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Tom Peyer
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Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
Lou Cutell as the pointy-eared extraterrestrial Dr. Nadir, from Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965). His subtitle says, "And now maximum energy."
November 16, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Remember the hours after 11/13 when we came together as one. It was the worst day we've ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.
Three posed photos of a grinning, old-looking @themightylaman.bsky.social set into a white field with pastel polka dots, valentine hearts, and a teddy bear. Arbitrarily placed captions say, "With love... Only for you...", "SAVAGE," and "John Layman Day!!!! 11/13"
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Panel from "The Ray That Changed Superman," SUPERMAN #116, 1957. Writer: Jerry Coleman. Artist: Al Plastino. Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen observe from evening shadows as Superman stands transfixed under a green ray. CAPTION: Suddenly... LOIS: That strange, green light shining on SUPERMAN! What is it? Where does it come from? JIMMY: It--it seems to have put him in some kind of a trance! He's just staring at that poster of a clown!
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Zohran sign generator: LAYMAN - Let tonight be the final time I utter his name @themightylayman.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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My narcissism recovery is going so well we made a TV show about it
Guardian headline: Alex vs. ARod: the baseball legend turned 'recovering narcissist' tells all.
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Ditko's birthday!
Late '50s or early '60s Ditko panel. Weasel-faced man standing in work overalls tells a handsome, manly, seated man "It's alright for you to talk! you're so patriotic it makes me sick!" Handsome: "Well, somebody has to man these radar outposts!" Late '50s or early '60s Ditko panel. Man with sneaky expression smoking a cigarette thinks, "He's GONE! Now to take another pill..." Late '50s or early '60s Ditko panel. Middle aged man, looking panicky, says, "I don't care about the REST of the human race! THEY'RE not important!" But I'm too RICH to die!" Late '50s or early '60s Ditko panel. Menacing man points a gun at a frightened man and says, "I want your SECRET! The secret of making the world's most comfortable chair!"
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I forgot the Composite Superman turned evil because he failed as a high diver.
Cover to WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #142, 1964. The Composite Superman, a green-skinned villain who looks like Superman on his right half and Batman on his left, threatens Superman and Batman while shearing the Batplane's tail off with a blast of lightning from his hand. Art by Curt Swan and George Klein. Joe Meach--the Composite Superman before he acquired super-powers--is on a Metropolis sidewalk in front of a skyscraper. As a couple of bystanders in suits and fedoras look on, Meach pours water from a bucket into a plastic tub. He's thinking, "I should be the most famous high-diver in the world, but people have always been against me... It's not my fault I've failed! But this dive will make me famous!" (It didn't.) Story by Edmond Hamilton, Art by Swan & Klein, WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #142, 1964.
November 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Baron Daemon hosted a Saturday night horror movie so popular that they gave the vampire a daily kiddie show (so the kids would go to bed on Saturdays). I went as him one Halloween. As I've said before, I would have taken a bullet for him.
Picture of Baron Daemon, early 60s horror host, in an ad for a showing of The Crawling Hand on Channel 9, Suracuse.
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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To prove how much I love you, I’m feeding the ostrich my old SUPERMAN pictures!
Suburban back yard, evening. Lois Lane feeds pictures of Superman to an ostrich. She tells Hercules, "See dearest? To prove how much I love you, I'm feeding the ostrich my old SUPERMAN pictures!" Hercules, holding a bunch of grapes high--feeding the ostrich? Feeding himself?--side-eyes a yellow hammock and thinks, "I'm glad Lois is pleased! Now for a good night's sleep in my hammock... huh..." A tabletop radio blares a news bulletin "from METROPOLIS Zoo concerning the ostrich that was taken this morning!" ACTION COMICS #279, 1961, "The Super-Rivals!" Art by John Forte.
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Enshittification is everywhere
Batman examines his equipment and says, "Not a single object in my BATMAN UTILITY BELT works anymore!" JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #2, 1960, written by Gardner Fox, penciled by Mike Sekowsky, inked by Bernard Sachs.
October 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“You may choose one person to tell you the Aristocrats joke.”
Jack Benny
October 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Splash panel for a comics story called SEWER HORROR. An aquatic humanoid stands over a human corpse. Cameos of two characters: A brutish man called CARROL and a young woman, JOAN. Horrific Comics #8, 1953. Pat Boyette art.
October 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Superman says to President Kennedy, "If I can't trust the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, who CAN I trust?" ACTION COMICS #390, 1963. Edmond Hamilton, writer; Curt Swan and George Klein, artists.
October 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Promising episode
Opening frame from The Cisco Kid season four episode four. A drawing of an angry gorilla on a poster that says WARNING ESCAPED GORILLA AT LARGE
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Problem solved
CAPTION: "When Lois has gone..." PANEL: Superman, sitting on a green sofa in Clark Kent clothes that are on backwards, holds a rubber mask of the back of his head. The left half of his face looks sunburned. SUPERMAN/Thought: "That did it! Putting on my clothes BACKWARDS, and putting the rubber mask I made to look like the back of my head over my face, made her think the LEFT side of my head was the RIGHT side!" ACTION COMICS #290, 1962. Art: Curt Swan and George Klein. Story: Unknown.
October 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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AJAX STUDIOS: "We'd like you to work a marionette."
SUPERMAN: "Will I be on camera?"
AJAX: "That would wreck the illusion."
SUPERMAN: "So anyone could work the marionette."
AJAX: "It's better if you do."
SUPERMAN: "But the viewers won't see me."
AJAX: "They'll see a marionette of you."
Superman performs a filmed puppet show--designed to get children to brush their teeth--in which a Superman marionette swoops down and lifts a large toothbrush. Superman #143, "Bizarro Meets Frankenstein!", 1960. Art: Wayne Boring & Stan Kaye. Story: Otto Binder.
October 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Mary’s sign
Painting of Trump as a potato. Legend: DICK-TATER (or DICK-TRATER once you notice the tiny R).
October 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Follow @themightylayman.bsky.social
You've been kidnapped Your kidnappers allow you keep posting on social media to pretend everything is alright. What would you post that would alarm your followers, without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help?
October 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Statue of the late, great Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus at T-Mobile Park.
October 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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CAPTION: BLUE BLAZE TAKES A CIGARETTE LIGHTER FROM HIS BELT. BLUE BLAZE (SUPERHERO IN BLUE, SKIN-TIGHT COSTUME, CHAINED TO RED WALL, CIGARETTE DANGLING, PRODUCING THE LIGHTER): YOU'RE VERY CLEVER, DOCTOR VORTEX – HERE, HAVE A LIGHT. DOCTOR VORTEX (OBVIOUSLY VILLAINOUS WITH SHARP FEATURES AND A PENCIL MUSTACHE, ALSO WITH CIGARETTE): HA! HA! From MYSTIC COMICS #4, 1940, Art by Harry Douglas
October 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Panel from the first Peanuts strip. Shermy and Patty sitting on a stoop. Shermy says, “How I hate him!”
October 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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We’re keeping Jazz up
Jazz Chisholm yawns in the third inning of an elimination game
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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On this date in 1918 artist John Forte was born. Monarch of Mania, Sultan of Stiffness, and one of my favorites.
From Adventure Comics #326, 1964. Having doomed "our chosen BOY LEGIONNAIRE victims," Saturn Girl, Light Lass, Triplicate Girl, Shrinking Violet, and Supergirl celebrate with a dance party. Written by Jerry Siegel.
October 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Fifth anniversary of this masterpiece
Heathcliff cartoon, 10/6/2020. Two mice observe that Heathcliff is dressed as the John Astin Riddler.
October 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM