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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 14h

these weird sharks are probably the best and worst drawings in the entire liefeld x-force

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In Spider-Man #16 by Macfarlane, Juggernaut literally knocks over one of the twin towers and then cackles maniacally

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Amazing panel from X-force #2, 1991 where 9/11 straight up happens and Spider-Man’s reaction is “uh-oh"

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i think one of the most amazing things about schultz is that the first Peanuts strip sets the tone of every single one that follows. the voice is so insanely consistent. hilarious yet so dark. the only cartoonist who every matched him is bill watterson.

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

as someone currently subjecting themselves to Ecrits, i feel deeply seen by this

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People talk a lot of shit about Liefeld’s anatomy for Marvel, but I think we should all take a moment to appreciate the actual action figure insanity of this Macfarlane Spider-Man cover.

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This essay by Umberto Eco about the Count of Monte Cristo is the best essay to read in order to understand Chris Claremont’s X-Men: "By dint of excess, melodrama and kitsch verge on the sublime, while excess tips over into genius." www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10...

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The Cult of the Imperfect by Umberto Eco

October 28, 2019 – Umberto Eco on the merits of imperfect works of art, including ‘The Count of Monte Cristo,’ ‘Hamlet,’ and ‘Casablanca.’

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

almost halfway through my reread of Chris Claremont’s contiguous run of X-Men! Good god.

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Dylan Orosz🩵 @finalboyo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Art by Bruce Timm

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THE INVISIBLE DAMAGES ON ABSOLUTE BATMAN ARE BACK THEYRE IN MY WALLS THEYRE STEALING MY COPPER WIRE THEYRE FUCKING MY WIFE AND EATING MY SNACKS!! DO UOU BELIEVE ME?!?! DO YOU?!?!

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Love ending a shift at a “leftist” bookstore with an older cishet coworker with a stock portfolio dude says ableist ageist shit to me even as I tell him it’s offensive. I wish I was working with @plaguingpossum.bsky.social more 😞

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s true, I’m the contestant she murdered, and the scallops WERE rubbery. I deserved it

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Cartoonists United @cartoonist.coop · 28/09/2026

Are you and your webcomic affected by the impending Tapas shutdowns? In light of recent events, the CartUn journal has published a new guide on webcomic hosting and moving platforms. journal.cartoonist.coop/webcomic-hos...

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another marvel choice: Daredevil Born Again from Miller and Mazuccheli is (in my opinion) a WAY more enjoyable read than I ever found watchmen to be. Watchmen is so miserable when read in the 21st century.

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not to dispute the central gist of the original post here but isnt watchmen specifically always in print because DC doesn’t want to lose rights to it? Also not sure that there’s a watchmen equivalent anywhere else in DC’s roster honestly. Maybe new frontier?

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Matt Fraction Hawkeye immediately comes to mind as a Marvel book that collects as well as Watchmen and is as if not more experimental than Watchmen was at the time

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This manga and it anime are some of the greatest masterpieces of the comics and animation medium

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love when older generations write about a lost generation…like your generation thought cigarettes were good for you, and the one before you were doing laudanum and quaaludes or whatever

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Comics topography post! Byrne appreciation post! Grid appreciation post!

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Losty @aaronlosty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Might flirt with some artist for hire gigs if anyone will have me. I'm fast, reliable, good™️, can bend style. Here's some vampires doing vampire things. Will work for money.

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A fun screenshot from Gooner Interlude II: Ecstasy in the (Goon)Cave

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Kenny Meyers @kennym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Beyond sad. A great crew.

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This has gotta be one of the scariest and also most hilarious things I’ve seen in comics in a while.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jim Aparo’s wonderful cover to 1972’s The Phantom Stranger #23. It really is SO good.

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There’s someone really kinky about the way that Abraham begs God to have mercy on the city of Sodom. Like…why’s he whining like that? So bratty...

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Ben Wrex @benwrex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

summer is OVER in Eugene, I am PUMPED, I could PUNCH THE SKY, FUCK YOU SUMMER, this is MY TIME now!!!!

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Gotta love the goofiness of my life: Reading Lacan for research on an essay on the ecstasy of gooning while listening to “Post” by Bjork next to my gorgeous wife.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 26/08/2023

Among his people, the Inhumans of the Hidden Land of Attilan, he is known by his true name, Benedict Cumberbatch. But to the rest of the world, he is the formidable Ben Cum

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“Squeezing the Toothpaste From the Middle” an archival interview with Todd Macfarlane from Wizard Magazine doublestuffhater.substack.com/p/squeezing-...

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Squeezing the Toothpaste From the Middle

An archival interview with Todd Macfarlane in Wizard Magazine #11

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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nice try, Lucy! (Art from Peanuts Every Sunday 1956-1960: Paperback Edition by Charles M. Schulz) ow.ly/t0qf50ZM7IS

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 12/09/2026

a trans person punched me and ran off with my gold medal in Olympic dodgeball

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Hating not being at SPX so much, what the hell.

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

this is maybe one of the coolest things i’ve read all week.

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This makes a lot of sense for a man who wouldn’t know the definition of hilarious if it were written in dog poo across an issue of the Ultimates.

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Exciting news for people who like paying more for something worse!

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I live near an elementary/middle school and it’s shocking how much the sounds of delight and play sound like the shrieks of gleeful violence and terror. Makes me wonder if I was also going around shrieking as a kid…I don’t remember shrieking?

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What's up y'all? We're back with our thirtieth episode, which marks about a year of the Absolute Ultimate Escapist Comics podcast being back! We talk the return of Gotham Central, Karman Blade, Clayface, and of course, Ed Brubaker(spoiler alert, we're team not-Edward). Tune in!!

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New Episode of Absolute Ultimate Escapist is out!! doublestuffhater.substack.com/p/episode-30...

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Episode 30: Is It Boy Love?

Or the 9/11 Episode

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ever wonder if gooning is actually a utopian subalternate highway to an alternate reality?

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

KRAZY KAT IN THE 25th CENTURY PANEL ONE: Krazy Kat is hit by a neon-glowing drone-brick. PANEL TWO: Elsewhere, Ignatz Mouse’s smart wristwatch pings with an incoming messagez PANEL THREE: We see the notification: BRICK SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERED PANEL FOUR: Ignatz sighs. “It’s just not the same.”

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Tate McFadden @janethesturgeon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Possibly my looniest substack to date, read “The Gooner Interlude,” an excerpt from my book project D*ke Project! doublestuffhater.substack.com/p/the-gooner...

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The Gooner Interlude

An excerpt from my book-length project ‘Dyke Poppers’

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