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Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · Feb 17

“I looked into the abyss and found myself there.”

Finished reading the entirety of Gotham Nocturne by @therightram.bsky.social! Very thought provoking!

I used to read comics when I was younger! Stopped halfway through Knightfall in summer of 1993! 🦹🏼‍♂️

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Ram V @therightram.bsky.social · 2d

You realize Moore was absolutely right about the infantile nature of the exercise of trying to distil life-lessons from Superhero stuff. Even worse when people do it with his stuff and utter despair when it's Thiel.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · 1d

#Antifa

The Onion @theonion.com · 25d

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Respect to those who got here first.

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Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · 3d

So much awesome in one picture! 🦹🏼‍♂️

Scott Snyder (NYCC Booth #H-44) @ssnyder1835.bsky.social · 3d

Starting now - the DC K.O. signing with brothers Dan Mora and @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social!

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Scott Snyder (NYCC Booth #H-44) @ssnyder1835.bsky.social · 3d

New challengers are approaching DC K.O. this February...

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Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · 6d

If the rules aren’t fair…

…stop playing by them! 🦹🏼‍♂️

#WednesdayWisdom

Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · 6d

Such an awesome time to be a @dc.com reader! 🦹🏼‍♂️ #DCKO

Joshua Williamson @joshuawilliamson.bsky.social · 6d

The fight starts HERE! DC K.O. #1 is now available in comic books stores.

Pick up the first issue from @ssnyder1835.bsky.social, @javifernandez.bsky.social, @xermanico.bsky.social, and myself to see where all our fighters stand.

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Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · 12d

Glad to hear!

Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · 12d

So awesome you returned to @dc.com! Your work has never done anything less than inspire me! 🦹🏼‍♂️

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Scott Snyder (NYCC Booth #H-44) @ssnyder1835.bsky.social · 13d

Who will win DC K.O.??

Pick your @dc.com champion TODAY at dckobracket.dc.com/bracket and pick up issue #1 next Wednesday to follow along!

@joshuawilliamson.bsky.social @javifernandez.bsky.social

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Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · 12d

#Batman

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ALT: a cartoon of batman standing on top of a building with a lightning bolt in the background .

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Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · 13d

Every day! 🦹🏼‍♂️

Image Comics @imagecomics.com · 13d

Have you ever dreamed of vanishing into a fictional world?

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DC @dc.com · 14d

The battle is about to begin in DC K.O., and it’s time to make your picks in our bracket challenge! Submit your complete DC K.O. bracket before Tuesday, Oct 7 to be entered into the Grand Prize promotion—and pick up DC K.O. #1 by @ssnyder1835.bsky.social and @javifernandez.bsky.social, on sale Oct 8

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Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · 17d

“Omnibize” 🦹🏼‍♂️

Tom Taylor @tomtaylormade.bsky.social · 18d

Our Titans run is getting an Omnibus!
Collecting our whole run AND the Titans: Beast World event.
All with this very serious cover from @brunoredondo.bsky.social.

DC to Omnibize Tom Taylor's 'Titans'

Post-'Dark Crisis' Series Was Part of 'Dawn of DC'

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Knightbreak! 🦹🏼‍♂️ @iamknightbreak.bsky.social · 18d

Amazing story! Glad I got mine when I did… and I am not a regular Superman reader! 🦹🏼‍♂️

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DC Universe Online @dcuniverseonline.bsky.social · 21d

Raging Night has begun… Nekron awaits. Enter the darkness now, before it consumes everything.

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