So You Want to Read TMNT Comics? Part 1: The Mirage Years (1984-1995; Volumes 1 & 2)
It was all a mirage...or was it?
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Dude, Where's My Update? #11
Some new thoughts on Neon Ichiban and some old ones on the turtles.
In Memoriam: April O'Neil
I first met April O’Neil in 2003, or perhaps it was 2005. It was a brief encounter, followed up by a few more over the next couple years. Hair pulled into a bun, baggy pants as befit the era, we didn’t really talk but it was easy to
Dude, Where's My Update? #10
Some days I am like a bird by a pond, guarding a ramp.
Paper Davids and Paper Goliaths
I’ve been revising the following essay for a couple months now. I thought it was ready, then I changed my mind, then went back and forth a bunch and then I decided I needed to publish or get off the shitbox.
Fair warning, it is raw and difficult and
Mangaversity - July 2025
Welcome one, welcome all, to Mangaversity! This is my attempt to continue my contribution to the Soliciting Multiversity column while messing with the format to make it my own. Special thanks again to Zack Davisson for pointing out this should’ve been my choice for the title from the get
Dude, Where's My Update? #9
I promise you're gonna want to read to the end this time.
Family, Jelly and The Correct Pronunciation of Gif with Matt Braly and Ainsworth Lin
Family Force V out here answering the BIG questions.
Mangaversity: June 2025
Welcome one, welcome all, to Mangaversity! This is my attempt to continue my contribution to the Soliciting Multiversity column while messing with the format to make it my own. Special thanks again to Zack Davisson for pointing out this should’ve been my choice for the title from the get
Dude, Where's My Update? #8
I initially had a different post ready for this week. But then the murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim happened and I felt it was…inappropriate to run my original post. Too lighthearted. Too upbeat, for now.
I am many things in this moment. My heart is in
One Must Imagine Lagoon Boy Happy, Part 3
What price secrecy?
“People Forget How Things Were:” The Walking Dead #193
Originally published on May 7, 2025 at Shelfdust, this is an extended cut of that essay, and not in a bullshit, "oh we added two whole minutes of walking" DVD marketing way. Don't believe me? Become a member and you can compare and contrast. Go on.
One Must Imagine Lagoon Boy Happy, Part 2
The theological approach.
Mangaversity: May 2025
Fishing for compliments, we enter the Spring.