JamesTheBalladeer
@jamestheballadeer.bsky.social
Novelist, short-story scribe, poet, editor, reviewer, comic-book aficionado, selenophile. Librarian-adjacent.
Town & Train, small-town Canadian horror novel & Fear Itself short-story collection from Lethe Press. In indie stores & on the amazons.🍀🩷💜💙🌈
Town & Train, small-town Canadian horror novel & Fear Itself short-story collection from Lethe Press. In indie stores & on the amazons.🍀🩷💜💙🌈
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Re-introducing myself-a writer/editor/reviewer/comic aficionado.
Town & Train is my small-town Canadian horror novel. Fear Itself (also Lethe Press) is my short-story collection.
Town & Train is my small-town Canadian horror novel. Fear Itself (also Lethe Press) is my short-story collection.
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ABC Mary Bruce deserves a Pulitzer Prize for asking the Saudi Prince this question:
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
ABC Mary Bruce deserves a Pulitzer Prize for asking the Saudi Prince this question:
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Here are a few of the quick sketches I did at my BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/THE QUESTION: ARCADIA signing the other day.
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Here are a few of the quick sketches I did at my BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/THE QUESTION: ARCADIA signing the other day.
Just want to say that @gabrielhardman.bsky.social new mini-series, Arcadia (DC Comics' Black Label imprint) is some beautiful work. The Question, Batman and Green Arrow solve a mystery. A gritty pulpy 1980's throwback retro vibe. A call-back to Dennis O’Neil & Denys Cowan's Vic Sage Question.
December 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Just want to say that @gabrielhardman.bsky.social new mini-series, Arcadia (DC Comics' Black Label imprint) is some beautiful work. The Question, Batman and Green Arrow solve a mystery. A gritty pulpy 1980's throwback retro vibe. A call-back to Dennis O’Neil & Denys Cowan's Vic Sage Question.
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I talk BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/ THE QUESTION: ARCADIA in this an episode of Word Balloon with John @wordballoon.bsky.social. It was a fun conversation and you can hear it here:
Gabriel Hardman On Batman The Question and Green Arrow - Word Balloon Comics Podcast
www.spreaker.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I talk BATMAN/GREEN ARROW/ THE QUESTION: ARCADIA in this an episode of Word Balloon with John @wordballoon.bsky.social. It was a fun conversation and you can hear it here:
Quite cool to hear comic creator @gabrielhardman.bsky.social for the first time on the @wordballoon.bsky.social chatring up his news DC Black Label series Arcadia: On Batman The Question and Green Arrow.
Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/dir-xr97z...
Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/dir-xr97z...
Gabriel Hardman On Batman The Question and Green Arrow
In this interview, comic-book veteran Gabriel Hardman takes us behind the scenes of his bold, new four-issue miniseries Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia — out now under DC Comics’ Black Label....
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November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Quite cool to hear comic creator @gabrielhardman.bsky.social for the first time on the @wordballoon.bsky.social chatring up his news DC Black Label series Arcadia: On Batman The Question and Green Arrow.
Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/dir-xr97z...
Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/dir-xr97z...
Forgot how much I dig hearing @mattfraction.bsky.social on @wordballoon.bsky.social. Batman #1 — A New Era Begins with Matt Fraction pt 1. Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/dir-hid66...
www.podbean.com/ea/dir-hid66...
Batman #1 — A New Era Begins with Matt Fraction pt 1
In this exclusive conversation, Matt Fraction joins me to discuss the launch of Batman #1 and the beginning of his ambitious new run at DC Comics. Fraction pulls no punches as he talks about his bold ...
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November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Forgot how much I dig hearing @mattfraction.bsky.social on @wordballoon.bsky.social. Batman #1 — A New Era Begins with Matt Fraction pt 1. Podbean.
www.podbean.com/ea/dir-hid66...
www.podbean.com/ea/dir-hid66...
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Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.
Stoked for Arcadia, Gabriel Hardman's new Black Label mini-series...The Question, Batman & Green Arrow solving a mystery with a 1980's throwback retro vibe. A call-back to Dennis O’Neil & Denys Cowan's Vic Sage Question.
www.dc.com/blog/2025-11...
www.dc.com/blog/2025-11...
Forging a Bronze Age Future: Gabriel Hardman Talks “Arcadia” | DC
New from DC Black Label, Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia teams up three of DC’s moodiest crimefighters for a crusade against the ruling class in a loving four-issue tribute to Dennis O’Neil.
www.dc.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Stoked for Arcadia, Gabriel Hardman's new Black Label mini-series...The Question, Batman & Green Arrow solving a mystery with a 1980's throwback retro vibe. A call-back to Dennis O’Neil & Denys Cowan's Vic Sage Question.
www.dc.com/blog/2025-11...
www.dc.com/blog/2025-11...
The other night, viddied more of Lowell Dean's 2014 horror-comedy Wolf Cop. It is better than it has any right to be. Shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the surrounding area.
youtu.be/f_P4C8x9S28?...
youtu.be/f_P4C8x9S28?...
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The other night, viddied more of Lowell Dean's 2014 horror-comedy Wolf Cop. It is better than it has any right to be. Shot in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the surrounding area.
youtu.be/f_P4C8x9S28?...
youtu.be/f_P4C8x9S28?...
Watching Boots (Netflix). Features winsome actors (incl. lead Miles Heizer),
a banger early 1990's soundtrack, intrigue and fourth-wall breakages. Altho it's about US marines, as a former army reservist, I connect with the themes of basic training & brotherly bonding & loneliness.
#queerTV
a banger early 1990's soundtrack, intrigue and fourth-wall breakages. Altho it's about US marines, as a former army reservist, I connect with the themes of basic training & brotherly bonding & loneliness.
#queerTV
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Watching Boots (Netflix). Features winsome actors (incl. lead Miles Heizer),
a banger early 1990's soundtrack, intrigue and fourth-wall breakages. Altho it's about US marines, as a former army reservist, I connect with the themes of basic training & brotherly bonding & loneliness.
#queerTV
a banger early 1990's soundtrack, intrigue and fourth-wall breakages. Altho it's about US marines, as a former army reservist, I connect with the themes of basic training & brotherly bonding & loneliness.
#queerTV
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JoAnna Mendoza is a queer former USMC drill instructor, like in the new Netflix show “Boots” (that Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon called “woke garbage”), and she’s running for Congress in Arizona.
www.advocate.com/politics/joa...
www.advocate.com/politics/joa...
Queer ex-Marine Corps drill instructor channels leadership & Netflix’s ‘Boots’ in Arizona congressional run
Democrat JoAnna Mendoza told The Advocate that her life's story has prepared her to run for Congress.
www.advocate.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
JoAnna Mendoza is a queer former USMC drill instructor, like in the new Netflix show “Boots” (that Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon called “woke garbage”), and she’s running for Congress in Arizona.
www.advocate.com/politics/joa...
www.advocate.com/politics/joa...
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Just finished the series.
Such a great show.
Such a great show.
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Just finished the series.
Such a great show.
Such a great show.
Sign in the washroom at my fave local, Southside Tap & Grill.
Just remember to wash your hands, you weird beautiful creatures.
Just remember to wash your hands, you weird beautiful creatures.
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sign in the washroom at my fave local, Southside Tap & Grill.
Just remember to wash your hands, you weird beautiful creatures.
Just remember to wash your hands, you weird beautiful creatures.
Tough month, for many reasons, but doing the writing work. Book review for @strangehorizons.bsky.social of
Matthew James Jones' fantastical cautionary novel about war, Predators, Reapers & Deadlier Creatures (Toronto's Double Dagger Books) and my second short-story collection edits to look at.
Matthew James Jones' fantastical cautionary novel about war, Predators, Reapers & Deadlier Creatures (Toronto's Double Dagger Books) and my second short-story collection edits to look at.
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Tough month, for many reasons, but doing the writing work. Book review for @strangehorizons.bsky.social of
Matthew James Jones' fantastical cautionary novel about war, Predators, Reapers & Deadlier Creatures (Toronto's Double Dagger Books) and my second short-story collection edits to look at.
Matthew James Jones' fantastical cautionary novel about war, Predators, Reapers & Deadlier Creatures (Toronto's Double Dagger Books) and my second short-story collection edits to look at.
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Never forget this day.
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump and MAGA did Jan 6 2021 and what Dems are NOT doing today!
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Never forget this day.
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bsky.app/profile/mjfr...
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Tomorrow is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). I stand in solidarity with the trans community, honoring those we've lost by supporting those who are here.
Sharing a handful of resources to ensure the trans community has the care and support they need.
#TDOR #TransCommunity
Sharing a handful of resources to ensure the trans community has the care and support they need.
#TDOR #TransCommunity
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Tomorrow is Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). I stand in solidarity with the trans community, honoring those we've lost by supporting those who are here.
Sharing a handful of resources to ensure the trans community has the care and support they need.
#TDOR #TransCommunity
Sharing a handful of resources to ensure the trans community has the care and support they need.
#TDOR #TransCommunity
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My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
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...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
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Please share widely
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Please share widely
Just over halfway through Max Tzannes' 2025 Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project. I know a diamond, a gem, when I see one.
Documentarians follow
Chase (Brennan Keel Cool), an ambitious yet hapless young director trying to make the world's best found-footage flick about Bigfoot. 1/2
Documentarians follow
Chase (Brennan Keel Cool), an ambitious yet hapless young director trying to make the world's best found-footage flick about Bigfoot. 1/2
November 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just over halfway through Max Tzannes' 2025 Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project. I know a diamond, a gem, when I see one.
Documentarians follow
Chase (Brennan Keel Cool), an ambitious yet hapless young director trying to make the world's best found-footage flick about Bigfoot. 1/2
Documentarians follow
Chase (Brennan Keel Cool), an ambitious yet hapless young director trying to make the world's best found-footage flick about Bigfoot. 1/2
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President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
