Ryan North

a black and white photo of a man hanging from a clock on a building . Alt: Harold Lloyd as Harold Lloyd in the Harold Lloyd vehicle "Safety Last"

if you like Harold Lloyd I have a recommendation for you: in "Safety Last" Harold Lloyd plays a Harold Lloyd type character named "Harold Lloyd"

NY vanity plate INOLIKEU.

GASP

T-Rex: Hello, glasses store? I've got you on speakerphone. I would like to buy some glasses! T-Rex: And as for my prescription... T-Rex: ...NONE!!

Narrator: LATER: T-Rex: This is gonna be great, Dromiceiomimus! I'm gonna be a GLASSES GUY. A guy who wears glasses! Dromiceiomimus: But why? T-Rex: Uh... STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE in CONVERSATIONS??

Utahraptor: You're gonna have to walk me through that one. T-Rex: Happily! T-Rex: You can take glasses off and clean them - buying you VALUABLE SECONDS to respond that non-glasses guys don't have! Plus, you can whip them off as a form of punctuation - and even point with them to REALLY underline what you're saying! This grants access to levels of rhetoric beyond my wildest dreams!!

Off panel: You have pretty tame dreams. T-Rex: Man, I know it! Everyone ELSE gets to dream of skydiving or whatever, and I'm always stuck dreaming of doing some menial task to no result! T-Rex: Anyway, glasses!!

none of his friends mention how hard it'll be for him to get them on his face, but that's because they're all happy to help him whenever he wants. OH SNAP, WHOLESOME MOMENTS IN DINOSAUR COMICS!!

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thank you Ben. I agree

the power angry

this is what i'm saying! the legend must grow

less itchy now but still

I got that real quick, thanks to this context!

I just wanna brag that I needed to scratch my neck, but I was writing an email, so I did it with my right hand while typing the word "secret". That's typed entirely with the left hand, so I didn't even break my stride. It was INCREDIBLY smooth. Please remember that I am extremely cool (also itchy)

Galactus!

Cover for Slaughterhouse-Five (Deluxe Edition)

A deluxe edition of @ryannorth.ca and Albert Monteys' adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is coming in October. This is one of my favourite comic book adaptations. It captures the Tralfamadorian perspective, unspooling a character's life on the page.

aw thanks so much! really glad you're enjoying it :)

Narrator: UNIVERSES WHERE APHORISMS SUDDENLY BECOME LITERALLY TRUE COMICS Narrator: "You Are What You Eat"

Dromiceiomimus: Oh NO. Now we literally BECOME what we eat? This is it, T-Rex! This is the end! You eat too much cow and you become a cow! I eat too many carrots and my future is that of a carrot! T-Rex: FRIG! T-Rex: We're POOCHED!

Utahraptor: Wait, no! In such a universe, cannibalism is the only logical response! Utahraptor: If we eat our own, we'll become what we already are! But wait - no, this only works if ALL of us subscribe to cannibalism 100%, because ANY variance will get incorporated into us and spread amongst the larger population!

Off panel: Over time, this tends towards ALL of us becoming largely the same entity: a monstrous, writhing average of all the consumed and the consuming! A world of undifferentiated meat! T-Rex: Frig! T-Rex: I hate universes where aphorisms suddenly become literally true!!

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: a comic where precisely half of t-rex's lines are just variations of "Frig!"

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If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

this book is so rad. if you care about game narrative, pick up a copy! learn at least 100 new things!

M is for maybe this starts with an m N is for next letter, and that one's an n E is for easy, like spelling this word M is for magpie, the stealingest bird O is for only three more letters to go N is for nearly there, you mnemonic pro I is for imminent, this poem's end C is for congratulations, my spellingwell friend

If you are unsure of how to spell mnemonic, here is a handy mnemonic:

hey thanks Liam!! :)

INCREDIBLE. yet also impossible as there's no way this was that long ago. yet also: incredible - happy birthday!!

In honor of today being FOC for the first issue of our new run, THE FLASH 31, the folks at DC gave me the all clear to share some images pulled from my original design sheet.

@ryannorth.ca and I hope you take the ride with us! Tell you your local comic shop to reserve a copy for you today!

good numbers there!

that's because it RULES

the Robot Rock / Oh Yeah live version that I'm almost certain you recommended at some point?

YouTube music saying I'm in the top 0.09% of Daft Punk listeners last month

this kind of thing is normal when you like 99.91 percent of their songs

T-Rex: We divide up the oceans into different oceans, but c'mon - it's all the same ocean! T-Rex: *GASP* T-Rex: Wait, this applies to everything!

T-Rex: We divide up the planet into different countries, but it's all the same planet! And we divide us all up into these groups, but WE'RE ALL THE SAME SPECIES! Dromiceiomimus: I'm not. T-Rex: Okay, fine, we're all the same CLADE! A clade, of course, being a monophyletic group of organisms sharing the same common ancestor. Dromiceiomimus: Of course!

Utahraptor: But pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs, so they're not part of the same clade as us. T-Rex: EUGH! T-Rex: Utahraptor, I am TRYING to achieve some sort of ENLIGHTENMENT here, and instead I'm being bogged down in CLADE DEFINITIONS. How about this: we're all LIFE, so we're all in this together. Ruin that!! Utahraptor: This would be much more compelling if I didn't have to devour other forms of life to maintain my own.

T-Rex: Ah, I see the trouble here. I said "ruin that!!" when I should've said "please leave me in ignorance, it's very important for my mental health right now." T-Rex: My mistake!!

that's a big oopsie-doopsie on my part, and i apologize

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hey thanks!

modesty reasons

;)

EXACTLY

sounds like a pretty sweet gig to me