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Cliff Chiang Celebrates Gotham's "Lonely" Knight (Old News, New To Us Convicts...)
October 8th, 2026 BETTER LATE THAN EVEN LATER: From behind the Ultimate Firewall®, a lot falls out the cracks...it'd still be criminal not to weigh in on a 4 year-old trade I only landed today and learned about 2 weeks back. Luckily I have better resources for recent releases, still, if I catch something this sensational I'm gonna share... In 2026 unreservedly I'd call Cliff Chiang my favorite working creator in comics. For some span, I've been spellbound by his spa
Oct 83 min read
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"Crises of Infinite Irks: Bad Comics Politics and Conflict Transformation"
Chapter One: Butchering Barbara Gordon September 6th, 2026 Three days ago somebody in this prison I don't feel alone beside - rare like tartar in these wilds - hit the hole for an undetermined stay. Suddenly, as I prepped Southern-style beans and rice, hash brown casserole he gave over the goods for, dark-horse creamed spinach (one veteran convict with some rah-shah-shah culinary background slung a "****" on it) where I drained 2 cans of Popeye-weeds, stirred 3/4 can of
Sep 89 min read
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Compact Editions Make For Consuming Modern Comics: Digest-ing "DC's New Frontier" Again
August 23rd, 2026 Months back here I praised Mark Waid's timeless writing on "Kingdom Come" before garroting it on "Champions" then especially "Captain America: Home Of the Brave", his socially irresponsible propaganda pamphlet. Alex Ross's detailed Norman Rockwell Ubermenschen-dystopian-blitzkrieg clusterfuck (I hope y'all know compliments when you read 'em) overshadowed a clearheaded and ingenious taut political thriller with roots set in 1938 wrapping sometime that sm
Aug 235 min read
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The Fan Who Would Be King: Spoiler-y Questions For DC Comic Nerds Not In Prison Currently
August 18th, 2026 Being a Big House comic nerd bites sometimes. Making discoveries behind the Ultimate Firewall® frustrates from me wondering what's been discussed, dissected, poked, and prodded past it. Messaging around two years back, my home-girl Nicole caught up talking a Batman story with our Dark Knight hitched to Selina Kyle with their grownup kid investigating Joker's murder written by some cat named Tom King. This longtime chum and I only chatted a couple times
Aug 184 min read
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You Come A Long Way, Bad-Ass!
August 6th, 2025 Wonder Woman can be difficult to love because like a lot of amazing things she's gotta be shared with people. Feminists and sex-starved wolves wrestle to control Princess Diana da First. Wild enough her builders were both. Billy Marston was our early century "Dr. Fill". Totally a vintage pop-psychologist, S+M horn-dog, polygraph innovator, plus creator of child's material aimed at little girls. Cramming bondage into as much panel-age as he and artist H.G
Aug 67 min read
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Batmama's Northpoint Notes
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