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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 59m

I'M TRAPPED IN A SEWER WITH A CONFESSED ARSONIST, BROCK! HELP ME!

Brock Samson and Dr. Venture from The Venture Bros.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 5h

She's waiting for you, @gailsimone.bsky.social, and I don't know if you're ready to deal with that.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 03/10/2026

But when I'd see things like that, I'd try to provide searchers something to reward their efforts, so I drew that picture along with these.

Hello Kitty with devil horns and a devil tail holding a pitchfork and wearing a red dress.

Hello Kitty dressed like Shanna the She-Devil

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 30/09/2026

Right after he defeats Green Lantern

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 30/09/2026

Did Charlie the Tuna have a death wish or a vore fetish, or some combination of the two?

Charlie the Tuna underwater getting his usual "Sorry Charlie" note from Starkist on a fishing hook. They are apologizing for not catching him, killing him, and canning him so that he can be consumed.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 29/09/2026

I never said it was! Get off my fucking sack!

YouTube video thumbnail showing a hand holding some kind of white device that looks to have a USB-C slot.
Title is "This is not a Wii remote..."
Channel name is Jon Bringus

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 28/09/2026

Artist! Quote with the artwork you cannot explain!

A sketch of a Guardian of the Universe wearing black socks with sandals saying, "Green Lantern of Sector 2814: We Guardians have considered your request and decided PBBBBT!!!" while blowing a raspberry.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 28/09/2026

Share someone who looks stylish posing with or next to a car. Jon Maki (1997)

Me in October of 1997 standing next to, I believe, a Dodge Neon.
I'm hungover, holding a cigarette, wearing glasses, and dressed all in black with a Type O Negative T-shirt and a leather biker jacket

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 28/09/2026

Finished reading this earlier. Even though I'd read most - all?- of the stories back in the day, it wasn't until I was about a quarter of the way through this time that my eyes stopped gliding over it and the name of the law firm actually registered with me.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 27/09/2026

I clicked on the video out of curiosity and it's just...like that? I cropped a capture of it it - leaving out the actual YouTuber - and, like, what kind of potato are they using?

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 27/09/2026

NTT was from the first comic shop I ever went to, but never went to again. MOS was from eventually became my LCS, but until I became a university student in the city where it was located, it was only my semi-local comic shop as it was 100 miles away (which still made it the closest).

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 25/09/2026

I know there were others before this - most likely Casper or Richie Rich - but this is the first one I actually remember reading.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 25/09/2026

And, of course, the Super BFFs. (I have these, but am too lazy to take a picture of mine.)

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 23/09/2026

Seriously, it's like Byrne parodying himself in WHAT THE--?! #2

An extreme close up of Lex Luthor's face stretched out to fill the panel
GOOP!
Now
THAT THAT'S
SETTLEP ...

I CAN GET ON WITH
MY OWN PLAN TO
PESTROY THE
FANTASTICAL
FOUR ...

JUST FOR
SOMETHING

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 23/09/2026

I saw the trailer for their movie when I went to see SUPERGIRL and it struck me as such a relic of a bygone era. Over the past six years I've gone to movies so rarely that seeing something so outdated made me feel like I'd been transported back in time to the late 2000s or early 2010s.

Thumbnail for a Hot Ones Versus video featuring Anna Faris, Leslie Mann, Michelle Buteau, and Isla Fisher

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 22/09/2026

I was in bed. I was tired. Why could I not sleep? All of the necessary components were in place. Should have been an easy layup.

Motivation speaker on The Simpsons saying "There's no trick to it. It's just a simple trick."

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 21/09/2026

I still think there's value in the overall conversational approach to talking about comics. It just needs to be done by people that other people actually want to have a conversation with. They say the internet isn't real life, but I find the below applies in both places.

Distracted boyfriend meme
Woman in red is labeled Literally anyone else
Boyfriend is labeled Person I'm talking to
Annoyed girlfriend is labeled Me

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 20/09/2026

I feel like this belongs on Bluesky.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 17/09/2026

This was an amusing coincidence to wake to this morning.

On this day
2 years ago

Jon Maki
September 17, 2024 . :

Those are sensible, quality Community Guidelines if you ask me.

Tegan O'Neil
@teganoneil5000.bsky.social
perhaps Lois is working directly with TikTok to suppress this
information

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Meatballs and Spaghetti will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Comic book ad for the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon Meatballs and Spaghetti

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 14/09/2026

Oh, hey, neat. Be cool if that translated to traffic to Comics Unbagged, but can't be greedy, I guess.

Jon Maki
@jonpaulmaki.com
3K followers 2.8K following 20K posts
The 3K followers is circled in red

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 14/09/2026

Apparently they’ve cast the new #JamesBond

A black and white photo of Don Knotts in a suit

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 12/09/2026

I did find this lovestruck Tyrannosaurus, anyway.

A cartoon tyrannosaurus, its mouth open, drool dripping from its tongue, with little hearts floating around its head

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 09/09/2026

Damn, life must have been hell for you on Paradise Island, Diana.

Diana Prince talking in the foreground, a blonde woman behind her, and a man standing off to the right
Diana: I'm for equal wages, too! But I'm not a joiner. I wouldn't fit with your group. In most cases, I don't even like women?

Art by Dick Giordano, written by Samuel Delany
Woman: You don't like women?

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 09/09/2026

Her what now? Haney really loved to pull things out of his ass. Later, her Amazon Guardian Angel saves Diana from being run over by a truck delivering bananas - the driver conveniently tells us that's what he's delivering - when she's lying unconscious on an off-ramp.

Diana Prince looks up and sees a woman in a golden cloak and armor on the roof of a building.

HO, WONPER
WOMAN! WHAT
TRUMPET TO ADVENTURE
DO YOU ANSWER IN
THIS PLACE

MY AMAZON
GUARDIAN ANGEL!

I'M HERE TO HELP
AN OLD FRIEND --
THE BATMAN!

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 09/09/2026

I don't recall ever seeing Bruce Wayne smoking before. Maybe the Golden Age version smoking a pipe, particularly after he became commissioner. But a Tiparillo? New to me.

Panel from Brave and the Bold 105, art by Jim Aparo
Bruce Wayne is smoking a cigar at a table in a restaurant talking to the owner

STRUMMING GUITARS ...
STACCATO HEEL-STAMPING ...
THE ODOR OF SAFFRON AND
CIGARS! SPAIN? MEXICO?
NO, A FANCY CAFE IN GOTHAM
CITY, WHERE BRUCE ( BATMAN)
WAYNE HAS JUST FINISHED
DINNER ...

IT WAS SUPERB,
AS USUAL, CARLOS!
HOW'S BUSINESSE

EXCELENTE, SEÑOR
WAYNE ! SO MANY OF
MY COUNTRYMEN LIVE HERE
IN EXILE SINCE THE WAR IN
SAN SEBASTIAN, I AM GETTING
RICH !

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 08/09/2026

What Marge says, but also the bit with Kent Brockman placing the blame directly on you, the viewers (readers).

Marge Simpson: Hmm. That's true, but he shouldn't say it.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 08/09/2026

I thought, "Wow, that's quite a drop. It was in the upper 60s when I went to bed." Then I realized that I actually *was* in bed and had not gotten up. Me, to my brain:

Lenny and Carl from The Simpsons.
Lenny is saying, "That never, uh, happened, did it, Homer?"

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 08/09/2026

Cast a role, other than the actual casting. Scarlett Johansson as Ava Lord in SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 05/09/2026

Against US. I can't leap tall buildings in a single bound or change the course of mighty rivers, and neither can you. But WE can. We just need to be reminded of that. From ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN #23 Written by Jason Aaron, art and colors by Juan Ferreyra, and letters by Becca Carey

A page from Absolute Superman 23 showing Superman destroying the possessions of wealthy people

THESE PEOPLE TO
WHOM THE REST OF US
AREN'T PEOPLE.

BUT ...
THINGS.

AS PETTY AS IT SEEMS IN THE
FACE OF SUCH DEPRAVITY ... I NEED
FOR THEM TO SEE THAT ALL THAT
IS MOST PRECIOUS TO THEM ...

... CAN BE
TAKEN AWAY

EVERY LUXURY
THEIR WEALTH
AFFORDED
THEM.

EVERY
COMFORT AND
PROTECTION.

EVERY MEANS
OF ESCAPE.

Written by Jason Aaron, art and colors by Juan Ferreyra, and letters by Becca Carey

A page from Absolute Superman 23 showing Superman destroying the possessions of wealthy powerful people, including depositing yachts in the desert

I NEED THEM TO SEE HOW
QUICKLY THEIR ILLUSIONS OF
POWER CAN DISAPPEAR.

EVERYTHING THEY THOUGHT
WOULD SHIELD THEM ... KEEP
THEM UNREACHABLE ...

... THEY HAVE
TO SEE HOW
USELESS IT IS ...

AGAINST ME.

Written by Jason Aaron, art and colors by Juan Ferreyra, and letters by Becca Carey

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 05/09/2026

This Mr. Wizard image has big "the bicycle shop from that very special episode of DIFF'RENT STROKES" energy.

Mr. Wizard and a bespectacled kid doing some kind of educational experiment

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 04/09/2026

When did this start happening?

Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com . 4h
Oh, you're looking for a photograph of a person? Best I can do is an
80px by 80px thumbnail, Al slop, or someone's digital painting on
DeviantArt. 1/2

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com . 4h
Can I interest you in a gif for ants? 2/2

The 1/2 and 2/2 at the end of the posts are circled in red

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 04/09/2026

*Sigh* And pretty much all of the things you have, if not in all the same formats...

The top shelf of a spinner rack filled with comics by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips with a sign that says Brubaker & Phillips

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 02/09/2026

And in that same issue, Diana gives Supergirl my least favorite costume for her. She apparently just had it? In her boutique? It doesn't appear to be made of Kryptonian fabric, though she could have made it from Supergirl's existing costume, which ad been shredded by magic. But that's never said.

Caption: As Morgana fades from view, Supergirl turns to Wonder Woman
Thank you, Diana. And thank you for my new costume!
It was a pleasture, Supergirl. And I hope we meet again soon! Goodbye for now.

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Jon Maki @jonpaulmaki.com · 02/09/2026

There's a story from an issue of ADVENTURE in here featuring Supergirl and Diana teaming up and in it Supergirl is a telepath?

Supergirl with her eyes closed standing next to an unconscious girl.
Caption: Concentrating with a mighty effort, Supergirl delves deeply into the girl's subconscious
Supergirl thinking: I'm getting something. It's getting clearer.

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