James Eaneman

Finished Elise Kova's Prince of Swords at the YMCA this morning. Up now is Heir of Prophecy by @analeighsbrana.bsky.social. This is 432 pages. I'm hoping to knock this out by the end of Thursday.

Everyone keeps asking me how I’m feeling about early voting so far. I’m feeling like nobody *actually* knows anything, and this is the most important midterm of our lives. I’d rather be us than them, but we can’t get comfortable. We can’t get complacent. Go vote like we’re down 3%.

Happy anniversary to Matt Hagen, who debuted in DETECTIVE COMICS #298.

It’s one thing to watch someone become a monster, but another to feel everything that person is losing along the way. Tom Rhys Harries gives an astounding performance in Clayface, bringing an emotional weight to the horror in a way that feels incredibly personal.

RIP Walter Koenig. Thank you for giving us Babylon 5's Alfred Bester (and, of course, Star Trek's Pavel Chekov).

Insane. Actually insane. Let’s make his money this year a waste, shall we?

🚨 BREAKING: Lula is projected to WIN reelection as president of Brazil, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and an ally of Donald Trump. The projection comes just ONE DAY after Reuters exposed a Trump administration effort to help return the Bolsonaro family to power.

Wow, that was fast. I only dropped it off at the Koreatown early voting polling place just over 30 hours ago. I expected it wouldn't get processed until after the weekend. But, I'm glad it's in and accepted.

Clayface looks set up to be a win for the DCU after securing the top spot at the box office with an estimated global haul of $43 million. https://bit.ly/3WqunFG

Nobody wants violence. It would be nice if conservatives could focus on the brewing constitutional crisis instead of pearl clutching over the leftist boogeyman of the week. Also, Republicans have been threatening civil war since we dared to elect a Black man. 🤷‍♂️

“Nobody invokes the Insurrection Act over people walking down the street with signs. It doesn't happen.” 🙄 Trump and his allies are *openly* floating using the Insurrection Act to seize voting machines or ballots in order to upend an election they expect to lose.

Still working on Elise Kova's Prince of Swords. But on the side, I've also now just knocked out a return to @rebeccayarros.bsky.social's The Empyrean novels for her most recent installment: the short story anthology Threshing Day.

Still working on Elise Kova's Prince of Swords. But on the side, I've now just knocked out Night Songs by Alli Dyer.

"You're in a bookshop walking along the stacks when all of a sudden you look down and see a book. You reach down and flip it over. The book lies there on its back, its pages exposed. The book wants to be back on the shelf but you're not helping. Why is that?"

I rooted our Clayface in the character’s Golden Age actor origins — along with a twist not seen in previous versions, to better mesh with Burton’s tragic-comic style. We also figured in that era we’d have seen more of practical-effects version of the character, more of a phantom-of-the-opera type.

Can‘t let Clayface week end without mentioning BATMAN: RESURRECTION features our own take on the character — connecting his origin to Tim Burton’s 1989 BATMAN film. The hardcover is still in print, two years after release! Also ebook, softcover, and audio. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/750157...

Finishes Jesse Aragon's The Demon Star earlier this morning. Up now in the reading queue is a return to Elise Kova's Arcana Academy Trilogy for her second and most recent installment: Prince of Swords. This is 543 pages. I don't expect to knock this out until at least Tuesday.

♫ Baby, we're up all night 'til we get enough ♫ ♫ This is the appetite of Beelzebub ♫ ♫ Closed mouths, they don't get fed, open up your jaws ♫ ♫ Until there's nothing left at the monsters' ball (Let's go now) ♫

Still in a Clayface mood (or again a Shirley Walker mood). I've always liked Walker's Clayface theme. Given the Hitchcock influences on "Feat of Clay" and Ron Perlman's incarnation of Matt Hagen, it's always sounded very Bernard Herrmann-esque to me. It's appropriately old school and tragic.

HUGE: President Obama has endorsed Dr. Amy Acton for governor of Ohio. “Amy understands that leaders should solve problems, not create them. Amy Acton will be the governor that Ohio needs.”

Federal appeals court rules President Trump had no legal authority to take over California’s National Guard and send 4,000 of its troops to Los Angeles last year, with key vote by a Trump...

"What are you doing?! Stop it!" "Look at them, Hagen. Look at what you used to be." "No! Turn them off!!" "You CAN play those roles again, Hagen. Let me help you find a cure." "NO!!! HAGEN'S GONE! MAKE HIM STOP HAUNTING ME!!!" In a Clayface mood (or technically a Shirley Walker mood, heh).

I'm glad James Newton Howard's returning for Sunrise on the Reaping. His music's been one of the creative foundations of The Hunger Games films.

They’ve already started. They filed a suit today to effectively throw out Alaska’s election results if Dan Sullivan (the incumbent) doesn’t win

Before I forget, here's to 5 years of Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part One.

Still working on Jesse Aragon's The Demon Star (and still on track to knock it out by the end of Saturday). But in the meantime, on the side I've just now knocked out Evelyn Skye's Ideal Life.

RIP Tom Skerrit.

Again: Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything. That’s not how DOD contracts work.

Funny enough, the Starbucks at my local Ralphs was handing out samples while I was doing an afternoon grocery run. I didn't know what it was or what it was for until I got home and saw this. I offer up a belated toast to my beloved snarky spirit animal of the mid-1990s.

Before I forget, here's to 20 years of Torchwood.

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

"All right, Doc. What's goin’ on, huh? Where are we? WHEN are we?" "We're descending toward Hill Valley, California, at 4:29 P.M., on Wednesday, October 21, 2015." "2015?! You mean we're in the future!"

Russia has waged an illegal war against Ukraine under Putin, wounding and killing civilians every day. He's a ruthless autocrat and war criminal — not a humanitarian.