Also! Go check out “Best Comics of 2025 Contributors' List” from @comicsjournal.bsky.social . I’ve got a bunch of titles on there, but all the other amazing contributors to TCJ come together to make a real behemoth. My reading list certainly got much longer! www.tcj.com/the-best-com...

This episode, as with all episodes brought to you by @plaguingpossum.bsky.social , who will be joining me for a special episode soon talk about our favorite comics we read in 2025. It'll be a bit of a marathon episode so be on the lookout, all you nerds embarking on a road trip in the near future!

There’s a new episode of the Absolute Ultimate Escapist Podcast for y’all! On this episode, the Escapies talk the fate of our beloved institution Free Comic Book Day, as well as the exciting satisfaction of our Jones for Jessica Jones comics! See the links below! open.spotify.com/episode/2502...

Absolute Ultimate Escapist Comics "Episode 6.2: Who’s Max?” with @plaguingpossum.bsky.social is also up! This time I’ve linked the youtube playlist, but it remains up on Spotify & Apple Pods! We talk new comics including Batman #4 FF #6 and several other things as well as good gifts for the season!

Absolute Ultimate Escapist Comics "Episode 6.1: The Angle On Angouleme” with @plaguingpossum.bsky.social and Dr. Perl is up on Spotify, YT, and Apple Podcasts! 6.1 is comics news and I mostly talk a bit about the craziness surrounding angouleme comics festival! open.spotify.com/episode/3z3N...

Go check it out!! I love Monstress, so I was really psyched to get to review it!

Y'all! The newest episodes of the Absolute Ultimate Escapist Podcast are up! They're available on Youtube now along with Spotify and Apple Podcasts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iARj...

Go check out the review and definitely pick up these comics! it's a great run!

A new episode of the Absolute Ultimate Escapist Comics Podcast is up! This time we talk almost exclusively new monthlies, since Perl is busy testing a game! Give me and @plaguingpossum.bsky.social a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/28nW...

It's crazy to read Grant Morrison nailing the tech billionaire rhetoric and jargon so early in its evolution. Elon Musk would absolutely harvest mutant organs to implant into himself all the while spouting transphobic insanity if he was in an X-Men comic

Thanks for the nice review, I’m glad someone is following my million IG stories.

Absolute Ultimate Escapist Comics Pod Episode 3.1 just dropped on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! YouTube is soon to come once they verify my identity! Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/268O...

Another episode of Thick Lines pod from Katie Skelly and Sally Madden that I edited! This one’s on Junji Ito’s Uzumaki! Give it a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/43eK...

@comicsbeat.bsky.social just published the first iteration of my biweekly column on swipe comics "A Year of Free Comics!" This first piece is on @deepdarkfears.bsky.social whose work is really wonderful and creative! www.comicsbeat.com/a-year-of-fr...

My new review of Lumberjanes by @gingerhaze.bsky.social Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen, and Shannon Watter through @boom-studios.com for @fanbasepress.bsky.social ! This is one of my children's comics favs! Huge huge fan! fanbasepress.com/press/review...

This is my favorite panel so far from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social / New York Review of Comics’s wonderful and long overdue Hothead Paisan collection which everyone should be reading right now! CHICKEN STOP VOGUEING!

An R. Crumb Mr. Natural comic but it's Mr. Natural*s* and he has huge bazongas

We’re soooooooooo interestingggggggg you want to hear our takes sooooooo baddddd

I started up the Escapist Comics podcast! The first episode is live, it's funny and fun and co-hosted by Perl and Persephone from the store! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Join “Office Hours” with Fanbase Press' @barbrajdillon.bsky.social every Tuesday from 2-3 PM/PT for those needing a place to troubleshoot issues, celebrate wins, or simply see a familiar face. #BuildYourCommunity Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Capes comics i'm reading and really enjoying right now, a slowly developing thread: 1. Fantastic Four Marvel's first family is back! And they're thrust into a real damn FF adventure story. @ryannorth.ca & @humbertoramos.bsky.social did a little bait-and-switch on the first page with a fight scene

Really crazy little piece of trivia i learned as a comics retailer today while attempting to price a bunch of erotica, a prolific erotica illustrator by the name of Enrique Villagran was also an artist on a bunch of Punisher Comics, and Robin comics!

I'm halfway through reading the Monstress compendium by Marjorie Liu and @sanatakeda.bsky.social for @fanbasepress.bsky.social and from a sheer reading perspective it's one of the funnest, but also hardest assignments I've had. I'm so impressed by how long a fantasy comic this dense is. Bravo!

Read the @comicsjournal.bsky.social review from @briannicholson.bsky.social of Assorted Crisis Events. I'm probably going to keep ranting about it too, but you should read Brian's review. He goes into the context of the genre in a really interesting way. www.tcj.com/reviews/asso...

Assorted Crisis Events by @denizcamp.bsky.social @ericzawadzki.bsky.social Jordie Bellaire, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou is the best thing @imagecomics.com is putting out right now, hands down. You could take just ONE aspect of this book alone and it would take the top spot.

Also in other reading news, @denizcamp.bsky.social somehow snuck Michel Foucault's 'Discipline and Punish' as well as a nonbinary anticolonial indigenous Hawkeye into a friggin Avengers(Ultimates Comic) and that STILL isn't the coolest thing they're writing just for the big two!

I am once again taking to this app to scream the praises of another Lee Lai x @fantagraphics.bsky.social book, this time, her second novel "Cannon," which shows off Lee's incredible character writing. Stone Fruit's character work was obviously beautiful, but the real strength of that work was formal

Okay so I started reading DC's Dark Knights Metal in lieu of finishing up some indie reviews for TCJ(sorry Sally). I've been so stressed with moving and everything I decided I needed some good mindless fun, and oh nelly, it is immediately that! Page three of issue 1

In other "stuff I'm reading right now," I just finished the first trade of @peachmomoko.bsky.social Ultimate X-Men. I've been enjoying a lot of the new Ultimate line, but Peach's is definitely the most original of them all(the rest are just really well-written capes comics).

I sat down today and read this incredible book from Lee Lai and @fantagraphics.bsky.social occasionally I read a book that depicts the deep difficulties of queerness in such an unflinching manner that I find myself having to put it down ever few minutes and take a deep breath.

it's not FOR us

Everyone go check out my Fanbase Press review of one of my children’s comic favs!!

Check out the review!

Loved reading and writing about this book!!

My newest review!

‘Adabana: Volume 1’ (@darkhorse.com): Advance Trade Paperback by Fanbase Press Guest Contributor @janethesturgeon.bsky.social

Letterer Appreciation Day! Here is some Daniel Clowes lettering:

My newest review for @comicsjournal.bsky.social is of Simon Hanselmann's latest self-published series "You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy," a thrilling, horrifying, and depressing zombie romp. www.tcj.com/reviews/you-...

For my newest article for @comicsjournal.bsky.social , I interviewed Sam Szabo, author of Enlightened Transsexual Comix among other things! We talk Valerie Solanas, undergrounds, Lynda Barry and much much more! www.tcj.com/trans-people...

My latest review, this time for Fanbase Press, super fun book!

A great new collection from @boom-studios.com and a wonderful review from @fanbasepress.bsky.social's newest contributor, @janethesturgeon.bsky.social! (Welcome to the team, Tate!)

www.tcj.com/reviews/the-... Another old review for @comicsjournal.bsky.social because I’m finally getting on this app. This one of Alex Graham’s The Devil’s Grin Vol. 1 from @fantagraphics.bsky.social

Another review for @comicsjournal.bsky.social this one from a while back of @tarabooth.bsky.social 's Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It from @fantagraphics.bsky.social www.tcj.com/reviews/proc...

This is my latest review for @comicsjournal.bsky.social of Face Meat by Bonten Taro translated by Ryan Holmberg for @livingtheline.bsky.social www.tcj.com/reviews/face...