Stephen Green

Sangoku × Conan × Red Sonja

@PaulSkallas corto maltese! comic books are definitely lindy @PaulSkallas

@Gobli_Prin dude i haven't seen this. Love the series. Hope you are doing well just crawling through your work for inspo haha

#severian #bookofthenewsun

@AaronJRolen I just might one day. For now, the city has me locked down. I might sneak over to a small town though...I have a way of fitting in still

@StephenPrevails Go back and enjoy a similar type of event!

One of my favorite small town events of the year. It's the 37th annual Cuthand Volunteer Fire Department Fish Fry and Pie Auction. We probably feed 1,000+ folks and the pies/cakes regularly bring $350-$750. Not a wealthy area. Just good folks contributing.

@dccommonsense @dccommonsense Dan were you ever a comic book guy?

Amazing. This is the audiobook narrater I want to do the whole trilogy😂. The rhythm of his language is that of a master storyteller and linguist from a bygone era. Holy crap. They don't make 'em like this anymore. It's almost antiquarian sounding now. And just beautiful.

@Rahll @DavidAriew looks horrible. wes montgomery did not need stupid garbage like this to make music exciting.

@DavidAriew Since you asked, soulless slop, absolutely.

I’m using GenAI for concert visuals now when the concept is a good fit, and it’s a blast! Are my vision, taste and edit skills enough creativity for you here or is it soulless slop? Does my style come through the machine?

#WayOfShadows from @BrentWeeks #nightangeltrilogy completists rejoice! More original art pages from the graphic novel now available HERE: comiclink.com/Auctions/searc…

@andymacdeez @BrentWeeks looks amazing

@Rahll keep fighting the good fight. I"m glad people are rotting their brains. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man becomes king

People don't think deeply about anything anymore, it's all surface level readings and superficial takeaways turbocharged by LLM brain rot. People have forgotten how to reason or think or debate, and the second you point it out to them you get called a retard. Bright future ahead.

@actionhankbeard @otisframpton utilitarianism has just eaten everyones brain alive

@otisframpton It’s not all about convenience for everyone. Extend this logic to all forms of entertainment like sports and live performances. Yeah, you can watch these things from home but it’s an entirely different experience seeing these things live. People like to actually leave the house.

@PaulSkallas Dude is just murdering the bass. Extraordinary playing by Cleveland Eaton

Great song covered by so many artists. Here's my favorite version of it.

@Rahll @ImKingGinger this imbecile is also discounting for infinite noise in every direction. also we don't need another billion dollar IP, so he can get fatally fucked

@ImKingGinger How do you build a billion dollar IP on something that can't be copyrighted, lol.

The next billion dollar IP is being made right now by some guy making AI "slop" in his spare bedroom. South Park was a college film project, made from construction paper and an 8mm camera. Fox passed on it because one character was a talking piece of well, you know. George Clooney personally made hundreds of VHS copies and carried them around Hollywood. That "dumb college project" is worth $2.4 billion. Channel 101, a bar screening anyone could enter, produced Rick and Morty, The Lonely Island, Tim & Eric, and the directors of Everything Everywhere All at Once. The film establishment dismissed every single one of them before they were famous. The people dunking on AI filmmaking are the Fox exec who killed South Park over Mr. Hankey. Now is the time for to begin investing in and building pipelines for indie filmmakers. Create scouting, film festivals, and entertainment brands that turns meme-slop creators into rockstars and who own their own IP, without need to sell it to studios. If you really care about storytellers, and artists. This is where all your energy and capital should be positioned right now.

@baltimorecomics Killer poster art, love it. Hat's off

Art by the talented 2026 guest Marty Baumann! #baltimorecomiccon

@RyanOttley @RyanOttley well said. Of course you know how I feel about your work. Cory is just one of most talented draftsmen and best designers around. People need to gamify everything, to turn us into data. But we don't think that way

A tale as old as time. Every artist gets to handle being compared to another artist that does issues on the same title. When I took over as the main artist on Invincible issue 8, many didn’t like it. I had to ignore the negative comments. This happens all the time, readers get comfortable with the “actors” from an artist, when I say actors I mean we each have our own stylized way of drawing people. And when a new artist comes in, it can feel like all new “actors” were hired for the book. And really, each artist has a different method of cinematography, action and composition. And that can all feel very jarring to a reader when a new artist jumps on. So the comparison seems to be people getting used to my art since I did the majority of issues on the series. I did 127 issues, while Cory did 20 issues. So fans are very used to seeing mostly my art. So they compare in a negative way instead of saying “both artists are different! Both are good!” Thats what I prefer is said, because Cory is one of the best artists I’ve ever seen, his technical precision and design skills are unmatched. We just simply are different people who do things differently. Todd McFarlane just did an interview and mentioned the trouble of comparison as well on Spiderman. We all get to feel the sting of fans saying “this new artist sucks!”. Best to ignore.

@Rahll I'm glad stupid people love this stuff. They are stormtroopers with fancy guns but they can't hit the broadside of jabba's ass

It's weird how all the outdoor stuff it just overwhelms the scene with blue skylight and absolutely kills any established mood, attempting 'realism'. Why should games look exactly like 'reality' anyway. Infinite possibilities and people are drooling over a make-it-boring filter.

Because it was moody and cinematic and now it looks like an iPhone photo of a cosplayer on a cliff.

@NVIDIAGeForceUK Who is in charge of these decisions? Why would anyone want their games to look like lonely guy AI girlfriend ads?

@Rahll I think the future is both darker and brighter than most people are predicting. A great bifurcation. Ai is the covid of art (I coined this term myself!). It's a forest fire. Nobody hates this stuff more than I do, but I look for the good that can come from it.

If I dare be optimistic for a moment, one of the reasons I think most consumers will ultimately reject AI films and media is the major, insurmountable hurdle that none of it is impressive or interesting from a human standpoint. When human creativity, ingenuity, and passion are on full display, it's fun, exciting, and engaging. Real people did that work, they made those choices, they made it real. It's something you can still respect even if you ultimately didn't enjoy the end result. With AI, it's impossible to know who or what to credit for anything you're seeing. How much of it is the person's actual work and/or intent versus the automated slot machine nature of AI, and grappling with its limitations. When something cool ends up on screen, did they design that? Or did it pop up as one of 400 random generations and they liked it the most? Is there any kind of ownership over curating that sort of thing, especially when we know these systems can plagiarize both with and without intent? Generative AI is just wrangling other people's work out of the noise, rather than creating something truly one's own. To me, that makes it largely a superficial and narcissistic exercise, it's like trying to get someone else to care about a crazy dream you had. Watch their eyes glaze over in real time. That's why the main metrics they use to impress you is how many, or few, generations something took, or how quickly they squeezed it out. When you see the 'process', if there's even one to show, it's often just how many automated things they could string together to get something usable. The whole selling point of AI is how easy the tech is and how it 'democratizes' everything. People constantly brag about how little effort or how little money something took while at the same time, others are trying to convince you how much work they actually put in. It's gotten to the the point where you get fake behind-the-scenes like with the Coca Cola ad that they then scrub from the internet after being outed. You're being lied to basically every step of the way, AI pushers are trying to convince you that you should be impressed, but by what exactly? When the machine does 90% or more of the actual work, who are we supposed to get behind? Who are we supposed to champion and become fans of? The AI company? The model? You? The technology itself is very impressive, it's hard to deny that, but you know what? The novelty has already worn off and now all people see is low effort garbage and being shoved in their face everywhere they turn. You can't do that to people without desensitizing them and eventually driving them away and turning them against it. Maybe you do actually have a good idea, but if you have a machine execute basically all of it for you, people simply aren't going to care no matter how much you tell them this is the future or to adapt or die. So yeah, I think there's a course correction incoming and it's because when you launder other people's work and creativity via an automated plagiarism machine, what are we ultimately supposed to connect with? AI isn't the future, humans are.

First one is cooler. When you start trying to do it right, you paint yourself into a pickle. The best know how to make these rules yield to their purpose. Spawn's cape. Gut's sword. Silver Surfer Black. Nobody remembers the guys that do it right.