Real Reed Richards

In your heart you know I'm right

Recently someone pointed out that one of those AI art-creating programs is advertising that they can make art using existing artist’s styles, which is … fun and creepy and ethically dubious??

RJ Palmer @arvalis

Here is a collection of relatively modern or currently working artists that they advertise as styles to steal on their site(there are hundreds of others). This is just gross.

Anyway, I’m in there! I’ve made it! And, frankly, my work has never looked better:

I swear to god I’m going to use this program to draw the next issue of PUBLIC DOMAIN. I don’t care how many nightmares I’ll give my dozens of readers!!

SPEAKING OF PUBLIC DOMAIN! Issue three is out in the world today! I mean, for all of you keen paid subscribers it’s been in your world / d1g1taL w0rLd for months! But for the physical people, who need to touch things like absolute PERVERTS, they can finally read it!!!

I still have yet to see or hold a physical copy. Which is WEIRD. But, that’s the life I chose for myself!! When I head back to Toronto in the fall I’m sure I’ll be signing many of them and I’ll be sick of it!

Also, THIS is out today!

DEVIL’S REIGN! Collected into a fine trade paperback! Once again don’t be fooled by the preview image! It’s not just one giant, thick page! It has Devil’s Reign 1-6 plus Devil’s Reign: Omega inside! At least I’m assuming this is all true as, once again, I have not seen a physical copy!!

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REED RICHARDS UPDATE

Long-time readers of this newsletter (at least two weeks) will remember my very public campaign to play the rubbery smartman “Reed Richards” AKA “Mister Fantastic” in the upcoming Marvel movie “Fantastic Four.”

Chip Zdarsky @zdarsky

EXCLUSIVE: Marvel close to signing Chip Zdarsky to play "Reed Richards" in FANTASTIC FOUR reboot

I’m pleased to report that it was a failure, which means I can continue to live my relatively obscure life deep in the woods writing stories about bat-men.

But! Just because I’m not destined for the big screen (until my wordless cameo in “Howard The Duck 3” in 2037), doesn’t mean I can’t advocate for those who I believe deserve a shot at superstardom.

I believe the new Reed Richards should be Nathan Fielder.

If you don’t know him, Nathan is a Canadian comedian who graduated from one of Canada’s top business schools with really good grades (like Reed Richards) and went on to help businesses with “out of the box” ideas (like Reed Richards):

Recently he’s been the “talk of the town” (like Reed Richards) with his new show The Rehearsal, where he is a cold, calculating monster trying to understand humans while creating wildly elaborate scenarios (like Reed Richards).

Basically, he’s perfect. I even cobbled together some concept art to showcase how he’d perfectly integrate into the Marvel Cinematic Universe:

So let Marvel know you need #fielder4reed now and that John Krasinski can go play Willie Lumpkin or whatever.

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And for those who haven’t subscribed yet at these rock-bottom (like Ben Grimm) prices, well, go for it!!

Bye!