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Paul Cornell@paulcornell.bsky.social |
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Writer of SFF in TV, books, comics, audio and games! (Doctor Who, I Walk With Monsters, Witches of Lychford.) He/him. #comics #sciencefiction #doctorwho
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Lou Anders
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BIG NEWS - FREE ADVENTURE!!
The next Thrones & Bones TTRPG adventure is HERE and it's FREE.
We're giving a 50 page, full color PDF of Troll of the Town away free to everyone who signs up for our newsletter, Lazy Wolves. For D&D and Black Flag Roleplaying.
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Paul Cornell
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A new banner, for social media and trade shows. (The designer asked not to be credited. They don’t seek more of this sort of work, it was a favour.) I like how it reminds me of how many original graphic novels I’ve written. I haven’t done badly! And there are more to come. #graphicnovels #comics
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Paul Cornell
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The best SF magazine, the best new SF, made possible every year only though your support, still going great!
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Paul Cornell
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Roger Fulton's book says the BBC 1980s run is the first full run of all the episodes, and the first time it was seen since the ITV episodes.
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Paul Cornell
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Granada showed it in 1964, and some other regions followed suit.
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Paul Cornell
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I don’t think so. The BBC Genome only lists the 1980s run.
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Jonny Morris
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"And the cause of liberal democracy in Europe, which did NOT die..."
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Benjamin Dreyer
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*in numbers not seen in decades*
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Tim Morton
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Palko Stephens
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Mark Chadbourn
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And Russia is now planning to sow “panic and terror” in the US, according to a leaked report.
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Mark Chadbourn
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It’s unsustainable. Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russian oil facilities have also been economically devastating. Russia can’t carry on like this which is why Putin is shifting focus to get puppets elected in western democracies so they can push for a peace deal that will save Russia. 2/2
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Mark Chadbourn
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The Economist has some astonishing figures on Russian losses in Ukraine. They surpass all losses by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation from 1945 to 2022 combined. Up to 728,000 soldiers eliminated, confirming Ukraine’s figures. 1/2
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Taniel
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The 2nd leading pollster projects a similar result—if anything a higher range for the Left coalition. This wld be a much stronger result than expected for the Macron bloc. If confirmed, key takeaway: Left & Macronist voters transferred onto each other much more than expected. Clear anti-RN front.
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Taniel
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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:
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Paul Cornell
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Bless you!
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Paul Cornell
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Get well soon! Isn’t that the most amazing show? And, err, I hope you enjoy my episode! (Gulp.)
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Richard Howe
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It’s funny—he was very highly valued at the time and shortly after, but then he fell heavily out of favor mostly due to style. Glad that he’s getting the appreciation he deserves nowadays.
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Paul Cornell
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Best of luck to your Mum for many seasons!
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Alex Paknadel
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THE TURKISH DETECTIVE, the new TV show based on my mum's Inspector Ikmen novels, premieres TONIGHT at 9pm on BBC 2. Please watch, please share.
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Paul Cornell
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Sorry, I only did Saturday, looking after Tom today. Hi!
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Dan Cassino
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Probably helped by Claremont putting all of his related papers into a university archive for study.
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Dan Cassino
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I was reviewing a book about the presentation of gender in the Claremont run, and was very surprised at how much academic work had been done examining it in the past decade. Just a whole field of Claremont studies I had never encountered.
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Paul Cornell
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You can tell I read my comics on a Sunday morning, can’t you?
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Paul Cornell
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And to continue that Carly Simon lyric: 'And Charles flew into outer space/where Phoenix started a sun'.
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Paul Cornell
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Also great about the Krakoa finale: connecting the end to the start, and making sure it all achieved one enormous thing, and wasn’t just another comics cyclic Ragnarok. Applause to @kierongillen.bsky.social @al-ewing.bsky.social @gerryduggan.bsky.social
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Paul Cornell
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I think in recent years the size of Chris Claremont’s achievement with the X-Men has *started* to get due recognition, but he’s still vastly undervalued. In terms of representation alone he was *decades* ahead of the pack. Claremont, everyone, Claremont.
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Paul Cornell
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One of the many great things about the finale to the Krakoan Era of X-Men: Chris Claremont got to stop hinting and openly depict a same sex couple. So pleased they got him back for that issue. #Xmen
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Kurt Busiek
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But all in all, they're just charming covers. They need stories.
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Kurt Busiek
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...and sometimes it seems like a story that really needs to be told.
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Kurt Busiek
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Sometimes they just hang out, amusing themselves...
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Kurt Busiek
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...and staging contests they let Robin win. This is not to say these stories shouldn't be told, mind you.
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Kurt Busiek
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Though you'd need to figure out why the boys spend so much time chilling out with pretty young women...
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Kurt Busiek
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There's a whole stretch of WORLD'S FINEST covers, mostly by Win Mortimer, showing Superman, Batman and Robin together, even though they're not in the same stories inside. It seems like it'd be fun to tell the unseen stories behind each cover...
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Mark Chadbourn
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One of Keir Starmer’s first tasks was to call President Zelenskyy and reaffirm the UK’s “unswerving support for Ukraine”.
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Mark Chadbourn
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One glance for scale. Big win!
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Danie Ware 📚🎲 🇪🇺 💙 ⚜️
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Pinched from threads, and really good to see ministers being appointed according to their knowledge/skill set, and to jobs they should actually be able to do
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Gail Simone
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I know nothing about PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE. I don't know the murderous aliens behind it, particularly Xarzon, who is a good friend. Anything they do, including raising the dead to destroy humanity, I wish them luck. But it has nothing to do with me. Hail Xarzon.
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Avian Face-Tool
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This made me laugh.
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Jase Newman
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"Back in the day, there were a lot of British knockoffs of American villains. Cover versions, we call them. Like Jarvis Poker, the British Joker." @paulcornell.bsky.social
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Mags L Halliday
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Larry the cat now holds the record for Prime Ministers a single Chief Mouser to the Treasury has tolerated. 6 PMs: Larry (2011-present) 5 PMs: Peter III (1947-1964) and Peter (1929-1946) 4 PMs: Wilberforce (1973-1987) 3 PMs: Humphrey (1989-1997) and Peta (1964-1976)
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Claire Cock-Starkey
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This is great from the Guardian: Analysis by the Sutton Trust suggests that Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have the highest number of ministers educated at comprehensive schools, and the lowest proportion in modern history who went to private schools.
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James Cooray Smith
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Labour has 63.5% of the seats in the House. That’s exactly the same as 1997. Slightly smaller majority, slightly smaller House.
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Paul Cornell
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Oh! I should have realised that'd be a different one with that name than the one I liked in the 1990s.
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Stephanie Merritt
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Holy God. Show this to the young people in your life next time when they say their vote doesn't count 😲
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David Quantick
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Beans and toast.
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Paul Cornell
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What I really want now is for Sunak to say, Corbyn style, ‘I’ll be staying on as leader, obvs’.
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Jonny Morris
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I don't want to see former Tory MPs on Strictly, in the Jungle, playing Traitors, hosting panel shows, or making travelogues or documentaries. I never want to see their smug, shiny faces again. I want them all to fuck permanently off.
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Paul Cornell
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I would love Starmer to say at 6pm tonight 'right, that's me off home for the weekend!'
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Paul Cornell
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Great to see George Galloway losing. Off you go back to reality TV.
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