Stu West
@stuwest
Xennial falcon / words at thecommasplice.com / Ottawa, ON
I'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
There'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
I'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
I 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
One 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
Is it too late to book a hotel room? Getting this message when I follow the link
DC 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
Four twists/reveals/shock moments from comics that are burned into your brain. Don't overthink it. #comicsdna
Sad 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
The image of Mandela as an icon of nonviolence doesn’t survive reading his Rivonia speech. He was very explicit!
I always used to cite this as one of my favourite tweets but Mamdani has ruined it for everyone
RIP 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
I 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
Contemplated something from the Ditko era but went for the one where Peter Parker goes to a punk gig at CBGB
ICYMI: 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
Many 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
Really appreciate a book cover that’s just LOOK AT THIS FUCKING BLURB WE GOT, GUYS