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

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Spectacular Spider-Man Does Iran-Contra, by Hank Kennedy: shelfdust.com/2025/10/22/s...

I wrote an essay for @shelfdust.bsky.social about the gentle anti-capitalist use of cultural nostalgia in the French graphic novel Onibi, an autobiographical account of a summer in rural northern Japan. Degrowth might feel uncanny, but it's also warm and beautiful. 🍂 shelfdust.com/2025/10/15/a...

👻 NEW on Shelfdust today! 👻 Analog Nostalgia and Gentle Degrowth in Onibi: Diary Of A Yokai Ghost Hunter, by @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/10/15/a...

now THIS is a headline

I Still Think Beast Should Be Sent To Prison shelfdust.com/2025/02/12/i...

This week on the site, @kathrynthehuman.bsky.social goes ghost hunting....

🚨 On Shelfdust! 🚨 Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #12: How Jimmy Olsen Saved The Planet shelfdust.com/2022/04/08/d...

Reminder that I run a comic book website called @shelfdust.bsky.social and it’s full of weird and unique essays about comics. I’d love for more people to take a look! www.shelfdust.com

This week on the site @kateodo.bsky.social took on Young Justice, the ur-text for a new generation of comic book readers: shelfdust.com/2025/10/01/y...

wow! what a joy to write abt my favorite comic and my favorite sport SIMULTANEOUSLY for @shelfdust.bsky.social !!! ever grateful to steve for putting up w me and for being the first person I pitched post-screenrant

⚾ NEW on Shelfdust today! ⚾ Young Justice #27 Steps Up To The Plate, by @kateodo.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/10/01/y...

The good folks at SHELFDUST @shelfdust.bsky.social are nearing the wrapup for their epic series of Jimmy Olsen essays. This time Tim Stevens @ungajje.bsky.social looks at issue 11! www.patreon.com/posts/shelfd...

This is an issue where Plastic Man has to shut down an illegal pinball arcade before it corrupts the minds of America’s youth

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Plastic Fantastic: Plastic Man's a Pinball Wizard in Police Comics #3! www.patreon.com/posts/plasti...

Next week @kateodo.bsky.social brings baseball to Shelfdust and hits a full goal using her batting club. HOWZAT!

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 “One For The Road”: The Unwritten #15, by @stevewmorris.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/09/24/o...

A piece on Iron Man #192 for @shelfdust.bsky.social shelfdust.com/2025/08/06/d...

@kellykanayama.bsky.social 's essay about 'The Punishette' in this week's @shelfdust.bsky.social is crazy good! Just a well-rounded, thoughtful reflection on 'take-up-the-mantle' characters, comic book machismo, and the police state. Check both Kelly and Shelfdust out on Patreon!

Next week on Shelfdust: corporate IP slop

💀 NEW on Shelfdust today! 💀 Kings of the Castle #4: Eat Pray Punish, by @kellykanayama.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/09/17/k...

Hell yes, another Kelly Kanayama "We Have Punisher At Home" column!

💀 NEW on Shelfdust today! 💀 Kings of the Castle #4: Eat Pray Punish, by @kellykanayama.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/09/17/k...

This is a great piece. Scott Pilgrim is a more ambiguous and thorny work than it usually gets remembered as, and its choice to have the protagonist also be, in many ways, synonymous with its villain pays real dividends. (Prescient ones, as Steve points out.)

I finally address the important question: what if Punisher...but girl?? (This was actually really hard to put together so I'm psyched that it's out in the world!)

Next week on Shelfdust:

I'm back on @shelfdust.bsky.social, which is just a thrill for me. I wrote about #JimmyOlsen 11, shining a light on what makes Olsen #Superman's Pal and how inspires that same sort of loyalty in others. shelfdust.com/2025/09/10/s...

🚨 NEW On Shelfdust Today! 🚨 Shelfdust’s Column, Jimmy Olsen: Issue #11, by @ungajje.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/09/10/s...

@stevewmorris.bsky.social writes another stunning piece on dipshits (complimentary), dipshits (derogatory), and the imaginary lines between the two. It's dead good.

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Shelfdust’s YEAR OF EVIL! Gideon Graves: www.patreon.com/posts/138353...

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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 When Green Arrow Bashed Back: Running the Gauntlet of Gay Representation in 1980, by Hank Kennedy: shelfdust.com/2025/09/03/g...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Plastic Fantastic! Plastic Man Takes on an Opium Den in Police Comics #2: www.patreon.com/posts/plasti...

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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 “She Lied Without Shame”: The Unwritten #14, by @stevewmorris.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/08/27/t...

these kinds of dives are pretty cool. You can learn a lot about people and our culture more generally seeing work like this.

Last week on the site, @hollyhambone.bsky.social took on Avengers Academy: Voices #22 as part of her four-part series on the life and legacy of Captain America’s gay best friend, Arnie Roth: shelfdust.com/2025/08/20/i...