Alex Firer
@alexfirer.bsky.social
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Order the dang Doughboys comic at BeOurKids.com Writing Credits: Doughboys: The Comic Book, Rick and Morty for Oni Press, Diablo Comic, The Onion News Network, Bowieverse. These things are resumes sometimes, it's fine.
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Doughboys Issue 2

It’s going to hit your mailboxes real real soon, or order it at BeOurKids.com. Art, as always, by @FredCStresing.bsky.social and color by @MegCasey.bsky.social

Here’s a preview link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v3s6j...
Tiger Wiger the So Cal Surfer Dude of Venice Beach. Wiger is surfing dead faced as people look on in awe. Gabrus doing the power hour with Betsy Sodaro and a bunch of old times public domain comics characters. Popeye, Jeff of Mutt and Jeff, Mama Katzenjammer, Krazy Kat, Stardust.
alexfirer.bsky.social
Hmm I just noticed a typo. Is it too late to fix or is the comic printed and in every store-- oh it's printed and in every store? Oh alright, never mind.
alexfirer.bsky.social
(Clears throat, ready to do a new character named "Jewish Rizzler")
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anthonymoser.com
Lately I've been thinking of this as "platform logic" bc it's pretty much always got a platform

You aren't connected to a person or people. You're connected to the platform, which can facilitate specific types of interactions with people.

You don't have a dr, you have a care platform
doesnotcare.lol
And! You have zero continuity of care. You see a different doc every time you go - there’s no ONE person looking at your chart to notice trends/patterns.

You get worse care - things get missed - you get *worse.*

Insurance company makes even *more* money.

It’s gross af.
alexfirer.bsky.social
My bitter worldview writ large. If I leave the readers with one message it's this.

Art: @fredcstresing.bsky.social
Colors: @megcasey.bsky.social
A Morty Earth speaks: You are here solely to die for our amusement, baby. The whole world is against you, you know? And I should know! That's me! I'm the world!
alexfirer.bsky.social
Typing "what does crime look like BIG crime" into Chat GPT
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime
nikigrayson.com
the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault
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bencollins.bsky.social
Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!
bencollins.bsky.social
It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.
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jamellebouie.net
genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos
atrupar.com
Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
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alexfirer.bsky.social
I asked if @fredcstresing.bsky.social and I could appear in the book and promptly die as our goodbye to the audience. Lo and behold!
Fred Morty and Alex Morty excited to do the comic Fred and Alex Morty being brutally killed by other Morty's.
alexfirer.bsky.social
I asked if @fredcstresing.bsky.social and I could appear in the book and promptly die as our goodbye to the audience. Lo and behold!
Fred Morty and Alex Morty excited to do the comic Fred and Alex Morty being brutally killed by other Morty's.
alexfirer.bsky.social
I'm sick of seeing this guy in a meme. He's always attached to some pedantic opinion. Use him to defend things Norman Rockwell would say. "Hey, baseball is fun" stuff like that.
The Norman Rockwell guy standing meme
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govpritzker.illinois.gov
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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dlknowles.bsky.social
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
alexfirer.bsky.social
I am going to create the zaftig Tinkerbell.
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jackjenkins.me
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
alexfirer.bsky.social
Mom give me the credit card I need to "trigger" the "libs"
Jared Leto Tron Ares Fortnite Skin
alexfirer.bsky.social
Ghostbusters had four sequels -
One that was bad
One that was funny but marred by culture war shit
Two that were inexplicably serious

This is no way to treat the best version of the Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein formula.
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connershin.bsky.social
Stephen Miller always talks like he just found out the group chat made a separate chat without him
alexfirer.bsky.social
From the first outline sent for Birdperson to the release of Last Mort Standing tomorrow, my time on Rick and Morty has been exactly six years. During that time I've made friends with the funniest artists, writers, and editors in all of comics, and I hope to find a chance to work with them again.
alexfirer.bsky.social
I'll be at NYCC too with the @doughboys.bsky.social. Catch us at our panel, Friday 3:45-4:45, or come to our signing at Forbidden Planet Saturday, 4-6.

Check out this great poster @hotelfred.bsky.social drew for us too. Great great stuff.
The Doughboys Take New York Comic Con - it's a parody of Muppets Take Manhattan. Mitch and Nick are at the top, me, Fred C Stresing, and Meg Casey are ont he left, and pizza, a hot dog, and a pretzel are on the right.
alexfirer.bsky.social
If the 2020 primary wasn't fucked with, Bernie could have been on his second term. In light of what happened, maybe stopping him shouldn't have been that top of mind for folks. Certainly not with a guy who was losing at the time.
alexfirer.bsky.social
The thing with Newsom - we are so used to the democratic party pushing through whatever candidate they want we're asking them not to fuck the primary for this guy. We've normalized it. We're fine they're choosing someone and will throw the gameboard in the air until he wins.