🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Little Fables with Big Scares in the FOBIA Horror Anthology, by Alice Dezo 🚨 A Dezo Debut on the site today, as she dives into a recent horror anthology! shelfdust.com/2026/05/20/l...

🚨 Now on Shelfdust! 🚨 Die, Die My Darling! On Rumiko Takahashi’s The Laughing Target, by @ronchronchronch.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/05/18/d...

I swear we didn’t know! But in light of the #eisners nominations the timing of this interview with Steve about @shelfdust.bsky.social was impeccable.

Shelfdust got an Eisner nomination, so you should read their current articles like this one by @bbeatrix.bsky.social so when they get the NEXT Eisner nomination, you can brag you read it at the time

Shelfdust is funded through the kindness of our backers on Patreon, who get to read exclusive features and writing every month in return! You can support Will Eisner's favourite comics website here: patreon.com/shelfdust

Shelfdust has been nominated for Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism at this year's Eisner Awards: www.comic-con.org/awards/eisne...

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Great piece by the amazing @bbeatrix.bsky.social!! @shelfdust.bsky.social

Fantastic new essay by @bbeatrix.bsky.social on the Spectre today! Looking at the Fleisher and Ostrander runs in particular, and how the Spectre tries the impossible: to "wash away the blood of the world with blood."

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Acts of God: John Ostrander’s Mission in The Spectre #13, by @bbeatrix.bsky.social 🚨 Read here ▶️ shelfdust.com/2026/05/13/a...

Interview! “There’s Value in Being the Oddbeat Offering Which Has an Unusual Niche” – Steve Morris @stevewmorris.bsky.social Talks about Shelfdust’s Approach to Comics Criticism and Where it All Went Wrong for Comics Commentary Online. www.brokenfrontier.com/steve-morris...

🚨 TODAY on Shelfdust! 🚨 Bona To Vada: How John Smith Mastered Queer Code Switching In Comics, by @cuntersthompson.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/05/11/b...

Finally got to Batman Annual #10, which features the second best Batman villain, Hugo Strange! But more importantly its an excuse to re-read this awesome piece on @shelfdust.bsky.social

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Next week on Shelfdust

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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Shelfdust’s Year of Evil: Galactus 🚨 @stevewmorris.bsky.social looks back at the first coming of Galactus to see how much of that original characterisation still exists within today’s Galactus! shelfdust.com/2026/05/06/s...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Plastic Fantastic: Plastic Man Gets Tangled Up by Hairy Arms in Police Comics #9 🚨 Read now! www.patreon.com/posts/plasti...

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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Plastic Fantastic: Plastic Man Gets Tangled Up by Hairy Arms in Police Comics #9 🚨 Read now! www.patreon.com/posts/plasti...

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Shelfdust’s Year of Evil: Galactus 🚨 @stevewmorris.bsky.social looks back at the first coming of Galactus to see how much of that original characterisation still exists within today’s Galactus! shelfdust.com/2026/05/06/s...

Now on Shelfdust! Unlimited Color: The Force Behind Cam Kennedy’s Star Wars Art, by @cuntersthompson.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/05/04/u...

Now on Shelfdust! Unlimited Color: The Force Behind Cam Kennedy’s Star Wars Art, by @cuntersthompson.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/05/04/u...

Bloody hell, ALSO next week on Shelfdust

Next week on Shelfdust

Next week on Shelfdust: the gutter era begins

I fear no one else needs to write about DKR ever again, @rhidaneelolivaw.bsky.social has it covered so thoroughly! Always happy when new Shelfdust hits the inbox 🫡

On a very basic level I will always love this comic, it’s grids, it’s density, it’s use of media panels, the sheer propulsive rush of it, and anything I do the least bit actiony will probably be to some extent an attempt to recreate that feel.

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Perfect Things and Diamond Absolutes: @rhidaneelolivaw.bsky.social on The Dark Knight Returns #1 🚨 shelfdust.com/2026/04/29/t...

With permission from Chloe - and the writers for each article - I’m going to republish The Gutter Review’s archive onto Shelfdust across this year!

News! @stevewmorris.bsky.social Steve Morris’s ‘Shelfdust’ Comics Commentary Site to Republish @cuntersthompson.bsky.social Chloe Maveal’s ‘The Gutter Review’ through 2026. www.brokenfrontier.com/shelfdust-gu...

Comics news news: Newsarama no more? SKTCHD takes a break; Gutter filth reurns: Some news about the news of comics, as the long running comics news site Newsarama is effectively no more, and other notes

Shelfdust is one of the most underrated comics-related sites on the internet. This is great news.

Just about the coolest news ever

This is fantastic news! BREAKING NEWS! Shelfdust Jumps Into The Gutter shelfdust.com/2026/04/27/b... @shelfdust.bsky.social @thegutterreview.bsky.social

We're bringing @cuntersthompson.bsky.social's Gutter Review to Shelfdust! Every Monday we'll be republishing Gutter Review articles from their stellar archive onto Shelfdust!

BREAKING NEWS: Shelfdust Jumps Into The Gutter! shelfdust.com/2026/04/27/b...

I love comics where someone goes out of their way to put their negativity into someone else

Shelfdust press release on Monday unless I get too excited and put it out today instead

here's me, sampling a title from Gillen McKelvie's Young Avengers to talk about some very pleasant crime comics. Ginger's Revenge tambien está disponible en español. My take on the pleasure of crime thrillers is only in English, though.

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Style Is Substance And Action Is Character: @iamdavidbrothers.com on “Ginger’s Revenge” 🚨 A crime thriller that could only be told via comic book, with a very different kind of lead protagonist! shelfdust.com/2026/04/22/g...

“He stole the music out of a life,” Wolverine laments on the opening page, cradling the mutant composer Gerhart’s broken violin and looking over a wash of dramatically framed, blood-stained sheafs of compositions. “He’s killing our geniuses.” @hollyhambone.bsky.social shelfdust.com/2024/09/11/a...

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Steve delivers the goods here. A one two-punch with knuckle tattoos reading "Cowls" and "Politics" (in this analogy the figurative hands have six and nine fingers).

Let’s talk about the MONEY

Funnily, even as the superhero genre wants to be more adult it can equally seem more childish: notably the need for every hero/villain to be the strongest/smartest/richest/etc. So Batman goes from being vaguely "wealthy" to a billionaire whose family shaped Gotham. I've said before it'd be an...1/3

A+ headline work from @stevewmorris.bsky.social

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Which Absolute Batman Variant Is Worth The Most Money? shelfdust.com/2026/04/15/w...