I finished The Essence today and can confirm it's another stellar Dave Hutchinson joint. Had me wrongfooted throughout and always trying to pull the pieces together, ending up somewhere I never imagined.

So I started @hutchinsondave.bsky.social's The Essence feeling slightly aggrieved that it wasn't a Fractured Europe sequel, and now that I've finished it I want a sequel to The Essence—immediately. If you loved Fractured Europe, you'll also love The Essence. oikofuge.com/hutchinson-f...

JUDGE DREDD: THE NEW FUTURE coming in 2026, creeps. Observe the @henryflint.bsky.social glory.

No ví este bluirt de @manmademoon.bsky.social ¡¡¡¡ Tenemos peli de Rogue Trooper para 2026 !!!! Espero no tener que ir a UK a verla.

Just completed final watch through of the finished ROGUE TROOPER film… 25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE! Can’t wait for you to see it. So, so proud of our team. We’ve made something a bit special. ❤️

We're heading into deepest winter so now is the time to throw another god on the fire.

Hats off to Invada who are doing a great job in getting this movie seen and talked about. Independent film distribution is really hard right now and every time I see this back in a cinema I am so glad. Also the Watershed has a long history of being a great home for cinema.

This is the closest thing I’ve got to a Christmas post @comicbookyeti.com this year. Peter Milligan and Kieran McKeown stop by to talk about #TheDiscarded, now appearing in @2000ad.bsky.social Remember to curb your senseless consumerism this holiday season! www.comicbookyeti.com/post/the-dis...

What includes multiple award-winners, Narnia gone wrong, the extremes of human existence & a forthcoming film-adaptation from Michael Bay? A stack of @aptshadow.bsky.social 's TERRIBLE WORLDS novellas of course! Preorder the latest 👉 PREACHING TO THE CHOIR (August 2026) https://geni.us/preachtc

Very, VERY excited about the new jam coming soon from @manmademoon.bsky.social. When this bad boy drops, get out there and support something original. #RogueTrooper #Film

New edition of HOW TO MAKE AWESOME COMICS coming 2026! Read all about it, and a bunch of other EXCITING NEWS, on this week’s substack neillcameron.substack.com

My Comic of the Week is @2000ad.bsky.social Prog 2463 by @alexdecampi.bsky.social@thebristolboard.bsky.social @agentofweird.bsky.social @stazjohnson.bsky.social @davidmbarnett.bsky.social & more - This festive Prog roars in with over 100 pages of sci-fi and fantasy thrills ^KB wp.me/p8WCuG-3R4

For a limited time only, snag the signed, limited edition paperback of @derekkunsken.bsky.social 's SciFi novella POLLEN FROM A FUTURE HARVEST (set 40 years before THE QUANTUM MAGICIAN) exclusively from our website for only 2.99 wherever you are in the world! Buy now: https://geni.us/Solarissale

So we had a little time in Portland, Oregon yesterday so OF COURSE we shopped at @cosmicmonkeycomics.bsky.social ! Great staff, incredible selection...if I had more time I would've spent a gazillion dollars more! Thanks, CMC!

COMPS! 100page XMAS MEGA-ISSUE of 2000AD: Contains a YOUNG DEATH story by myself and the amazing Clint Langley. IN SHOPS THIS WEDNESDAY #NCBD #comics #comicbooks #ukcomics #britishcomics #britcomics #2000ad #JudgeDredd #Judgedeath #darkjudges

Really hope our friends at comics companies across the US are not sent under by this. I know lots of owner-publisher folk have already shut their doors, while the bigger players have shifted suppliers but some held liabilities from Diamond. If no one gets paid I hope they can fight through.

Young readers are increasingly important to the UK's comic scene, with publications like The Beano and The Phoenix engaging children through affordable digital and print subscriptions. #ComicsForKids #UKComics

We had a fun, extremely busy signing for BATTLE ACTION at @forbidden-planet.bsky.social London on Saturday with Garth Ennis, @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social @gronbekk.bsky.social Keith Burns & @johnmccrea.bsky.social youtu.be/SlF21wsFVLY?...

30 years ago today one of the all-time greatest Judge Dredd mega-epics begin in the pages of @2000ad.bsky.social. THE PIT was written by John Wagner and drawn by Carlos Ezquerra, Colin MacNeil, Lee Sullivan and Alex Ronald. It ran for 30 weekly issues, redefining how Dredd stories could be told.

🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright: - 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is) 🧵 1/2

The Christmas cover to 'The Leprechaun', an Irish comic from 1953. Art by M Ferro Pellizzari. Thanks to James Bacon for the picture, and check out his book from LB Comics called 'Irish Conflict in Comics' probably the best book on comics this year. Buy Hibernia Comics here www.hiberniacomics.com

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

In honour of Rob Reiner, have David Moore's thread on the best sword fight in movie history and exactly how nerdy it is.

For years I’ve been trying to get someone at DC or Marvel to create an art book titled “Lichtenstein in Context” reprinting the stories he plagiarized as RL would have seen them (no modern recoloring) and giving the proceeds to the artists or their families. Sell it in museum gift shops.

Hawk the Slayer tales continue in the Prog!

Battle Action signing at FP Shaftsbury Av yesterday. Keith Burns definitely should’ve been in front.

The cover is a scene from the 13th “Trigan Empire” story, “Voyage to the Moon Bolus” aka “The Invasion of Bolus”, most recently reprinted in Rebellion’s “The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire” Volume One

Trigan Empire cover for Sjors No. 14 (1971) by Bert Bus: www.catawiki.com/en/l/99897088. Bus is probably best known to British comic fans for creating new “Robot Archie” stories for the Dutch market, also for Sjors

I wanted to watch this at the cinema, but it came nowhere near the city I live in. Good movies aren't being given a chance on enough screens. And I live in a city with cinemas from two indy-chains and two true-one off cinemas. Is this a distribution problem?

We're so excited to have THREE books on Reactor's Reviewers Choice: The Best Books of 2025. Caskey Russell's THE DOOR ON THE SEA, @csecooney.bsky.social 's SAINT DEATH'S HERALD and @pennyvixen.bsky.social 's THE TOMB OF DRAGONS are in excellent company and all available to buy now!

Remember when MikMak visited the Cursed Earth? Jumping jellyfish! I think that was my favourite! MikMak finally returns in 2000 AD Prog 2463, out next week! 🌵 https://bit.ly/4owiKFK 🌵

CBUK doing the good work here.

Christmas night: "But Santa, you've hardly touched your Zardoz cookies."

Get ready for 2026's Rogue Trooper movie directed by Duncan Jones with the all-out action assault of Rogue Trooper: Ghost Patrol!  https://downthetubes.net/rogue-trooper-ghost-patrol-collection-incoming/

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Imagine an Archive edition of the complete run of Warrior in one volume.

And people are still looking at me funny when I wear a mask on the train. I'm the only one I see doing so at rush hour, so I am the sole owner of funny looks. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I am all for these Micheluzzi collections from Fantagraphics. Fantastic stuff.

Merry Christmas from post-production on ROGUE TROOPER! ❤️😘❤️

great day for shareholder value

Great to see John Wagner, Carlos Ezquerra and Dan Cornwell's Spector from @2000ad.bsky.social make this list. There are a number of my books of the year missing, but I usually get to them late anyway, so are no doubt books of another year.

Omar from @nearmintcon.bsky.social got his hands on our ghoulish new collection of Scream! Check out his overview of the hardback edition of Scream! The Specials here ▶️ https://bit.ly/44gGdU3

Dated this very day in 1966, the week’s edition of the UK’s Lion And Champion, with its cover featuring the magnificent Spider, presumably as drawn by his co-creator Reg Bunn. (In that period, The Spider was being written by Superman’s co-creator Jerry Siegel. Which has always surprised me.)

The Spider's Syndicate of Crime vs. Spider-Boy is Out Now! These continuing adventures by Jerry Siegel and Reg Bunn's conniving crimelord take on a foe unlike any he's ever seen before! https://bit.ly/4oJlv6F

Lurking in the dark at the back of the grade...

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THIS WEEKEND! Forbidden Planet's Big Xmas Gathering celebrates Battle Action, as Garth Ennis, Keith Burns, @robwilliams71.bsky.social, @sharkbitesteve.bsky.social & @gronbekk.bsky.social will all be signing at the London Megastore from 2pm-3pm! https://bit.ly/4iFJbXY

Should say @alexpaknadel.bsky.social is signing after us and then @jockbsky.bsky.social after him. So an afternoon of FP London comic signing.

Good morning! It’s Tuesday December 9th 2025! Another day already? Crikey! (Dated this very day in 1978, just 47 years ago, Misty #45, with its really rather glorious Shirley Bellwood cover.) You be careful out there among them English, Joanne Book.