John Joshua
@prestwichjosh.bsky.social
Retired British public servant, science fiction and comics fan, real ale drinker, adopted Mancunian. Regularly commissions artwork, frequently talks (and posts) nonsense.
I just backed The Atomic Thunderbolt: Complete Graphic Novel on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/tjc...
The Atomic Thunderbolt: Complete Graphic Novel
The return of the Golden Age One-Hit Wonder The Atomic Thunderbolt! 200+ pages of action, mystery, Nazi-punching and more!
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November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I just backed The Atomic Thunderbolt: Complete Graphic Novel on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/tjc...
A new "One More Issue" Project commission, based on the idea that the Golden Age heroes had one final adventure in the 1940s - Doctor Fate battles the Spectre's foe Kulak in a fantasy cover to More Fun Comics #99, as drawn by Robert Jones (homaging Marie Severin's cover to Strange Tales #158).
October 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A new "One More Issue" Project commission, based on the idea that the Golden Age heroes had one final adventure in the 1940s - Doctor Fate battles the Spectre's foe Kulak in a fantasy cover to More Fun Comics #99, as drawn by Robert Jones (homaging Marie Severin's cover to Strange Tales #158).
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October 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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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.
... 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.
September 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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.
... 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.
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.
Based on John Byrne's cover to Secret Origins Annual #1.
September 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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.
Based on John Byrne's cover to Secret Origins Annual #1.
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).
(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).
September 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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).
(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).
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?
September 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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?
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!
I've had Bambos Georgiou work both of them up into final covers for me - and I think they look great!
August 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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!
I've had Bambos Georgiou work both of them up into final covers for me - and I think they look great!
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"...
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"...
August 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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"...
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"...
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.
Machlan was an exceptional talent, and I'm absolutely delighted to own this.
August 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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.
Machlan was an exceptional talent, and I'm absolutely delighted to own this.
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"!
July 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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"!
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.
July 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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.
RIP Brian Wilson, writer of the greatest song ever written: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0lj...
God Only Knows (Remastered 1996)
YouTube video by The Beach Boys - Topic
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June 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
RIP Brian Wilson, writer of the greatest song ever written: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0lj...
A new commission: what if Comic Cavalcade starred super-heroes for one further issue (#30) before it turned into a funny-animal series - and what if Flash, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern (plus Mr Terrific) appeared in a book-length story?
Art by John Howard, from the Kirby/Wood Avengers #20 cover.
Art by John Howard, from the Kirby/Wood Avengers #20 cover.
June 8, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A new commission: what if Comic Cavalcade starred super-heroes for one further issue (#30) before it turned into a funny-animal series - and what if Flash, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern (plus Mr Terrific) appeared in a book-length story?
Art by John Howard, from the Kirby/Wood Avengers #20 cover.
Art by John Howard, from the Kirby/Wood Avengers #20 cover.
I had no idea today was International Dinosaur Day - but it gives me the perfect excuse to post this 2021 commission from my All-Star Squadron Continuation Project - the Shining Knight and Firebrand, trapped on Dinosaur Island!
Art by Val Semeiks, based on Ron Randall's cover to Arak #33.
Art by Val Semeiks, based on Ron Randall's cover to Arak #33.
May 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I had no idea today was International Dinosaur Day - but it gives me the perfect excuse to post this 2021 commission from my All-Star Squadron Continuation Project - the Shining Knight and Firebrand, trapped on Dinosaur Island!
Art by Val Semeiks, based on Ron Randall's cover to Arak #33.
Art by Val Semeiks, based on Ron Randall's cover to Arak #33.
One of my occasional commissions which homage Jerry Ordway's cover to All-Star Squadron #31, in this instance drawn by Steven Butler, and starring seventeen of the Golden and Silver Age characters who were members of the Mighty Crusaders.
Can you name 'em all?
Can you name 'em all?
May 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
One of my occasional commissions which homage Jerry Ordway's cover to All-Star Squadron #31, in this instance drawn by Steven Butler, and starring seventeen of the Golden and Silver Age characters who were members of the Mighty Crusaders.
Can you name 'em all?
Can you name 'em all?
Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name:
Pope Toasted-Bagel IV
I think there may be some ecumenical confusion here. 😉
Pope Toasted-Bagel IV
I think there may be some ecumenical confusion here. 😉
May 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Your Pope name is: Last thing you ate + number of letters in your first name:
Pope Toasted-Bagel IV
I think there may be some ecumenical confusion here. 😉
Pope Toasted-Bagel IV
I think there may be some ecumenical confusion here. 😉
I'm just wondering how long it'll take before the oaf in the White House claims that the election of the first American Pope was somehow his doing...🙄
May 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'm just wondering how long it'll take before the oaf in the White House claims that the election of the first American Pope was somehow his doing...🙄
Does the fact that the Papal conclave is emitting black smoke mean that they've got hold of a Martian war machine, and we can expect them to be using a heat ray before too long?
IYKYK 😜
IYKYK 😜
May 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Does the fact that the Papal conclave is emitting black smoke mean that they've got hold of a Martian war machine, and we can expect them to be using a heat ray before too long?
IYKYK 😜
IYKYK 😜
To be fair I'm backing the Kickstarter for this anyway, but it never hurts to have a backup... 😜
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Making Your First Comic is a no-BS, step-by-step guide for new (and struggling) creators—from idea to print to selling.
It’s crushing it on Kickstarter right now www.kickstarter.com/projects/mat...
#comics #indiecomics #NCBD
May 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
To be fair I'm backing the Kickstarter for this anyway, but it never hurts to have a backup... 😜
Remove a letter, ruin a film.
Oldfinger
Oldfinger
Remove a letter, ruin a film.
Casper the Friendly Host
Casper the Friendly Host
Remove a letter, ruin a film.
Star Trek III: The Search for Sock.
Star Trek III: The Search for Sock.
May 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Remove a letter, ruin a film.
Oldfinger
Oldfinger
I had a package delivered by Yodel at around 11:30 this morning.
Five minutes ago, they sent me an email to tell me that it's out for delivery and will arrive by 8pm... 🙄
Five minutes ago, they sent me an email to tell me that it's out for delivery and will arrive by 8pm... 🙄
May 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I had a package delivered by Yodel at around 11:30 this morning.
Five minutes ago, they sent me an email to tell me that it's out for delivery and will arrive by 8pm... 🙄
Five minutes ago, they sent me an email to tell me that it's out for delivery and will arrive by 8pm... 🙄
Highland cattle in Heaton Park - I presume they must have flown south for Spring...
May 2, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Highland cattle in Heaton Park - I presume they must have flown south for Spring...
I know it's May 1st, and therefore no longer #JSApril, but I'd totally overlooked this fantasy alternate cover for All-Star Squadron #67, featuring the Justice Society - adapted by Bambos Georgiou from a Jerry Ordway page in America vs the JSA, and coloured by Rich Seetoo.
...so here it is!
...so here it is!
May 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I know it's May 1st, and therefore no longer #JSApril, but I'd totally overlooked this fantasy alternate cover for All-Star Squadron #67, featuring the Justice Society - adapted by Bambos Georgiou from a Jerry Ordway page in America vs the JSA, and coloured by Rich Seetoo.
...so here it is!
...so here it is!