Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 13/05/2026RIP Rex Reed. Critic, Gong Show judge, and old-school Hollywood crackpot from back when it was possible that could keep you essential for decades. They’re passing away from this earth but Gene Shalit lives. 020
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The great @zandercannon.bsky.social came back in 2025 to once again shame everyone in the field by putting out the best book of the year. This is a must-have for the shelf 1173
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Honestly this new extra-long season of “Adam Ruins his Credibility” is getting really tedious. 130
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 11/04/2026On this most recent episode of The Pitt, one character makes a Rumble Fish reference and another character recognizes it. I was told this was a realistic show. 030
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Dan is, at least, one of the top 3 Spidey writers of all time, and all of these stories are top tier. Though I’m personally partial to Venom Inc… 030
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Look, I agree that it’s a net societal good that sora is shutting down, but it’s going to drastically cut down the number of AI videos in my social media feed of overweight people filling their homes with diarrhea and I’m allowed to mourn. 000
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 11/03/2026The thing that makes Joe Bob (and @darcythemailgirl.bsky.social) special is the love. Love of movies, and the love of people, and his sappy, tender heart that gets him choked up reading viewer mail more episodes than not. I’m glad that comes through strongest here: variety.com/2026/tv/feat...variety.comJoe Bob’s ‘Joyous Cancellation’: The Horror Host on Ending ‘The Last Drive-In,’ How Fans Lifted Him Up and His New Production CompanyJoe Bob Briggs, the host of Shudder's 'The Last Drive-In,' talks about the show's sudden cancellation and all of the things he's planning to do next. 020
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I have to miss this once-in-a-lifetime 35mm showing of my favorite Kurosawa film because I’m officiating a wedding that weekend. It’s unreasonable to ask any of the parties to reschedule, so my request is that someone finally release a remastered 4K disc of this movie. I’m afraid I have to insist. 010
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 01/03/2026I got to work with Larry on GI: Joe when it was re-launched at IDW. Both he and Chuck Dixon, two indisputable legends, were so kind and welcoming to be me as a collaborator even though at the time I’d written exactly six issues of comics. But Larry was a special kind of legend so I am not surprised: 021
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Sure my giant art-destroying theft-machine guzzles up water and crucial resources, but you know what else does that? A BABY! Checkmate, libs! 041
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Cat Stevens probably intuited that if the dad was missing his son’s childhood because he was getting obscenely wealthy from ruining the world, people might not like the song as much 080
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 30/01/2026I’ve been seeing this post circulating and I really hate it. If you’re going to be a pedant about something, you actually have to be correct. That’s the whole point of the exercise! That’s the juice! Anyway, Superman is a refugee. The iconic DC superhero who is an immigrant is Wonder Woman. 020
Reposted by Mike CostaDerek DelGaudio @derekdel.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Stephen Colbert announced that his last show airs May 21st. What a coincidence, that's National Cancel Paramount+ Day. 8942351256
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 26/01/2026RIP to Sal Buscema, one of the last bronze-age greats. You guys had over two years to do what I said here and I really hope you did it. 0111
Reposted by Mike CostaPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it. 5452870410167
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Not to be posting so soon again about Mark, but he’s really on the hype-train after the failure of his Netflix projects and the vanishing sales of his recent uninspired comics, and he wants you to know he can say the n-word again, which must be a huge relief to him: www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...thetimes.comCancel culture is over and we’re free again, says comic book writerMark Millar, who sold his Millarworld empire to Netflix in 2017, said he was looking forward to ‘crazy’ stories on screen and in print once more 050
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 09/06/2025As a 20 year resident of LA I am once again embarrassed for my city. This is some bush-league “rioting.” The news is showing a live feed of people slowly walking with a crawl saying “objects thrown onto police cars.” Absolutely pathetic. Philly outdoes this with an average Eagles win. Do better, LA! 010
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Mark Millar spent the last few years beating the drum that publishers need to support brick and mortar comic stores and cheekily implying that maybe he’d do a big event book for one of the Big Two in order to help rejuvenate the sales market and create a bonanza for stores to benefit from… 121
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 25/05/2025RIP to Peter David, the greatest (and certainly among the last) of a certain generation of comic book journeymen who wrote absolutely everything. TV episodes. Novelizations. Games. Also maybe the first writer to be significant pundit in the industry, a before-its-time trend. Relentless innovator 050
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 29/04/2025We are at the vet and some idiot in the waiting room has Yakety Sax as his ringtone and he is getting a LOT of calls. 120
