Michael Torrens

@michael-j-p-t

I write comics and complain about capitalism. Sometimes simultaneously. He/they Busy making the next one Next con: AnimeCon UK, Birmingham, 12-14 June Read my comics and check out my socials: theshadowarchives.co.uk linktr.ee/theshadowarchives

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Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· 15d

Found this in my attic

A swift with its head covered with cobwebs being held in both my hands.

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· 21d

So I was today years old when I found out that since Teams is linked to your Microsoft account, it uses whatever profile picture you use for that by default. So every interview and meeting I have done over teams for the past 5+ years has had Dark Magician as my profile picture

First artwork of Dark Magician from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game. It is a wizard in a purple and blue outfit, posing with with a staff they're holding forwards with one arm, while the other arm holds up his pointy hat. Behind him is a yellow circle covered in symbols against a blue swirly background

My name in the list of participants on Microsoft Teams, where beside my name you can see the aforementioned picture of Dark Magician

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· 28d

*Sobs uncontrolably*

Pixel Art scene from To The Moon.

A black-haired man on the left, and a red-haired woman on the right, sitting in seats inside a cockpit as they look at each other and hold hands

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Jun 23

Woman in green top holding a plushie at a table, staring longingly at an image of the book "How to blow up a pipeline" by Andrea's Malm

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Jun 23

Screenshot of temperatures this week today its 33C (91F), Wednesday and Thursday at 35C (95F) and Friday at 28C (82F).

There is in between the temperatures a message that reads: "Temperatures Tomorrow- Near record high temperatures "

Shot from The Simpsons of Homer driving with his flesh melting off, and trees on fire in the background

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Jun 13

Apologies, made this on my phone in a hotel restaurant

Image of godzilla in a city from an old game. Below is an image of a woman with a text box to the right poorly edited to read: "Go ahead and eat your knee with a fork lyssa. Make the people happy."

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Jun 11

I have arrived, set up the stall with @yomikayomi.bsky.social, and now we're all good to go for Animecon Birmingham! See you all tomorrow

Photo of exhibition hall, centered on a red sign with white text reading "Artist Alley" hanging from the ceiling. The floor is blocked by black boards, with vans in front

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Jun 7

I'll be at @animeconuk.bsky.social Birmingham in Hall 5 of the NEC this weekend, Friday 12th - Sunday 14th. You can find me at stall AA29 just past the Waterstones stall You can get tickets here: animeconnec.com/tickets/ Looking forward to seeing everyone there! ^_^

Floor plan on Animeconuk Birmingham. Each stall is marked with a code and a red square. My stall, AA29, is shown in a green circle in the Artist Alley Section

Zoomed in image of the floor plan better showing where my stall, AA29, is in the artist alley. Stall T208 to the left and slightly down of the circled AA29 stall is where Waterstones will be

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Jun 6

Happy Pride month everyone! You should read some gay comics written by this enby theshadowarchives.co.uk

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· May 16

@yomikayomi.bsky.social and I are set up and ready to go at UKCGF Somerset!

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· May 9

At Exeter pride and @yomikayomi.bsky.social drew a gay chalk dragon

Chalk dragon drawn on asphalt breathing mutilicoloured fire

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· May 1

Film you’ve watched more than 6 times with a gif Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LoTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Apr 30

Advertise your account with a simpsons image

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Apr 19

We're all set up and ready to go for Creed Comic Con Taunton!

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Apr 13

You know, maybe instead of punishing all foreign students for the crime of wanting to study here, maybe we could just actually create safe routes for refugees. Like, that really seems like the more moral and economical thing to do

The restrictions are being introduced by the Home Office to tackle the abuse of study visas amid an increase in the number of migrants who are using the route as a backdoor into Britain to claim asylum. Last year 14,800 asylum claims came from people who originally arrived in Britain on a study visa.

• Students ‘using universities as UK migration backdoor’

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Apr 8

Found another AI slop account for people to block and add to lists Kinda hope their posts are generated slop too, otherwise it's real gross of them to be proud of this rubbish

Post by Lahmu of an AI generated image. Post says: "honestly commission is such a fun thing to generate, I kept tweaking it until my coffee went cold again~"

Post underneath reads: "I generated ganyu (genshin impact) at like 2am and somehow the sleepy brain magic worked for once. Kind of proud if this one~"

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Apr 4

I have been visited by Baby Globe!

