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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 9h

I loved Ramona Fradon, who would have been 100 today, and the horror shorts she drew for House of Mystery, House of Secrets, et al. So when I got a commission, I asked for Cain and Abel. She returned not just a character drawing but this delightful one-panel gag that captures their relationship.

Cain cuts the rope on Abel’s boat from the dock, setting him adrift

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 22h

***New Polling*** 84% think it’s hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs 37% found a book on magic in a garbage can 91% dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m sorry Mr. Comic Book I don’t get it, could you explain it again

The caption tells us that “Wheels” Ferris has been snagged by a Ferris wheel. In the panel, Robin helpfully explains “Wheels” Ferris—victim in the end of a Ferris wheel!”

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The “what’s going to happen?!?!” hype press about this Avengers movie is weird considering it’s clearly based on a specific story and we more or less know what’s going to happen, and what the cliffhanger will be. So much clickbait and PR depends on pretending the source material doesn’t exist.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every other show: canceled three scenes into S1E1 Reacher: Just renewed for season 47

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Alas, within a few short years, Wertham, Kefauver, and the advent of the Comics Code signaled the end of racy license plate comics

Robin reviews a wall with license plates for each of the then 48 states

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Yes, Robin, I’ll live. But once I’m discharged from this ICU and get the tubes out of my chest, the recovery could take months to years. I may have permanent chronic nerve pain. Then there’s the anxiety, nightmares, hyper vigilance, and depression from the PTSD. So, chum, how’s Alfred?”

Robin visits Batman in the hospital. The Caped Crusader, in bed with his chest bandaged, says he’ll live and that Black Dan’s bullets missed his heart.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*No guns* but I will happily bounce your head off a cement staircase

Batman punches a dude who bounces down stone stairs on his noggin, and Batman is disappointed that it didn’t dash his brains

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey speaking of bubbles check out the video for Choosin’ Texas, a world made up exclusively of white people in cowboy hats with pickup trucks who likely think passing the SAVE Act is important to protecting election integrity and $200 fillups are worth it to keep Iran from a-bombing Houston

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A magnificent page turn; from Goodman, Underwater by Kurtzman and Elder

Goodman Beaver relaxing on an inner tube in a peaceful, open ocean

On the page flip you realize Goodman is just off shore from a cacophonous boardwalk arcade

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has been a ridiculously charmed month for finding affordable copies of out of print collections at the top of my want list.

Goodman Beaver, the DC Showcase Presents volumes for Witching Hour and Warlord, and 4 Archives—Robin 2, Golden Age Starman 2, JSA All-Stars, and Superman Man of Tomorrow 3

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What Some Folks Mean When They Claim To Have Never Heard Wipeout by The Fat Boys and Beach Boys

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Quick, somebody write a thumbsucker about what’s wrong with me because I also haven’t heard this year’s number one hits by Bruno Mars, Harry Styles, Bad Bunny, BTS, and Drake

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bought this from Denis Kitchen’s daughter at a comic show in Greenfield, MA today. I‘ve wanted this since seeing ads for mid-80s Spirit reprints

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Top Shelf Friday: The first B&B team-up!

Brave and the Bold #50, Green Arrow and Manhunter from Mars

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Marion, don't look at it. Shut your eyes, Marion. Don't look at it, no matter what happens!"

Indy and Marion close their eyes against the scouring power of God

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am finally catching up on Hickman’s Marvel mega run through FF, SHIELD, Avengers and Secret Wars. Is Secret Warriors fun? Important to the overall story?

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Six weeks out I’ve started to see a handful of “what if everything we think we’re seeing is wrong and the Republicans don’t have a catastrophic election?” takes. Next up are the “Democrats would be better off losing,” and “the GOP getting crushed proves we’re a center right nation”

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high

Me, astounded by all I’m learning from LOOKING GOOD: A Guide for Men

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m willing to embrace the label of bibliophile

Me engrossed in Welcome Back Kotter #1, “The Sweathog Trail”

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I suppose you could call me a serious reader

1970s mass market paperbacks about celebrities, including Howard Costello, Sandy Duncan, Cher, Alan Alda, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Merv Griffin, Barry Manilow, Farrah Fawcett, Wilt Chamberlain, Leonard Nimoy, Shaun Cassidy, and Dick Cavett

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s totally up to you whether or not you ever have kids, but you should have *some* little person in your life you can stay up half the night hand sewing a Super Grover costume for This guy is 23 now, lives on the other side of the country from me, and rides a motorcycle

My youngest son in the Super Grover costume I made him when he was maybe three?

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Based on my reaction (laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe, collapsing to the floor, needing to stop the show and take 10 minutes to recover) it’s the “Two beers…hot or cold?“ scene from the Detroiters pilot, specifically when they cut to the old guy blowing the steam off his beer.

Old guy blowing the steam off his hot beer

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Whenever you get worked up about spoilers, remember that the novelization of Star Wars was released six and a half months before the movie.

The cover of the Star Wars novelization, released November 12, 1976. A huge Darth Vader looms in the background, with a smaller Luke and the droids in the foreground.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s as important to regard Star Wars in the context of New Hollywood as is to the blockbuster era it led to. Put aside what followed and think of it as Lucas’ follow-up to American Graffiti, and alongside what Scorsese, Coppola, et al were doing. Imagine if it hadn’t created an empire.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happy 114th to the legendary Chuck Jones. And it’s now been 42 years with this most prized possession, which I got in middle school after writing to him after seeing him speak at Dartmouth College.

A sketch from Jones to me of Bugs Bunny at a desk writing me a letter: “Dear Cole, thank you for your letter. Sorry it took me so long to answer. Sincerely, Bugs.” Signed To Cole from Bugs Bunny and Chuck Jones 1984

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Macklemore: I am not a victim. Ed is not a victim. The victims are the Palestinian people. Sheeran: I me I me me me this has been one of the worst weeks of my life, everyone abandoned me me I me I me

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If DC kickstartered their Archives line like Marvel is doing with Clover Press, I’d line up for: Plastic Man 9 Captain Comet Robin 3 The Vigilante (Meskin) Johnny Quick Golden Age Flash 3 JSA All Stars 2 Sugar and Spike 2 The Fox and The Crow G. A. Hawkman 2 Rex the Wonder Dog Gunner & Sarge

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Many people are demanding the National Security Trump Face on Mt. Rushmore, to honor your Favorite President. Drones will fly out of my nose and it will be a nuclear submarine base. Get it done!“

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My first Batman comics from when I was three. It was a real letdown to discover this Aparo guy didn’t draw every Batman story. I was a precocious reader, in large part because it was urgent that I understood what was happening here.

Brave and the Bold #118, with the Joker forcing Batman and Wildcat to box to the death; and Detective Comics #446, with Batman linking in a warehouse as a Batman statue drops to the floor, shattering to reveal a skeleton inside

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“President Roosevelt, our Pearl Harbor base on Oahu has come under attack by the Japanese. Heavy casualties. Massive damage to the fleet. Sir, what’s our response?” “…” “Sir?” “…Grok, do a vulgar roast of Emperor Hirohito.”

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Schopenhauer vs. Hegel Who’d You Rather (Big Bodacious Bikini Bottom Editio)

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I found some comic strips I did from maybe third grade, so around 1979/1980. The Superman one is me unwittingly reverse engineering the Action Comics #1 story back into strip form before I realized that’s how it was originally conceived.

A two panel strip of Mr. Fantastic vs. Annihilus

Superman make a murderess sign a confession

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Has any show ever used Barlow’s cover of Round ‘n Round by Ratt as a needle drop?

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I sent my 23 year old a box of records designed to fuck up his hearing. If I’ve had ringing in my ears since 1992 why shouldn’t he.

Dinosaur Jr.’s second, third, and fourth albums on vinyl

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As much as I love a lot of his work, mopey “what if Nick Drake was boring and mumbly” Sea Change/Morning Phase/Ride Lonesome Beck is very much not for me. His melancholy needs a contrast. Humor, hip hop production, lo-fi production, something.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I were a supervillain defeated by my own polished ceiling I think I would be so humiliated I would give up on the spot, acknowledging I’d be better off in a cell. From the Starman strip by Jack Burnley in Adventure #77.

Starman, having reflected light from the polished metal ceiling off his manacles into the Mist’s eyes, uses his chains to hook his gravity rod away from the villain

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1978: On a trip to Toronto in-between pilots and tv movie roles, Jill St. John hits a local comedy club. As soon as she walks in her life changes. Who is that man on stage, gesticulating, with the rubber alligator? Putting that rubber glove over his head and exhaling? A month later she’s pregnant.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My oldest son turns 28 next month. When he turned five he really, really wanted a Metamorpho cake.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ha ha fuck you, Ed, good luck on your solo acoustic stadium tour

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran’s political spinlessness is just a DISTRACTION from his terrible music is just a DISTRACTION from the fact that he looks like a sack filled with every recessive gene

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Babe I love your Ed Sheeran “I Am Not Complict” ’26 tour t-shirt

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is straight up redoing classic Nancys part of Cash’s regular approach?

1974 Nancy: teacher asks Sluggo if he had five candy bars and she asked for two, how many would he have? He says five.

In this 2026 Nancy, teacher asks Nancy if she had three cupcakes and Sluggo asked for one, how many would she have? Nancy says three.

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There was a kid at my high school in the late 80s who wore a leather fedora and the other boys on the football team with him said he had a curved penis so they called him Banana Dick Jones

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Cole Moore Odell @colemooreodell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don’t know if anything is obscure anymore, but I fondly remember this half-season wonder with a young Josh Brolin, the 50s companion to Miami Vice and Crime Story

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