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HOLY DAVID BROTHERS, BATMAN!

New article coming to Shelfdust this Wednesday!
it's BATMAN
November 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust!! 🚨

Plastic Fantastic: Female Wrestlers Take The City in Police Comics #4: www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...
Female wrestlers form a crime syndicate and beat up some gangsters
November 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Happy Halloween!

Shelfdust covered every issue of The Long Halloween IN REAL TIME, one holiday at a time: shelfdust.com/category/bat...
Cover for The long Halloween 1
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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This week on the site @kateodo.bsky.social took on Young Justice, the ur-text for a new generation of comic book readers: shelfdust.com/2025/10/01/y...
The cover for Young Justice 27 Among a certain sect of DC fans – often female, queer, and active on online fandoms from Tumblr and the like – Young Justice is basically the DC ur-text. I say that with such authority because it was my own experience, and Young Justice was one of the first DC series I read in full as a sixteen-year-old in 2011, nearly ten years after the series ended. I discovered comics for the first time with the help of Tumblr masterposts and Wikipedia deep dives, and fell into a deep, abiding obsession with DC in particular. Despite that obsession, it was not easy learning how to “read” DC history. It was not natural, and the knowledge was not ingrained, other than perhaps the basic secret identities and Justice League characters. To the me of 2011, Doiby Dickles existed, contextless, in the vacuum of YJ. How would I know otherwise?
October 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨

Plastic Fantastic: Plastic Man's a Pinball Wizard in Police Comics #3!

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The cover to Police Comics #3
September 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Next week @kateodo.bsky.social brings baseball to Shelfdust and hits a full goal using her batting club. HOWZAT!
Young Justice issue 27
September 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Next week on Shelfdust: corporate IP slop
A page from issue 15 of The Unwritten. A suit has written fanfic of a popular novel and forced the publisher to put it out as though it’s real
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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💀 NEW on Shelfdust today! 💀

Kings of the Castle #4: Eat Pray Punish, by @kellykanayama.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/09/17/k...
Lynn Michaels, The Punisher
September 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Next week on Shelfdust:
Lynn Michaels, who took on the mantle of Punisher
September 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Tomorrow on Shelfdust
Scott Pilgrim Vol 6
September 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Next week on Shelfdust
Jimmy Olsen issue 11
September 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨

Plastic Fantastic! Plastic Man Takes on an Opium Den in Police Comics #2: www.patreon.com/posts/plasti...
The cover for Police Comics #2
August 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Next week on Shelfdust
Green Arrow 5
August 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Last week on the site, @hollyhambone.bsky.social took on Avengers Academy: Voices #22 as part of her four-part series on the life and legacy of Captain America’s gay best friend, Arnie Roth: shelfdust.com/2025/08/20/i...
Avengers Academy 22 What has changed since 1984? Well, grimly, the nazis are no longer wearing ermine epaulets and green smoking jackets. They aren’t announcing themselves with grimacing skull faces and skintight nun-habits like nightmare anchoresses. In Oliveira’s story, they arrive in t-shirts and jeans, bearing American flags and delivering media friendly sound bites about representing normal folks. They aren’t brooding in absurd Gothic mansions full of traps and robots–another instance of the quarantine and sequestration of the monstrous in these stories– they’re in the streets, brandishing pistols at people fleeing an HIV+ support group, swearing to take back by force a country they see as theirs. And unlike Captain America charging to Arnie’s rescue 40 years ago, the queer youths in Avengers Academy have no protectors swooping in from a position of privilege and power to rescue them. Indeed, in a sharp touch, the city cop who early in the story brushes aside Kid Juggernaut with a homophobic dig (“Your friend should get a better job. Something decent. Away from kids.”) is seen a bit later, at the very front of the crowd fleeing the scene as gunfire erupts.
August 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Next week on Shelfdust:
“Jesus wept! There’s 454 pages of this toss-wank!”
August 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Ahead of @hollyhambone.bsky.social's fourth and final Shelfdust essay about Captain America's gay best friend Arnie Roth - which is out tomorrow - catch up on her essay series here! shelfdust.com/tag/arnie-ro...
A statue of Arnie Roth
August 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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And THIS week on Shelfdust, @rhidaneelolivaw.bsky.social looks at Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen 10: shelfdust.com/2025/08/13/s...
Over and over again, Jimmy Olsen #10 reiterates the two core truths of Jimmy Olsen: Jimmy Olsen is constantly changing Paradoxically, the irreducible Jimmy never changes And thus is the core tension of the issue established. If Jimmy Olsen is a constantly changing being (and he is, as any fule kno), Jimmy Olsen is defined only by what he is not. He is not, for example, a good reporter or a good brother or a good sham husband. He is trying very hard to be a good friend to Superman by not leaning on him to resolve his wacky exaggerated everyday problems so much, which suggests that until this point he was not (or at least didn’t think he was) a good friend to Superman. The cover to Jimmy Olsen 10
August 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Next week on Shelfdust: @hollyhambone.bsky.social FINISHES THE STORY I mean her incredible four-part essay series on Arnie Roth
The cover of Avengers Academy: Voices 22
August 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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We Watch The Watchmen???

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Watchmen issue 12
August 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Hello new followers!

Do you ever wonder if @kellykanayama.bsky.social has thoughts on Lynn Michaels, the ✨ lady ✨ Punisher?

She does. See you September
Lynn Michael’s
August 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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“what if you hold a hammer so long that you confuse it for your own arm?”

@stevebaxi.bsky.social looks at addiction, armour, and Iron Man: shelfdust.com/2025/08/06/d...
The armor is the addiction, the easy answer to life’s problems. Everytime Tony is faced with making a difficult decision about who he is, he retreats into the metal shell. His suit frees him from obligations, from consequences, and shields him in anonymity. Afterall, what does Tony say Iron Man is to the public? His bodyguard, his metaphorical and literal defense mechanism. The Iron Man armor is ultimately just a bigger roomba: a device that’s very function and existence requires you to change some part of how you live. Use it often enough, and it changes who you are entirely. You may have heard the expression that if you hold a hammer long enough everything starts to look like a nail. Well what if you hold a hammer so long that you confuse it for your own arm? Iron Man 192
August 9, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Next week on Shelfdust: identity is a scam and change is the only thing that never changes
Jimmy Olsen issue 10
August 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Next week on Shelfdust:
"I don't know why you think I am your enemy" says Tony Stark "Cause you want to take the only thing that means anything to me" replies James Rhodes
August 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Next week on the site: Holly Raymond makes it three essays in a row for Shelfdust!
The cover of Captain America 270
July 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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If you love reading thoughtful writing about Tom Taylor comics, check out Shelfdust!

We have a huge range of incredible coverage on our site! shelfdust.com/category/the...
The Shelfdust logo
July 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM