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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 3h

Current state of the Desk Conqueror.

Alfred the Toothy at the left hand of deskness. He's asleep, cat mouth open, dreaming of unreachable dignity.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 4h

Keep it together, Montgomery. It's just a wee kitty. It's just a wee ki—

More of Alfred the Black Matter discovering that me changing my desk around means expanded arenas for attention-seeking. Here he's on the laptop, with my Strange New Worlds Scotty background looking concerned on the screen behind him.

Alfred yawns, and it's terrifying. Because of the dim light, he's all teeth and tongue. The version here is compressed, but the original is properly alien bone and distortion in high definition. Scotty was rightly concerned.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 7h

Three disposable fountain pens, all alike in dignity, in fair condition, where we lay our coffee... (There's a difference in the ink windows. But come on. If you're just refilling your PaperSkater Galaxy, hie thee to Daiso.)

Three pens from different brands artfully arranged on my Rhodia notebook. They're the same pen.

Silver Itoya Blade w/black ink $3.99 (Goldspot Pens)
Red Daiso pen w/red ink $2.25 (Daiso)
Blue Nakabayashi Artnavi w/blue ink $3.00 (JetPens)

The Itoya PaperSkater shell will also hold Pilot Varsity pens if you use the spacer, and Zebra disposables if you squish them in there.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 7h

images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025 (556≆800)

Black-and-white line drawing of international superstar Paul Grist working on another masterpiece at his drawing board. Jack Staff watches on.

Jack Staff, Britain's Greatest Hero, is not entirely, as some have assumed, based on the character Sun Wukong. He doesn't even have a tail!

Art by international superstar Paul Grist.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 18h

"The Shitting Twenties" maintains the rhythm, but sounds strangely positive. "They made me eat dirt, but I was shitting twenties!"

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 06/10/2026

Good thing the thunderbolt dock decided to crap out while the vaccines are having their way with me; this might have been an inconvenience.

“It’s too hot for typing,” says the long black cat. “Let’s put this deskmat to napping use.”

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 06/10/2026

That old two-vaccine ache kicking in. I'm fine. I'm fine.

More desk rearrangements going on. But here you see the avatars of the poles I'm navigating by: Dread Bat and Breathe Whale.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 06/10/2026

He played the vampire hunter in Tombstone.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 05/10/2026

images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025 (555≆800)

In black-and-white, Gary Leach has drawn for us the famous comics character of your youth and mine and that of generations yet unborn, Marvelman...he's back.

Marvelman's just swooped joyously between the Earth and the Moon and in this picture would technically kind of be punching down at an angle if you consider gravity. I mean, seeing him from Earth's perspective, this is an athlete in body paint and cuffed boots diving ecstatically *toward* the planet, like an apocalyptic asteroid with seriously cool branding. Which might be one of the comic's themes. Who can tell at this point?

After Marvelman shouts his name and states that he's returned with two exclamation points (in the vacuum of space), a caption informs us that this is "THE BEGINNING..." and also that "THIS STORY IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO MICK ANGLO AND THE ORIGINAL MARVELMAN TEAM."

Alan Moore wrote at least some of those words, just in case he's taken his name off this project, too. I can't keep track.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 05/10/2026

Good lord, yes. I don't know if they were my first, but I've often said they were the thing my generation of Americans had that was closest to the Daleks.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 04/10/2026

I've read two of them, so they clearly weren't banned enough.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 04/10/2026

So many levels. I mean, at least two or three.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 04/10/2026

images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025 (554≆800)

"Callum's Alan Moore Anecdote" by Eddie Campbell.

Drawn with lines and ink, the Great Grumbleduke (Moore) stands tall with his serpent-headed scepter tucked in his folded arms. Before him is a dark-haired boy with a big coat that he's got his hands in the pockets of. They are in the Great White Void of the Land of Fiction.

We dare not speculate further.

https://eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/2008/04/happy-16th-birthday-callum-campbell.html

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Javier Hernandez @javierhernandez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As I prep issue #2 of THE MAN FROM MICTLAN for release at the Latino Comics Expo this December, I thought I'd share the cover for the third and final issue (releasing in 2027).

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 03/10/2026

That's a tomato salad served on a bread plate with chicken crouton.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 03/10/2026

Car show happening off the front porch today.

The terra cotta cat is blocking the El Camino, but there's a red number with flames and a "Wildcat" that's teal? Aquamarine?

It's a whole block of aged motor vehicles; that's just what I can see without venturing into actual sun. It's already 91° out there.

Looking the other way, but still avoiding solar destruction, you can barely see one of the ancient jeeps on the other side of the street.

Over here we've got a curvy yellow number with a back tattoo lifting her hood to flash the passersby. Next to that's a fellow I quite fancy, like a dark grey squat '30s Batmobile.

(The U-Haul you see is technically in the parking lot over the way, and not part of the classic "car" shew.)

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 03/10/2026

images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025 (553≆800)

BUDDY BAKER
CAN
SEE YOU.

2008 color digital photo of an Animal Man action figure on a desk. (On my desk. You can tell because we used to have a terrible shot glass problem.) Strong sidelight and an artificial grain effect make it all dramatic and whatnot.

You will believe a superhero in a jacket can signify.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 03/10/2026

I can't fathom how it's taken me this long to get to "Merman Hellville."

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 02/10/2026

My dad in northern NH sent me a corny Canadian pride song via Messenger that nonetheless made emotions happen. Riding the wave of familial connexion, I called my mom in southern NH. She stepped outside the bar so she could tell me her breathing's better, but her twin sister's is not. Ayuh.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 02/10/2026

images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025 (552≆800)

A jape or jest generated by the montage (or "mashing-up") of two or more previously unassociated signifiers.

