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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 1d

CYCLOPS #1
February 2026
Me
@rogeantonio.bsky.social

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 6m

Ask Fraser to DM me your address, yeah?

Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 2h

@justiainlaurie.bsky.social Mate, did you ever get hold of that Josh Simmons "Batman" book?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 2h

TFW you try to eat a chip butty by unhinging your jaw like a goddamn python.

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❤️❤️❤️

Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 2h

Journey's end.

Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 2h

I'm so utterly sick of weird nerds. We're being killed by evil LARPers and it's beyond cringe.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 3h

Been struggling recently, I won't lie. Sometimes you have to pull the ripcord and go somewhere that feeds you.

Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 4h

Monkey on a rock.

Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 5h

He thought it was the end of the world, but everyone was just hiding.

Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 6h

It ain't New York, but it'll do.

Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 8h

Really loving this new phenomenon where you get to be racist towards Jews or Muslims, but racism towards one of us is somehow mandatory.

chris-in-normandie.bsky.social @chris-in-normandie.bsky.social · 9h

like Brexiters and Reform, Jews moan and whinge louder.

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 9h

Predator Halloween mask progress.

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, I'm sure it's all perfectly legal.

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 19h

Assuming direct control over the military with the power of the purse is never a positive development.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Joshua Williamson (NYCC Booth #H-42) @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social · 21h

Tony Stark is the most dangerous weapon in the Marvel Universe.

Iron Man. #1.
New Ongoing series.
January 2026.

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Alex Paknadel from off of comics @alexpaknadel.bsky.social · 21h

a man with glasses and a beard is asking how the heck do you know that

ALT: a man with glasses and a beard is asking how the heck do you know that

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Joshua Spiller @joshuaspiller.bsky.social · 3d

BEYOND THE BLACK VOID

A comics anthology spearheaded by Jason Measures, launching at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social , and available widely after that.

Featuring a short story written by me and drawn @2000ad.bsky.social Art-Competition Finalist Yaya.

It's gonna be special 😍

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Joshua Williamson (NYCC Booth #H-42) @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social · 21h

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Emma Price @tinymaster.bsky.social · 2d

Very excited that I got to do another logo for Vertigo for their relaunch! Keep an eye out for A Walking Shadow from @aaroncampbellarts.com and @sispurrier.bsky.social!