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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 30/09/2026

Huh, would you look at that youtube.com/@divinin...

My YouTube, Divining Comics, has 100 subscribers

Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 25/08/2026

There are 26 pages of this and 1 page of Simpson's notes to the colorist (anyone have suggestions for alt text when each script page supersedes the character limit of 2000)?

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 20/08/2026

What economic system has lead to the deaths of hundreds of millions, mass starvation, widespread poverty, and the general immiseration of humankind? I'll give you a hint:

WP Podcast host that looks like a 55 year old youth pastor at a hip trendy church says "Socialism is not the answer"

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 07/08/2026

As a heterosexual man myself I can't say I approve, but I support women, so I guess I'll tolerate Mary Jane Watson hating the straights

Peter Parker says to MJ, "DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH, MARY JANE. YOU WOULDN'T BE SORRY IF YOUR OWN MOTHER DIED. WHAT DO YOU CARE ABOUT STRAIGHTS LIKE ME AND GWEN?"

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 05/08/2026

How will I ever recover from being called "l'imbecil"?

Comment on my YouTube that says "Voilà I'mbecile, 'Blake & Mortimer' c'est une
Bande Desinéè BELGIENNE!!!!"

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 31/07/2026

"Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not take care of you?"

Meme of the guy putting his hand on another guy's shoulder but it is Jesus. Meme by @luxangelae

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 10/07/2026

Yeah all of those were disqualifying before the rape allegations, I agree. I'm not talking about Platner at all in my post.

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 02/07/2026

I spent $20 on this classified ad in Comics! The Magazine #5, out yesterday.

My ad encouraging you to "Take the Divining Comics Challenge of 52 comics from across the globe and across time in 52 weeks" by watching my YouTube channel, Divining Comics

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 01/07/2026

Rare Alan Moore L. As if there aren't a large number of autists that range from, on the light end, "hierarchy based on merit is good" to the extreme Nazi autists.

- Why neurodiverse people naturally favor liberating, horizontal arrangements over strict hierarchies

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 18/06/2026

I don't think they ever even got to the titular event. They Surf Dracula-ed the mysterious big thing the whole show was named after and never got to it. You can hate LOST all you want, but its imitators were infinitely worse

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 12/06/2026

PranaDM is reporting that DEADMAN # 1 outsold AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Just nuts.

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 04/06/2026

THE WICKED + THE DIVINE (written by @kierongillen.bsky.social, drawn by @mckelvie.bsky.social, colored by Matt Wilson, and lettered by @claytoncowles.bsky.social)

A scene from WATCHMEN (actually written by Alan Moore, drawn and lettered by Dave Gibbons, and colored by John Higgins) where Dr. Manhattan blows up someone's head in the same way that Ananke blows up the gods's heads in THE WICKED + THE DIVINE

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 30/05/2026

I'm dying. Timaeus ends by stating that stupid people are reincarnated as fish because they don't deserve to breathe air.

The fourth kind of animal, the kind that lives in water, came from those men who were without question the most stupid and ignorant of all. The gods who brought about their transformation concluded that these no longer deserved to breathe pure air, because their souls were tainted with transgressions of every sort. Instead of letting them breathe rare and pure air, they shoved them into water to breathe its murky depths. This is the origin of fish, of all shellfish, and of every water-inhabiting animal. Their justly due reward for their extreme stupidity is their extreme dwelling place.

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 30/05/2026

Okay like here. It's impressive how close to accurate Plato understands sound waves, but why does he think the hearing process involves the liver?

A third kind of perception that we want to consider is hearing. We must describe the causes that produce the properties connected with this perception. In general, let us take it that sound is the percussion of air by way of the ears upon the brain and the blood and transmitted to the soul, and that hearing is the motion caused by the percussion that begins in the head and ends in the place where the liver is situated. And let us take it that whenever the percussion is rapid, the sound is high-pitched, and that the slower the percussion, the lower the pitch. A regular percussion produces a uniform, smooth sound, while a contrary one produces one that is rough. A forceful percussion produces a loud sound, while a contrary one produces one that is soft. But we must defer discussion of harmonization in sounds to a later part of our discourse.

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 30/05/2026

You aren't wrong at all, but respectfully, it's very much:

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 28/05/2026

Every team in the AL West is below .500 on the season

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 28/05/2026

Why is Timaeus responding to Socrates like a sycophantic AI chatbot?

SOCRATES: And what did we say about the procreation of children? We couldn’t possibly forget that subject, because what we said about it was so unusual. We decided that they should all have spouses and children in common and that schemes should be devised to prevent anyone of them from recognizing his or her own particular child. Everyone of them would believe that they all make up a single family, and that all who fall within their own age bracket are their sisters and brothers, that those who are older, who fall in an earlier bracket, are their parents or grandparents, while those who fall in a later one are their children or grandchildren.