Wikipedia page for the Artemis II Spaceflight in dark mode. In the top right corner, is Wikipedia's 25th Anniversary mascot Baby Globe smiling as he spins around

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Mar 29

Had these cool guys come visit our stall

R2-D2 from Star Wars in front of our stall

R2-D2 and Chopper from Star Wars in front of our stall

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Mar 28

God forbid any disabled person ever have a few good days, or a holiday, or tries to overcome their disability in any way. This shit is just ableist propaganda.

BBC news article featuring a photo of a smiling woman in a pink outfit smiling and posing on a zip line.

Text reads: 'Housbound' benefit cheat caught ziplining in Mexico.
Catherine Wieland received more than £23,000 in benefits, saying she was too ill to go outside.

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Mar 28

Horse

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Mar 22

Got the new comic and two new prints by @yomikayomi.bsky.social printed! We'll be selling these next weekend at @megaconlive.bsky.social Birmingham!

Comic "The Fall and Rise", written by Michael Torrens, Iluustrated by Yomi Torrens. The cover shows a red-haired woman in a blue dress smiling sinisterly with flames behind her and cinders in front of her

Art print of a dragon in space being decapitated by a purple energy beam, while an astronaught in the corner looks on.

Art print of a red-haired woman with only her head, arms, and shoulders. Her torso opens to show her ribs and blood and purple ribbons pool out and wrap around her arms

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Mar 16

Me: Is uncomfortable talking about myself and my feelings. Also me: Makes comics exploring these feelings. Person: "So what are your comics about?" Me:

Informative illustration by Joshua Seong. (© Verywell, 2018), titled "Physical ondications of the Fight or Flight Response"

Person in a blue shirt against a yellow background holding their hands to their head with a nervous expression. Two thought bubbles are above them: one to the right of a blue figure running; and one to the left of a red figure with raised fists.

Around them is text with arrows pointing at the person. They read:
Pale or flushed skin
Dilated pupils
Trembling
Rapid heart beat and breathing

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Mar 12

Every merchant travelling the middle east for the past 3000 years

Hank Scorpio from The Simpsons pressing his head against his hand with a look of revelation saying "My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that?"

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Feb 28

Just logged onto netflix and wtf is this category?

A screenshot of the Netflix homepage, with the first category being "Beware, Mercury is in Retrograde", followed by thumbnails for the shows Inside Job, The Amazing Digital Circus, Black Mirror, Panthenon, Tokyo Overdrive, Future Man

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Feb 24

You mean giving people healthcare is good for their health?

Image of captain kirk from the star trek animated series holding his hand to his face in a surprised gesture, but his face doesn't match the tone

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Feb 24

It's all awful, but this bit in particular is some real bad 1950's ultra misogyny that should get him kicked out of any party that claims to have respect for women

Section of quoted article reading:

He has claimed that women in Britain are having children “much too late” and called for a “negative child benefit tax” for those without children, alongside removing income tax for women with two or more. Universities are dominated by “childless women,” he argued, which contributes to “politically correct authoritarianism.”

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Feb 19

More lettering practice. Trying out sound effects, emotive text, and onomatopoeia

Two comic panels. The first panel is of a blonde woman in a black hat with the word "ba-bump" written accross the background beside her multiple time son either side.

The second panel showing the same shot, with the woman shaking off her thoughts, and the "ba-bumps" being thrown off by it.

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Feb 15

Trying out comic lettering for the first time on my new short comic. Spent about an hour figuring out how to make speech bubbles wobbly/spiky, and I love it!

Wobbly speech bubble with nodes along the border to alter the shape of it.

Background is comic illustration of a dirt road with a child buying their face into their parent.

The speech bubble text reads: "HIS FATHER WENT TO SEE THE INTRUDER. THE LAST THING I HEARD WAS HIS SCREAMS..."

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Feb 13

Buy it for an excellent cause. But also buy it, because this combination next to each other is really funny

Two games and their thumbnails.

On the right: How are you advancing the revolution?

On the left: Trans Vampire Cowboys

Michael Torrens@michael-j-p-t· Feb 8

Oh Hiroshima are fantastic. First heard of them through their album In Silence We Yearn and I've been following them since