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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you for reminding me this is out. I do wish it was on CD, the preferred format at the time of the first two records' initial release

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 21h

Try Grindr, which i believe is an app for the sandwich fandom. Men in that demo love thinking about lunch

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 21h

God I wish! Sadly Bluesky is a politics website

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 22h

I learned the Against The Day thing from @biblioklept.bsky.social's writeup of the first seven chapters. Fun book so far, I am about halfway through it

French 75 (cocktail) - Wikipedia

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 23h

The drink the org in One Battle After Another is named for just got mentioned in Shadow Ticket and hey the reason behind its name is a funny one

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

She's saying he's going to cum so hard he achieves escape velocity

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

You might like the big book of Anders Nilsen's Tongues that came out this year. It's a volume one, with volume two to come from years from now. Would slot it as "non-traditional fantasy"

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhhh, didn't remember Lew Basnight was in Against The Day. Lotta characters to keep track of in this one

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Execs are so opppsed to original material now that the sense that an audience is vaguely aware of an existing IP is taken as promising enough to greenlight a project

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Or the previous follow-up miniseries, Brother Lono, which you might have forgotten about because it's from one of the previous eras of Vertigo being a shadow of its previous self

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Announcing the revival of a line of "adult" comics with a book by people known for a YA book? Does that seem silly, like it's traipsing around in clown shoes?

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Oh does having a series that combines zombies with dinosaurs sound like a joke to you? What about another series about zombies? Or what about the idea that a comic written by Gretchen Felker-Martin and drawn by an unnamed artist would've turned the whole thing around and made it cool? Is that funny?

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

The car was being driven a pig looking to cover all bases

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

The Swamp Thing is Black Label, but also, not to be a dick about it? Doesn't really require a lot of editorial vision

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

This guy loves Semiotext(e)... only in New York!

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

There's a funny little Deleuze and Guattari joke in Vineland & I truly think Pynchon's goofiness that escalates to surrealism and maybe profundity should be the north star for literary comics as subsidized by superhero publishers (i.e. if they're not hiring @petetoms.bsky.social they're fuckin up)

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Milligan/Fegredo had a Verite book as well, Girl

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Austin your fave Vertigo book is by New Yorkers! (Seven Miles A Second) The real thing is there's no reason to do Vertiigo if you're not taking risks with the money being successful affords you

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

If you catch me scrolling when I should be turning pages slap me in the back of the head

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Further argument that the anti-autism sentiment is just reskinned antisemitism for people who want the enemy from within to be anyone they don't like, and that the anti-trans panic is just an excuse to look in kids' pants in one fell swoop

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Upgraded my sitting situation a few weeks ago and today the library obliges with the new reading material. Shadow Ticket rocks thus far, with a private eye/screwball comedy register I find very charming

A wooden chair I've been informed is known as a Hitchcock

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon and A Different Kind Of Tension by Jonathan Lethem

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple zombie books for a zombie imprint