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The Power Fantasy: Part Fifteen As expected, all “hell” broke loose in what may be The Power Fantasy’s penultimate installment.

Issue 15 of The Power Fantasy! Have a read before issue 16 comes out tomorrow and marvel at how accurate all of our predictions are! mattreadscomics.com/2026/02/24/t...

It’s worth a watch! A very sweet and earnest send off to beloved characters

Yes creepy skeletons calling you brother! keep turning those pages!

An ominous hole guarded by a giant fossilised skeleton, hahaha sickos.jpg

Bottom left haunted my imagination for weeks!

Vermis III by plastiboo. Please buy this! This series scratches the most specific itch that I did not know existed! Innovative sequential storytelling that makes you feel deeply grubby and as though you shouldn’t sleep. A pitch that will resonate with everyone!

It’s a gorgeous page from Linnea Sterte and Gareth Damian Martin’s comic. Isolation and grandeur hooray

Lando is doing landscapes and gross creatures better than anyone!

A page from Hannah K’s moving and funny story. Such a good cartoonist, amazing expression and humour and melancholy all round.

2026 comics reading thread, as I will otherwise forget! Such a strong start with Ex. Mag vol 6, focussed on space exploration. I love this book! Highlights includes work from Lando, Hannah K and Linnea Sterte but the whole thing is amazing. @peow.bsky.social forever!

Public support for the monarchy falls to historic low while calls for abolition start to rise | National Centre for Social Research New findings from the British Social Attitudes survey show how the public’s views towards the monarchy have shifted over the past four decades.

Look, I'm not a royal watcher but I am confused why people are acting like Andrew's arrest is about standing up for rule of law and not an increasingly unpopular monarchy trying to save face by throwing him under the bus

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I am so excited about this one!

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

Mike Jay · Demand Stolen Rings: The Dangerous Dead It’s understandable that the dead should be angry or vengeful: after all, they have suffered a terrible calamity....

‘It’s often hard to tell whether or to what degree bodies were decomposed before they were acted on, and harder still to deduce much about the beliefs that prompted the intervention.’

@mikejay.bsky.social on vampires, revenants and killing the dead.

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Mort Walker, Beetle Bailey, and the decline and fall of newspaper comics - The Comics Journal Frank Young looks at two books celebrating cartoonist Mort Walker, one a reprint, the other a collection of Beetle Bailey strips.

TCJ has had some great articles lately. www.tcj.com/mort-walker-...

@kierongillen.bsky.social apologies if this is how you’re learning this - but spotted this and verified it’s true - hopefully an easy fix with Google!

You ever just remember that 5 second window wherein capeshit losers were pretending they had principles and would actually stop reading and boycott their slop after DC fired a trans woman.

Then they went right back to screaming about how Desolute Donkeyman was turbo-woke and leftist or whatever.

The Power Fantasy: Part Fourteen What is the world of The Power Fantasy without Etienne Lux in it? We began to find out this issue.

Issue 14 of The Power Fantasy! It wss a good one! Lovely to talk about a haunting splash page and to exclusively reveal what Masumi’s kaiju alter ego will look like in the next issue! mattreadscomics.com/2026/01/20/t...

What was the metaverse? Mark Zuckerberg effectively declared its death last December. But the delusional fervor it inspired lives on.

I wrote about why we should understand the metaverse hype cycle as a dress rehearsal for the generative AI hype cycle www.fastcompany.com/91467599/met...

‘The response is a beautiful thing’: how Glasgow is squaring up to Reform In the face of Nigel Farage, flag-waving and a longstanding housing crisis, some Glaswegians are taking on anti-immigration rhetoric

‘The response is a beautiful thing’: how Glasgow is squaring up to Reform

Nancy Jr!

Counterpoint: It’s deeply irresponsible for any administration to tacitly encourage the people it serves to be active on an unregulated, surveilled platform, run by an erratic, capricious individual . Find better ways to reach people

Scotland for Decrim Demand full decriminalisation - write to your MSP now

Full decriminalisation scotlandfordecrim.netlify.app/act/decrimnow

So begins the Shigeru Mizuki Thread! I read through all of Showa before the end of the year but didn’t have time to write up my thoughts… and have been dragging my heels on reading Hitler for obvious reasons lol… 🧵

Holy shit

I didn’t think it was possible

A Milo Manara I LIKE 😂

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

The cover of Mushishi Collector's Edition volume 1.

A subtitled sound effect from the new English edition of Mushishi. Rough open block letters are surrounded by a screen tone that is scraped away in places, and sometimes crosses into the interior of the letters to mimic the original sound effect.

A subtitled sound effect from the new English edition of Mushishi. The original sound effect is cut in half by the arc of a slash. The english subtitle is nestled within a gap and is similarly bisected.

A subtitled sound effect from the new English edition of Mushishi. The original sound effect is over art with rough line art and dense screen tone. The line art was drawn approximately up to the edges of the katakana, and sometimes the screen tone is scraped away. The english sound effect is in an area with more dense line art, so it has an uneven outline made of the screen tone to keep the letters legible. Those outlines keep the tone contiguous with the art. White scraping is also visible.

There's a new English release of Mushishi, lettered by Phil Christie (@kernedout.bsky.social). I adore how Urushibara-sensei utilizes texture in her art, and how the sound effects inherit that texture. Phil does an amazing job replicating that with subtitled SFX. Notes in alt text!

From: A Town Called Panic (2009), dir. Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar, La Parti Productions

In this installment, Nemo accidentally borrows Santa's sleigh and goes for a wild ride. He can barely control the reindeer and ends up hanging from a weather vane before finally waking up in his bed.

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay from December 24, 1905.

Showing highlights of paragraphs 202 through 206 in a doc with 203-205 blacked out. Text in next image

202. Defendants also actively obstructed law enforcement by denying investigators access to Little St. James beyond its boat dock. 203. Defendants also attempted to conceal their criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct by paying large sums of money to participant-witnesses, including by paying for their attorneys’ fees and case costs in litigation related to this conduct. 204. Epstein also threatened harm to victims and helped release damaging stories about them to damage their credibility when they tried to go public with their stories of being trafficked and sexually abused. 205. Epstein also instructed one or more Epstein Enterprise participant-witnesses to destroy evidence relevant to ongoing court proceedings involving Defendants’ criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct. 206. Defendants also concealed their fraud on the Government in obtaining unearned tax benefits by providing false testimony and submitting false and inaccurate reporting to the Economic Development Commission to prevent detection of Defendant Southern Trust Company’s non-compliance with requirements concerning the nature of its business and the residency of the persons it employed.

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.

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I was thinking about this the other day! Not a show I think about a tall otherwise but this has lodged itself in my brain for some reason

The Power Fantasy: Part Thirteen I don’t think any of us had “Etienne dies again” on our bingo card for The Power Fantasy 13. But that is (seemingly) what happened, after Valentina forced Etienne to reveal (almos…

Matt Reads Comics has done conversations on every issue of TPF. They're normally RIGHT before a new issue, so this is 13, and all about a lovely chat between friends.

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The Power Fantasy: Part Thirteen I don’t think any of us had “Etienne dies again” on our bingo card for The Power Fantasy 13. But that is (seemingly) what happened, after Valentina forced Etienne to reveal (almos…

Issue 13 of The Power Fantasy! Matt and I come to blows over something or other in the discussion! Baby induced insomnia means that I remember very little of this! mattreadscomics.com/2025/12/16/t...

Luscious Vegan Gingerbread I am preposterously proud of this squidgy gingerbread, and I don't mind who knows it. It's everything you want out of a gingerbread — sticky, spicy, deeply aromatic — and you would never miss the butt...

I so adore #RecipeOfTheDay, it’s hard not to sound unattractively boastful when I talk about it. But truly, this Luscious Vegan Gingerbread does have something miraculous about it. It’s dark, sumptuous, squidgy and simply divine – I named it luscious for a reason! www.nigella.com/recipes/lusc...

A Garden of Spheres by Linnea Sterte. I think this is the most beautiful book I’ve ever read? Absolutely nobody is making books as stunning and lyrical as Sterte, just jaw dropping art that supports a quiet and engrossing fantasy epic. Please buy this!