The Iron Age of Comics
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A critical reevaluation of comic books from about 1985-2000. New episodes the first and third Wednesdays of the month, comics posts all the time. linktr.ee/ironageofcomics (Not affiliated with any other “Iron Age” comics-related entities.)
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The Iron Age of Comics@ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 14h agoNEW EPISODE! The Knightfall saga concludes as Jean-Paul Valley battles Bruce Wayne for the title of the Dark Knight in “KnightsEnd”! And in the aftermath, Batman is…Dick Grayson?! LISTEN: www.patreon.com/ironageofcom...
#Transformers #TransformersComics
ClarionComicsJP@clarioncomicsjp.bsky.social · 14h agowww.youtube.com/watch?v=Py-u... This week it's a prose story, written by an amazing writer, whose name I was surprised to see attached to this story once I'd finished reading it. Because of the brevity of the story, that's pretty much all I can say without spoiling it! #transformers
NEW EPISODE! The Knightfall saga concludes as Jean-Paul Valley battles Bruce Wayne for the title of the Dark Knight in “KnightsEnd”! And in the aftermath, Batman is…Dick Grayson?! LISTEN: www.patreon.com/ironageofcom...
Today’s “KnightsEnd” episode is free for all, but sign up for exclusive essays in our Patreon newsletter to see wherever the hell I’m going with this: www.patreon.com/ironageofcom...
Monty is my dogg
Charles Prepolec@sherlockeditor.bsky.social · 4d agoBorn #OTD in 1862, Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) influential master of the English ghost story, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), Eton College (1918–36), and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15).
Dang it, got caught between the moon and New York City again
Shooter was a close reader, full stop, though almost always in a "Romans imitating the Greeks" manner where he could jot off an acceptable simulation that missed the nuances and soul of the source. I'm convinced that fed his arrogance and fueled the ire against him at Marvel.
Tegan O’Neil@teganoneil5000.bsky.social · 5d agoShooter was actually a close reader of Claremont: the X-Men get rolled for most of that event because Shooter was following what was happening in Uncanny and correctly ascertained that group, with those interior stresses, as the X-Men were in 1984 - would get rolled on Battleworld. and they did!
I liked the new Spider-Man movie although it’s sort of like, “What even is Spider-Man as a concept anymore?” We’re never gonna get a movie that works and stands alone like the Raimi movies again, but ah well.
I saw the first Raimi Spider-Man for free because I worked at a movie theater, and now I am seeing the new Spider-Man for free because my son works at a movie theater. I expect him to have a son of his own and Marvel to keep making these movies so that we can keep this tradition alive.
I’d really love to spread the word about my comic book website Shelfdust. If you could please follow @shelfdust.bsky.social on Bluesky I’d really appreciate it - and I think you’ll enjoy it too!
Future historians are going to make a fun little hobby out of trying to puzzle out why Hollywood kept giving him these big movies. Like how they enjoy debating whether those medieval “dancing plagues” were some kind of mass psychological breakdown or if it was just widespread ergot poisoning.
C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · last wk.Tapping the sign.
How on earth did Peter Parker get a Late Show with David Letterman baseball jacket?
NEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...
Casefile #20: The Dark Knight Returns
Listen to Casefile #20: The Dark Knight Returns from The Black Casebook wherever you get your podcasts!
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🚨 NEW VIDEO 🚨 SPIDER-MAN: CHAPTER ONE - WHAT WENT WRONG? I explain the history of John Byrne's Spider-Man: Chapter One, how this comic tried to reboot Marvel's flagship hero and why it ultimately failed. 👇 LINK BELOW 👇
I almost never play a video game these days (Jim is a little more active with that sort of thing) but I very much enjoyed this.
Videogame Beaches🏳️⚧️@videogamebeach.bsky.social · 2y agoHouse Beach (A Short Hike, adamgryu, 2019)
Karen Berger in DC Comics' offices during her tenure in charge of Vertigo.
BONUS EPISODE! Hornet! Ricochet! Dusk! Prodigy! They’re all secretly Spider-Man, and we talk about them all in “Identity Crisis,” a snapshot of the Spidey books in the post-Clone Saga malaise. Listen by becoming a $2 a month patron or by making a one-time purchase: www.patreon.com/ironageofcom...
Getting all dressed up for the Patreon-exclusive bonus episode dropping on Wednesday…
Getting all dressed up for the Patreon-exclusive bonus episode dropping on Wednesday…
I’m watching that Masters of the Universe movie and it really makes you realize, like, even the most autopilot samey-same MCU movie is generally *charming,* you know? Charm is such an X-factor that will allow an audience to forgive so much. And you can’t fake it, it turns out.
I never got around to mentioning this in our Reign episodes, but I find it extremely charming that the Cyborg Superman’s mechanical hand is on a hinge and just sort of pops off when he needs it to be a Mega Man gun-arm.
Zach Rust@zach-rust.bsky.social · 2w ago#JulyCharacterCover Day 25: Dan Jurgens Superman vol. 2 #79, with cover art by Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding & Glenn Whitmore @jdiz.bsky.social
Cyclopes are all the rage now, yeah? I'll take advantage of that by bringing Adventure Dennis Level 1 to a new, simpler webpage. Remember Adventure Dennis, the webcomic from 2004? No you don't, liar. Over the next month or so, I'll put the whole thing up like this. www.bookofpdr.com/comics/adven...
At 7 pm I will be moderating a panel on Maybe We Should Just Do Hot Dogs for Dinner.
The Iron Age of Comics@ironageofcomics.bsky.social · 2w agoOfficial release for The Iron Age of Comics’ #SDCC itinerary!!
