@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!)

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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...

Patreon tried to add autopilot onto the Shelfdust account. We've turned this off.

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This Arnie Roth series wound up being pretty personal and having it all done and out their feels like a huge weight off. This also dropped on a pretty rough trans news days and like a week before Fall semester starts so feel free to say Nice Stuff to me today about Arnie & Co....

Above all a writer hopes for readers like @hollyhambone.bsky.social - with the patience, generosity, and thoughtfulness to read your work and really see it. Thank you so much to Holly and to @shelfdust.bsky.social for this extraordinary piece. It honors me in the way I hoped so much to honor Arnie.

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 In the Callowness of Your Misspent Youths: Arnie Roth, Captain America, and the Utopia of Monsters, by @hollyhambone.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/08/20/i...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 In the Callowness of Your Misspent Youths: Arnie Roth, Captain America, and the Utopia of Monsters, by @hollyhambone.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/08/20/i...

Ahead of @hollyhambone.bsky.social's fourth and final Shelfdust essay about Captain America's gay best friend Arnie Roth - which is out tomorrow - catch up on her essay series here! shelfdust.com/tag/arnie-ro...

And THIS week on Shelfdust, @rhidaneelolivaw.bsky.social looks at Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen 10: shelfdust.com/2025/08/13/s...

Next week on Shelfdust: @hollyhambone.bsky.social FINISHES THE STORY I mean her incredible four-part essay series on Arnie Roth

in a very Olsen-esque coincidence, @shelfdust.bsky.social posted the tenth chapter in their running examination of the 12-part series. reading comics and then reading about comics; it's a perfect cycle bsky.app/profile/shel...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Shelfdust’s Column, Jimmy Olsen: Issue #10, by @rhidaneelolivaw.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/08/13/s...

We Watch The Watchmen??? shelfdust.com/category/wat...

This Wednesday!!

Hello new followers! Do you ever wonder if @kellykanayama.bsky.social has thoughts on Lynn Michaels, the ✨ lady ✨ Punisher? She does. See you September

Iron Man is such a cool idea and the original run of comics are packed with interesting psychological consequences to the armor. Check out this piece I wrote for Shelfdust that gets into just one of those many cool concepts

“what if you hold a hammer so long that you confuse it for your own arm?” @stevebaxi.bsky.social looks at addiction, armour, and Iron Man: shelfdust.com/2025/08/06/d...

Next week on Shelfdust: identity is a scam and change is the only thing that never changes

Next week on Shelfdust: identity is a scam and change is the only thing that never changes

For the morning crowd, check out my piece on some classic Iron Man!

Really happy with how this turned out! Give it a read and learn the ways of old, manic depressant Tony Stark

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Duality of Iron: Is Tony Stark Man or Machine?, by @stevebaxi.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2025/08/06/d...

‘Fascism has no need for people. Granny tells the singled out person that they can aspire to become “A rat! Then a Wolf! And who can tell? – – – You may get to be one of Granny’s fine young Tigers”. But never a person again.’ @silenttt.bsky.social shelfdust.com/2025/01/22/m...

‘Fascism has no need for people. Granny tells the singled out person that they can aspire to become “A rat! Then a Wolf! And who can tell? – – – You may get to be one of Granny’s fine young Tigers”. But never a person again.’ @silenttt.bsky.social shelfdust.com/2025/01/22/m...

“Doom Patrol shows a fascination with how many different things one person can be at once… Drake pushes the idea that his readers don’t have to just be the thing that people say they are” shelfdust.com/2025/03/19/i...

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This is a great piece, and I want to also shout out @meakoopa.bsky.social for the incredibly affecting story he wrote about Arnie Roth in Avengers Academy, a series that is enormously worth your time

More on this in August, as Holly concludes her essay series!

This is great @shelfdust.bsky.social @jmdematteis.bsky.social shelfdust.com/2025/07/23/i...

Full disclosure: Shade the Changing Man is my favorite comic book series ever…