And if you're feeling nostalgic, MASK toys have been re-released.
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Superman 2025, Gamerverse Cyclops, and a bunch of other good new S.H.Figuarts figures up for preorder
Probably the best Cyclops figure ever made, plus a whole bunch of other Figuarts including Evangelion pilots and Godzillas. And if you loved the train from Back to the Future III, well, your day has come.
New Humble Bundle for July includes Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader for less than its Steam summer sale price
$14.99 for Rogue Trader and seven other games (can cancel monthly subscription at any time). (Rogue Trader alone is $24.99 in Steam's Summer Sale at 50% off.)
Today's news and jokes
@clowntown559 ‘Twas entertainment most stimulating… of the intellectual variety! Benjamin Frankin @TudorTooterTutor www.Ben-Franklin.org; conspirator credit to @Dannyboi ♬ Father Figure (Featured in 'Babygirl') - George Michael
The Poetry Camera team got Susan Kare (of Macintosh icons fame) to design a pin for them
From their latest newsletter about all the tweaks recent they've made to the camera's design.
Monday, June 30, 2025
Ken Liu's collection "The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories" is $1.99 right now
at Amazon:
This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).
Also, "Creation Lake: A Novel" from my wishlist is $2.99 right now:
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, KIRKUS REVIEWS, NPR, THE ECONOMIST, THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOX, and more*From Rachel Kushner, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award, a “vital” (The Washington Post) and “wickedly entertaining” (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor.
Solar Man of the Atom #7 was one of my favorite comics
#ThrowbackThursday: While on the subject of Valiant and Solar: Man of the Atom, here's the cover to issue #4, published this month in 1992, by my dear friend and comics legend Don Perlin and inked by me. @ValiantComics #solarmanoftheatom pic.twitter.com/ORDZ6C7JlG
— Bob Layton (@Bob_Layton) November 21, 2024
#FlashbackFriday: Since we've been recently discussing the original Valiant line, Solar: Man of the Atom #1 was published this month in 1991. This premiere book featured art by Barry Windsor-Smith, Don Perlin and me. @ValiantComics #solarmanoftheatom pic.twitter.com/jkxz9BPkKI
— Bob Layton (@Bob_Layton) September 13, 2024
I wish nothing but peace for a man who rarely seemed at peace.
— FabianNicieza (@FabianNicieza) July 1, 2025
He was instrumental in my career and I thank him for that.
Though he was complicated, I believe Marvel, the direct market, and possibly the industry itself, might not exist today without what Jim Shooter did as EiC. https://t.co/386UlD3HFd
Jim Shooter has died.
— Kelley Jones (@kelleyjonesart) July 1, 2025
When I got hired to draw comics for Marvel Comics many years ago Jim Shooter flew out to do several signings in my area and asked if I’d come and meet him, which I did with great trepidation because he was the boss of bosses and I was just starting out. When…
RIP Jim Shooter. Jim graciously reviewed my portfolio as a young kid. I never had an appointment. I’d just drive down to the city, head to their offices, ride the elevator up and hope for the best. Something that’d be impossible to do post 9/11. Thank you, Big Shooter 🤘🏻✏️🤘🏻
— Greg Capullo (@GregCapullo) July 1, 2025
Thanks for all the great memories, Jim Shooter.
— Jim Zub (@jimzub.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Jim Shooter's treatment for The Transformers: the eight pages that started a legend. RIP Jim Shooter (1/2)
— Simon Letch (@simonletch.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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(2/2)
— Simon Letch (@simonletch.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Mark Waid posted on Facebook that Jim Shooter has passed away.
— Zac 🐢🌹 (@thetallman_Z) July 1, 2025
Broke into comics at 14, helped make the Legion of Superheroes a premiere team, brought Marvel out of the wilderness & made them a juggernaut in the 80s, fought for creators rights, a career you can't summarize.
RIP pic.twitter.com/pEUgbXh124
RIP King
— peterquill47.bsky.social (@peterquill47.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The late Jim Shooter and the Marvel Bullpen, c. 1983 pic.twitter.com/B0JY5C19V3
— The_ONOMATOPOE!A (@TheOnoLives) July 1, 2025
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