Bill Reed
@billreed.bsky.social
Bill reads and sometimes writes, and also watches a lot of movies.
Metamorpho (DC) by Al Ewing, Steve Lieber, Lee Loughridge, and Ferran Delgado is the most fun I've had reading comics this year. In these uncertain times, I am grateful for the escapism, and the laughs.
October 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Metamorpho (DC) by Al Ewing, Steve Lieber, Lee Loughridge, and Ferran Delgado is the most fun I've had reading comics this year. In these uncertain times, I am grateful for the escapism, and the laughs.
I had this as a kid. Loved it.
September 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I had this as a kid. Loved it.
Perfection. No notes.
September 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Perfection. No notes.
Delighted to have another volume of @danwhite.bsky.social 's Cindy and Biscuit with Wild, Wild Life. Lovingly cartooned adventures of a girl and her dog versus things that go bump in the night (and day). White's so deft at depicting movement, action, emotion, and the occasional cosmic horror.
August 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Delighted to have another volume of @danwhite.bsky.social 's Cindy and Biscuit with Wild, Wild Life. Lovingly cartooned adventures of a girl and her dog versus things that go bump in the night (and day). White's so deft at depicting movement, action, emotion, and the occasional cosmic horror.
Happy birthday, Jack Kirby. Time to share my favorite page from my all time favorite comics book issue.
August 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Happy birthday, Jack Kirby. Time to share my favorite page from my all time favorite comics book issue.
Now reading: Jimmy Olsen's Supercyclopedia (DC) by Gabe Soria, Sandy Jarrell, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. A distillation of everything I love about the DCU in one handheld package. Great for young readers new to comics, but filled with easter eggs for old fans.
May 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Now reading: Jimmy Olsen's Supercyclopedia (DC) by Gabe Soria, Sandy Jarrell, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. A distillation of everything I love about the DCU in one handheld package. Great for young readers new to comics, but filled with easter eggs for old fans.
Now reading: The Toxic Avenger (Ahoy) by Matt Bors, Fred Harper, Lee Loughridge, and Rob Steen. When I realized what this was really adapting, I howled. Corben/Kordey-esque grotesquerie from Harper (complimentary).
April 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Now reading: The Toxic Avenger (Ahoy) by Matt Bors, Fred Harper, Lee Loughridge, and Rob Steen. When I realized what this was really adapting, I howled. Corben/Kordey-esque grotesquerie from Harper (complimentary).
Now reading: Traveling to Mars (Ablaze) by Mark Russell, Roberto Meli, Chiara Di Francia, and Mattia Gentili. Humanely cynical satire about a dying man sent to claim Mars by a corporation. Very Vonnegut. The best thing I've read in some time.
February 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Now reading: Traveling to Mars (Ablaze) by Mark Russell, Roberto Meli, Chiara Di Francia, and Mattia Gentili. Humanely cynical satire about a dying man sent to claim Mars by a corporation. Very Vonnegut. The best thing I've read in some time.
Now reading: Joker: One Operation Joker vol 1 (DC/Kodansha) by Satoshi Miyagawa, Keisuke Gotou, Sheldon Drzka, and Wes Abbott. Batman becomes a baby and Joker raises him on his own. Love how this just turns Joker into a normal, harried, exhausted parent trying to learn the fine art of child rearing.
February 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Now reading: Joker: One Operation Joker vol 1 (DC/Kodansha) by Satoshi Miyagawa, Keisuke Gotou, Sheldon Drzka, and Wes Abbott. Batman becomes a baby and Joker raises him on his own. Love how this just turns Joker into a normal, harried, exhausted parent trying to learn the fine art of child rearing.
Now reading: The Bogie Man (John Brown, 1991) by John Wagner & Alan Grant, Robin Smith, and Bambos. An escaped mental patient thinks he's Humphrey Bogart and unleashes a comedy of noir-ers. Fun stuff with straight-faced illustration.
February 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Now reading: The Bogie Man (John Brown, 1991) by John Wagner & Alan Grant, Robin Smith, and Bambos. An escaped mental patient thinks he's Humphrey Bogart and unleashes a comedy of noir-ers. Fun stuff with straight-faced illustration.
Now reading: In the Garden of Earthly Delights (Floating World) by Rich Tommaso. Half the dimensions of a normal comic and printed on toilet paper, but it's the strongest narrative I've seen from Tommaso in a while.
70s art crime caper reminiscent of Westlake and Leonard.
70s art crime caper reminiscent of Westlake and Leonard.
February 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Now reading: In the Garden of Earthly Delights (Floating World) by Rich Tommaso. Half the dimensions of a normal comic and printed on toilet paper, but it's the strongest narrative I've seen from Tommaso in a while.
70s art crime caper reminiscent of Westlake and Leonard.
70s art crime caper reminiscent of Westlake and Leonard.
Watched Eraserhead for the first time last night.
January 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Watched Eraserhead for the first time last night.
