Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 9hi'm out here still lighting a candle for Manhattan Projects, which hot take is better than Krakoa, Avengers, and all the other attempts to do it again. 220
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 9hkind of hilarious that by the time Marvel has an Absolute knock-off together and out, the wheels are imo kind of showing signs of falling off Absolute 110
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 9hi have never seen a comic book company sweat more visibly in response to another than Marvel has in these books, and that includes Heroes Reborn. they won't last two years. (pivot to romance! pivot to hard-sci-fi! pivot to screwball comedy! anything but horror-grit. That lane is taken!) 320
Reposted by Justin MartinAnn LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026friday is for kafkaposting 4768361627
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 10/10/2026HEY ARNOLD is more '''mature''' than anything Tom King has ever written because it is about, sometimes, failed dreams and pain and humiliation and the complex interweaving of humankind not just, yknow, pew pew, Iraq HEY ARNOLD was willing to confuse, isolate, and contradict the viewer/itself 1155
Reposted by Justin Martinwerewolf ver mitzvah 🗿 @ver.ooo · 09/10/2026tech bro is short for technically broccoli 525039
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026today is one of the hopefully-single-digit-number of days in which I'm bleeding freely from my ass 000
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There's nothing about comics as a form or hero comics as a genre that ultimately HAS to lend itself to the tactics of drug dealers and carnival barkers, is what I'm saying. 040
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 09/10/2026nothing against this excellent critic, but it's amazing how hard we're having to hit "it is good when things happen and bad when they don't" in 2026 comics, especially at $5 a pop. The medium-genre is just far less advanced and complete than even other pulpy nerd shit is, let alone literature 130
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026yesyeyesyesyes ding ding ding ding confetti in my brain 020
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I don't think you get Absolute without Young Animal. could come back tomorrow and still feel fresh. and in many ways I'd prefer it. 020
Reposted by Justin Martindeer @planetofdeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026entire Young Animal line was devoured by little undergrad me but special attention must be paid to Eternity Girl by @magsvisaggio.com & Sonny Liew, a book that instantly transformed my relationship to comics, my body, the world, etc. 152
Reposted by Justin Martindeer @planetofdeer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026dropped like a bomb during my freshman year of college and irreparably warped the landscape of my young mind. god bless @misscecil.bsky.social, Gerard Way, et al 262
Reposted by Justin MartinMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it 4541371005
Reposted by Justin Martinwarrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Every dollar spent on social services is, in some sense, a theft from the weapons industry 232800408
Reposted by Justin MartinHenry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality) @talkinghenry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger! 332745908
Reposted by Justin Martinjosh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 06/10/2026you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection 2030311102
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026we should talk about terry o'quinn like we talk about jon hamm and bryan cranston and ian mcshane and james gandolfini and we don't, for some reason 120
Reposted by Justin Martinfarner @farnerb0cken.bsky.social · 05/10/2026men who sacrifice liberty for bibberty deserve neither 221736377
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026[the Leftovers is not a lostalike, please don't think I'm shooting spitballs at it. Lanterns, however, has been just fucking sad.) 100
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026okay i agree that none of the Lostalikes were good (largely cuz none stole the single-character-focus-with-flashbacks format) but are we saying it killed the star treks and the medical dramas AND whatever else? because I think that's streaming more than Lost 100
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 07/10/2026man i'm so glad lost got to be the third-or-fourth-to-last real longform tv drama 110
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026in shift after shift of phone-banking, if I can get a person out of cynicism for 3 seconds, I can get them to move mountains In the voters' defense, representatives DO need to give things to believe in. Concrete things. Bread. Civil rights. Clean air But in politicians' defense: you gotta care 020
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026fully believe that, at any given moment, a Hardware show could be the most talked-about television show in America. dangerous. alive. that comic feels like it came out next week. 010
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026superhero comics are perhaps the only genre where somebody is praised primarily for their ability to echo - down to the smallest peak and trough in the soundwave - what has come before. 020
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026i have a habit of reading every superhero comic starring x character. 3 or 4 runs one after another. and every so often i am like. "you know it's normal for, after 2-3-5-10-30-50 years of stories about a character, for them to gain like, one additional desire or personality trait or habit?" 110
Reposted by Justin MartinRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.ms.nowOutgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump. 25797663046
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 03/10/2026what do you guys think watto is doing right now 000
Reposted by Justin MartinJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/10/2026Sorry. Things have been rough for me for the last little while. And all of this discussion has made me think a lot. And at the end of it all, on reflection, my response to getting very hurt is not to get angry or put my defences up. Not to withdraw. It seems it's to love even harder. 21012
Reposted by Justin MartinJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/10/2026I don't think I am naive. I just don't think I can rewire the fundamentals of who I am. And what has always driven me. Even if it has made me incredibly vulnerable. And always will. 1962
Reposted by Justin MartinJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/10/2026I have often been "too" loving and honest in my life, towards people who have exploited that and hurt me. But I hope I never change. I think I would rather be crushed by the cruelty of the world than become someone who loves less freely. Who does not truly long, in my heart, for love for all. 11239
Reposted by Justin MartinJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/10/2026The people who have hurt me most in the world. Who have caused me vicious, immeasurable harm. I desire no revenge or comeuppance. I simply wish they were better people, who would no longer cause that harm to others. And that this grants them all the peace and love and happiness in the world. 214014
Reposted by Justin MartinJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/10/2026I think I just fundamentally believe people are what they do. There is no inherently good or bad person, born or made. Our actions do not leave moral stains on our souls. We must have the agency to stop causing harm. To repair what we can. And to be better people. And I want that for everyone. 531256
Reposted by Justin MartinRevolutionary Jason @jason.revolutionarygames.co · 01/10/2026The Wall Street Journal, the official paper of the owner class, is reporting that clear majorities of Americans support a pause on AI development, a wealth tax on billionaires, Medicare for All, a $20 minimum wage, and to end military aid to Israel. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...wsj.comExclusive | Americans Want Populist Policies That Defy Traditional Political LabelsA new Wall Street Journal survey finds broad support for caps on prescription drug prices and strong border security. 313530
Reposted by Justin Martint. @hapax.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i like sff but i think accepting that i like it more the more it is grounded in Recognizably, The World, Where Me And My Friends Live. pastfuturealternate earths yes up to a point but i dont want to hear about a secondary world or, in the sf case, a planet, unless the sentences are Very good(?) 161
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Do you think they would have kept going with it if the entire universe was not taking a justified ACAB turn at that very moment? I always wonder if it was meant to go longer and then someone got cold feet. 100
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I think it will be true that the next interesting Batman writer could have written Laughing Fish. Don’t tell me what you can do in a year, tell me what you can do in 22 pages. And better yet tell me how those pages will rhyme with the previous 22 or the next 22. 011
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’d be perfectly OK if we started marketing everything as a perennial artist driven timeless thing, but let’s pick a lane. We’re either telling an ongoing story with some escalation or we’re doing a prestige standalone thing. Fit the narrative to the thing you’re marketing. 110
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My crank thing – and I’m sorry that I’m still on this like more than a decade later but I think about it constantly – is this comic doesn’t have fucking arcs if we define “arc” as “something that has to happen after another thing that happens”. Pretty much all of it could’ve happened in any order 133
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026we're only fucked if we stay isolated. get off social media, find a candidate you believe in, pick up a phone, and tell the truth. 051
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just spent maybe 20 minutes on the phone with someone who went from "my husband had a stroke, I'm probably not voting this year" to "Mike Carey did WHAT to Medicaid?" to "wait, that affected you HOW?" to "wait, the system can be better?!" to crying to "thank you so much, I'm voting for Don Leonard" 161
Reposted by Justin MartinKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026working on a theory that there are five maximally thirst-quenching beverages: the Great Slakes 5462
Justin Martin @jmartinwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2026THE MIDNIGHT GOSPEL is so good and it's a shame it was evidently made out of the only six intelligent conversations Duncan Trussell ever had 051
Reposted by Justin MartinJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/09/2026When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit. When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power. When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds. 42288112200
Reposted by Justin MartinNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/09/2026in "the gambler" by Kenny Rogers when he says "you got to know when to hold em / know when to fold em / know when to walk away / know when to run" he was talking about doing funny little bits on podcasts 1522