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Alex Doenau

@batrock.bsky.social
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One of the internet’s foremost Alexes.

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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Comment on an article about romance novels.
"What we're no longer finding reviewed on the front page of this newspaper is masculine fiction forms such as mountaineering, space travel, crime, and war."
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Reign of the Superboys and Kingdom of Zod storylines that spawned from the DC KO storyline have finally come to an end, and the main through line that I can detect is that nobody externally or internally likes the Tomorrow Man costume and they're going to change it again soon.
Cover for Superman: Kingdom of Zod Special #1: a bearded Superman with a scar across his eye stands in front of a cavalcade of Kryptonians (Tomorrow Man, Superboy Prime, Superboy, Supergirl, Ursa), many of them infected with the Kryptonite sickness, while a large Zod looms over them.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Can I pay Amazon to stop sending me this filth?
An unsolicited notification from Audible promoting Kit Harington’s role in the Harry Potter audiobooks.
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
mole mole, print ad, imagery (1985) archive.org/details/pi-o...
pink clay buck toothed mole wearing an orange work helmet and shades, holding a space, standing on green grass above earth, ready to dig. a ladder is slightly to the right and there are colourful bits under the ground.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Criterion Collection cover for Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx, crudely edited to read Lone Wolf and Cube: MarioKart at the River Styx.
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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Whooooooooo wants some chestburster kebabs!!!
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Found new depths of AI food horror in Lidcombe today. Behold! Fish cake soup! @dashwallkick.bsky.social points out that the intestine brain things appear to have demon faces on them.
Absolutely gross “fish cake soup” that looks like internal organs on sticks.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“You’ll have to speak up, I’m wearing a towel.”
Panel from issue 23 of Absolute Batman.

Dick Grayson has stepped out of a steaming bathroom, a towel wrapped around his waist and another draped over his shoulders.

Dick: Yeah, I understood none of that? What’s going on?
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We have Niu Lai at home. The Niu Lai at home: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjeL...
youtube.com
Happy Electric Feel Friday (HD Remake)
YouTube video by Shrekles
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Very fitting Jonathan Ross would write something with this title.
A gangster comic called TURF, written by Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I reviewed The Odyssey for Batrock.net. You don't have to read it. Just click on it. Let it into your gate. I promise nothing untoward will happen. batrock.net?p=2787
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Movie Review: The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) knows big. For the last 18 years, he has used IMAX cameras for at least part of every film that he has made. With The Odyssey, he follows this theory to its most nat…
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
So there's an isekai romance novel at the moment, but the other world that the character finds herself transported to is ... modern day Ireland?
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is what comics are all about.
A panel from Absolute Catwoman #2

The UI for an auction site, a profile belonging to Doris Payne. 

A grey blue sphere glints in the item image box.

Catalogue > Wishlist > Mystery Orb

Mystery Orb 
To Die For 

CURRENT BID:
$100,000,000.00

Enter your bid Submit

Voice over box:

Actual weapons are one of the few things you can’t list. But state secrets, national treasures, premarket tech—all fair game.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
People sometimes ask why there was a decade of Superman comics with inverted triangles on the covers. The answer is, of course, because comics are gay.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There is one name that keeps appearing on gay book lists and keeps appearing as a quote on the cover of other gay books (including Colin Morgan's), and everyone should know better. The man in question hasn't even covered up his digital breadcrumbs. And he used Zelda ingredients in a dye recipe.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm choosing not to finish this book after 45%, because to continue would be a
Super Mario Galaxy logo but instead it says SUNK COST FALLACY.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Hell yeah!!! These skeletons killed me so many times.
The album “Gitarooman” Originally Soundtrack. 

A smirking stitched together dog with the body of a book box is walking in front of a smirking boy wearing a winged helmet and red body armour. 

The track is Born to Be Bone by Tomohiro Harada.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
That’s what they hired Jeff Hiller for!
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It's time for me to sue Rob Liefeld. (But only if Marvel doesn't sue me - I didn't know about any Leapérs when I came up with this name 25+ years ago!)
Comic cover for Rob Liefeld's Badrock #1. A shirtless grey rock dude wearing white gloves, a utility belt, and white and red pants is jumping at the reader with his right hand pulled back as if to punch you.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The best thing about looking up UK TV shows on Wikipedia is when you get to the reception section and every time, without fail, it says "and here's what a transphobe had to say about it."
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Reinforcing that if you keep an eagle eye on bylines you can save yourself a lot of time in this life.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Today on Batrock.net, my review of DISCLOSURE DAY, a movie I loved until I didn't. Personally I think everyone should see this without knowing anything beforehand. I watched a couple of trailers while putting this together, and what the hell ... batrock.net?p=2737
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Movie Review: Disclosure Day
Steven Spielberg is eighty this year, and there’s no greater proof that some things you just don’t age out of: John Williams scores, aliens, and the tendency to occasionally go off the rails (in so…
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Maybe it says something bad about me but I hate when games slow down your movement speed in "civilian" scenes. Let me run around the joint, please!
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
THIS Kong just DIGS this tune.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🎶When I give the signal my friend Mr. Vholes will send the law bill🎶
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Hannibal Burress looking at the camera. The image is fried. 

Caption: Pretzels is the Same
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Here's a time saving hack: if you click on an article that looks interesting, scroll down and check the by line. If it's written by the devil, you can safely close it. Sometimes all you need to do is look at the masthead!
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Star Fox Adventures mentioned …
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Douglas Stuart's excellent JOHN OF JOHN is out on various dates this month: the 5th in the US, 12th in Australia, and 21st in the UK. It's Stuart's finest work to date and an infinitely rewarding piece. My review here: batrock.net?p=2675
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Book Review: John of John — Douglas Stuart
Stuart Douglas has written two very good novels to date, but they were very heavy. Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo, with their distinctive names, are not exactly laugh riots. Douglas’ third novel, Joh…
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I'm making relatable content now.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Godzilla in cool shades against a sunset sky. 

Subtitle: That wasn’t very neuroaffirming of you.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I still periodically wonder why they allowed Veronica Mars, a high school girl, to briefly date a police officer. 21 years later.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Took a bath yesterday.
Ditto in a bathtub, relaxing.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The chef Pokémon is holding a cookout on Bleak Beach to celebrate the pollution being cleaned away. We're calling it Greedent's Clearwater Revival.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I've been doing some research and this is what I turned up.
The poster for Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, but it says Imitation of Crab. (It's a 1950s era movie poster with people looking glamourous in that 65 years ago way)Black and white Robert Downey Jr. informing us about Imitation Crab: "it is a product that uses fish meat to imitate shellfish meat."
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Me at the concession stand before Project Hail Mary.
Gordon Ramsay looking down, with very heavily overlaid text saying 

"Delicious

Finally, some good fucking cinema candy bar film tie-in merchandise"
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
E.T. (1982)
Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent. 

Subtitles read: I am not a violent person. But this man … I’d kill him with a hammer.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Would that it were so simple, Spriteling.
A still from the end of Wario World. Wario faces a Spriteling, a goober who has branches wrapped around his head and wrists. 

A dialogue box says “You did it! You defeated all the evil monsters! Everything will be all right now!”
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Currently praying for this.
The Shawshank Redemption poster, with Tim Robbins' back to the camera, bathing in the rain. 

The text has been modified to read THE BOO$TER GOLD REDEMPTION.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Actual thought I just caught myself having: "I have no one to complain to about Spider-Man."
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Here are my official stances on things: Ultimate Spider-Man: Good, yes, thank you. Ultimate X-Men: I certainly read 24 of these.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Before I am forcibly ejected from comics world for reasons beyond my control, I will say that I read … several … issues of things on the weekend and enjoyed them. Mostly.
The silhouette of a man in a Spider suit is at the cash register of a Japanese restaurant. 

Shadowy figure: Hello. I have a pickup. For Mr. Mann. Mr. S. Mann.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
These guys live with me now. That’s true romance.
Three figures from the TMNT x Godzilla range:

Leo x Godzilla
Raph x 
Mikey x King Ghidorah
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Elderly Marge talking to Homer in bed:

You know, Wuthering Heights turned into a hard-core sex movie so gradually I didn’t even notice.
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Iron Chef Bot @ironchefbot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Frame #59750 from S03 -E07 - Giant Lobster-627717
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
My favourite thing whenever new Muppet material comes out is people trotting out their deepest beliefs about the Muppets. Every time I think "wow, their conception of the Muppets could not be any more wrong."
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
We need to not talk about Lionel, unless we're framing it like this.
Review headline:

A BETTER LIFE
By Lionel Shriver - Release Date: Feb. 10, 2026

Her worst book, by a wide margin.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Marty Supreme (2025)
Mouser from Super Mario Bros 2: he is a big grey mouse with pink shoes, pink gloves, and cool black sunglasses.
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Alex Doenau @batrock.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I also made these in honour of For Good.
De Niro as Murray Franklin: Let me get this straight: you think Wicked: For Good getting zero nominations is funny?
Phoenix as Arthur Fleck: I do. And I'm tired of pretending it's not.Principal Skinner lecturing the school bullies: Well I'll tell you something that's not so funny: right now Jon M. Chu is at home crying like a little girl.
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