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Chris Murrin

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Editor at FX Networks. NABET & IATSE. Also indie comics editor and writer. Posts about MST3K; literature; music; sports; movies and TV. He/him. Don't panic! 😎

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Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · Aug 30

Post a meme made by you.

“Same energy.” A meme comparing Lois Lane ogling a shirtless Superman to Hilary Flammond measuring Nigel’s penis in Top Secret!

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Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 13h

All I want is Splice. Action figures, posters, bubblegum cards, everything!

Someone’s copy of Wonder Man #4 introducing Splice, an editor turned supervillain.

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 14h

Wouldn’t that be Wes Craven’s?

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 14h

Oh dang! Excellent!

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 14h

Top Shelf Friday time 🎉

What's a comic in your collection that you think deserves to be on that top shelf? Whether it’s a key, rare, or just one you love❤️

Batman #190. Loved the cover when I saw it at St. Mark’s Comics in New York in the 1990s. Had to buy it.

#TopShelfFriday #comicbooks #comics

Batman 190, cover by Infantino and Giella, showing Penguin riding an umbrella with a gun downward, firing at Batman who blocks the shot with a Bat-shield. Robin is next thin being bathed in gas by another umbrella. Other umbrellas have saw blades or a flail.

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Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 14h

Egg bagel with honey walnut spread, preferably from Columbia Hot Bagels.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 16h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 15h

10/10 Curse of the Crimson Altar, 1968

Karloff’s last British film. Strange and a bit trippy story, with a lot of scantily clad people and a small bit of nudity. The characters are sometimes erratic, but Karloff, Michael Gough, and Christopher Lee are always entertaining.

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 19h

Well deserved.

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 1d

Well, this went well. Eff sports. Eff life.

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 1d

Go Pheaglers!

A square Irish flag with Eagles, Phillies and Flyers logos added.

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Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 1d

For check swings, too.

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 1d

Go Pheaglers!

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Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 1d

They should make a movie about him like they did with the other two.

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 1d

10/9 Tales of Terror, 1962

Vincent Price stars in three stories based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Peter Lorre is wonderfully comedic and creepy in the second tale, and Basil Rathbone plays a conniving hypnotist in the third. Fun and not too terrifying. Many odd optical effects.

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Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 1d

Plus a new 100 Bullets series??? I thought I was about to cease buying comics. Guess not.

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 1d

Well @tmandrake.bsky.social and @trishm.bsky.social are a dream team. I’ll definitely be getting this.

Zack Quaintance -> NYCC @zackquaintance.bsky.social · 1d

And I broke this out into a separate item … Swamp Thing 1989

www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-dc-c...

NYCC '25: DC Comics to complete Rick Veitch's scuttled run with SWAMP THING 1989

In 1988, Rick Veitch left Swamp Thing after DC decided not to publish a controversial story, but now he will finish with Swamp Thing 1989.

www.comicsbeat.com

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Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 1d

Finished The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi. I look forward to listening to part 3.

After a break for some music I've gathered but not yet heard, my next audiobook will be Murder at the Mayfair Hotel by C.J. Archer. I'm a sucker for a period mystery, it would seem.

#BookSky

Cover to The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi.

Cover to Murder at the Mayfair Hotel by C.J. Archer.

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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 1d

C'mon PhilliesEaglesFlyers - let's get a Philly hat trick today!

elmo from sesame street is screaming in front of a fire and the words philly !!!

ALT: elmo from sesame street is screaming in front of a fire and the words philly !!!

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Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 1d

All of Jackie’s albums are terrific. You should buy them. I bought them. You should buy them.

Jackie Kashian @jackiekashian.bsky.social · 1d

empty my garage jackiekashianstore.com/item/combo
warning: you need to own machines or you will have purchased a mismatched coaster set. #cd #dvd

Jackie Kashian | Comedian | Podcaster | Actor

Jackie Kashian has been a national touring comic for over 25 years. She is the creator/host of the The Dork Forest podcast, cohosts a pod at Nerdist industries and has been on Conan and Comedy Central...

jackiekashianstore.com

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🌮Don Cardenas🌮 @doncardenasart.bsky.social · 1d

New Pod! I’m back with a new COMICS-COFFEE-METAL Podcast featuring @chuckbb.bsky.social ! Join us as we chat MASTODON, his upcoming 5E Ready RPG Game HELLLORDS AND SELLSWORDS, and a bunch more!

YouTube:

youtu.be/EHuox5ljaW8?...

Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/29wfeiQ...
#comicscoffeemetal

Comics-Coffee-Metal Podcast # 163: Chuck BB

YouTube video by COMICS - COFFEE - METAL

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Comics Jobs @comics-jobs.com · 2d

Associate Editor, Young Reader at Warner Bros. Discovery

Full-time | Burbank, CA, United States

comics-jobs.com

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 2d

Schuylkill

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 2d

For LA area folks who like Ozzy and/or scary mazes. This is from a friend of a friend. I’m not a part of it.

A flyer for an Ozzy Osbourne themed Halloween maze. October 24, 25, 31 and November 1, 7-10pm, at 28021 Sugar Pine Way, Santa Clarita, CA 91390

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 2d

BEAR ROOTS: Ursula learns her friends are human-bear shapeshifters as hunting season approaches. Laws are broken, spells are attempted. (Bisexual MC) buy.bookfunnel.com/o... #books #MagicalRealism #NewAdult

palest pink background; tablet showing the Bear Roots cover (illustration of a standing black bear on a mountain range in hues of pinks and purples).
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Excerpt:
"Tell me what to do. Give me a sign." She was out of her element. Catholicism had plenty of ritual and ceremony in its liturgy, but Ursula hadn't cast her own magical spell before. Blowing out birthday candles and making a wish somehow didn't seem equivalent.
Were all magic spells witchcraft? She had so many questions.
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Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 2d

“I should have gone to see that Albee play about Virginia Woolf instead! She’s wonderful!”

Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon of a teddy bear hugging another teddy bear with hearts coming out of its eyes .

ALT: a cartoon of a teddy bear hugging another teddy bear with hearts coming out of its eyes .

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Chris Murrin @chrismurrin.bsky.social · 2d

10/8 It! The Terror from Beyond Space, 1958

One of the rare times that I wouldn’t mind if the story had started earlier or if there was a prequel. A pretty standard sci-fi/monster movie, dated but all right otherwise. Some unintended humor on the way.

Poster for It! The Terror from Beyond Space.

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