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Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 1d

Still think Antifa isn't violent? Here's bodycam footage of Antifa founder B.J. Blazkowicz shooting a heroic member of ICE who was just trying to protect this great nation. Thank God we have Blazkowicz's girlfriend in custody.

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 6h

Gassed to see NEW comics on the way. 2025 has been excellent for new stories from smaller imprints. Long may it continue!

AIPT @aiptcomics.com · 9h

🖼️👁️ DC just revealed the official art for 10 new Vertigo series launching in 2026, from @jamesthefourth.bsky.social's Nice House by the Sea return to bold new titles by @therightram.bsky.social, @tomtaylormade.bsky.social, Mariko Tamaki & more. Full lineup + covers:

DC unveils official art for 10 new vertigo series launching in 2026

The DC Vertigo rollout begins February 4, 2026

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 6h

Yes! The Dredd Fights Angry Beasts collection I've been praying for!

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George @hannahtempler.com · 9h

Just announced at NYCC! A new Vertigo series from Grace and I about fandom, obsession... and parasocial chaos :)

the cover for Fanatic, a new series from DC vertigo by Hannah Templer and Grace Ellis. The cover depicts a woman cast half in shadow, looking back over her shoulder in a look of surprise as she is caught holding a shovel and wearing a tattered costume in a wooded area. The colors are in two tones of blue and red

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 6h

Gotta admit this fills my heart with hope and joy 😍

Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 7h

Vertigo is back, and Jim Lee has promised that DC Comics won't use any AI art or storytelling. Excellent!

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 6h

These graphs had better be in the video, whatever it turns out to be!

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 21h

You are right. I'm thinking of Splinter Cell era. POD era. Rayman era. Long since past!

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 1d

DOS version fan here (possibly unsurprisingly). I love these types of games with like 200 levels but each one only takes a few minutes. Bliss!

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 1d

Truly the hero has lived long enough to see itself become the villain

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 1d

"That's the point – the smudge, the rough line, the hesitation - that's what makes my work come alive." - Jim Lee talking about why DC will never use AI storytelling. "AI doesn't dream, feel or make art, it aggregates it."

@jimlee.bsky.social speaking very passionately at Retailer Day. #nycc

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 2d

My lads Nemesis and Shakara chilling in the back. Is Shakara really the only modern "iconic" 2000 AD character?

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Kenny Porter - Writer @kennyporter.bsky.social · 2d

Now everyone knows the British didn’t drop Dracula on the Nazis like a bomb in WWII.

What this book presupposes is…maybe they did?

ew.com/smile-a-quie...

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 2d

Reform are obsessed with doing a DOGE UK, but missed the part where public sector funding vanished 40 years ago and never returned 😅

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 4d

*gasp*

“Everyone thought we’d come in and there were going to be these huge costs we could cut away but there just aren’t,” said a third senior Reform cabinet member in Kent.

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 2d

Cancelled

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 2d

I find myself going "Things didn't seem so dire in the 60s and 70s" and wondering how I can get some of that energy into my life.

St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 2d

You didn't cancel anyone. You correctly pointed out harmful behaviour in this community. Something which we should all aspire to do. The fallout has been extremely messy, but none of that is your responsibility. You did the right thing 💜

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 3d

My job, right now 😭

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 3d

This looks wonderful!

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puff 🐇😈 @incupuff.bsky.social · Apr 27

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't have room in the initial post, but the interior art if this issue also features an homage to Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son", which has a dark and interesting interplay with the themes of The Pieta.

St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 3d

Hellblazer

Hellblazer issue 217 was part of the "Empathy is the Enemy" arc. The usually cold John Constantine finds himself "cursed with empathy". A fitting choice for Greg Lauren's Pieta cover, then.

St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 3d

That's it for my part of this thread! Feel free to add your own, there's dozens more out there. NOTE: I do not consider "Superhero carrying another dead superhero while crying" to be a Pietà homage. This is its own thing, and 90% of these covers are for Superman comics.

St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 3d

Hellblazer

Hellblazer issue 217 was part of the "Empathy is the Enemy" arc. The usually cold John Constantine finds himself "cursed with empathy". A fitting choice for Greg Lauren's Pieta cover, then.

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 3d

Five Days to Die

IDW's Five Days To Die is a classic 2010s crime comic. "My wife's dead and now I have to get revenge" vibes. Noir pulpy goodness. Of all the examples in this thread, I think this Pieta is the most surface-level Max Payne-core aesthetic. But it fits the era pretty much perfectly.

The cover to Five Days to Die issue 5. The cover features an homage to Michelangelo's Pieta, but with a gun.

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 3d

Stormwatch

The post-9/11 Stormwatch from Wildstorm was a gritty reimagining of books like Sgt Rock or G.I. Joe, taking potshots US foreign policy and conservative politics. Quite fitting that the Mary figure in Eric Nguyen's Pieta cover is toting an M4, inverting the themes of loss and empathy.

Stormwatch: Team Achilles issue 4. The cover features a female superhero cradling a dead comrade in one arm and an assault rifle in the other, mirroring the pose from Michelangelo's Pieta

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St🅰️ked Matty 💿 @stoked.bsky.social · 3d

Swamp Thing

Steve Bissette and John Totleben's cover for the second Titan trade paperback uses this great image of Swamp Thing holding the skeleton of Alec Holland. It's _not quite_ as accurate a Pieta as the other covers in this thread, but the themes of death and grief are very clear.

The cover of the second volume of Swamp Thing trade paperbacks from Titan. The illustration shows Swamp Thing holding the bones of Alec Holland in an homage to Michelangelo's Pieta.

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