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025So who’s going to jump in a boat to the McDonald Islands and inspire a Penguin Juneteenth by delivering the news that, unbeknownst to them, they’ve won a trade war against the most powerful economy in the world? 110
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Happy 20th anniversary to Frank and Robert Rodriguez’s SIN CITY, released on this day in 2005. Not a… *good* movie in the commonly understood sense of that word. But such a pure expression of fuck-you renegade filmmaking, from concept to execution, that you can’t not respect it. 010
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 28/03/2025What an unbelievable piece of shit this guy is. “Whoops I meant to cure cancer but instead I became a billionaire by stealing from every single artist on the planet and swamping the world in an accelerating tide of inhuman shit. Whomp whomp.” Jesus Christ himself would break this motherfucker’s jaw 020
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 20/03/2025My parents are coming to visit in a few days and I’ve been telling my dog how she’s going to get so much more love and snuggles. I don’t think she necessarily grasps the idea of a potential days-off event or even has much of a concept of the future. But how will she ever learn if I don’t explain it? 010
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Remember when Jonah Hill put out that documentary about how great his therapist was, and then like right after he got busted for forcing his girlfriend to unfollow dudes on Instagram or whatever, and forbidding her from wearing bikinis? That’s when I knew. I knew that civilization had been a mistake 120
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 27/12/2024What is this weird new trend of comic book series using excessively wordy sentences as titles? Not trying to call out or shame any particular person, just, what is- what? 040
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 16/07/2024Watching Heisei era Godzilla movies. Salarymen reacting cartoonishly to being dragooned into one outlandish high tech Godzilla-response force after another. Bright blue 1980s skies and gleaming modernist skyscrapers. That latter-day Economic Miracle aesthetic that has colonized my imagination 121
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 25/04/2024Love it when the pilot updates you on the weather at your destination and tells you the direction of the wind. Oh, wind out of the east! Good! None of that south wind shit. 052
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 06/03/2024PEAK SEASON is up on Mubi. My favorite from SXSW last year. A magnificent little movie about displaced romance, like a sunnier LOST IN TRANSLATION without the dream-pop ennui. Watching it felt like peeking into an alternate dimension where they still make low-stakes movies with gloss and craft 000
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 26/12/2023Three of my favorite movies in 2023, AMERICAN FICTION, DREAM SCENARIO, and THE HOLDOVERS., are about academics. Two of the three are put on suspension because of their woke snowflake students. A different two of the three fart explosively. What a year in film. 000
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 28/11/2023Rewatching MARS ATTACKS: a wonderful point in film history when a weirdo could make a big budget SFX movie where every character is some loathsome avatar of American shit-headedness and you’re supposed to laugh when they’re cruelly disintegrated by monsters. We live in a fallen world 000
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 16/11/2023Trailer for Napoleon playing silently on the TV above this bar. Joaquin Phoenix looks insane in this costume. Like you’d imagine a guy in an institution who has lost his mind would look. Legitimately deranged. Looking forward to it! 000
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 08/11/2023For anyone following me on Letterboxd, some context: Any movie in which a character takes a shotgun blast to the head is an automatic three stars. Just calling balls and strikes here. 000
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 12/10/2023My first panel as a pro was a Wildstorm thing and I got to sit next to Keith and I told everyone how in awe I was to be on the same panel as him and he insulted me and nothing has ever happened to me since then that’s made me feel more like I’d made it. All time legend. 040
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 18/09/2023A crime thriller where after Tibetan Independence, the Dalai Lama dies (is assassinated?) and Triads get leverage on one of the lamas searching for the new one, giving the inside track on the Test to one of their own, installing a Dalai Lama of their choosing. Now the Triads run their own country. 000
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 16/09/2023In my job I’ve never had occasion to say “this meeting could have been an email.” But I’m constantly thinking “this TV show could have been a movie” so I feel you. I feel you. 010
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 14/09/2023Considering watching Anger Management before too many members of the principle cast have died. 000
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 28/08/2023I’ve been wondering recently if it would be worth it to re-read all of the Dark Tower books, even though I’m 100% certain it definitely wouldn’t be. What a curious animal is man, to wonder and at the same time to know. 000
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 20/08/2023In LA even the earthquakes are petty attention whores. 120
Mike Costa @mikecosta.bsky.social · 19/08/2023Cops can carry guns that literally kill people but I can’t set off a fire extinguisher at the bank. 000
