#steeple john allison

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Thanks @luneemeritus!

Angel Dust, Hazbin Hotel

Jessica Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Chip Maplewood, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (2022)

Sonic Wachowski, Sonic the Hedgehog Cinematic Universe

Melody Amaranth, Super Lesbian Animal RPG

Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons

Valerie Gray, Danny Phantom

Undine Wells, Sleepless Domain

Mitzi May, Lackadaisy

Bilinda "Billie" Baker, Steeple

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10 characters, 10 fandoms

Blitz - Helluva Boss

Poseidon - Epic the Musical

Jinx - Arcane

Velvette - Hazbin Hotel

Kaz - Six of Crows

Ed - Full Metalalchemist

Rosa - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Entapta - She-ra

Soren - The Dragon Prince

Jax - The Amazing Digital Circus

Tagging: @junkseries @awesomely-alfy @feministfandomgeek

[twkirky]

Billie Baker and Maggie Warren from Badmachinery’s Steeple

[nailsofvecna]

I'd be lying if I said this wasn't at least partly inspired by John Allison's Steeple webcomic (this page, specifically), which concluded this week. If you're into webcomics and not reading his stuff, I wholeheartedly recommend all of it.

[racefortheironthrone]

So you’ve said you quite dislike the works of mark Millar, Garth Ennis, etc. and understandably so - I’m curious, though, have any of your favorite comic writers ever put out an outlier that you really dislike ?

I would go so far as to say ALL of my favorite writers have.

No one bats a 1000 in comics; with any serial medium the sheer repetition means that you're going to have a bad story sooner or later.

Just off the top of my head:

I am a huge Greg Rucka fan. Dragon Age: Magekiller is weak.

I am a huge Ed Brubaker fan. Even Ed Brubaker acknowledges that his X-Men is real bad.

I am a huge Jonathan Hickman fan. I find Transhuman to be sophomoric and mean-spirited - which makes it all the more ironic when so many of the same ideas inspired HOXPOX.

Kieron Gillen is one of my favorite writers; I found Ludocrats unfunny.

John Allison is one of my favorite writers; I don't really care for Steeple.

Vita Ayala is one of my favorite writers, but I thought Children of the Atom was badly paced and a little muddled.

Tini Howard is one of my favorite writers, but I had to nope out of Euthanauts.

Leah Williams is one of my favorite writers, but I disliked the kaiju stuff in Trial of Magneto.

And so on.

Likewise, when it comes to the classics: I don't care for a lot of late Claremont (especially his second return to the X-Men), and even Jack Kirby had issues where he was running behind schedule and just looking around the office for stuff to base new bad guys off of (the Wrecking Crew famously were inspired by a construction site across the street, but they kind of slap) and sometimes even he couldn't make it work.

[miserywizard]

jan. '23

Nine Liars - Maureen Johnson

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects - Amy Stewart

Ghost Eaters - Clay McLeod Chapman

Berserk Deluxe Vol. 4 - Kentaro Miura

The Tatami Galaxy - Tomihiko Morimi

Remina - Junji Ito

Fragments of Horror - Junji Ito

Lovesickness - Junji Ito

Hide - Kiersten White

Cocoon - Zhang Yueran

Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh

Stay True - Hua Hsu

Venus in the Blind Spot - Junji Ito

Steeple Vol. 3 - John Allison

My Annihilation - Fuminori Nakamura

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fannie Flagg

[downthetubes]

Coming Soon from Dark Horse Comics: The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt

Dark Horse Comics will launch The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt in April 2025

Dark Horse Comics will launch The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt in April 2025, a new cozy mystery from John Allison (Giant Days, Steeple) and Max Sarin (Giant Days, Wicked Things), following up to their hit murder mystery series, The Great British Bump-Off. The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt #1 (Cover A) (Max Sarin) | Writer: John Allison | Artist: Max Sarin | Cover Artist:…

[bookclub4m]

