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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 3h

J-O instructions till completion (it tells you to kill yourself)

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4h

ChatGPT will soon allow sexting with verified adults

• Erotica and 'mature conversations' will be permitted

• Change arrives in December alongside new age verification tools

(via Sama | TW)

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 6h

Will somebody please, please hook me up to the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind machine and wipe the goddamn Peacemaker song from my memory

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 9h

New newsletter! About Cats, Bats, and Complications! Mildly interesting, possibly amusing, and with art from DaNi, @nicolascottart.bsky.social, @comixbychloe.bsky.social, and @michaellark.bsky.social! FREE!!

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18 - The Gang’s All Here

A Greg Rucka newsletter

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 1d

Puerto Rico has not been free since the day in 1493 when that piece of shit Christopher Columbus set foot on it…the ONLY part of the "United States" his feet ever touched, incidentally

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 1d

I'm so, so tired, and it's the kind of tired that makes you vividly remember why babies cry when they're tired

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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 2d

Got some extremely good books too, from Goats Flying Press

Two books: the fables of erlking wood and lake yellowwood slaughter

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 2d

If they're good enough for a three-time Eisner winner they're good enough for your lousy ass

Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social · 2d

Got some extremely good books too, from Goats Flying Press

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 2d

To avoid feeling like I'm in rigor mortis after 4 days on my feet at NYCC, I've been rising early, stretching, eating nourishing breakfasts, and packing homemade lunches. It's really working! Day 4 and I feel good. I cannot WAIT to go crashing back into my usual lifestyle of a rabid raccoon

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 2d

From your lips to Hollywood God's ears

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Nick Filardi he/him @nickfil.bsky.social · 3d

Love getting kickstarters in the mail! Thanks @gavinguidry.bsky.social @alejandrobot.com @chrisohalloran.bsky.social

Lake yellowwood slaughter comic hardcover and camp yellowwood shirt.

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 3d

Oooooh, enjoy!

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Alfred Hitchcock's Kevin Newburn @kevinnewburn.bsky.social · 3d

Hell yeah, just got my Lake Yellowwood Slaughter Kickstarter from @alejandrobot.com @gavinguidry.bsky.social @goatsflyingpress.com

Very excited to read it this weekend.

A picture of the comic book Lake Yellowwood Slaughter.

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 4d

A guy looking at Lake Yellowwood Slaughter at NYCC asked "It's based on a movie?" and when I said "A made-up movie…that's the gag" he said "Hilarious" and left, I haven't been cooked that viciously since a little kid saw me walking Charlie and asked me "What's your name, is it Old Man With a Dog"

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 4d

Today at NYCC, I had the pleasure of talking with a Kickstarter worker on strike. Here I am debuting Lake Yellowwood Slaughter at the show (that's marketing, baby), a book that would not and could not exist without these workers' efforts. I'm proud to stand in solidarity with Kickstarter United.

Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 12d

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Kickstarter United is on strike!
We are not asking for a boycott! Creators & Allies: Please continue to support & use the platform
swipe for ways to show your solidarity

Why We're Striking
A codified 4-day work week.
We simply want to protect the way we've been working for over 3.5 years. The 4dww has proven benefits, such as increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction. It's part of what makes Kickstarter a special, innovative place to work.
Fair pay for our lowest-paid workers.
We're fighting for livable minimum salaries for roles that are undervalued by the market but crucial to keeping Kickstarter running. We believe none of our workers should struggle to make ends meet.

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 5d

Ha! Well, what if I try again…oh, ha.

"What is your horror movie role this Halloween" freeze-frame game result: THE KILLER

Second "What is your horror movie role this Halloween" freeze-frame game result: THE SECRET SECOND KILLER

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 5d

I find it baffling how little impact the existence of the Undertaker, a literal walking corpse, has had on science and religion

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Alex Breen @abreen.bsky.social · 7d

Lake Yellowwood Slaughter is yet another top notch comic from @goatsflyingpress.com. This one hits all the right slasher vibes!

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GOATS FLYING PRESS @NYCC Booth #1939 @goatsflyingpress.com · 6d

Comics Against All Odds!

Celebrating 2 years of great books and looking ahead to a big 2026!

🚨Join us for the Goats Flying Press 2nd Anniversary Campaign—100% funded and going strong!🚨

TWO new titles AND great deals on our full library…books by Juni Ba, Gavin Guidry, Alejandro Arbona & more!

🐐🪽🔥

Goats Flying Press 2nd Anniversary Indie Comics Showcase

Celebrate two years of "Comics Against All Odds" with TWO NEW TITLES and great deals on our complete library!

www.kickstarter.com

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 6d

Unreal!

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 6d

Saw it a few months ago for the first time myself, in the theater

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 7d

Mail call: you're getting your Lake Yellowwood Slaughter kickstarter fulfillment any day now; I'm getting my "very good" secondhand copy of the National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe (1994), we are not the same

Title page of the National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe, featuring the title flying through space leaving colored yellow-orange-red trails

The two-page spread immediately following, with the title further along on its journey, cropping at the page edges

Two-page intro art for the chapter "Sun Gods to Gamma Rays—Beginnings" featuring an ancient Egyptian harvesting wheat by the Nile with a pyramid in the background, shading his eyes with his forearm and looking directly at the sun (smart), which is represented as the sun god Ra sailing across the daytime sky in his solar barque

Single page with speculative art of a woolly, fire-breathing animal perched on an icy rock outcropping, with a pack of wriggly red amphibious fishimanders huddled around it for warmth, while another of the same animal blasts across the background with belly jets. The text reads:

What if…

…there really were creatures on other planets? Scientists now suspect that in our Solar System only Earth cradles life. We cannot yet rule out Mars, but so far our spacecraft have not detected anything obviously alive. Some experts still hope to find life elsewhere—perhaps under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa, or even floating in the atmosphere of a gas-giant planet—but chances are slim. Yet we can still try to imagine how life might adapt to the environments of other worlds. Just for fun, let's go on an imaginary safari to real places faithfully described, and see some creatures that never were.

Titan
On dim, cold Titan, Saturn's giant moon, stovebellies might live—perhaps by the icy shores of an ethane lake. To avoid freezing, they keep fires burning inside their bodies. How? Stovebellies eat ice, which forms much of Titan's surface. Their fuel is made of oxygen from the ice and methane from the dense atmosphere. By squirting flame like a rocket, they can make long leaps in Titan's low gravity. Amphibious fishimanders like to crawl out of the lake and cuddle by a handy stovebelly for warmth—until their host blasts off, sending its guests flying.

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Chloe Brailsford @comixbychloe.bsky.social · 7d

So stoked to reveal my upcoming cover for LAZARUS: FALLEN #6 YOUNGBLOOD variant, from @imagecomics.com!!! WHAT A DREAM!! Written by @gregrucka.com, drawn by @michaellark.bsky.social, designed by @mercuryeric.bsky.social, edited by @alejandrobot.com! Pick it up from your comic shop in November!!! ☺️☺️☺️

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Joe Fielder @joefielder.bsky.social · 7d

Got my crowdfunding rewards for Lake Yellowwood Slaughter, "the official comic book 'adaptation' of a 1983 slasher movie that never existed." And it's *gorgeous.*

Nice work, @alejandrobot.com, @gavinguidry.bsky.social, @suspiriavilchez.bsky.social, and @goatsflyingpress.com!

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 7d

"Many people don't know it has been rejected by over 30 state legislatures. Many people don't know that, most people don't know that."

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