Kieron Gillen
@kierongillen.bsky.social
Words for sale.
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Kieron Gillen
@kierongillen.bsky.social
· May 15
Time for a new pinned post.
I'm Kieron Gillen, and I'm primarily a comics writer. My latest collaborations are The Power Fantasy (ongoing) and We Called Them Giants. You can find more about them here....
TPF: bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6k...
Giants: bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6k...
I'm Kieron Gillen, and I'm primarily a comics writer. My latest collaborations are The Power Fantasy (ongoing) and We Called Them Giants. You can find more about them here....
TPF: bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6k...
Giants: bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6k...
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Last week at Broken Frontier... THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH review! 5 More Minutes – Existential Angst is at the Heart of Hannah Berry’s Study of the Mother-Daughter Relationship. www.brokenfrontier.com/5-more-minut...
5 More Minutes - Existential Angst is at the Heart of Hannah Berry's Study of the Mother-Daughter Relationship – Broken Frontier
Hannah Berry's first comic in eight years, '5More Minutes' is a reflection on parenthood and existential terror.
www.brokenfrontier.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Last week at Broken Frontier... THOUGHT BUBBLE MONTH review! 5 More Minutes – Existential Angst is at the Heart of Hannah Berry’s Study of the Mother-Daughter Relationship. www.brokenfrontier.com/5-more-minut...
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
This was a fun one. I played cosmic horror tinkerbell.
I've got three Party of One episodes I think really showcase what makes the mystery resolution mechanics in Carved From Brindlewood games work:
1, our Apocalypse Keys game with @kierongillen.bsky.social
www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/09/14/4...
1, our Apocalypse Keys game with @kierongillen.bsky.social
www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/09/14/4...
467 - Apocalypse Keys with Kieron Gillen - Party Of One
Kieron is the writer behind some of my favorite comics, including Young Avengers, Journey Into Mystery, and The Wicked + The Divine. His latest works include The Power Fantasy, about the six superpowe...
www.partyofonepodcast.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This was a fun one. I played cosmic horror tinkerbell.
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Reasons to call your local comic shop TODAY and preorder Free Planet #7:
✅ Ideal jumping on point following the Vol 1 collection
✅ Explores the planet Thouros and its absorption into the Alliance
✅ Guest artist Ilias Kyriazis
✅ Will NOT be collected in trades!
✅ Jed Dougherty Youngblood variants?!
✅ Ideal jumping on point following the Vol 1 collection
✅ Explores the planet Thouros and its absorption into the Alliance
✅ Guest artist Ilias Kyriazis
✅ Will NOT be collected in trades!
✅ Jed Dougherty Youngblood variants?!
November 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Reasons to call your local comic shop TODAY and preorder Free Planet #7:
✅ Ideal jumping on point following the Vol 1 collection
✅ Explores the planet Thouros and its absorption into the Alliance
✅ Guest artist Ilias Kyriazis
✅ Will NOT be collected in trades!
✅ Jed Dougherty Youngblood variants?!
✅ Ideal jumping on point following the Vol 1 collection
✅ Explores the planet Thouros and its absorption into the Alliance
✅ Guest artist Ilias Kyriazis
✅ Will NOT be collected in trades!
✅ Jed Dougherty Youngblood variants?!
Big ol’ week!
It's (deep breath) DIE: LOADED #1, DIE RPG QUICKSTART and THE POWER FANTASY #13 week! #comics @imagecomics.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Big ol’ week!
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It's a good week when a new issue of 'The Power Fantasy' by @kierongillen.bsky.social, @casparw.bsky.social and @imagecomics.com drops. Here's my advance review of one of the best comic book series on the shelves at the moment, only on @thecomicon.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/78htmbh6
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It's a good week when a new issue of 'The Power Fantasy' by @kierongillen.bsky.social, @casparw.bsky.social and @imagecomics.com drops. Here's my advance review of one of the best comic book series on the shelves at the moment, only on @thecomicon.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/78htmbh6
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Off Panel's a very good one this week, as @kierongillen.bsky.social joins to talk about Die: Loaded and The Power Fantasy, but we also discuss staying in love with comics, writing single issues as a trade person, collaboration, and a whole lot more. It's a great chat, as it always is with Kieron.
This week on Off Panel, @kierongillen.bsky.social joins the podcast to talk about his big week of releases, including the return of Die: Loaded, why they wanted to bring it back, its unique flavor, The Power Fantasy vs. expectations, surprises in the series, and a whole lot more.
Off Panel #525: Player Characters with Kieron Gillen - SKTCHD
Writer Kieron Gillen joins the podcast to talk about his current Image comics The Power Fantasy and Die: Loaded and everything that’s going into them. Gillen discusses FOC vs. release, Die’s longevity...
sktchd.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Off Panel's a very good one this week, as @kierongillen.bsky.social joins to talk about Die: Loaded and The Power Fantasy, but we also discuss staying in love with comics, writing single issues as a trade person, collaboration, and a whole lot more. It's a great chat, as it always is with Kieron.
I'm doing an AMA at League of Comic Geeks on Thursday! Come along and AMA me like you've never AMAed anyone before (to a level of AMA that is medically sound.)
leagueofcomicgeeks.com/community/th...
leagueofcomicgeeks.com/community/th...
Community AMA: Kieron Gillen on League of Comic Geeks
Discuss comics with the Writer of DIE: Loaded, The Power Fantasy, Once & Future, Immortal X-Men, Star Wars, and more!
leagueofcomicgeeks.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I'm doing an AMA at League of Comic Geeks on Thursday! Come along and AMA me like you've never AMAed anyone before (to a level of AMA that is medically sound.)
leagueofcomicgeeks.com/community/th...
leagueofcomicgeeks.com/community/th...
Myself, @casparw.bsky.social and @stephaniehans.bsky.social are at Tbubz next weekend, all close together, in the Comixology Hall. Come say hello. Buy stuff, get stuff signed, have a lovely time.
www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/comicconvent...
www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/comicconvent...
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Myself, @casparw.bsky.social and @stephaniehans.bsky.social are at Tbubz next weekend, all close together, in the Comixology Hall. Come say hello. Buy stuff, get stuff signed, have a lovely time.
www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/comicconvent...
www.thoughtbubblefestival.com/comicconvent...
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I will never stop talking about the theme from level 6 of Double Dragon II for PC Engine CD that sounds like a lost RZA track and samples Leonard Nimoy from a 1987 new age album where he reads poetry over sounds of humpback whales.
double dragon 2 pc engine level 6 OST
YouTube video by shadowAOD
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I will never stop talking about the theme from level 6 of Double Dragon II for PC Engine CD that sounds like a lost RZA track and samples Leonard Nimoy from a 1987 new age album where he reads poetry over sounds of humpback whales.
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Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility
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new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
please read and repost
medium.com/@leighalexan...
It's (deep breath) DIE: LOADED #1, DIE RPG QUICKSTART and THE POWER FANTASY #13 week! #comics @imagecomics.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
It's (deep breath) DIE: LOADED #1, DIE RPG QUICKSTART and THE POWER FANTASY #13 week! #comics @imagecomics.com
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Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go
This is good one, and I'm enjoying the anthology format here. That conversation has gravitated to the micro form (tweets/posts/tiktok) or the indeterminable endless wander (essays, videoessays) seeing folks hit an idea with in 400 words and get out is just nice.
Issue #31 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Scotland as unicorn factory, Asimov's robots, The Red Dress Project, unsmashed pumpkins, Toxic, The Filth, Pricks, Jimmy Smits, Peter Watkins and more!
