🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Resurrecting The Spirit of White Tiger, by @randomortizjr.bsky.social 🚨 Angel explores the recent approach Marvel have taken to White Tiger, their most prominent Puerto Rican hero: shelfdust.com/2026/02/18/r...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Political Dinosaurs: Rocking The Vote in Flintstones #5 🚨 @stevebaxi.bsky.social heads back in time to look at the specific political environment in 2016 that led to The Flintstones participating in, um, genocide: shelfdust.com/2026/02/11/p...

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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Plastic Fantastic: Plastic Man Plays Both Sides in Police Comics #7 🚨 He's the superhero whose secret identity is a wanted criminal! How is he going to stay one step ahead of the Law AND the criminals? www.patreon.com/posts/plasti...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Shelfdust’s Year of Evil: Magneto🚨 How does the original version of Magneto, as seen in X-Men #1 from 1963, compare to the modern idea of the character? Let's take a look! shelfdust.com/2026/02/04/s...

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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Returning with the Tide: Stephen King’s Creepshow 🚨 King super-reader @atuttle81.bsky.social dives into the dark waters of the 1982 Creepshow graphic novel, illustrated by the great Bernie Wrightson: shelfdust.com/2026/01/28/r...

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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Political Martyrs: Horst Wessel and Berlin #14, by @robcave.bsky.social 🚨 How do fascists create their narratives, their heroes? Let’s head back to read Berlin by Jason Lutes, which captures a moment: shelfdust.com/2026/01/21/p...

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I really liked Gravity when it dropped. Cool to see a look back at it, especially one that spins up into the vagaries of creating new characters today.

Got another opportunity to write for @shelfdust.bsky.social ! This time I explored the disillusionment of freshman year and comics' eternal quest for "this generation's Spider-Man," via #Gravity.

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Another Law of Gravity: Creating “The Next Spider-Man”, by @ungajje.bsky.social 🚨 Every few years publishers try to create the new everyman superhero character - but not many of them succeed! Was the new millennium's 'Gravity' any different? shelfdust.com/2026/01/14/a...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Another Law of Gravity: Creating “The Next Spider-Man”, by @ungajje.bsky.social 🚨 Every few years publishers try to create the new everyman superhero character - but not many of them succeed! Was the new millennium's 'Gravity' any different? shelfdust.com/2026/01/14/a...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Shelfdust’s Year of Evil - The Joker 🚨 We look at the first appearance of the Joker to see how much the character has changed over the years! shelfdust.com/2026/01/07/s...

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🚨 Plastic Fantastic: A Farewell to Arms in Police Comics #6 🚨 Plastic Man takes over the cover of Police Comics with issue #6 of the series - and fights a pair of evil arms! www.patreon.com/posts/plasti...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Shelfdust’s Year of Evil - The Joker 🚨 We look at the first appearance of the Joker to see how much the character has changed over the years! shelfdust.com/2026/01/07/s...

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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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Next week on Shelfdust: “I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape”

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!