Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 20hDetective Comics #30 July 1939 Doctor Death alive as a green skull man, Batman stops his diamond theft, snapping his henchman’s neck with a swinging kick. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 21hDetective Comics #29 June 1939 Ransoming wealth and preemptively targeting Batman before his involvement, Doctor Death accidentally sets his lab on fire and burns alive. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (31) November 17, 2017 Mixed feelings on this trilogy. I like the sc-fi post-apocalyptic space setting & time-dilation plot + the twist. Not super interesting characters though, and while anime Godzilla looks pretty cool, the overly CG style is kind of uncanny. 010
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Detective Comics #28 May 1939 Batman stops a rash of jewel robberies, judo flipping a man off a roof to his death and running afoul the police. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Detective Comics #27 April 1939 Boorish socialite Bruce Wayne hangs out with his friend, police commissioner Gordon, at murder cases as cover to stop crime as The Batman. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026X-Men: First Class (5) June 3, 2011 Fairly confident this is my favorite X movie. Closest we’ll get to a team origin ‘60s period piece. Kevin Bacon has the most charisma of a non-McKellen villain, but a weird Hellfire Club. And you can’t think AT ALL about character ages in relation to comics. 110
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Batman: Assault on Arkham (DCAU 32) July 29, 2014 Fun & solid. Honestly not that far off from the live action film 2 years later, just set fully in Arkham, with more Batman and focused in particular on his villains. Pretty much fits right in with the Rocksteady games, with a lot of the same cast. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Contrary, Tails is rewarded by Posey, a possum IN a skirt, for preventing Robotnik from ruining the fan-run Sonic-Con. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Sonic Stunners Sonic In Your Face! puts Sally in the weirdest fetish-y protective training gear I have ever seen. And explains her new vest as inherited from her recently passed mentor. And she gets a sentient pocket computer named Nicole. And a blue Rambo headband temporarily. But no pants. 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Sonic Stunners #18, Sally starts wearing her iconic blue vest to go with those boots. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Not the first instance, but fascinating to me that random events of the last 40 years of wrestling can fit so well lyrically with nonsensical, vulgar songs. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sonic Stunners In issue #16, Robotnik traps the Freedom Fighters inside The Matrix 5 years before that movie was made, and Sally - to no explanation - has switched skin and hair color to the appearance she will more or less carry for the next 20 years. 001
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Was going crazy trying to place Monroe Robertson as this diner thug in episode 5 of Lanterns despite not recognizing the characters from any of his credits. Before final realizing he was Zayn Malik in all the YT Key of Awesome One Direction parodies. Ha. Fun. 010
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Silent Hill: Townfall Engaging story(Terry O’Quinn rules), definitely more in line with structural and tonal expectations of an SH. But while f maybe went a little too heavy on combat, the stealth(and a couple puzzles) here gets frustrating and tedious, especially the hospital and last section. 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Marvel Tokon Very cool visuals and animations. Don’t think I’m the market. 4v4 seems too much to me, battles go quick so I feel like I’m just a character with 3 assists than learning combos & picking favorite supers/ultimates. Better in vs where you can create any team, but I prefer 1v1 or 2v2. 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Shin Godzilla (30) July 29, 2016 Stashed away over a decade (in Japan) the franchise returns with my favorite entry in the series after the original, and it’s not particularly close. It’s so weird. Godzilla evolving throughout is creepy and great balance of disaster panic tempo & slow bureaucracy. 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026X-Men Origins: Wolverine(4) May 1, 2009 I maintain the actual origins here are good, the team stuff through Weapon X. Derails around helicopter sequence, weird but passable twists and convoluted ideas, and then no clue how they landed on that for Deadpool, literal miracle Reynolds got a do-over. 110
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Son of Batman (DCAU 31) April 22, 2014 Fun Damian intro(I believe his first feature animation). Dynamic presentation in a way comics can’t do. Forgiving as Bats, but grittier than I prefer & baffled by the last decade fascination of shoehorning Deathstroke into Bat or League of Assassins stuff. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sonic Stunners Speeding to an alternate dimension in issue #11, Sonic learns about the Freedom Fighters who fight against freedom. Sega linkage, Evil Sally dresses kinda like the whip lady (Nora? Psycho Cindy? Canonically debatable) from Streets of Rage. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Really only a couple Trek-y episodes in the season. But feels weird to have this IP with high budget modern CG dinos & dragons, etc. Do appreciate the goofy bits though, Hangover episode, 24, puppets, had fun with the soap opera where Ethan Peck as Spock also plays his lothario brother Sybok. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sonic Stunners This comic progressively gives equal time to representing all physical infatuations. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sonic Stunners By issue #8, Bunnie is aware enough of her sex appeal to make bad puns about it. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Feel like my comic reading is coming full circle. For 30 years I’ve never known this reference in Sonic as Robotnik makes superhero bots - Batman, Wolverine, Spawn, Mighty Mouse, etc. 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Not so thrilled my guy King Caesar has his spine obliterated getting tossed onto Anguirus, but he does recover for a pretty sick soccer kick and flying knee attempt before he's KO'ed. 010
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is all I need from Godzilla. Miniatures, dudes dressed as giant monsters fighting each other in rubber suits, mouth lasers, mid-2000s bad CG and butt rock music blasting. I love it. 120
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Godzilla: Final Wars(29) December 4, 2004 This is very dumb. Basically if Final Fight’s Mike Haggar led Earth Defense Force to ID4 aliens disguised as Bill & Ted’s future society who mind-control Kaiju for a Rampage World Tour & Godzilla has to run a gauntlet against his old foes. Peak cinema. 120
