The Death Thread - The Grim Reader

Loved his Holliday.

He was unwell for a long time. His appearance in Top Gun: Maverick felt like a goodbye considering how poorly he was travelling.

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Such a shit year for 70’s punk and post-punk deaths. Dave Allen who played bass for Gang of Four died this week too. Add them to deaths in NY Dolls, the Damned and the Jam in the past few months.

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Rick Thorburn. :tumbler_glass:

Good riddance you evil fucking nonce.

Pope Francis checks out aged 88.

Meeting JD Vance was enough to push him over the edge it seems.

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Seems he jumped instead of meeting Vance.

He just had double pneumonia right?

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Yeah and a lot of “weekend at Bernie’s” jokes were made about his couple of public appearances since.

I like to think he held on long enough just to diss Vance.

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So, it’s Easter, does he resurrect in a couple of days or??

The Catholics were the ones doing the killing weren’t they?

Virginia Giuffre dead by suicide.

Jack Katz, Pioneer of the Graphic Novel, Is Dead at 97

Hailed as a visionary (if a difficult one), he drew inspiration for his multivolume work “The First Kingdom” from no less a model than Homer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/arts/jack-katz-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GE8.Z6RF.fUg_aghPmOVn&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare