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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 12h

I am saving this for my next karaoke night... Brilliant!

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Fire & Water Network @fwpodcasts.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

New episode of WHO'S WHO REVIEW! Rob & Shag use the randomizer with the original WHO'S WHO series & take a fresh look at classic entries! Including Dr. Mid-Nite, The Flash, Lex Luthor, S.T.A.R. Labs, The Unknown Soldier & more! Plus YOUR feedback! fireandwaterpodcast.com/show/whos-wh...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Did you know my dad (Xum Yukinori) was partially color blind? So how did he managed to color all of his fanart? At first, pretty badly, until he came up with a "color scheme"...

From page 314 (yes, 314) of the Xum Yukinori commemorative artbook, "DOES THIS TRADE DRESS MAKE ME LOOK PHAT?":

WITHIN THE LINES: COLOR SCHEME

Xum had protanomaly color blindness, which made it
difficult for him to perceive the color red. As a result,
most colors tended to shift toward different shades of
green or blue in his eyes. So how was he able to color
his Line pieces and other works accurately?

Simply put: by cheating.

When Xum started coloring his pieces for The Line It
Is Drawn, he would pull his colors from scanned
images available on the Internet. For example, if his
piece featured Superman, Xum would find a color
image of a Superman comic book cover on the Inter-
net, open it in Photoshop, and then use the "eyedrop-
per" tool to select a color sample from an area of the
skin, hair highlight, and various pieces of the costume.
He would then use those selected samples to color
the corresponding areas of his Superman figure.
However, due to Ben-Day dot patterns, multiple
shades of digital coloring, or any pixel degradation on
the scanned images, Xum would sometimes select a
purple, grey, or even a brownish hue instead of the
intended Superman blue. Fortunately, Xum's wife,
Namiko, would usually point out any severe color dis-
crepancies before Xum would turn in his work. But
eventually Xum came up with an easier way to make
his coloring more consistent.

Through sheer luck, Xum had managed to acquire an
incomplete copy of the 1982 DC Comics Style Guide
from a clothing company client who used to license
the DC characters for their products but no longer did
- and thus had no more use for "that old clip art
book." The Guide contained a page of PANTONE
swatch colors used in DC licensing, so it was a simple
matter of recreating the swatch grid in Photoshop by
looking up the CMYK equivalents of the PANTONE
colors. Xum then made a color photostat of the Style
Guide swatch pages, and with the help of Namiko
determined which colors were used for the various
DC…

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey, remember the time Tom King wrote that comic book series where a popular Green Lantern was frozen and killed and a lot of fans pretty much broke the Internet because they jumped to the wrong conclusion...? Me neither. I don't even know why I am bringing it up...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Following up on the last day of "CRISIS Month" with what I remember from a conversation I had with Dad about CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, which I initially posted on Twitter over 4 years ago in response to this post by "WednesdayComiXombie"... 1/

A Twitter post from "WednesdayComiXombie" on March 25, 2022...

So... #DCComics erased a great number of universes in comics when #CrisisOnInfinite Earths debuted back during 80's. If you were around when everything got folded into one, were you upset, excited, curious or frustrated w/ outcome? Did it erase work of previous creators? #SHPOLL22

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

July was technically "CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS Month" in 1985, and with the release of the new Absolute Edition, is it also true for 2026. So before CRISIS Month reaches its end, I am sharing some of my dad's Crisis-related fan art done for CBR's "The Line It Is Drawn"...

A CRISIS ON CASTOFF EARTH fanart cover by Xum Yukinori, featuring the Post-Crisis DC Earth Continuity that was left behind after "The New 52" was created in 2011. The Wally West Flash, his daughter Irey in the Impulse costume, Spolier, Jade, Tempest, Donna Troy, the Cassandra Cain Batgirl, Mary Marvel, and Elastigirl and Negative Man from the Doom Patrol charge across a heavily damaged city block toward a mysterious shadowed enemy in the foreground, whose boot is the only thing we see.

Wally West screams at their opponent, "We've already lost so much -- YOU WILL NOT TAKE WHAT IS LEFT!"

A title in the lower right hand corner reads, "Rise of the Titans"

Xum Yukinori fanart spoofing the CRISIS cover of AMAZING HEROES #91, replacing the DC characters with Archie characters.

Along with Pureheart the Powerful (Archie), Miss Vanity (Veronica), Captain Hero (Jughead), Superteen (Betty), and Evilheart (Reggie) from the "Super Teens" stories, Xum added other "alternate universe" Archie Comics characters: Geraldine Grundy of "The Awesome Foursome" from Faculty Funnies; Sharry the Spy Girl from "The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E." story in Archie volume 1, #610-613; Principal Waldo Weatherbee as the caveman King Be from the first "Archie B.C." story published in Archie volume 1, #9; Hot Dog as Bark-Man the Canine Crusader from Jughead's Pal Hot Dog #3; and Archie 3000 from the comic title of the same name. Sabrina the Teenage Witch is presumed to be from the "mainstream" Archie continuity.

