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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Shelfdust’s Year of Evil: Gideon Graves, by @stevewmorris.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/08/05/s...
Shelfdust’s Year of Evil: Gideon Graves
Is evil what it used to be? The most popular villains in comic book history are almost all characters who debuted half a century ago, their terrifying legacy and merciless reputation continuing onw…
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🚨 Now on Shelfdust! 🚨 You Can Call Me Al’s Baby: The Bundle of Joy in a Throwaway Title, by @cuntersthompson.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/08/03/y...
You Can Call Me Al’s Baby: The Bundle of Joy in a Throwaway Title
Originally published on The Gutter Review on May 31, 2022. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here…
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🚨 Now on Shelfdust! 🚨 You Can Call Me Al’s Baby: The Bundle of Joy in a Throwaway Title, by @cuntersthompson.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/08/03/y...
You Can Call Me Al’s Baby: The Bundle of Joy in a Throwaway Title
Originally published on The Gutter Review on May 31, 2022. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here…
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Surprise! I got to psychoanalyze Grant Morrison's attempt to psychoanalyze Todd McFarlane! Good comic
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · 5d ago🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Spawn de Replay #16: The Anti-Spawn! Grant Morrison and Greg Capullo take over Spawn, and @stevebaxi.bsky.social takes over our Spawn series! shelfdust.com/2026/07/31/s...
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Spawn de Replay #16: The Anti-Spawn! Grant Morrison and Greg Capullo take over Spawn, and @stevebaxi.bsky.social takes over our Spawn series! shelfdust.com/2026/07/31/s...
Spawn de Replay #16: The Anti-Spawn!
By Steve Baxi Todd McFarlane was very direct about his goals for Spawn as a title. Absent the history and prestige of DC and Marvel, he wanted to use his considerable artistic talents and fanbase t…
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A piece that goes off on tangents about race and growing up and life to the point where halfway thru you might be thinking "uh, wasn't this supposed to be about Superman?" BUT then you realize you don't care becaus the digressions are so interesting and heartfelt and thought-provoking...
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Superman Lover ’83, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2026/07/22/s...
I like this piece, and was thinking about how it kinda applies to Absolute Superman and somewhat to Absolute Batman as well
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · last mo.🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today!🚨 Popcorn Resistance and Algorithmic Radicalism: The Ultimates #21, by @martynpedler.com: shelfdust.com/2026/06/24/p...
As always, @stevewmorris.bsky.social and @shelfdust.bsky.social know what us weirdos and freaks want to see
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · last wk.🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 A Celebration of That Random Crystal Green Lantern Who Always Shows Up, by @stevewmorris.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/07/29/a...
Once upon a midnight dreary / while reviewing, weak and weary / comics for the @shelfdust.bsky.social lore... shelfdust.com/2026/07/27/d...
Darkness There, and So Much More: Between Richard Corben and Edgar Allan Poe
Originally published on The Gutter Review on April 4, 2023. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head her…
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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 A Celebration of That Random Crystal Green Lantern Who Always Shows Up, by @stevewmorris.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/07/29/a...
A Celebration of That Random Crystal Green Lantern Who Always Shows Up
By Steve Morris I’ve long been a supporter of the Green Lantern Corps, a huge organisation of space cops who show up whenever a major galactic crime has been committed and the universe needs …
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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Darkness There, and So Much More: Between Richard Corben and Edgar Allan Poe, by @tomshaps.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/07/27/d...
I wrote a piece last year after thinking about it for a long time and Steve published it today. It's about my birthday, growing up in the afrocentric era, the joy of elbow grease, Gil Scott-Heron, and the voice you use with your father after realizing you're taller than him. On All-Star Superman #6:
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Superman Lover ’83, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2026/07/22/s...
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Superman Lover ’83, by @iamdavidbrothers.com: shelfdust.com/2026/07/22/s...
Superman Lover ’83
By David Brothers My name is David Brothers and my mother raised me. I was born in 1983 a few months after she turned eighteen. I was a kid during Reagan’s war on drugs, but I was blessed wit…
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🚨 Now on Shelfdust! 🚨 Colouring Outside D’Lines: On D’Israeli and the Continued Evolution of British Cartooning, by Robert Smith: shelfdust.com/2026/07/20/c...
Colouring Outside D’Lines: On D’Israeli and the Continued Evolution of British Cartooning
Originally published on The Gutter Review on May 24, 2022. The spirit of The Gutter Review lives on today in the form of Trash Humper, a zine you can buy with your grubby hands right now: head here…
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Star Wars! Discussion of socio-political metaphors! Nostalgia galore! The glory days of the Goodwin-Infantino Star Wars! Me trying to be thoughtful and intellectual! Give it a read if it's your jam :)
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Brass is Beautiful: Mechanical Meaning in Marvel’s (Early) Star Wars, by @dklatta.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/07/15/b...
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Spawn de Replay #15: Medieval Spawn Vs Violator!, by @stevewmorris.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/07/17/s...
Spawn de Replay #15: Medieval Spawn Vs Violator!
By Steve Morris Earlier on in this column’s history I gave you my theory about the character Violator, the first villain to show up in Spawn. Violator is a silly looking clown man who is phys…
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I like the interpretation that "I don't seem to remember ever owning a droid.", is because Ben recognized droids autonomy. TCW-era it's Anakin, born a slave, who befriends droids. A retcon, it ads generational empathy to Luke & Leia.
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Brass is Beautiful: Mechanical Meaning in Marvel’s (Early) Star Wars, by @dklatta.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/07/15/b...
Who remembers Valance the droid-hating Bounty Hunter? I do! And so should you! :) My first piece for Shelfdust! #StarWars #comics #Marvel
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Brass is Beautiful: Mechanical Meaning in Marvel’s (Early) Star Wars, by @dklatta.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/07/15/b...
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! 🚨 Brass is Beautiful: Mechanical Meaning in Marvel’s (Early) Star Wars, by @dklatta.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/07/15/b...
Brass is Beautiful: Mechanical Meaning in Marvel’s (Early) Star Wars
By D.K. Latta Cast your mind back to those halcyon days when Star Wars was a movie rather than an industry; a blockbuster phenomenon re-shaping Hollywood and igniting a fandom – but still, mo…
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Standing by this piece I originally wrote in 2022 until the wheels fall off. Stay grumpy, friends.
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 Now on Shelfdust! 🚨 Do You Believe In Fairies: Northstar And The Early Erasure of AIDS In Marvel, by @cuntersthompson.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/07/13/d...
“Even today, the Marvel Universe is only as inclusive and accepting as the people who own it are willing for it to be, and only within the confines of what makes for a story that can touch everyone, not just the people who might need it most in that moment.”
Shelfdust@shelfdust.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 Now on Shelfdust! 🚨 Do You Believe In Fairies: Northstar And The Early Erasure of AIDS In Marvel, by @cuntersthompson.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2026/07/13/d...
