about that cool dude T-Rex" to be "Oh sweet, this will be easy, so I will definitely do that previous idea I just had." Utahraptor: So you're going to live your entire life in service of your death? T-Rex: Only a little! Utahraptor: Hmm. I think if I were a filmmaker, I wouldn't just use the mega-biased sources you left behind for post-death aggrandizement. In fact, I'd probably look to see what others who knew you best thought about you. Utahraptor: ...Which reminds me: I need to go write some things down. T-Rex: Wait, good things?? Off panel: You'll find out after you're dead! T-Rex: NO I WON'T!!
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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ut oh
spence-united.bsky.social Spence United @spence-united.bsky.social · 5d
@ryannorth.ca here’s our family dog…Jellybean! I guess I need to keep a closer eye on her after reading your latest #FantasticFour
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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mikemcmahan.bsky.social
Autocorrect got me good today. Changed "Thanks so much" to "thanks slick" in a work email, so now people think I talk like Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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same
byelacey.bsky.social lacey @byelacey.bsky.social · 5d
no buddy i’ve seen this episode before
mac looking longingly into a skate pool
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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topa.to
Didja know? We got hella amounts of signed things available? Books, prints, vinyl records, you name it! Well actually... that's sort of the extent of our signed things...

Get 'em while they're hot at: topatoco.com/collections/...
a variety of signed books, prints, and vinyl records available on our website
November 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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mattufford.bsky.social
Tom Cruise in the courtroom scene at the end of A Few Good Men but he's saying "that sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" Jack Nicholson in the courtroom scene at the end of A Few Good Men but he's saying "a little bit is coming out the bottom"
November 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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shannonhale.bsky.social
GoFundMe for Marta, the woman I filmed being forcefully detained in SLC airport. She is a mother of four and has a work permit legal through 2029. She and her sister were given no reason for her arrest, no due process. She needs funds to help defend herself.
November 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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roadside.xor.blue
pachnelephalosaurus statue, public park, route 40, dinosaur, colorado, 1991
pachnelephalosaurus statue, public park, route 40, dinosaur, colorado, 1991
November 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them
November 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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ashleycooper.bsky.social
"Gary? Yes... that was what they used to call me. Dark Gary. That was my name.

I am Light Gary, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide."
Screenshot of an online store product selection. It shows a man in the same hat twice, one in dark grey, one in light. The product is misspelled as "Gary" instead of grey.
October 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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brianmcl.com
Gag 194: This one is fire
Riding a giant snake, a firefighter approaches an upper apartment from which smoke billows. He reaches for the trepidacious man, explaining "They're actually easier to get down than ladders."
November 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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qwantz.com
you can't say you'd get used to them because they're giant skeletons with angry eyes!! and if that doesn't convince you, maybe i can remind you that these are giant DINOSAUR skeletons?? check and mate

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T-Rex: It took us DECADES to develop the technology to have giant plastic skeletons in our front yard for Hallowe'en. T-Rex: But, now that we have it... T-Rex: ...what are we going to do with it? Dromiceiomimus: I mean - decorate our yards with giant plastic Hallowe'en skeletons, presumably. T-Rex: No, see, the first use of any new technology is to emulate the old ones - taking plastic skeletons and making them bigger. That's where we STARTED. Utahraptor: But where will we END? T-Rex: Exactly!! T-Rex: 100 years from now, what will this technology of LARGER-THAN-LIFE WEATHERPROOF SCULPTURE be used for, beyond spooky skeletons? Utahraptor: Perhaps... giant plastic signs? For when trucks keep hitting a low bridge, for example. T-Rex: I love it!! Narrator: BUT THEN, FIELD TRIALS DEMONSTRATE THAT GIANT SKELETONS HOLDING A "LOW BRIDGE" SIGN ARE EVEN MORE EFFECTIVE: T-Rex: Huh! T-Rex: Got it in one, I guess
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
ryannorth.ca
"Meat Lover's Pizza" sounds rad, while "vegetarian" sounds staid, boring. they should swap. "Veggie Lover's Pizza" at least has some razzle dazzle while "Carnivore" also sounds great. just one man's opinion this #sundaymorning
November 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM