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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 10h

And Ian McKellen in what would prove to be VERY accurate old-age makeup!

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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 11h

One gets the sense that this is not the fairest match-up.

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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 12h

Chapter 5, Page 11: He Who Fights Monsters captaintempest.com/comic/208-he...

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/08/2025

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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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".

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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aw man, that's why the ability economy was changed in 2? That's a shame, I really loved the experience of teasing as many fights as I could out of a dwindling resource pool. I get it, but that was one of the biggest things I missed from 1.

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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

That is, even if you find recordings of the old show, the experience of listening to them the way they were originally intended is lost. You are a different audience, and that old audience will never exist again.

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

We don't have a big audience, but there are people who encountered our work for the first time on every platform. What does it mean to the broader texture of our audience for any version to become lost? Maybe it's all old radio shows. Everything is meant to be consumed in the context of its moment.

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

Is there a "real" version of the comic? Each has its minor differences and compromises. The print version doesn't have the page names, which are often jokes or thematic allusions. Our comic can't be lost the way a lot of work on Tapas is likely to be, but if a platform went down, SOMETHING is lost.

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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 · 23/09/2026

Chapter 5, Page 10: Beware, for I am Fearless captaintempest.com/comic/207-be...

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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 9: Terrifying and Monstrous captaintempest.com/comic/206-te...

Splash page from the webcomic "Captain Tempest." A gigantic man, perhaps eight feet tall, stands crouched in the smashed-in doorway, astride two Nazi soldiers he's evidently killed with his bare hands. His skin is sunken and mottled, his hair long, black, and stringy, and he's dressed in the greatcoat, breeches, and boots of an 18th century traveler, all tattered, aged, and damaged. In the room behind him, flames and dancing high. His gaze is locked ahead, staring with obvious malice.

MAN: ...Du. Maskierter Mann.

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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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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

I think best case scenario is some kind of spooky photoshoot? Some friends of mine once took part in a really neat project re-staging actual viking burial finds.

Two black-and-white photographs side-by-side, each an overhead view of a shallow grave lined with stones, each containing a person in 9th century garb, posed with Viking grave goods.

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

Oh yeah. That's the stuff. Great review! I've been curious about this game for a minute. Like you said, probably good for a palate cleanser, and my brother and I ADORE 30's pulp (see below).

Captain Tempest punching a goddamn nazi in his awful face.

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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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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It does bother me when I see art of Conan with, like, an ornate, armored loincloth. The man's not averse to shirts, he just loses them all the time! He wears armor when he can get it!

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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Chapter 5, Page 6: Cause for Alarm captaintempest.com/comic/204-ca...

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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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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sorry for the "Um, Actually," that series is just really dear to my brother and I. A collection of that run is what first got us into comics in a serious way in like 2006.

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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ollie was a little buzzed on his "get in touch with the common man" thing at the time of Green Lantern/Green Arrow. He'd lost his fortune and was living in a run-down walkup. Also, I don't think he'd ever been anything like a billionaire, "just" a multi-millionaire.

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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 · 01/09/2026

The number 52 has become a sort of Easter-egg mascot for DC, owing to the creative energy of the original maxi-series. "The New 52" initiative has basically nothing to do with "52" the series beside the number, for example.

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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A lot happened in 52, it was pretty good. The number 52 also turned out to be foreshadowing for the revelation that because of the Crisis, a new multiverse had been created -- not Infinite Earths, but fifty-two of them. Those earths were only really explored in the inferior follow-up, "Countdown."

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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

After Infinite Crisis, DC did a gimmick where a bunch of their books jumped forward "One Year Later," to give the aftermath of the crisis time to settle and to shake up the status quo. "52" was a weekly maxi-series that covered the events of that untold year in real time: 52 weeks, 52 issues.

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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I still don't know how to pronounce "Miasma."

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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

That this is being framed as a "Cruella" type origin story or whatever is giving me the shakes. We learn about Scrooge top to bottom! He's sympathetic in the original text, but part of that is making it clear that NOTHING can justify being the person he's become. That's the story!

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Captain Tempest's Monster🧟 @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great post, by the way, I should have said that.

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