Susana Polo
@susanapolo.bsky.social
She/her. Formerly senior entertainment writer and editor at Polygon. Founded The Mary Sue Dot Com way back in 2011. Writer/editor. For contact and more, check out: https://susanapolo.com/
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Susana Polo
@susanapolo.bsky.social
· Jul 7
Polygon Exit Interview: Susana Polo, senior entertainment writer
"If you have a favorite writer on Polygon, you should reach out and let them know how their work touched you."
pvguide.substack.com
Have you asked yourself "I wonder what's going on with Susana, and what she might like to do next?" Well, there's a lot of that talk in this lovely interview I did with @petevolk.bsky.social for his newsletter! pvguide.substack.com/p/polygon-ex...
Happy 30th anniversary www.polygon.com/star-trek/52...
January 30, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Happy 30th anniversary www.polygon.com/star-trek/52...
My first piece for @mothership.blog! www.mothership.blog/dragon-age-g...
I pitched this back when Veilguard was coming out but we ran out of time and Maddy's been hounding me for it ever since. I'm very excited to have it up and on MADDY's NEW SITE
which you should sub to
I pitched this back when Veilguard was coming out but we ran out of time and Maddy's been hounding me for it ever since. I'm very excited to have it up and on MADDY's NEW SITE
which you should sub to
Dragon Age games lack agency, and that's the whole point
All that matters is who you love, and how you do it
www.mothership.blog
January 28, 2026 at 4:47 PM
My first piece for @mothership.blog! www.mothership.blog/dragon-age-g...
I pitched this back when Veilguard was coming out but we ran out of time and Maddy's been hounding me for it ever since. I'm very excited to have it up and on MADDY's NEW SITE
which you should sub to
I pitched this back when Veilguard was coming out but we ran out of time and Maddy's been hounding me for it ever since. I'm very excited to have it up and on MADDY's NEW SITE
which you should sub to
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We created a Starter Pack so you can follow all of our contributors at once! If you see a name in here that isn't on the site yet, stay tuned... their stories will be going live in the coming days! go.bsky.app/GUEXLYQ
January 27, 2026 at 5:29 PM
We created a Starter Pack so you can follow all of our contributors at once! If you see a name in here that isn't on the site yet, stay tuned... their stories will be going live in the coming days! go.bsky.app/GUEXLYQ
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Journalist @susanapolo.bsky.social joined Off Panel to discuss post-Polygon living and comic topics we wished we could have written about/seen more discussion of, like: Reversed comic movie energies! The muted comics conversation! Worldcon! Crossover mania! Expanding genres! More!
Off Panel #536: Damned If You Doom with Susana Polo - SKTCHD
Journalist Susana Polo joins the show to talk about her interesting year and a bevy of subjects we didn’t get to highlight from the wider world of comics in 2025. Polo discusses post-Polygon living, t...
sktchd.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Journalist @susanapolo.bsky.social joined Off Panel to discuss post-Polygon living and comic topics we wished we could have written about/seen more discussion of, like: Reversed comic movie energies! The muted comics conversation! Worldcon! Crossover mania! Expanding genres! More!
New from me on PW! I chatted with @charlessoule.bsky.social about Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell, Lucky Devils, morality, good and evil, and rules lawyering. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Charles Soule Is Dancing with Devils
In his two forthcoming trade releases, Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell (Marvel, Feb.) and The Lucky Devils (Image, July), Charles Soule explores morality and ethical conundrums.
www.publishersweekly.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:46 PM
New from me on PW! I chatted with @charlessoule.bsky.social about Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell, Lucky Devils, morality, good and evil, and rules lawyering. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
It took two years (with other projects in between) but I've finished 44,703 stitches of DMC 162 — Very Light Blue that make up all the waterways on my 20-inch wide cross stitch map of the NYC subway system.
If I never touch another skein of 162 again it'll be too soon
If I never touch another skein of 162 again it'll be too soon
January 13, 2026 at 2:14 AM
It took two years (with other projects in between) but I've finished 44,703 stitches of DMC 162 — Very Light Blue that make up all the waterways on my 20-inch wide cross stitch map of the NYC subway system.
If I never touch another skein of 162 again it'll be too soon
If I never touch another skein of 162 again it'll be too soon
VERY excited to be writing a piece on Dragon Age and the emotional value of restricting player agency that's been percolating in the back of my head for a decade plus — and for the debut of a VERY COOL BLOG!!!
we'll launch mothership.blog in its final form on jan. 26, featuring stories by amazing writers like @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, @nicoleclark.bsky.social, @susanapolo.bsky.social, @supercrip1994.bsky.social, & @applecider.bsky.social. you can subscribe early for a LIFETIME 15% OFF discount!!
Board the Mothership.
You're just in time.
A couple weeks from now, on January 26, 2026, we'll be launching the full version of our new gaming website, Mothership, which aims to analyze games specifically through the...
mothership.blog
January 9, 2026 at 5:17 PM
VERY excited to be writing a piece on Dragon Age and the emotional value of restricting player agency that's been percolating in the back of my head for a decade plus — and for the debut of a VERY COOL BLOG!!!
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hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
It's time to board the Mothership.
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
Board the Mothership.
YouTube video by Mothership Media LLC
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
Catch me and my blurbs contributing to GamesRadar's best comics of the year list! www.gamesradar.com/comics/the-2...
The 25 Best Comics of 2025
From superheroes to superb art and writing, GamesRadar+ picks the best comics of the year
www.gamesradar.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Catch me and my blurbs contributing to GamesRadar's best comics of the year list! www.gamesradar.com/comics/the-2...
New from me; my buddy @rollinbishop.com offered me a home for some end of year comics takes and so I blabbed about Absolute Martian Manhunter, a comic that's knocked my socks off every issue. www.gamesradar.com/comics/dc-co...
Absolute Martian Manhunter isn't just the best superhero comic of 2025 – it pushes into the wild spaces of the form itself
Year in Review 2025 | The absolute best of DC's astonishing Absolute line
www.gamesradar.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM
New from me; my buddy @rollinbishop.com offered me a home for some end of year comics takes and so I blabbed about Absolute Martian Manhunter, a comic that's knocked my socks off every issue. www.gamesradar.com/comics/dc-co...
No worries about motion smoothing at the Polo homestead, but only because my father hasn't bought a new television since George Bush was president.
December 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
No worries about motion smoothing at the Polo homestead, but only because my father hasn't bought a new television since George Bush was president.
I applaud the true absurdist who asked themselves "Is the Grinch nude?" and answered "NO, but he wears pants that make him APPEAR nude."
[Seasonal replatforming of a classic Susana Tweet]
[Seasonal replatforming of a classic Susana Tweet]
December 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I applaud the true absurdist who asked themselves "Is the Grinch nude?" and answered "NO, but he wears pants that make him APPEAR nude."
[Seasonal replatforming of a classic Susana Tweet]
[Seasonal replatforming of a classic Susana Tweet]
New from me! I chatted with writer @adamhrose.bsky.social e on he and @magentaking.bsky.social's trippy series Huge Detective for PW: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Imagine True Detective, but one of the buddy cops is the size of a skyscraper and knows the taste of human flesh.
Imagine True Detective, but one of the buddy cops is the size of a skyscraper and knows the taste of human flesh.
Go Big: PW Talks to Adam Rose
In the LA-based comics writer and film script consultant’s newest graphic novel, Huge Detective (Titan Comics), Australia gets reimagined as a realm of giants, renamed as the sovereign nation of Brobd...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New from me! I chatted with writer @adamhrose.bsky.social e on he and @magentaking.bsky.social's trippy series Huge Detective for PW: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Imagine True Detective, but one of the buddy cops is the size of a skyscraper and knows the taste of human flesh.
Imagine True Detective, but one of the buddy cops is the size of a skyscraper and knows the taste of human flesh.
My hobby is digging into the profile settings of streaming services to inspect their collection of licensed characters and likenesses you can set your pic to and I've discovered a new mystery that will haunt me forever
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
My hobby is digging into the profile settings of streaming services to inspect their collection of licensed characters and likenesses you can set your pic to and I've discovered a new mystery that will haunt me forever
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Please buy this beautiful book for your coffee table and support one of my union colleagues. Makes an excellent holiday gift.
Available here! bookshop.org/p/books/year...
November 7, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Please buy this beautiful book for your coffee table and support one of my union colleagues. Makes an excellent holiday gift.
