Mike Sterling, Comics Guy
@mikester.bsky.social
Owner of sterlingsilvercomics.com, blogger at progressiveruin.com, Mike Sterling-er at http://mikesterling.com
37+ years in the comics biz! (I used to work for other stores, now I have my own shop!)
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37+ years in the comics biz! (I used to work for other stores, now I have my own shop!)
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Bigots are dumb
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Just a reminder, in case, say, something untoward happens with Bluesky, you can always find me on progressiveruin.com, see my various online shenanigans at www.mikesterling.com, and I guess you can find me on Threads if all else fails: www.threads.com/@mikesterjr
Hoo boy, the people, they want their 100-packs of current backing boards for the holidays. Good thing I just had a new shipment of them come in.
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Hoo boy, the people, they want their 100-packs of current backing boards for the holidays. Good thing I just had a new shipment of them come in.
The Atom.
"I strongly don’t think that #Batman is in my future. I do think there is something in my future with DC." - ICYMI, Alan Ritchson.
What role should he take? #DCStudios
What role should he take? #DCStudios
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Atom.
My friend Brook brought in a binder of punk/indie band show flyers from the mid-ish 1980s, which was amazing to flip through. Included was a flyer for a 45 Grave show in Santa Barbara with Harvey Sid Fisher as an opening act.
Who is Harvey Sid Fisher, you may ask?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rylV...
Who is Harvey Sid Fisher, you may ask?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rylV...
GEMINI (5/21-6/20)
YouTube video by astrologysongs
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November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
My friend Brook brought in a binder of punk/indie band show flyers from the mid-ish 1980s, which was amazing to flip through. Included was a flyer for a 45 Grave show in Santa Barbara with Harvey Sid Fisher as an opening act.
Who is Harvey Sid Fisher, you may ask?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rylV...
Who is Harvey Sid Fisher, you may ask?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rylV...
Comic Book Guy, but of course.
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Comic Book Guy, but of course.
Post a famous bathroom scene.
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene.
Very tired of companies making it hard for consumers to identify and buy their books. I can't spend my time making shelf labels for *every* comic that refuses to have the actual title somewhere on the cover.
Come on! It would be super easy to just stack the logos. Wouldn't even take any extra space.
Look, I did this in under a minute and I don't even have the files in layers.
Look, I did this in under a minute and I don't even have the files in layers.
November 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Very tired of companies making it hard for consumers to identify and buy their books. I can't spend my time making shelf labels for *every* comic that refuses to have the actual title somewhere on the cover.
Reposted by Mike Sterling, Comics Guy
in which we look back at one of the great missed opportunities of 80s Marvel - a book designed to tap the zeitgeist of an era’s stylish crime entertainment, the brainchild of writer Martha Thomases and the great Tony Salmons … abruptly canceled after a measly five issues. 🤪
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
in which we look back at one of the great missed opportunities of 80s Marvel - a book designed to tap the zeitgeist of an era’s stylish crime entertainment, the brainchild of writer Martha Thomases and the great Tony Salmons … abruptly canceled after a measly five issues. 🤪
"MORE BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD MOVIES! BRING BACK THE CAST!"
"Um, Mr. President, I'm pretty sure they're all d--"
"MORE BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD! AND TOPPER!"
"Um, Mr. President, I'm pretty sure they're all d--"
"MORE BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD! AND TOPPER!"
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
"MORE BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD MOVIES! BRING BACK THE CAST!"
"Um, Mr. President, I'm pretty sure they're all d--"
"MORE BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD! AND TOPPER!"
"Um, Mr. President, I'm pretty sure they're all d--"
"MORE BLONDIE AND DAGWOOD! AND TOPPER!"
STAR WARS X, but it's a direct sequel to the Holiday Special with all-Wookiee dialogue
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
STAR WARS X, but it's a direct sequel to the Holiday Special with all-Wookiee dialogue
When I die and there's nobody else on the internet doing Frank Miller's THE SPIRIT gags, you know you'll miss it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
When I die and there's nobody else on the internet doing Frank Miller's THE SPIRIT gags, you know you'll miss it.
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
my Star Wars rankings
1. THE LAST JEDI
2. the first STAR WARS, I guess
3. The Holiday Special
4. all the toy commercials I saw in the '70s
5. all the local '70s commercials that desperately tried to tie their product/service into Star Wars
1. THE LAST JEDI
2. the first STAR WARS, I guess
3. The Holiday Special
4. all the toy commercials I saw in the '70s
5. all the local '70s commercials that desperately tried to tie their product/service into Star Wars
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
my Star Wars rankings
1. THE LAST JEDI
2. the first STAR WARS, I guess
3. The Holiday Special
4. all the toy commercials I saw in the '70s
5. all the local '70s commercials that desperately tried to tie their product/service into Star Wars
1. THE LAST JEDI
2. the first STAR WARS, I guess
3. The Holiday Special
4. all the toy commercials I saw in the '70s
5. all the local '70s commercials that desperately tried to tie their product/service into Star Wars
Suicide Is Painless, It Brings on Many Changes, Charlie Brown
We Shall Hex The Pentateuch And Slip You In Neatly Between Numbers And Deuteronomy, Charlie Brown
I Am Charlie Brown, King Of Kings, Look On My Works, Ye Mighty, And Despair
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Suicide Is Painless, It Brings on Many Changes, Charlie Brown
Hadn't looked at my Blu-ray boxed set of the original Planet of the Apes films in a while, and totally forgot about the CGI Lawgiver who provides brief intros. Has the CGI aged well? You bet it hasn't!
