Aditya Bidikar

Aditya Bidikar is a comic-book letterer and occasional writer based in India.

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  • Autopilot Scheduling

    After almost two years, I’m now working on enough projects at once that I needed to bring back a degree of organisation into my work life. I’ll be talking more about this in future blogposts, as I think out loud about what works for me.

    The first thing I went back to doing, though, is to put tasks on autopilot. This means that at any point of the day, I already know what I’m supposed to be doing, because I’ve decided on it the previous night.

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  • Reading the X-Men Krakoa Era: Part 1

    In 2019, something very exciting happened to Marvel’s X-Men comics, which, by that point, were sustaining themselves mostly with a readership that was already thoroughly invested in them, as is the case with a lot of corporate comics these days. (Also, at the time, Fox wasn’t owned by Disney, so Marvel wasn’t as invested in the X-Men, but they tend not to come out and admit that.)

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  • Dune Part 2

    K and I watched Dune Part 2 last week, and my thoughts on this one are largely the same as my thoughts on the first one.

    It’s beautifully designed and mounted, with great sound design. I’ll definitely be buying the Art of book, as I did with the first one.

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  • Status / 2024 / Week 07: Minor Breakages

    I haven’t sent out a status update for the last couple of weeks, and I haven’t posted on my blog in that time either (as I had intended).

    There’s a simple reason for that – I’ve been going through stuff. For three weeks, I was busier than I’ve been in a good while, partly because work just lined up that way, partly because back pain slowed me down, and because sometimes you just have more work to do.

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  • Status / 2024 / Week 05: Past Lives

    Butter Docs (or, New writing apps don’t work so great)
    E-book reissue of Forgotten Lives
    Film: Past Lives

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  • Status / 2024 / Week 04: (Re)Organisation

    Reorganisation
    Books: The Giggle
    Films: Fallen Leaves, Fargo, Bottoms, The Silence of the Lambs
    Plays: God of Carnage

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  • Status / 2024 / Week 03: Chronic

    Chronic pain
    Books: Wild Blue Yonder, The Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter
    TV: Doctor Who Series 1

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  • Timewyrm: Revelation

    Synopsis and reviews.

    The shadow of Alan Moore stretches long over this one. The specific antecedent is “The Anatomy Lesson” – we’ve got a gloomy atmosphere, an inactive hero, and revelations on his nature, structured as an inward journey. We also have epigraphs for each chapter, which, in this case, smack of Watchmen over Stephen King.

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  • Status / 2024 / Week 02: Along We Rumble

    I toyed with not writing this one at all – the back pain has returned, and I have to push through it and work, so spending time writing doesn’t feel like the best idea. But I decided I’d go back to writing on the phone in bed to give my back a rest, and honestly, this makes for a good distraction.

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  • Status / 2024 / Week 01: Part 2 – Reviews for the Week

    (This one’s coming to you late because someone – probably accidentally – reported my newsletter as malicious content or something, so I was locked out of sending new ones. Buttondown had to audit and then clear it. We’re back in business!)

    As mentioned in Part 1, here’s my reviews for the week. If you prefer my personal rambles to these, you can just skip this one.

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