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The Ghost and Captain Tempest

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A pulp-adventure webcomic by Emmett & Gordon Graham! Read at captaintempest.com

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The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · Jul 26

Do you like ADVENTURE? Do you like ACTION? Do you like TWO FISTED PULP COMICS?

Try reading CAPTAIN TEMPEST! I'll be posting every installment so far as I find the time.

Here's Chapter 1, Page 1: The Right Man for the Job

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Dottie Dino, Cave Girl Extraordinaire @dottiedino.bsky.social · 1d

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The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 1d

Precedent actually indicates this would have to be "Twenty-One Brides For Seven Draculas."

Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 1d

"Seven Brides for Seven Draculas“ is a million-dollar idea for a musical just sitting there

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The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 1d

Man. Our dad got me a paperback copy with this cover in an airport as we were about to board a long flight. I must have been seven, eight? My first real introduction to science fiction.

Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 2d

Art by Stephen Youll for I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (1991 edition)

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Halloween, one and all!

I love when Halloween comes around, because we get to do special spooky editions of the Sunday Tempest for our patrons. Here's a quick sampler from the last three years!

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 6d

In today's FLASH GORDON: Doctor Zarkov pulls out the tool

Flash Gordon Comic Strip 2025-10-30 | Comics Kingdom

Read the Flash Gordon comic strip from October 30, 2025, and check out other Flash Gordon comics by Dan Schkade.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 6d

With SNAP benefits going to shit because of rich assholes and corruption running rampant through politics I'd like to point your attention to a Clinton.

No, not one of those Clintons. This Clinton. Clifford Clinton.

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The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 7d

Truly. She stole a scene opposite the guy whose name means scene-stealer.

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 7d

I can't believe "The Big Sleep" didn't contrive a way to make the bookstore lady Bogart's sidekick for the rest of the movie.

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The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes all you've got to stand on is your own two feet.

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 12d

Chapter 4, Page 32: Burden of Memory

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The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 12d

Chapter 4, Page 32: Burden of Memory

captaintempest.com/comic/168-bu...

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The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 12d

Parker! Secret Identity!

(It is true I am Gordon Graham)

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 12d

I write the script for "Captain Tempest," gorgeously illustrated by my brother! You can find the whole thing here: captaintempest.com

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The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

Well, it was a spirited debate. Have a nice morning!

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

I don't think I'm convinced? I can't find any cases of melanistic tigers being referred to as "blue," only black, like in the article you linked.

And this is all setting aside the more important note that I can't find any account of a menagerie in the region.

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

It really doesn't seem to exist. It gets a short mention on the wiki page for the South China Tiger, then it's all Cryptozoology webpages. Its existence has never been confirmed, and its only reported sightings are 20th century, so it can't have been credibly connected to an 18th century menagerie.

South China tiger - Wikipedia

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The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

Maybe, but a round of googling hasn't turned up anything either, just lots of vague "it maybe escaped from a menagerie." Nothing concrete anywhere.

Add to that the fact that a "Chinese blue tiger" is a cryptid and doesn't exist, I think it's more likely what you saw was scrubbed as mininformation.

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah, that pretty much rings true. But I'm genuinely curious about what this menagerie was and on whose estate it was housed. Wikipedia mentions the menagerie theory, but doesn't list a source. None of the linked sources say anything concrete either. Do you remember where you heard about it?

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

Is there a specific menagerie you're referring to? Who was this friend of the King who lived near Gévaudan?

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

The accounts of the Beast's boldness might as easily make it a dog or a wolf-dog hybrid as a captive hyena -- more easily, since this kind of aggression is even less common in hyenas.

But, I'm working from wikipedia and what I can remember off the top of my head. Can you recommend any books?

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

It's a bizarre and captivating occurrence, for sure! A very cool story.

But if it was a multitude of animals, why did the attacks stop after Chastel shot the animal that was autopsied?

If the Marin report was falsified, why would it include details from testimony that suggested other animals?

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

I'm not even saying it's impossible that the Beast was an escaped tiger or something. I just want to point out for the benefit of anyone else reading about it here for the first time that it's only one of several unsubstantiated theories.

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

Now, I think you're suggesting that the Marin report was a royal cover-up, but that report is also where we get most of the direct accounts of its behavior, physical description, etc.. If you discard the autopsy, don't you have to discard those accounts?

The Ghost and Captain Tempest @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13d

I admit that I'm far from an expert on the subject, but the wikipedia article you linked suggests that wolf attacks WERE really common at the time. The Marin Report concluded that it was canid, which leaves wolves, dogs, and hyenas, but hyenas are even smaller than wolves.

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Kelly Bastow @moosekleenex.bsky.social · Jun 23

add yours!

a watercolor comic of 'stuff in nature I always stop to look at' mossy rocks, a little stream, a tree that fell over, dappled lighting

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 14d

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

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