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Sonic Stunners Issue #3, Sonic saves a hare before total roboticization and she joins the Freedom Fighters as their muscle and hairdresser, Bunnie Rabbot. Basically if Rogue from the X-Men was a cyborg animal. 010
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Going through many ip at once, multiple crossovers have popped in my head. DC x Twisted Metal - just imagining a Joker/Sweet Tooth face off. Marvel x Sonic - done a couple DC ones, but I like how confusing a Rogue & Rouge the Bat interaction would be. The Nightmare Before Christmas on Elm Street. 020
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026X-Men: The Last Stand (3) May 26, 2006 Pretty ok action movie, more than the first two. But spreads thin doing Magneto’s Brotherhood AND a mutant cure AND Dark Phoenix & it all suffers. Unceremoniously kills major characters & nobody but Logan does much(4x screentime Cyclops has the whole trilogy) 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Justice League: War (DCAU 30) February 4, 2014 First “sequel” to Flashpoint establishing new continuity. An ok action adventure, not as character heavy as the prior film. New 52 origin, it’s basically the Snyder movie 3 years later but actually using Darkseid & GL + Shazam swapped in for Aquaman. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Finished up Wolverine🏆 It’s…fine. Marvel God of War. Not revolutionary but didn’t have the issues with gameplay or being directed as others, Logan isn’t Spidey, it was never going to be a fluid open-world experience. I just don’t think it’s paced particularly well. 200
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sonic Stunners Issue #1(1993) Sally is immediately switched to her pink skin, brunette look she continues with for a bit, and we’re already doing feet stuff. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Within a year of this she gets an unused, more cat-like prototype for the cartoon, and appears in the UK comics I will not be reading at the moment as just a regular looking woodland animal (and also well-fashioned news reporter I guess). 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Sonic Stunners Issue #0(1992) introduces the anti-Robotnik rebel Freedom Fighters & their leader Princess Sally Acorn, a chipmunk and also maybe somehow squirrel. Forgot she starts blonde + this skin tone between her two better known looks. Except her iconic boots, nude like the rest of the cast. 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (28) December 13, 2003 Bored and disappointed. It’s fine, competently made, and Kaiju battles are always great at this point - pretty cool shots. But it rehashes a lot of the last movie while also a sequel to original Mothra & never really does anything new or interesting. 110
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026New comic read is the 2nd DC x Sonic crossover, and I cannot honestly say I ever expected to see Big the Cat dressed as Aquaman. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026X2: X-Men United (2) May 2, 2003 Easily best of the trilogy, and I’d guess Top 3 in the series. Cool sequences - White House, X-Mansion, Lady Deathstrike fight. Sizeable additions in Nightcrawler & Pyro. Iceman & Rogue get to do a little bit. Less announced Angel, Siryn, Kitty, Colossus cameos. 111
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time (DCAU 29) January, 21, 2014 Impressed how much I enjoyed this for a 50 minutes movie that’s basically a modern interpretation of Super Friends with some Legion of Super-Heroes, neither particular interests of mine. But no wasted time & some pretty fun/goofy scenes. 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Power Rangers: Mystic Force Fairly positive on it. Rap theme is jarring + definitely feels like a response to peak Potter popularity. Seasons still too long to really have focus. Don’t love its mythology, but finds its footing, neat monster designs, I like the cast and the record shop setting. 122
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (DCAU 28) Officially into the continuous animated universe. Gushed about this before, but it’s still great. One of the best Flash stories I’ve read, both a strong origin and the end of the DC comic universe I read as a kid. Does the whole crossover justice. 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (27) December 14, 2002 A bit weaker than the last couple, short runtime, but still pretty solid. I think the Millennium Era has the strongest human/kaiju plot balance overall. Not much to say, decent threads of regret/hope & neat battles. Fun enough. 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026X-Men (1) July 14, 2000 Only familiar at the time with early Lee/Kirby up to Claremont Dark Phoenix, was never high on this. Era aversion to colorful costumes for Matrix leather + lacking character depth. Softer now, does a solid intro job to anti-mutant agenda blended with Magneto’s Brotherhood. 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Acknowledging I should spend the time going and doing this myself rather than rave and make public suggestions, only book I think gets it kinda right is IDW Sonic. Uses panels from prior issues to quickly note important events going into the current story. 010
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Trend of modern comics I don’t love is in explaining the prior narrative, many of them start with a big block, paragraph(s) of text recapping. Visual medium, I don’t really want to go through a ton of prose to remember things… 100
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Comics in the 1990s were weird. Shadow Man has TWO video games, and a remaster, and one in development. I look forward to dabbling with the Acclaim era of Valiant. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (26) December 15, 2001 One of the best. Strong human element with more modern inspiration - vibe everything from Big Trouble to Blair Witch. Recommend beyond kaiju interest. I believe only instance of evil Godzilla vs good Ghidorah. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026LEGO Batman: DC Superheroes Unite (DCAU 27) May 21, 2013 Totally fine. Basically adaptation of the 2nd game, Joker/Lex teamup with cleaner visuals & bridging scenes. Not as crazy aesthetically as later theatrical LEGO films, but a cute 70m adventure. Awesome voice cast. Love this weirdo Catwoman. 000
Mark Phillips @bamfpimp.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Not going to post about EVERY new comic arc I read, but started End of Life, and digging it. Kyle Starks is usually chaotic and it’s a wild blend of small town supporting cast discovery - like a Twin Peaks or Alan Wake or a King novel - mixed with Hotline Miami sharp-dressed animal head assassins. 000
