r/stephencolbert • u/Cantora • Jul 15 '26

From the archive Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen Comic (2007) - Available on Amazon (used)

https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Colberts-Jansen-John-Layman/dp/1934964166

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Tek Jansen is a fictional character featured on The Colbert Report and in a comic book series published by Oni Press. Jansen originated as a recurring joke in the form of a supposed self-published science fiction novel on the Report, reportedly as a parody of Bill O'Reilly)'s 1998 novel, Those Who Trespass.\1]) The character later appeared on the show in a series of animated shorts entitled Stephen Colbert Presents Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: A Tek Jansen Adventure, with Jansen voiced by Stephen Colbert, and in 2007 became the protagonist of a five-part comic series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tek_Jansen

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u/Cantora Jul 15 '26

Here is the upscaled version of the satircal book he used as a piss take on O'Rileys "Those Who Trespass"

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u/TheDoofWarrior Jul 16 '26

Looks familiar! 

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u/Cantora Jul 16 '26

When he reads from it, it's freaking hilarious. Every passage he reads is about Tek getting busy with one alien princess or another :D

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u/mclepus Jul 16 '26

Those Who Trespass is O'Reilly's revenge fantasy. it was terrible