Zac Thompson
@zacthompson.bsky.social
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writer / film programmer / forest ghoul. INTO THE UNBEING, CEMETERY KIDS Previously: Alien: Romulus, The Body Trade, Blow Away, X-Men, Ka-Zar, Come Into Me, The Dregs. www.zacthompsonwriter.com
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TODAY

INTO THE UNBEING: PART TWO is in shops everywhere from @darkhorse.com

An adventure into an Eldritch whale fall centuries in the the making. For fans of Alien, Annihilation, and Scavenger's Reign.

Words - me. Letters - Jim Campbell. Art and colours - the visionary @cleanlined.bsky.social
INTO THE UNBEING PART TWO TPB
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Finally bought the Marvel Rivals skin I co-created.
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It was a huge inspiration for the design!
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Finally bought the Marvel Rivals skin I co-created.
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thats high praise, thank you!
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I’m so damn proud of this series. I really think it occupies a unique space on the shelf. I hope now that it’s all collected more folks give it a shot.
My mean mug holding a copy of INTO THE UNBEING PART TWO.
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I read CEMETERY KIDS RUN RABID #2 last night.

I friggin' love this book. Love these characters. And I'm TERRIFIED of what #3 has in store for them.

So glad @oni-press.bsky.social brought this one back. @zacthompson.bsky.social and @danielirizarri.bsky.social are incredible.
Cover for CEMETERY KIDS RUN RABID #2. Artwork by Daniel Irizarri and Brittany Peer.
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Had thanksgiving lunch with my family and now I’m hibernating until the film festival kicks off on Weds. 22 screenings in 5 days. 6 of which are already sold out. Gonna be wild.
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Happy Thanksgiving y’all. Here I am with my turkey. 🦃
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It’s pretty terrible imo. Haha. Chevy Chase is unbearable.
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Rewatched THE FOG (1980) for the first time in years and I now think it’s a 10/10.

Incredible atmosphere and patience. Phenomenal use of a big cast, great pacing and really fantastic effects.

I can’t believe I used to think this was a lesser Carpenter.
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film festival we've been working on all year starts in 3 days
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Yeah! It kinda feels like a King novel tbh. I love that.
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You can’t be giving away those feet for free, my friend.
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It’s also prob hitting a little harder now that I’m back living on PEI. Love me some small town coastal horror.
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Rewatched THE FOG (1980) for the first time in years and I now think it’s a 10/10.

Incredible atmosphere and patience. Phenomenal use of a big cast, great pacing and really fantastic effects.

I can’t believe I used to think this was a lesser Carpenter.
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I guess you could say I’m getting into meal prepping.
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this is by far the worst reading of Alan Moore’s Watchmen I’ve ever seen and if you spend an appreciable amount of time online you will know what a crowning achievement that is
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thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
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Happy Thanksgiving y’all. Here I am with my turkey. 🦃
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stolen from instagram! Not my work
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I guess you could say I’m getting into meal prepping.
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film festival we've been working on all year starts in 3 days
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I don't know how I'm just seeing this now, but YES. Congrats!