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Tristan Jones

@tristansbones.bsky.social

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Writer: TMNT, Ghostbusters, Batman and Mega-Man. Illustrator: Aliens, Predator, Scream, Silent Hill, Ghostbusters, Mad Max, Batman. Rep cinema programmer. Owner of Sound Mind Records. Probably cursed. Contact: t-rex(at)soundmindrecords(dot)com(dot)au

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · Nov 15

I have no idea who has said what but thank you to you and to all the sudden new followers. I will do my best to make it worth your while and will be going back to full time art stuff in the coming months. Meanwhile, here’s some of what I do…

Colours on the Alien and Predator pieces by Simon Gough!

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 4d

If nothign else, Event Horizon #4 is proof I could probably rock a Crossed story...

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 5d

Hell yeah, congrats, man!

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Christian Ward @cjward.bsky.social · 8d

Next week myself, @tristansbones.bsky.social and @pipmartin.bsky.social are taking you to HELL

Event Horizon: Dark Descent #2 out from @idwpublishing.com next Wednesday

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 8d

Quick heads up for folks: I have no idea what the schedule is so far, but I'll be at NYCC next week signing at the IDW booth and then just wandering around in general! Literally a decade since I was last at one of these things, so if anyone's got anything the want signed, bring it along and say hi!

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 10d

Were you also present to boo the Fuck My Son guy off stage yesterday??

Also, my only twitter flex is that Friedkin followed and chatted to me once about The Guardian. Absolute legend.

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 12d

this beautiful game

11 panel comic

P1: A dramatic low angle shot of a determined looking football/soccer player, running towards us at such speed that the pitch and stadium is fish-lensing around him. Rival players are in the background trying to catch him in vain. Ahead of him, the ball spins rapidly.

In text form, we can read the rolling commentary: "OH MY WORD!! Can no one stop Ronald-Ronald!?!"

P2: A distant side-on view, as RR prepares to take a shot for the rival goal

P3: A combination bird's eye view of the pitch, along with a close yup of RR's left foot as it is about to strike the ball. In the distance, the goalie stands, arms and legs akimbo.

"HE LINES UP THE SHOT!!"

P4: Suddenly, RR screeches to a halt, just as he's about to enter the box, the ball bouncing ahead of him

P5-thru-8: The goalie stands there as the ball slowwwwwly enters the frame, eventually stopping far from the goal, as he looks down at it confused

P9: RR stands in the middle of the pitch, looking downward at nothing in particular.

"OH NO! Ronald-Ronald has become all too aware of the ultimate pointlessness of kicking a spherical object into a net supported by a frame!"

P10: Things take a turn for the internal, as we see RR recede into shadow, itself casting a long shadow behind it against a white void.

"Now he's thinking about how he is merely a collection of atoms, somehow in just the right configuration to be capable of these very thoughts"

P11: An extreme closeup of RR's now super-detailed face, his thousand-year stare gazing within.

"Win or lose. This beautiful game goes ever on."

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 12d

Oh shit, thanks so much, man!

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Rob Williams @robwilliams71.bsky.social · 12d

Always had a soft spot for Event Horizon and got to read first two issues of the prequel comic Dark Descent by @cjward.bsky.social & @tristansbones.bsky.social Good, creepy, horrible stuff this.

Steve Niles @steveniles.bsky.social · Aug 27

I was lucky enough to get a chance to read the first two issues of Event Horizon: Dark Descent by Christian Ward and Tristan Jones and I highly recommend it. Tense, riveting and scary. Can’t ask for more. Check it out! @cjward.bsky.social @tristansbones.bsky.social

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 12d

Hahahahaha!

Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 12d

I know heaps who do, it’s just not for me.

Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 12d

This is what I mean — this show could’ve been more interesting incorporating the corporate ideas and synth stuff from Pro/AC. And absolutely agree on the latter points

Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 12d

All of the points both of you have made. 1000000%

Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 12d

It's the hybrids and everything around them and focusing on them... and the unfortunate choice to zero the alien in on Wendy, whose entire powerset just makes zero sense and becomes more baffling at every turn. Morrow blackmailing that one kid? GREAT. The rest? Ball and chain to my eyes.

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 12d

Really hard to argue against. The snippets with Kirsh were all I was in it for after.

Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 12d

Yep, yep, yep and yep!

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 12d

I don't hate it, I just really don't like it. There are so many great ideas that really get to the heart of what makes it all interesting, but then there's exactly what you've brought up among other issues in the same direction

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 13d

I didn't even want that to be honest -- I was hoping there'd be some more intelligent use of the alien. I love those little seeds from Prometheus and Covenant that Romulus managed to weave back into the core lore, and not that this show needs to slave to that, but THAT angle is more interesting.

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah, I feel like you're gonna want all those minutes back if you couldn't get into it and try again. There's good stuff in all of it, but not enough, and the stuff that focuses on the alien itself barely makes sense.

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 13d

I wouldn't go so far to say that Romulus was dog shit. The stuff that's genuinely honest to the originals is great, but the alien itself looks terrible every time it's on screen, and every episode is so loaded with contrivances that betray what's honest.

Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 13d

I really hate that I don't like Alien Earth at fuckin' all.

Kirsh is rad.

Morrow is rad.

The new aliens are rad.

The industrial politics are rad.

But not only is the titular alien aggressively the least interesting thing about it, it's become the worst thing every time it's on screen.

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 14d

More like Fantastic Bore...

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A ★½ review of The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

Kinda wild that they did this whole thing with way more actual charm 20 years ago. Actually, not really now that I think about it. If we hadn't had twenty years of shared universe stuff, this might've...

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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · 16d

ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ɪs ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ғʀɪᴇɴᴅ ᴡʜᴏ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ғᴀɪʟs ᴀɴʏ ᴍᴀɴ

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James Stokoe @jamesstokoe.bsky.social · 17d

Be the first kid in your neighborhood to connect them together

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 21d

14 years ago, I was approached by Ruben Fleischer to do some previs & story work on Ghostbusters 3. Harold Ramis passed; we bailed on it. I got that gig because of how I drew this ugly spud.

Now I'm back in comics, I might have pull out the stories I had approved at IDW but never got published...

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Tristan Jones @tristansbones.bsky.social · 21d

Craziest page I've ever drawn's in this thing, too!

Christian Ward @cjward.bsky.social · 21d

We’re two weeks away from @idwpublishing.com ‘s Event Horizon: Dark Descent #2 by myself , @tristansbones.bsky.social & @pipmartin.bsky.social

It’s the issue in which Paimon ( our King of Hell ) makes his appearance so I thought it’d be fun to share my intial designs of him done for the pitch

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