TIMAEUS: You’re right. That really was an unforgettable point.

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 21/05/2026

I have bad news for you about our mayor

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 12/05/2026

Matt and Dean's new book on why you should consider degrowth is out today! I don't talk that much about it here but I do talk with Matt about Jack Kirby. Buy the book www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...

CAPITALIST GROWTH CONTINUES TO OPEN ITS JAWS TO ACCEPT THE SACRIFICES OF PEOPLE AND THE PLANET, DESTINED FOR ITS INSATIABLE GULLET. BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO FEED THIS IDOL ANY LONGER.
WE CAN SAY:
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 07/05/2026

This is a 40 year old photo of the guy who owns my local comic shop that they posted to instagram

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 05/05/2026

This is one of those comics things that legitimately could be from the writer, the artist, the letterer, or the designer, but I am in love with how NEWS FROM THE FALLOUT did their supplemental backmatter. There is an attention to detail that I rarely see in other comics.

Realistic book scan, complete with slightly curved pages.

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 04/05/2026

Is there a word for the comic trope where a character shakes their head rapidly and they are drawn with two heads?

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 03/05/2026

Who knew Christian Vasquez was such a goofball #Astros #GoStros

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 02/05/2026

Kirby looks even more like his psychedelic followers in his intended colors vs the digital recolors more widely available! (the third pic is Steranko) ((sorry for comicbook dumping but it is one of my passions))

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 01/05/2026

Sorting comics in libraries is a mess.

One volume of Hellboy is under "H", for Hellboy. The very next volume of Hellboy is under "M", for Mignola

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 29/04/2026

The @houstonchronicle.com published my comments on how Houston ought to treat immigrants (regardless of legal status). I stand by this. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

Stephen Adkison, Harris County: Before it was gutted, the council proposal was a good first step. Immigrants are people, regardless of how they got here. They are entitled to a decent life and Fourth Amendment protections. The Houston Police Department should not be arresting someone merely for their immigration status.

As a community, we need to continue to step up and protect the Houstonians that live here.
Our politicians need to take the fight to President Donald Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott and whoever else is trying to say that immigrants don't belong in our great city.

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 27/04/2026

My Divining Comics YouTube channel is sitting at 41 subscribers - just 9 away from the milestone of 50, when I can start live streaming. I have some ideas, but what would you be interested in seeing?

YouTube studio page showing my 41 subscribers

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 27/04/2026

I love the effort but this spread from ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN #19 doesn't work for me. I think panels 4 and 5 need to be combined to let the reader know to read across the spine and not jump to row 2, and the same for the top and middle rightmost panels. The Z for Zatanna is neat.

WW, Zantanna, and Zatara try to figure out how to deal with the Iron Maiden, a trap for Zatara. The panels are supposed to be read in a Z shape.

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 22/04/2026

John Whitmire and the Houston City Council passed a regulation to protect Houstonians from HPD breaking the 4th amendment and detaining people without criminal charge on ICE warrants...only to change their mind once Greg Abbott threatened to defund the police if they didn't

The myth of consensual city government. If Greg Abbott says no, you aren't allowed to do anything, apparently.

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 19/04/2026

Leah: "I hope Jacob Wysocki sits on the side of the stage closest to me"

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 17/04/2026

Patreon to get this and any future comics I do patreon.com/Divining...

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 17/04/2026

Ko-Fi link to buy a physical copy directly: ko-fi.com/s/0195b4fae3

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 17/04/2026

Link with all of the comic, links to purchase it, and my usual roundup of comics industry news spikestonehand.com/2...

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 17/04/2026

I made a mini-comic zine! There are multiple ways you can read it. Digitally, I'll include the panels below. I'll also include a link to a YouTube video I made flipping through the physical edition with some extra commentary. You can also buy the mini-comic for a mere $1 on Ko-fi

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Stephen aka Spike Stonehand @spikestonehand.com · 15/04/2026

I wonder what species of ape he was thinking of. Gorillas, as an example, weren't "discovered" by the West until the mid 1800s, so it couldn't be them.

When Were Gorillas Discovered

American naturalist Thomas S. Savage conducted an expedition into Africa, stumbling upon the first evidence of gorilla existence. In 1847, he found a skull that did not match any other skulls on record. He declared the skull a new species, garnering interest in conducting further expeditions to the area.

Between 1855 and 1859, French explorer Paul Du Chaillu took Thomas Savage’s research and conducted an expedition to Gabon, Central Africa. His journey confirmed the existence of gorillas with visual sightings and photographic evidence.

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