J. Caleb Mozzocco
@jcaleb.bsky.social
Library clerk by day, semi-professional comic book critic and comics blogger by later in the day, asleep by night.
Here is Swamp Thing waterskiing on a lily pad behind a bad guy’s airboat, from a comic in the SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES collection.
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Here is Swamp Thing waterskiing on a lily pad behind a bad guy’s airboat, from a comic in the SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES collection.
According to an introduction to the SWAMP THING comics he and Kelley Jones made, writer Doug Wheeler said he first noticed Jones’ art in a HANGMAN comic that Len Wein had written and Archie Comics was showing off an NYC con, but that the publisher ultimately “chickened out” and never published.
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
According to an introduction to the SWAMP THING comics he and Kelley Jones made, writer Doug Wheeler said he first noticed Jones’ art in a HANGMAN comic that Len Wein had written and Archie Comics was showing off an NYC con, but that the publisher ultimately “chickened out” and never published.
And so big…! Here it is with last month’s SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES collection and JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED Vol. 1 (a standard-sized super-comic trade), for comparison’s sake.
November 12, 2025 at 3:35 AM
And so big…! Here it is with last month’s SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES collection and JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED Vol. 1 (a standard-sized super-comic trade), for comparison’s sake.
It’s so beautiful…!
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It’s so beautiful…!
My reading of SWAMP THING is pretty spotty. Did the Swamp Thing movies of the 1980s play in the DC Universe too, or is Abby referring to some other, in-comic movie in this panel…?
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
My reading of SWAMP THING is pretty spotty. Did the Swamp Thing movies of the 1980s play in the DC Universe too, or is Abby referring to some other, in-comic movie in this panel…?
"Who hasn't?" This more...jocular than usual Phantom Stranger appeared in Len Wein and Kelley Jones' 2016 SWAMP THING #6, on part of a splash page introducing he and some other characters into the climatic fight scene.
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
"Who hasn't?" This more...jocular than usual Phantom Stranger appeared in Len Wein and Kelley Jones' 2016 SWAMP THING #6, on part of a splash page introducing he and some other characters into the climatic fight scene.
I just noticed how similar the hairstyles of Tobi and Yu, the little boys who star in GO-MAN: CHAMPION OF EARTH and SPIDER-MAN KIZUNA, are. They both have that Astro-Boy spike on the back of their heads.
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I just noticed how similar the hairstyles of Tobi and Yu, the little boys who star in GO-MAN: CHAMPION OF EARTH and SPIDER-MAN KIZUNA, are. They both have that Astro-Boy spike on the back of their heads.
Intriguing bit of back matter from the SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES collection, apparently part of Wein’s proposal for an ongoing. That whole list sounds awesome, but I’m most curious about #18, an odd choice of “creature” to put against Swamp Thing…
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Intriguing bit of back matter from the SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES collection, apparently part of Wein’s proposal for an ongoing. That whole list sounds awesome, but I’m most curious about #18, an odd choice of “creature” to put against Swamp Thing…
Question #2: Is the team actually called “Justice League Unlimited” within the DCU? I thought that was just the title of the current Justice League comic book, while they were actually called “The Justice League” in universe…
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Question #2: Is the team actually called “Justice League Unlimited” within the DCU? I thought that was just the title of the current Justice League comic book, while they were actually called “The Justice League” in universe…
Question #1: Do Boom Tubes not actually go “Boom” anymore…? This is hardly the first time I’ve seen a silent Boom Tube in a DC comic of late…
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Question #1: Do Boom Tubes not actually go “Boom” anymore…? This is hardly the first time I’ve seen a silent Boom Tube in a DC comic of late…
In 2007, publisher Villard releases the Kazu Kibuishi-edited anthology FLIGHT Vol. 4, featuring a silly 14-page story by Scott Campbell entitled “Igloo Head and Tree Head” (left).
In 2025, publisher Tundra releases Campbell’s CABIN HEAD AND TREE HEAD, a collection of silly short stories (right).
In 2025, publisher Tundra releases Campbell’s CABIN HEAD AND TREE HEAD, a collection of silly short stories (right).
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In 2007, publisher Villard releases the Kazu Kibuishi-edited anthology FLIGHT Vol. 4, featuring a silly 14-page story by Scott Campbell entitled “Igloo Head and Tree Head” (left).
In 2025, publisher Tundra releases Campbell’s CABIN HEAD AND TREE HEAD, a collection of silly short stories (right).
In 2025, publisher Tundra releases Campbell’s CABIN HEAD AND TREE HEAD, a collection of silly short stories (right).
In Ngozi Ukazu’s FLIP, black, poor, nerd Chi-Chi keeps swapping bodies, FREAKY FRIDAY style, with her crush, a white, rich, popular jock. It’s occasionally quite funny. This is my second-favorite page, I think.
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In Ngozi Ukazu’s FLIP, black, poor, nerd Chi-Chi keeps swapping bodies, FREAKY FRIDAY style, with her crush, a white, rich, popular jock. It’s occasionally quite funny. This is my second-favorite page, I think.
One detail I really appreciated in GO-MAN? When cartoonist Hamish Steele introduces a quadrupedal monster, its always drawn crawling on the knees of its legs, like Anguirus and Barugon, as if it was a man in a suit, rather than walking on its hind feet, as it would if it were a real animal..
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
One detail I really appreciated in GO-MAN? When cartoonist Hamish Steele introduces a quadrupedal monster, its always drawn crawling on the knees of its legs, like Anguirus and Barugon, as if it was a man in a suit, rather than walking on its hind feet, as it would if it were a real animal..
When I first saw this monster Sasushi on the GO-MAN cover, I took him for something of a cross between Guiron and Godzilla (note his roar in that last image), but given his swordfish-iness, I think he may actually be more of a cross between Zigra and Godzilla... 🤔
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
When I first saw this monster Sasushi on the GO-MAN cover, I took him for something of a cross between Guiron and Godzilla (note his roar in that last image), but given his swordfish-iness, I think he may actually be more of a cross between Zigra and Godzilla... 🤔
Ha, cartoonist Hamish Steele makes a good point quite effectively in a two-panel sequence from GO-MAN Vol. 1:
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Ha, cartoonist Hamish Steele makes a good point quite effectively in a two-panel sequence from GO-MAN Vol. 1:
I just re-read this CONVERGENCE: SWAMP THING #1 for the first time last night (it's the first issue collected in the new SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES collection), and wow, does it read weirdly out of the context of the crossover, the events of which I have now mostly forgotten.
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I just re-read this CONVERGENCE: SWAMP THING #1 for the first time last night (it's the first issue collected in the new SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES collection), and wow, does it read weirdly out of the context of the crossover, the events of which I have now mostly forgotten.
Okay Viz Media, I have finished reading all 45 volumes of Haruichi Furudate's HAIKYU!! manga series. So feel free to start publishing translated volumes of its spin-off series LET'S! HAIKYU!? and HAIKYU-BU!! at your earliest convenience.
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Okay Viz Media, I have finished reading all 45 volumes of Haruichi Furudate's HAIKYU!! manga series. So feel free to start publishing translated volumes of its spin-off series LET'S! HAIKYU!? and HAIKYU-BU!! at your earliest convenience.
I love Stephen Bissette’s sinister-looking Godzilla so much.
November 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I love Stephen Bissette’s sinister-looking Godzilla so much.
Happy Godzilla Day to all who celebrate.
I’m going to mark the occasion by revisiting a classic:
I’m going to mark the occasion by revisiting a classic:
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Happy Godzilla Day to all who celebrate.
I’m going to mark the occasion by revisiting a classic:
I’m going to mark the occasion by revisiting a classic:
Well if the Jersey Devil WAS Republican at one point, I assume he left the party once Trump became its standard bearer. I mean, even literal monsters must draw the line at MAGA, right…?
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Well if the Jersey Devil WAS Republican at one point, I assume he left the party once Trump became its standard bearer. I mean, even literal monsters must draw the line at MAGA, right…?
Does ACAB include Daichi Sawamura from HAIKYU!!…?
November 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Does ACAB include Daichi Sawamura from HAIKYU!!…?
I was a little surprised at how old some of the comics were—note SUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES or that issue of the New 52 JUSTCE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL—but the looked a little closer and found this, which was first published, what, 25 years ago…?
October 31, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I was a little surprised at how old some of the comics were—note SUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES or that issue of the New 52 JUSTCE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL—but the looked a little closer and found this, which was first published, what, 25 years ago…?
Comic books seen in the wild. I found this display in a grocery store in Erie, PA selling various shrink-wrapped DC comics for $2.98 apiece.
October 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Comic books seen in the wild. I found this display in a grocery store in Erie, PA selling various shrink-wrapped DC comics for $2.98 apiece.
Do any of these dog people look familiar to any of you...? (The older one in pajamas sitting on the bench in the last is apparently Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett).
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October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Do any of these dog people look familiar to any of you...? (The older one in pajamas sitting on the bench in the last is apparently Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett).
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