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Kevin McShea
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Visual Artist who lost their sight... now just a blind swordsperson who is too verbose for social media (they/them please)
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For five bucks, you can watch the world fall apart and people we told how to live in the rubble by banks, armies, government and monopolies they will never really understand even if they work for them (and we all do). A chorus of voices each with their own song, crying a cacophony doom and hope.
travishedgecoke.bsky.social Travis Hedge Coke @travishedgecoke.bsky.social · 1d
I hope you'll give No Agency a chance, but it is a novel about context, and that includes depriving you of it. I know that's not for everyone. It's framed, primarily, as the transcript of a documentary, just the dialogue, nothing more. I want you to do a little detective work, some people-listening.
The cover of No Agency, dark blue with inset photograph of clouds pierced by a ray of light. To the right of the cover, a set of three excerpts from the novel, reading as follows: "Its JBs knife, JBs house, JBs clothes. So you tell me howinfuckin Picerni walked out of the bombing, hid out, went to her house, and an got himself murdered if she didt do it. Yeah got you there." - Cary *** "This is a news program. The events and anecdotes we are about to share with you have been verified and are held as the opinion of some of the speakers and scholars cited or interviewed. No Agency, nor its producers or distributors, are responsible for what incurs. "In the interest of preserving the director's intent, the episodes of this season are presented in a continuous stream and all summations by the host have been preserved for the conclusion. The director has also chosen to remove all audio of the host until the conclusion. This is not a news program, but when possible, reenactments have used the original participants and locations. Names and identities have been changed. The people have not." - Preamble to episode 1, season 1 of No Agency: The Revival *** "There have always been sightings in this in this territory, Inspector Brock. Human-like figures. Tall men. Large bat-like figures. Bean pie women in the woods. "You know how they say. "Two sides of the city framed by rivers, everything else surrounded by thick forest. Town has been here forever. So, townies. Then, trappers, hunters, surveyors, travelers. You have people passing through and at the time, unless you were Indigenous, this this is the one town in the area. "People who need their surroundings to make sense, make their surroundings make sense. "When a lion looks at zebras and sees the chiaroscuro of vegetation, the lion learns to see zebras in vegetation. "You take a human being, grown up seeing other people, and deprive them of people, what do you think they coffee will start making into human-like apparitions—
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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"Robbie Bush and Clem Robins give Guy Davis’ art an extra spider-web flavor, as if it is old cobwebs standing for ages, catching dust, decked with the husks of insects no longer identifiable."

When Vertigo became a brand, only brands will have Vertigo.
Half a Dozen of the Other
Censorship, self-censorship, false history, remakes, reboots, the conflicting politics under the same press and banners, with six comics published by DC Comics.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I keep seeing Weird Al described as "famously apolitical," and he's been vocally pro queer rights, he's self-corrected his own biases publicly & professionally, and he's been on the sensible side of the piracy issue the entire time. He's not apolitical, he's just not running for office.
Val Brentwood, Gal Spy (Paula Jai Parker) and Cousin Corky (Danielle Weeks) stand together, arms crossed, giving someone side eye and looking put out. From The Weird Al Show.
December 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Batman Inc and Leviathan fail because one is an earnest attempt to do the sort of retvrn/trad stuff with a multicultural modern vibe and the other is a war criminal mass murderer parodying the American tendency to those values and ad campaigns.
travishedgecoke.bsky.social Travis Hedge Coke @travishedgecoke.bsky.social · 3d
"Hitler Youth. Boy Scouts of America. Lord’s Resistance Army. Hehalutz. The Children’s Crusade. ROTC. The National Youth Alliance and their infamous pop duo, Prussian Blue, Teen Challenge."