Information about The Line It Is Drawn sketch challenge Dad drew the AMAZING HEROES 91 spoof cover for, plus his commentary, as published in his posthumously published commemorative artbook, DOES THIS TRADE DRESS MAKE ME LOOK PHAT?

68. CRISIS ON ALTERNATE RIVERDALES

ENTRY DATA

Line Week: 146
Date: July 5, 2013
Theme: "Amazing Heroes Tribute!": In honor of the late Kim Thompson, the theme this week will be cover homages to Amazing Heroes (which Thompson edited for over a decade). Pick comic book characters and pick an Amazing Heroes cover and our artists will draw a cover homage of that issue with those characters.
Twitter Suggestion: KeithAlanMorgan suggested: Issue 91 featuring Archie, Veronica, and Jughead with other Archie characters in the background.

COMMENTARY
I have always liked the Archie Comics "Super Teens" stories, mainly because of how they would amusingly poke fun as super-hero comic book tropes.

Speaking of poking fun, my aped "Guess Who" signature is a nod to George Pérez's cheeky signoff on the cover of Crisis on Infinite Earths #3.

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Did anyone else receive an email from TwoMorrows two weeks ago offering to ship THE CRISIS COMPANION to you "next week" if you "Order by Sunday, July 19!"... And then arranged to place an order on Saturday, July 18. And your order confirmation says it will ship August 19? Just me...?

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hey, Uncle @fobpodcasts.bsky.social: EXTRA EXTRA! Did you know that a WONDER WOMAN-HULK team-up spinoff from the second SUPERMAN-SPIDER-MAN tabloid was initially planned as a DC-produced Treasury Comic? (CC: Uncle @robkellycreative.bsky.social). From THE COMIC READER #166:

An excerpt from page 1 of THE COMIC READER #166:

DC-Marvel News:

Those of you that believed that no more DC-Marvel collaborations would appear will be shocked to learn that the two companies have apparently signed contracts that provide for tabloid team-up comics to appear annually for the next four years. The second book to co-feature Spider-Man and Superman is slated to appear this year, and it will co-star TV stars Wonder Woman and The Hulk. Marvel will handle the production on the issue, with current plans calling for Roy Thomas to write and John Buscema to pencil, with Joe Sinnott mentioned as possible inker. Then in 1980, DC will take over production of a WONDER WOMAN-HULK team-up, obviously counting on both characters' ability to retain their TV shows. Whether Roy Thomas will attempt to clarify the exact plane of reality all of these books appear on to be decided.

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I was today years old when I learned my dad had met TWO Wonder Women... #TheOtherOneWasShannonFarnon

My late dad's copy of Lynda Carter's 2009 music CD, AT LAST, personally autographed by Ms. Carter herself...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It's THE DARING NEW DIRECTIONS OF SUPERGIRL...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

@themonitortapes.com, @thedailyrios.bsky.social: An interesting #CRISISonINFINITEEARTHS fact I uncovered while reading my dad's copy of AMAZING HEROES #91, the "Special Post-Crisis Issue"...

‪Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori‬
‪@isamuhy.bsky.social‬
· now
@themonitortapes.com
,
@thedailyrios.bsky.social
: An interesting
#CRISISonINFINITEEARTHS fact I uncovered while reading my dad's copy of AMAZING HEROES #91, the "Special Post-Crisis issue...
‪Billy-D‬
‪@docstrange.bsky.social‬
· 9m
Recording with
@derekkunsken.bsky.social
be like
‪Gail Simone‬
‪@gailsimone.bsky.social‬
· 14m
Thank you! Jitter is precious!
‪The Hill Person‬
‪@ofthehillpeople.bsky.social‬
· 1h
I loved the side story about Rogue trying to fix her own accent with speech therapy and how it came around to making Jitter not only feel seen but also giving her the choice to get help with her stutter on her own terms. That's family.
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‪The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell‬
‪@lastwordmsnow.bsky.social‬
· 39m
TONIGHT: Former USAID official
@nenrich.bsky.social
talks to
@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social
on The
#LastWord at 10pm ET.
As Ebola cases hit 1,000, almost 3 million children and adolescents face rising risks in eastern DR Congo – UNICEF
Ebola has left over 130 children orphaned in Ituri, driving urgent need for protection and care
www.unicef.org
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‪Raider‬
‪@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social‬
· 30m
Brilliant 🔥
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‪Kevin M. Kruse‬
‪@kevinmkruse.bsky.social‬
· 42m
Replied to
Kevin M. Kruse
Republicans don't have to be accountable the loud extremists that are running their party, not even the president -- but Democrats everywhere must be accountable for the candidates in a few districts?

