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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 25/07/2026

EISNER AWARD WINNER! Congratulations to @sanhomaydraw.bsky.social, Danny Lim, and Michael Heisler for the Eisner award win for Purgatory Funeral Cakes, in the BEST U.S. EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL MATERIAL—ASIA category!

Graphic for Purgatory Funeral Cakes, featuring the cover for Volume 1.

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The lettering mosaic for Lady Mechanika: The Mechanical Menagerie #1, which is about to go to print any second now, and will be on sale next month. If you can't read this, I guess you'll just have to buy it, won't you?

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Also this week, AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH lands on digital. Coincidence? I THINK…I have no idea.

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

So yes, the world is a vampire, but we're still making Lady Mechanika comics, and we just hit our 7th stretch goal with a little over three weeks remaining! This KS is for Mechanical Menagerie Part 2, but you can add Part 1 to your pledge if you missed that campaign. #LadyMechanika #Mechaniks

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Lady Mechanika: The Mechanical Menagerie, Part 2

The action-packed conclusion to our favorite steampunk heroine's latest adventure!

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 07/01/2026

Avatar: The Gap Year--Tipping Point continues this week with issue #3, available now! Details: bit.ly/4pvEimX @ethansacks.bsky.social, Salvatore Porcaro, @atiyehcolors.bsky.social, @michaelheisler.bsky.social

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 03/12/2025

Avatar: The Gap Year--Tipping Point returns this week with issue #2, available now! Details: bit.ly/3Xhgqr1 By @ethansacks.bsky.social, Salvatore Porcaro, @atiyehcolors.bsky.social, @michaelheisler.bsky.social

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 05/11/2025

Texarcanum concludes this week with issue #4, available now! Details: bit.ly/3WQwPm5 If only Avery can somehow manage a heist on a ghost train, there may be hope for the Heartland yet. By @cwmonfette.bsky.social, Miguel Martos, Patricio Delpeche, @michaelheisler.bsky.social

Cover of Texarcanum issue #4, illustrated by Miguel Martos

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 03/11/2025

Texarcanum comes to its conslusion this week with issue #4! Catch up on the series: bit.ly/4hD7h5l By @cwmonfette.bsky.social, Miguel Martos, Patricio Delpeche, @michaelheisler.bsky.social

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 30/10/2025

“As we approach the one-year mark of the presidential election that gave us whatever all of this madness is, it is even clearer that Vice President Kamala Harris was right about pretty much everything,” writes @shalisemyoung.bsky.social in her latest.

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Kamala Harris was right about everything

She gave voice to the racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, un-American goals spelled out in Project 2025 and that are comin

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 25/10/2025

Avatar: The Gap Year--Tipping Point issue #2 by @ethansacks.bsky.social, Salvatore Porcaro, @atiyehcolors.bsky.social, @michaelheisler.bsky.social: bit.ly/48I4x4j

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 24/10/2025

Reminder: Avatar: The Gap Year--Tipping Point issue #1 is now available wherever you get your comics: bit.ly/45XFUyM Fill in the gap year at the outset of the hit film Avatar: The Way of Water! By @ethansacks.bsky.social, Salvatore Porcaro, @atiyehcolors.bsky.social, @michaelheisler.bsky.social

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Ethan Sacks @ethansacks.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Two years in the making and in collaboration with the great James Cameron, AVATAR: TIPPING POINT#1 is out today at your local comic store! It’s an official part of the franchise canon, ties into the films, and one of the greatest comic projects I’ve ever done. The art team made a masterpiece.

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 01/10/2025

Texarcanum continues this week with issue #3, available now: bit.ly/4g6K5vB Avery must infiltrate a lavish, Louisiana riverboat wedding only to square off against ancient Eastern magics... By @cwmonfette.bsky.social, Miguel Martos, Patricio Delpeche, @michaelheisler.bsky.social

Cover of Texarcanum issue #3, illustrated by Miguel Martos

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Some recent lettering (though so far ahead that practically none of it is in print yet). If you are a publisher/editor or part of a creative team looking for a letterer, or one of those friends who has told me you'd love to work with me, now is a pretty good time.

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

What's not mentioned here is that the first issue goes on sale on MY BIRTHDAY. So the least you could do is buy a copy. P.S. I don't get royalties, but James Cameron said that if I promoted this well enough, he'd buy me dinner. P.P.S. That's not true.

