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Critical Thinking: The World’s Greatest Detective vs. the Ghetto
This installment of Critical Thinking examines why the cultural inheritance of the World's Greatest Detective makes him the ideal pioneer.
www.comicsbeat.com
"the saviors have become settlers; the iconography of protecting the innocent is rewritten as the pioneer guarding his stake... as comics attempt to set batman in the same world as his readers, the role of violence to perpetuate the state demands to be addressed"
i do not write like the others
i do not write like the others
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A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword
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Fun story about this cover:
The face is actually a clay sculpture of the protagonist. Which I photographed and edited digitally. Super fun process.
The "clearwater" and "aaron losty" are a tracing of the Irish street sign font on tracing paper.
Pre save: www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...
The face is actually a clay sculpture of the protagonist. Which I photographed and edited digitally. Super fun process.
The "clearwater" and "aaron losty" are a tracing of the Irish street sign font on tracing paper.
Pre save: www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Fun story about this cover:
The face is actually a clay sculpture of the protagonist. Which I photographed and edited digitally. Super fun process.
The "clearwater" and "aaron losty" are a tracing of the Irish street sign font on tracing paper.
Pre save: www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...
The face is actually a clay sculpture of the protagonist. Which I photographed and edited digitally. Super fun process.
The "clearwater" and "aaron losty" are a tracing of the Irish street sign font on tracing paper.
Pre save: www.kickstarter.com/projects/aar...
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Starting a thread of #risoscope riso-printed rotoscope clips…
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Starting a thread of #risoscope riso-printed rotoscope clips…
new k-lone comes out friday
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YouTube video by K-LONE - Topic
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November 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
new k-lone comes out friday
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looking forward to the new K-LONE lp, very much my kind of thing
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YouTube video by K-LONE - Topic
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October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
looking forward to the new K-LONE lp, very much my kind of thing
a late 90s japanese techno sounds like italian techno sounds like japanese techno sundry reissued by witty acronym record label, so far up my alley it's parked in my garage
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
a late 90s japanese techno sounds like italian techno sounds like japanese techno sundry reissued by witty acronym record label, so far up my alley it's parked in my garage
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Hostile Planet is officially LIVE on Kickstarter! This project has been in the works for 2+ years now and we're incredibly excited for it to come to light.
13 creators from across the globe telling stories about worlds after environmental collapse: www.kickstarter.com/projects/715...
13 creators from across the globe telling stories about worlds after environmental collapse: www.kickstarter.com/projects/715...
November 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Hostile Planet is officially LIVE on Kickstarter! This project has been in the works for 2+ years now and we're incredibly excited for it to come to light.
13 creators from across the globe telling stories about worlds after environmental collapse: www.kickstarter.com/projects/715...
13 creators from across the globe telling stories about worlds after environmental collapse: www.kickstarter.com/projects/715...
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Very sun-times to hold off on writing about Adamn Killa till he got arrested for doing arrest me daddy lol chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/11...
Chicago rapper Adamn Killa tells cops to 'arrest me, daddy.' Getting arrested won't stop him.
Adam Kelly, who goes by the stage name Adamn Killa, was handcuffed and briefly held in a squad car after interrupting a traffic stop for one of his social media videos. After he was released, he went ...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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You too can move on from electoral politics. Release the farce and play acting. Put your energies into helping each other and building new systems of care. I believe in the people, not politicians.
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
You too can move on from electoral politics. Release the farce and play acting. Put your energies into helping each other and building new systems of care. I believe in the people, not politicians.
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I feel more like this with every passing year.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
This pretty much sums up the entire ideological dispute between the two American political parties.
What they are arguing about, on almost all issues, is either methodology or magnitude. That is literally it.
The party of We Will Kill You vs the party of We Will Let You Die.
What they are arguing about, on almost all issues, is either methodology or magnitude. That is literally it.
The party of We Will Kill You vs the party of We Will Let You Die.
To be clear, Lindsey Graham, an American senator, has gone on the most popular Sunday morning current events show in the country and suggested that we drop nuclear bombs on Palestinians.
While they may differ in methodology, both parties agree that Palestinians should be eliminated.
While they may differ in methodology, both parties agree that Palestinians should be eliminated.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I feel more like this with every passing year.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.
We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.
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How awesome would it be if instead of being on their phones everyone on the train was reading lil comics that were expertly made and cheaply produced
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
How awesome would it be if instead of being on their phones everyone on the train was reading lil comics that were expertly made and cheaply produced
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How many times does the same thing have to happen before reality sinks in?
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
How many times does the same thing have to happen before reality sinks in?
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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Gun.
Trying not to respond to every news update with “Gun”
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Gun.
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I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.
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If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.
do you really believe we're going to vote our way out of this?
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
do you really believe we're going to vote our way out of this?
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A few of my favorite music-based commissions: Bowie, Joni, ATCQ, and Monk
May 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A few of my favorite music-based commissions: Bowie, Joni, ATCQ, and Monk
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