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@mrbensmith.bsky.social

Books, Comics, Films, TV. Still stuff for when you're sitting down.

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Morgan Stanley’s Lisa Shalett has become one of the market’s loudest cautionary voices.

“‘At the end of the day … this is not going to be pretty’ if and when the generative AI capital expenditure story falters, she said.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/07/a...

09.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 579    🔁 176    💬 21    📌 16
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Ezquerra and Rennie's Cursed Earth Coburn too.

10.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Art from Big-Ass Sword by Andreas Butzbach. A robot stands on top of a pile of rubble

Art from Big-Ass Sword by Andreas Butzbach. A robot stands on top of a pile of rubble

BIG-ASS INTERVIEW!

With BIG-ASS SWORD arriving in stores next month, writer/artist Andreas Butzbach sat down with @ziggystarlog.bsky.social at @thecomicon.bsky.social to talk about his inventive and unexpected sci-fi OGN! bit.ly/3WsBzOj

09.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body? I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

Sounds awful Andy. The symptoms reminded me of this article, which saw the writer's daughter go without diagnosis for Lymes Disease? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

10.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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All my comics have happy endings!

10.10.2025 09:56 — 👍 1058    🔁 344    💬 14    📌 11
Judge Dredd: And To The Sea Return, by Rob Williams, Henry Flint and Annie Parkhouse

Judge Dredd: And To The Sea Return, by Rob Williams, Henry Flint and Annie Parkhouse

2000 AD Prog 2454 is out on 15th October - featuring JUDGE DREDD: AND TO THE SEA RETURN, Part Five by:

📝 Script: @robwilliams71.bsky.social
✏️ Art: @henryflint.bsky.social
💬 Letters: Annie Parkhouse

Subscribe now and get zarjaz free gifts ➡️ bit.ly/2Ws04uc

10.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 31    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Great cover.

10.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
ENGINE FAILURE ON MOUNTAIN APPROACH
YouTube video by Pilot Yellow ENGINE FAILURE ON MOUNTAIN APPROACH

This is my absolute favourite. One helicopter pilot training another to land on top of a mountain when the engine fails and, cool as a cucumber, he glides it down the mountain explaining everything as he does it. Watch the whole thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kayz...

10.10.2025 08:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Good morning! It’s Friday October 10th 2025! Already? Crikey!

(Dated this very day in 1986, a mere 39 years ago, 2000AD #491, with its cover by Cliff Robinson featuring Judge Dredd.)

You be careful out there among them English, Joanne Book.

10.10.2025 08:41 — 👍 33    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

He'll dine out for life on the story.

'Did I tell you about the time I crashed landed in a Spitfire?'

'Only a million times.'

'Everything was going fine, when suddenly...'

10.10.2025 08:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

fyi @robwilliams71.bsky.social @pauljholden.com

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Not headline, sub heading.

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He was even presented as the epitome of cool in last year's massive Dylan movie. That's such a weird headline you have to wonder if it was written by an AI.

10.10.2025 07:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So far! [crosses fingers and toes]

09.10.2025 09:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge Dredd: Rend and Tear with Tooth and Claw is available to pre-order now! Out of fuel, out of bullets, and out of hope… Judge Dredd is going to have to tame the wilderness of nuclear winter in order to survive!  Bringing together two pulse-pounding stories into one hard-hit...

You can now pre-order the JUDGE DREDD: REND & TEAR WITH TOOTH & CLAW GN from myself, r. m. Guéra & Giuilia Brusco. It collects all our Dredd stories.

2000ad.com/news/judge-d...

09.10.2025 09:30 — 👍 33    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0
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Judge Dredd Megazine celebrates 35 years! Celebrating 35 years with a thrilling lineup of new stories

Judge Dredd Megazine Celebrates 35 Years of Iconic Comics
www.comicbooknews.co.uk/article/judg...

09.10.2025 08:45 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Frank Quitely

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The standard and webshop-exclusive editions of the Scream Specials Archival Collection

The standard and webshop-exclusive editions of the Scream Specials Archival Collection

Not for the nervous! The Scream! Specials Archival Collection is out now, available from the Treasury webstore or from the bravest of booksellers! 🕷️

See inside and buy here: bit.ly/4mXuctb

08.10.2025 15:51 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
Cover Art by Andreas Butzbach for BIG-ASS SWORD

Cover Art by Andreas Butzbach for BIG-ASS SWORD

Boasting a title that's extremely fun to say, BIG-ASS SWORD goes on sale next month from @2000ad.bsky.social and I got to ask Andreas Butzbach all about his English language graphic novel debut: comicon.com/2025/10/08/a...

08.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Wish I could have seen this. Something for next month's calendar now!

08.10.2025 14:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A screenshot of the Waterstones Event Graphic.

A screenshot of the Waterstones Event Graphic.

At 7pm on 9th October, don't miss @aptshadow.bsky.social at Leeds Waterstones for a very special panel event on "Building Brilliant Worlds" alongside @rjbarker.bsky.social and
@davewragg.com in association with @britfantasysoc.bsky.social!

Tickets only £5! www.waterstones.com/events/panel...

08.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 17    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1
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Out this very month in 1991, just 34 years ago, Batman/Judge Dredd:Judgment on Gotham #1 with its iconic cover by Simon Bisley.

08.10.2025 14:19 — 👍 70    🔁 12    💬 7    📌 3

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

08.10.2025 09:03 — 👍 391    🔁 136    💬 10    📌 1
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Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

The bubble has already burst (the profit isn't there), but the market is deliberately slow because it knows how catastrophic it's going to be on the global economy. The present danger is the fascists are set to shift the blame and use it as a lever to autocracy. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

08.10.2025 11:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
2000 AD Prog 2453 is Out Now, featuring Judge Dredd, Red Dragon, Brass Sun, Void Runners, Rogue Trooper and more!

2000 AD Prog 2453 is Out Now, featuring Judge Dredd, Red Dragon, Brass Sun, Void Runners, Rogue Trooper and more!

2000 AD Prog 2453 is Out Now!

Featuring Judge Dredd, Red Dragon, Brass Sun, Void Runners, Rogue Trooper and more!

See inside & buy bit.ly/4gLKeVx
Subscribe bit.ly/2Ws04uc
Get cover prints bit.ly/3Ek

08.10.2025 09:06 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Also out today. Do like those first three panels. The type of things comics does so well.

08.10.2025 08:52 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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I’ve Endured Two Years of Genocide. But I’m Still Here. The world before October 7, 2023, is a distant memory. But we carry on, fueled by the determination that this land will become a place of life once more.

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

08.10.2025 08:01 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Never forgot 51.9% of the UK in 2015 voted for this.

08.10.2025 08:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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