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An excellent piece of the 90s SHADE THE CHANGING reboot and its continuing relevance. @jamesgunn.bsky.social , is this one a candidate for an adaption? Maybe with Yorgos Lanthimos or Coralie Fargeat?
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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stevebaxi.bsky.social
Halloween might be over, but the spooky nature of confession and Ghost Rider comics is eternal 💀🔥
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I heard a familiar melody on the air while reading Batman #1 before a flight. I wrote about it, and hope you'll follow me on a short journey about Bat-aesthetics, writers and visual styles, and why Batman is in its Jorge Jimenez era.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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citations to charles portis and the miami vice pilot, this piece absolutely has it ALL. what a read.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Batman #1: Styles Upon Styles Upon Styles Is What They Have, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2025/11/05/b...
Batman #1: Styles Upon Styles Upon Styles Is What They Have
By David Brothers Batman is one of the most popular characters in the world, and still a complicated sell for me. A side effect of reading a lot of really good Batman comics is that each new one ha…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Shelfdust absolutely worth your money, as ever - a great long read from David Brothers about the Bat!
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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HOLY DAVID BROTHERS, BATMAN!

New article coming to Shelfdust this Wednesday!
it's BATMAN
November 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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stevebaxi.bsky.social
Its mischief night 😈

So #ICYMI I wrote a spooky thing about a spooky guy
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Plastic Fantastic: Female Wrestlers Take The City in Police Comics #4: www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...
Female wrestlers form a crime syndicate and beat up some gangsters
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Happy Halloween!

Shelfdust covered every issue of The Long Halloween IN REAL TIME, one holiday at a time: shelfdust.com/category/bat...
Cover for The long Halloween 1
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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stevebaxi.bsky.social
I wrote a spooky piece about man and monsters, for a character who is a spooky man and monster! 💀🔥
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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ironageofcomics.bsky.social
This is a very cool piece about the Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider and how the late period of the comic dealt with the truly terrifying question underlying most stories about demonic possession or “good”/“evil” split personalities: What of the duality is an illusion?
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Cursed Confession: Johnny Blaze’s Guilt Rides Wild in Ghost Rider #68, by @stevebaxi.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/10/29/c...
Cursed Confession: Johnny Blaze’s Guilt Rides Wild in Ghost Rider #68
By Steve Baxi There’s a fine line between man and monster. Over the course of a life, or even just a few years, choices can compound, options taken in the moment become habits, and one day you look…
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October 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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This week on Shelfdust
a man with a burning skull on his head is wearing a leather jacket
Alt: Ghost Rider cracks his knuckles
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October 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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alkennedy.bsky.social
I completely agree with this, in that the pods and sites in Tyler's thread and its replies are excellent, and goodness knows we do our best at HtA, but I totally want to shout out @shelfdust.bsky.social in particular for its analysis of single issues from years past
mrtylercrook.bsky.social Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · 19d
Ya know what? I think comics criticism is getting better. There were some real dark years when it felt like comics gate goobers were choking out any legitimate discussions about comics and the more mainstream websites were being bought and shut down. But I think it's turning around...
October 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Spectacular Spider-Man Does Iran-Contra, by Hank Kennedy: shelfdust.com/2025/10/22/s...
Spectacular Spider-Man Does Iran-Contra
By Hank Kennedy Throughout the Cold War, the United States intervened covertly in numerous Latin American countries to prevent left-wing movements from attaining and maintaining power. As part of t…
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October 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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kathrynthehuman.bsky.social
I wrote an essay for @shelfdust.bsky.social about the gentle anti-capitalist use of cultural nostalgia in the French graphic novel Onibi, an autobiographical account of a summer in rural northern Japan. Degrowth might feel uncanny, but it's also warm and beautiful. 🍂 shelfdust.com/2025/10/15/a...
Three panels from page 62 of the graphic novel Onibi. The artists sit outside a café and enjoy hand-cooked desserts while basking in the late afternoon sunlight streaming through the trees of a mountain forest. A few locals sit with them and joke about how the place is filled with yokai after dark.
October 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Analog Nostalgia and Gentle Degrowth in Onibi: Diary Of A Yokai Ghost Hunter, by @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/10/15/a...
Analog Nostalgia and Gentle Degrowth in Onibi: Diary Of A Yokai Ghost Hunter
By Kathryn Hemmann Onibi: Diary of a Yokai Ghost Hunter, originally published in French in 2016 as Onibi: Carnets du Japon Invisible, is the account of a trip to Niigata prefecture in Japan, writte…
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October 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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now THIS is a headline
October 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I Still Think Beast Should Be Sent To Prison shelfdust.com/2025/02/12/i...
I Still Think Beast Should Be Sent To Prison
By Steve Morris Years ago I may have broken one of the classic X-Men. Over at ComicsAlliance, I wrote an article which pointed at several then-recent instances of war crimes committed by Hank McCoy…
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October 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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This week on the site, @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social goes ghost hunting....
October 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #12: How Jimmy Olsen Saved The Planet shelfdust.com/2022/04/08/d...
Dust To Dust: How Jimmy Olsen Saved The Planet
By Steve Morris The Dust To Dust column runs every week on the Shelfdust Patreon page! To read more, head to our page here! Spoilers below, of course: we’re talking about the last issue of th…
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October 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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stevewmorris.bsky.social
Reminder that I run a comic book website called @shelfdust.bsky.social and it’s full of weird and unique essays about comics. I’d love for more people to take a look! www.shelfdust.com
October 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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This week on the site @kateodo.bsky.social took on Young Justice, the ur-text for a new generation of comic book readers: shelfdust.com/2025/10/01/y...
The cover for Young Justice 27 Among a certain sect of DC fans – often female, queer, and active on online fandoms from Tumblr and the like – Young Justice is basically the DC ur-text. I say that with such authority because it was my own experience, and Young Justice was one of the first DC series I read in full as a sixteen-year-old in 2011, nearly ten years after the series ended. I discovered comics for the first time with the help of Tumblr masterposts and Wikipedia deep dives, and fell into a deep, abiding obsession with DC in particular. Despite that obsession, it was not easy learning how to “read” DC history. It was not natural, and the knowledge was not ingrained, other than perhaps the basic secret identities and Justice League characters. To the me of 2011, Doiby Dickles existed, contextless, in the vacuum of YJ. How would I know otherwise?
October 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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kateodo.bsky.social
wow! what a joy to write abt my favorite comic and my favorite sport SIMULTANEOUSLY for @shelfdust.bsky.social !!! ever grateful to steve for putting up w me and for being the first person I pitched post-screenrant
October 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM