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A pulp-adventure webcomic by Emmett & Gordon Graham! Read at captaintempest.com
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · Jul 26
Do you like ADVENTURE? Do you like ACTION? Do you like TWO FISTED PULP COMICS?

Try reading CAPTAIN TEMPEST! I'll be posting every installment so far as I find the time.

Here's Chapter 1, Page 1: The Right Man for the Job
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 4m
It really doesn't seem to exist. It gets a short mention on the wiki page for the South China Tiger, then it's all Cryptozoology webpages. Its existence has never been confirmed, and its only reported sightings are 20th century, so it can't have been credibly connected to an 18th century menagerie.
South China tiger - Wikipedia
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 14m
Maybe, but a round of googling hasn't turned up anything either, just lots of vague "it maybe escaped from a menagerie." Nothing concrete anywhere.

Add to that the fact that a "Chinese blue tiger" is a cryptid and doesn't exist, I think it's more likely what you saw was scrubbed as mininformation.
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 32m
Yeah, that pretty much rings true. But I'm genuinely curious about what this menagerie was and on whose estate it was housed. Wikipedia mentions the menagerie theory, but doesn't list a source. None of the linked sources say anything concrete either. Do you remember where you heard about it?
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 59m
Is there a specific menagerie you're referring to? Who was this friend of the King who lived near Gévaudan?
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 1h
The accounts of the Beast's boldness might as easily make it a dog or a wolf-dog hybrid as a captive hyena -- more easily, since this kind of aggression is even less common in hyenas.

But, I'm working from wikipedia and what I can remember off the top of my head. Can you recommend any books?
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 1h
It's a bizarre and captivating occurrence, for sure! A very cool story.

But if it was a multitude of animals, why did the attacks stop after Chastel shot the animal that was autopsied?

If the Marin report was falsified, why would it include details from testimony that suggested other animals?
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 1h
I'm not even saying it's impossible that the Beast was an escaped tiger or something. I just want to point out for the benefit of anyone else reading about it here for the first time that it's only one of several unsubstantiated theories.
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 1h
Now, I think you're suggesting that the Marin report was a royal cover-up, but that report is also where we get most of the direct accounts of its behavior, physical description, etc.. If you discard the autopsy, don't you have to discard those accounts?
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 1h
I admit that I'm far from an expert on the subject, but the wikipedia article you linked suggests that wolf attacks WERE really common at the time. The Marin Report concluded that it was canid, which leaves wolves, dogs, and hyenas, but hyenas are even smaller than wolves.
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Kelly Bastow @moosekleenex.bsky.social · Jun 23
add yours!
a watercolor comic of 'stuff in nature I always stop to look at' mossy rocks, a little stream, a tree that fell over, dappled lighting
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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 12h
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 1h
It's a fun theory, but there's not actually any evidence to support it beyond reports that the beast looked strange. Certainly there's no evidence of a cover-up that I've ever heard of.
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 1d
...is that a Bat-leth?
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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 3d
3 days of a general strike would cripple the US economy. Union rules apply, if everyone does it together, they can't fire everyone for doing it.
Italy just managed one that was hugely successful. the US has done it before. General strike now!! #political
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 5d
I'm sure that'll be brilliant in hindsight.
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 5d
Chapter 4, Page 31: No Time To Explain

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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 9d
"The Machine that Won the War" (Isaac Asimov, 1961)
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Taylor Joan Carlson @teejcarlson.bsky.social · 9d
Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 14d
Whatever. I'm sure it's not important.
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 14d
Chapter 4, Page 30: Room Service

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Matthew Bogart @matthewbogart.bsky.social · 15d
Is Portland burning? isportlandburning.com
Is Portland Burning?
No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 16d
This land belongs to all of us. It's not a war zone—it’s home. Trump can't take that from us.
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SPIROSAURUS 🦖 ((📱)) 🎼 @dottiedino.bsky.social · 16d
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Captain Tempest Weekly @captempestcomic.bsky.social · 17d
If nobody else is going to call you out for "framers market" then I will.
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