Yeah, no.
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‪WIZARDS The Podcast Guide To Comics‬
‪@wizardscomics.bsky.social‬
· 3h
Wizard 129 featured a quiz called the WizCAT (Wizard Comic Aptitude Test) featuring 50 questions for the most hardcore fanboys. How would you stack up next to the likes of
@markwaid.bsky.social
,
@kurtbusiek.bsky.social
and the trivia king,
@tombrevoort.bsky.social
?
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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Congratulations to $1,000 prize winner Beth Eikenbary of Boulder Creek, California for figuring out "Who Shot Danny Scott"... I don't believe they revealed the winners who figured out "Who Slew Kangaroo" and "Who Offed Henry Croft"--at least not in the published Eclipse comics... Maybe in TCBG...?

The cover of Eclipse Comics' WHODUNNIT? issue 1 (on sale June 1986), a brilliant fair-play mystery series by Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle that offered a $1,000 cash prize (in a briefcase) to whomever solved the issue's murder mystery, the solution was revealed in the next issue. It sadly lasted only 3 issues.

The cover shows a bewildered bail bondsman Jay Endicott looking down at the prone dead body of Las Vegas showman Danny Scott, unaware of a masked gunman taking aim behind him...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I have started listening to the last recorded episode of THE CRISIS TAPES (#28) on this morning's bike ride by @thedailyrios.bsky.social and Adam Murdough. My thanks for the shoutout to my dad and his XUM'S WHO project in the feedback section related to the slighted E-1 Superman entry in WHO'S WHO.

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

35 years ago, the final episode of #TheFlash1990 aired. And @johnwesleyshipp.bsky.social shared a brief behind-the-scenes story regarding the final scene shot... www.fwpodcasts.com/xy/misc/JWS-...

fwpodcasts.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

@satmornpod.bsky.social, I had never heard of Crystal Pepsi, and when I Googled it I saw photos of unopened bottles (for sale as "collectors' items"), and the drink is not clear anymore. The high fructose corn syrup and "natural flavours" had oxidized over the years to an "ice tea" shade of brown...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My dad was a comic collector who was also a fan of British popstar Samantha Fox (and he had produced podcasts on both subjects for @fwpodcasts.bsky.social, just search for Xum Yukinori), so it's no surprise that he had received these two gifts from friends of his during "the naughties" (2000s)...

My dad's copies of PERSONALITY COMICS PRESENTS #7, which featured an unauthorized "biography" of British pop star Samantha Fox, and ROCK FANTASY #17, which features Samantha Fox and Paula Abdul (as well as Madonna and Debbie Gibson) as spandex-clad super-heroines. These comics were gifted to Dad from friends who knew he was both a comic book collector and a Samantha Fox fan.

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Mother's Day to my mom, and to all moms -- with great admiration for putting up with their children's nonsense... (Pencil art by Namiko Hideaki-Yukinori)

A pencil sketch of classic Fawcett Comics (and now DC Comics) character Bulletgirl, arms folded before her, head cocked to one side as she rolls her eyes, smiling slightly at whatever unshown nonsense is happening around her. Art by my mom, Namiko Hideaki-Yukinori.

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I have almost caught up with @themonitortapes.com podcast, and I thought I would address a comment Uncle @dta.bsky.social had brought up about the quality of George Pérez's art, and the use of color holds , white-on-black text and special effects like the anti-matter shadows on Alexander Luthor...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

@themonitortapes.com THE SOUND OF BRICKS promo was so BLEEPing funny that it made me tear up so much I couldn’t see. I had to brake my bike immediately because I did NOT want to go down another steep dropoff these rural mountain roads are known for…

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I plugged in one of my dad's old corrupted hard drives into my new computer to see if it could be reformatted, and was surprised to see the computer actually read and open the files! Some of those files have the potential makings of another "lost" podcast episode...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This was on the BACK ISSUE on my Mom's Facebook feed, and I remember hearing my Dad musing about his Uncle Kenzo attending this event in one of his podcasts... carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/2026/02/comi...

carlcafarelli.blogspot.com

COMIC BOOK RETROVIEW: Super DC Con, 1976

THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO co-host and former GOLDMINE magazine writer Carl Cafarelli's thoughts on pop music and pop culture.

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Dad planned to do a Xum's Who entry on MM, but he didn't find the time to write it...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

My dad's eidetic memory was not 100% perfect, but then, what is...?

