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Ben Guilfoy

@bkguilfoy.bsky.social

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Writer, artist, nerd, etc from NYC. Deeply into Star Trek, comics, and other fun things. Find my #comics: https://linktr.ee/bkguilfoy

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · Nov 12

Dang we hit 800 followers already? 'spose I should do a real intro post. Thanks for following. I'm not great at promoting my work but you can find my various comics at linktr.ee/bkguilfoy and I enjoy talking about comics, Star Trek, and various other nerdy pursuits.

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 3h

Meet the biggest piece of shit in Chicago

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 4h

It seems particularly relevant that the Wikipedia entry also notes that it was filmed in Texas so they wouldn't have to deal with unions...

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 4h

Well fuck you, too

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 5h

Hhhhhhhhwhat

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 6h

Tonight's entertainment: B-movies directed by a guy who was blacklisted for stealing the studio chief's nephew's wife

Blu-ray collection of B-movies directed by Edgar G. Ulmer -- The Man from Planet X, Beyond the Time Barrier, and The Amazing Transparent Man

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David (D.j.m) @deltajulietmike.bsky.social · 8h

#StarTrekLegacy (derogatory)

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 8h

I want to make it perfectly clear I've got nothing against TRON: ARES. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

But what I want most is for the younger generations to love going to the movies, which means we need more movies for them. Not every movie needs to be for 50 year old white guys.

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 11h

Damn, RIP

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 11h

Diane Keaton has passed away at the age of 79.

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 15h

...2 years later someone says "Hey we're having a retirement party for King Ralph." I said, "Didn't he retire years ago?" "Nah, he just stopped coming to work."

This is the sort of shit I dealt with there every day for seven years.

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 15h

...printing out pictures of lighthouses off the Internet which he then laminated and organized into binders. Also he was pretty racist. I was also told his own son had once shot him. Anyway then he disappeared...

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 15h

... Multiple times he was offered increasingly generous retirement packages, which he rejected. He wore multiple replica Green Bay Packers Super Bowl rings on each hand, a hat with the logo from the movie "King Ralph," and spent every shift clipping his toenails at his desk and...

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 15h

Also, absolutely none of the characters here are as weird as the actual real-life people I worked with at that newspaper. Like we had this one guy, Ralph, who legend says had a lifetime job guarantee in his contract. Management either could not or would not fire him or lay him off...

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 16h

I was mildly, morbidly intrigued by the new OFFICE spinoff, both because I loved THE OFFICE and because I have also worked at a small struggling daily newspaper. And while I recognize some of those struggles here, I don't find this pilot episode very *funny*. Like, this is my favorite joke so far

Oscar, formerly of "The Office" tells the documentary crew of "The Paper" that they do not have permission to use his voice...

Oscar continues to tell the documentary crew that they cannot use his likeness or his face...

A title card telling the audience that they can use Oscar's voice and likeness because "There's no end date on the release Oscar signed in 2005."

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 1d

John Buscema covered the Mighty Thor in 1970.

With…

183 - John Verpoorten
184 - Joe Sinnott
185 - Sam Grainger
186 - Joe Sinnott

Thor 182 cover - vs. a really large giant, and the Silent One

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Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 1d

Gold Key Star Trek, 1975

Covered by…

29: George Wilson
30: Alberto Giolitti
31: Chuck Liese
32: unknown (the GCD lists no attribution)

Star Trek 29 cover - the crew caught up in “cannibal plants”!

Star Trek 32 cover - Spock runs away from “the animal people”.

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 1d

When Riker arrived on Nimbus III, the locals and refugees all fended for themselves. Crime and criminal organizations ruled. But some saw the value of Federation ideals and instead built a community...

www.patreon.com/posts/140793...

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ladies and gentlemen, the weekend 😌 @craigweekends.bsky.social · 1d

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 1d

What deeply, deeply stupid thing to write let alone post about on here.

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 1d

I don't remember either Dylan OR Springsteen being a murderer on Columbo, so I'd slow down with rating artists on the Cool Scale

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Sean Von Gorman (of Comics) 🔜 #NYCC Table #H7 @seanvongorman.bsky.social · 1d

#NYCC ARE YOU DOWN TO CLOWN!?

TODAY @jburandt.bsky.social and I are unleashing something SERIOUSLY exciting. Swing by AA-H7 and pick up an ashcan for our latest project #Seriously

#clowns #clownscanhurtyou

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 1d

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 1d

Better than I'm doing today 😂

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 1d

I'm more excited for the soundtrack than the movie itself 😂

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 1d

If you're not interested in making TV shows in a timely manner, maybe don't end them on cliffhangers

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1d

Peacemaker season 2 may have just ended, but...don't expect season 3 anytime soon:

reactormag.com/peacemaker-s...

Peacemaker Season 3 Is Not A Priority, Says James Gunn - Reactor

You may see more of John Cena's Peacemaker in future DC projects, but Peacemaker Season 3 is not on the horizon.

reactormag.com

Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 1d

#LetterboxdFriday
#LastFourWatched

Screenshot from Letterboxd showing my last four movies watched: The Exorcist III (3 stars), End of Days (3 stars), Lonely Are The Brave (5 stars), and The Adventures of Robin Hood (5 stars)

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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