Mike Hoffert Jr.

1 day in an im already exhausted by his bullshit.

Partially inspired by my time as a mailman, and my anxieties about the world, it’s the story of a mailman who discovers a domestic terrorist plot. The American Dream is dead. This is the American Nightmare. www.kickstarter.com/projects/139...

Anybody feel like David Lynch is directing existence right now? Like what the fuck.

Finally out from under AT&T’s thumb again. Ridiculous. Overpriced, garbage service.

It feels like we’re living in a Mark Millar comic…

Can I just say, fuck this year.

Can I get a couple of reposts? We’d love to launch with 50 followers. So if you like comics, great art, and thrilling stories, follow, share, and stay tuned! www.kickstarter.com/projects/139...

@sterlinggates.bsky.social We’re doing it. Thank you for telling me to actually sit down and write it. www.kickstarter.com/projects/139...

Preview of the colored, lettered page 2

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“Out for delivery” soon… December 26th #KickstarterComics

Another Santa vs the Bad Guy story. From the last time around...

This is a really great piece that actually explains what being a postal worker is like, both physically and psychologically, and what posties are fighting for beyond more money. globalnews.ca/news/1090840...

Anybody like gritty, thriller comics? Because if you do, you might want to give me a follow. #indyComics #SelfPublishing #KickstarterComics

Is there an Indy Comics Bluesky? Kickstarter Comics Bluesky? Cuz uh…I’d like to share some stuff with you. Maybe.

So I got a very interesting and possibly exciting message from my creative partner today… Stay tuned.

Y’know, none of this should be surprise. But we bought into the myth predeterminism and that it can’t possible happen here. A lot of people with no conception of history are in for a rude awakening.

Being a kid is thinking Lex Luthor’s real estate plan in Superman the Movie was lame. Being an adult is realizing how fucking evil that plan really is.

Never seen Uncle Buck until tonight. It’s grittier than I was expecting.

I miss going down Wikipedia rabbit holes. Remember when the internet was fun and exciting?

🚨ATTENTION EVERYONE!🚨 Affinity Design is 50% off again! This is your chance to drop Adobe for good!! affinity.serif.com/en-gb/

I can’t help but feel that maybe by using more suggestively cute language, like “unalive” and such, instead of letting the unpleasant words be unpleasant, is causing the power of those words to lessen. Like if someone says “my dad was unalived” it’s sounds cutesy but “my dad was killed” has weight.

Just in case you’re a white supremacist and you’re thinking about using Superman or Captain America or really most Marvel and DC super heroes for your racists bullshit: They were created by Jews. They are the children of Jews. Keep your gross-ass hands off of them, they’re for the marginalized.

We could’ve had Star Trek. Instead we have ROBOCOP.

Alright, motherfuckers, here’s something that needs to be made crystal clear: Captain America PUNCHES Nazis. He punches fascists. He punches bullies. If you depict him as supporting any of those fuckers, you. Are. WRONG. Fuck off, fascists.

Stared reading Brave New World.

…know the scene in BTTF where Doc goes “Ronald Reagan? THE ACTOR!?” And then he goes on to list a bunch of other absurd high political office positions like Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury…yea, this feels like that. Except it’s the real world.

Sagan, the sage? From his 1995 book. The state of #America

Low key kind of annoyed that I can just be regular depressed right now. No, instead I have existential dread anxiety and depression…

But seriously, goddammit, we could’ve had VP Tim Walz!

I’ve been stuck in functional freeze, I think, for almost two full years. Burnout just as long. Before the election I wasn’t doing great mentally. Since the election I haven’t wanted to leave my bed. I feel like the possibility of anything getting better is just gone and I am struggling.

Either way, I’d love to maybe have a company that made stuff like historical dramas that both educated and entertain, and also Show the life of common people, not the leaders.

Comics people: Are there narrative books, based in history, and designed to educate as well as entertain?

Anybody else get weepy at the end of “Comfort and Joy”?

…was there ever a Capt. Marvel/ Shazam! story where there’s a seedy underbelly of Fawcett City called “The Sink” or “The Drain”? Because there should’ve been.

…why the hell didn’t they spend the last thirty years making Phantom movies?

Oh I get it, they used up all of the set builders on GotG3 so they had to use exclusively green screen for Quantumania

Finally watching GotG3 and I’m enjoying it quite a bit (much, much more than Quantumania) and then it has a Spacehog needle drop?

Whatever happened to just…existing? Not grinding, not selling, not buying, not influencing, not hustling. Just…existing.

Once again, I am asking you to support the next book I’m lettering! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sergiocarrera/toxic-detective-issue-1

If you follow me, like great comics with incredible art, and want to support Indy creators, go check this out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sergiocarrera/toxic-detective-issue-1

Thanks to @randookla.bsky.social I now know that I fell in love with the medium of comics on April 7th, 2001. Weird to think how much I was already into the hobby by the end of that summer.

Oh hey, I guess I have something to promote? I’m very excited to be working on “Toxic Detective”, the next book from my dear friend Sergio Carrera https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sergiocarrera/toxic-detective-issue-1

Know what? Comic books are fucking awesome. Old, new, your own personal golden age, they’re rad. Are there books and writers and artists I don’t care for? Oh hell yea. But it doesn’t mean the comics I love are gone.

I highly encourage any Indy creators to add recaps and character listings on the inside cover of your books.

Here’s another awesome page I lettered, from Joe Kachedourian’s “Identity Stunt 2”, available in print from Markosia and on ComiXology. This book challenged me in the best way and made me a better letterer, especially with SFX.