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Joe Sparrow
@torpordust.bsky.social
writer, artist
Also has that fun thing of being like a perfect example of 90s manga drawing sensibilities, everyone's very pointy and the characters all have huge feet like FF7 field models. Plus the most powerful character is a cool clown who rides a cat monster
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It's a weird manga tonally but I'm enjoying Hoshin Engi. Sci-fi sort-of-retelling of a famous Chinese epic about gods and demons but with some fun Toriyama-esque metahumor
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I left for Harrogate pretty early this morning so here's a rushed map of where to find us at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social this weekend!!! Wheeeeee
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
i'm at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social next weekend at table B-30 in the Comixology hall, by the way! i messed up with some comics i was getting printed which won't arrive in time so i'll be bringing a bunch more new stickers (plus all the usual stuff!). see you there!
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
this Sunday (26th Oct) i'm going to be on a panel at the BFI southbank talking about gumball with a few of my lovely coworkers! there'll be some workshops apparently and even a voice actor or two. tickets available here: whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
October 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I'll be sellin' these new stickers too which I think look real nice
October 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
this weekend i'm going to be at @mcmcomiccon.bsky.social on Friday and Saturday and then in November I'm going to be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social in Harrogate over the weekend of Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th! come and let us dance the ancient dance of commerce together
October 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I was thinking more and more about the various trans motifs/themes in Tokyo Ghoul and then it hit me with this (almost reaction meme-worthy) panel
October 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
stunned that the home secretary's proposal to reform the UK immigration system involves... mandatory volunteer work in order to remain in the country? so if you're an immigrant you're just automatically part of a class of unpaid servile workers now?? what the fuck are we doing???
September 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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September 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
a comic about fishing (1/7)
September 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
more bleach posting, sorry: my favourite characters by far are Kurotsuchi and Kenpachi so I'm so happy they get a few chapters together later on. Kurotsuchi's Thousand Year Blood War Arc outfit utterly slaps, too
August 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Also always a great power-scaling trick in any magic system - spells that require some kind of ritual to cast, but that advanced practicioners can skip (possibly as a tradeoff for lower power). Aizen makes a big deal later on when hes able to cast a spell after doing the whole (lengthy) incantation
August 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
rereading Bleach (again) at the moment and remembering a lot of things I like about it. One of these is the kidō chants they do when they cast advanced spells, which (at least as far as I can tell) are just like cool-sounding abstract poems
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
that's right - it's the Taxidermied Possum that appears in the episode The Thing! all of the eyeballs on this possum are my own, photographed from different angles. You're welcome.
August 15, 2025 at 9:03 AM
he looks so CONTROLLED too! look at these crazy held poses, i love how they look almost balletic but they serve as demonstrations of strength just cos of the insane muscle it would take to do this IRL lol. great new pin on his mood board
July 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
really like the animation on SF6 sagat, the way he holds himself... he'd gotten a bit generically muscly and chunky in the last few games, he looms a bit more awkwardly like he did in his sf2 sprite this time, it's more fun to make him a bit gangly.
July 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Finally watched Rebel Without A Cause tonight and realised that kaneda's red jacket is probably a nod to the one James dean wears
July 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
youtu.be/pilme9tCBJw?... it might have been timed specifically for this but i crested the hill with the view of the plate gate at the exact time it does that cool BYEOW BYEOW BYEOW sound at around 1:05. great moment
July 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
how long after release do you think it'll take someone to make and post a picture of a giant phallus made out of sand in the new donkey kong. my money's on <6 hours
June 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM