How Will I Laugh at the Cult of the Crimson Moon?

 

Interesting fact: If you look this song up on YouTube, before delivering the results, you get a full page suicide prevention page. Kinda goofy, and kinda nice. Anyway, it's late, I'm tired, and even though there are half a dozen other songs I wanted to post, they all will require some 'writing.' So I went with this, some good old Suicidal. Title track from their 1988 album, a banger from start to finish.

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NCBD:

Some great stuff this week. Let's get into New Comic Book Day for Wednesday, February 25, 2026!!!

New Vertigo series from That Texas Blood creators Chris Condon and Jacob Philips! I know NOTHING about this beyond Ezra Cain is a private eye, so I am excited!

The Quintesson War continues, and this month we have a cover with an army of those green Baliff characters that work the Pit of Judgement for the Quintessons. One thing I love about the Quintessons and their, erm, assets is the weird blend that makes a lot of these guys look similar - like they were all cobbled together from the same parts but under slightly different creative whims. Which fits when the architect has five faces. 

Only Liam Sharp could get me buying a Spawn title, and so far, The Dark Ages volume 2 lives up! The art in this thing is awesome! Listen to Mike and me discuss the first two issues on Drinking with Comics HERE. 

The third and final issue of this second 1930's Batman series. I held off reading issue two, waiting for this one to show up, so now I can read the entire series in one sitting!

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Plastic:

Fuck. Just fuck. I stumbled across a YouTube video that clued me in to Big Bad Toy Store's Big Bad Workshop and the fact that they have a figure under their Soldier of Fortune banner that is as close as we're likely to get to a Hooded Cobra Commander figure. Check this out:

It doesn't stop there, though. Scrolling through the workshop page, I found this under the Cult of the Crimson Moon collection:

Even better! The red matches the historically related Baron Ironblood from the British Action Force/Red Shadows. Check out THIS video from Destro is My Spirit Animal that explores the history of this.

Finally, I stumbled on BBWS's Monster Force collection and found this:

Werewolf troopers and they don't have to actually be associated with nazis! I'm sick to fucking death of fucking nazis!

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Playlist:

King Woman - Celestial Blues

Mike Patton - The Solitude of Prime Numbers

Mountain Realm - Stoneharrow

Jim Williams - Possessor OST

Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today

Plague Bringer - Life Songs In A Land Of Death

Plague Bringer - As the Ghosts Collect, the Corpses Rest

Metallica - Ride the Lightning

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Card:

Stepping away from Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot (which you can buy HERE.) again to play with my beloved Thoth.  

• IX: The Hermit

• 3 of Disks: Work

• 2 of Cups: Love

"Stepping away from the world to rebuild, listen to inner guidance as a stability you have quakes. This is what happens when we build atop previous confidences. New stability will come, and with it, love and partnership."

I think there's something here for me about podcasting. I won't go into it now, but it perfectly maps something that's been developing and how I've handled it.