Batman & Talia play those songs in Batman Inc & they both lose.
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Three panels from Batman Incorporated vol 2, featuring the current Robin, Damian Wayne, Nightwing, the original Robin, Dick Grayson, and Batman's secret youngest son, called the Heretic, as the Heretic throws Nightwing into a glass case holding the armor and sword of one of Bruce Wayne's ancestors, red cape and cross on chest, from the Crusades.
December 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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you can remove the word "parenting" from this and it all still holds
gralefrit.bsky.social Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 3d
Sam Altman saying he uses Chat GPT as a parenting tool is a dumb as fuck “news” story today, but honestly, you should never take any parenting advice from rich people. Full stop. They don’t look after their kids. They have staff. Precisely zero of their parenting dilemmas resemble normal humans’.
December 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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And, on the flipside, a revisit of the comics artist's tendency to show young people's underpants, something I think had a healthy influence on young people, here and there, but is largely now not even a fetish but an affectation which artists don't realize they do and can get into retirement.
A Brief Consideration of Briefs in a Panel of an Issue of Hellblazer
Gemma’s Panties:
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December 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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John Constantine is an attractive mess. An amazingly unattractive pile of dog mess. A good bad influence. A brilliant dope. The kind of guy he hates. A man who changes his clothes but never his coat. Inspired by José Villarrubia's posts of late, here's a little retrospective on how I like my John.
The Johns I Like the Most: A Constantine Retrospective
The Johns I Like the Most: A Constantine Retrospective
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December 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Bet you didn't know We Wish You a Merry Christmas is actually the equivalent of the Freddy Krueger counting song.
Cartoon Christmas card image of a child with a red face frightened in bed by a Christmas pudding with legs, eyes, and a gaping mouth terrorizing him.
December 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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I bring up Charlotte Salomon a lot, but she was born the same year as Jack Kirby and was murdered by Nazis shortly after completing her semi-autobiographical comic, Life? or Theater?, a daring multimedia piece of hundreds of paintings and acetate overlays creating a continually growing experience.
Two pages from Charlotte Salomon's Life? or Theater? featuring a floating purple figure which assumes an arms out pose, and another figure, wearing classes, wring on the pages.
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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No Agency is a serious true crime program, a serious investigation into unexplained happenings, which is how they let this ad for beards get slipped in by an interviewee between murders and increasing brain fog and mania.
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An excerpt from No Agency, which reads: And, if not a mustache, perhaps a beard? Strong, attractive to the eye, full of hair. Your family is visiting and they wonder why you are unmarried? Try a beard! The office suspects something and your boss is a little old fashioned? Why not a beard? There are requirements in your building contract because they are homophobic and edgy? Gently apply a beard and then laugh behind their backs! Beards are a time honored tradition across the globe, and with flat Earth beliefs on the increase, your use for a beard is also growing exponentially.
December 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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I mean, ahem ahem buy No Agency now.

But, also read this.

And, support the politics you want to see in your prose & authors everywhere.
zeblarson.bsky.social Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 7d
I've been dying to write this for a long time. I love crime fiction and detective fiction; it's how I prefer to relax. I reject the idea that it has to be conservative or reactionary, and Jacobin was kind enough to let me write this essay extolling why we can't surrender this terrain.
We Need More Leftist Crime Fiction
Critics of crime fiction dismiss the genre as hopelessly reactionary, but its history tells a different story. From hard-boiled American detective novels to the explosion of Scandi-noir, crime fiction...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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some actor who looked a lot like mel brooks had a cameo in Death By Lightning so i googled to see if it was him and got this really helpful search result
google’s AI overview for the search for mel brooks death by lightning: Mel Brooks is alive and well and celebrated his 99th birthday in June 2025; he did not die by lightning.
December 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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What the heck. Pulling the trigger. As long as I can get the formatting sound, book is for sale tonight. If you love gothic mystery, small town quirky neighbors tv, true crime satire, U-Haul lesbians, romantic horror, ancient curses, shows hosted by actors who sound smart about cryptids & ghosts...
travishedgecoke.bsky.social Travis Hedge Coke @travishedgecoke.bsky.social · 7d
Coming soon! #booksky