Episode 187 - Favourite Reads of 2023

This episode we’re discussing our Favourite Reads of 2023! We talk about our favourite fiction and non-fiction books we read this year! Plus: Our favourite comics, video games, documentaries, podcasts, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Favourite Fiction

For the podcast

Anna

The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao  (Episode 172 - Domestic Thrillers)

Jam

Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones (Episode 184 - Horror)

Matthew

Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, vol. 3 by Eiji Otsuka and by Housui Yamazaki (Episode 184 - Horror)

The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 edited by Lisa Unger and Steph Cha (Episode 186 - Suspense Fiction)

Meghan

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw (Episode 176 - Fantasy)

Not for the podcast

Jam

Heaven’s Design Team by Hebi-Zou, Tsuta Suzuki, & Tarako

Naked mole rats do not die of old age

Owls’ ears are at asymmetrical heights

Tarsiers have two tongues

Accidental Elephant (YouTube)

Matthew

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith 

Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (Wikipedia)

Meghan

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

Anna

Daisy and the Duke by Elizabeth Cole (The Wallflowers of Wildwood)

Favourite Non-Fiction

For the podcast

Matthew

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara (Episode 174 - Economics)

Meghan

Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith (Episode 182 - Lyric Poetry)

Anna

They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles (Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs)

Jam

Histories of the Transgender Child by Jules Gill-Peterson (Episode 170 - Gender Theory & Gender Studies)

Not for the podcast

Meghan 

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Anna

Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic – and what we can do about it by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

Jam

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption by Shannon Gibney (also discussed in Episode 181)

Matthew

Thirty-One Nil: On the Road With Football's Outsiders: A World Cup Odyssey by James Montague

Other Favourite Things of 2023

Anna

If Books Could Kill

The Meme Stock Cult (patron episode) & two parter on Nudge

Folding Ideas - This is Financial Advice (YouTube)

Two Point Hospital / Campus

Oxygen Not Included

Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art

Jam

Nimona (film)

Shuna’s Journey by Hayao Miyazaki

Matthew

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Nier: Automata (Wikipedia)

Meghan

Ten Candles

Le Plonguer - Stéphane Larue

Runner-Ups

Jam

Games 

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Wikipedia)

Baldur’s Gate 3 (Wikipedia)

Redactle

Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore (Episode 176 - Fantasy)

Boy Island by Leo Fox (comic released via 133 installments on Instagram; link is installment #1)

Changing my name (legal procedure)

Best Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (cookies)

Moon (celestial body)

Matthew

Comics

Box of Light, vol. 1 by Seiko Erisawa

Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen

The Girl from the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Deluxe Edition, vol. 1 by Nagabe

Incredible Doom, vol. 1 by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden

Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni

Steeple, vols. 1-3 by John Allison, Sarah Stern, and Jim Campbell

Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru

Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Leiber

 Books

Boss Fight: Jagged Alliance 2 by Darius Kazemi

Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams by Alfred Lubrano

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Dr. Kit Heyam

The Caped Crusader: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Games

Hitman: World of Assassination Trilogy

Yakuza 0 (Wikipedia)

Tetris Effect

Bayonetta (Wikipedia)

Video Essays

The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse - Folding Ideas

Panzer Dragoon Series Retrospective - A Complete History and Review - I Finished A Video Game

 Meghan

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker

Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

Onley's Arctic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Arctic by Toni Onley

Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst: The Creation of a Garden by VitaSackville-West and Sarah Raven

Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Benjamin Lorr

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold and Charles W. Schwartz

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism by Daphné B.

Witch King by Martha Wells

Bad Fruit by Ella King

Other Media We Mentioned

Thirsty Mermaids by Kat Leyh

Theme Hospital (Wikipedia)

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Join us again on Tuesday, January 2nd when it’s time for trains, planes, and automobiles (and bicycles) as we discuss non-fiction books about Transit and Transportation!

Then on Tuesday, February 6th just in time for Valentine's day we’ll be discussing the genre of Humourous/Funny Romance.

