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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 6h

Shit! Should read DIDN'T used to have...

Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 6h

The conversations that I overhear while eating at the food co-op are the type of conversation that people used to have loudly, out in the open.

Least favorite conversation to overhear: anything on a speakerphone.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 6h

That covers literally everything anyone says there except for talking about how the co-op doesn't have Coke, it has weird sodas with no corn syrup in them. Usually people don't go on and on about that so I don't really mind them.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 6h

Third least favorite conversation to overhear: baffled privileged liberals who still don't understand what's happening and say repeatedly "but it's illegal."

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 6h

Second least favorite conversation to overhear: women who meet for lunch to talk about how shitty their families are.

Having said that, I did get some enjoyment out of the time the mother and wife of a dude met to discuss his Adam Sandler shorts.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 6h

The conversations that I overhear while eating at the food co-op are the type of conversation that people used to have loudly, out in the open.

Least favorite conversation to overhear: anything on a speakerphone.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 10h

Allow it.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 11h

Val in whatever the hell you might call this type of dress

A drawing in ink and colored pencil of Val in some kind of weird cinched cut out dress

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 11h

10 horror movies to get to know me by

Night of the Living Dead
Get Out
Tremors
Prince of Darkness
Return of the Living Dead
28 Days Later
It Follows
The Thing
Night of the Comet
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Jason Song Quinn @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🧄The Lost Boys
👦Child’s Play
🧪Gremlins 2
💥The Guest
🧀Mandy
👆Idle Hands
🔪Scream
🤯Evil Dead 2
👯Us
😾Cat’s Eye ( the last story where a stray cat fights a flamboyant tiny troll )

Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

10 horror movies to get to know me by

🦇Bram Stoker's Dracula
✝️The Devils
🍼Rosemary's Baby
👻The Medium
👫Possession
📹Lost Highway
💉Audition
🐸The Wicker Man ('73)
⚫Under the Skin
♦️The Neon Demon

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 5d

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 1d

Val in a cape dress

A drawing of Val wearing a plaid cape dress, drawn in ink and colored pencil

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 4d

Because people seem to be so smitten by Andy Richter's appearances on Dances with the Stars, here is some Andy Richter fanart: Andy on a date with Val, the main character of my comic series Meeting Comics, from the art zine 20 First Dates: Val on Dates with Famous People.
#comics #altcomix #comicoop

a cartooned drawing of Andy Richter getting a lap dance from Val
#andyrichter #dwts

A photo graph of the zine 20 FIRST DATES: VAL ON DATES WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE by Andrew Neal. On the cover is an illustration of Val on a date with Wes Anderson.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 1d

Zine (and some of the original art) available for order here:

wander lane / meeting comics

Comics and stickers by Andrew Neal.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 1d

Here are some more of the images in the zine:
Val on dates with Paul Giamatti, Missy Elliot, the cast of Sliders, and Jim Davis.

A drawing of Val on a date with Paul Giamatti, from the art zine "20 First Dates: Val on Dates with Famous People."

A drawing of Val on a date with Missy Elliot, from the art zine "20 First Dates: Val on Dates with Famous People."

A drawing of Val on a date with the cast of Sliders, from the art zine "20 First Dates: Val on Dates with Famous People."

A drawing of Val on a date with Jim Davis, from the art zine "20 First Dates: Val on Dates with Famous People."

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Jucika @jucikadaily.bsky.social · 1d

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 2d

A Tina drawing.

Drawing in ink and colored pencil of Tina. She's wearing a green sweatshirt with a dog on it over a turtleneck and shorts.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 2d

I just looked back at my most brutal Letterboxd review, written in early 2024, and frankly, it didn't seem brutal enough.

A ½ review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

I waited a few years after this came out to allow myself to equalize into the idea of watching it without expectations, and I can't say that it worked. I had expectations, and they were met. What an e...

letterboxd.com

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 3d

I watched two movies this weekend featuring two people getting hit by cars. This is the second.

A ★★★ review of The Naked Gun (2025)

This was pretty good, but not as great as everyone told me it is. Pam Anderson was spectacular, and some of the jokes were fantastic. I did laugh out loud, but a couple of times I caught myself laughi...

letterboxd.com

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 3d

I watched two movies this weekend featuring two people getting hit by cars. This is the first.

A ★★ review of Play Dirty (2025)

I'm a bigger fan of Donald Westlake writing as Donald Westlake than I am of Donald Westlake writing as Richard Stark, but I know his Parker novels well enough that I couldn't stop thinking about how n...

letterboxd.com

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you! I struggle with likenesses so this was probably the third or fourth try.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 4d

OK, I assumed it was something having to do with a comic and not an internal document having to do with a video game. As I was a high school student and not a Sega employee, I would not have seen it.

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 4d

Wait'll you hear about how few comics are comic

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 4d

Because people seem to be so smitten by Andy Richter's appearances on Dances with the Stars, here is some Andy Richter fanart: Andy on a date with Val, the main character of my comic series Meeting Comics, from the art zine 20 First Dates: Val on Dates with Famous People.
#comics #altcomix #comicoop

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 4d

There seem to be people for whom "OCs" is the medium and that seems to me to be the fun fact business!

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 4d

I'm too old for that, but I certainly remember the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and Who's Who...
but nothing in those added anything anyone thought you needed to know to read the comics!

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Andrew Neal | Added Value Books @wanderlane.bsky.social · 4d

Comic creators who rely on "lore" and "worldbuilding" outside the context of what is depicted in a comic aren't making good comics.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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