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John Joshua

@prestwichjosh.bsky.social

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Retired British public servant, science fiction and comics fan, real ale drinker, adopted Mancunian. Regularly commissions artwork, frequently talks (and posts) nonsense.

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John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · 6d

Archbishop of Cant - HER - bury, surely? 😉

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · 8d

Ha!

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John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · 11d

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John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · 12d

...whistles innocently. 😉

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · 12d

... and then @straczynski.bsky.social saw them online and topped them all with his own mock cover, demonstrating once and for all why he's an award-winning creator/writer and I'm ... not. 😆

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John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · 12d

These popped up in my Facebook memories from nine (!) years ago - four #Babylon5 pulp magazine covers I mocked up using Pulp-O-Mizer.

... for anyone who, like me, has always wondered what B5 would have been like if it had been written by EE "Doc" Smith or Edmond Hamilton.

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John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · 13d

Don't sell out before Thought Bubble!

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · 18d

One for the #JSA and #All-StarSquadron fans - All-Star Squadron #150 (from my Continuation Project), drawn by @craigcermak.bsky.social and newly coloured by Rich Seetoo.

Based on John Byrne's cover to Secret Origins Annual #1.

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · 24d

Aha! The secret of what @straczynski.bsky.social is doing in the UK is revealed - he's set up a scaffolding company.😂

(Just to note - this picture is taken from the company's website. A school near me is having some work done, and I saw a similar sign there, but I couldn't get a clear picture).

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Sep 8

A new commission from @hotelfred.bsky.social - what if Quality Comics published a 103rd issue of Police Comics starring Plastic Man (it became a cops-and-detectives title with that issue) - and had also managed to do a deal with DC to use Golden Age Superman villain The Prankster as Plas' foe?

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John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Sep 3

...and very nice it's going to look when it's hanging on my wall!

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Aug 24

Maybe FF has stolen it?

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John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here's Vince's unpublished layout for issue #44, and his penciled but unused cover for issue #50:

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Aug 21

Back in 2018 I was in contact with Vince Argondezzi, and he was kind enough to share some of his unpublished #InfinityInc material, including two cover designs (one penciled, one just a layout).

I've had Bambos Georgiou work both of them up into final covers for me - and I think they look great!

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Aug 18

Was this before or after they collaborated on Thing Thing? 😉

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Aug 16

TransPennine "Express" once again demonstrate how inaccurate their company name is.

Once I am appointed dictator they'll be legally required to change their name to the more accurate "TransPennine When We Can Be Arsed To Provide A Train Service"...

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Aug 14

Increase a band:

Electric Heavy Orchestra

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Aug 5

Galactus?

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Aug 2

One for the #JSA fans: I picked this up from my framer yesterday afternoon - Mike Machlan depicts the Justice Society battling Solomon Grundy, drawn (I think) in the late 1990s, and now hanging on my wall.

Machlan was an exceptional talent, and I'm absolutely delighted to own this.

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Jul 14

Belatedly, because I've only just realised what the date is - and in solidarity with our French cousins - happy Bastille Day, and "a bas les aristos"!

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Jul 13

I've just walked over to, and back from, the local farmer's market, and in my capacity as Prestwich's Arbiter Of Temperature I am officially declaring it far too hot.

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Jul 9

Dune 3: It's Cumin Home.

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Jul 3

There was time travel involved.

That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it...

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Jun 21

Now that's (a) incredibly obscure and (b) brilliant!

John Joshua @prestwichjosh.bsky.social · Jun 20

I wonder whether, given his many years on Conan, Roy Thomas (and the right artist) might have been able to turn He-Man into a passable Planet Stories-esque series along the lines of John Carter or Leigh Brackett's Stark stories.

... though I imagine he'd have wanted to change the character's name.

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