[autistic-speedbump]

Everything by John Allison is gold.

From his original series Scary Go Round which Giant Days spun off from, to his church-swapping series Steeple and his current comic Bad Machinery.

He was even doing a stellar Conan The Barbarian intermission with his characters, but got a C&D before he could finish. Arseholes.

Needing to make shapes and stuff out of any piece of paper you are handed so your doing something with your hands is just Normal Autistic Girl things okay we gotta do stuff like this

[lurking-latinist]

anyone else a John Allison fan (Bad Machinery, Scary Go Round, Giant Days, Steeple)? I’m not usually much of a comics reader--I’m not good at looking at pictures--but he’s the big exception.

basically I want to know what, if any, is the target audience for Lottie-posting around here

[smashpages]

John Allison, known for Bad Machinery, Giant Days and many other comics available digitally and in print, has a brand new comic out that he’s giving out to his Patreon supporters and selling via Gumroad. Steeple 2022 Summer Special is a new 22-page story he did with Max Sarin and Sammy Borras, and it’s all about summer lovin’.

Read more

[el-ffej]

"Modern 21 year-olds occupy a vastly changed social landscape to the one I emerged into. The more alien the subject of your writing, the more time you spend dodging the bullets of authenticity."

- John Allison, on writing characters younger than himself

[horrorpatch]

Comic Crypt: John Allison Returns To The Supernatural With STEEPLE VOLUME 3!

Comic Crypt: John Allison Returns To The Supernatural With STEEPLE VOLUME 3!

Dark Horse Comics and writer John Allison comes back with an all-new comic, STEEPLE VOLUME 3! the new paperback will debut in comic shops beginning on August 10, 2022. Get more details on the release down below after the break. From The Press Release MILWAUKIE, Ore., (March 18, 2022)— From John Allison, the creator of Giant Days, comes the next installment in his supernatural tale of…

[beginningspod]

It's time for Beginnings, the podcast where writer and performer Andy Beckerman talks to the comedians, writers, filmmakers and musicians he admires about their earliest creative experiences and the numerous ways in which a creative life can unfold.

On today's episode, I talk to Eisner-award winning comics creator John Allison. John started creating webcomics in 1998 with Bobbins, a series which ran on the early webcomics portal Keenspot. When Bobbins ended, he followed that up with Scary Go Round and then Bad Machinery. In 2013, John pitched a spin-off from Scary Go Round, Giant Days, to Boom! Box, a newly formed imprint of Boom! Studios for established artists outside the comics industry. In 2016, Giant Days was nominated for two Eisner Awards and three Harvey Awards, and in 2019, it won two Eisner Awards, for Best Continuing Series and Best Humor Publication. The success of Giant Days led to further work with independent presses. John went on to write the series By Night for Boom! Studios and is now writing and drawing Steeple for Dark Horse.

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Steeple #4 by John Allison and Sarah Stern. Cover by Allison and Stern.

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Deconstructing Comics #658: John Allison Talks "Giant Days" And More

Deconstructing Comics #658: John Allison Talks “Giant Days” And More

John Allison has been a significant presence on the web comics radar for more than two decades. In 2013, he made the jump to traditional publishing with the fantastic Giant Days series from BOOM! Box, and also switched to only writing, while a selection of top-notch artists (for most of the series, Max Sarin) took over the visuals. Recently he put out the five-issue Steeplefrom Dark Horse, and…

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John Allison, Sarah Stern, and Jim Campbell Take Us Into the Morally Grey World of Steeple this September

John Allison, Sarah Stern, and Jim Campbell Take Us Into the Morally Grey World of Steeple this September #comics #comicbooks

Artist and writer John Allison colorist Sarah Stern, and letterer Jim Campbell welcome you to Steeple, a land where the world isn’t as black and white as it may appear.

Tredregyn Parish – in a sleepy Cornish coastal town fabled for its cursed origins, a newly arrived vicar quickly befriends another local priest, before realizing that they serve very different masters. Beset on all sides by…