“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars …”

Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 

— Cassius, in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (Act 1, Scene 2), 1623

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Photo of the first page of Julius Caesar from a facsimile edition of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays, published in 1623

Poster for “Affair in Trinidad” (1952)

Columbia Pictures.

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Skybald covers The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby!”

This is a friend of mine (and a fellow writer) in the United Kingdom.  (Phil is the vocalist here.)

His band, Skybald, did a damn fine job with this cover of The Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.”

Check it out!

Cover to “Superior Carnage” #5, Clayton Crain, 2013

Marvel Comics.

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This was not the evening I envisioned.

That awkward moment when you try to look punk but you inadvertently turn yourself into the god damned Ocean Spray logo.

I’m just waiting for Keanu Reeves to infiltrate a gang of surfers-turned-bank-robbers on my damned head.


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Variant Cover to “Superman” #710, Adam Hughes, 2011

DC Comics.

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(I’ll even help.)

Christmas card, circa 1910

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“Disease can never be conquered … by emotion’s willful screaming or faith’s symbolic prayer.”

“Disease can never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion’s willful screaming or faith’s symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.”

—  Sean O’Casey



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NO BANE, NO GAIN

WHEN GOTHAM IS *ASHES,* THEN YOU WILL HAVE MY PERMISSION TO DIE.

Pandemic mask + Misguided pandemic DIY haircut + Pandemic-induced abiding antipathy = comic book villain.

C’mon, we all knew 2020 would create a new one somehow.



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