Here we have a black-and-white illustration of a costumed Christian Bale walking with the actors from a Law & Order series. The caption beneath reads:

"In the Criminal Justice System of Gotham City the people are represented by three separate, yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime, the District Attorneys who prosecute the offenders, and the Goddamn Batman.
These are their stories."

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 02/10/2026

Anyway. Six pens inked, five new swatches in the Wearingeul book. New bound paper in A6 to die for, but plenty to use afore I get to it. Chinese Goat Planner for the new year. Still, in this dim light, missing things more, now. Six paperback books and a dying tree.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 02/10/2026

Recent spoons: Larder than it hooks Thrum drone Hut Bowl

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 02/10/2026

Got a letter in the mail today. It's good to know I still have a friend, across the miles and decades. Maybe that's what it was all for. We're still here.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 02/10/2026

Hey, we used to get by on white rice and saved-up Taco Bell Mild packets.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 02/10/2026

This is the same advice you see given to beginner comics writers who don't restrict themselves to the notion that the panel is a static camera.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October is #BatAppreciationMonth! Here they are being fully appreciated in plate 67 from Ernst Haeckel’s dazzling Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), published in 1904. More about the image, including details of the line-up, here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 01/10/2026

images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025 (551/≆800)

Bizarro say Goodbye to October!

In this black-and-white piece, Bizarro is in the foreground, stumbering and lumbling toward us with a real Patchwork Man look on his mug. He's just cratered a bit of Metropolis street and am feeling groovy.

Behind him, the unusual gang of agley reacts. Lois Lane pulls out her micro-recorder. The cops pull out their guns. Superman pulls out concern. Jimmy Olsen pulls out a film camera with the wrong fussing lens for the shot, Jimmy. God!

Untamed sources tell me this was a commission piece. Chris Weston throwing all that ink at folds and shadows and faces that speak with no sound for pennies? Likely!

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 30/09/2026

images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025 (550/≆800)

Paul Pope's PIN-UPS3
https://pulphope.blogspot.com/2008/02/pin-ups3.html

A flushed pink-rose star-spangled burlesque montage, I suppose you could say. Fish nets and smoke rings and coral arches and angel wings. Feminine figure eights punctuated with emphatic tassels.

What probably drew my attention was the watching face below: dark-haired cigarette-smoking woman, the Nick Fury of lust.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 30/09/2026

This film (but not this trailer) has my favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger moment of all time. Even better than THE LONG GOODBYE.

youtu.be

Stay Hungry (1976) Original Trailer [FHD]

YouTube video by HD Retro Trailers

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Mark McConville @markmcconville.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Superego has a YouTube channel. Over the summer, we added a bunch of our favorite sketches which are there now to enjoy! Subscribe and then leave a comment on your favorite sketch or suggest a sketch that we should add to the playlist. youtube.com/@gosuperego?...

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Superego

Improvised, analyzed, and brought to you by Drs. Matt Gourley, Jeremy Carter, Mark McConville, and Paul F. Tompkins, with James Bladon and Andy Daly. The Superego Clinic For Analytical Pscience™ seek...

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 29/09/2026

images from a folder labeled "comics" gathered 1999-2025 (549/≆800)

4-panel black-and-white strip written and drawn by Seanan McGuire. She also wrote a song about the same project. I don't know.

PANEL ONE - Two people, looking thinner than they did in real life, wearing glasses, posing for the camera. He's got a goatee and a raised eyebrow. She's got a grin and her hand on her hip.

CAPTION: Meet Mark and Anna.

CAPTION: As Illusive Arts, they publish 'DOROTHY'.

PANEL TWO - Sketch version of modern Dorothy Gale, with her boots and backpack, looking cross. Then a cartoon plus sign. Then a dark scribbly tornado. Then a cartoon equals sign. Then sketch versions of happy swirly-tailed monkeys with bat wings.

TEXT: 'Dorothy' combines teen angst
TEXT: With bad weather
TEXT: And we get...
TEXT: Flying monkeys!
TEXT: ...okay, not really.

PANEL THREE - Close-up of modern Dorothy Gale in a dark wood with a long road twisting afterbefore her. She wears her silver star necklace, and an Ozma armband that was never in the comic.

TEXT: It's really a very serious story about a very scary Oz.

PANEL FOUR - Return to the couple from Panel One. The man now has a kerchief tied over his mouth. The woman leans forward and bares her teeth in a giant smile.

CAPTION: Mark would tell you more, but Anna's breasts sell more comics.

CAPTION: Look! Boobies! (We'll untie him later.)

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Listen: still I am tied to the mast. Still they call, each to each. Remember me. But if remembered a burden be, forget me.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 29/09/2026

Here's how long it's been since I meditated: my go-to meditation app now requires a subscription to hear a mid-session chime and the ocean sounds. Oi, Buddha!

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 28/09/2026

I had a patron looking for a movie (this was in the 90s) who eventually condensed her request into "Charlotte's Letter." We were able to determine she was actually after "Schindler's List." No A.I. will ever find that as funny as I do.

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Bat "Mark Anthony" Masterson @batmasterson.batfu.ink · 28/09/2026

Superhero Literature is the study of morality. What he does with this power is the central question, not the absurdity of the mechanism. The reader is shocked by the fundamental disregard for societal, and indeed physical, limitations into a state that is profoundly receptive to the philosophical ar

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