John Lees

I see we're doing (re)intros here as more comics folk migrate to BlueSky, so here goes. I'm John Lees. I'm a writer based in Glasgow, Scotland. Credits include Sink, And Then Emily Was Gone, Hotell, The Crimson Cage, Mountainhead, The Standard, Oxymoron: The Loveliest Nightmare, TMNT and The Nasty.

What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.

I'm not naive enough to believe Republicans haven't always been this racist, but the fact they feel sufficiently liberated to be so open about it now, with the media apparently just reporting it as regular political discourse, really is a five-alarm fire.

It would be really nice if it could stop pouring with rain long enough for me to get the Halloween decorations out in the garden. I actually had a bunch of it up early, then had to take much of it down again with the storm.

A good time to remind people that you can sign up to a free membership of my Patreon (or various paid tiers if you prefer!) at patreon.com/johnlees.

it is nearly 2027, the only use for jimmy carr is to compress him down vertically into some kinda ultra wide coaster for a big glass of sody pop.

you embarrassed me in front of vanessa

More SINK is coming soon! SINK: Pineapple, from me, @alexcormack.bsky.social, @robutoid.bsky.social & ComixTribe, sees fan faves Kieran Louise return for a giallo murder mystery in a sex dungeon. We'll be launching on Kickstarter before end-of-year, follow our campaign at comixtribe.com/sink!

Incredible! Darkest Dungeon - from me, @maanhouse.bsky.social, @stevecanon.bsky.social, @andworld.bsky.social & the teams at @thevaultcomics.bsky.social & @redhookstudios.bsky.social - has blasted past $400,000 over the weekend! Join us as enter our final week! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

Editor friends, I've got a brand new creator-owned #1 that I'd like to share with you.

Digger, Whalefall, Clayface, now Wildwood… I’m getting stressed out about all these “poor box office, I guess nobody cares about movies like this” articles about films I’ve been actively hyped for, but which are all coming out in one big two-per-week cluster when I’m too busy to leave the house.

Here's Lula celebrating tonight with Erika Hilton, a transgender politician who led the drive to end the six-day work week in Brazil. Erika showed workers solidarity, they showed her solidarity back. Solidarity is how fascism loses.

Incredible! Darkest Dungeon - from me, @maanhouse.bsky.social, @stevecanon.bsky.social, @andworld.bsky.social & the teams at @thevaultcomics.bsky.social & @redhookstudios.bsky.social - has blasted past $400,000 over the weekend! Join us as enter our final week! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

I hope Netanyahu is shitting himself.

Imagine admitting this publicly, where your daughter can find and read it. These people are so unwell

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

I once saw Sparks get called “one hit wonders” for This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both of Us. SPARKS!

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Lula has won a fourth term in spite of Meta, after Brazil’s electoral court had to order platforms to stop throttling his reach while they boosted his Trump-backed opponent. Big Tech tried to rig this but the Brazilian people had the final say ✊

I hate how Instagram timeline will feed you AI slop of subjects you are interested in, so your choices are either hitting Not Interested and risking it messing with what you see on your timeline, or having to manually go onto the account to block, which could be read as interest in more AI slop.

You’d think that news of Jason Arday being officially cleared of all wrongdoing after the media hounded him to death might prompt some reflection, but instead it has merely reminded the media of someone else officially cleared of all wrongdoing who they couldn’t quite finish the job on.

Imagine feeling like your country's newsmedia could at any time turn its back and begin this level of hate campaign against you, to the point that they harass you and everyone you love to the literal ends of the earth, mining you for content until your death and even after. How would you live life?

I’ve been on X the past couple days, posting a few things about Rowling, which drew “interest” from her fans. A few quick observations:

I’ll have a new story soon on the Trump administration’s abandonment of sexual assault investigations under Title IX. Rigorous enforcement ofc would protect women. Trump has instead diverted resources away from rape investigation toward anti-trans initiatives. This, he says, is “protecting women”

Shockingly, calling on trans people to make a noble sacrifice and throw their support behind a candidate campaigning on harming them in order to help other people for whom this candidate will be better is not a rousing vote-winner.

This is the thing so many centrists do that drives me crazy. Yes, the democrats, labour, whatever will be better *for you* but looking trans people in the eye, confirming no parties care about them then getting pissed off at them for not being a free vote for your guy is a mix of stupid and cruel.

We love your project we just have something similar in development right now.

We have just over a week left for our Darkest Dungeon graphic novel on BackerKit! @thevaultcomics.bsky.social have been running an incredible campaign, and whether you're a fan of the game or just a fan of ghoulish fantasy horror, you should check it out! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/v...

I can never participate in any of the “I hate __ Halloween, what do you mean…?” memes, because I love Halloween in all its forms. 🥹

I’m almost finished with the Carrie series, and it’s quite fascinating how, on an episode-by-episode basis, I’ve been engrossed, it’s a good show and there’s so much I like about it, but also I want to write an essay-length piece on all the things I feel it’s got wrong.

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

Kevin McKenna can stop talking about "gay men and women" right now thanks. There is absolutely nothing homophobic, aggressive or otherwise, about *trans people existing*.

The High Court has ruled regulations banning new prescriptions of puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria were unlawful because they discriminated against gender-diverse young people, breaching the Bill of Rights www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...

Every so often you hear people ask what "Israel Palestine has to do with us". Beyond the ignorance of that statement, it's also this. To now say that an infant is deserving of murder is just a passive statement that won't receive much media attention or scrutiny, nobody will be held accountable

It really does feel like these AI companies are in a mad dash to get themselves embedded into as many industries and governments as possible before the inevitable crash comes, so they can then use how embedded they are in everything to get a massive bailout.

Can't wait for this thing to take my job, collapse my job's industry, hopelessly lose money on my job, then need a taxpayer bailout from me despite me having no job anymore.

If someone wants to voluntarily become an active participant in a war, then surely it’s fair game for them to be treated like one.