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Rachel @ziggystarlog.bsky.social · 1h

Boasting a title that's extremely fun to say, BIG-ASS SWORD goes on sale next month from @2000ad.bsky.social and I got to ask Andreas Butzbach all about his English language graphic novel debut: comicon.com/2025/10/08/a...

Cover Art by Andreas Butzbach for BIG-ASS SWORD

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 7d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 2h

A guide to distinguishing the difference between The Torso from Newcastle (a 2000 AD character) and PAC (the wrestler from Newcastle)

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 6h

That's me in the mask, apologies

2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 8h

In Orbit THIS Wednesday.... The Mega-City One Powers EXPLODE!!

KLO-E and ST33V are joined by @wrestletalk.bsky.social's Oli Davis this week to talk about wrestling and comics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKYN...

2000 AD & Wrestling – In Orbit Every Wednesday

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 8h

In Orbit THIS Wednesday.... The Mega-City One Powers EXPLODE!!

KLO-E and ST33V are joined by @wrestletalk.bsky.social's Oli Davis this week to talk about wrestling and comics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKYN...

2000 AD & Wrestling – In Orbit Every Wednesday

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 20h

Doctor Who is just simply the greatest TV show of all time, blimey

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Probably best to send that through an official channel like [email protected], thanks!

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Just read this story and it takes a WILD swing in a very unexpected direction

2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 1d

The 2000 AD Annual 2026 is out on the 12th November! Featuring JUDGE DREDD VS JUDGE CHRISTMAS, by:

📝 Script: @robwilliams71.bsky.social
✏️ Pencils: Joe Currie
🗨️ Letters: Rob Steen

Available to pre-order now: bit.ly/4prqPNw

Judge Dredd Vs Judge Christmas, by Rob Williams, Joe Currie and Rob Steen

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t the Image Universe crossing over with Youngblood a bit like the Marvel Universe crossing over with Moon Knight

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Zack Quaintance -> NYCC @zackquaintance.bsky.social · 1d

Update…the magic numbers are now just 5 new backers and $55

Help us hit this goal and upgrade our paper stock now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

Macabre Valley #1

A grindhouse Texas horror comic.

www.kickstarter.com

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing on Shelfdust this week because life is meaningless and the universe is a void

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you I can't be trusted on these things personally

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 2d

How do we feel about these scarves @illusclaire.bsky.social?

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Have you seen the cover for volume 4?

Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

I did read the combined Savage/Defoe volume which ends both those runs, and I think I’m happy with how they’ve concluded. Will have to see what the end of Slaine and ABC Warriors is like

Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that I run a comic book website called @shelfdust.bsky.social and it’s full of weird and unique essays about comics. I’d love for more people to take a look! www.shelfdust.com

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

With Ro-Jaws on the team, armed with devastating insults about their mums, the Volgans don’t stand a chance

Ro-Jaws rolls up to the front line of the Volgan army and tells them that he banged their mothers

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Shelfdust @shelfdust.bsky.social · 3d

This week on the site @kateodo.bsky.social took on Young Justice, the ur-text for a new generation of comic book readers: shelfdust.com/2025/10/01/y...

Among a certain sect of DC fans – often female, queer, and active on online fandoms from Tumblr and the like – Young Justice is basically the DC ur-text. I say that with such authority because it was my own experience, and Young Justice was one of the first DC series I read in full as a sixteen-year-old in 2011, nearly ten years after the series ended. I discovered comics for the first time with the help of Tumblr masterposts and Wikipedia deep dives, and fell into a deep, abiding obsession with DC in particular. Despite that obsession, it was not easy learning how to “read” DC history. It was not natural, and the knowledge was not ingrained, other than perhaps the basic secret identities and Justice League characters. To the me of 2011, Doiby Dickles existed, contextless, in the vacuum of YJ. How would I know otherwise?

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

The war ends, with the Volgans fleeing in defeat.

This is the end of the Volgan story cycle for the ABC Warriors - next will be the “return to” cycle of stories. But that’s for next time!

Onto the shelf this goes!

This volume completes the image of Nemesis The Warlock seen across the spines of the ultimate collection books

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

With Ro-Jaws on the team, armed with devastating insults about their mums, the Volgans don’t stand a chance

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

With Zippo replacing Blackblood, the ABC Warriors make contact with the anonymous source who has been tipping them off and aiding their fight against the Volgans.

Turns out it’s Ro-Jaws! The heart and soul of everything 2000 AD. He joins the team

Ro-Jaws makes his glorious return, exiting a toilet

Ro-Jaws gives an interview to the press. The interviewer asks him what he’s all about, what his motto is, his creed.

Ro-Jaws thinks about it and eventually replies “BOG OFF!”

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Zippo is saved. But Blackblood, the robot with betrayal hard wired into his operating system… betrays the team. He reveals he’s been working with the Volgans and he joins their side. Not a huge shock, mate

Blackblood abandons the ABC Warriors, happily murdering some women and children on the way

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

Having established that every Warrior has a connection to Zippo in their past, we return to the present, where they’ve all teamed up again to save him from current-day destruction at the hand of the Volgan Empire

The ABC Warriors charge at their enemies and sing “let freedom reign”

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

As we return to the story, we start with a flashback to Steelhorn’s past, revealing a time when the patriot was kind controlled into committing a bunch of war crimes. He was stopped by Zippo, the new character who has a retconned-in connection to every member of the ABC Warriors

Steelhorn is surprised that humans are running in fear from him, unaware he was mindwiped and used to commit war crimes

Zippo intervenes and uses liquid napalm to take out Steelhorn

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Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 3d

WE ARE AT WAR WITH THE VOLGS!!!

A huge double page splash of robots at war

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