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Kieron Gillen
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · May 15
Time for a new pinned post.

I'm Kieron Gillen, and I'm primarily a comics writer. My latest collaborations are The Power Fantasy (ongoing) and We Called Them Giants. You can find more about them here....

TPF: bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6k...
Giants: bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6k...
The Cover of The Power Fantasy, by Caspar Wijngaard The Cover of We Called Them Giants, by Stephanie Hans.
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mckelvie.bsky.social
Heads up: Found some WicDiv vol 3 and 4 hardcovers in amongst our boxes from the UK. Will figure out a way to sell them online asap, as I know a lot of people are still hunting for them.
December 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
kierongillen.bsky.social
I named my fists DUNGEONS and DRAGONS because there are many other fists, most of which are more suitable for whatever you want them to do.
brianschirmer.bsky.social Brian Schirmer @brianschirmer.bsky.social · 14h
I named my fists Master and Commander, because together they’re gonna send you to the far side of the world.
chuckwendig.bsky.social Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14h
I named my fists Pride and Prejudice, because it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of two fists must be in want of whupping ass
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
kierongillen.bsky.social
It's GIANT SIZED CRIMINAL #1 week (feat Kieron G)
Giant Size Criminal #1
THE FIRST NEW CRIMINAL SINGLE ISSUE IN OVER FIVE YEARS ARRIVES ON THE EVE OF THE STREAMING TV SERIES PREMIERE This oversized, annual-style issue is packed with everything CRIMINAL fans love from BRUB...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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tomewing.bsky.social
Anyway if YOU feel like the algorithm has eroded your curiosity and you want to hear a bunch of varied and novel new music I strongly recommend taking part in THE WORLD CUP OF 2025 on @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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publichealthguy1.bsky.social
“then fucking publish it” would be a good t shirt
lukesteuber.com Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d
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Offit told me that Kennedy is a "liar" and a "terrible human being." I asked him to explain. "It doesn't matter what I say," Offit said. "He thinks the medical journals are in the pocket of the industry, he thinks that the government is in the pocket of the industry, he thinks I'm in the pocket of industry, and he's wrong." Offit continued: "If he has data showing he's right, then fucking publish it. He can't, because he doesn't have those data." I asked Offit if he saw a way to reverse the public's rising distrust in science. "I don't think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost," he said.
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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adamrichard.com.au
Have recently become obsessed with The Power Fantasy by @kierongillen.bsky.social & @casparw.bsky.social. It's the kind of terrifying shit I loved as a teenager. What if there were omega-level X-Men? World-ending existential dread on every page, and I love it.
November 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
kierongillen.bsky.social
Shared Fantasy, the first sociological monograph about roleplaying games, is about a period when established players are dealing with a new wave of younger players with different priorities. The period is 1978.
jamiesmart.bsky.social Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 1d
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
kierongillen.bsky.social
Everyone gotta get their Mythy B!
oneiroi17.bsky.social Kim 🔜 Dragonmeet @oneiroi17.bsky.social · 1d
Book acquired! I called it Mythy B and amused the guy running the stall 😂 And we were coincidentally at the stall when Chris McDowall stopped by to pick up his own copy!
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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mindlessones.bsky.social
Issue 34 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Battle, The Filth, Mulholland Drive, Transformer death, a clash of modernisms, The Punisher "Talks", automatic writing, and a new sensation the youth are calling Workpunk!
If you're going through hell keep going
Work Punk. The gripes of Roth. The Filth. Robots III: Strength is Worthless. ABHOBC: Battle. Mulholland Dread. Welcome in the Doom Patrol period. Electronic The Punisher "Talks".
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November 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
kierongillen.bsky.social
Tense D&D session. The Necromancer in the bunny graveyard encounter was tight! A real hare-raiser.
November 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
kierongillen.bsky.social
D&D disappointment. This hobbit-vampire encounter really wasn't very challenging. Low stakes.
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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With Die: Loaded launching and The Power Fantasy lighting the world on fire, I thought it'd be a good time to catch up with writer @kierongillen.bsky.social about everything going on in his world. So, we did just that!
Off Panel #525: Player Characters with Kieron Gillen - SKTCHD
Writer Kieron Gillen joins the podcast to talk about his current Image comics The Power Fantasy and Die: Loaded and everything that’s going into them. Gillen discusses FOC vs. release, Die’s longevity...
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November 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
kierongillen.bsky.social
@profanity.accountant Okay, now i'm curious. Swear me up.
November 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Hitler was bad.

