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Ben Smith
@mrbensmith.bsky.social
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 30m
Working from home today, so I shall mainly be seen in two jumpers.
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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 1d
This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 1h
This makes me realise Burns would have done an incredible Corto Maltese.
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JohnMBurnsArt @dortmunder6040.bsky.social · 13h
Pen and ink "doodles" by John M Burns
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 1h
Thank goodness we're past all that old time misogyny.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 21h
To celebrate the UK release of @isabelcanas.bsky.social's 3rd standalone Horroromance - THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ - UK readers can grab her second book - VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE - for just 99p for a limited time!

Snap it up now from Kobo, Apple, Google & Amazon! geni.us/VoEN
Against a desert background, the UK cover for VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE by Isabel Canas on an eReader. The white Solaris logo is in the top left corner. The bottom right corner has a blue circle with white text "99p".
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 18h
🚨ICYMI COVER REVEAL!🚨

BARBIE meets SCREAM in DOLLFACE, the new standalone slasher from Lindy Ryan, author of BLESS YOUR HEART & ANOTHER FINE MESS!

Hitting the shelves in the UK in May 2026 with a stunning new UK paperback cover by our very own Sam Gretton.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
Morgan Stanley’s Lisa Shalett has become one of the market’s loudest cautionary voices.

“‘At the end of the day … this is not going to be pretty’ if and when the generative AI capital expenditure story falters, she said.”

@fortune.com
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 2d
Ezquerra and Rennie's Cursed Earth Coburn too.
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 3d
BIG-ASS INTERVIEW!

With BIG-ASS SWORD arriving in stores next month, writer/artist Andreas Butzbach sat down with @ziggystarlog.bsky.social at @thecomicon.bsky.social to talk about his inventive and unexpected sci-fi OGN! bit.ly/3WsBzOj
Art from Big-Ass Sword by Andreas Butzbach. A robot stands on top of a pile of rubble
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 2d
Sounds awful Andy. The symptoms reminded me of this article, which saw the writer's daughter go without diagnosis for Lymes Disease? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?
I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 2d
All my comics have happy endings!
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 3d
2000 AD Prog 2454 is out on 15th October - featuring JUDGE DREDD: AND TO THE SEA RETURN, Part Five by:

📝 Script: @robwilliams71.bsky.social
✏️ Art: @henryflint.bsky.social
💬 Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Subscribe now and get zarjaz free gifts ➡️ bit.ly/2Ws04uc
Judge Dredd: And To The Sea Return, by Rob Williams, Henry Flint and Annie Parkhouse
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 2d
Great cover.
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Chris Condon @christophcondon.bsky.social · 3d
PERIL OF THE BRUTAL DARK: AN EZRA CAIN MYSTERY is out in February. A VERTIGO book by @thatjacobphillips.bsky.social, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and yours truly.
Ezra Cain leaps from a fire escape into a spray of bullets
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 3d
This is my absolute favourite. One helicopter pilot training another to land on top of a mountain when the engine fails and, cool as a cucumber, he glides it down the mountain explaining everything as he does it. Watch the whole thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kayz...
ENGINE FAILURE ON MOUNTAIN APPROACH
YouTube video by Pilot Yellow
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 3d
Good morning! It’s Friday October 10th 2025! Already? Crikey!

(Dated this very day in 1986, a mere 39 years ago, 2000AD #491, with its cover by Cliff Robinson featuring Judge Dredd.)

You be careful out there among them English, Joanne Book.
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 3d
He'll dine out for life on the story.

'Did I tell you about the time I crashed landed in a Spitfire?'

'Only a million times.'

'Everything was going fine, when suddenly...'
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 3d
fyi @robwilliams71.bsky.social @pauljholden.com
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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 3d
Bit amazed by this bit:

'Investigators said they found a degraded gasket had created a fuel system leak, which caused the power loss.

The agency found the system was "at least 70-years-old and its last overhaul date was unknown"'
WW2 Spitfire had to do emergency landing as engine stopped
A safety notice is now in place following the emergency landing in West Hythe.
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 3d
Not headline, sub heading.
Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 3d
He was even presented as the epitome of cool in last year's massive Dylan movie. That's such a weird headline you have to wonder if it was written by an AI.
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Ben Smith @mrbensmith.bsky.social · 3d
So far! [crosses fingers and toes]
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Rob Williams @robwilliams71.bsky.social · 3d
You can now pre-order the JUDGE DREDD: REND & TEAR WITH TOOTH & CLAW GN from myself, r. m. Guéra & Giuilia Brusco. It collects all our Dredd stories.

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Judge Dredd: Rend and Tear with Tooth and Claw is available to pre-order now!
Out of fuel, out of bullets, and out of hope… Judge Dredd is going to have to tame the wilderness of nuclear winter in order to survive!  Bringing together two pulse-pounding stories into one hard-hit...
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Comic Book News UK @comicbooknews.co.uk · 4d
Judge Dredd Megazine Celebrates 35 Years of Iconic Comics
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Judge Dredd Megazine celebrates 35 years!
Celebrating 35 years with a thrilling lineup of new stories
www.comicbooknews.co.uk
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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 4d
Frank Quitely
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 4d
Not for the nervous! The Scream! Specials Archival Collection is out now, available from the Treasury webstore or from the bravest of booksellers! 🕷️

See inside and buy here: bit.ly/4mXuctb
The standard and webshop-exclusive editions of the Scream Specials Archival Collection
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