The Black Casebook
@blackcasebook.bsky.social
Podcast exploring history, politics, philosophy and more through Batman’s greatest stories. https://open.spotify.com/show/0g0eISbWRkv01Xig3bmw5X
ANNOUNCEMENT: In a gesture of international solidarity and good will, @cacomixpod.bsky.social and I will be releasing our PREMIUM Knightfall collaboration on our main feeds instead of paywalling it. The people have a right to know.
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: In a gesture of international solidarity and good will, @cacomixpod.bsky.social and I will be releasing our PREMIUM Knightfall collaboration on our main feeds instead of paywalling it. The people have a right to know.
I understand people following their passions, but this is what’s known as being a sucker. How can an aging comics creator watch what happened to PAD (and others, for decades) and conclude “RIP to them but I’m different”?
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I understand people following their passions, but this is what’s known as being a sucker. How can an aging comics creator watch what happened to PAD (and others, for decades) and conclude “RIP to them but I’m different”?
BONUS EPISODE! We're talking New Gods, baby. After a little keynote essay about Kirby and the resonance of his idiosyncratic Fourth World Saga, we open up the mailbag to answer burning questions on topics ranging from the most kissable New God to Tom King's loyal service to Darkseid.
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
BONUS EPISODE! We're talking New Gods, baby. After a little keynote essay about Kirby and the resonance of his idiosyncratic Fourth World Saga, we open up the mailbag to answer burning questions on topics ranging from the most kissable New God to Tom King's loyal service to Darkseid.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do you like Batman
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social do you like Batman
Contemporary American fascism's Bad Idea #0. One way or another, we will see his like again—probably some minor figure in the current administration who manages to survive any potential fallout and recriminations because he seems smart, reasonable, more committed to country than party.
November 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Contemporary American fascism's Bad Idea #0. One way or another, we will see his like again—probably some minor figure in the current administration who manages to survive any potential fallout and recriminations because he seems smart, reasonable, more committed to country than party.
When you get your ass beat so bad you turn into a Mike Mignola character
November 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
When you get your ass beat so bad you turn into a Mike Mignola character
"And then, in a halo of blazing light that seems to complete *everything*, the old man passes like a dream. Like smoke.
But the fire burns forever."
But the fire burns forever."
November 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
"And then, in a halo of blazing light that seems to complete *everything*, the old man passes like a dream. Like smoke.
But the fire burns forever."
But the fire burns forever."
Also, goes without saying:
November 1, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Also, goes without saying:
I fall somewhere between these two (excellent) reviews, but at the end of the day I simply have to respect any film this committed to being evil.
November 1, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I fall somewhere between these two (excellent) reviews, but at the end of the day I simply have to respect any film this committed to being evil.
I know people aren't as crazy about The Forever People as the rest of Kirby's Fourth World, but where else are you going to see a cowboy hippie demigod give a disabled child Cosmic LSD?
October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I know people aren't as crazy about The Forever People as the rest of Kirby's Fourth World, but where else are you going to see a cowboy hippie demigod give a disabled child Cosmic LSD?
We love to see it.
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We love to see it.
Live and Let Die is Exhibit A in my case for the Bond franchise as a fascinating cultural artifact: signifier and signified melding as Bond—the congratulatory self-image of an undead empire—struggles to remain relevant with a detour to the colonies. It also just fucking rocks.
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Live and Let Die is Exhibit A in my case for the Bond franchise as a fascinating cultural artifact: signifier and signified melding as Bond—the congratulatory self-image of an undead empire—struggles to remain relevant with a detour to the colonies. It also just fucking rocks.
Punished “Venom” Gordon
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Punished “Venom” Gordon
2400 years after Socrates' execution for corrupting the youth of Athens, the world turns to another Greek gadfly to save the children:
October 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
2400 years after Socrates' execution for corrupting the youth of Athens, the world turns to another Greek gadfly to save the children:
My five-year plan is to become this guy
October 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
My five-year plan is to become this guy
I think about this monologue (from ALIENS: LABYRINTH, by Jim Woodring and Kilian Plunkett) all the time. I don’t know if any other writer has managed to capture the pure atavistic terror of the xenomorph like this
October 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I think about this monologue (from ALIENS: LABYRINTH, by Jim Woodring and Kilian Plunkett) all the time. I don’t know if any other writer has managed to capture the pure atavistic terror of the xenomorph like this
I’m kidding myself if I say anything besides Dark Victory
October 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I’m kidding myself if I say anything besides Dark Victory
If you ever wonder how I can call myself a Marxist while indulging in hocus pocus, here are the phenomenological, existentialist, structuralist premises I’m working from:
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
If you ever wonder how I can call myself a Marxist while indulging in hocus pocus, here are the phenomenological, existentialist, structuralist premises I’m working from:
It’s pretty deep fried, but this is one of the more user-friendly representations of the Tree of Life I’ve found so far. Should be helpful if you’re still learning the sephiroth and the paths.
October 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
It’s pretty deep fried, but this is one of the more user-friendly representations of the Tree of Life I’ve found so far. Should be helpful if you’re still learning the sephiroth and the paths.
I’m still getting to know Borges, but I was very taken with this passage near the end of “The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim” when I read it the other day
October 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I’m still getting to know Borges, but I was very taken with this passage near the end of “The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim” when I read it the other day
Reading Understanding Comics earlier today got me thinking about how artists encode meaning in an abstract icon, and how effectively great directors can wring dread out of very simple iconography:
October 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Reading Understanding Comics earlier today got me thinking about how artists encode meaning in an abstract icon, and how effectively great directors can wring dread out of very simple iconography:
