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Kurt Busiek

@kurtbusiek.bsky.social

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Writer, mostly of comics. MARVELS, ASTRO CITY, ARROWSMITH, AUTUMNLANDS, FREE AGENTS, THUNDERBOLTS, SUPERMAN, AVENGERS, UNTOLD TALES OF SPIDER-MAN, more. NYT bestseller, Harvey & Eisner Awards, yaddita yaddita. My head hurts.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 1h

Every issue was like that.

I'd send off a plot and I'd get back magic.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 4h

What few people realize is that DC stands for Deucedly Clever.

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 5h

And everyone will be glad to leave the stadium and go to wherever they’re putting it on to watch it, I’m sure.

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 6h

I won't!

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 6h

I expect he'd have wound up doing HELLBOY anyway, since it didn't start until years later. But you never know.

I'm looking forward to seeing this finale from Veitch & crew at long last, for sure.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 7h

This is why it's taken so long. DC wanted to keep you buying for another 37 years before you were crushed by disappointment.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 7h

I figured we'd get this eventually.

Sure took a while, though.

Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 10h

No alt text, so: this is an announcement for Swamp Thing 1989 #1-4 by Rick Veitch, Michael Zulli, Vince Locke, Tom Mandrake, & Trish Mulvihill, under DC's Black Label imprint

They're finally printing the canceled story arc in which Swamp Thing goes back in time and meets Jesus

Chewbacca But A Wolf Man @jason1749.bsky.social · 12h

@mikester.bsky.social Just in case you didn't see this

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 7h

SANDMAN had already launched by the time that SWAMP THING arc was abruptly canceled, so it wouldn't have affected it. Gaiman was going to take over ST after Veitch, but only part time because of the SANDMAN gig.

How did this affect HELLBOY?

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 7h

avalanche or roadblock
i was a snowball in hell
avalanche or roadblock
a jailer trapped in his cell
money's all broke
and food's going hungry
if it wasn't for disappointment
i wouldn't have any appointments

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 1d

It's because his clothing is ready-to-were.

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Steve Shives @steveshives.bsky.social · 1d

NEW VIDEO! How Do You Tell a Superman Story . . . Without Superman? youtu.be/gsfCcw_uzzE

How Do You Tell a Superman Story . . . Without Superman?

YouTube video by Steve Shives

youtu.be

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 2d

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 2d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 3d

Yep. That's where my dad's family got it.

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 3d

The drawing of the bear, though, is by Benjamin Dewey. When we launched AUTUMNLANDS, he did animal-portraits of the entire creative team, and we used them in the letter column.

I still have that shirt.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 3d

Unusual, I know. But I swear it happened that way.

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 3d

It used to be, but then I became a poppa bear, and from that moment on everything was too hot, too hard or too big.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 3d

I am the bear.

I have no portage.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 3d

The bear comes in through the door, usually.

He doesn't fit through the window.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 3d

Explain your user name:

My father's last name is Busiek, and so the whole family just kinda used it too, and he and my mom named me Kurt, so that differentiated me from the seven other Busieks in the house.

And it stuck.

Tea’s so happy being Teddy Roosevelt @teaberryblue.net · 3d

Explain your user name:

Tea is my first (nick) name, I like Teaberry Gum and Berry-Blue Jell-o, and I have been using this as a handle since college, that’s really all there is to it.

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 3d

Explain your user name:

Our original last name had no vowels so we chose a more pronounceable (but still Jewish) one when they let us in here. And that’s my handle because I need to be findable online for professional reasons.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 3d

It's actually currently available on Amazon new for under $20.

Considering it's got 19 issues and a backup story in it, that's a pretty low per-issue price.

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a hardcover collection of the whole series; I picked up an inexpensive copy a little while ago.

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Ben Morse @benmorse.bsky.social · 4d

Untold Tales of Spider-Man No. 6 has a clever and classic Wizard scheme that feels just Silver Age enough, but Kurt Busiek also taps the Spidey/Human Torch dynamic nicely. Throw in some soap opera as well as the fact that Pat Olliffe depicts a killer Johnny Storm.
#UntoldSpidey

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 4d

This is fair.

After all, I wrote it, but never knew you had it.

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 4d

Somewhere around then.

Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 4d

I mean, Trina was great, too.

So let's have both. Especially if I got to write both.