Stu West @stuwest.com · 16/09/2026They’re obviously playing the long game by making the character into Tom King, guaranteeing that Tom King won’t be able to resist writing them a 12-issue Miracleman maxi-series whenever he’s out of contract with DC 031
Stu West @stuwest.com · 22/08/2026What if the AI boom is a bubble but doesn’t cause a recession when it ends? Nathan Tankus compared it to the fracking boom 2110
Stu West @stuwest.com · 09/08/2026Reading about Middle Eastern history and finding out lots of things about Michel Aflaq, founder of the Ba'ath movement. Ideally every time I see the name Aflaq my brain wouldn't immediately go 120
Stu West @stuwest.com · 06/08/2026Not sure if this video will help but it probably does sum up the situation 010
Stu West @stuwest.com · 01/08/2026I'm not the world's biggest Norman Mailer fan, so his overview of Oliver Stone's career is my favourite thing he ever wrote. "One of the worst great movies ever made" a real banger of a line in my view 040
Stu West @stuwest.com · 01/08/2026There's a reprint of an illustrated article Gary Trudeau did for the New York Times depicting Oliver Stone in a motorcade with media commentators taking potshots at him. We need a prominent cartoonist to draw Nolan's critical odyssey, maybe Kate Beaton is available 120
Stu West @stuwest.com · 01/08/2026I've got the official tie-in book to Oliver Stone's JFK, which contains not just the screenplay and some historical notes, but also reviews, news articles and outraged letters to the editor about the movie, and I strongly feel Christopher Nolan should now publish something similar for The Odyssey 2102
Stu West @stuwest.com · 18/07/2026I have this weakness for spoonerisms which is probably pretty irritating for other people. Anyway every time I see the words "Abolish ICE" my brain rearranges them into 030
Stu West @stuwest.com · 16/07/2026Hard to beat Who Framed Roger Rabbit but this has to be in the top 5 040
Stu West @stuwest.com · 09/07/2026One of my favourite Shooter facts is that in the '90s he was going around telling people that the impenetrable storytelling of The Dark Knight Returns was dooming the comics industry. An idiosyncratic character (positive and negative), which this excellent article brings out really well 020
Stu West @stuwest.com · 27/06/2026Have to sound the "Byrne draws kids" klaxon but this one’s pretty great 040
Stu West @stuwest.com · 26/06/2026Is it too late to book a hotel room? Getting this message when I follow the link 110
Stu West @stuwest.com · 15/06/2026DC keeps making Superman movies but somehow they never adapt his archetypal storyline, the one from the 90s where he becomes dangerously jacked and has to abandon Earth for space to safeguard humanity 2243
Stu West @stuwest.com · 29/05/2026Four twists/reveals/shock moments from comics that are burned into your brain. Don't overthink it. #comicsdna 041
Stu West @stuwest.com · 11/05/2026Some classic 1991 dialogue here, will we ever see its like again 030
Stu West @stuwest.com · 27/04/2026Sad to hear Gerry Conway has died. He played a big part in my becoming a comics fan, since one of the first issues I bought off a newsstand was written by him and had Spider-Man being shoved in a fridge and dropped down an elevator shaft. He was my first favourite comics writer. RIP 050
Stu West @stuwest.com · 18/04/2026The image of Mandela as an icon of nonviolence doesn’t survive reading his Rivonia speech. He was very explicit! 060
Stu West @stuwest.com · 02/04/2026I always used to cite this as one of my favourite tweets but Mamdani has ruined it for everyone 040
Stu West @stuwest.com · 22/03/2026RIP Jim Wheelock, a good cartoonist and a great guy. He used to be found every year propping up the bar at various UK conventions and at Angoulême, where half the passers-by would think he was George R. R. Martin. Here he is with the man himself, in happier times 260
Stu West @stuwest.com · 13/03/2026I was nodding along with the post until close to the end, but the 700K layoffs you mention date back to the post-Covid downsizings before genAI code creation was a thing, right? Meanwhile, job postings are currently increasing 130
Stu West @stuwest.com · 11/03/2026Contemplated something from the Ditko era but went for the one where Peter Parker goes to a punk gig at CBGB 100
Stu West @stuwest.com · 10/03/2026ICYMI: I wrote about Marvel yesterday. And here’s Millie pondering what Spider-Man comic she would recommend if a guy in a bookstore asked her about it 110
Stu West @stuwest.com · 21/12/2025This was supposed to be a photoshoot about stiffing the yoga instructor 1112
Stu West @stuwest.com · 27/11/2025Many good things about this book, including that if you say the title aloud it sounds like Hi-Ex Bastards, which would be an great name for a Judge Dredd story 020
Stu West @stuwest.com · 16/10/2025Really appreciate a book cover that’s just LOOK AT THIS FUCKING BLURB WE GOT, GUYS 180
Stu West @stuwest.com · 30/09/2025I don't know if you've read Jane Hamsher's book Killer Instinct but it gives a bit of insight into Don Murphy and his habit of sending hoax faxes, which led to Moore falling out with Hollywood after LXG. Worth reading if you haven't 010
Stu West @stuwest.com · 28/09/2025"I never thought they would send ME back where I came from" sobs man who came to support the Send Them Back Where They Came From protest 030
Stu West @stuwest.com · 25/09/2025Imagine the laughs you’ll have watching [checks notes] Jimmy Carr co-headlining with [checks notes] Louis CK at the [checks notes] Riyadh Comedy Festival 311318
Stu West @stuwest.com · 18/09/2025Being stuck on this boss means hearing my tv bellow DI-A-RRHE-A at me ten times an hour 1252
Stu West @stuwest.com · 16/09/2025Not sure what my favourite Robert Redford movie is but this one doesn't get enough love 050
Stu West @stuwest.com · 05/07/2025Some interesting things were going on in mid-80s Marvel comics 4214
Stu West @stuwest.com · 25/05/2025One PAD comic that comes to mind: INCREDIBLE HULK 319, a fill-in where the Hulk pretends to be defeated in battle so a disgraced Skrull warrior can regain face. As I recall, this provoked a storm of outrage from the letters page chuds. Still, good issue 010
Stu West @stuwest.com · 10/05/2025Syril Karn (Steve Ditko version) vs Syril Karn (John Romita version) 122
![David Colton was born a frail, asthmatic and short kid. After he witnessed the September 11th attack, David went enlist to the Army. Constantly bullied by the other recruits, his fate changed after a brutal beating by his sergeant, he was chosen to undergo the Super-Soldier Serum process.[4] New and fresh, Colton was dubbed "Captain America" and was deployed to both Afghanistan[3] and Iraq,[5] marking the beginning of his descent into cynicism.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpgn2hfwq6jdfuozksddvaow/bafkreiepsydcbbugfukmmqxrlrz767oolyaf5ntp2hhyvfkv3f25ctdldq)
![Excerpt from an Ng Suat Tong article in TCJ #187.
"ITS 1992 AND YOU’RE ATTENDING
an industry roundtable, when somebody you’ve
seen somewhere and heard of in some maga-
zine stands up to make a short statement. Ap-
parently he’s given The Dark Knight Returns to
his brother-in-law who has “[thrown] it over his
shoulder in disgust”:"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpgn2hfwq6jdfuozksddvaow/bafkreiaxyfat5zrgi6ss2mqtwthcxuymehijowym6a3dpcdndoiak72l6u)
![[cont]
"He could not make head or tail of it. Sorry Frank,
but the fact is we’re talking to ourselves a lot here,
guys... We've got to toughen up as creators, and as
publishers, I think. We’ve got to realize that if
we’re going to get out there and communicate, we
had better start being communicators. We'd better
learn our craft... Storytelling has been around
forever... If we don’t... stop being these six-month
wonders who think that just because they can do
glitzy graphics that they somehow now know what
they're doing in terms of speaking a visual
language, we’re in big trouble."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpgn2hfwq6jdfuozksddvaow/bafkreigwiavliksre7koso5jhbhap2lygrwt653olcmdrfqyxa64fsc65u)
![[cont]
"The person sitting beside you nods his head
in agreement. You instantly recognize the
speaker as the man the Journal has been calling
the Beast of the Apocalypse. Somebody says to
you, “That’s Jim Shooter.” As if you didn’t
know. You understand that his words are meant
strictly for the superhero market and those..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpgn2hfwq6jdfuozksddvaow/bafkreif37uhgjhtunh3ik2hh46ujhcalvlmdvgceu2mtvwc53lj3cperee)
![[cont]
"...interested in the commercial viability of com-
ics. The question is whether you nod your head
in agreement as well or whether you feel like
strangling him?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bpgn2hfwq6jdfuozksddvaow/bafkreihzclgvmdhspnvr7xyfkpgx444ylfrts3nydyuodd7lnokerl4lv4)
