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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · Sep 2

It's Jordan Alsaqa, Comic Writer!

In addition to original works like Cooking with Monsters and Raise Hell!, I've worked on numerous IP such as Apex Legends and Borderlands. I've had credits at IDW, Comixology, and Insight Editions, and I'm open to new work!

Portfolio: www.jordanalsaqa.com

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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 8h

Played an off-meta deck in a tournament banking on being very good into one of the top meta decks, then made top cut and paired into said deck three times to take the win! My read of the room was dead-on.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

#Horrorween2025 Day 11: My movie club's latest pick lines up with my daily movies, so today's film is Get Away!

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

I'm invested and in Seattle, my local friends are going feral. It's a heck of a game!

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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely losing it

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

The more I pay attention to games in this series, the more innings they go.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, it's reputation makes it seem like an absolute stinker, and it's really not! A few weak moments of character logic, but knowing the studio meddling that took place, it's stunning it's as good as it it.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

This is honestly a pretty good movie! Again, sure, it's not as good as one of the best horror movies ever made, and it doesn't really offer much you can't get from the original, but it's still a solidly entertaining paranoid thriller. Shame about those effects, though.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, an hour in, if this movie's biggest sin ends up being "it's not as good as John Carpenter's The Thing," that's something you could say about a lot of movies.

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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

Mm, you get to those practical effects being replaced with CGI and it's immediately a bummer, though.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

Am appreciating how stacked the cast is; Mary Elizabeth Winstead as a Ripley-esque lead makes all the sense in the world.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

#Horrorween2025 Day 10: Checking out what most people deem one of the most needless prequels of all time. Let's see if I'm left out in the cold by The Thing (2011)!

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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 1d

Just realized I've given the same two names to characters in different pitches, which will hopefully be a problem if they both manage to get a pick up.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 2d

I finally figured out a story beat on a walk earlier and I was fist-pumping on the sidewalk. That's the good stuff, man.

Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social · 2d

People who think the idea of "give me ideas" is something genuinely creative people want have literally never experienced the absolute EUPHORIA of a brainstorming breakthrough, either solo or with a human collaborator. They don't understand what is happening when artists create, on a basic level.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 2d

Brennan Lee Mulligan has pulled me into my third attempt to pierce the impenetrable shell of Critical Role.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 2d

That is definitely the reason I started taking them, haha. But they've been helpful when I'm stumped on something to just disconnect and think about it undistracted.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 2d

Long walks have been fruitful for my creative process lately.

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Emily Schnall @emilyschnall.bsky.social · 11d

My schedule is open for comics!! Hire me!

I especially love telling stories in horror, fantasy, or anything with critters. Previously worked with Dark Horse, IDW, 2000 AD, and Oni Press

Available for interiors and covers ✨

Digitally inked and colored comic page showing a woman nervously leaving her apartment and heading to the subway at night

Ink and watercolor comic page featuring a barn filled with many supernatural creatures and two female humans telling them to behave before walking off

Digitally inked and colored comic page composed of 5 horizontal stacked panels. A man examining a rock face, hands playing tic tac toe, a family kitchen scene, a man at a computer terminal, and a hand reaching for a lizard scurrying across the same rock face from panel 1

“The Sixth Gun: Battle for the Sixth #2” Cover: vultures flying over an armored man with a long shadow made of flames

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Christof Bogacs @christofbogacs.bsky.social · 4d

GAHHHHHHH Requiem 3 is offically live!!!

Created by @davidhazan.bsky.social @philthepage.bsky.social and myself, Requiem is sci-fi horror for fans of Dead Space, Event Horizon and The Expanse.

Check the campaign out, and if you can, sling us some coin. It would seriously mean the world to us.

Requiem #3 - Sodom and Gommorrah

For fans of Alien, Dead Space and The Expanse. A crew with no memories try to solve a grisly murder before the killer can strike again.

www.kickstarter.com

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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 3d

The original is probably an overall better movie, but I enjoyed the goofiness of this one a lot, making it win out as my favorite in the series so far.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 3d

#Horrorween2025 Day 9: Back to this year's franchise with The Mummy's Hand!

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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking on it more, this is an idea only slightly more absurd than warrior chefs, and I somehow got a publisher to go in on a three-book deal for that, which now stands as proof I can take a silly idea and make it work.

Gassing myself up on a Wednesday night.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 3d

Last short is genuinely pretty great, but otherwise, about as hit-or-miss as VHS usually tends to be.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 3d

Broke the general outline for this story and really, when you get past the absurd premise, I think it's got everything you'd want from high-action adventure book in the vein late-90s/early-00s Toonami.

Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 3d

#Horrorween2025 Day 8: Playing a bit of catch-up from last year as I check out VHS Beyond!

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Jordan Alsaqa @jordanalsaqa.bsky.social · 3d

It's a bummer feeling like most of my lived experience getting into comics would be practically useless as advice to new creators.

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