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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 3h

thank you!

Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 3h

see ya tomorrow…

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 4h

version 3

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 4h

i feel this to my core

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 5h

"Hello, music industry? It's comics. We need to talk."

TresTiffany 🎃 @trestiffany.bsky.social · 6h

This is inherently unserious and completely shameless

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 8h

reading anything counts as reading

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 12h

Launching tomorrow at noon ET!!

Stoked to show off our campaign-exclusive alternate cover and a murderer’s row of pinup artists 🔪

Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 12d

MADAM, 164 pages of horror by me, @pandamusk.bsky.social @brainpulp.bsky.social & @paulallor.bsky.social is coming to @kickstarter.com!

Madam McQuillen is a black magic Mary Poppins, and she's found a new family to torture.

Campaign starts Oct. 14, sign up now!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/joe...

Coming soon: MADAM — An Original Horror Graphic Novel

What if Mary Poppins practiced Black Magic and traveled from family to family searching for human sacrifices to extend her immortality?

www.kickstarter.com

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 12h

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 12h

Launching tomorrow at noon ET!!

Stoked to show off our campaign-exclusive alternate cover and a murderer’s row of pinup artists 🔪

Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 12d

MADAM, 164 pages of horror by me, @pandamusk.bsky.social @brainpulp.bsky.social & @paulallor.bsky.social is coming to @kickstarter.com!

Madam McQuillen is a black magic Mary Poppins, and she's found a new family to torture.

Campaign starts Oct. 14, sign up now!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/joe...

Coming soon: MADAM — An Original Horror Graphic Novel

What if Mary Poppins practiced Black Magic and traveled from family to family searching for human sacrifices to extend her immortality?

www.kickstarter.com

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 13h

oh hell yeah

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 13h

ABC

always be comic-ing

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

cleared for launch on tuesday! 🔪

a comic panel featuring madam mcquillen talking to two little boys with some sharp objects nearby

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 14h

every day

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 15h

they didn’t ask to use Pedestrian because he would simply win

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 15h

Wondering how Sam Strong, the serial killer bear from @idwpublishing.com Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, ended up in @dc.com DC K.O.? The short version is... DC asked IDW.

Here's the longer version: comicbookclublive.com/2025/10/13/h...

How Did IDW’s Serial Killer Bear End Up In ‘DC K.O.’? Short Answer: DC Asked | Comic Book Club

How did IDW's serial killer bear Samantha Strong from Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees end up in DC KO from DC Comics?

comicbookclublive.com

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Megan Matelonek @mmatelonek.bsky.social · 15h

@ringoawards.bsky.social are later this week and what better way to catch up on some awesome reads! THE PEDESTRIAN @magmacomix.bsky.social is on the list for nominees! Check their #comic #graphicnovel out and wishing their team the best of luck!! @seanvongorman.bsky.social @joeyesposito.bsky.social

Megan Matelonek @mmatelonek.bsky.social · Sep 10

@ringoawards.bsky.social ballot is within a week & one nominee I think that deserves a shoutout is, THE PEDESTRIAN @magmacomix.bsky.social
A unique #comic making some strong steps & impressions, GO! VOTE out & support the #RingoAwards!
@seanvongorman.bsky.social @joeyesposito.bsky.social

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 15h

thank you 🙏

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pandamusk @pandamusk.bsky.social · 16h

When the Kickstarter launches tomorrow, these sketch cards will be available in a pledge tier (random drop). I've written notes on the back about what they reference +/- some behind the scenes info.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/joe...

back page of an inktober sketches. Pencil writing says: Kelly pokes at a jar with a demon starfish. Remixes chapter 3 Page 9, Panel 1. Yes, there's a ninja turtle reference in that Panel. Followed by a love heart, signature and inktober details. Inktober2025 x Madam. "Starfish"

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pandamusk @pandamusk.bsky.social · 17h

Day 13 #MADAMcomic x #inktober2025

DRINK

Monica keeps looking for answers in the wrong places.

also: ONE DAY TO GO!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/joe...

A woman looks down a near empty wine glass, empty bottles around her. She sighs.

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

aquaman ain’t got shit on this king of the sea

russell the dog sitting on a wooden bench in front of the ocean

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pandamusk @pandamusk.bsky.social · 1d

Day 12 #MADAMcomic x #inktober2025

SHREDDED

[stops & looks at camera]

MADAM is made for mature audiences. It contains graphic scenes of violence, sex, nudity and other really messed up stuff @joeyesposito.bsky.social made me draw.

[rocks quietly, blank stare]

www.kickstarter.com/projects/joe...

Ink drawing of close up of two consenting adults, nude in each other's company. The male is muscled and replete with chest hair. The unimpressed woman is saying "Meh."

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

cleared for launch on tuesday! 🔪

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

aquaman ain’t got shit on this king of the sea

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 1d

this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

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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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

exhausting. fuck off with this

Comic Book Club @comicbookclub.bsky.social · 1d

The in-universe products for Wonder Man were reportedly artwork made by artists, but then touched up by AI.

Marvel’s ‘Wonder Man’ In-Universe Poster Art Is Reportedly “Touched Up By AI”

The in-universe products for Wonder Man were reportedly artwork made by artists, but then touched up by AI.

comicbookclublive.com

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

variant

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