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Kung-fu Eyebrows
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Books, movies, music. Current deep dive: crime films from around the world & crime comics
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I'm starting a newsletter devoted to crime comics. I've been reading crime comics for years & I wanted to create a space where we could read and talk about crime comics

Expect weekly posts 🤞

First post, a longer introduction to the topic, will be this weekend

buttondown.com/crimecomics
Bad Karma, Loose Ends & Stray Bullets: Exploring the World of Crime Comics
Do you like crime comics, comics in general, and crime fiction? Then come read some crime comics with me and let’s talk about ‘em. If you’re new to crime comics, welcome! If you’re more familiar with ...
buttondown.com
If I win the lottery the biggest clue will be that I'll be buying the licenses for Buronson's crime mangas and publishing them
December 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I'm sure you know, but just in case you don't, there's a ton of East Asian crime flicks on Tubi right now
December 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
December 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Sing, brother Heckler! Sing, brother Koch!
December 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Pulling together a box of book donations and it provides a good reminder to go read Cathi Unsworth (these are safe)
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Color me curious
December 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Neo-western, out gunned and out numbered in a viper's nest, shoot em up

Aaron Eckhart maybe looking a little like David Keith

youtu.be/5dTPOzKYQuI?...
THIEVES HIGHWAY Official Trailer (2026) Aaron Eckhart
YouTube video by Movie Trailers Source
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
for the pm crowd

let's talk crime comics
Over at my crime comics newsletter, I've created a two part guide to all of the crime comics released in 2025 (I do this by hand, so I may have missed a couple)

Part 1: buttondown.com/crimecomics/...

Part 2: buttondown.com/crimecomics/...
2025 Crime Comics Roundup: A Big Ass List of 2025 Crime Comics (part 1 A-K)
Part one (of two) of 2025 crime comics releases
buttondown.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Over at my crime comics newsletter, I've created a two part guide to all of the crime comics released in 2025 (I do this by hand, so I may have missed a couple)

Part 1: buttondown.com/crimecomics/...

Part 2: buttondown.com/crimecomics/...
2025 Crime Comics Roundup: A Big Ass List of 2025 Crime Comics (part 1 A-K)
Part one (of two) of 2025 crime comics releases
buttondown.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Pulp titles are the best titles

Side Me With Sixes
The Vengeance Ghost
Trail of the Skulls
Bullets Don't Bluff
New Gun for Kingdom City
Rocket to Limbo
Echo in the Skull
Home is the Outlaw
Wolf Lawman
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I hear this as an Idles lyric
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Reposted by Kung-fu Eyebrows
THE ONE PERCENT don't care about us one bit. 16 stories from some of the best crime fiction writers out there. But don't take our word for it, listen to @muchadoaboutnil.bsky.social: bit.ly/4j31UMg
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
RIP Daniel Woodrell
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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MY GOD PEOPLE BREAK OUT THE ALARM EMOJIS

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When One Man Dies, the very first Jackson Donne novel, is just fifty cents for your e-reader. #BlackFriday #BlackFriyay

openroadmedia.com/ebook/when-o...
When One Man Dies
<div><b>“A terrific novel, a unique and artful blend of the PI and the Police Procedural in a plot as nicely tangled and sexually violent as a cat fight.” —James Crumley, Dashiell Hammett Award–winnin
openroadmedia.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love

Kamikaze Taxi (keep hoping for a boutique label to pick this one up)
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I feel like @colleensmangarecs.bsky.social needs to know about James Rusameekae on the reality show Physical Asia. During his introduction he came out in heels and struck a Sailor Moon pose and another competitor thought he was casting a spell
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Did a writeup on Way of the Gun for Perisphere. It's playing at @trylon.org as part of a McQuarrie double feature next weekend. I don't think any of us could have predicted him becoming Tom Cruise's go-to guy back then, but here we are! www.perisphere.org/2025/11/21/d...
Doing the Man Dance: Way of the Gun – Perisphere
|Matt Clark| For the last 15 years, writer/director Christopher McQuarrie has essentially been in the Tom Cruise business. Eight of the ten pictures that list McQuarrie as a writer and the entirety of...
www.perisphere.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Go read Tom Piccirilli
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Favorite genres

Asshole questions the heist plan

South Indian hero tucks back his lungi to face down a slew of baddies

Character title cards

Femme fatale smoking

Detectives talking all night in a car while on a stakeout (and it's corollary, the long conversation in a diner)
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Crime folks

Vada Chennai (#11) is an Indian crime flick
The Top 100 Films Per Viewer on Letterboxd—2025 👀

Per viewer is ranked by the highest ratio of fans to the number of members who’ve marked each film watched.

See the full list here: boxd.it/Q31K0
November 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM