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The first #Gremlins film debuted 42 years ago this week. We highly recommended the @whmpodcast.bsky.social’s We Love Movies episode on the movie. High hilarity, guaranteed!
If DC Studios ever makes a live-action version of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, actor Bruce Greenwood would make a perfect Bruce Wayne. He’s a phenomenal performer. And it’s uncanny how much the comic version looks like Greenwood’s depiction of Roderick Usher from The Fall of the House of Usher.
We have an EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW of Sarah Gailey, @hainingart.bsky.social, and Rebecca Nalty’s Neighborhood Watch #3, on sale Wednesday, July 1, 2026, from @boom-studios.com! Final order cutoff is THIS MONDAY, May 25! www.freaksugar.com/exclusive-pr...
Action Comics #1–the first appearance of Superman—created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster was released 88 years ago today on April 18, 1938! Happy birthday, Clark! #Superman #ActionComics #HappyBirthdaySuperman #JerrySiegel #JoeShuster
Our own @jedkeith.bsky.social spoke with cartoonist @jayeatonart.bsky.social about his touching and pure fun graphic novel Runaway to the Stars, now funding on Kickstarter with @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social! www.freaksugar.com/interview-ja...
ICYMI: Writer @adamcesare.bsky.social and artist David Stoll’s @darkhorse.com series Dead Mall is headed to the silver screen! A few years back, Adam Cesare and I spoke about the gripping and phenomenally nightmarish comic! www.freaksugar.com/adam-cesare-...
Happy Assistant Principals Week! #VicePrincipals #AssistantPrincipalsWeek #DannyMcBride #WaltonGoggins #FreakSugar
Of all the fantastical elements of the stories on #Yellowjackets, it’s fairly unrealistic that Taissa would have that much alone time. She’s a newly elected state senator. Between her team prepping for transition & the press wanting face time, it’s doubtful she would be on her own so much.
Happy First Contact Day! On this day in fictional history, in the year 2063, humans made first contact with extraterrestrial life—in this case, Vulcans. #FirstContactDay #FirstContact #StarTrek #StarTrekFirstContact #StarTrekTheNextGeneration #StarTrekTNG #ZeframCochrane #Vulcans
Happy March 32nd! #community #communityshow #communityseries #march32 #april1
Happy March 31! #freaksugar #ronswanson #aubreyplaza #march31 #nickofferman #parksandrec #parksandrecreation
“TIL learned that legendary director John Carpenter was raised in Kentucky. The filmmaker responsible for so many masterpieces—including Halloween, The Thing, and so many more—moved with his family from Carthage, NY, to Bowling Green, KY, when he was 5. Mind. Blown.” —E-i-C Jed from Kentucky
Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, has passed away. In the decades’ history of the comics medium, his style was one of the most singular and most creative. Rest in peace.
The Kickstarter for Monstrous’ Weird Tales graphic novel has 6 hours left! Check out our interview with Monstrous’ founder @jamesaquilone.bsky.social, then head to the campaign link in the article. www.freaksugar.com/interview-ja...
Back issue rec: Judas from 2017 from @boom-studios.com is phenomenal. Writer Jeff Loveness, artist Jakub Rebelka, and letterer Colin Bell tell the tale of Jesus’ betrayer in a compelling way that beckons the reader to have compassion for the villains of the biblical texts. Available on Kindle.
On this day in 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus was published anonymously in London. #Frankenstein #MaryShelley
The final comic strip of cartoonist Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes was printed 30 years ago today!
Y2K26 is on the horizon, folks. #freaksugar #2026 #newyear #happynewyear