A screenshot of a March 6, 2019 post by my dad, Xum Yukinori, on the showpage of the Fire and Water Podcast episode #227 that spotlighted the first episode of the Super Friends cartoon that featured the super-hero Firestorm. Dad listed by memory the play-by-play of a 30-second 1984 Super Friends promo from that year's ABS Saturday Morning preview special. Which, as the following video clip shows, was not 100% accurate, but pretty darn close...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Well, technically, Mr. Freberg's one line was cut (in length), so he wasn't lying when he kept telling people that all his lines in the film had been cut... www.newsfromme.com/2025/12/10/a...

newsfromme.com

ASK me: Freberg in Mad World – News From ME

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dranj70 @dranj70.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Interested in the #Supergirl character? I've been writing about her for 17 years over at comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com Covered her comics, shows, movie appearances, and just about everything else! @jamesgunn.bsky.social

comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com

Supergirl Comic Box Commentary

A blog about all things Supergirl, with a healthy dose of Superman and Legion

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Tried an alcoholic beverage for the first time today. I completely understand why my Dad wouldn't touch the stuff...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Also on Sunday, expect a bonus XUM'S WHO entry featuring art by Jack Kirby...!!!

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🎼🎶...You know we've got a mystery to solve/ so Scooby Doo, you get up off of your ass...🎶 (What do you mean, "That isn't how the song goes"...?)

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I enjoy this type of physical therapy...

A Wacom tablet of Isamu's in-progress coloring of comic book artwork. Only the yellow plate is shown so it would not be clear what it is...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Very cool! A print of my Dad's old #GLTAS fan art featuring my sister's own fan art (she was 6 when she drew it) signed by the voice of Aya herself, greydelisle.bsky.social ! Thanks to Uncle Neil for arranging this.

A print of 2018 fan art by my dad, Xum Yukinori, based on Green Lantern the Animated Series, created for "The Line It Is Drawn", a weekly comic book/pop-culture art sketch challenge feature on Comic Book Resources dot com. This particular challenge was to create a Mother's Day card for a comic book character suggested by a reader, and one suggestion was Aya from GLTAS. Though Aya was an animated character and not a comic book one at the time, Dad illustrated the suggestion as a mock comic book cover with the title "Razaya". The main image shows Aya's hands holding a hand-drawn mother's day card from her "future daughter" Ilana. The hand-drawn illustration was actually drawn by my sister, Xum's 6-year-old daughter Aika. It shows Aya holding an alien triangular flower and Red Lantern Razer holding a heart-shaped flower. A double arrow points between the two flowers with the words "Mommy loves Daddy" scrawled in crayon. Aya and Razer both have scribbled rocket flames shooting from the bottom of their feet which enables them to fly. The card reads, in crayon: "Happy Mommy's Day / Love Ilana". The print is autographed in luminescent green ink by Aya's voice actress Grey DeLisle-Griffin.

A close-up of Grey Delisle's autograph, which includes the message: "Aika, The fire of our feet burns as strongly as the fire in our HEARTS!"

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

One of the "specialists" I went to see last year about my Long COVID symptoms told me these "medbeds" were coming and would "erase" my body's COVID damage. He then went on about how well they work, saying that the current President has been using it for years. I hadn't made an appt with him since.

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

35 years ago, this was the day of THE FLASH...

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Regarding the mental health conditions exception, the nearest Walgreens pharmacist didn't believe it was true (though it was was stated on their online form) and had me wait 45 minutes as they tried to look it up and told me to come back the next day... 1/2

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This must had taken place in one of those first comic book stores, because my Dad said that THE AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS was only available by mail order in 1976... (Thanks to @theearth2podcast.bsky.social for the photo.)

A 1976 black and white photo of a Black boy and a Caucasian boy sitting on the floor amid a pile of comic books, reading an issue of HOWARD THE DUCK. A magazine rack is behing them, which contains a copy of THE AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS fanzine that was only available via mail order, which makes me think this was taking place in a comic book store and not a newsdealer shop.

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We were glad to back this. One of my mom's favorite books, illustrated by one of her favorite artists... ...but adapted by what used to be one of our favorite writers. Although Gaiman would not receive any proceeds, we're still a bit... ambivalent about reading it. At least we can enjoy the art.

A shrinkwrapped copy of Good Omens, the graphic novel, illustrated by Colleen Doran.

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Isamu Hideaki-Yukinori @isamuhy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Hey, @satmornpod.bsky.social ... Check out Spotify A.I.'s attempt to add subtitles to the Zips shoes commercial from your recent "Meatballs and Spaghetti" episode... [Audio: You really need... Zips (shoes)]

A screenshot of the Spotify app as it uses A.I. to add subtitles to a recording of a 1982 Zips shoes commercial targeting kids and teens. The audio says: "You really need... Zips (shoes)", but the A.I. subs read, "You really need sex."

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