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Joe Boo-nenwald

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Writer/Reviewer for @ComicsBeat. Likes comics, TV, movies. Loves The Flash. General nerd. He/Him. (Profile pic by Chip Zdarsky, whether he meant it or not.)

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Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · Jul 29

I haven't talked about this publicly, but last year I was the victim of identity theft. My likeness and identity were stolen and used for nefarious purposes by a person from a foreign country.

That person's name is Chip Zdarsky.

Panels from PUBLIC DOMAIN #9 in which a comics journalist who looks just like me interviews the series' protagonist.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23h

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Eric Shonborn @shonborn.net · 22h

Batober s1e7: Instant Freeze

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Batman and Robin fighting Mr. Freeze and Batman imposters

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Eric Shonborn @shonborn.net · 1d

Batober s1e6: Batman is Riled

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Black and white ink illustration. Joker stands over Batman and Robin, who lie unconscious on a literal chopping block. Standing next to Joker is an Executioner with a giant axe.

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Eric Shonborn @shonborn.net · 2d

Batober s1e5: The Joker is Wild

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This made me giggle.

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Black & white ink illustration. The Joker wearing his own face as a mask after having it surgically removed cuz GOOD LORD WE'RE EDGY MOTHERFUCKERS MAKING COMICS THAT AREN'T FOR FUCKING BABIES, YOU FUCKING BABY.

He is wearing a prison uniform and a softball mitt. He is pitching during a softball game. There's a guy standing behind him looking off. In the background, there's some dudes hanging out by the prison wall. On top of the prison wall are armed guards patrolling near the barbed wire.

EDGYYYYYYYYYY

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Eric Shonborn @shonborn.net · 3d

Batober s1e4: The Penguin's a Jinx

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The Penguin, smoking a cigarette and holding a bag of money in one hand and an umbrella in the other, gasses a knight in a suit of armor

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't get better than Bruno Premiani's DOOM PATROL, with writer Arnold Drake. Weird, charming, beautifully illustrated, and just fun comics.

Consider this a Random Bruno Premiani Art Appreciation Post.

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Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Robo wants an Oreo.

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Rachael Stott NYCC F-12 @rachaelstott.bsky.social · 1d

I predict we're a year away from a tech bro unironically calling an AI girlfriend app 'Stepford'.

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Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 1d

You might be tempted to ask how Angela Bassett, whose character on 9-1-1 is an LAPD sergeant, came to be in space. To that I ask, who else has jurisdiction over crimes that take place in the space directly above Los Angeles?

Chris Cantwell @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I appreciate this. TV needs more of this. Let’s have fun again. Seriously things are so bad in the industry and everywhere. Let’s all turn on stuff at night together and go “that was insane” and then surprise there are 20 more episodes and the characters don’t remember being in orbit.

9-1-1 poster with Angela Bassett in FUCKING SPACE!

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Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it'll look great on new editions of the Scott Pilgrim books.

Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Huh.

Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Huh.

Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween came early this year @goatsflyingpress.com @alejandrobot.com @gavinguidry.bsky.social @chrisohalloran.bsky.social

LAKE YELLOWWOOD SLAUGHTER hardcover graphic novel from Goats Flying Press

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Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Ryan's second point here features some incredible detective work.

Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 1d

two things about Tom's Diner:

1) the original (with just Susanne Vega) is CRYING OUT for the beat DNA added - it just stops in silence for a few seconds without it and you feel its absence deeply.

2) you can use the lyrics and a newspaper deep dive to determine the exact day it was written :0

"Tom's Diner Day": The date of the composition
An article on Suzanne Vega's official website[7][8] uses clues in the song to determine the exact date that Vega wrote it.

Vega said that she wrote the song in 1982; Brian Rose has said that it was written sometime between mid-1981 and mid-1982. The lyrics refer to a rainy morning, when she was at the diner on the corner, reading in her newspaper of "a story of an actor / who had died while he was drinking", and afterwards "turning to the horoscope / and looking for the funnies". Only two newspapers in New York City carried comic strips, or "funnies", in 1981 and 1982, and only one, the New York Post, featured a front-page story of the death of Oscar-winning actor William Holden, whose body was discovered on Monday, November 16, 1981. In a 2008 essay for The New York Times, Vega confirmed that Holden was the actor whose death she had read about and inspired the line in the song.[5]

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Brian Box Brown @boxbrown.bsky.social · 2d

you know what the thing is: there used to be a much healthier comics news media infrastructure and now there's just The Beat.

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Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 2d

Egg-cellent.

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · Sep 1

(Fred Schneider voice) i wanna fuck you like an ANIMAL

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matt’s slutty lil halloween name @windows98support.bsky.social · 3d

Is there a carbon monoxide leak in Bsky HQ or something?

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Patrick Cotnoir @patrickcotnoir.bsky.social · 4d

A clip from the RETURN OF THE JEDI live reading with Clancy Brown as Darth Vader and @richsommer.pizza as Luke Skywalker. You can watch the full thing for FREE on YouTube at swliveread.com!

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shivana @heyshivana.bsky.social · 4d

my hot take is some of y'all need to stop only reading comics. read prose, go to a museum, learn scrimshaw, wtfever. go be an interesting person first because i can TELL when people don't ingest anythiinnggg else but comics

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 4d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Eric Shonborn @shonborn.net · 4d

Batober s1e3: Fine Feathered Finks

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A giant open umbrella is in the center of a group of buildings. Batman scales the handle of the umbrella.

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