Now reading: Underheist (Boom) by Maria & David Lapham and Hilary Jenkins. Starts as a taut crime tale, but goes in a surreal horror direction after that, constantly wrong-footing the protagonist and the reader. Nice cartooning and lettering. Love the eight panel grid.
January 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Now reading: Underheist (Boom) by Maria & David Lapham and Hilary Jenkins. Starts as a taut crime tale, but goes in a surreal horror direction after that, constantly wrong-footing the protagonist and the reader. Nice cartooning and lettering. Love the eight panel grid.
Adored Metamorpho #1 (DC) by Al Ewing, Steve Lieber, Lee Loughridge, and Ferran Delgado. Funny, exciting, economical. Good expressiveness from Lieber. Love the zany Haney lingo, captions, thought bubbles, splash page, even the Silver Age word balloon shape! I want 100 issues of this.
January 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Adored Metamorpho #1 (DC) by Al Ewing, Steve Lieber, Lee Loughridge, and Ferran Delgado. Funny, exciting, economical. Good expressiveness from Lieber. Love the zany Haney lingo, captions, thought bubbles, splash page, even the Silver Age word balloon shape! I want 100 issues of this.
My copy of Giant-Size X-Men looks like this.
January 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
My copy of Giant-Size X-Men looks like this.
RIP Party City. This $2 Aquaman balloon I got there years ago is still going strong.
December 21, 2024 at 7:28 PM
RIP Party City. This $2 Aquaman balloon I got there years ago is still going strong.
Now reading: Creed: The Next Round (Boom) by Latoya Morgan, Jai Jamison, Wilton Santos, Joe Jaro, Valentine De Landro, Paris Alleyne, Lea Caballero, Maria Keane, DJ Chavis, Joana Lafuente, Marissa Louise, Gab Contreras, and AndWorld Design. Really solid "sequel" to the Creed movies! 🧵
December 13, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Now reading: Creed: The Next Round (Boom) by Latoya Morgan, Jai Jamison, Wilton Santos, Joe Jaro, Valentine De Landro, Paris Alleyne, Lea Caballero, Maria Keane, DJ Chavis, Joana Lafuente, Marissa Louise, Gab Contreras, and AndWorld Design. Really solid "sequel" to the Creed movies! 🧵
Now reading: Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent (DC) by Tom Taylor, Clayton Henry, Darick Robertson, Norm Rapmund, Jordie Bellaire, and Wes Abbott. I'll miss Taylor on Superman-- he really gets it. Henry's figures are fluid, detailed, expressive.
December 11, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Now reading: Adventures of Superman: Jon Kent (DC) by Tom Taylor, Clayton Henry, Darick Robertson, Norm Rapmund, Jordie Bellaire, and Wes Abbott. I'll miss Taylor on Superman-- he really gets it. Henry's figures are fluid, detailed, expressive.
Kirby, arguably the greatest comic artist of all time, adapting Kubrick, arguably the greatest film director. Totally different sensibilities, but the material suits them both.
Loads of poetic narration, unlike the film, but some literally awesome space-scapes and cosmic Kirby-dot imagery.
Loads of poetic narration, unlike the film, but some literally awesome space-scapes and cosmic Kirby-dot imagery.
December 10, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Kirby, arguably the greatest comic artist of all time, adapting Kubrick, arguably the greatest film director. Totally different sensibilities, but the material suits them both.
Loads of poetic narration, unlike the film, but some literally awesome space-scapes and cosmic Kirby-dot imagery.
Loads of poetic narration, unlike the film, but some literally awesome space-scapes and cosmic Kirby-dot imagery.
Now reading: 2001: A Space Odyssey Marvel Treasury Special (Marvel, 1976) by Jack Kirby, Frank Giacoia, Marie Severin, and John Costanza, with backmatter by David Anthony Kraft. My most-wanted comic for a long time. Fascinating to see the living embodiment of the 20th century envision the 21st.
December 10, 2024 at 7:25 PM
Now reading: 2001: A Space Odyssey Marvel Treasury Special (Marvel, 1976) by Jack Kirby, Frank Giacoia, Marie Severin, and John Costanza, with backmatter by David Anthony Kraft. My most-wanted comic for a long time. Fascinating to see the living embodiment of the 20th century envision the 21st.
Now reading: Incredible Hulk vol. 3 (Marvel) by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein, Andrea Broccardo, Danny Earls, Matthew Wilson, KJ Diaz, and Cory Petit. Old-school pulp adventure horror. Klein draws some tremendous monsters, and keeps finding new and disgusting spins on the transformation.
December 10, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Now reading: Incredible Hulk vol. 3 (Marvel) by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein, Andrea Broccardo, Danny Earls, Matthew Wilson, KJ Diaz, and Cory Petit. Old-school pulp adventure horror. Klein draws some tremendous monsters, and keeps finding new and disgusting spins on the transformation.