Jake Thomas

@jakefromcomics.bsky.social

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Senior Group Editor at IDW overseeing TMNT, Godzilla, Sonic, Crime, etc. Occasional writer and performer. 2 Tired 2 B Pithy.

Reviews of WAITING FOR GAL GADOT: "Godot fans will love this one!" "What a GREAT piece! Brilliant, innovative writing" "A touch of hope, resilience, and belief" "Funny, thoughtful, and expertly executed!" "This show spoke to me, spoke to this moment in time, spoke human to human on so many levels."
The great Michael Sinterniklaas emploring you to get your tickets to come see WAITING FOR GAL GADOT!
WAITING FOR GAL GADOT, a play written by Jake Thomas, directed by Stephanie Sheh, and starring Jake Thomas, Michael Sinterniklaas, Eliza Huberth, Rachael Hip-Flores, and Jack Kelly. At the Broadwater Second Stage 6/5 @ 8pm, 6/17 @ 7:30pm, 6/20 @ 2pm, 6/23 @ 10:30pm, and 6/28 @ 3:30pm.
The 80s animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in trenchcoats.
Guy pointing at his forehead meme with text: If we drink all her water, she'll have to see us.
A clip from the LAUSD website noting that the 2023-24 budget for the LAUSD, the second-largest public school district in the country, was $18.8 billion.
Taboo 1-9 and the special.
Two figures sit on a couch. A marked-up poster reads "Waiting for Gal Gadot. Two acts. No action. Written by Jake Thomas, Directed by Stephanie Sheh. Starring Alan Smyth, Jake Thomas, Eliza Huberth, Rachael Hip-Flores, and Jack Kelly. At the Pico Theater, July 18th and 19th.
A bedraggled yet proud man holding up his copy of the gorgeous hardcover edition of METAL HURLANT #1.
Shoresy telling you got damn truth: You gotta set the tone.
Lex Luthor in Superman. I know it's 70s and not 80s and I specifically said even he would think this was too far, just go with me.
Bad Guy in the relevantly-titled Above the Law.
Bad Guy in Tango & Cash
The bad guy from Total Recall.
The bad guy from RoboCop.
DOGE plays hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace takeover U.S. attorney and FBI threatened criminal prosecution and enlisted D.C. police to enter the USIP building. Following President Donald Trump's Feb. 19 executive order targeting nonexecutive branch foreign aid and peacemaking agencies for elimination, agents of DOGE, the White House-based organization overseen by Elon Musk, have moved to take over entities both small and large. DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, on Monday took over the U.S. Institute of Peace after threatening its officials with criminal prosecution. Its president was removed from its headquarters with the assistance of the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and D.C. police. In seizing control of the 40-year-old Washington institution, founded and funded directly by Congress and employing about 600 people here and overseas, DOGE emptied the building and installed DOGE agent Kenneth Jackson as acting USIP president. Jackson is also titled as a board member of several other far smaller agencies similarly emptied, and he was nominated by Trump as a senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Amid the many sagas of DOGE activities over the past two months, the USIP story marks the most aggressive. Andrew Goldfarb of the D.C. law firm Zuckerman and Spaeder, who is representing USIP, said he would file a lawsuit asking the federal court in the District for DOGE's actions to be reversed on grounds that the Trump administration had no authority to take them. Trump's executive order listed USIP for "expected termination," along with the smaller Inter-American Foundation and the U.S. African Development Foundation, which provide small business and farming grants and loans. They were both taken over by DOGE this month. USIP, whose mandate from Congress is to help resolve violent international conflicts and provide Congress and the administration with information and analysis, freq…
A man in rough shape reads METAL HURLANT. As we all should.
WATER PARTY poster, written by Mimi Collins, directed by Ellie Pyle, March 7th and 8th at 8 PM at the Pico theater.
Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father.
Poster for the play WATER PARTY, written by Mimi Collins, directed by Ellie Pyle, playing at the Pico Theater in Los Angeles on March 7th and 8th.
A gif from HOME ALONE 2 of workers at Donald Trump's hotel admitting that they are, indeed, the finest idiots in New York.
Alan Arkin and Peter Falk in one of the great Guys Being Dudes movies, THE IN-LAWS.
The H.R. Giger cover for the #33 bis September '78 issue of the classic run of METAL HURLANT. A white, large-eyed cat stands in front of a techno-organic woman in the grand Giger tradition.
Cover for Pedestrian #4, the empty costume of the titular Pedestrian on a crosswalk with shadows looming over it.
A dour-looking Jeffrey Toobin.
Charlie and Grandpa Joe licking the lickable wallpaper in the film WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY.
A man listens to a woman's problems while a dog watches. That same woman traverses the River Styx with a grim reaper and his trusty apprentice. How are these things connected? Read POST MORTAL by Amit Tishler, Elliot Sperl, and Chad Lewis to find out!
A comics page showing Huck lettering a bird fly free from “Huckleberry Friend (A Crisis of Faith, Humbly Adapted from Mr. Mark Twain’s THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN),” The Tipping Point, drawn by John Cassaday.
Jaime Pressly from DOA, keeping it easy for all of us sinners.
The Cryptkeeper looking rad as hell, like he always does.
Jake Thomas as a Deathlok, but, like, with BONE STRUCTURE.
Calvin's dad explaining that old black and white photos were because color hadn't been invented yet, but paintings were because artists are crazy.
Bill Cobbs is, strictly speaking, never supposed to do this (still photo of Moses throwing a spanner in the works from The Hudsucker Proxy)
Georgie wrestling. It isn't going well for her.
CYN book cover from Ibrahim Moustafa, Brad Simpson, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.