Maybe I need to put more effort into planning my January reading next year.

I got that complete version of The Cabbie as a Christmas gift and it is as funny as I remember it being, but perhaps too cruel and mean spirited for an already cruel month.

Trying to read at least a chapter per night of Outlaws of the Marsh has been fun. It fulfills my need for a story with too many characters, all getting into trouble, but I do wish I was reading something with more beautiful prose. I realize this could be a result of the translation.

Yelling at the newsstand was the 1990 version of posting. If Streets of Poison happened in 2025 Cap would be geeted posting like a lunatic while Red Skull, Machinesmith, and Crossbones share screenshots in their group chat.

Not to undermine the truth of what he's saying of course. It's just another insane level at which these comics rule.

I thought that Balatro art was the cover to Too Dark Park

tannerfboyle.substack.com and this PTC episode pocketcasts.com/podcasts/b14...

Have you seen Tanner F. Boyle's substack or heard any of his podcast appearances? That's where I've encountered the most interesting new takes on this, covering overlap with the Union Carbide strikes.

I had a much harder time securing a copy of this than any other classic I've read. I was on alert whenever I went looking for used books and only once found an abridged copy. I caved and ended up buying this new.

Miller is 100% using Sprang to model the appearance, but he was too much of a coward to also give him tiny hands and feet.

I want to see these drawings and the fact that I didn't find them during a quick search has me unreasonably crushed.

It's really tied to my interests but I think the Patlabor homework could be enjoyable. At least, I liked it. Can't speak for UY, but Beautiful Dreamer was pretty interesting with zero context.

What I can't read is if the prevalence of Trotskyites in his work is an expression of his personal sympathies, or just a side effect of living on the Upper West Side. (I had a close friend as a teenager whose parents were Trots on the UWS, surrounded by yuppies, just like in Bleeding Edge)

Against the Day in particular has many passages dedicated to a romantic notion of historical anarchism, I feel like that's gotta be him. There might be some limited Marxist sympathy. The relationship between economy, culture, and hegemony on his writing scratches a dialectical itch in my brain.

Makes me think of Hicks and Porfirio on the boat. The narrator tells us he shot Hicks off the boat. Then they walk it back. That's what should have happened, here's what really happened.

Was the Business Plot really foiled? Seems more like a temporary setback when you look back now. Bruno Airmont is given few details of their victory. Perhaps we already live in a world where the Business Plot succeeded.