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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 9h

Unreal!

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 9h

Saw it a few months ago for the first time myself, in the theater

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 11h

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 18h

Mail call: you're getting your Lake Yellowwood Slaughter kickstarter fulfillment any day now; I'm getting my "very good" secondhand copy of the National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe (1994), we are not the same

Title page of the National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe, featuring the title flying through space leaving colored yellow-orange-red trails

The two-page spread immediately following, with the title further along on its journey, cropping at the page edges

Two-page intro art for the chapter "Sun Gods to Gamma Rays—Beginnings" featuring an ancient Egyptian harvesting wheat by the Nile with a pyramid in the background, shading his eyes with his forearm and looking directly at the sun (smart), which is represented as the sun god Ra sailing across the daytime sky in his solar barque

Single page with speculative art of a woolly, fire-breathing animal perched on an icy rock outcropping, with a pack of wriggly red amphibious fishimanders huddled around it for warmth, while another of the same animal blasts across the background with belly jets. The text reads:

What if…

…there really were creatures on other planets? Scientists now suspect that in our Solar System only Earth cradles life. We cannot yet rule out Mars, but so far our spacecraft have not detected anything obviously alive. Some experts still hope to find life elsewhere—perhaps under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa, or even floating in the atmosphere of a gas-giant planet—but chances are slim. Yet we can still try to imagine how life might adapt to the environments of other worlds. Just for fun, let's go on an imaginary safari to real places faithfully described, and see some creatures that never were.

Titan
On dim, cold Titan, Saturn's giant moon, stovebellies might live—perhaps by the icy shores of an ethane lake. To avoid freezing, they keep fires burning inside their bodies. How? Stovebellies eat ice, which forms much of Titan's surface. Their fuel is made of oxygen from the ice and methane from the dense atmosphere. By squirting flame like a rocket, they can make long leaps in Titan's low gravity. Amphibious fishimanders like to crawl out of the lake and cuddle by a handy stovebelly for warmth—until their host blasts off, sending its guests flying.

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Chloe Brailsford @comixbychloe.bsky.social · 19h

So stoked to reveal my upcoming cover for LAZARUS: FALLEN #6 YOUNGBLOOD variant, from @imagecomics.com!!! WHAT A DREAM!! Written by @gregrucka.com, drawn by @michaellark.bsky.social, designed by @mercuryeric.bsky.social, edited by @alejandrobot.com! Pick it up from your comic shop in November!!! ☺️☺️☺️

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Joe Fielder @joefielder.bsky.social · 21h

Got my crowdfunding rewards for Lake Yellowwood Slaughter, "the official comic book 'adaptation' of a 1983 slasher movie that never existed." And it's *gorgeous.*

Nice work, @alejandrobot.com, @gavinguidry.bsky.social, @suspiriavilchez.bsky.social, and @goatsflyingpress.com!

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 1d

"Many people don't know it has been rejected by over 30 state legislatures. Many people don't know that, most people don't know that."

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Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 1d

I think what I like most about the Hector cover is that it spoils an almost 30-year-old Alan Moore comic while lovingly recreating its trade dress

Can someone please show this to Alan Moore and ask him if he thinks it's funny

Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 1d

Youngblood Team-Up covers! Everybody's doin em!

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Hector Plasm: Hunt the Bigfoot #2, Youngblood team-up variant cover. Art by Derek Hunter. Hector uses his ectoplasm to summon the ghost of Riptide, who attacks Sentinel, proclaiming, "It was Sentinel! Sentinel is the one who killed me!" The book's trade dress is designed to look like the Judgment Day miniseries in which it was revealed that Sentinel killed Riptide.

Blood & Thunder #7, Youngblood team-up variant cover. Art by EJ Su. Blood and Thunder pose with Shaft, who pulls back on his bow. They stand in front of a star-spangled field.

Capes #1, Youngblood team-up variant cover. Art by Mark Englert. Superball, Claire Voyant, Battery Bill, and Night Knight from Capes, as well as Shaft, Badrock, Diehard, and Vogue from Youngblood, dive toward the viewer from the sky in an action pose.

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 1d

Hugely excited to show off our Lazarus: Fallen #6 "Youngblood variant"!! Cover art by @comixbychloe.bsky.social, design by @mercuryeric.bsky.social. Featuring our Forever Carlyle alongside Vogue from Youngblood, it is truly "a Vogue cover" if you know what I mean
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Lazarus: Fallen #6 "Youngblood variant" cover art by Chloe Brailsford in the style of a fashion magazine cover, depicting the purple-haired Youngblood team member Vogue in a low-cut, high-slit dress in her signature color of magenta cinched at the waist with a belt and thigh-high tight-squeezing boots, with her hands on her hips and her head defiantly thrown back, and the Lazarus Forever Carlyle in skintight black leather pants with two loose studded hip-hugging belts, a black leather jacket with a giant zipper-pull worn over a skintight sheer top, a black choker collar reading CARLYLE in metallic letters, and a little black leather cap at a rakish ankle, with her sword on her back, and she's pulling on black leather gloves. Cover copy reads: TIMELESS LOOKS, LETHAL CHIC. YOUNGBLOOD STUNNER VOGUE & THE LAZARUS FOREVER CARLYLE. PHOTOGRAPHED BY CHLOE BRAILSFORD.