An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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teganoneil5000.bsky.social
in which we look at a recent done-in-one triumph, a team-up between Kieron Gillen and Steve Lieber on the subject of magic & music, spurned love, and Burt Bacharach. is it 1997 again, you ask? well, I mean, chokers and chunky boots are back, so. 😐
Review excerpt - Let's toss up another libation for the great Steve Lieber - certainly one of my favorite artists of the current epoch. You've seen him most recently on an excellent Metamorpho miniseries, with Al Ewing, out of DC - something we may even read here, one day, owing to it being one of the most gorgeous books of recent years. He's the perfect choice for this story, a deadpan fantasy platter about a mad god who curses a woman to embody the cosmic whimsy of a Burt Bacharach song - and not just any Bacharach number, but one of the most famous songs of the 1970s, thanks to the all-engulfing cultural ubiquity of the Carpenters throughout that period. Of course, I'm too old to remember the song's first heyday, so it just reminds me of the late 1990s when everyone decided to like Burt Bacharach again. Closer One-Shot cover by Steve Lieber, colored by Tamra Bonvillain.
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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eruditorumpress.com
RIP to one of the best to ever do it. Absolute powerhouse and a legend.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
kierongillen.bsky.social
"A late contender for the best single issue of 2026."

Bam Smack Pow on their books of the week, specifically The Power Fantasy #13.
Ultimates, The Power Fantasy, Spider-Man, and the best comic books of the past week
Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man, Image Comics’ The Power Fantasy, DC Comics’ Nightwing, and the other must-read new comic books from last week.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.
Only a handful of the millions of people in this vast place are aware that the fate intended for you, Sister Angela, and for George Jackson, and for the numberless prisoners in our concentration camps-for that is what they are—is a fate which is about to engulf them, too. White lives, for the forces which rule in this country, are no more sacred than black ones, as many and many a student is discovering, as the white American corpses in Vietnam prove. If the American people are unable to contend with their elected leaders for the redemption of their own honor and the lives of their own children, we, the blacks, the most rejected of the Western children, can expect very little help at their hands: which, after all, is nothing new. What the Americans do not realize is that a war between brothers, in the same cities, on the same soil, is not a racial war but a civil war. But the American delusion is not only that their brothers all are white but that the whites are all their brothers.
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
kierongillen.bsky.social
Who's at Dragonmeet tomorrow? I would like to meet a Dragon.
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
Guy who has heard other guys refer to their wives as "ball and chain" and "battle-axe" and wrongfully assumed you can refer to your wife as any medieval weapon: oh there's my beautiful Lucerne hammer
October 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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rossignol.bsky.social
The latest TEETH newsletter features a guest essay on OVER/UNDER by prolific journalist and role-player @markwallace.bsky.social

It's really good. Have a read!
Guest Post: On OVER/UNDER, by Our Man In California
Ahoy! You probably know what this newsletter is, since you signed up for it. But if you don’t, why not come by the Discord and ask someone? Perhaps Marsh or...
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November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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juniper-c.bsky.social
I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.

thegardenbelow.blot.im/what-is-an-osr
What is an OSR? - The Garden Below
a post about not knowing what the OSR is.
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November 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social
You ever been given an absolute wet squelch of an item by your GM? 🥲 NO MORE 💪

We are standing up to piss poor item creation this weekend - catch our Panel at 1:30pm upstairs in Seminars!
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
kierongillen.bsky.social
In soviet youtube, AI prompts you.
itsquinns.bsky.social Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social · 4d
Oh sweet fuckin jesus I clicked the wrong button in the YouTube backend and got served this "AI inspiration!"
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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rafto93.bsky.social
Today's morning read is issue 12 of The Power Fantasy by @kierongillen.bsky.social @casparw.bsky.social & @claytoncowles.bsky.social This is the start of a new arc and what a fantastic start it is. This book just gets better and better. If you aren't reading this you need to start. I ❤️ comics!!
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM