One problem resolved, two more appear in its place 😅

Funny you call it "critic proof," I feel like I've never heard anyone say anything critically kind about it in the past five years. But, maybe that's just the curmudgeons I run with 😂

Broadly, I think more sites encouraging people to love comics is good for people loving comics.

However, in the era of Non-Stop AI Slop, I think it's an ill omen if the human-curated information being fed into the lying machine is already a broadly-inaccurate summary of questionable sources.

That doesn't make me some kind of comic book reading order genius or anything.

There are plenty of reasons to NOT like my guides.

Also, I operate from a place of privilege where my site was already established and I generally own all of the material already (or will drop $$$ to research a guide).

Yeah, over time I've transitioned from just listing EVERY POSSIBLE APPEARANCE to commenting more on quality of experience and readability.

Harder to do for someone like Cap or Thor, but definitely worthwhile for a smaller character like Black Cat.

I think there's absolutely something to be said for simply reading issues in the order they released - since that is how everyone else experienced them!

However, I wouldn't call that a "reading order," I'd call that a "release order."

(Usually I try to offer both in my guides, when it makes sense)

I have 250+ published comic guides, with 750+ pages on my to-do list

The average guide takes about NINE HOURS to research and write, with some taking nearly a full 24hrs.

I'm sure if I pasted in a bunch of database listings and solicits and called it a day I could've published all 1000+ by now! 😂

BENEATH THE TREES CROSSOVER?!?!?!

DC's panel was absolutely wild.

I'll relaunch Moon Knight #1 a thousand times before I let X-Men be fun again

Yeah, but we already knew about that. They basically just sat there and read solicits.