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He/Him. Comics fanatic, and archiving enthusiast. Pfp is Scrounge from Transformers.

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This scene is even funnier when you read the comic itself. Bill Mantlo perfectly captures the spirit of Silver Age melodrama madness.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I find it really amusing that in the first issue of Amazing Spider-Man, Peter struggles to find a job so he can make money, and meanwhile the page right after is full of ads promoting real-life job opportunities. These facsimile editions reveal some fascinating and unintentionally funny stuff.
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Aside:

I've been thinking a lot about how, in light of the uselessness of the UN with its hollow cries of condemnation without action, I'm reminded of a brilliant piece by Charles Fredrick Alford about Natural Law, and how the authority of human rights isn't universal.
godblog.org/two-stories-...
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Still the gayest Optimus x Megatron moment.
October 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The difference between the heightened senses of Daredevil and Wolverine (and a few others). From Daredevil Annual #5, 1989.
October 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Oh my God, somehow until today I never knew that Mark Bright, the artist who did this story, also did the iconic painted Shockwave cover for Marvel Transformers #5!
October 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Unintentional or not, Christopher Priest follows Byrne's description of Logan perfectly in Spider-Man vs. Wolverine.
October 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
John Byrne on Wolverine's personality. From The Comics Journal #53, page 21.
October 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don’t like the vehicle.”
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Tolstoy, eerily everlasting.
October 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This comment really hits close to home for me. I'd love to one day start writing criticism or analysis of whatever art I experience but it's hard, and I think now I know why.
October 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Now reading: Calvin and Hobbes
October 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
5 million... that's a lot of Spider-Girl fans!
September 29, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Gary Groth, in this interview from Sequential Tart, on why it's pointless to “reform” mainstream comic publishers like Marvel or DC from the inside.
www.sequentialtart.com/archive/feb0...
September 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Well this is news to me. Apparently Stan Lee wanted Steve Ditko to create Spider-Girl shortly after they created Spider-Man, and of course long before the Tom DeFalco version arrived.

I wonder what a Ditko Spider-Girl would be like?
popculturesquad.com/2019/03/16/s...
August 30, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Paul Jenkins has always been an expert in making me emotional for Marvel characters. Mythos: Ghost Rider is one such example. It distills the classic origin story by Gary Friedrich to focus more on Johnny Blaze's sad background and state of mind. It is ultimately a meditation on The Problem of Evil.
August 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Kinda sucks that there's no ideal way to read the older Golden Age or Silver Age Hawkman tales digitally, unless resorting to those terrible low-quality scans from piracy sites. Bizarrely both DC Universe Infinite and Kindle/Comixology are missing issue 35 of The Brave and the Bold.
August 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Picked up Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor from the Comixology sale and it was surprisingly good! I never read that many Superman comics but I decided to start reading more material recently and well...you can't go wrong with a duo like Mark Waid and Bryan Hitch.
August 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Been really excited this morning after learning that the final issues of the original Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider volume are being collected for Marvel Masterworks. This was the creative high point of the character, and had it not been tragically cancelled it could've been one of the all-time greats.
August 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It reminds me of “The Demon Downcast” by Mikhail Vrubel. It's a similar portrayal of the fallen angel archetype, but instead of Satan/Lucifer it's based on a nameless demon from a Mikhail Lermontov poem about a poor fallen angel and his tragic love of a princess.
August 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Gene Philips' essay “Death Comes for the Arachnid” from The Comics Journal #52 examines the way character deaths were handled in the early days of The Amazing Spider-Man comics, and how Gerry Conway undermined the heavy and careful role it played in the series by making it wanton and pointless.
August 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Today's Sunday reading is a fascinating interview with Harold Bloom. I gotta wonder what the scholarly consensus about that last part is.
romantic-circles.org/sites/defaul...
July 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It might be a stretch on my part, but I just can't shake off the feeling that Jason Aaron secretly wrote a First Nations-coded Wolverine. I like the idea, although the stereotypical heavy drinker/smoker and “noble savage” aspects present in the character might make that a horrible idea in execution.
July 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Tim Truman on how he developed Hawkworld, from an interview by Gary Groth in The Comics Journal #144:
July 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
(also, that Kingdom Come review is great. please read it. the final paragraph really hits home about what's wrong with american superhero comics)
July 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM