An afternoon reminder: today is the 22nd anniversary of my comics blog, and it's your fault for not stopping me: www.progressiveruin.com/2025/12/05/s...

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

“When you have Sean Phillips on the art and Jacob Phillips coloring the comic, you can tell that kind of epic story by just showing a guy sitting around a plush casino hotel room, listening to an Agatha Christie mystery on his iPod, and getting high…” www.fromcovertocover.com/ed-brubaker-...

Read a comic last night. Banged a review of it out tonight to be published in the morning. It’s nice to know that I can still do that kind of quick turnaround if I needed to.

A rare Tuesday afternoon movie with Wake Up, Dead Man.

Somewhere, the Starbucks Cup from Game of Thrones is smiling quietly to itself

I really don't know what to make of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqq...

“A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. Enthusiasms. What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? … Baseball!”

Are the Bears a real team?

“Cold Day In Hell … [embraces] the characters’ age and the years that have passed. Murdock and Bullseye are old men and look like it.” This could be called The Daredevil Returns for all of its Frank Miller callbacks. www.fromcovertocover.com/charles-soul...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: Huey Lewis and the News Liz Phair Michael Shannon Alex Chilton & Big Star Lindsey Buckingham

Post something random or you’ll have an awful December.

mfw the Inhumans show up in a Fantastic Four comic

4 and a half hours or as I like to call it, next Friday night.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant! My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st. forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...

“It is not hyperbole to say that Soule and McNiven want to do The Dark Knight Returns for Daredevil, aping everything from the aged-out hero to Miller’s 16-panel page.” I wrote about Charles Soule and Steve McNiven’s Daredevil and how it's a haunted comic. www.fromcovertocover.com/charles-soul...

Builder’s Square Mediaplay Best Buy Ulta Beauty One of these is not like the others but it’s where I’ve been the longest.

Tomorrow on the site.

When does DC get around to doing a facsimile edition of this one?

What’s your favorite comic book from the 80s?

I love comics www.tcj.com/the-silent-r...

Never forget.

Applications for CAKE 2026 open December 1st! The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) returns May 2nd and 3rd at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago’s Mayfair neighborhood. We can’t wait to see you there!

4 men walk into the auditions for Han Solo. Only one can get the part.

No.

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Moving at the Speed of Concrete: “The Transatlantic Swim”, by @tomshaps.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/11/19/m...

“There’re about a thousand of us.”

So Jack In the Box is not FAST food? 20 minutes and counting.

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

I honestly just read the first series a few weeks ago. It was a fantastic story about the stories we construct around ourselves and which of those we share with other people (at least, that’s one of my readings of it.) Excited to see where this new series goes.

Quick thoughts on @kierongillen.bsky.social and @stephaniehans.bsky.social return to the world of games in Die Loaded #1. www.fromcovertocover.com/die-loaded-1...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Is this what hope feels like?

And the cover…

This *really* sucks. Teen Vogue has consistently had some of the best political coverage of the last several years. They are one of the few outlets that met the moment. (Hire these writers!!)

ok this cheered me up

HOLY DAVID BROTHERS, BATMAN! New article coming to Shelfdust this Wednesday!

What's the book like? Let @thorazos.bsky.social and @fluxblog.bsky.social fill you in

WE CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Come lean and loafe at your ease and check out SOLRAD, the online literary magazine for comics. solrad.co

This thread is about Evanston, but this has also been going on without reprieve in Elgin, Aurora, and other Chicago suburbs—a metro area of nearly 10 million people.

I would go with Uncanny X-Men #137. That’s the book that picking it up off the drugstore magazine rack just unlocked something in me that’s never been turned off. There were comics before but that’s a turning point for me.

We don’t appreciate these two nearly enough.

A huge thank you to Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman for helping us create a more accurate Medicare Advantage ad. Full segment at the link in our bio!

Outside Chicago— State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear. A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection. Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.

I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

There’s a BMW dealership in Schereville with a billboard on I294 that quotes Tombstone— “I’ll be your Huckleberry.” You’re dying of tuberculosis but will fight Johnny Ringo for me? That’s awfully cool of you, BMW.