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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 “Lizzie Is Having An Awfully Big Adventure”: The Unwritten #17: shelfdust.com/2025/12/31/l...

Never condemned her... shelfdust.com/2021/09/15/h...

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And Steve is right about the two things that never work, by the way. He's a smart one...

A Christmas miracle! Steve talking about comics!

🎄 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🎄 Twas The Scott Lang Before Christmas: Marvel What The?! #16: shelfdust.com/2025/12/24/t...

Wrote about comics, music, and being a son, sparked by a short read from a talented creator. I ended up buying that new Dylan project on record store day recently because of Oshimi’s work. good art often leads to more art, whether im making it or taking it in.

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David's writing. Always to die for.

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Me and Shuzo Oshimi’s “Me and Bob Dylan (And My Father)”, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2025/12/17/m...

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Listening back to an old episode of @shelfdust.bsky.social's podcast The War Effort, and pleased to discover that apparently I decided to make a passing reference to Matt Lucas on Shooting Stars yelling "Av asked fer soup but thev not brought any"

OK, so! I got off the bench, took my warmups off, and hopped back into the writing-about-comics game to talk about one of my favorite issues of one of my favorite comics runs, the fairly buckwild (and also fairly visionary) Milligan/Allred (/Cooke) X-Force

Up on @shelfdust.bsky.social, this was good. Surprising no-one, I loved this X-force and Edie specifically.

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Earnest Subversion in Milligan and Cooke’s X-Force #124, by @keithpille.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/12/10/e...

Happy Holidays oh by the way we have a new @iamdavidbrothers.com article coming to the site this month

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Fantástico

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 “Why’d You Have To Be Such Heroes?” The Forever Of Thanos Imperative #6, by @silenttt.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/12/03/w...

OH SNAP

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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Plastic Fantastic: Plastic Man Gets Reefer Madness in Police Comics #5: www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 “Belief Is Power”: The Unwritten #16: shelfdust.com/2025/11/26/b...

Follow Shelfdust on Patreon - as a paid backer or free backer - and you’ll get sent Shelf-Redux each week, a random essay from t’archive: www.patreon.com/Shelfdust

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I found that series absolutely fascinating. So strange.

Fuckin' Concrete. A staple image of Indie Comics that popped up sans context in most of my comic shop visits for what feels like a two-decade span. But this article gives me more context on him today than any imagery I encountered back then, none of which made me buy a single issue/book.

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

A wonderful article about one of the greatest single issues of any comic ever. Concrete is an annual re-read for me. Please give it a shot if you've never discovered it before!

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

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⚔️ NEW on Shelfdust Today ⚔️ The Annotated Savage Sword of Susan: shelfdust.com/2025/11/12/t...

An excellent piece of the 90s SHADE THE CHANGING reboot and its continuing relevance. @jamesgunn.bsky.social , is this one a candidate for an adaption? Maybe with Yorgos Lanthimos or Coralie Fargeat?

Halloween might be over, but the spooky nature of confession and Ghost Rider comics is eternal 💀🔥

I heard a familiar melody on the air while reading Batman #1 before a flight. I wrote about it, and hope you'll follow me on a short journey about Bat-aesthetics, writers and visual styles, and why Batman is in its Jorge Jimenez era.

citations to charles portis and the miami vice pilot, this piece absolutely has it ALL. what a read.

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Batman #1: Styles Upon Styles Upon Styles Is What They Have, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2025/11/05/b...

www.patreon.com/posts/142644... Shelfdust absolutely worth your money, as ever - a great long read from David Brothers about the Bat!

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

Its mischief night 😈 So #ICYMI I wrote a spooky thing about a spooky guy

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust!! 🚨 Plastic Fantastic: Female Wrestlers Take The City in Police Comics #4: www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...

Happy Halloween! Shelfdust covered every issue of The Long Halloween IN REAL TIME, one holiday at a time: shelfdust.com/category/bat...

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

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?

💀🔥 NEW on Shelfdust today!! 💀🔥 Cursed Confession: Johnny Blaze’s Guilt Rides Wild in Ghost Rider #68, by @stevebaxi.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/10/29/c...

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I completely agree with this, in that the pods and sites in Tyler's thread and its replies are excellent, and goodness knows we do our best at HtA, but I totally want to shout out @shelfdust.bsky.social in particular for its analysis of single issues from years past