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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh, I forgot to do links at the start of this. I'm bad at marketing. Well, when it releases tomorrow (which is actually today as I'm writing this, because I AM BAD AT MARKETING) it'll be up at thepowercut.itch.io and linked from www.tumblr.com/thepowercut at a minimum.

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In conclusion @edjoy.bsky.social is absurdly talented and should after this comes out be far too busy with work offers to ever contribute to it again, or there is no justice in this fallen world.

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

See how that's like, designed? Laid out on the page with thought and meaning and colour theory and clever use of computer software to make lines do things? This is DESIGN. This thing was DESIGNED. And that's all @edjoy.bsky.social , who also has a full essay in this thing by the way.

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

But perhaps most of all we have THE JOY OF ED JOY @edjoy.bsky.social , who has stormed onto center stage for this issue to take our design and layout to a whole new level. This thing is GORGEOUS, so much so I'm kind of blown away that I was even peripherally anything to do with it. I'm agog. Look:

Excerpt from the zine. Panel from Marvelman of, uh, Marvelman in a contemplative pose, overlaid with an inset yellow circle, containing a cutout detail from a panel with Valentina, on her knees on the moon, taken from TPF #16. A tracery of straight and curved yellow lines connect this together into a coherent design language in a way I unfortunately struggle to capture with words, which rather defeats the point of alt text, but trust me it's super great and you should hire Ed Joy as your magazine designer probably.

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We have a personal reflection on the moment of release of the last issue (#16) as a phenomenon by Sam T ( horde-of-impressions.tumblr.com )! We have opening and closing essays by the already mentioned Joju997 ( the-joju-experience.tumblr.com ) and Ed Joy respectively! We've got credits and contents!

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We have JUST SOME ABSOLUTELY STUNNING ART IN THIS THING, HOLY CRAP, LIKE WOAH. Besides the art jam I've covered already, there's dynamite stuff from Jack Xi ( bread-into-toast.tumblr.com , Jason KJones @jasonkjones.bsky.social and Ferronickel ( ferronickel.tumblr.com ) .

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We have THE ENTIRE COMIC TO DATE AS A TIMELINE CHART! We love infographics that much. @edjoy.bsky.social did astonishing work here designing, collaging and making this thing real from an idea I ( @tamsynelle.bsky.social ) had, and now it's a FREE GIFT TO ALL OUR READERS. Stick it on your wall!

On a white background, a stylised black jawless skull is surrounded by a black circle. Beneath, there is text in black that reads:

DEATH

The point when a character snuffs it (as far as we know).

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We have EXTREMELY SILLY ART JAMS BASED ON A RIFF IN OUR DISCORD CHAT! See everyone's takes on Kid Ignition as he's never been -ion- suffix-nouned before! Does this make more sense in context? Just barely!

An ink outline drawing of a teenager with flames for hair, dressed in an apron, with goggles pulled down around his neck. He's saying "It's been a long week."

A back three-quarters view of the head, neck and shoulders of a teenage boy, with hair shaved at back and sides but worn high on top, drawn as a pencil outline and then shaded in hues of green and purple. With one eye warily observing the viewer, he says in a dialogue balloon "Who wants to know?"

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We have EXTREMELY SERIOUS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, with Yarrun tackling the intersection of race and power, Cal Smith discerning the meaning in the atomic bomb, and Rose Crown talking about empire.

A collage. A single line of text reads "the dreams of imperialists." is presented above some overlaid images:

The iconic black and white photo of six American soldiers raising the US flag on Iwo Jima. An overlayed cyan triangle at around 60% opacity is placed under and running parallel to the flagpole in the photo. And then atop that, a grayscaled cut out image of Magus from The Power Fantasy, masked, in a uniform with Pyramid insignia on the upper left sleeve with his fingerless-gloved hand on his face as if in despair.

Two panels, stacked vertically atop one another, taken from the "Valentina gets nuked" sequence from The Power Fantasy #3. In the first, a mushroom cloud, painted in sharp distinct blocks of colour, oranges, whites, purples and pinks. In the second, a female humanoid figure stands as a two colour pink and black silhouette amidst the nuclear fireball, entirely unharmed, arms out to her sides, fingers outstretched, eyes aglow, hair blowing in the pressure wave.

Below this, in yellow on black, text that reads "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards"

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We have INTERTEXTUALITY, with reflections and comparisons between The Power Fantasy and The Good Place in Jack Xi's essay, and Alan Moore's Marvelman with Joju997.

Text, black on white except the first line, which is in green. The text reads as follows, cutting off abruptly at the word 'neither':

"Welcome! Everything is Fine."

These big green words open Mike Schur's four-season comedy-drama The Good Place (2016-2020), printed on the flawless white wall of an afterlife waiting room. In that first episode, neither

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We have MASUMI, with the wondrous @jasonkjones.bsky.social breaking down Masumi's design influences in a deep dive and also offering us flash fiction about her, plus several illustrations to boot, there's no stopping this one

A painting of the umibōzu, a yokai from Japanese mythology, taking the form of a huge, smooth and entirely black humanoid figure rising from stormy waters to menace a sailing ship. Overlaid, in many circular cut outs arranged in a cluster at the centre, is a panel of Masumi's face emerging from a bathtub, taken from The Power Cut #4.

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

What's in this issue? Glad I pretended you asked. We have ETHICS. We have truly never been more ethical, including a guest essay from @comicphilosophy.bsky.social and a roundtable of chin-stroking about whether a certain plan to save the world could ever have worked, and if it had, been moral.

Some drop-shadow text in an alarming shade of puce that reads A VERY BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO NORMATIVE ETHICS

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

TOMORROW! THE POWER CUT #3 The internet's finest fanzine for @imagecomics.com 's The Power Fantasy, by @kierongillen.bsky.social and @casparw.bsky.social (the comic not the zine), has done it again, but more so. To meet the quotation title/challenge "We Have To Be Better", it is our best yet.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This week's newsletter is a big one. The Power Fantasy #12 out, DIE: Loaded approaching, signings, funny homages, zines, links, gargants and turning 50. Erk. #comics

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344: paper-mâché, kitchen detritus and hope

HulloTPF12Nearly LoadedBloodSigningUncutDetectivesNext Club?LinksBye **** This is such a hefty week that I’m actually going to save some content until next...

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

In this issue we have both deep dives on Catholic theology like this and ALSO spend several pages discussing how two of the main male characters should hate fuck with masks on, so we contain multitudes

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

New with this issue we also have an Itch.io page thepowercut.itch.io , handy if Tumblr scares and confuses you

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The Power Cut

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Then there's this piece about Ray "Heavy" Harris, which goes deep on his clothing choices. Some fantastic insights here, thanks to the incomparable Jay E (www.tumblr.com/idonttakethi...) without whom none of this would have happened: www.tumblr.com/thepowercut/...

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5 photos by @thepowercut

Ray "Heavy" Harris: Decked Out By Jay E. ( @idonttakethislightly ) with illustrations by Jason K. ( @jkjones21 ) and @idonttakethislightly This essay was originally…

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

In case you didn't download the zine, or just wanted the essays in a less pretty but more atomically shareable form, we're going to be republishing them on Tumblr individually over the next few weeks. Here's the first one, an introduction by @tamsynelle.bsky.social : www.tumblr.com/thepowercut/...

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Dialectical Immaterialism

By Tamsyn Elle ( @meserach ), with spot illustrations by Jason K Jones ( @jkjones21 ) and @idonttakethislightly This essay was originally published on February 14th 2025, in issue #1 of THE POWER CU…

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

So what's in this inaugural issue? Glad you asked, it's really convenient for my segue into the next bit. ONE HUNDRED AND TEN designed pages! NINE substantial essays about The Power Fantasy! ADDITIONAL writing! And BEST OF ALL, so, so much DELIGHTFUL ART!

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Contributors on Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/artbyblastwe... www.tumblr.com/idonttakethi... www.tumblr.com/jkjones21/ www.tumblr.com/khepris-wors... www.tumblr.com/meserach/ www.tumblr.com/rei-ismyname/ www.tumblr.com/tazmuth/ www.tumblr.com/the-joju-exp... Cover art by www.tumblr.com/tazmuth/

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

THE POWER CUT #1 OUT NOW! The Power Cut is a fanzine about The Power Fantasy. It's free and you can download it here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... (Google Drive) or here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/laorc... (Dropbox)

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The Power Cut contains mature content and spoilers for The Power Fantasy #1-5. The Power Cut will be available free online. The Power Cut is so excited to meet you!

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The Power Cut - a fanzine about The Power Fantasy @thepowercut.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

THE POWER CUT A fanzine about THE POWER FANTASY, the image comic by @kierongillen.bsky.social and @casparw.bsky.social Issue #1: "The Balancing Act" coming February 14, 2025! The Power Cut is a collection of meta essays, illustrations, and jokes. #comics #zine #fanzine #thepowerfantasy

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