Latest bar of soap like this is called “MIDNIGHT SWIM” but is actually just sandalwood and lavender. (It’s quite nice!) Package also claims it is “NOT FOR CLOWNS,” but screw you, Duke Cannon Supply Co., I am going to use it anyway!

New episode drops Wednesday!

This is non-ironically one of my favorite superhero comics panels/splashes ever. Beautiful, graceful, colorful. It captures how fantastic and WEIRD a guy with wings would actually be while simultaneously making it feel like the most natural thing in the world. There is a casual, lived-in magic here.

This is non-ironically one of my favorite superhero comics panels/splashes ever. Beautiful, graceful, colorful. It captures how fantastic and WEIRD a guy with wings would actually be while simultaneously making it feel like the most natural thing in the world. There is a casual, lived-in magic here.

I try to keep things frivolous on the ol BlueSky, but between the wistful NYT story about the passing of American Psycho-style New York and the Alexa ad where the robot tells the gamer how goated he is, it’s hard not to be struck by a world permeated by such a sense of profound spiritual emptiness.

Some BETTER LETTERER for you. And before the inevitable "that's not how I do it" replies, keep in mind that, by and large, this is how it's done in pro American comics (Marvel, DC, etc.) I've worked for all of them. More tips: blambot.com/pages/letter...

Help me out here, Kirby heads, do we know whether he meant for Darkseid’s arms and legs to be bare? Modern artists/colorists tend to render them the same color and texture, but some colors on Kirby works have smooth pink arms/legs like tights compared to a craggy gray face.

I don’t really have any skin in new Metroid games, but what absolute fool named this new character “Miles MacKenzie” instead of “Justin Bailey”???

I don’t really have any skin in new Metroid games, but what absolute fool named this new character “Miles MacKenzie” instead of “Justin Bailey”???

Hell yeah

I am astonished. This is Neal Adams’ Batman come to life!

Oh hey, just saw this one dropped! In a rare novelty, I have thoughts about a comic book published AFTER the end of the Clinton administration!

Same group of writers on a Friday the 13th movie: “We’d LIKE to get started on the script, but the tricky thing is, they killed Jason off in the last one…”

Carlos Pacheco drew the most dynamic hands in the biz

Oh hey, just saw this one dropped! In a rare novelty, I have thoughts about a comic book published AFTER the end of the Clinton administration!

Tony Stark has some ideas about the future of web browsing for you

Just finished the GDT Frankenstein. People will tell you it’s very on-the-nose obvious, but, you know, perhaps the story of Frankenstein does not cry out for subtlety and restraint?

Still taking questions for next month’s Q&A episode! Ask us anything: Iron Age stuff, general comics stuff, podcast stuff. We are honest fellows. ngl.link/ironageofcom...

It's our 4th Annual Mighty Marvel Trivia Challenge! Plus a Review of @abramscomicarts.bsky.social release Avengers: The Veracity Trap! Promos: @playcomics.bsky.social @ironageofcomics.bsky.social On All Podcasting Services Now! Subscribe at www.lastcomicshoppodcast.com

Pretty neat. I like my old comics a little beat up but I think restoration processes are interesting.

Still taking questions for next month’s Q&A episode! Ask us anything: Iron Age stuff, general comics stuff, podcast stuff. We are honest fellows. ngl.link/ironageofcom...

NEW EPISODE! We go deep on Moon Knight in the Iron Age with a look at the Fist of Khonshu series by Alan Zelenitz and Chris Warner, the Marc Spector series by Chuck Dixon and Sal Velluto, and some odds and ends in between. LISTEN: www.patreon.com/posts/moon-k...

NEW EPISODE! We go deep on Moon Knight in the Iron Age with a look at the Fist of Khonshu series by Alan Zelenitz and Chris Warner, the Marc Spector series by Chuck Dixon and Sal Velluto, and some odds and ends in between. LISTEN: www.patreon.com/posts/moon-k...

We will be discussing this very issue on Wednesday’s episode of The Iron Age of Comics, actually.

We will be discussing this very issue on Wednesday’s episode of The Iron Age of Comics, actually.

Transformers: The Movie is this for several different actors

In honor of Brian Augustyn's birthday, I'd like to share this classic story by Waid, LaRocque, Richardson, Hollingsworth, Harkins, Diaz, and Augustyn. Thirty-two years ago, Wally West, Jay Garrick, Max Mercury, and Johnny Quick planned a "Blitzkrieg!" www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Random read from the Iron Age: the John Francis Moore/Adam Pollina “road trip” X-Force run. I had never read any of this but I found a consecutive run in a bin for 40 cents a pop; I sometimes think it’s fun to go into something like this with zero baggage.

A new data point for everyone’s favorite game, Are Blank White Eyes on Superhero Masks Some Kind of Lenses or Just Artistic License?

Coming this Wednesday to the Iron Age of Comics podcast!

Also, and to be clear this is not on Waid at all, but Geoff Johns’/DC’s decision to implicitly blame Alan Moore for its own post-Watchmen editorial incoherence by making the DC Universe the life he was going off to create remains utterly obscene.

It is officially Halloween, and what could be scarier than a couple’a nerds pontificatin’ about Dracula in all his forms (but especially this Mike Mignola one)?

Few things scared me more as a child than this album.

NEW EPISODE! It’s a Halloween Fifth Week Bonus and we’re talking Topps Comics’ adaptation of the movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with art by Mike Mignola himself! The missing link from his previous work to Hellboy! LISTEN: www.patreon.com/posts/fifth-...

There's a new Marvel Masterworks collecting the Ghost Rider run I did with artist/co-plotter (and all around great guy) Bob Budiansky. I wrote an introduction to the collection and you can read it over at my website. www.jmdematteis.com/2025/10/blaz...

This is a very cool piece about the Johnny Blaze Ghost Rider and how the late period of the comic dealt with the truly terrifying question underlying most stories about demonic possession or “good”/“evil” split personalities: What of the duality is an illusion?

I wrote a spooky piece about man and monsters, for a character who is a spooky man and monster! 💀🔥

This is all of us

Many of you have expressed interests in the upcoming Man of Steel Absolute and asked some questions. 1. "original colors"? see the Wonder Woman color from original color vs new (modern) colors 2. Large format 3. Slipcase is die-cut 4. Collects Man of Steel #1-6 5. New Byrne art

John Byrne's Man of Steel is getting a remaster "with original colors".

Oh man, that’s it exactly

I would like to ask Grant Morrison what exactly they think The X-Files would even be about in a world where the Justice League exists. The existence of aliens is not debatable; one of them is Superman! Maybe it’s just like an FBI procedural show.

I understand the reason that actors, particularly of this generation, choose to simplify or Americanize their surnames, but “ADAMSHOCK” is too awesome to have ditched.

ICYMI! Check out my appearance on Sean's podcast: Peace Bound and Down -- A Wonder Woman Podcast! Secrets are revealed - you have been warned...

Wait hold on a minute. Random thought! Are Apollo and Midnighter’s names some kind of…reference or gesture to J.J. Cale’s “After Midnight at the Apollo”? I mean, probably not? But it just hit me: huh, that’s funny.

Today is the 100th birthday of writer, artist, and editor Al Feldstein (Oct. 24, 1925-April 29, 2014), who is most remembered for his work at EC Comics and for the several decades he served as editor of Mad magazine.

20 years ago today he died. If this was a real podcast instead of merely a dream of my heart, it would have been a thoughtful launch date.

Happy Suicide Squad Day (modern version) to those who celebrate! (Legends #3, featuring the first post-Crisis appearance of the Suicide Squad, on sale date: October 23, 1986)

You ever check out ComicChron.com? It can be kinda bad for your mental health. Did you know JLA #1, premiere issue of my favorite comics run of all time,* sold fewer copies than (checks) Medieval Spawn vs Witchblade #3? Not even #1! JLA only just eked out a spot over a Badrock/Wolverine crossover!