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A 7 panel comic by the artist. First panel: The artist is running from a distance towards a group of people playing basketball in the park. The artist is holding a pumpkin above their head and screaming "AAAAAAAAA". Second panel: The artist has leapt up and is in position to slam dunk the pumpkin into the basketball hoop. Panel three: the pumpkin splatters violently against the backboard of the basketball hoop, sending orange pumpkin goop everywhere. Panel four: the players stand staring, covered in pumpkin goop and shocked. Panel five: the artist stares at them wide-eyed, also covered in the goop and says "it's October FIRST". Their hand reaches towards their face. Panel six: the artist rips off their own face like a rubber mask to reveal a skeleton beneath. Panel 7: the group of players stand shocked and horrified, watching as the skeleton falls to the ground in a pile of bones, the sound effects says "CLATTER".

Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

...wwwhy? The play is written in modern English, and set in Italy. (Even if this is a classic case of not understanding what Old English is, using the original text isn't even much of a flourish. Joss Whedon used original text. Baz Luhrman used original text. That's really normal for Shakespeare.)

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Tapas thing has me thinking about platforms, and the nature of an audience. We post Captain Tempest in like a half dozen places, including chopped up for vertical scroll and individual panels, depending on format. Do we have one audience? Or one for each platform? (we've also got a website)

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Captain Tempest

A high-flying pulp adventure webcomic by Emmett & Gordon Graham. Read new updates every Wednesday!

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh! Good. They know each other. (A shiny silver penny to anyone who can tell the class who this guy is and where we've seen him before in "Captain Tempest!")

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Chapter 5, Page 8: Party Crasher captaintempest.com/comic/205-pa...

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet: I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's a '90s double feature at Rose City Comic Con!

Inked drawing of Rick O'Connell and Ardeth Bey from The Mummy (1999)

Inked drawing of the main cast of Stargate: SG-1 posed in front of a Stargate.

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A distinctly '70s Hal Jordan, with a couple of Hard-Traveling Heroes in tow.

Inked drawing of Green Lantern Hal Jordan flying in front of a mountain. A beam connects his ring to a bubble in which Green Arrow and Black Canary are contained.

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

More Rose City Comic Con sketches! One for a pair of wonderful cosplayers who stopped by our booth, one in recognition of Stephen Amell's contribution to Oliver Queen's legacy!

Inked drawing of Green Arrow and Blank Canary in DC Rebirth-era costumes.

Inked drawing of Arrow, as played by Stephen Amell.

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's the last day of Rose City Comic Con! Let's do a rapid-fire chain of @emmetthgraham.bsky.social's incredible convention sketches! First up, a two-in-one reference sketch cover commission

Inked comic cover showing Batgirl with her cape draped over one arm, saying "Face it Nightwing... You just hit the jackpot!" I'm reference to the introduction of Mary Jane in Spider-Man.

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's Rose City Comic Con! Come say hello at booth E-11!

Comic writer Gordon Graham sitting behind a vendor table for Captain Tempest, which is laden with all sorts of fabulous comics and wares.

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This week on #RunawaytotheStars: A tapetum lucidum is a kind of mirror. Catch up: runawaytothestars.com Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

Talita finishes packing the cart in the puddle of light by the apartment building's front entrance, then is startled by a movement to her left. Emerging from the darkness between the two buildings are four large shadows, with 7 eerie eyes flashing the artificial light back towards her. It's Verengt and 3 other centaurs, all barely visible silhouettes. One of them points their trunk to the matriarch and whispers something, causing them to take notice of Talita. Talita looks back at them, apprehensive. Her own pupils reflect the light too, the uneven angle causing one to glow, and the other to mostly remain dark. Verengt walks toward Talita out of the darkness, their body gaining detail as they slowly become illuminated by the door lights.

Verengt approaches Talita, who is hunched fearfully over the cart. Verengt: Talita. Good evening. Talita straightens up and nervously touches her neck. Verengt's trunk points up in a loose curl. Talita: H- hi Verengt! I need to apologize for earlier, I– Verengt: No, we should apologize. I believe we misinterpreted you. Do you speak human language with your face, as well as your trunk? They gesture with an open palm over their own face.

Talita: Oh! …Yes, I do! Verengt: Showing teeth means something very different to them, doesn't it? Talita: Humans pull their lips up and bare their teeth to show they're happy or friendly. She points at her face and pulls her lips back into a quick smile that mostly shows gums. Talita: I've lived with them so long that I do it habitually. Verengt: I see. I usually look for a trunk curl... They lift their trunk upwards in a relaxed curl. Verengt: Do humans not know what this means? Talita returns the curl, with a small closed-lip smile. Talita: No, they usually don’t. Verengt looks off thoughtfully. Verengt: They always seem so unfriendly to me, with their flat nose and teeth flashing as they speak. But I suppose that's just how they're built…

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These figures Emmett made are actually nuts. Please come see them at RCCC this weekend so I can gush!

Black and white photograph of a custom articulated figure of masked pilot Captain Tempest standing on a rock.

Black and white photograph of a custom articulated figure of stalwart mechanic Lindsey standing on a mossy rock.

Black and white photograph of a custom articulated figure of ace reporter Pam Pike standing on a mossy rock.

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We've got something outrageous at Rose City Comic Con! @emmetthgraham.bsky.social has created a new set of fully-articulated figures which we'll be raffling off daily. Get all four issues of our Comic to enter the daily drawing!

Photograph of three hand-built action figures of Captain Tempest, Pam Pike, and Lindsey MacGoyer posed on a mossy rock, with the text "Only at Rose City Comic-Con... Hand Built Captain Tempest Action Figures!

