Rob O'Bonobo
@robobonoboco.bsky.social
Creator - Communicator - Committed - Cultured - Credible
NOCO Local - Available for parties.
"Ethos, oh yeah! I have a ton of it. A ton."
https://theplayset.substack.com/
NOCO Local - Available for parties.
"Ethos, oh yeah! I have a ton of it. A ton."
https://theplayset.substack.com/
Birth.
I don't get these references.
I get some of these references.
I get all of the references.
What are these new references?
People are missing my references.
No one gets my references.
I don't get these references.
Death.
I don't get these references.
I get some of these references.
I get all of the references.
What are these new references?
People are missing my references.
No one gets my references.
I don't get these references.
Death.
October 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Birth.
I don't get these references.
I get some of these references.
I get all of the references.
What are these new references?
People are missing my references.
No one gets my references.
I don't get these references.
Death.
I don't get these references.
I get some of these references.
I get all of the references.
What are these new references?
People are missing my references.
No one gets my references.
I don't get these references.
Death.
Note to headline writers: Weird AI and Weird Al are indistinguishable in most modern typefaces but mean two very different things.
September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Note to headline writers: Weird AI and Weird Al are indistinguishable in most modern typefaces but mean two very different things.
If Marvel starts publishing Vertical Scroll comics, it's likely to lead to the end of the comic book form as a popular medium. Unlike webcomics, which could take any form, but were often easily formatted into books, Webtoons don't fit the format without revision. The beginning of the end.
Disney and Webtoon's Partnership Is Leading to a Massive New Comics App
Digital comics is getting a major new player as Disney prepares to invest in the webcomics platform.
gizmodo.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If Marvel starts publishing Vertical Scroll comics, it's likely to lead to the end of the comic book form as a popular medium. Unlike webcomics, which could take any form, but were often easily formatted into books, Webtoons don't fit the format without revision. The beginning of the end.
It only feels like magic when someone else is doing it.
September 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
It only feels like magic when someone else is doing it.
James Gunn and Dan Harmon are better when they are constrained. Community>Rick and Morty. Superman>Peacemaker. Not because of freedom, but because of constraints.
MHO
MHO
September 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
James Gunn and Dan Harmon are better when they are constrained. Community>Rick and Morty. Superman>Peacemaker. Not because of freedom, but because of constraints.
MHO
MHO
Every hobby-based podcast I try to listen to, I want them to discuss the thing they made.
Every hobby-based podcast I try to listen to, they want to discuss how to make money on the thing they made.
I don't care how you make money. I care how you make art.
Every hobby-based podcast I try to listen to, they want to discuss how to make money on the thing they made.
I don't care how you make money. I care how you make art.
September 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Every hobby-based podcast I try to listen to, I want them to discuss the thing they made.
Every hobby-based podcast I try to listen to, they want to discuss how to make money on the thing they made.
I don't care how you make money. I care how you make art.
Every hobby-based podcast I try to listen to, they want to discuss how to make money on the thing they made.
I don't care how you make money. I care how you make art.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and they never finished it.
August 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Rome wasn't built in a day, and they never finished it.
Money can't buy happiness, but you can subscribe to it. Rates rise yearly as do the number of advertisements. But what else can I do? Make myself happy?
August 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Money can't buy happiness, but you can subscribe to it. Rates rise yearly as do the number of advertisements. But what else can I do? Make myself happy?
The future is unwritten, but I think we can get ChatGPT to autofill it for us.
August 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The future is unwritten, but I think we can get ChatGPT to autofill it for us.
Knowledge is power. But power is not knowledge. It's kind of a "square is a rectangle" situation.
August 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Knowledge is power. But power is not knowledge. It's kind of a "square is a rectangle" situation.
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Very sad to hear that Christopher H. Bidmead has passed away. His name will always be burned into my mental pantheon, not just for his time as script editor on the classic series, but for the novelizations of his stories that I read and reread again and again in the time before VHS and DVDs.
August 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Very sad to hear that Christopher H. Bidmead has passed away. His name will always be burned into my mental pantheon, not just for his time as script editor on the classic series, but for the novelizations of his stories that I read and reread again and again in the time before VHS and DVDs.
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Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
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A wonderful visual storyteller and an incredibly nice guy. Loved working with Don on Defenders.
Today is the birthday of artist & writer Don Perlin (Aug. 27, 1929-May 14, 2024). His began his long career during the Golden Age of comics & his cocreations include Marvel’s Moon Knight & Valiant’s Bloodshot.
August 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A wonderful visual storyteller and an incredibly nice guy. Loved working with Don on Defenders.
"Hamlet:
Denmark being one o’ the worst.
R:
We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet:
Why, then, ’tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
it is a prison."
-When everything clicks into place, and then a second later you mess it up with old patterns.
Denmark being one o’ the worst.
R:
We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet:
Why, then, ’tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
it is a prison."
-When everything clicks into place, and then a second later you mess it up with old patterns.
August 26, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"Hamlet:
Denmark being one o’ the worst.
R:
We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet:
Why, then, ’tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
it is a prison."
-When everything clicks into place, and then a second later you mess it up with old patterns.
Denmark being one o’ the worst.
R:
We think not so, my lord.
Hamlet:
Why, then, ’tis none to you; for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me
it is a prison."
-When everything clicks into place, and then a second later you mess it up with old patterns.
Mercutio died laughing. Be like Mercutio.
August 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Mercutio died laughing. Be like Mercutio.
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She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
August 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩
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hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
August 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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[August 3rd, 1985] Alan Moore received the Jack Kirby Award for Best Writer for his work on "Swamp Thing" from Jack Kirby himself at the San Diego Comic-Con, held at the San Diego Convention Center
August 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
[August 3rd, 1985] Alan Moore received the Jack Kirby Award for Best Writer for his work on "Swamp Thing" from Jack Kirby himself at the San Diego Comic-Con, held at the San Diego Convention Center
Everyone is stupid but me is, like free will, a lie that you can't help but believe in order to function.
August 3, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Everyone is stupid but me is, like free will, a lie that you can't help but believe in order to function.
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I understand that studios care about movies making money. I get that completely. I just wish fandom in general didn't care so much about box office returns, as if that necessarily says anything about the quality of the film.
August 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I understand that studios care about movies making money. I get that completely. I just wish fandom in general didn't care so much about box office returns, as if that necessarily says anything about the quality of the film.
Thoughts:
Guy Gardner was abused as a child and put himself through college to become a social worker, special education teacher and public servant in both his civilian and superhero identities.
Batman's a billionaire.
Guy Gardner was abused as a child and put himself through college to become a social worker, special education teacher and public servant in both his civilian and superhero identities.
Batman's a billionaire.
August 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thoughts:
Guy Gardner was abused as a child and put himself through college to become a social worker, special education teacher and public servant in both his civilian and superhero identities.
Batman's a billionaire.
Guy Gardner was abused as a child and put himself through college to become a social worker, special education teacher and public servant in both his civilian and superhero identities.
Batman's a billionaire.
Somehow, I thought I'd be famous by now.
August 2, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Somehow, I thought I'd be famous by now.
My new business plan.
1. Pile Junk
2. Charge people to borrow junk (cheaply)
3. People would rather have tons of junk for cheap than a little good stuff for the same price (loss aversion)
4. Force people with good stuff to give it to me lest they be left out, thereby suppressing value of all stuff
1. Pile Junk
2. Charge people to borrow junk (cheaply)
3. People would rather have tons of junk for cheap than a little good stuff for the same price (loss aversion)
4. Force people with good stuff to give it to me lest they be left out, thereby suppressing value of all stuff
August 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My new business plan.
1. Pile Junk
2. Charge people to borrow junk (cheaply)
3. People would rather have tons of junk for cheap than a little good stuff for the same price (loss aversion)
4. Force people with good stuff to give it to me lest they be left out, thereby suppressing value of all stuff
1. Pile Junk
2. Charge people to borrow junk (cheaply)
3. People would rather have tons of junk for cheap than a little good stuff for the same price (loss aversion)
4. Force people with good stuff to give it to me lest they be left out, thereby suppressing value of all stuff
Hate is the most obvious weakness.
August 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hate is the most obvious weakness.