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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 4h

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

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 4h

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"

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 16h

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 · 17h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 21h

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

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 22h

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

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 23h

Milligan/Fegredo had a Verite book as well, Girl

Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 23h

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

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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 · 1d

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

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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 · 1d

Multiple zombie books for a zombie imprint

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations!

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 2d

I think the movie is really good but it benefits from you not thinking about or remembering the movie at all, they're very different

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 2d

It's unreasonable to expect politicians to be smart about movies, or to expect women to have Thomas Pynchon takes, he's for the boys

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 2d

Classroom I was working in had a copy of Vineland so I read the first half today, (I read it ~15 years ago) really good, mostly not like One Battle After Another except a few plot points/direct quotes. Chapter where a punk band pretends to be Italian to play a mob wedding very funny

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 2d

If memory serves the guy being an asshole in the comments of Elijah's obit is also weird about me posting comments on other TCJ articles, just a person whose psychology is best not speculated upon

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 3d

Cover is the only colored thing, it is the image that's been floating around, it's not the best but the guts are great. Feels like it's for people who know Pope and have heard of THB more than it's meant to grab new readers but c'est la 2025

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · 3d

Got a review copy in the mail of Paul Pope's Total THB volume 1, and as someone who tracked down the original issues: they didn't fuck it up, it looks really good. B+W, none of it's redrawn, it's issues 1-4 minus backups and essays, rescanned and it looks great, lettering's a little cleaner

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 3d

I’m getting decrepit, while Pynchon is even older | William T. Vollmann reviews Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket biblioklept.org/2025/10/06/i...

I’m getting decrepit, while Pynchon is even older | William T. Vollmann reviews Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket

I’ve avoided reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s newest novel Shadow Ticket, but I couldn’t help but read William T. Vollmann’s piece on the novel at UnHerd. From Vollmann’s r…

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