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04/05/2024

What do you think Jesus's first word was?

JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. "Annunciation" (announcing something) and "enunciation" (pronouncing something) are two words that sound very similar, so I took the Biblical Annunciation (when the angel Gabriel announced Christ's birth to Mary) and set it beside an imagining of Jesus pronouncing -- or enunciating -- His first word. I alluded to this pun a couple weeks ago in a previous cartoon's description, then decided it ought to have its own comic. 2. My sisters suggested "Abba" as Jesus's first word. I thought it was perfect, because it's a plausible first word for a baby, since it's made up of simple syllables -- like "mama" or "dada" -- but it's also got that Son-of-God vibe to it.

[toonycryptid]

Brothers.

I always had a concept for Catoon to have a brother just now showing what he looks like.

[therobotmonster]

TryannoMax, Issue 25, October 1977

Cocytus Comics Group, Story by Barry McDermit, lines by Midge Joulet & Dale Ethree, Colors and Letters by H. Haddaway.

Issue #25. It's a quiet day so the Core team gets some R&R. TryannoMax hunts down Dr. Underfang for a long-overdue confrontation, DeinoSteve and PteroDarla finally have that date, and Wally Manmoth visits home. So when Ape-Tomic Pyle returns from the grave to exact his revenge, only TriceraBruce remains to stand in his way. One wounded dinoid against a living nuclear ape-pocalypse, with the populace of Wisconsin in the balance.

Running for an astounding 80 issues, TyrannoMax was the headline comic from Cocytus in the 1970s, and was the primary motivator behind Buzby-Spurlock buying out Cocytus in '83.

While the comic series is considered the root of the empire that would create the animated series and live action movie, the concept was first introduced in short story "Humanity, My Young Cousin" in the pulp-sci-fi magazine Stunning True-Life Tales of Science Fiction, a few years earlier.

May be posting interior pages soon.

Full details under the fold.

TyrannoMax is my AI dinosaur test kitchen, where I see how ideas work out before trying them on more serious projects.

Here, I've used Dall-E 3 through Bing and Midjourney to create comic assets, which I then de-color and rework into inks in a similar fashion to my AI-comic reworkings like Robots Ruined the Internet and Let's Gib About Ib, or any of my other fake comic covers. TriceraBruce and Ape-Tomic Pyle were generated with Dall-E 3, and the background was made in Midjourney.

This makes the basic inks, from there I correct anatomical problems, cleanup AI wonk, and generally re-ink where things are needed.

Once I have the "inks" its then a matter of doing the coloring and graphic design work the old fashioned way. I used my recreation of the 1981 DC comics palette for my colors, used post-processing to get the printed look, and there you go.

My prompt format for the characters is:

A -anthro wearing , long tail (if a dinosaur) , comic panel by 1968, in the style of 1960s Marvel comics

Because all weights are averaged a bit, to get a 1970s comic look, you have to prompt for late 60s, ortherwise it looks late 80s.

Background prompt was:

a distant city, a rocket launches from its center, flying toward the sky, comic illustration by jack kirby, inked lines, flat color, blue sky, green grass, orange rocket, from 1968

[nervoustoastthing]

I feel like this is something tumblr would make into a comic

Bonus:

(He’s too shy to give it to Tomic, help him a little?)

[heroinstitute]

it took a minute, but we have a little walkway now

[pipelinelaserraygun]

DON'T turn a cold shoulder.

Share the warmth of Christ, to prevent 🥶 frostbite due to INCREASE in WICKEDNESS.

INCREASE in WICKEDNESS.

INCREASE in WICKEDNESS.

INCREASE in WICKEDNESS.

INCREASE in WICKEDNESS is sometimes the result of reckless abandonment: The feeling that God has left you to your own devices.

A cautionary tale, that you should avoid becoming a lost Sheeple: 🐑🐏 Self-reliant herds suffer unnecessarily.

Do you believe God provides for ALL of our good needs, or is there direct involvement ONLY sometimes?

It warms the ❤️ heart to help those less fortunate.

🆓 BOOK PREVIEW, a 100% MUST 👁️👁️ SEE ⬆️⬆️, x2❣️

When a trail goes 🥶 COLD, it's Human nature to wrongly accuse God of indifference.

Forensics/🆕 advances, may REOPEN old 🥶 cold cases.

MUST ⏰ WATCH daily, x2❣️

Heartwarming 😂 FUNNIES: one of the greatest/easiest ways to perform Evangelism is cut/paste SHARE these.

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Jack the Ripper rides again in ‘Cross to Bear’ this October

Marko Stojanović, Siniša Banović, Aljoša Tomić and Taylor Esposito send England’s most notorious serial killer to the American West in a new series from AfterShock Comics.

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Jack the Ripper Heads to the Wild West in Cross to Bear

Jack the Ripper Heads to the Wild West in Cross to Bear #Comics #ComicBooks

Cross to Bear #1 Writer: Marko StojanovićArtist: Siniša BanovićColorist: Dorde Krajinović w/ Aljoša TomićLetterer: Taylor EspositoCover: Sinisa BanovićIncentive Cover: Tim Bradstreet$4.99 / 32 pages / Color / 10.13.2021 Jack the Ripper was never caught because no one was looking for him in the Wild West…No one accept The Order. An organization made up of the descendants of Crusaders sworn to…

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Crowdfunding Spotlight: Carry On Cthullu by Grayham Puttock (and other scallywags)

Crowdfunding Spotlight: Carry On Cthullu by Grayham Puttock (and other scallywags)

A parody, a satire, a lovingly-crafted homage! (Oh, What A) Carry On, Cthulhu! is a great looking comic currently seeking support on Kickstarter – an entirely fictionalised account of a completely made-up tale… And it’s all true! Even if it never happened… (Oh, What A) Carry On, Cthulhu! is a 36 page, black-and-white, one-shot comic, written and drawn by Grayham Puttock (Closely, Dogjaw,…

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Ryuk (Death Note)

Art by Dino Tomic (aka AtomicCircus @ DeviantArt)

[tomicscomics]

03/08/2024

If that word was made flesh, I'd punch it.

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. The priest, Fr. Mark, is giving a homily during Laetare Sunday (the fourth Sunday of Lent, and a day when priests wear rose-colored vestments).  He notes that, in the first reading, the infidelity of the people of Judah seems infinite, and it defiles their places of worship, and it continues indefinitely.  Because the words "infidelity," "infinite," "defile," and "indefinitely" share many letters and sounds, Fr. Mark starts combining the words together to make hip new words which contain all of their meanings at once.  The evolution of this new word goes thuswise and whenceforth: 1a. INFIDELITY (in-fi-del-i-ty): unfaithfulness. 1b. INFINIDELITY (in-fin-i-del-i-ty): infinite unfaithfulness. 1c. INFINIDEFIDELITY (in-fin-i-def-i-del-i-ty): infinite unfaithfulness which defiles. 1d. INDEFINFINIDEFIDELITY (in-def-in-fin-i-def-i-del-i-ty): infinite unfaithfulness which defiles and continues indefinitely.  Indef(inite) + infini(te) + defi(le) + (infi)delity. 2. Once the ultimate form of the priest's new word is complete and the heroes can no longer stop it's godless birth, one of the parishioners declares that he feels God in the priest's word.  Is this out of genuine religious ecstasy, or out of fear that the new word will destroy everyone who resisted it when it gains sentience?  That, I leave for the scholars to decide.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is yet another "Tomics Resurrection," where I've taken an old cartoon and, much like the priest, remade it with all the hubris I can muster.  The old cartoon only combined "indefinite," "infinite," and "infidelity."  In this new version, I added "defile" to the mix, because that's also in the verse, and contains several of the same letters as the rest of the victims of my chimeric abomination.  Ironic, isn't it?  That I would defile the English language further than ever by using that very word.  But I'm a scientist, after all.  The opportunity was there, so I took it, even if it was taboo.  I can almost hear it murmuring, "Ed...ward?"

[the-c0rinthian]

1 and 5 for the salty meme thingy.

1. What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?*

ubhhh for the witcher some people have been shipping yennefer and tissaia. Which like, cool ship what you want. I just can't get behind it bcoz tissaia very much reminds me of my verbally abusive/emotionally manipulative mother so,,,. For stranger things i just cannot ship anyone w/ jonathan because thats my brothers name. And in mtg, its anyone shipping ral zarek w/ literally any other character when his boyfriend tomic vrona (CANON BOYFRIEND) is right there.

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?*

The marvel fandom w/ any tony ship (except for winteriron) tony stans were,, wild. and I didn't really like mcu tony (i love comic tony)., like,,, i got death threats from tony stans for saying i didnt like rhodey so i did my best to avoid them jsjsjsjsj

[jurakan]

Heyo, @patron-saint-of-smart-asses here’s an interview with the guy who made your avatar picture.

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The Ultimate Catholic Comic Book by Pat Cross, Tom Gould, Jason Bach, John Smillie, and Matt Martinusen 

Beaver’s Pond Press, 2017

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Episode 323

Comic Reviews:

Aquaman/Green Arrow: Deep Target 1 by Brandon Thomas, Ronan Cliquet, Ulises Arreola

Batman/Fortnite: Foundation 1 by Scott Snyder, Christos Gage, Donald Mustard, Joshua Hixson, Roman Stevens

Batman: The Long Halloween Special 1 by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale, Brennan Wagner

DC vs. Vampires 1 by James Tynion, Matthew Rosenberg, Otto Schmidt

Task Force Z 1 by Matthew Rosenberg, Eddy Barrows, Eber Ferreira, Adriano Lucas

Darkhold: Blade 1 by Daniel Kibblesmith, Federico Sabbatini, Rico Renzi

Spine Tingling Spider-Man Infinity Comic 1 by Saladin Ahmed, Juan Ferreyra

Mighty Marvel Holiday Special - Halloween with the Rhino Infinity Comics by Ryan North, Tom Reilly, Chris O'Halloran

It's Jeff 10 by Kelly Thompson, Gurihiru

Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters - IG-88 by Rodney Barnes, Guiu Vilanova, Antonio Fabela

Ant 1 by Erik Larsen, Mike Toris

Gunslinger Spawn 1 by Todd McFarlane, Ales Kot, Brett Booth, Thomas Nachlik, Philip Tan, Kevin Keane, Adelso Corona, Daniel Henriques, Andrew Dalhouse, Mikos Koutsis, Marcello Iozzoli, Marcelo Maiolo, Fco Plascencia

Hellcop 1 by Brian Haberlin, Geirrod Van Dyke

Nita Hawe's Nightmare Blog 1 by Rodney Barnes, Jason Shawn Alexander, Patric Reynolds, Luis Nct, Mar Silvestre Galotto

House of Slaughter 1 by James Tynion, Tate Brombal, Chris Shehan, Miquel Muerto

Hellboy: The Silver Lantern Club 1 by Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Christopher Mitten, Ben Stenberg, Michelle Madsen

Cross to Bear 1 by Marko Stojanovic, Sinisa Banovic, Djordje Krajnovic, Aljosa Tomic

Harbinger 1 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Robbi Rodriguez, Rico Renzi

Merlin and Hector 1 by Rodolfo Santullo, Jok

Rush 1 by Si Spurrier, Nathan Gooden, Addison Duke

All-Nighter by Chip Zdarsky, Jason Loo, Paris Alleyne

Hello My Name is Poop by Ben Katzner, Ian McGinty, Fred Stresing

Sleepless Domain OGN by Mary Cagle

Graveneye OGN by Sloane Leong, Anna Bowles

Better Place OGN by Duane Murray, Shawn Daley

Another Kind OGN by Trevor Bream, Cait May

Additional Reviews: Star Trek: Prodigy, Batman: Creature of the Night, Last Night in Soho, Doctor Who: Flux

News: Dune Part 2, new artist on Savage Spider-Man, Bill Murray joins MCU, Ben Percy relaunching Ghost Rider Johnny Blaze, Iron Fist No More, King project with Elsa C, new Molly Knox Ostertag project thru Substack, Lego Ninjago comic from Skybound, Iron Fist replaced by new character, new Lemire/Sorrentino project, Image union, Taika Waititi to direct Tower of Terror, Chris Pratt is Garfield, Hulkling/Wiccan Marvel Unlimited

Trailers: Lightyear, Boba Fett

Comics Countdown:

Another Kind OGN by Trevor Bream, Cait May

Friday 4 by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, Muntsa Vicente

Black Hammer Reborn 5 by Jeff Lemire, Malachi Ward, Matt Sheean

House of Slaughter 1 by James Tynion, Tate Brombal, Chris Shehan, Miquel Muerto

Usagi Yojimbo 23 by Stan Sakai

Daredevil 35 by Chip Zdarsky, Stefano Landini, Francesco Mobili, Marcio Menyz

Robin 7 by Joshua Williamson, Max Dunbar, Gleb Melnikov, Luis Guerrero

Snow Angels Season Two 5 by Jeff Lemire, Jock

Batman: The Long Halloween Special by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale, Brennan Wagner

Better Place by Duane Murray, Shawn Daley

Check out this episode!

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Preview: Cross to Bear #4

Cross to Bear #4 preview. All bets are off, and only one thing is for sure as things finally come to a head: You did not see this one coming! #comics #comicbooks