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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 25m

Oh yeah. Dark colours, low light, AND they're all in the real-looking world while still acting like MC-1. In fact, they're generally worse than MC-1, they're like what a real person who was acting like a MC-1 Judge in real life would be: not funny, just violent and scary

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

I did keep thinking "...wait, what??" every time I heard of it. Among other things, surely there must be mutants other than a few X-Men who have human partners, so none of them can come in unless they break up?? (Though then it got changed for the Kingpin???)

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Paul @pauljonmilne.bsky.social · 2h

me when I see a machine

drawing by I assume geoff senior of an angry woman with circuit armour saying "NO! NEVER AGAIN -- NEVER! I'LL KILL THEM ALL, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! I SWEAR THEY'LL PAY FOR THIS!"

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

I thought it already _was_ being used for that!

Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

I hope you reported your suspicions to Morse

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

the early Judges in Dreadnoughts manage to be terrifying and violent _even by Dredd standards_. You don't want to see these guys coming. They're a nightmare in black leather and kevlar.

2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 10h

Judge Dredd Megazine 485 is out on 15th October, featuring DREADNOUGHTS: QUALIFIED IMMUNITY, Part One by:

📝 Script: @mikeowencarroll.bsky.social
✏️ Art: John Higgins
🎨 Colours: Sally Hurst
💬 Letters: @simonbowland.bsky.social

Subscribe now and get zarjaz free gifts ➡️ bit.ly/2Ws04uc

Dreadnought: Qualified Immunity, by Mike Carroll, John Higgins, Sally Hurst and Simon Bowland

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 2h

And another…

PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 3d

Still not busy. Slobbery wolverine.

Pencil drawing of wolverine. Heavy pencil shading. Slobbery mouth. Claws popped.

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

It'd be quite satisfying if it was someone else and Farage didn't see it coming & has a face like a smacked bum at the 2029 exit poll

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

That's likely gone up nationally as there's been a number of Bully XL shootings but that's when the dogs are attacking people, usually regular people, and that's why the police are there

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2h

if I did that with my own stuff, I'd end up doing tropes of stuff-I-just-do-a-lot and I'm not sure that's a workable marketing move. "CONTAINS: Esoteric Comic History References But Alternate History" "Uh, okay."

Steven Nguyen Scaife @midfalutin.bsky.social · 1d

i really hate when we talk about books like they're shopping lists of tropes

Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 3h

when asked, a spokesman said: "This is the one thing we didn't want to happen."

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 3h

The family of Vin Diesel
Like zooming down the road
But none of them
Are half as fast
As speedy Mister Toad!

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John Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 17h

This week is a major milestone for British comics, as Judge Dredd Megazine celebrates 35 years since it debuted back in 1990.

https://downthetubes.net/happy-anniversary-punks-judge-dredd-megazine-hits-35/

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 17h

"Conservative party is now essentially one that only appeals to wealthy retirees. The animating energy, purpose and drive for a viable centre-right has to come from people who wish to become wealthy retirees... in other words, people who, for the most part, think that Brexit was a bad idea".

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19h

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool on.ft.com/4qarx21 | opinion

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

on.ft.com

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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 17h

Halloween Radio: THE STONE TAPE (BBC 4, 2015)
Filmmaker Peter Strickland (Berberian Sound Studio) adapts the Nigel Kneale-scripted TV movie as a radio play. Features music from James Cargill of the band Broadcast and is in binaural sound (???) and is apparently best listened to w/headphones. Creepy.

BBC Radio Drama: The Stone Tape (3D Sound)

YouTube video by Evenson Ian

www.youtube.com

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

an alternate history fan faked being a US Army officer, got them to do his story as "training", and nobody noticed.

John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 1d

you gotta watch this

Big Picture: Aggressor Forces

YouTube video by PublicResourceOrg

www.youtube.com

Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Audition - Asami is played by Miss Piggy

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 1d

Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Star Trek First Contact

Replace Patrick Stewart with Rygel

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 1d

Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.

Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Kermit doing that shaking crumpled face thing he does as the IRA take him for the long drive

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 1d

The Long Good Friday but it's Kermit instead of Bob Hoskins

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 1d

Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

An important comiccon moment for me was waiting in a long-ass line for the official artist alley men’s room. It only had one urinal. The line snaked through a janitorial closet with a big yellow mop bucket. I could tell that every dude there was looking down at it and thinking “hmmm”

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

I remember "ah but Ozymandias was RIGHT and saved the world" being a thing people said in the 2000s online, even though the book yells "HE'S THE GUY FROM THE BLACK FREIGHTER WHO KILLED HIS FAMILY OUT OF PARANOIA"

Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely surprised by Berry when he was the only former IT Crowd person to publicly distance.

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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

I just saw a post about NYCC and toilet humour, so I'M happy