Horror, romance, satire & mystery as a small city in Illinois experiences a confluence of bombings, arson, cryptids, hospitalizations, new educational mandates, bodies, a weird happenings tv show that just happened to be in town, and queer people trying to make love work!
GG You may, in weakness, convince yourself this is Purgatory. That in the dog bark sharpness of the American Middle West we are sustained in endless waiting, endless dull, tragic, anxious. Palerma is unseasonable by season. The air, the fields, the streets are as heartless as banks and supper clubs. As we age our patience wanes in tandem to our eagerness to fight. We mutely upsetegenarians, shaking pallid fists that barely shimmer with the pond surface wakes of rage. Primary colors become nothing except warning signs. Danger. Stop. Yield. Do not proceed. Part of the earliest training is regional accents, but only from regions removed from who is listening. To the American ear, regional English accents, even the national standard of Wales, are simply British with charm. Some sound posh. They all sound class. I needn’t a word in the ear of Councilwoman Sawatske. I needn’t work for dark forces from over the hill and under the river that have thrived in calculation for a folk horror age. Did you know, before the War, the SIS was originally named for a bird? Palerman politics are American politics. It is human to balk at the money and believe the murders must be more important and the financial sum, a blind. But, we have both witnessed cheaper murder. I do not wish to be so crass as to touch my nose, but I understand your show. This is not Purgatory, and you must understand that I do not labor under the illusion that it is. I know every way in Palerma and who takes them, if they are worth knowing. This is not motionless and set. We are not waiting. Palerma is Hell.
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Do you want some horror romance? This is how you get horror romance!
travishedgecoke.bsky.social Travis Hedge Coke @travishedgecoke.bsky.social · 7d
On sale now! A queer romantic horror thriller family drama satire about a weird happenings tv show making a comeback just in time for Palerma, Illinois to be hit with terrorism, arson, sightings of ghosts and cryptids, nightmares, murders, starvation & distraught families!
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Cover to No Agency by Travis Hedge Coke. Soldi blue with inset square featuring a cloudy sky and a beam of light piercing the clouds.
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I believe in the theory of karmics, aka karmic comics. We don't get the comics we deserve, which adds an element of moral causality. We get the comics we generate.
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Hot reminder that applications for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant are OPEN!

If you're a comics critic, please apply!

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2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant
This project will be awarding four mini grants of $250 to comics critics. To apply, please provide 2 links to comics criticism work of at least 500 words published within the last year (blogs and YouT...
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December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Bleak, ugly and mean, The Wild Boys of the Road is a pre-Code flick about being broke, featuring fights, prostitution, starvation, crossdressing, classism, kid gangs, homosexuality, pederasty, rape, crime, age, ableism, mortality, sexual liberation, influential on Todd Haynes & William Burroughs.
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Two lengthy essays looking at our modern politic and scenario via two runs on Batman comics written by Mariko Tamaki & Grant Morrison w/art by Dan Mora, Yanick Paquette, et al. One Trump Too Man & Batman Incorporated: An Image of a Culture in Decline.
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The best thing about Taserface (other than he was named by an eight year old) is that's his given name. His supervillain name is Overkill.

This is what happens when your ancestors made Tony Stark your god.
a group of people are standing in a dark room with the words it 's metaphorical written on the bottom
ALT: a group of people are standing in a dark room with the words it 's metaphorical written on the bottom
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December 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Satire is... weird.
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"Robocop" statue unveiled at Detroit's Eastern Market
The long-awaited statue of the classic 80s character, "Robocop," was unveiled on Wednesday in Detroit.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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thanks so much - v proud of AVENGERS ACADEMY and of Qaari Beck.

when I was a kid reading comics & Adam-Troy Castro's Sinister Six novels in the 90s, Mysterio was dying of an illness that dared not speak its name. Felt right to honor that and see how far we've come.

Wish we'd been able to continue!
Qaari designs by Carola Borelli Qaari's first issue Qaari Justin and Aaron make out Qaari Justin and Aaron in bed.
December 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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My eyes are killing me… I hate this so much… I wish I could just use them
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The real answer to both of these is "what can you get your hands on easy."

There's absolutely zero need to start with the first published pages of anything like Batman or or Dragon Ball. Or, to start with the very first media adaptation, and not episode x of whatever's on where you live.
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM