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.
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).
Were you aware that Gammill did a layout for a potential alternative cover for this sourcebook? I can see why they went with the one that was used, but I think the attached prelim might have been an interesting way to go...
October 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Were you aware that Gammill did a layout for a potential alternative cover for this sourcebook? I can see why they went with the one that was used, but I think the attached prelim might have been an interesting way to go...
... and then @straczynski.bsky.social saw them online and topped them all with his own mock cover, demonstrating once and for all why he's an award-winning creator/writer and I'm ... not. 😆
September 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
... and then @straczynski.bsky.social saw them online and topped them all with his own mock cover, demonstrating once and for all why he's an award-winning creator/writer and I'm ... not. 😆
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?
Here's Vince's unpublished layout for issue #44, and his penciled but unused cover for issue #50:
August 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Here's Vince's unpublished layout for issue #44, and his penciled but unused cover for issue #50:
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!
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.
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?
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!
#JSApril, day 30: and finally, my personal favourite JSA commission, art by Val Semeiks, based on an unused layout for the back cover of the "DC 2000" series which I saw after Val posted it (and other unpublished ideas) on his website, and featuring the pre-1944 members of the team, plus Hawkgirl.
April 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
#JSApril, day 30: and finally, my personal favourite JSA commission, art by Val Semeiks, based on an unused layout for the back cover of the "DC 2000" series which I saw after Val posted it (and other unpublished ideas) on his website, and featuring the pre-1944 members of the team, plus Hawkgirl.
... and on that subject, two more recreations of classic All-Star Comics covers from my collection: issue #64, drawn by Bambos Georgiou, and issue #74, by Chris Kohler (since my chances of ever owning the original art to either are non-existent).
I really must get around to commissioning some more.
I really must get around to commissioning some more.
April 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
... and on that subject, two more recreations of classic All-Star Comics covers from my collection: issue #64, drawn by Bambos Georgiou, and issue #74, by Chris Kohler (since my chances of ever owning the original art to either are non-existent).
I really must get around to commissioning some more.
I really must get around to commissioning some more.
#JSApril, day 29: a recreation (kinda) of the cover to the All-Star Squadron Preview featuring the Justice Society, drawn by Chris Kohler and coloured by Rich Seetoo.
"Kinda" because it's adapted from the re-inked version (in All-Star Squadron #50) which swapped in Starman for the Shining Knight.
"Kinda" because it's adapted from the re-inked version (in All-Star Squadron #50) which swapped in Starman for the Shining Knight.
April 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
#JSApril, day 29: a recreation (kinda) of the cover to the All-Star Squadron Preview featuring the Justice Society, drawn by Chris Kohler and coloured by Rich Seetoo.
"Kinda" because it's adapted from the re-inked version (in All-Star Squadron #50) which swapped in Starman for the Shining Knight.
"Kinda" because it's adapted from the re-inked version (in All-Star Squadron #50) which swapped in Starman for the Shining Knight.
This is the published cover, for comparison purposes:
April 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is the published cover, for comparison purposes:
#JSApril, bonus: back in 2018 I was in touch with Vince Argondezzi before he sadly died, and he was generous enough to send me scans of some unpublished material, including this rough of his proposal for the cover of Infinity Inc #44.
It wasn't used - but I think it would have made a great cover!
It wasn't used - but I think it would have made a great cover!
April 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#JSApril, bonus: back in 2018 I was in touch with Vince Argondezzi before he sadly died, and he was generous enough to send me scans of some unpublished material, including this rough of his proposal for the cover of Infinity Inc #44.
It wasn't used - but I think it would have made a great cover!
It wasn't used - but I think it would have made a great cover!
#JSApril, day 28 - @peterclintonart.bsky.social draws the members of Infinity Inc and friends re-enacting the cover of All-Star Squadron #31 (and yes, I *know* Hector Hall appears as both the Silver Scarab and his short-lived later identity as the Sandman - my commission, my choice of characters).
April 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
#JSApril, day 28 - @peterclintonart.bsky.social draws the members of Infinity Inc and friends re-enacting the cover of All-Star Squadron #31 (and yes, I *know* Hector Hall appears as both the Silver Scarab and his short-lived later identity as the Sandman - my commission, my choice of characters).
#JSApril, day 27 - Bambos Georgiou draws the Justice Society in a Golden Age Gallery reimagination of a Sal Buscema pin-up of the Avengers, originally his try-out piece for the team, before being used as the cover of an issue of Marvelmania magazine and then printed in an Avengers Treasury edition.
April 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
#JSApril, day 27 - Bambos Georgiou draws the Justice Society in a Golden Age Gallery reimagination of a Sal Buscema pin-up of the Avengers, originally his try-out piece for the team, before being used as the cover of an issue of Marvelmania magazine and then printed in an Avengers Treasury edition.
#JSApril, day 26 - two more "Untold Tales Of Infinity Inc" commissions, art by Luis Rivera, based on Avengers #176 (original art by Romita Jr & Austin) and New Warriors #10 (original art by Bagley & Mahlstedt).
These are the last in this series thus far - but I have plans for around a dozen more.
These are the last in this series thus far - but I have plans for around a dozen more.
April 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
#JSApril, day 26 - two more "Untold Tales Of Infinity Inc" commissions, art by Luis Rivera, based on Avengers #176 (original art by Romita Jr & Austin) and New Warriors #10 (original art by Bagley & Mahlstedt).
These are the last in this series thus far - but I have plans for around a dozen more.
These are the last in this series thus far - but I have plans for around a dozen more.
#JSApril, bonus - all 4 issues of the 2003-2005 Spanish comic "Circulo Justiciero", featuring analogs of the JSA: The Living Flame (GL), Tomahawk (Hawkman), Crimson Lama (Spectre), Wizard King (Dr Fate), Dynamo Dwarf (Atom), Spark (Flash), The Fog (Sandman) and Target (Hourman, sort of).
April 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM
#JSApril, bonus - all 4 issues of the 2003-2005 Spanish comic "Circulo Justiciero", featuring analogs of the JSA: The Living Flame (GL), Tomahawk (Hawkman), Crimson Lama (Spectre), Wizard King (Dr Fate), Dynamo Dwarf (Atom), Spark (Flash), The Fog (Sandman) and Target (Hourman, sort of).