Some new deskbot recruits to help me through the working week!
Fred McNamara is Sad that TFNation 2026 is Over.
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Atomic-powered analoguepunk enthusiast. 💥 Blog editor/classic comic compiler at Anderson Entertainment. 🚀 "Gerry Anderson pervert", apparently. 📖 fredmcnamara.com 💥 sequential21.net ⚡ gerryanderson.com/blog/blogs Anxious and aro 💚🤍🖤 He/him
Finally, my love for the shrunken Eagle Comics reprints of the 80s is validated.
2000 AD Comics@2000ad.bsky.social · 5h agoAnnouncing Judge Dredd: Compact Crimes, Volume One! A new range collecting Judge Dredd from the beginning in new compact editions in 2027 - and only £9.99 per volume! https://bit.ly/3S9QM8u
Barring some irreversible collision with a black sun or ensnarement by the guardian of Piri, All Sections Alpha should be arriving at Anderson Entertainment HQ early next week!
Fred McNamara is Sad that TFNation 2026 is Over.@commandermac.bsky.social · 2mo agoAll Sections Alpha: The Making of Space: 1999 is a thoroughly updated edition of Tim Heald's 1976 series guidebook. Originally covering the making of Year 2, All Sections Alpha tells the complete story of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's final live-action television drama. Coming soon!
small, single corridor shopping centre in Stevenage Old Town. Called the 'Magnet centre' after the family that owned the land. odd nik-nak and dress shops... ...and in the mid-90s briefly, hidden at the back, the town's first comic shop. we discovered it as teens. it was like finding heaven /1
ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 15h agotell me about your town’s weird mall
This was a piece from the warstories1986 zine, a homage to Jerry Paris cover to Transformers #1.
There needs to be a dating app, but not for actual dating. It's for friendship (no benefits). And it's for people over 35. Also, introverts.
I'm proactively avoiding unpacking my TFNation haul, because that would mean acknowledging that TFNation really is over for another year. 😭
First order of business of the new working week is salivating over Magic Square's Lightspeed and finished Computron figure and finalising payments for Newage's Junkion three-packs. It never ends!!
I re-uploaded my eBook HOW TO BE A COMICS CRITIC! Remember when I spent eight years editing comics criticism every day? For award-winning WWAC? And everybody loved the fascinating articles? Well now you can learn to write them too😋✍️✨ clairenapier.itch.io/how-to-be-a-...
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Barring some irreversible collision with a black sun or ensnarement by the guardian of Piri, All Sections Alpha should be arriving at Anderson Entertainment HQ early next week!
Fred McNamara is Sad that TFNation 2026 is Over.@commandermac.bsky.social · 2mo agoAll Sections Alpha: The Making of Space: 1999 is a thoroughly updated edition of Tim Heald's 1976 series guidebook. Originally covering the making of Year 2, All Sections Alpha tells the complete story of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's final live-action television drama. Coming soon!
You "finish" writing a book like 37 times before it is actually done, and each round is absolute hell
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · yesterdayWriting a book is so weird because before it’s released there are half a dozen REALLY IMPORTANT DEADLINES for drafts & edits and each completely consumes you & is impossible to explain. “I just spent 72 hours locked in a room doing my copy edit review; I forgot what the sky looks like” “…congrats?”
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RIP Katsushi Murakami (1942-2026). A legendary designer for many tokusatsu & anime series (Gavan, Bioman, Giraya Ninja, Ulysse 31, Space Adventure Cobra, Gatchaman...), and toys. x.com/Alien_anvil/...
At TFN we get to down tools as adults to chat cool plastic robots with our mates, and we're only able to do that because of the hard work the staff and volunteers of @tfnationltd.bsky.social put in behind the scenes to deliver such an amazing experience. Thank you all as ever for everything you do ❤️
Alrighty, TFNation reflections! My second ever TFNation was every bit as splendid as last year's debut. Once again, so incredible to see so much TF history crammed into that hall. Once again, barely allowed time to take in any of the panels. 😅
Alrighty, TFNation reflections! My second ever TFNation was every bit as splendid as last year's debut. Once again, so incredible to see so much TF history crammed into that hall. Once again, barely allowed time to take in any of the panels. 😅
I wish Terrahawks had a large enough following so that we could perhaps justify producing an entire artbook of these sublime behind-the-scenes images.
The sudden urge to do a Transformers fanzine all about the Mini-Cons in time for next year's TFNation, full of character bios, toy history and mini comics adventures, stylised after the Armada/Energon toy tie-in comics.
Me Resisting The Urge
ALT: Me Resisting The Urge
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Hhh'okay - I'm back, unpacked, had a cup of tea, feeling slightly refreshed! -stares round bedroom- ...where the fuck am I meant to put all these new Transformers?
Homeward bound! Stopping off to refuel before navigating the single lane traffic-cloggers of Lincolnshire.
I got several comments from passers by of "ohh, that's Tread Bolt." So I reckon this is one of the weekend's more sensible purchases.
Fred McNamara is Sad that TFNation 2026 is Over.@commandermac.bsky.social · 3d agoWell, hello, YOU. 😍
Whatever you do don’t take me to The Island from The Prisoner! I’d hate to live in a cool rent free apartment full of bold late 60s modern furniture haha noooo a bubble don’t chase me haha