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DrunkenMantis 🏳️‍🌈 resident Starscream lover @drunkenmantis.bsky.social · 6h

last stand
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prettied up this frame from my last animatic to use as wallpaper
#transformers #armada #starscream

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Staz Johnson @stazjohnson.bsky.social · 8h

When I was in high school my ambition was to be an illustrator of album covers not a Comic artist, so my artistic heroes were Roger Dean, Derek Riggs etc, but above all of them was Drew Struzan... r.i.p.

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Gavin Spence @gavtrdq.bsky.social · 1d

I took a notion to draw a wee comic last night, based on my real-life experience where I felt bad for some sticks.

Comic page. 2 Panels.

Panel 1: Me walking my dog in the woods.

Caption: Not to brag - but I walk my dog, okay/

Caption: We often find ourselves in the local woods.

Panel 2: Me looking at a big stretch of boggy muck.

Caption: There's this one big stretch of boggy muck on the pack we take.

Caption: You're probably thinking that we just shouldn't go this way. Hey you might be right. First time for everything, as they say.

Comic page. 1 Panel

Panel 1: Me and the dog walking over the boggy muck, elevated on sticks laid into the dirt.

Caption: Every few weeks, though - someone lays down a very useful series of branches so we can cross with ease.

Caption: That's nice isn't it? Someone taking the time and expending the effort to build a little bridge.

Caption: I often wonder who it is. Perhaps it's more than just one person. That's a comforting thought.

Panel 2: Me looking at a big stretch of boggy muck.

Caption: There's this one big stretch of boggy muck on the pack we take.

Caption: You're probably thinking that we just shouldn't go this way. Hey you might be right. First time for everything, as they say.

Comic Page - 1 Panel. Me crossing the sticks, we see all the previous sticks crushed down deep into the dark mud.

Caption: It's funny how guilty I feel when a branch breaks - like I've undone their good work, y'know?

Caption: But within a weeo or two, there's a new set of branches ready to be trodden into the mud.

Caption: It's hard not to think about all those other branches, crushed down deper in the dark with every new layer.

Comic Page 2 panels.

Panel 1: Me standing in the woods looking down at the path.

Caption: maybe it's my turn to lay down some branches for the next folk who come this way.

Caption: God knows it wouldn't take long - and I definitely have the time.

Panel 2: Shot of my hands holding the sticks I'd need.

Caption: Nah

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Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · Apr 14

When you go to a dinner party and it's blindingly obvious the couple have been fighting just before you all arrived...

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 6-month anniversary to our cover reveal! Lots of lovely responses to this first volume have been coming in - love to see it! Volumes 2 and 3 will be appearing throughout next year, but for now, hope you're enjoying the first half of Thunderbirds' spectacular run from TV Century 21!

Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · Apr 14

WELL HELLO THERE.

Thunderbirds Comic Anthology Volume 1, to be released later in the year. Cover art by Lee Sullivan.

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Halloween Name @damnyouwillis.bsky.social · 1d

ultra magnus recoils at small talk, he's just like me fr fr

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d

Every time.

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 1d

#ESAJuice reached 30% of its journey to Jupiter! 🙌

What has Juice been up to and what comes next? Read along. 1/8

Screenshot from the Juice bar X account showing a progress bar at 30%.

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Dan Morison @darkmechanic.bsky.social · 1d

portfolio day on bluesky, where the only people to look at the portfolios are artists that need work

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe by next year, it'll finally sink in that I've helped make a Thunderbirds thing?? 😭

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 6-month anniversary to our cover reveal! Lots of lovely responses to this first volume have been coming in - love to see it! Volumes 2 and 3 will be appearing throughout next year, but for now, hope you're enjoying the first half of Thunderbirds' spectacular run from TV Century 21!

Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · Apr 14

WELL HELLO THERE.

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TFRaw.com Transformers Multimedia Archive @walruslaw.bsky.social · 1d

The initial promo image for Transformers Armada had several changes from the final look of the show with almost all the characters having colour differences. #Transformers

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 1d

Right, I am *finally* done after a day full of safeguarding meetings and academic support for the kids, followed by an evening of prolonged construction of the much requested tuna pasta bake that I'm suddenly a master at.

How are we all? Have I missed much?

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 1d

It would be tacky and obvious to buy and read either of these books, with their creepy, atmospheric, unsettling stories, in October. Come on. You're better than that.

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · Mar 22

Between them ‘Municipal Gothic’ and ‘Intervals of Darkness’ have 27 stories full of haunted buildings, haunted people, and working class weirdness. Obviously *I* think they're great – but so do strangers who owe me nothing!

👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...

👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...

The covers of both books with quotes in praise of them, and of specific stories:

“‘Modern Buildings In Wessex’, which pulls a compelling horror narrative out of several architectural reviews, is an all-timer. Can’t recommend enough... Fans of Ghostwatch and Inside No. 9 – run don’t walk.”

Trevor Henderson

“...a tremendous collection, hugely enjoyable, and essential... for anyone interested in the English ghost story... ‘Men Who Live in Caravans’... is one of my very favourite stories of recent years: a future classic of the English weird, full of an almost unbearable sadness, quite exquisitely told.”

Seán Padraic Birnie

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James Corcoran @jamescorcoran78.bsky.social · 1d

You know @fraserc69.bsky.social doesn’t blow his own trumpet enough it’s not all the weird psychotropic robot spy stuff he does with me. He also has these cracking one shot’s available they all have excellent art the only thing they have in common is they are all ace.
cabalcomics.bigcartel.com

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

- 10x Captain Scarlet scripts - 5 from the '68 annual, 3 from the '69 annual, 2 unidentified.

A whole lotta good stuff!!

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

To recap what I've got, then:

- 4x Fireball XL5 scripts, from the '66 XL5 annual
- 2x Stingray scripts, 1 from the '66 Stingray annual, 1 from the '67 TV21 annual
- 9x Thunderbirds scripts, 3 from the '67 annual, 5 from the '68 annual, 1 unidentified...

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

Increasingly of the opinion that my pouring through David Motton's Gerry Anderson scripts will be best served as an ongoing research project for next year.

I'd hoped I might be able to bash out a few articles before the year is out, but it's increasingly looking less likely.

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely this.

I've noticed that a lot of ostensibly left-leaning accounts on here (always American) seem to show a deranged glee at being able to digitally cosplay as a resistance movement.

"If I post about bad thing, number go up. So, I must always post about bad thing."

Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · Jan 20

There's an queasy undercurrent of glee in a lot of the "BUCKLE UP YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD IT'S GOING TO GET" posts from people who are almost certainly going to suffer the least. Like they're kind of excited to get back to being outraged every single day because that's their online personality now.

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 2d

🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.

1950s/60s? shot of a TV screen. Female presenter

1950s/60s shot of a TV screen. Unknown guitarists

Blurry pink shot of a TV screen. Women in evening dress

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 2d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

- 10x Captain Scarlet scripts - 5 from the '68 annual, 3 from the '69 annual, 2 unidentified.

A whole lotta good stuff!!

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

To recap what I've got, then:

- 4x Fireball XL5 scripts, from the '66 XL5 annual
- 2x Stingray scripts, 1 from the '66 Stingray annual, 1 from the '67 TV21 annual
- 9x Thunderbirds scripts, 3 from the '67 annual, 5 from the '68 annual, 1 unidentified...

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Fred McNamara But He's Spooky Now, I Guess. @commandermac.bsky.social · 2d

Also - the level of analyses really varies from script to script. Some editorial changes prove minimal, some extensive, and I'm still 99% certain some Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet scripts in my possession never made it to publication - they deserve some proper deep dives!

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