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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 11h

It’s so sick that Chow Yun-Fat’s badass supercop in Hard-Boiled is a jazz clarinetist in his spare time. Like if Figrin D’an was the Punisher

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 14h

This is total navel-gazing bullshit you're free to disregard, but these are the five episodes that had the biggest impact on my personal/philosophical growth:

Arkham Asylum
Night of the Stalker
The Black Glove
Batman Returns
Cold Days

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 22h

Now on HBO Max:

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 1d

Few screenwriters have ever gone beast mode as reliably as Vince Gilligan did for The X-Files' monster of the week episodes. Pusher, Unruhe, Paper Hearts, Leonard Betts, Small Potatoes, Bad Blood, Folie a Deux, Drive, Field Trip, etc. etc.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 2d

James Garfield: The Original RINO

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 2d

Excited for shouting "I am a Stalwart of the Stalwarts!" to catch on as the fall's hottest trend

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 2d

They FINALLY put out a trailer for the James Garfield assassination show. And it looks good!
youtu.be/6jopqrSojQE?...

Death by Lightning | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

youtu.be

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bluegirlredstate.bsky.social @bluegirlredstate.bsky.social · 2d

The fucking inability of Dems to capitalize on “he cut cancer research to bail out Argentina” is infuriating.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 2d

Never played any of the MGS games, but Skull Face sounds like one of these guys

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 2d

I like a sympathetic villain as much as the next guy, but I’m always impressed when a story can make a complete bastard—someone whose redeeming qualities got scoured away long before they ever entered the narrative—compelling. Absolute Joker, Noah Cross, Roose Bolton, et al.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 2d

Sinister even by Love is Blind standards. I'm hoping to see Nick Lachey perform a Masque of the Red Death routine at the reunion

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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 3d

I think Snyder sees team Batman as his Band of The Hawk (not the only berserk comparison you could make to Absolute Batman), but the problem with making that comparison is that we see the Band of the Hawk go on a 95-96 bulls run of mercenary adventures before a everything goes to shit

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't really mind it until #13, where the table-setting felt laborious compared to how lean the storytelling had been before that. Could have used some of that page space to gradually roll out the Rogue transformations and maintain that horrific, despairing tone

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 5d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 5d

About halfway through this bad boy and Nat is truly cooking: Martian geology, fascism, cultural hegemony, Orientalism, Russophobia, the political utility of the superhero, and a comprehensive breakdown of everything that didn’t work for me in Superman. A MUST

Collective Action Comics Podcast @cacomixpod.bsky.social · 5d

I said I wasn't going to do one. Then I did one that's longer than the movie.

Please enjoy the review of Superman (2025). Get it wherever fine podcasts are sold.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 5d

It's a chorus of utter mediocrities. Good times created soft men! And on some level, whether they know it or not, they project their self-loathing onto everyone else—the degraded society responsible for manufacturing people like themselves.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 5d

One thing that gives me hope—or cope—is that the right has no skills or talents to speak of besides inciting fear and hatred and exploiting a system already designed with their interests in mind. Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Yarvin, Thiel, Musk? These are not invincible foes.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 7d

New Love is Blind season is filled with aspiring tech bro mutants. A dire omen

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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 8d

it's not a very good comic, but the Conway Firestorm run has one of my favorite examples of this:

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 9d

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve hated him a long time for football reasons, personally. Incredibly irritating personality if he’s not on your team

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 8d

I for one am shocked that Travis Kelce isn’t the muse Taylor Swift needed to reach a new level artistically

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 9d

Very good! A little stiff with the ensemble dynamics (guess what: this Joker guy does NOT like jokes!), but Ollie’s fate was suitably unsettling and the “Justice League” rationale was very cleverly done.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 9d

This is how you know you’re watching the greatest film ever made.

Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 21d

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 21d

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

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The Black Casebook @blackcasebook.bsky.social · 10d

From Flex Mentallo #4 (1996), written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Frank Quitely.

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