"A late contender for the best single issue of 2026."

Bam Smack Pow on their books of the week, specifically The Power Fantasy #13.

Complex, timeless masterpiece of classical music conjures up only images of cartoon rabbit in drag

Blue Jays, Dodgers cause mass confusion by dressing up as each other for Halloween world series game

Ford blames Jays playoff ticket gouging on asshole premier who scrapped Ticketmaster law in 2019

This went live last night - a big PDF bundle of the books I've written at Image. Includes The Wicked + the Divine, DIE, Phonogram, Ludocrats, the first Power Fantasy, We called them giants, etc. Basically, this is the stuff I got into comics to do, and a great chance to grab it.

Fun overview of the popcorn kissing soap-opera apocalypse aspect of The Power Fantasy. If you're not a back-to-basics kind of X-fan, this is your book.

I’m actually gonna get out of my replies and use this story to highlight something that I haven’t for a while: the complete lack of transparency and communication from our public agencies in B.C./Canada. So here’s a thread

Always loved his dynamic body movements. Nobody else would do this [complimentary]

What's hilarious about this Brad Bradford nonsense argument is that we are paying a billion dollars and screwing up the eastern waterfront for generations to repair the east Gardiner in order to save far fewer drivers even less time!

But drivers count and transit riders don't!

#TOpoli #RapidTO

As much as I love Romita Sr., his style setting the standard meant we didn't get another lithe, gangly-agile Spider-Man for decades after Ditko.

Never considered what the demonym would be for people of Kansas City. Makes sense they don't confuse things by calling themselves Kansas Citizens but it's a little funny to have to use "Citians." As always, Glasgow has the best one. People from KC could be Kanswegians!

Call in the Beekeeper

I feel like when gamers talk about hobbies they mean just consuming media.

Have to wonder what the national reaction would be to Toronto wanting to become its own Province. Surely the concerns of millions of people would be taken seriously.

But it's not ironic. Threats from America and anti-Americanism are embedded all throughout our history. It might be the thing that most *consistently* unites us.

Doug Ford suddenly seems to care about local democracy, after running roughshod over it for years, thanks to an innocuous motion about a report on a potential Indigenous member of Toronto city council, writes Glyn Bowerman spacing.ca/toronto/2025...

From grand to bland. A project involving 3 levels of govt & nobody stood up for architecture & good design. My column o. the state of the public realm in Toronto. Pls read & share if this kind of writing is interesting to you.

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