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Aristide Twain
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Writer, editor, occasional cartoonist. He/him or they/them work. More information at https://aristidetwain.neocities.org/.
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These Doctor Who villain returns are getting out of hand… (Sorry. So sorry.)
April 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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(Why yes — that *was* Bob & Wanda Duncan's unearthly Toymaker from the eponymous episode of the American sci-fi classic, "Lost in Space"! Rumour holds that Jamie and the folks at @overmorrowprint.bsky.social have not said their last word on the jaunty old fellow…)
The Toymaker poking his head from behind a funhouse mirror.
January 13, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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DAY 25 - "The Toymaker's Turnabout" by Jamie H. Cowan.
This very special vignette, tying in with the still-upcoming "Son of the Toymaker", depicts an encounter between the rarely-seen Calligarex and someone very special indeed!
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The Toymaker from the 1960s 'Lost in Space' episode of the same name standing against a starry background.
January 13, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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DAY 24 - "Our Finest Gifts We Bring" - Conclusion!
As the serial comes to a close, we find our world-hopping gift-givers (@arcbeatle.bsky.social's Lady Aesc and my Sophie Everytime) relaxing at @jayceb.bsky.social's creation, the View!
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A smiling Lady Aesculapius and Sophie Everytime standing in a blurry location rendered in sunset-like colours. The two look to be about the same age.
January 13, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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DAY 23 - "In the Bleak Midwinter" by Lupan Evezan!
@drleevezan.bsky.social returns to enduring characters Lethe and Darius. As a snowstorm rages and mysterious Haine lurks, each must try to sort out who they are—and who they want to be!
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A poster-type illustration of three characters against a falling-snow background: green, octopus-faced, pilgrim-hat-wearing, three-eyed Haine who has one hand raised and glowing — humanoid dromedary Director Darius, looking rather frumpy and depressed in a bulky blue raincoat — and in the foreground, Copper-Colored Cupid Lethe-548, who seems lost and dismayed but not actively worried.
January 13, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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DAY 22 - A "Bleak Midwinter" Prelude by Lupan Evezan
Before @drleevezan.bsky.social's melancholy tale of lost years, wasted talent and eccentric mutants, let us catch up with our hero, Lethe-548 — like her old friend Herodotus-724!
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An illustration of Herodotus-724, a Clockwork Cherub sporting a red goatee, spectacles, and a purple tie — looking rather dismayed.
January 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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DAY 21 - "Deer Deer!" by Molly Warton.
@aquanafrahudy.bsky.social's second gift to the Calendar is a fully-fledged story featuring those beloved misfits, the Blue Feather, as they come wing-to-antler with the infamous Herne the Hunter!
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A picture of Herne the Hunter — a wild-bearded, green-haired man with antlers and a bare furry chest — looking rather befuddled.
January 13, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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DAY 20 - "Our Finest Gifts We Bring", Part Seven.
Our abridged, newly-illustrated version of the 2023 serial takes a detour by the worlds of @arcbeatlepress.bsky.social with this lovely WARSONG (@warstcg.bsky.social) vignette from @arcbeatle.bsky.social!
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Two Asian toddlers — a boy and a girl who look rather a lot alike — hold hands as they explore a veritable smorgasbord of colourful Christmas presents of various shapes and sizes, scattered at the base of a Christmas tree.
January 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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DAY 19 - Molly Warton (@aquanafrahudy.bsky.social) contributes a gorgeous "Family Portrait" of notorious open-source dimensional shifter #JennyEverywhere, her eldritch husband Lord Thymon, and their infant daughter Sophie.
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A cropped version of the black-and-white Family Portrait under discussion, which shows Lord Thymon, a pillar-like mass of writhing tendrils, a single eye, and a visible heart, embracing a baby girl and a South Asian woman wearing a scarf and goggles.
January 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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DAY 18 - "The True History of Christmas, Part Four"!
Tension is ratcheting up in Neezley's one-of-a-kind rendition of Christmas's founding myth — but he always finds time for a little light self-aggrandisement.
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The first panel of the comic strip linked in the post, showing a gleeful Alistair Neezley declaring "BE NOT AFRAID!" as he enters the much-vaunted Bethlehem stable.
January 13, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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DAY 17 - "Doctor Omega's Last Minute", Part Two!
@marvelousmop.bsky.social's Dr. Omega is back and looking shiftier than ever, with an aggravated Jenny Over-There in tow…
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December 18, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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DAY 16 - "The True History of Christmas, Part Three"!
Alistair Neezley's very personal spin on the origins of a certain overwhelmingly popular Earthling holiday continues. Today, he seems to have remembered a baby's involved. Progress?
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A comic panel featuring a talking ox leaning over the manger containing a bundled infant who is presumably the Baby Jesus of Christian myth. The ox looks angry, and is gesturing with a hoof, saying: "What in the — oh, this is rich! Waiter! WAITER! I am NOT eating THAT!"
December 16, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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DAY 15 - "Doctor Omega's Last Minute", Part One!
@marvelousmop.bsky.social of 925th Universe fame returns to the Calendar with the first half of a two-parter starring that amoral nuisance in all of Time & Space known only as Doctor Omega.
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An illustration of Doctor Omega's companions Denis and Fred, both in evening dress (which looks quite incongruous in the case of the very large and very hairy Fred). Denis is nervously checking his pocket-watch, and both men seem somewhat dismayed.
December 16, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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DAY 14 - "The True History of Christmas, Part Two"!
Aliens? In Bethlehem? It's more likely than you think… at least if you're still listening to Alistair Neezley's very special version of the Nativity story. (For some reason.)
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Two of the threatening-looking Detraxxi — faintly gorilla-like alien cyborgs — in the very green control room of their spaceship.
December 14, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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DAY 13 - "The True History of Christmas, Part One"!
Alistair Neezley, the Interdimensional Tavern's self-aggrandising raconteur, gives his own take on the origins of the holiday which tangentially justifies our yearly Calendar efforts!
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Alistair Neezley reclining at a Tavern table, with his feet up, his capehanging from the backrest and his hat on the table.
December 14, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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DAY 12 - "Our Finest Gifts We Bing - Part 6"!
As we close in on the end of our abridged serial rerelease, Hope, one of @drleevezan.bsky.social 's numinous Guardian of Restoration, takes a bird's eye view of the Multiverse…
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The translucent figure of Hope standing by a tree in a snowy landscape, holding a wrapped Christmas present.
December 13, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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DAY 11 - "The Baublekeeper's Tale"!
One of @drleevezan.bsky.social's "Abstract Tales" from "The Book of the Snowstorm", this standalone yarn follows a nutcracker on a mission across the strange, magical world inside Madame Tarsa's Toybox…
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December 12, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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DAY 10 - "Our Finest Gifts We Bring - Part 5"!
Wandering ghost and bit-character extraordinaire Horatio Topper, who's been haunting the series for quite a long time now with nothing to show for it, is gifted just the thing…
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A picture of a golden, antique pocket-mirror in whose tain the white outline of a ghostly woman wearing a cape and diadem — the White Lady — can be discerned. She is smiling.
December 10, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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DAY 9 - “Conspiracy Corner: A Christmas Carol”!
The Crew's tin-foil-hatted theorist, Conspiracy-1263, boldly presents his case that “A Christmas Carol” was an inside job. Marley was alive, to begin with… and just what is Humbug, anyway!?
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A picture of Conspiracy-1263, a Clockwork Cherub with a wild mop of hair, wearing a trenchcoat and green gloves. He is holding a Santa Claus hat and looking around shiftily.
December 9, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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DAY 8 - "Our Finest Gifts We Bring", Part 4!
At last, we touch upon the Cupids themselves — specifically the taskforce known as the Blue Feather, who make up for their lack of competence in… uhm… well, we'll get back to you on that.
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A drawing of the Blue Feather's leader Acquaintanceship, a Copper-Colored Cupid, victoriously holding up a burlap sack containing lumpy, squarish objects. He is grinning and wearing a Santa Claus hat.
December 8, 2024 at 8:20 PM
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DAY 7 - "Gary Greenbook"!
Peter Guy returns to the Calendar with a brand-new Fact File — concerning popular children's books' author Gary Greenbook, who strongly denies all claims that he is a thinly-disguised green-furred gorilla mutant.
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An illustration of Gary Greenbook — who *is*, evidently, a green-furred mutant gorilla hoping to divert attention from that fact by means of wearing glasses and a green wool jumper — smiling benignly in a warmly-lit bookshop as he holds up a copy of his most recent book (whose title is just barely legible as "Gordon the Gorilla and Santa's Missing Reindeer").
December 7, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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DAY 6 - "Our Finest Gifts We Bring - Part 3"!
In this installment by @drleevezan.bsky.social, Wendy, would-be-magician turned dimensional castaway, is called to the Interdimensional Black Market by her mysterious paramour — its Queen!
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An illustration of the Queen of the Black Market looking quizzicaly at one of two colourful Christmas presents which have been left in her damp-looking, cavernous underground lair. The Queen is barefoot and wearing dark silk pyjamas with red lining, instead of her usual bone-like armour. However, the skull of a tusked humanoid is casually lying around on the floor.
December 6, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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DAY 5 -
@marvelousmop.bsky.social joins the Calendar with "Merriment", a perfectly benign tale where Pythe winds up at a quaint, snowy little town where nothing at all untoward is lurking behind the façade of Christmas rom-com tropes.
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December 5, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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DAY 4 - "Our Finest Gifts We Bring", Part 2!
As our abridged sweep through the serial continues, we find this year's Calendar's first contribution from Peter Guy, featuring his hapless time-travelling creation, the Multi-Coloured Medic!
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An illustration of the Multi-Coloured Medic sitting cross-legged in the grass between some hedge rows, with a clear blue sky behind her. She is wearing her usual colourful outfit, but has taken off her iconic mask and headdress. Her face, however, is invisible behind the leatherbound journal she is hungrily perusing.
December 4, 2024 at 9:53 PM
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DAY 3 - "Season's Gorillas"!
Just a little illustration featuring Amadeo-378 and a member of the fearsome Gang of the Green Gorillas, in an action pose which I'm sure isn't reminiscent of anything whatsoever.
(I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.)
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A weathered-looking holiday card captioned 'Season's Gorillas', in which a fierce-looking Mark IV Clockwork Cherub has climbed on the back of an angry green-furred gorilla in a tundra-like landscape. The image is conspicuously reminiscent of the 'Season's Greasons' meme.
December 3, 2024 at 11:34 PM