Its been four years since I read this Thunderbolts King in Black tie-in and I can still be brought to tears by remembering this exchange
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Its been four years since I read this Thunderbolts King in Black tie-in and I can still be brought to tears by remembering this exchange
Bless me father, for I have sinned, it took me over two months to finally read Fraction's Batman #1 and have a LOUD chuckle over this panel
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Bless me father, for I have sinned, it took me over two months to finally read Fraction's Batman #1 and have a LOUD chuckle over this panel
You only have one week left to, for a modest fee, directly support some great comics criticism in a PHYSICAL FORMAT with an exclusive article from ME on how not to draw BATMAN on a 15-foot HORSE www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 3]
A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb
www.kickstarter.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
You only have one week left to, for a modest fee, directly support some great comics criticism in a PHYSICAL FORMAT with an exclusive article from ME on how not to draw BATMAN on a 15-foot HORSE www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
It says an uncomfortable number of things about me and my current mental state that a friend mentioned their 5 year old nephew asked to be Rumi for Halloween
And I said "THE 13th CENTURY PERSIAN POET?"
And she said "The K-pop Demon Hunters character."
And I said "THE 13th CENTURY PERSIAN POET?"
And she said "The K-pop Demon Hunters character."
October 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It says an uncomfortable number of things about me and my current mental state that a friend mentioned their 5 year old nephew asked to be Rumi for Halloween
And I said "THE 13th CENTURY PERSIAN POET?"
And she said "The K-pop Demon Hunters character."
And I said "THE 13th CENTURY PERSIAN POET?"
And she said "The K-pop Demon Hunters character."
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have you ever created a video game mod to make characters "look better" (whatever that means to you)? i want to talk to you for an article i'm writing! get at me via maddymyerswrites at gmail dot com. or repost this if it's not you and you just wanna help me spread the word. thanks <3
October 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
have you ever created a video game mod to make characters "look better" (whatever that means to you)? i want to talk to you for an article i'm writing! get at me via maddymyerswrites at gmail dot com. or repost this if it's not you and you just wanna help me spread the word. thanks <3
Only 15 days to grab a like for real newspaper with my (and many other rad people's) writing in it!
Reading @susanapolo.bsky.social's piece on drawing horses today, and it's truly hilarious.
Order your copy of the Courier today to make sure you get to read it too:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
Order your copy of the Courier today to make sure you get to read it too:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tif...
The Comics Courier, A Comics Criticism Journal [Issue 3]
A newspaper-format journal dedicated to in-depth comics criticism edited by Tiffany Babb
www.kickstarter.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Only 15 days to grab a like for real newspaper with my (and many other rad people's) writing in it!
You think you're totally jaded about the big convention experience and then Lenore Zann personally notices and complements your Jubilee earrings
October 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
You think you're totally jaded about the big convention experience and then Lenore Zann personally notices and complements your Jubilee earrings
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Reshare: "Once upon a time, I was prepping for a night of adventure as leader of an infamous mercenary group in the world of Dragon Age and confronted a hard fact: I just didn't have the space to keep the Dragon Age RPG sourcebook on hand."
www.rascal.news/my-must-have...
www.rascal.news/my-must-have...
My must-have tabletop tchotchke is the miniature PHB I made myself
Why I make Personal Player's Handbooks, and you should, too.
www.rascal.news
October 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Reshare: "Once upon a time, I was prepping for a night of adventure as leader of an infamous mercenary group in the world of Dragon Age and confronted a hard fact: I just didn't have the space to keep the Dragon Age RPG sourcebook on hand."
www.rascal.news/my-must-have...
www.rascal.news/my-must-have...
I made a huge, involuntary gasp
NYCC ‘25: New Greg Rucka Batwoman announced along with details of D.C. K.O.
NYCC ‘25: Rucka returns to BATWOMAN in 2026 to launch DC NEXT LEVEL
DC Comics has announced a new Batwoman series written by Greg Rucka, debuting in 2026 as the launch title for DC Next Level.
www.comicsbeat.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I made a huge, involuntary gasp
NYCC folks: I'm not at the Javits today (but ask me about why) but I'll be wandering around aimlessly all tomorrow between the end of the Woman of Marvel panel (I'm moderating!) and 6pm.
HMU if you want to chat or get a coffee!
HMU if you want to chat or get a coffee!
October 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
NYCC folks: I'm not at the Javits today (but ask me about why) but I'll be wandering around aimlessly all tomorrow between the end of the Woman of Marvel panel (I'm moderating!) and 6pm.
HMU if you want to chat or get a coffee!
HMU if you want to chat or get a coffee!