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Drew Baumgartner

@dbaumgartner.bsky.social
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Associate Editor at Boom! Studios. I’m what the French call “les incompétents.” Opinions and terrible jokes are my own.

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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yoda [rematerializing]: And yet another Skywalker, there is. [Turns back into Force ghost]
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net
Jon Watts is set to direct ‘STAR WARS: EPISODE 10’. The film is intended to be the beginning of a new trilogy in the Skywalker Saga. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...)
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People without the skills to produce goods or provide services learning they are somehow also bad at making money off of other people’s skills. Just failing at being leeches before the whole world.
@alexfirer.bsky.social@alexfirer.bsky.social
Incredible time in America where our core capitalists don't know how to make money from video games and movies.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ads on paid tiers is wild, but it does present the most straightforward marketing stratification imaginable. Now you can chose to run your ad in front of the richest people on the platform, or the poorest, or some third thing that is neither rich nor poor.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having a cocktail. Thinking of Josh.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I suspect the Met can give away 70,000 tickets because they know they'd go unsold otherwise. I know my "let the Met die" position is unpopular (then again, so is opera), but I'd kind of like to see the mayor put his weight behind artists creating new art rather than reifying the European canon.
@mayor.nyc.gov@mayor.nyc.gov
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pfft. If I wanted to watch ads I would go outside.
IGN@ign.com
Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Almost ten years on, I still see people referencing that “I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People” essay, and I fear that (in typical social media fashion) the popular takeaway is what people assume the title means.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm like J. Alfred Prufrock, but you can measure my life in sample spoons.
Drew Baumgartner@dbaumgartner.bsky.social
“That meeting could have been an email” is the thought of someone who wants more email. That meeting could have been a hot fudge sundae.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“That meeting could have been an email” is the thought of someone who wants more email. That meeting could have been a hot fudge sundae.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Has @luxxury.bsky.social coined a term for this kind of thing?
Drew Baumgartner@dbaumgartner.bsky.social
Dressed the baby in puffy pants today. H said she looks like MC Hammer, so I made her shimmy sideways and hummed some “Can’t Touch This.” H called the baby a Super Freak, which is just some top-tier reverse-interpolation.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Dressed the baby in puffy pants today. H said she looks like MC Hammer, so I made her shimmy sideways and hummed some “Can’t Touch This.” H called the baby a Super Freak, which is just some top-tier reverse-interpolation.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A panel CAN contain a lot more information than any regular sentence, but aside from exceptional circumstances, should probably still function like one sentence, with a clear subject, verb, etc. But this is getting into broader extrapolations of this "rule," which I haven't fully considered.
Drew Baumgartner@dbaumgartner.bsky.social
Like a sentence, a single panel can tell a story, but a very simple one. And actually, that's the leg up comics has on prose: the setting, the characters, the costumes, the props, and anything else you can see can be present constantly. All the more reason to focus on the actions within the scene!
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I haven't worked much with new writers, but I have had occasion to work with seasoned writers from other media who were relatively new to comics. I've noticed a trend across those experiences that has gotten me thinking about the unwritten rules of comics that might bear spelling out to novices. 🧵
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’ve been intentionally avoiding anything to do with the HP show, but HBO just auto played an ad for it, and was shocked at the Kevin Sorbo-ass casting energy it’s putting out. Were Gina Carano and Scott Baio unavailable?
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
…but the doctor says “I cannot operate on this boy — he is my son. Also, I’m supposed to be operating on the great clown, Pagliacci.” How can this be?
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
How tired of winning do you have to be to exude such wimpy tattletale energy?
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com
President Trump, angered by a comment that NBC anchor Kristen Welker made about his endorsements in the midterm elections, said he would report her to the Federal Communications Commission for a “rebuke or punishment.”
washingtonpost.com
Trump says he will report NBC host to FCC for ‘rebuke or punishment’
The president’s latest in a string of threats against broadcasters followed a comment by Kristen Welker about “some mixed results” from his midterm endorsements.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I get that every day is somebody’s first day on the internet or whatever, but it is genuinely baffling that people are surprised by this. Does the Gulf of Mexico ring any bells? Is this site populated exclusively with goldfish?
The New York Times@nytimes.com
Google Maps has updated to label Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the U.S., following an executive order signed by President Trump last week amid an escalating trade war with Canada. trib.al/5axpigr
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Seeing AI art take hold in advertising is kind of like if “The Emperor’s New Clothes” hucksters set up a boutique shop. Anyone with taste can see right through it, but there are a lot of tasteless morons showing their asses across town.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Wild for the folks pushing this tech to tacitly admit that it isn’t creative/knowledgeable enough to come up with ways it could be used. The fact that it can’t justify its own existence should be proof that its existence can’t be justified.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Because we were very cool, my high school friends and I would play a game called “Rosebud,” where we’d try to one-up each other with more embarrassing things to cryptically whisper as our last words. “Counting Crows” was the reigning champ when we graduated.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Your bakery must truly be dogshit if you need to drain a lake just to make it look like people enjoy your products.
@aftermath.site@aftermath.site
Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Roger Less.
@the-independent.com@the-independent.com
James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
trib.al
James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s going to be really different’
‘We are being really, really methodical,’ Bond producer said of finding next 007
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Woof. I’m begging filmmakers to give Barber’s Adagio for Strings a rest. Pretty, sure, but it was dead and buried way back when Frank Costanza gave his platoon food poisoning.
youtu.be
Frank Cooks Again | The Fatigues | Seinfeld
YouTube video by Seinfeld
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Signature car? Signature gadgets? Different from Craig? What they want is Urkel.
@the-independent.com@the-independent.com
James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
trib.al
James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s going to be really different’
‘We are being really, really methodical,’ Bond producer said of finding next 007
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
That "can't get through the day without using chatbots" guy illustrates what may be the defining trend of this century: people so jaded they literally can't imagine anyone else is sincere in their beliefs
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In addition to being my first day at the new job, today was the baby’s first day at daycare. An anxious day for her parents, but she reportedly had a blast and napped better than she does at home, so I guess she’s already moving out.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Big update from me: I’m starting today as an associate editor at Boom! Studios.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
One thing they don’t tell you about being an older parent is that your creaking bones can wake up the baby.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Genuinely baffling to me that chatbots could be seen as an appealing research tool, let alone an addicting one. They make stuff up and get basic points of fact wrong constantly. That disqualifies any source in my mind, including any downstream sources that would reference this garbage.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
static.klipy.com
Michael Scott Hates It A Lot - The Office
ALT: Michael Scott Hates It A Lot - The Office
The New York Times@nytimes.com
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel responded directly to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s calls for his arrest, accusing the mayor of “fomenting hate” and referring to a video address that Mr. Mamdani made last week as “hate speech.”
nyti.ms
Netanyahu Accuses Mamdani of ‘Hate Speech’ After Mayor’s Video Address
The Israeli prime minister criticized Mr. Mamdani for releasing a video last week in which the mayor called for the federal government to arrest Mr. Netanyahu for war crimes.
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Drew Baumgartner @dbaumgartner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Still unsure if I’ll see The Odyssey. I’ve been burned by Nolan too many times. Is Batman in this one or not?
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