9 - Doomsday Is it a hot take to say I've never really loved the idea that Superman was killed by a non-verbal rage monster conceived and introduced just to pound him to death? #TradingCardADay #DCMS #Mongul #JohnEstes
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X-Factor 40 runners-up from the week of 10/18 to 10/24! Featuring art by Bill Sienkiewicz, Lee Weeks, David Yardin & Ivan Shavrin. Which one is your favorite? #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #BeautyAndTheBeast #Gambit #XFactorVol3 #XFactorVol4
#6 - Treehouse of Horror VI (1995) Segment Ranks: Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores - 1 Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace - 3 Homer³ - 4 One of the eps w/no clear standout nor a clear loser. I could be convinced any one segment is the best. #31DaysOfTreehouse #TheSimpsons #Halloween
299 - X-Men Legends (vol. 2) #3 - 10/26/2022 Nocenti returns to arguably her most significant character creation. Cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli. Interiors by Ann Nocenti & Javier Pina. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XMenLegends #Longshot
8 - Mongul Now featuring the correct card! Still wild that the whole Green Lantern mythos got turned upside down by catching strays from a Superman story. #TradingCardADay #DCMS #Mongul #JohnEstes
8 - Mongul Still wild that the whole Green Lantern mythos got turned upside down by catching strays from a Superman story. #TradingCardADay #DCMS #Mongul #JohnEstes
#7 - Treehouse of Horror XXXII (2022) Segment Ranks: The Pookadook - 3 Death Tome - 1 Simpsons World - 2 "Death Tome" is super fun (anime Simpsons ftw), but while none of these are A+ segments, all three are solid B pluses. #31DaysOfTreehouse #TheSimpsons #Halloween
7 - The Eradicator I know he couldn't stay in it forever, but the OG black suit, red S-logo & cape with the giant shades was a WAY better look than this generic bodysuit. #TradingCardADay #DCMS #LexLuthor #JohnEstes
#8 - Treehouse of Horror II (1991) Segment Ranks The Monkey’s Paw - 1 The Bart Zone - 3 If I Only Had a Brain - 2 "Monkey's Paw" is iconic ("the turkey's a little dry!!!"), but I can honestly take or leave the other two. #31DaysOfTreehouse #TheSimpsons #Halloween
Today's 31 Days of Heistoween: the Crestwood House monster books, those old bright orange hardcovers found in elementary school libraries in the 80s! Formative texts, they introducted me to the Universal monsters, classic cinema & film analysis popheist.com/heistoween-c...
Heistoween Day 24: The Crestwood House Monster Books
Despite being intended for an audience of 8-12 year-olds, the Crestwood House monster series is a stunningly thorough work of film theory.
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297 - X-Men (vol. 2) #204 - 10/24/2007 Remy with the wandering hand... Cover by Mike Choi. Interiors by Mike Carey & Choi. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XMenVol2 #Gambit
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The sheer availability of old comics to be read for moderate prices. Like, I’m not even talking pirating; I remember a time when collected editions were rare, and if you wanted to read anything that was A. Old and B. Not a key first appearance, you needed big money.
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For "Something Spooky," I look at Uncanny X-Men #159 and how it heralds the beginning of a new type of X-Men story - "X-Men and Vampires" - for better and worse. comicon.com/2026/10/23/s...
6 - Lex Luthor II It cannot be overstated how wild Lex Luthor's early to mid 90s arc is. Shame we missed out on a fully-painted, high-end, full-bleed card of bearded, red-haired, Supergirl-dating, faking being his own son Luthor. #TradingCardADay #DCMS #LexLuthor #JohnEstes
#9 - Treehouse of Horror (1990) Segment Ranks: Bad Dream House - 3 Hungry Are the Damned - 1 The Raven - 2 The one that started it all - and gave the series' its name. Still stands as a pretty solid entry, overall. #31DaysOfTreehouse #TheSimpsons #Halloween
297 - X-Factor #61 - 10/23/1990 While easily the least of the three X-Factor "X-Tinction" covers, no one did crazy-ass spider-cyborg Hodge as good as Bogdanove. Cover by Jon Bogdanove. Interiors by Louise Simonson & Bogdanove #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XFactor #JeanGrey
Uncanny X-Men #232 is a fun kickoff to one of the signature Outback Era stories, made all the more compelling for the way it subverts the norm and presents the X-Men as the monsters in the monster story. comicon.com/2024/10/24/s...
5 - Cyborg In case you hadn't noticed, the first 9 card "page" of this set is themed ("Superman peeps"). That will continue (loosely, in some cases) for the rest of the set. I'd love to know why the last sentence on the cardback is bracketed. #TradingCardADay #DCMS #JohnEstes
#10 - Treehouse of Horror VIII (1997) Segment Ranks: The HΩmega Man - 2 Fly vs. Fly - 3 Easy-Bake Coven - 1 "Coven" is the kind of story I wish they did more often in TOH, an exploration of Halloween tropes rather than a straight adaptation of a story. #31DaysOfTreehouse #TheSimpsons #Halloween
296 - X-Force #5 - 10/22/1991 The debut of Toad's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants! Featuring the return of Sauron after a nine (!) year absence. Cover by Rob Liefeld. Interiors by Fabian Nicieza & Liefeld. #XmenADay #XMen #XFactor40 #XForce #Pyro
Zombie Black Cat has landed, as Marvel Snap's Halloween-themed aversion to adding new characters to the game continues! comicon.com/2026/10/13/s...
4 - Steel Shaq's favorite character! As DC's answer to Marvel Masterpieces these cards all feature fully-painted art, a step-up from previous DC sets Love that the cardback bio just had to use the word "urban" for a Black character. 🙄 #TradingCardADay #DCMS #Steel #JohnEstes
#11 - Treehouse of Horror X (1998) Segment Ranks: I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did - 3 Desperately Xeeking Xena - 1 Life’s a Glitch, Then You Die - 2 The episode which gave us "A wizard did it." #31DaysOfTreehouse #TheSimpsons
DYK: while often thought of as emblematic of the cycle of comic book deaths & resurrections, Jean Grey has only had two extended periods of time in which she was considered dead: 1980-1985 (64 months) and 2003-2017 (168 months, though O5 Jean was around for some of that).
Which 90s X-Men "big bad" is your favorite? From Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 1993 Art by David Braun, Glenn Barr, Peter Bollinger, and Chris Moeller. #TradingCardADay #Xmen #FUXM
In my latest Heistoween post for @popheist.com, I break down the (highly-subjective)(oddball) rules which govern my Halloween playlist. popheist.com/heistoween-d...
Heistoween Day 20: Halloween Playlist Rules
Unlike with Christmas music, building a Halloween playlist involves a lot more decisions about whether or not a song "counts."
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