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Sween McDervish

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Pseudonymously writing erotic fiction about tough guys and their admirers. 🏳️‍🌈 Also long threads on Marvel #Comics #AlphaFlight! Profile art: A commission by @GrahamGroans.bsky.social Toronto 🇨🇦

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · Oct 10

I had a fantastic time talking for an hour and a half about Alpha Flight with awesome comics podcaster Sara Century of Best Issue Ever. Come watch me argue that the Bill Mantlo run is the best run!

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Michael ➡️ 🏠 @michaelmukalian.bsky.social · 13d

This book is f’n gorgeous. Excellent story by Jim Zub and then a real treat to read an entire book with art by Alex Horley. Like reading a series of paintings. Just pure awesome.

Conan the Barbarian 25
✍️ Jim Zub
👨‍🎨 Alex Horley
🔠 Richard Starkings & Tyler Smith

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 11d

I guess we will just have to take our opposing views… to court!

Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 11d

Third, he gave Madison Jefferies his well deserved star turn, with a compelling Cain and Abel backstory (that I so wish current authors using him as their fixit tech guy would reference more) and a blue collar charm that is probably as close as we get to a comment on class in the book 4/4

Badass Madison Jeffries junks the shit out of a Sentinel and wears its skin as a trophy. Art by Dave Ross.

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 11d

Secondly, Mantlo queered the book in a way that no one has had the courage to do since, when his famous Northstar AIDS plot was nixed, he was like fine: “I’m going to make sure everybody knows Jim S blocked it, AND I’m gonna make the most hypermasculine character on the team transgender.” 3/4

Sasquatch is no longer the man he seems. Introducing Wanda Langkowski! Art by June Brigman.

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 11d

Mantlo still is to this day the only Alpha Flight writer to make a significant comment on the history of colonization of Indigenous people in Canada, by crafting a disease-causing villain who was a literal white colonist, Pestilence, who devastates the Indigenous characters on the team. 2/4

Pestilence holding aloft Shaman and Talisman on the cover of Alpha Flight 37. Art by Dave Ross.

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 11d

@whynotpodcast.bsky.social I enjoyed your episode about issue 50 of Alpha Flight. This is an obvious inflection point in the Mantlo run and as such I thought I’d bring up 3 things that are neat about those first 21 issues that can get lost in all the talk about the rough parts: 1/4

Cover of Alpha Flight 50 with art by June Brigman showing Loki spying on Vindicator Northstar and Aurora beset by dark elves.

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 15d

If it helps it also has Peter Dinklage playing a douchebag boss!

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 15d

TIL the true meaning of FCF 🥵

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 15d

Critical writing about movies/comics/books/etc is so important, moreso after years of the powers that be making it seem interchangeable with online reviews and listicles. I wrote a whole zine about Scream because I got so sick of surface-level takes on that franchise.

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 19d

John Byrne: the inkers keep giving my characters hairy chests!
Clayton Henry: the inkers keep giving my characters pubes!

Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 19d

And so few people remember Alpha Flight had a Conan analogue once: Yukon Jack, co-created by the awesome Clayton Henry!

Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 19d

One of the few Volume 3 characters I could see coming back at some point, if only for some sexy fun.

Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 19d

And so few people remember Alpha Flight had a Conan analogue once: Yukon Jack, co-created by the awesome Clayton Henry!

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 19d

Omg my second favourite comic after Alpha Flight! Tuning in!

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Hugyerbuds @hugyerbuds.bsky.social · 25d

#AaronTaylorJohnson #unf

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 27d

TIL that Family Guy did a whole episode on Anne Murray and “Snowbird” (in which Anne actually guested as herself) and so I guess more of you actually knew what I was talking about in this thread than I expected 😂

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · 29d

Thank Rick Leonardi lol

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · Sep 26

Halifax! Next weekend! Me and @peterbcounter.com and @elliottgish.bsky.social at various times and places! Check local listings!

Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · Sep 26

Do you know how excited I am for these events with @daviddemchuk.com and @peterbcounter.com? REAL DAMN EXCITED IS HOW EXCITED.

Graphic advertising October 5 event with David Demchuk and Peter Counter at Halifax Central Library

Graphic advertising October 6 event with David Demchuk and Elliott Gish at Trident Cafe

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · Sep 26

Y'all ever go through your saved reaction photos? When would I ever have used this...

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · Sep 19

New X-Men 151 for reference

Wolverine in classic cover of New X-men 151 by Marc Silvestri in a back shot that is iconic.

Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · Sep 19

The new The Expanse comic is wonderful and check out this Here Comes Tomorrow homage cover from @justineflorentino.bsky.social starring my man Amos.

Cover of The Expanse #1 featuring Amos Burton in a back pose that is an homage to New X-men 151. Art by Justine Florentino.

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · Sep 19

Kids today: why do I have to use punctuation its annoying
The moon today: STFU

A crescent moon and Venus in an early morning sky over some trees.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · Sep 13

Hey.👋

Release your tongue from the roof of your mouth.

Relax your jaw.

Relax your shoulders and neck.

Breathe awhile.

Box breathing diagram. Breathe in 4 seconds, hold 4 seconds, breathe out 4 seconds, hold 4 seconds. Repeat.

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · Sep 12

Loved your art on this issue! Sorry the series is coming to an end but maybe Charles the sweaty, shirtless lawn-mowing hunk with the pager will get his own spin-off?

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Sween McDervish @sweenmcdervish.bsky.social · Sep 12

Wait, wait, wait! There's going to be a HIghlander reboot?

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Patch Zircher @patrickzircher.bsky.social · Sep 10

HUMAN artists, use only one cod piece to convince people to follow you

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