Love didn’t grow very well
Robots. The West Wing/Star Wars. Toxic! The Filth. Oscar Wilde's ghost. Pricks. The Red Dress Project. Unicorns. Peter Watkins.
mindless-ones.ghost.io
November 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is good one, and I'm enjoying the anthology format here. That conversation has gravitated to the micro form (tweets/posts/tiktok) or the indeterminable endless wander (essays, videoessays) seeing folks hit an idea with in 400 words and get out is just nice.
Disturbing to hear the scientist has rejected all criticism of genetically engineering ducks to have twice as thick layers of under-feathers. They doubled down.
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Disturbing to hear the scientist has rejected all criticism of genetically engineering ducks to have twice as thick layers of under-feathers. They doubled down.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The “canonical” story how Rosalind Franklin got wronged by Watson and Crick inadvertently makes her look far less scientifically competent than she was (“She did not realize the significance of her own data!”). This article offers a much more nuanced account of what happened.
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Stunning @comixbychloe.bsky.social variant cover to @kierongillen.bsky.social @casparw.bsky.social @rianhughes.bsky.social THE POWER FANTASY #12. Is any other comic this much fun right now? Just look at this double page spread!
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Stunning @comixbychloe.bsky.social variant cover to @kierongillen.bsky.social @casparw.bsky.social @rianhughes.bsky.social THE POWER FANTASY #12. Is any other comic this much fun right now? Just look at this double page spread!
Listening to The Young Avengers playlist for the first time in forever, which is emotional. Interesting to read the subtext, mainly: extremely depressed, send help.
Spoilers: help was not sent. (see WicDiv playlist for further details, etc)
Spoilers: help was not sent. (see WicDiv playlist for further details, etc)
Young Avengers
open.spotify.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Listening to The Young Avengers playlist for the first time in forever, which is emotional. Interesting to read the subtext, mainly: extremely depressed, send help.
Spoilers: help was not sent. (see WicDiv playlist for further details, etc)
Spoilers: help was not sent. (see WicDiv playlist for further details, etc)
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Yesterday, we launched the invite-only beta for our incoming digital comic store @sweetshop.app! We're hoping you wanna BUY AND READ MORE COMICS WITH US! Claim your username and get on our waitlist — we'll be letting people in frequently as we dial things in!
Join the Sweet Shop waitlist!
Claim your username and be among the first to enter Sweet Shop.
sweetshop.app
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Yesterday, we launched the invite-only beta for our incoming digital comic store @sweetshop.app! We're hoping you wanna BUY AND READ MORE COMICS WITH US! Claim your username and get on our waitlist — we'll be letting people in frequently as we dial things in!
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NEW EPISODE! 🎧
This week, I give my Top 5 picks from the January 2026 solicitations for Marvel, DC, Image, Boom! Studios, Dark Horse, IDW, Mad Cave Studios, and Oni Press plus some honourable mentions.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & more, I hope you enjoy.
open.spotify.com/episode/5kVY...
This week, I give my Top 5 picks from the January 2026 solicitations for Marvel, DC, Image, Boom! Studios, Dark Horse, IDW, Mad Cave Studios, and Oni Press plus some honourable mentions.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & more, I hope you enjoy.
open.spotify.com/episode/5kVY...
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
NEW EPISODE! 🎧
This week, I give my Top 5 picks from the January 2026 solicitations for Marvel, DC, Image, Boom! Studios, Dark Horse, IDW, Mad Cave Studios, and Oni Press plus some honourable mentions.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & more, I hope you enjoy.
open.spotify.com/episode/5kVY...
This week, I give my Top 5 picks from the January 2026 solicitations for Marvel, DC, Image, Boom! Studios, Dark Horse, IDW, Mad Cave Studios, and Oni Press plus some honourable mentions.
Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & more, I hope you enjoy.
open.spotify.com/episode/5kVY...
I will always adore sentences which don’t express that one thing is contingent upon another. It’s unconditional love.
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I will always adore sentences which don’t express that one thing is contingent upon another. It’s unconditional love.