It’s a classic “all STEM, no humanities” example.

Man, this art is just a pure nostalgia spike for me. Played way too much UO.

Always good to see this one making the rounds.

I remember this one!

Add my voice to those who think that Larry Hama should be writing a G.I.JOE movie before either of those names.

Tatjana Wood has apparently passed away at age 99. Her father was Jewish so during WW2 her parents sent her to the Netherlands, then NY. She studied as a dressmaker, met/married Wallace Wood and began assisting him, then pivoted to becoming one of the best colorists in comics.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.

Vaughan was right.

On the cover, the Shadow is holding a large book open. There is a knife stabbed into the book and blood stains on the pages. A skeleton in a robe (representing Death) is leaning over the book and pointing to some words on a page. The Shadow is turning his head to look at us, and a blurb at the bottom of the page reads "Bloody words told the story of murder in The Book of Death. An exciting Shadow novel complete in this issue."

The Shadow magazine, dated January 15, 1942. Cover by George Rozen.

The cover shows a skeleton coming out from between two green drapes. On each side of the open drapes is the shadow of the Shadow. It says "The Creeping Death

The Shadow magazine, cover dated January 15, 1933. Art by George Rozen.

Yes! That is awesome!

The smartest thing I have ever done when learning something new is to tell myself I will be bad at it, I will struggle, and I will keep working to be better. Maybe it makes me less confident later on, or maybe it just keeps me realistic, but it keeps me at it.

Man, flashing back to all the people saying it’s “Firestar’s fault” that all the other mutants saw her as an outsider or didn’t trust her, and that she wasn’t an ally to mutants (when she was most famously on a team that eventually had at least two other mutants + the clone-child of a mutant).

I had this conversation with some relatives, and was told I was naive and that I couldn’t expect principals to guide someone’s actions in every situation. And this was not an argument of “in-the-heat-of-the-moment decisions, this was a justification of calculated decisions to get the result you want

National Review article excerpt. It reads: "On the other hand, when I hear some people accuse immigrants of destroying the American economy and culture and stealing jobs from American citizens, it stirs my anger, too. I can’t stand to hear immigrants described in terms more appropriate to a plague of locusts than human beings. And although I believe they are a small minority, I begin to wonder if some of the people who speak so disparagingly about immigrants would be just as worked up if most of them were coming from Canada."

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

There is more stuff written for each of these than you might expect 😂

Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

The good news is that SIX seasoned federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned rather than engage in a bogus 'investigation' of Renee Good and her wife rather than investigating Good's killer.

The bad news is that there are now six fewer honest, dedicated federal prosecutors with DOJ.

This game, and Spivey himself, is just really cool. Loved his entries.

An incredibly important little book.

Xander Drax: All right, what's your name? Why do you want that skull so badly?

Kit: Kit Walker.

Xander Drax: Huh, and who is Kit Walker?

Kit: I am.

Xander Drax: And what about the skull?

Kit: It'd go well with my drapes.

THE PHANTOM at the Alamo Drafthouse Winchester!

Another Law of Gravity: Creating “The Next Spider-Man” By Tim Stevens I’ve spent considerable time in and around Higher Ed. First, as a high schooler, I was involved in a program that took a group of us to Trinity College about once a month. (It is per…

Oh also, Gravity is our comic of the week over on Shelfdust! shelfdust.com/2026/01/14/a...

Big day already, it's not even 11am yet, yeesh

If you like a unique read that’s not super long, also rec West Heart Kill.

A sorta detective story about detective stories with odd narrative positions and framing that multiple times made me pause a moment for my brain to catch up. Odd book.

It was one of those books that seemed simple on the surface but constantly got my brain working. Max Gladstone, one of the two authors, has writing that does that a fair bit and the other author did an amazing job as well.

Circling back to this real quick: Connelly plays very deftly with the sort of liminal space his main character occupies, and the otherworldly cast it gives to his view of reality post-tragedy, with some gorgeous prose that often describes terrible things. You feel Parker’s shaken faith in reality.

This is one of two of my favorite series where I enjoyed the first book ok and then didn’t feel the need to read the next for… a while. And then I suddenly found myself many many books in. So I get it.

(I still think it’s the side characters that keep bringing me back. I love them so much.)

John Connelly’s “Charlie Parker” novels, starting with Every Dead Thing. A young detective has his world shattered by an unthinkable murder, and he finds himself outside of everything he knew. His only allies are criminals and he’s not sure his quarry is the human kind of evil or something else.

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Two agents, each created in a mutually exclusive far flung future, serve their causes loyally & tirelessly, each battling to tip history in favor their side… until one leaves a playful taunt on a battlefield.

Thus begins a correspondence that changes everything.

McDuffie’s Deathlok
Hama’s Nth Man
The Amazing Spider-Man

Had to refresh my memory, because I was a dime bin kid for so long I get everything I read in comics from 11 to 15 kinda jumbled up in terms of timelines. Most big things that came out when I was 13 I didn’t read until later.

Aggressively rounding everything was basically my version of “balancing the household budget” for like 5 years. It… mostly worked? But glad I don’t live that way anymore.

Yes! It is a very very big and useful and expensive thing to use for a suicide run!