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Uploaded files for the next Lady Mechanika volume to be reprinted by Image, 2016's The Tablet of Destinies. On sale October 29!

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

DHC means #3, of course. Have to add that I love the other covers for this series. It was promoted with the cover for #1 for so long that I sort of forgot there was anything else.

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 03/09/2025

Texarcanum continues this week with issue #2, now available in comic shops! Details: bit.ly/3UO8oof The feud between the Garrison and Reilly families ramps up, poisoning the heartland along with it... By @cwmonfette.bsky.social Miguel Martos, Patricio Delpeche, @michaelheisler.bsky.social

Cover of Texarcanum issue #2, illustrated by Michael Heisler

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

ALIEN: EARTH is actually making COVENANT and PROMETHEUS seem interesting again, though I know if I revisit them I'll be like "Oh yeah, forgot about THAT" and that'll be the end. The one that looks even more utterly ridiculous now, tho, is RESURRECTION.

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HorrorJoy Podcast @horrorjoypod.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Just read the first issue of TexArcanum out of @darkhorse.com. Good stuff! #horrorcomics #horrorsky #comicsky #horror

Photo of cover of first issue of new comic TexArcanum

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

If Hegseth is “proud of our history,” why has the military systematically erased the contributions of women and minorities from the DoD website and prevented any celebration of them?

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Gabriel Hardman @gabrielhardman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I've wanted to make a Batman/Green Arrow/The Question comic since I was literally a teenager. GA was my favorite character growing up. The Denny O'Neil/Denys Cowan Question book made a huge impact on me. I'm also really enjoying getting back to making comics! ARCADIA issue 1 is out in November.

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Gabriel Hardman @gabrielhardman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Here are some preview pages for ARCADIA, my upcoming Batman/Green Arrow/The Question miniseries. Issue 1 is on sale in November.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This and repeatedly claiming gas is $1.95 shows you how stupid Trump thinks the American people are. Given the fact that he got elected twice, who can blame him for arriving at that conclusion? bsky.app/profile/acyn...

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Although there were indeed 200 numbered copies of each edition available at Comic-Con, we DID sell a bunch of these, so there are definitely not 200 left. Just saying. #mechaniks #LadyMechanika

SDCC Exclusives Now Available Online!
The remaining copies of the two Lady Mechanika SDCC comics are now available from our online store. These are special black/white art-only preview editions of the upcoming new story, The Mechanical Menagerie, Issues #1 and 2. No colors, no word balloons, just Joe and Martin’s amazing art! Limited to only 200 individually numbered copies each (they can be ordered individually or as a set, books in a set will have the same number). Available now at JoeBenitez.com!

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I really enjoyed lettering the 2015 reboot miniseries, by Chris Warner and Patrick Olliffe. In a fairer universe we'd be working on #122 right now, but in this one the miniseries is barely a blip (no credits given) even on Barb's own Wikipedia page.

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

One of the things I find most ridiculous about the Epstein scandal is the quote that's being constantly trotted out: "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do." Really?? What unique and distinctive taste for a man, to like beautiful women. Who could even dream of such a thing?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/07/2025

it's amazing the amount of time and effort Democrats spend painstakingly critiquing their messaging while Trump just fires from the hip while his brain leaks out of his ears and it's good enough for 312 electoral votes and winning control of the entire federal government

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I have now spent more time in line at Starbucks at Comic-Con than I have at any booth.

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Kendra, spooky version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The dumbest most boring and hateful losers stomping their feet and getting whatever they want is getting really really old

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I’ll be taking part in an Avatar (Jake Sully, not Aang) signing at SDCC tomorrow morning and will gladly sign any copies of this book put in front of me. For that matter, I lettered 5 volumes of Aang’s adventures too, but was NEVER invited to a signing, so getting me on those would be a true rarity.

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

…because they AREN'T achievable. You can't lower the price of anything by more than 100%, because at that point it's free. We live in the fucking stupidest timeline.

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. If you have never heard this album, there's no better time than right now.

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Peter Kuper @pkuper.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

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Michael Heisler @michaelheisler.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Wow, this is something. Epstein died in prison before Biden was elected. He can't possibly have been convicted "during the Biden administration." But O'Reilly is so fixated on telling a lie that he can't think straight when the truth slaps him in the face.

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