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Joe Grunenwald
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Writer/Reviewer for @ComicsBeat. Likes comics, TV, movies. Loves The Flash. General nerd. He/Him. (Profile pic by Chip Zdarsky, whether he meant it or not.)
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Joe Grunenwald @joegrunenwald.bsky.social · Jul 29
I haven't talked about this publicly, but last year I was the victim of identity theft. My likeness and identity were stolen and used for nefarious purposes by a person from a foreign country.

That person's name is Chip Zdarsky.
Panels from PUBLIC DOMAIN #9 in which a comics journalist who looks just like me interviews the series' protagonist.
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Wanna hear a couple of babies talking about baby stuff?

Check out the first iteration of The View Masters podcast: LEAGUE NIGHT.

Our 1st 100 episodes were dedicated to the wonderful JUSTICE LEAGUE animated series (among slightly related stuff).

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#podcast #jlu
Episode 325: League of Super-Pets
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November 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Happy 24th Anniversary to Justice League, the animated series that changed so much for so many of us! Forever grateful to the show & all its fans! 💛❤️💙
November 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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If they don't want people to do this, they shouldn't give it such an awesome soundtrack
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Holy shit, Criterion releases for both NETWORK and THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE in February, it must be my birthday month

(it is, in fact, my birthday month)
NETWORK Criterion Collection cover THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE Criterion Collection cover
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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"The worm doesn't make me eat dead rats. I was doing that before the worm," he purred at me like one of the diseased cats that would follow him around whenever he had a dead rat in his pocket that he was saving for later. He really liked eating them. He coughed and it sounded like a lawnmower hitting a sprinkler head. His leathery skin crackled in the evening sun. He had to leave tonight - he was speaking at a conference for people who think medicine turns you gay. Sometimes when he was away I would rub an old catcher's mitt up and down my legs and pretend he was giving me a massage. - excerpt from “I Don't Know Why He Sounds Like That: My Disgusting Affair with RFK Jr” by Olivia Nuzzi
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Thinking about The Collective this morning. @heatherhogan.bsky.social @kht20.bsky.social
The Collective
mean and funny is still funny
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November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Reading an issue of Legion of Super-Heroes Secret Files for the Legion of Substitute Podcasters podcast, and there is a hell of a Legion double page poster spread of the Reboot Legion in the back by @philjimeneznyc.bsky.social

And I had to share it.

#longlivethelegion #legionofsuperheroes
A Phil Jimenez poster spread of all the Legion of Super-Heroes, their allies, and antagonists as of Nov 1997 Too many characters to list here.
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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U Talkin' Vatican II 2 Me?
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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You guys NEED to hear this awful theme tune. I immediately lost it.
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: waffles and eggs, big cup of Folgers, then fire up the old laptop to get email dating advice from a convicted sex trafficker. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Stephanie Phillips will become only the second woman to write DAREDEVIL when the comic relaunches with Lee Garbett this March.
Phillips and Garbett relaunching DAREDEVIL
Stephanie Phillips and Lee Garbett's relaunch will be accompanied by blind bag variants when it begins this March.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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From my previous life as a cover artist for comic books. I really miss doing this kind of work. It felt more uniquely "me" than anything else I have done since.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Perfect match.
jcbedgar.bsky.social Jacob Edgar @jcbedgar.bsky.social · 3d
My new gig has been announced, The Rocketeer! www.thewrap.com/the-rocketee...
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Happy "I'M RIBS" day to all who celebrate!

@scottaukerman.bsky.social @pftompkins.bsky.social @shaundiston.bsky.social @ohsewnerdy.bsky.social @cbbworld.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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It’s the famous panel from Watchmen where Dr Manhattan is screaming I’M RIBS
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Hey, what the fuck, TV's Ma Kent
cpaxton.bsky.social Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 4d
Nightmarish idea for a startup tbh
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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chrissamnee.bsky.social
All of my cock-eyed page layouts are thanks in equal measure to manga and the brilliant Joe Staton :)
bronzeagebabies.bsky.social Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 10d
You’d pay good money to watch Guy Gardner get his butt kicked by Kilowog.

Splash, and pages from Green Lantern Corps 210 (1987), by Steve Englehart, Joe Staton, and Mark Farmer.
Splash page to “See Red!”, as Kilowog and Guy Gardner square off in the sky. Fightin’ More fightin’ Still more fightin’
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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The only character that blind bags are acceptable for.
liammcguire.bsky.social Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 3d
Stephanie Phillips and Lee Garbett are taking on the next ongoing book for Daredevil! Marvel will launch the series with blind bag variants.
Daredevil art from Lee Garbett
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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ryanlostintx.bsky.social
Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Happy I'M RIIIIBS! Day to all who celebrate
schmidcathrine.us Cathrine Schmid @schmidcathrine.us · 4d
happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day
November 14th: A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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If you're a fan of the artist, the eagerly awaited Jim Aparo book from TwoMorrows is now available for pre-order!

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176-page FULL-COLOR HARDCOVER - by Eric Nolen-Weathington & Jim Amash For a generation of comic-book readers, Jim Aparo is considered the greatest Batman artist of them all. Aparo—with his strong, dynamic style, well-grounded in realism—together with Batman made a team worthy of the title, The Brave and the Bold. But before that team-up book, he made a name for himself on such series as Aquaman, the controversial “Spectre,” and the mysterious Phantom Stranger, and is considered by many to be the definitive artist for each. Now, the team of Jim Amash and Eric Nolen-Weathington (editors of Matt Baker: The Art of Glamour; Carmine Infantino: Penciler, Publisher, Provocateur; and Sal Buscema: Comics’ Fast and Furious Artist) turn the Bat Signal on the life and work of one of comics’ finest! From his time in the world of advertising art, at Charlton Comics on Nightshade and The Phantom, through the heyday of the ’70s, and beyond the death of Robin, Aparo’s career is finally given the attention it so richly deserves. The book is lavishly illustrated with Aparo’s work, including many rare and previously-unpublished pieces. Includes an introduction by award-winning artist Alan Davis, and a new Aparo cover inked by Mike DeCarlo!
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Killing Uncle Ben - Analyzing the Spider-Man Comic vs the MCU Movie

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#spiderman #uncleben
Killing Uncle Ben - Analyzing the Spider-Man Comic vs the MCU Movie
YouTube video by Comic Book School - Buddy Scalera & Mike Fasolo
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November 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Well there's my weekend set.
willmckinley.bsky.social Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 6d
HBO Max added 30 classic crime films in Nov — from proto-noirs like THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) to essentials like OUT OF THE PAST (1947).

Including their Criterion titles, they now have nearly 100 pre-1960 noirs.

There’s even a dedicated #Noirvember section. (New adds in alt text.) #FilmSky #FilmNoir
New to HBO Max - Nov, 2025 (Noir + proto-noir, 1930-1960) THE PUBLIC ENEMY (1931) MARKED WOMAN (1937) INVISIBLE STRIPES (1939) THE ROARING TWENTIES (1939) EACH DAWN I DIE (1939) A WOMAN'S FACE (1941) OUT OF THE FOG (1941) MURDER, MY SWEET (1944) THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS (1944) JOHNNY ANGEL (1945) DILLINGER (1945) THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946) DECEPTION (1946) NOCTURNE (1946) THE LOCKET (1946) OUT OF THE PAST (1947) DESPERATE (1947) THE MAN I LOVE (1947) THE UNSUSPECTED (1947) THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948) THE SET-UP (1949) RED LIGHT (1949) THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1949) WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950) BACKFIRE (1950) WHERE DANGER LIVES (1950) I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI (1951) ROADBLOCK (1951) THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS (1952) CRIME WAVE (1954)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Always remember.
A printed card handed out at the celebration of the late Tom Spurgeon's life at the Society of Illustrators in New York City, January 24, 2020. A portrait of Tom is by artist Michael Netz and below is a quote from Tom which begins with "I had an amazing life." He is much missed. Always remember.
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM