Let's make it official: SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION. If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop: bookshop.org/lists/shelve...

Our Moore unit continues with another huge episode on From Hell, which I think really deserves the deep and complex discussion we gave it. Also, we announce what we'll be covering ALL of next year!

SHELVED BY GENRE completes Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's FROM HELL, learning a great deal of things in another barn-burner 4-hour episode! Plus, if you pay close attention, you'll catch the official announcement of our NEXT UNIT. Listen in: rangedtouch.com/2025/11/07/f...

A sneaky weekend drop of the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we spend 3 hours talking about a book that is 80 pages long! It's worth it, though, as few texts have been as impactful on how we talk about our present moment as Mark Fisher's CAPITALIST REALISM: rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...

A sneaky weekend drop of the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, in which we spend 3 hours talking about a book that is 80 pages long! It's worth it, though, as few texts have been as impactful on how we talk about our present moment as Mark Fisher's CAPITALIST REALISM: rangedtouch.com/2025/10/31/8...

If you wanna get a question in for next month's JUST KING THINGS Patreon Q&A bonus episode, the submission deadline is TOMORROW at 10pm EDT! thequestionsewer at gmail dot com

I love hearing the honchos talking about comics medium. Every time I listen to them talk about it, it makes me motivated in writing comics script.

this is what sweet dreams are made of, i'm so excited

Is this our longest episode yet? Yes. But it had to be.

Five-star runtime? More like five PENTAGRAM runtime! Today Shelved by Genre talks for over four hours about the first nine chapters of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's high concept Jack the Ripper yarn FROM HELL, bringing all our diverse pools on knowledge to bear: rangedtouch.com/2025/10/24/f...

Another episode of Michael on Michael, one of the many ways @rangedtouch.bsky.social takes care of me

For our Patreon supporters, there's a new episode of MICHAEL ON MICHAEL, in which Michael discusses Bay's first sequel, BAD BOYS II: www.patreon.com/posts/michae...

The saga of Roland and the Dark Tower is over, but that doesn't mean there's not more to be seen in Mid-World! 2012's A WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE has some stuff to say about werewolves, storms, matricidal forgiveness, little trains, and of course, Elf Language rangedtouch.com/2025/10/13/t...

Great conversation. Very interesting to hear Jacob talk about video essays playing on emotions and the role of storytelling in the medium. Mirrors my own thoughts that many in the space lean on the strength of their voice over the strength of their argument.

A new JUST KING THINGS bonus ep, available to all our Patreon supporters: we tackle 1994's THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, the best movie of all time according to IMDb, perhaps because of how immaculately it's made and how confusing its message actually is. www.patreon.com/posts/141116...

The saga of Roland and the Dark Tower is over, but that doesn't mean there's not more to be seen in Mid-World! 2012's A WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE has some stuff to say about werewolves, storms, matricidal forgiveness, little trains, and of course, Elf Language rangedtouch.com/2025/10/13/t...

SHELVED BY GENRE has completed the second half of THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, in which Alan Moore & Co expand the character's mythology, making some truly baffling and ill-advised choices but also giving us some of the coolest-looking Swamp Things ever put on paper. rangedtouch.com/2025/10/10/s...

SHELVED BY GENRE has completed the second half of THE SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING, in which Alan Moore & Co expand the character's mythology, making some truly baffling and ill-advised choices but also giving us some of the coolest-looking Swamp Things ever put on paper. rangedtouch.com/2025/10/10/s...

I ended up liking this movie on rewatch more than I thought I would, but mostly because the final minute or so (which I had forgotten) totally got my ass

There's a SBG Bonus ep today, with a movie as beloved (?) as it is reviled (??), the freewheeling Bush-era adaptation of V FOR VENDETTA: www.patreon.com/posts/shelve...

Big thanks to Jacob for dropping by GSSB this month! Sorry to miss it, as unfortunately I am recovering in the virtual hospital from a virtual trucking accident, but I am working tirelessly to heal my virtual bones and manage the virtual lawsuits so as to be back in your ears as soon as possible.

This month's GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES is a little bit of a swerve. @ckunzelman.bsky.social talks to @jacobgeller.com about YouTube essaying and how it intersects with knowledge production! rangedtouch.com/2025/09/30/8...

Today on SHELVED BY GENRE we continue our Alan Moore unit by talking about the first three books of SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING and we also talk about how this guy sounds like Jiminy Cricket. rangedtouch.com/2025/09/26/s...

the genius of Alan Moore on full display

We asked and Chicoblue from the discord delivered. We present this for you to witness:

Our Moore unit is off and running now that we’ve completed V for Vendetta, a comic I forgot so much about because the film had taken its place in my mind. Much more Moore-y, largely I think for the better. More than that, it’s also so much more direct about what contemporary fascism would look like.

the soil of a man's heart is hard as fuck, louis

Finally ranged touch is taking down the smug faux-intellectualism of C is for Cookie

V for Vendetta is nice because it doesn't pretend vendetta is the only word that starts with V and actually tells you about a bunch of the others

The cabaret is leaving town--SHELVED BY GENRE today discusses the last book of V FOR VENDETTA, in which everything sort of wraps up, and we wonder which debonair antiheroes might be our next object of fixation: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/12/v...

The Kennedy book is a fun romp and way weirder than it needs to be. It's a crime story pretending to be a time travel story. The first third is a sequel to IT and the last eighth is a Dark Tower epilogue. I don't know how anyone who hasn't spent their life reading Stephen King makes sense of it.

Meanwhile on Patreon, our Bonus Episode for this month covers the TV miniseries adaptation of 11/22/63, which features some incredible performances and interesting changes, and also one of the worst performances we've seen in a King adaptation, or maybe anything! www.patreon.com/posts/just-k...

JUST KING THINGS heads to the local diner to discuss one high school teacher's mission to go back in time and teach more high school, and also get a girlfriend, learn how microphones work, and if he has time, stop the Kennedy assassination. It's all here in 11/22/63: rangedtouch.com/2025/09/08/1...

It's a VERY special episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, as we conclude The Summer of Simulation with a special VIDEO-EPISODE concerning our thoughts and adventures on the simulated roads of a simulated America with AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1n8...

This week it's a Shelved By Genre bonus ep, and Patreon supports can hear us talk about one of V for Vendetta's key influences, the absurd, campy, and immaculate revenge flick THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES: www.patreon.com/posts/138200...

This week it's a Shelved By Genre bonus ep, and Patreon supports can hear us talk about one of V for Vendetta's key influences, the absurd, campy, and immaculate revenge flick THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES: www.patreon.com/posts/138200...

I will play this game again and record it if they add Indiana. I promise. I will take you all on a Tour

A new unit begins today on SHELVED BY GENRE, now covering selected works of Alan Moore. We kick things off with a long chat on the first two books of V FOR VENDETTA, making time to offer up some of our trademark earthshaking reinterpretations of the classics: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/29/v...

A new unit begins today on SHELVED BY GENRE, now covering selected works of Alan Moore. We kick things off with a long chat on the first two books of V FOR VENDETTA, making time to offer up some of our trademark earthshaking reinterpretations of the classics: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/29/v...

My wife's cousins once took an hour on his birthday (December 26th) setting up a scenario where my father-in-law, a long-haul trucker for five years, could play this game. He wound up watching them play because he refused to really get his truck going saying he had too many safety checks left to do

It's a VERY special episode of GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, as we conclude The Summer of Simulation with a special VIDEO-EPISODE concerning our thoughts and adventures on the simulated roads of a simulated America with AMERICAN TRUCK SIMULATOR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1n8...

john FREAKING kennedy!!!!!!!!!!

The next unit of SHELVED BY GENRE is here: from now through when 2025 restarts at the end of the year, we're taking a long but not exhaustive look at "Alan Moore qua Alan Moore"—some early and later work, some major and some more marginal, all geared toward contemplating This Guy and His Deal.

This was one of the strangest disaster films I’ve ever watched

erysiphales does not have a bluesky but if anyone who didn’t watch wants to know what the experience is like, he made this gem youtu.be/z_u3z9sQB6A?...

For our Hallmark movie interlude on SHELVED BY GENRE, we watched 2006's 10.5 APOCALYPSE, a made-for-TV epic in which a series of massive earthquakes test the soul of a nation and everyone finds their personal nausea limit for the use of faux-documentary shaky-cam: rangedtouch.com/2025/08/15/1...

I read the whole thing just based on the enthusiasm of Cameron and Michael's first three minutes. Been sweating over what the five sentence summary will be. Dome!!!