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Rob Staeger
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Bon vivant. Your average comics-loving jambalaya hobbit. Writer/editor/word nerd for hire. He/him.
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Been thinking about this for a day or so, and my best answer is HAIR. Fantastic music and irresistible choreography, and a story that shaped my soul since I first saw it in high school, and still lifts it every time I see it.
Treat Williams dancing across a long table at a fancy garden party in HAIR. "I got life, mama...!"
November 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Hope you had a great Thanksgiving! We are all Tchaikovsky the ferret now.
Someone holding the biggest fluffiest ferret you've ever seen. He's black and gold and his name is Tchaikovsky.
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
A poster for Steve Martin's LA STORY. A silhouette of someone doing a cartwheel in front of an impossibly orange beach sunset.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
A sassy recipe for red lobster's cheddar fuckin bay biscuits.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Just saw that DC will be publishing a facsimile reprint of the first appearance of the Human Target. It's got me wondering...is Tom King & Greg Smallwood's terrific Human Target series going to be adapted for the DCU? Will there be an announcement to that effect before this goes on sale?
The cover of Action Comics number to 419. A Neil Adams drawing of Superman is flying toward the reader with a photographic cityscape of metropolis in the background. It's cool as hell.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Absolutely loving @tomking.bsky.social 's boxing-announcer commentary on the Black Canary/Shiva fight in BLACK CANARY: BEST OF THE BEST. Absolutely choice stuff, heightened and hilarious.
Panel from BLACK CANARY: BEST OF THE BEST #4; words by Tom King, art by Ryan Sook. Black Canary elbows Lady Shiva's neck with a THWAK! Off-panel, a fight announcer says, "And before Shiva can even REGISTER her miscalculation, the Canary returns with a HARD elbow to a SOFT neck!" "I would say BOOM goes the DYNAMITE, but that would be an overestimation of both DYNAMITE and the power of ONOMATOPOEIA!" "So I'll just say what EVERYONE in the stadium and wound the world is THINKING and let that stand for the record!" (and from the next page) "DAMN, that hurt!"
November 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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This is the one to beat so far
Leonardo diCaprio and Benicio del Toro in One Battle After Another. Del Toro is giving diCaprio a rifle in a case
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
The self-titled album of The Dream Academy. The album cover shows the three members of the band standing under a tree as light filters through the branches.
November 17, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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For a short text piece in a comic from 1969, this story starts out frightfully up-to-the-minute.
A few paragraphs of a short story, beginning with the line, "Say, what's the idea of these fancy red hats?" And then two gangsters discuss why they're wearing the red hats for a couple paragraphs. From the story "Oscar Horns In' by Cliff Rhodes
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Without downloading new pics, describe your gender
Someone holding the biggest, fluffiest ferret you've ever seen in your life.
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Age yourself with gaming
The Dark Tower board game... battery operated!
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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The WHY NOT BOTH? little girl meme
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Chet from Weird Science has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
A still from Weird Science. Chet, a meathead with a crewcut who's been turned into a human turd.
November 4, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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RIP Pierre Robert.

Thank you for blessing our airwaves. Driving home to Philly for Thanksgiving just won't be the same without you.
B/W photo. Longtime WMMR DJ Pierre Robert, a bearded, long-haired man, stands at a microphone, blowing a quiet kiss.
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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It's a coaster day!
Photo of a curve of the Sooper Dooper Looper at Hersheypark
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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I have never been less interested in learning how a comic-book character got his name.
Comics panel. A withered man in a business suit sits in a chair, talking to a man and a woman in the foreground. He says, "My name is Thong -- KING THONG!" I rule this planet!" Art by Virgil Finlay; story by Sid Gerson.
October 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Another change I noticed in New History of the DC Universe #4: It looks like the Jor-El/Mr. Oz situation has been changed so that Mr Oz is now "a time traveler posing as Jor-El" and not Jor-El himself. Definitely a change I'm happy to see. Has this been established before, or is it new?
Comics panel. A man in a headband with a scarred face is saying "I am your father. I am Jor-El." Art by Viktor Bogdanovic.
October 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Seen in the New History of the DC Universe #4: Apparently Rogol Zaar lied about causing the destruction of Krypton? Great news, and I'm glad to hear it... but had this been established before?
Comics panel. Superman villain Rogol Zaar, supposed destroyer of Krypton, charging toward the viewer, shouting "Kryptonian!!" Art by Jim Lee.
October 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Our signs for the No Kings Day sign wave event at the beginning of the Baltimore Marathon, near the comic con. Art by @trumbullcomic.bsky.social !
A sign with Captain America saying No Kings But Kirby! A sign with a drawing of Jack Kirby, with the text No King But Kirby!
October 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Looking forward to an upcoming @bearcaveofterror.bsky.social... and this fella.
A can of Raven Special Lager with a picture of Edgar Allen Poe on it
October 18, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Watching the first episode of TASK and one of the characters is listening to The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn.
Leonardo diCaprio pointing
October 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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DC just announced that Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat and Annabelle the doll from The Conjuring are going to be in DC KO, and all my instincts that were already telling me I wouldn't be interested in this are now saying, "told ya!"

(I've read the first issue on DCUI, and... it's fine. Nice art, tho!)
Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat Annabelle from The Conjuring
October 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Very unusual finale for Peacemaker season 2 -- the action storyline's climax is in ep7, this is pretty much all catharsis and denouement. But man, it carries it well, bringing each of the main characters to a satisfying emotional moment.

Not to mention the storyline it sets up. What a swerve!
The cast of PEACEMAKER, walking together and looking happy during a moment in episode 8.
October 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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I can pass by a Uranus reference. But "open up Uranus to colonization by Earthmen"? I'm not made of stone...
Comics panel. Space general Brandon says "give me a fleet of four battle rockets, sir -- and I'll open up Uranus to colonization by Earthmen!" The space president thinks "How hard Brandon goes after anything he wants!" Art by Murphy Anderson, story by John Broome.
October 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Oh, Bert Brandon, you are FUCKED.
A space pirate in a purple jumpsuit is bragging to an insurance agent with a green cat/parrot creature (a parcat) on his shoulder. Pirate: "ha ha! Not even the space navy can break through my force field -- thanks to YOU, Bert Brandon!" Bert, thinking: "Omigosh! I've ruined Interplanetary Insurance, Inc.!" Telepathic Parcat, saying right out loud: "Omigosh! I've ruined Interplanetary Insurance, Inc.!" Art by Carmine Infantino, words by Sid Gerson.
October 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM