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Hiltzik: Bob Lee’s murder and the truth about crime

Rushes to judgment seldom come at you any faster than the commentary about the killing of tech entrepreneur Bob Lee in a deserted neighborhood of San Francisco early on the morning of April 4. The stabbing death of Lee was almost instantaneously taken as confirmation of an emerging narrative about the city — dirty, dangerous, unlivable. Lee’s friends and business acquaintances knew whom to blame: San Francisco’s liberal politicians. “Chesa Boudin, & the criminal-loving city council that enabled him & a lawless SF…

Man Arrested in Cash App Founder Bob Lee’s Fatal Stabbing Ordered Held Without Bail

SAN FRANCISCO—The man arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee was ordered to be held without bail during a brief court appearance Friday. Nima Momeni, 38, was arrested by San Francisco police Thursday morning and booked on a murder charge. SAN FRANCISCO—The man arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee was ordered to be held without bail during a brief court appearance Friday. Nima Momeni, 38, was arrested by…

Cash App Founder Bob Lee’s Alleged Killer, Nima Momeni Arrested

Police have made an arrest in the murder of Bob Lee, 43, the tech executive and co-founder of Cash App who was found stabbed to death in downtown San Francisco last week.Yet Another Storm in California | Extreme EarthMission Local reports that police were recently dispatched to Emeryville, California, another Bay Area city, to arrest Nima Momeni, who is described as the owner of Expand IT and “a man Lee purportedly knew.” According to the outlet, police have said that Lee’s murder was “neither a robbery attempt nor a

Fonda Lee’s New Fantasy Novella

Combining ancient Persian mythology with the impossible-to-explain bond between pets and humans, Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee captures pain, guilt, and revenge in a single tidy novella. As man-eating manticores stalk the countryside, giant rocs, their only known natural predator, are trained up in royal mews by ruhkers as the first line of defense against the mythological killers. Ester becomes one of these storied ruhkers, and Untethered Sky follows her journey as she trains her roc, Zahra.Lower Drought Conditions In…

Dan DeCarlo and Stan Lee’s 1950s Series My Girl Pearl, Up for Auction

Created by Dan DeCarlo and Stan Lee, was My Girl Pearl's Mrs. Lumpkin the mother of Fantastic Four mailman Willie Lumpkin?After a successful 46-issue stretch that saw the comic book series outlast every other part of the radio/tv/movie franchise, Marvel's licensed comic book title My Friend Irma ended its run on the newsstands in October 1954.  Stan Lee and Dan DeCarlo immediately continued My Friend Irma's theme of the misadventures of a beautiful but ditzy blonde and her sensible brunette roommate with a new title, My…

Marvel/DC cover artist Jeehyung Lee’s Kickstarter campaign for GUMAA – THE BEGINNING OF HER

Marvel/DC cover artist Jeehyung Lee has launched the Kickstarter campaign for the final chapters of his new horror comic GUMAA – The Beginning of Her, which has garnered rave reviews from fans and industry professionals, including James Tynion IV (Something is Killing the Children, Nice House on the Lake) and Brian Pulido (Publisher of Coffin Comics, creator of Lady Death). Born and raised in South Korea, Lee, a former art director and concept artist at Netmarble, has had an exciting career that has spanned the mediums…

Mike Lee’s personal Twitter account reinstated: Here’s what we know

Twitter reversed the suspension of Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-Utah) personal account on Wednesday afternoon, hours after it was locked for unknown reasons.  Lee appeared to regain access to his @BasedMikeLee account around 2:30 p.m., when users were able to see his Tweets once again.  “Thanks to all who assisted in operation #Free@basedMikeLee. Still no explanation from @Twitter as to what happened,” Lee tweeted from his personal account.  The account had been suspended earlier Wednesday, with his feed only…

The Secret to Bruce Lee’s Superhuman One-Inch Punch

No one wants to deal with that many interactions. Instead, in physics we treat the ball as one thing—and that's mostly fine. However, to make sure that other people understand what we are doing when we model an interaction, we have to define our “system.” Perhaps, to make it easy, we decide the system is just the ball itself. If so, we deal only with the ball's momentum and any forces due to external interactions, and we can ignore all those atom-atom interactions. We could even forget about the interaction between the…

John Lees & George Kambadais do The Nasty in Vault March 2023 Solicits

| John Lees and George Kambadais are launching a new series in Vault Comics' March 2023 solicits and solicitations, seen here first on Bleeding Cool, as well as Songs For The Dead: Afterlife by Andrea Fort, Michael Christopher Heron and MJ Erickson. Take a look at these and those below. THE NASTY NO.1 (WRITER) JOHN LEES (ARTIST) GEORGE KAMBADAIS (LETTERER) JIM CAMPBELLCALLING ALL SCARY MOVIE FANS!SCOTLAND, 1994. EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD THUMPER CONNELL STILL HAS AN IMAGINARY FRIEND:THE MASKED KILLER FROM HIS FAVOURITE…

Earth is a toxic dump in Cardoselli and Lee’s DON’T SPIT IN THE WIND

Think pollution is bad now? A new series from Mad Cave Studios is coming next year to show you just how bad it can get. Don’t Spit in the Wind is a four-issue miniseries from writer and artist Stefano Cardoselli, with colors and lettering by Dan Lee. The series, set in a future in which the Earth is no longer habitable, follows a toxic waste clean-up crew who start disappearing with no explanation. Here’s how Mad Cave describes Don’t Spit in the Wind: In the distant future, humanity has escaped the shell of what was…