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Graphic novel/ manga/ comic book reviewer. Created longest-running independent comic review site online, ComicsWorthReading.com, and SherlockComics.com. Mycroft Holmes fan.
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At CAKE Chicago! Hot day, but amazing finds already! Today 11-6 and tomorrow 11-5. @cakechicago.bsky.social Cakechicago.com

All except Honolulu and both Portlands, weirdly. (Why is Savannah on there twice?)

Tonight's film: This is the Night (1932). Cary Grant's first movie. He is an Olympic javelin thrower married to Thelma Todd, who is cheating on him with Roland Young. (This is not particularly believable.)

Me, watching Rebecca for the first time: "Oh, it's Dr. Watson as a circus strongman!" Beautiful film, a bit of its time (wanting a girl instead of a woman to marry), but that's the bit that will stick with me.

Drop something HANDSY.

I've got a joke about The Talons of Weng-Chiang but it's too outdated these days.

Memory, old and cracked, made of gems, Still full of light, a doorway to somewhere else. #Art

Once you realize that most anti-[popular thing x] sentiment can be boiled down to “what girls like is stupid” SO much starts falling into place

New CWR post: A Queer Case: A Selby Bigge Mystery from @titanbooks.bsky.social "Agatha Christie with a gay detective." comicsworthreading.com/2025/06/26/a...

The next Disney/Marvel cover promo involves Stitch. Most of them so far are pretty boring, IMO, just dropping Stitch into superhero pictures, but I liked the AVENGERS #30 STITCH VARIANT COVER BY HUMBERTO RAMOS on sale Sep 10 -- I always knew Stitch was worthy!

The Beekeeper’s Picnic is 20% off on Steam for the Summer Sale! 🧺✨ store.steampowered.com/app/2248890/...

My beautiful boy

There are not enough people now to take care of the older folks in our aging society. Who's supposed to do it? Bad news: It usually falls on adult women, who are also supposed to be taking care of children. The result is fewer women's voices, no time to do anything for yourself, and less $$.

Hegseth, this morning to the free press: “Don’t ask questions. Don’t report the facts. Don’t seek the truth. Don’t hold people in power to account. Instead, your job is to put out the propaganda we give you. Your job is to simply say “America is great.” Utterly un-American.👇

A perfect comic.

306) Phobebot. Feel confident going out in the world as your queer self with this robot that hovers near you and flicks anyone who makes bigoted comments in the head. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Exactly. I said that to some Sherlockians and they were all "no, nothing alike, I don't see it at all." 🙄

Free speech, right? And money is speech? But you have to keep funding media whether you want to or not?

None of us are free until *all* of us are free ✨

It's almost like when there are no jobs to be had, job sites are filled with fake positions and scams, and AI doing a piss-poor job of scanning applications so you don't even get a response after applying to 20 places, job ad sites are useless. Who could have foreseen that shocking turn of events?

New review: Love Languages from @topshelfcomix.bsky.social Great read about falling in love through cross-cultural communication. comicsworthreading.com/2025/06/25/l...

Here's the ultra-short read on the Mamdani logo design www.gq.com/story/zohran...

The Curse of Conan Doyle! ahaha

I was just reading about how Bringing Up Baby was considered a flop when it came out.

The correlation between "initial box office success" and "artistically successful" is not always high. This was less of a problem in the past when ancillary revenue streams (home video, cable) were at full strength. In this streaming era, there's less financial wiggle room.

This is true. Companies now expect you to already know how to do the job they're hiring you for, which is why it's so hard to get started.

Adorable allergen!

Something the Mamdani win demonstrates is the extent to which the reigning cadre of ancient, establishment, centrist Dems think it’s more important to be on good terms with their GOP colleagues than it is to represent their own voters, and how thoroughly sick of this literally everyone is.

Obscure character sketch #2, suggested by @bleppindrago.bsky.social Wait, is he actually obscure? Maybe if you weren’t born in the 90s? I dressed him as Sherlock because that’s the episode I remember most. #dog #watercolor #art #sketchbook

I will be visiting this show on Saturday! My first time, looking forward to it!

It's Doctor Who release day! Season One (snicker) has the Unleashed episodes as well, while War Games in Colour "contains six extra minutes of colourised material". (Six whole minutes!) Also "loads of bonus features". No specifics, just loads. Can't wait to see what they are!

Lego is now so cool that their kids have over-ear headphones. (From the Botanical Garden set.)

I am watching the latest Lego Masters, which is celebrating Batman's 85th anniversary by having a challenge to design a vehicle for 1 of 7 Batman eras.