- @antonyjohnston That was my impression. One thing about the Sun is they're REALLY good at this, huh? @Glinner #
- @antonyjohnston (This meaning manipulation & zeitgeist fuckery, not objective journalism.) @Glinner #
- @davidbaillie S'a bit fucking on the nose, David. #
- @McKelvie But… it's a Friday! That's what it's FOR! #
- @davidbaillie But what if the CHARACTER is a WRITER??? #
- @davidbaillie That's for damn sure. #
- @davidbaillie Ah, I see where the issue is, now. Yeah, sounds more like writerly ego & lampshading than anything else. #
- @davidbaillie Hm. The eg you gave about Iron Man sounds like a writer going "this transition is clunky so I'll make it sound deliberate". #
- @davidbaillie Like, they look at a really obviously placed prop & say "Hm, that's incongruous. Wonder if it'll be important later." #
- @davidbaillie (Then winking at the reader/viewer & saying "Chekov's gun", David Brent style.) #
- @sarcastathon It depends. If it's a sexy lady & her wishlist is all underwear & sex toys, there MAY be something else going on there. #
- @sarcastathon I think it only works if there's some sort of tacit or formal transaction in place… #
- @sarcastathon …so if the suggestion is there that if someone buys you something you might wear it for them somehow, that may work. #
- @sarcastathon But people are pretty kinky, so might not even go deep as photos/video. Could probably get away with including it in a post. #
- @sarcastathon "Filthy consideration has been given to random reader X while choosing my wardrobe for this date." #
- @PatrickRiot Hah, yeah, that exactly. @sarcastathon #
- @marcellerby Nor the Crossed webcomic? #
- @sarcastathon Hah… You KNOW I love you, right? & should be supportive. But 1st item on your "fuck it I'm poor" list is £93 picture disc… #
- @sarcastathon …so I have to field the possibility that this experiment may be doomed to failure, just so it's out there. #
- @emslj That Mail thing is incredible, huh? #
- @sarcastathon It's a wishlist… I think you're probably using it right. There IS supposed to be a Wish component to it, after all! #
- Actually that deal is BULLSHIT. If I'm paying assassin sent after me double, I expect them to OFF my enemy, not just tell me who they are. #
- Huh. So apparently this whole assassination spam thing is actually a THING. Two versions surfaced in my timeline today. @Glinner #
- @themightylayman & @mccreaman – we reviewed Mars Attacks #1 on #MOMBcast 141: http://t.co/IgapmIVy #
- @bevismusson I think it's wrong but it's also typical. Demonising AT ALL isn't that helpful when it comes to trying to fix things, innit? #
- @bevismusson I don't think shame as a policing mechanism works, & it just brings out the worst in EVERYONE. #
- @swierczy Thanks for the RT! Loving the book – & not an actual Godzilla fan. Sorry I had trouble with your name – I should know better. #
- @sarcastathon Hah, I'm so flabbergasted by that one I can't even think of a joke/comment. #
- We don't HAVE to absolve all people playing the benefits system, just cos we think their cause is more worthwhile than Jimmy Carr's, y'know. #
- …Suggesting that ALL benefit players have no choice but to screw with system is little bit offensive to the people it's actually true of. #
- …suggests that EVERYBODY unemployed has tried hardest to find ANY work. Which puts us on uncomfortable ground with immigrant workers. #
- I fucking hate this idea of the Noble Poor. It's condescending bullshit, on a par with the idea of the Noble Savage. #
- @sarcastathon You "never got round to" having a new sort of wank? How do you have trouble fitting that sort of thing in? PUN KINDA INTENDED #
- @swierczy Phew, well, that went from potentially embarrassing to ego-boosting pretty quick. #
- @chris_doherty I'm intrigued by that as well – loads of well-written erotica about, why's everyone suddenly talking about that? @marcellerby #
- @kierongillen I kind of love the idea of people using Instagram to distribute ACTUAL 60s/70s photos. #
- @chris_doherty That explains pretty much everything, doesn't it? #
- @AndrewTunney If that's true, you're missing "lonely young female virgin's" before the sexy dream. WHICH IS EVEN WORSE! @chris_doherty #
- @AndrewTunney Oops. Missed "unimaginative". Impression I get is lots of lonely young virgins have quite FERTILE imaginations. @chris_doherty #
- Huh, web – from where I'm sitting – STILL opting to talk more about a comedian's accounts than politicians being shit & getting bollocked… #
- If we're so happy to be distracted by transparent misdirection, at some point as a country we need to question our own part in all of this. #
- Cameron et al are good at being shady, but they're not THAT fucking good. #
- Still, the Carr story IS more interesting than other boring tales of political graft & corruption… #
- …Because it provides a chance for people to publicly give themselves a pat on the back that usually modesty wouldn't allow. #
- @emslj Just haven't got the heart to unfollow some people. I plan to, but then I hear White Wine In The Sun or New England & lose my nerve. #
- http://t.co/nLa8hCkh – "I think you’ll find, if you check your Bible, that it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve…" #
- Love seeing how Raylan acts around Winona in this first season. http://t.co/KxkKcmcd @GetGlue @JustifiedFX #
- @royalboiler Your stance on his stance is solid, but every time you start expanding on comics the "us & them" shit undermines your voice… #
- @royalboiler …"us & them" meaning the line you & others are determined.to draw between creators & readers. #
- @royalboiler …If March working on shit doesn't entitle him to talk art, you working on art doesn't make divisive shit easier to swallow. #
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Found Objects
Wednesday 19th June: “Bankers are people, report urges”
SO. MUCH. META COMEDY.
Donald Ducks
From Enigma, this is one of my favourite sequences in comics. In terms of its use of word and image to deliver its effect, it’s vertiginous.
(No pun intended. You just feel the world fall away here.)
I’m trying to work out a way to describe ENIGMA that doesn’t sound like faint praise. “Greatest Underappreciated Work in its genre” isn’t enough. A personal “Top 5 comics in its genre” is too mealy mouthed.
Of all the work that Vertigo put out in its nineties imperial phase, I think Enigma was the finest.
When Gillen is right, Gillen is right.
I already loved Peter Milligan by the time Enigma came out, but the combination of his words and Duncan Fegredo’s art was one of those moments in this reader’s life where my sense of what the medium could do expanded.
Wednesday 5th June: “Police line donut cross”
I might as well just Reblog this this on a standing order. How do I get one of those?
Nina Dobrev