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Unbelievable things are in the works for Rose City Comic Con this weekend. Just you wait.

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

what Schkade has achieved on Flash Gordon should earn him a free hotel room in any town where comics are mentioned, the strip has returned to greatness.

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Fawnduu🐮🔜 A Big Gay Market OCT 4th @fawnduu.com · 01/09/2026

The USDA is trying to recind the Roadless Rule which currently protects 45 million acres of National Forests from logging and deforestation. We have until September 20th to comment and tell the USDA we don't want this! File your comment w/ link below: action.outdooralliance.org/a/roadless-d...

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Stick to your guns, Pam. Statistically, a magician is still much more likely to be a fraud than to be real.

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Emmett and I are coming to Rose City Comic Con this September, and we're bringing some amazing new offerings. Stay tuned to hear more!

Announcement that Captain Tempest will be tabling at the Rose City Comic Con, September 11-13 2026

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Do you remember the first time you saw a guy get all his teeth knocked out of his head

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Got taken in by the idea of a Venture Bros. RPG so I came up with a fitting character (EMA level 3 I suppose?)

A headless Thompson gunner named Roland Gunnarsson. He wears a photo of his living self taped to his chest so people have something to look at when they talk to him.

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yesterday at the grocery store, I saw an employee desperately beg a three year old child to set DOWN the ruptured container of clam chowder he was running with, laying a slug trail of cream and shellfish behind him. No parents in sight. "Please... just... put it down." That employee is my hero.

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Cat Farris @cattifer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My baby

Photo of an older brindle Greyhound from the chest up, using a stuffed triceratops dog toy as a pillow and looking cute.

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Can we keep him? Can we? I promise I'll feed him and walk him and play with him...!

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Man's Canyons, by Samuel L. Margolies, 1936.

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Nathan Alderman @nathanalderman.com · 17/08/2026

This series starts strong and somehow just gets better and better. Fun, witty, thrilling stuff.

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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Zion Nat'l Park, right after a heavy rain.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

OH MY GOD THIS IS SOOOOOOO THE TRUTH!

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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Did you know that I wrote and illustrated a full-length Iron Age kaiju fantasy graphic novel? I did! If any of those descriptors sound good to you, take a look at it here. Available in print or as a PDF.

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GARGANTUAN

A great beast has arisen from the sea. It approaches the city of Thrykaea, leaving devastation its wake. Queen Pharseia and her closest allies stand in its way. They must overcome the greatest threat ...

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A monster? in a Nazi lair? Who could have foreseen.

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Who knows if DC would go for an all 90's-era JSA, but maybe just this Shoegaze Sandman

an early 90's Sandman with fuzzy bucket hat, big specs and zip up track top

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Three things to look out for when identifying AI art: -- Cluttered, uniform busy-ness throughout an image. No use of negative space to direct the eye. -- Unmotivated changes in line weight. Line thickness is often wobbly and random. -- The ever-popular piss filter.

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 10/08/2026

Fuck AI. Fuck transphobes, homophobes, bigots, racists, and fascists. They can all go to hell. Sick of it. Just sick of it.

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Captain Tempest's Monster @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There's a statue of Joan of Arc in SE Portland, and every time I pass I'm bitter that they "restored" it a few years ago. When I was a kid it had this amazing green patina.

Old photo of a statue of Joan of Arc astride a horse, hand raised high. The statue has a streaked green patina. Photo credit: Andrew Hall, portlandbridges.com (cropped out)

Photo of the same statue of Joan of Arc, now a blinding gold. Her raised hand is now carrying a large banner.

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

HEADS from ABOVE! To get the FREE monthly How to THINK When You draw digital MAGAZINE, (including NEW tutorials, a YEAR before they appear online) just tap the link in the bio HERE: @etheringtonbros.bsky.social #anime #manga #comicart #conceptart #gamedev

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Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Rally with Dark Horse Workers United! DHWU is calling all supporters to join us for a rally at Milwaukie Waterfront Park on August 3rd from 5pm to 6pm. 🧵

Comic-style collage with superheroes, bold “Calling all Heroes” text, a speech balloon that says “Help DHWU!”, and a message about a Monday cosplay rally supporting union rights.

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

One underrated story trope is when you get 80% through the plot and suddenly the moon, barely mentioned before this point, becomes a major element.

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mumblo @mumblesbot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

$5+ patrons get my video early about short indie games i think you'll love! www.patreon.com/mumbles/post...

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Short indie game recommendations! | Mumbles

Short indie game recommendations! by Mumbles on Patreon. Join Mumbles's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Artists: Have y'all seen this armor reference photo pack by Satine Zillah? 👀 It has lots of great poses and angles, plus poses that show some of the various layers beneath the outer armor. 👌I highly recommend it! www.artstation.com/marketplace/...

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ArtStation - Heavy Knight- Photo Reference For Artists 883 JPEGs | Resources

Resources - Heavy Knight- Photo Reference For Artists 883 JPEGs, USD $7.43. 883 JPEGs up to 7000 px per longer edgeFile size 9.2 GB or PDF with ONLINE ACCESS linkFeaturing a fully armored late 15th-ce...

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Chris Schweizer @ NCAF & NYCC @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Drawing of some train cars at the Eddyville Port Authority industrial park, back when there was still snow on the ground

watercolored drawing of two trains, one of which entirely inside a hangar, the other poking out its back. Warm sunlight illuminates windows and skylights in an otherwise cool image.

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