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GengaDraws @gengadraws.bsky.social · 1d

Got my copy of Lake Yellowwood Slaughter and it is beautiful! Love the fresh out the box smell of fresh ink and paper!! Congrats to a great book from @goatsflyingpress.com
@alejandrobot.com
@gavinguidry.bsky.social
@sebastiangirner.bsky.social

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Joey Esposito @joeyesposito.bsky.social · 1d

hell yeah got my LAKE YELLOWWOOD SLAUGHTER merch from @alejandrobot.com @gavinguidry.bsky.social & @goatsflyingpress.com! turns out i wore the perfect shirt for the occasion, too

lake yellowwood slaughter VHS hardcover book and poster

bearded idiot wearing a “horror” VHS sticker t-shirt

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 1d

Holy shit, that shirt rules!! I see the link in the replies, I'm gonna copy you

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Joe Boo-nenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween came early this year @goatsflyingpress.com @alejandrobot.com @gavinguidry.bsky.social @chrisohalloran.bsky.social

LAKE YELLOWWOOD SLAUGHTER hardcover graphic novel from Goats Flying Press

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 2d

Like the "best child actor" award in Los Premios Desi on Arrested Development

A full-grown Latino man playing a child with painted-on freckles and a red bowl-cut wig in the soap opera Amor Prohibido on Arrested Development

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 2d

There aren't even any real jokes in this sketch—I know, it's SNL, I know—but honestly this is EXACTLY what the real show was like

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 2d

I always joke that it's the story of Peter Parker if he'd kept the Venom costume and it changed him, to put it in nerdier language, and his erstwhile friend Flash Thompson and Mary Jane Watson are the other two kids

Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 2d

Fuck you, you fucking asshole

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 2d

Baffled American viewers need to know that El Chavo del Ocho was a real show in my childhood, and this is exactly what it was like

El Chavo Del Ocho (English Version) - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 3d

Love that one

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 3d

I also appreciated the validation of my own sentiment:

Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 5d

TEXAS KID, MY BROTHER
I've read the book already and it's truly astonishing—some of the finest comic book art I've EVER seen. If you only know Igor Kordey from New X-Men with Grant Morrison, you have no idea how great he is or why he's so revered…and this is the book to find out.

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 3d

I credited you in the alt text but in my haste to just post the image I should have been more clear!

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 4d

Screenshot from SKTCH (by David Harper) reading: "For the folks who only know Kordey as 'the artist they didn't like from Grant Morrison's New X-Men run,' youre missing out on a legend. Kordey's an artist's artist, and a person whose work over a lengthy career has staggered readers with his page design and impeccable linework. The guy's a beast, a monstrously effective storyteller, and one of the few comic artists my wife Amber knew without me mentioning because his work was lovingly featured on Designboom. And here's the thing: Kordey's work in America is rare these days. The Croatian artist has largely stuck to Europe, where his sensibilities have a clearer audience. That's a real shame. He's a fierce talent, and it's a real coup for the publisher that he's bringing Texas Kid, My Brother — his 'magnum opus' that sounds awfully intriguing — to Goats Flying Press."

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SKTCHD@NYCC @sktchd.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote about ten things I liked or didn't like from the week of comics, led by the end for Zdarsky Comic News, another DC/Marvel crossover, Goats Flying Press dropping bombs, Marvel going Global, the cover of the year?, the DC K.O. bracket, and more.

Comics Disassembled: Ten Things I Liked or Didn't Like from the Past Week in Comics, Led by the Death of the Supermag - SKTCHD

‘Twas the week before New York Comic Con, when all through the house, David Harper was crying, because Chip Zdarsky threw my dreams in the outhouse. *sigh* Let’s get to looking at ten things I liked o...

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 4d

Get your own

Camp Yellowwood shirt!

Lake Yellowwood Slaughter! (Signed!)

Juni Ba's The Fables of Erlking Wood!

Scales & Scoundrels, The Dead & The Damned, tons of other great comics, shirts, pins, and more!

Goats Flying Press booth 1939 at New York Comic Con, I'll be there all 4 days Oct. 9-12

Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 5d

CAMP YELLOWWOOD
"Where the livin's good"

Photo of me wearing a yellow "summer camp"-style t-shirt with art printed in red depicting an axe violently splitting a log. Above the art, faux "wood" letters spell out CAMP YELLOWWOOD, and underneath, a slogan in quotes, "Where the livin's good"—it's the official LAKE YELLOWWOOD SLAUGHTER t-shirt

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Alejandro Arbona 🇵🇷 @alejandrobot.com · 4d

He hasn't been seen in days and doesn't have anything on his schedule and we all get a little ahead of ourselves at times like this

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 4d

"Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 4d

Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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