November 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Hadn't looked at my Blu-ray boxed set of the original Planet of the Apes films in a while, and totally forgot about the CGI Lawgiver who provides brief intros. Has the CGI aged well? You bet it hasn't!
The exact angle to turn my ship in the Atari 2600 SPACE WAR game to get off a shot and an immediate cheap point off my opponent before either of us have started to move.
I mean, not *technically* useless but I haven't played SPACE WAR against anyone in decades, so...?
I mean, not *technically* useless but I haven't played SPACE WAR against anyone in decades, so...?
i was going through my X archives and found this by @superpodsaga.com, which I qrt'd at some point years ago
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
November 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The exact angle to turn my ship in the Atari 2600 SPACE WAR game to get off a shot and an immediate cheap point off my opponent before either of us have started to move.
I mean, not *technically* useless but I haven't played SPACE WAR against anyone in decades, so...?
I mean, not *technically* useless but I haven't played SPACE WAR against anyone in decades, so...?
that I lived long enough to see a Julie Doucet stamp
this is great
this is great
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
that I lived long enough to see a Julie Doucet stamp
this is great
this is great
THE MARVEL/DC CROSSOVER OF THE CENTURY! DOOM BUTTON VERSUS DOOM BUTTON, FOR ALL THE MARBLES!
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
THE MARVEL/DC CROSSOVER OF THE CENTURY! DOOM BUTTON VERSUS DOOM BUTTON, FOR ALL THE MARBLES!
Okay, NOW we're talkin' a hot collectible!
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Okay, NOW we're talkin' a hot collectible!
Did a whole thing on my website asking folks their favorite '80s comics, tallied the votes, and discussed each entry: www.progressiveruin.com/category/fin... (The link feeds the posts in reverse chronological order, so no suspense in what #1 was!)
November 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Did a whole thing on my website asking folks their favorite '80s comics, tallied the votes, and discussed each entry: www.progressiveruin.com/category/fin... (The link feeds the posts in reverse chronological order, so no suspense in what #1 was!)
People would literally not know what to do.
I'd like to see a version of Gladiator where they use Fučík's classic Entry of the Gladiators for a few scenes.
November 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
People would literally not know what to do.
Hoo boy, getting ready to list on the eBays my copies of COMIC SHOP NEWS #1 and #0 (the latter a promo item sent to retailers to offer ad rates and generate orders). Not really sure what to price these at, so I may be the flagbearer on these.
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Hoo boy, getting ready to list on the eBays my copies of COMIC SHOP NEWS #1 and #0 (the latter a promo item sent to retailers to offer ad rates and generate orders). Not really sure what to price these at, so I may be the flagbearer on these.
Robert Altman asked his teenage son to write the lyrics to the song "Suicide is Painless" for the M*A*S*H movie and wanted them to be "very stupid," but
"The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway"
...is still one hell of a couple of lines.
"The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway"
...is still one hell of a couple of lines.
November 20, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Robert Altman asked his teenage son to write the lyrics to the song "Suicide is Painless" for the M*A*S*H movie and wanted them to be "very stupid," but
"The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway"
...is still one hell of a couple of lines.
"The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway"
...is still one hell of a couple of lines.
"We fed this audio of dubious origin into ChatGPT to find out if it was real or A.I., and it's probably real!"
--a thing a presumably real human being just said in a video I saw earlier
--a thing a presumably real human being just said in a video I saw earlier
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"We fed this audio of dubious origin into ChatGPT to find out if it was real or A.I., and it's probably real!"
--a thing a presumably real human being just said in a video I saw earlier
--a thing a presumably real human being just said in a video I saw earlier
THE NEWS I NEEDED
Buckle up, kids. We're going to the PLANET OF THE APES!
🔥 WORLDS COLLIDE! 🔥
Marvel’s First Family lands in Planet of the Apes for the first time ever in PLANET OF THE APES VS. FANTASTIC FOUR #1! The FF meet Zira, Cornelius… AND some classic #Marvel Comics villains 😱🐵
@losthiskeysman.bsky.social #comicsky
Details:
Marvel’s First Family lands in Planet of the Apes for the first time ever in PLANET OF THE APES VS. FANTASTIC FOUR #1! The FF meet Zira, Cornelius… AND some classic #Marvel Comics villains 😱🐵
@losthiskeysman.bsky.social #comicsky
Details:
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
THE NEWS I NEEDED
uh oh, getting people who think the new BATMAN/DEADPOOL is just a reprint of the DEADPOOL/BATMAN from a couple of months back
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
uh oh, getting people who think the new BATMAN/DEADPOOL is just a reprint of the DEADPOOL/BATMAN from a couple of months back