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

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!

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

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

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Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 5h

"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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 3d

*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 · 1d

Cancelled

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

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

My job, right now 😭

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

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

Captain Atom (again!)

Broderick revisits his own cover, nearly three years later. This time he reverses the roles of Atom and Plastique, which hints at the deepening complexity of two former enemies empathising with one another.

Captain Atom #44 features a Pieta homage cover. This time Plastique is cradled in Captain Atom's arms. As a simultaneous homage to The Pieta and to Captain Atom issue 8.

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

Captain Atom

One of my favourite Pieta covers is Pat Broderick's homage for Captain Atom issue 8. I like the cleanliness of the illustration, without loads of other guff. Broderick uses the image to focus on Plastique's character growth, as she learns empathy for her enemy.

The cover to DC's Captain Atom #8. An homage to The Pieta, the cover shows Captain Atom's body cradled in the arms of Plastique.

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

Ms Marvel

The Captain Marvel cover has its own meta homage by Sana Takeda for Ms Marvel issue 50, the closing issue of the second volume. Mar-Vell is replaced with Carol Danvers, but this feels more like a cool crib and maybe doesn't have the same emotional chops as Starlin's.

Ms Marvel #50. The cover features Carol Danvers, cradled in the lap of The Grim Reaper. In a simultaneous homage to both "The Death of Captain Marvel" and Michelangelo's Pieta.

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

The Death of Captain Marvel

The most famous Pieta is Jim Starlin's cover for The Death of Captain Marvel, showing Death cradling Mar-Vell's body. Death isn't the villain here, there's a tenderness to the art. You get the feeling Spider-Man and Pals were added at the insistence of Jim Shooter.

The cover for "The Death of Captain Marvel", from Marvel Comics. It features a dead Mar-Vell, cradled by The Grim Reaper, in homage to Michelangelo's Pieta.

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

"The Pietà" in comics covers: a thread.

Michelangelo's Pietà is a sculpture showing a seated Mary cradling her dead son Jesus in her lap.

It has received a lot of comic cover homages over the years. Some of them dig into the themes of empathy and grief. Others just rip it off because it's cool 🧵

Michelangelo's Pieta. A marble sculpture of Mary holding her dead son Jesus in her lap.

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

This is what @henryflint.bsky.social is cooking up in Judge Dredd: And To The Sea Return. RIGHT NOW. Phenomenal, exciting, psychedelic artwork. Nobody is doing it like Flint.

A page of Henry Flint's art in Judge Dredd, And To The Sea Return. The page features Judge Anderson trying to read the mind of a perp, whos mind is filled with nightmarish images of worms. The panels are all at different angles, suggesting the madness Anderson is witnessing. Sat behind the entire composition is one giant nightmarish worm creature. It's spooky stuff!

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

Henry Cavill getting a creepy blowie is an unforgettable scene tho

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