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writer of copy, #comics, and screenplays Get SLIGHT RETURN from Odyssey Comics: 📌 Los Angeles, CA /

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Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· 24d

watched Civil War for the second time last night and it hit harder than ever, can't stop thinking about it. two years ago, it was dinged for being broad and apolitical… i think history is going to place it as a descendant of Paths of Glory, seriously

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· 24d

sell your book in five words "power chord detonates a demon" www.amazon.com/Slight-Retur...

cover of Slight Return by Rob Pilkington and Heather Vaughan from Odyssey Comics

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· 28d

our @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social panel is officially on the con schedule! come by room 11 Saturday if you want your ass kicked (by comic insights) cc: @odysseycomics.bsky.social @zombietardis.bsky.social comiccon2026.sched.com/event/2Qc1T/...

Level-Up: Taking Your Comics to the Next Tier
• Saturday July 25, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
• Room 11
Marcus McNeal (editor-in-chief, Odyssey Comics), Rob Pilkington (writer, Slight Return), April Connors (creator, Everybody's Happy Nowadays, as Prof. Raco), Joshua Pruett (writer, Stranger Things Tales From '85; The Last Comics on Earth), and Amy Linsamouth (writer, Jackie and the Magical Guys; Byte Me) discuss strategies for creating comics that stand out, including what separates good ideas from great projects and why so many comics fall short despite solid art or writing. Topics include shaping pitches with clarity and intent, assembling and leading creative teams, navigating editorial without losing your voice, and making choices that give a project a distinct identity.

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· 29d

fuck, man

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jul 11

Krakoa era had a lot bangers

apocalypse saying "do i look like a player of games?"

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jul 9

some personal news: i'll be at @sandiegocomic-con.bsky.social, baby me, @odysseycomics.bsky.social, @zombietardis.bsky.social, April Conners Ramirez, and Amy Linsamouth are bringing our popular WonderCon panel to San Diego — join us 5pm Saturday to discuss making awesome #comics 💥🗯️

LEVEL UP: TAKING YOUR COMICS TO THE NEXT TIER
SAN DIEGO COMIC CON INTERNATIONAL
SATURDAY JULY 25 • 5:00 PM • ROOM 11
A conversation for comic creators ready to level
up. Learn how strong pitches, smart teamwork, and bold creative choices turn good ideas into unforgettable comics.

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jul 5

the only fourth i celebrate

Soundgarden, "4th Of July" (1994, Superunknown)

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jul 5

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jul 5

weighing a few real american movie options for tonite

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jul 5

when you're celebrating your freedom, this is who you're celebrating at

Quinn, our chihuahua mix, in her thunder shirt hiding beside our toilet

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jul 4

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jul 4

loved this little hat-tip to Jurassic Park in Lemire and Smallwood's Moon Knight (during archaeological dig scene)

two archeologists in blue and pink denim (Moon Knight, Marvel Comics)

Ellie and Grant in pink and blue denim in Jurassic Park (1994)

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jul 3

mysterious red clad figure spotted arriving to the swift/kelce wedding

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 29

every paragraph is a banger, here

Perhaps ordinary politics will succeed tomorrow. But it could not undo these crimes; it could not retroactively prevent them. The failure to act sooner—to act urgently, preemptively—is a perfectly mainstream grievance in American political life so long as the perpetrators of preemptive violence are the Pentagon or the police. It is only the Left that is accused of irrational impatience. It is helpful, once again, to resolve the abstract into the particular. One must imagine a sensible and centrist columnist, bloody hands clawing desperately through the rubble of his recently bombed-out DC town house in search of his child, buried below.

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 26

Anaheim! Saturday! I'll be at FAN EXPO w/ @odysseycomics.bsky.social and more copies of SLIGHT RETURN, stop on by for spooky original #comics!

Odyssey Comics at FAN EXPO Anaheim in the Anaheim Convention Center this coming wknd, June 26–28

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 22

i refuse to be intimidated by this technology

this morning's Claude summary (from day job) that says both today and two days from now are both Monday

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 22

i just bought the Barry Lyndon 4k

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 22

fuck me, goddammit (complementary) www.criterion.com/boxsets/9000...

box design of Criterion's The Complete Kubrick

booklets and discs for Criterion's The Complete Kubrick

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 17

sometimes life gives you a sign

amsterdam steakhouse sign featuring mary, mother of jesus

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 16

who asked this building what it wants for dinner

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 15

Execution by guillotine of Louis XVI of France, Paris, 1793

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 8

bunch of upcoming thunderbolts #mtg cards just got glimpsed on instagram tonite and have totally derailed my evening

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 8

anyway, quinn would like to offer you some sunday vibes

Quinn, our black + white chihuahua mix, lounging in the sun, blue sky and palm trees in the distance

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 4

SoCal #comics ppl! 📣 I'll be at the Corona Barnes & Noble this Saturday w/ @odysseycomics.bsky.social and fresh copies of Slight Return to sign! Come on down to chat with creators and peruse the Odyssey Comics catalog, high fives are sure to be involved

publisher event at Barnes & Noble in Corona, CA, June 6th at noon

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 2

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 2

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 2

immediately served this on IG, what is this bullshit, martin www.instagram.com/reel/DZFb3OZ...

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· Jun 1

"come in with the milk" from the aviator (2004)

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· May 29

favorite non-marvel/DC comic book movies

Rob Pilkington 🔜 SDCC@robpilk· May 28

our book's now available on amazon — and @odysseycomics.bsky.social just informed me today that our newest printing is in and gorgeous www.amazon.com/Slight-Retur...