James Patricks

Radiant Black Issue 39, in comic shops on Christmas Eve featuring a back up one pager written by me, drawn by @PhilipsonThomas and lettered by Becca Carey Huge thank you to Kyle and the team for this opportunity!

Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx and co-creator of The Sandman, comic book writer, artist, painter and publisher, has died at the age of 63 #RIP 🔗 ift.tt/Hluc9BC

Thank you so much to @comicsexplained for covering The Stranger in his most recent video! Make sure to check it out on YouTube here: youtu.be/lpDylqAotiY?si…

The Best Comic Isn’t From Marvel Or DC… Video: youtu.be/lpDylqAotiY?si…

They're asking british comics legend Pat Mills if he knows what a groyper is on X, The Everything App

Looking for paid work! so if anybody knows any editors or if any editors/writers are looking for a fun cartoony artist for their project hit me up!

Uh oh, Richard

chuck norris memes with the bottom caption cropped out

@CTropes Hot Heroes you say?

This is the ideal comic book cover. You may not like it but this is what peak comics looks like.

@comicskirby Another Kirby Klassic

I’m so sorry

@ZacBeThompson Casually hopemaxxing

Successfully threw an event for 400 immigrant families yesterday. My heart is very full but I am exhausted.

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him. In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world. Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters. Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out. Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

its insane that they managed to make this movie

You can just about hear the remnants of LCD Soundsystem in the score. Really hoping they bring that version back

why r they releasing the sp******n clips like this

The full clip is better because I forgot how long Jay cackles in Will Smith's face

marty supreme era will always be special to me

Conan O'Brien, suddenly getting serious 65 minutes into the Oscars ceremony: last year, Paul Rudd showed me a clip of a little boy in a wheelchair who fell off a cliff and died. he fucking died

deserved for making maybe the fastest three hour movie i’ve ever seen

@heckblazers I'll never in a million years understand what the fuck Eddie Campbell was up to in that book. Mischief is my best guess

Mainline DC Constantine plots: "I'll just exorcise these demons and disappoint my friends because I'm a fuck up." Average 90s Hellblazer plot;