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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Aside from just randomly picking up comic books and reading them, I write lengthy reviews, essays, and my thoughts about them. All posts are free to read but support is always appreciated 📚

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co_mixed — A blog about comics

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The first thing I thought when I finished Black Panther by John Ridley was “character assassination”, that’s when this post kind of just formed in my mind. Consider this my review of that run.

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Assassination of a King | co_mixed

I don’t use the term “character assassination” lightly, not when it comes to comics. Matter fact, I’m used to taking whatever’s going on wit

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Damn Doom! 🤣 “Dear trash” is everything #comics #ultimatefantasticfour

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The first run of Moon Knight is finished. I’ll most certainly be writing a review too, because there’s a lot to say about the guy(s). Before stalking him in West Coast Avengers I’m reading Ultimate Fantastic Four (hating Richards in one universe just isn’t enough). #comics #moonknight

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Okay, we sacrifice him, too 🤷🏾‍♀️ #comics #moonknight

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I think this is actually the first time MK legitimately gets intel from Jake’s “street connections” (which, according to all four of them, he has many of). #moonknight #comics #marvel

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The biggest reason I’m enjoying this run is art. Panels and covers created with inspiration and imagination, emotions jumping out from pages because of cleverly used strokes of a pencil. #comicsky #moonknight

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Around issue 23, Moon Knight finds its footing. Two returning villains in a row and two arcs that hit MK on a personal level. To make it better, Sienkiewicz fully introduces his style in full force and now images speak just as loudly as words. #comicsky #moonknight

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Moon Knight found a nazi, Moon Knight didn’t like the nazi. Ah, the good old non-woke apolitical comics… #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Random MK thoughts: 🌙 I have to admit, no one does brooding as well as Moon Knight. 🌙 So far the book is just flirting with DID, but I’m low key hoping they build up to it naturally and don’t do a hard retcon. 🌙 I don’t get the bath in the bedroom thing. Idc how rich and fancy Grant is. #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

What in the 50 shades of New Moon…. #comicsky #moonknight

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Somewhere there’s Hawkeye frantically picking up his arrows and MK here leaves his moons around as calling cards. It’s a very DD/Batman vibe and I’m loving that. The stories are dark and even with a bit of silliness they bring up some disturbing issues. This is gonna be great (Reed sucks) #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My next big project is reading through Moon Knight. (I know I should’ve put it to a vote too but give me this one) Of course I’m not done with Reed. There’s more hate to come his way! #comicsky #marvel

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I’m all caught up on the Fantastic Four. Doom is the most interesting part of the FF lore. The permanent thorn in Richards’ side. Doom is great and no one insults Reed better. He doesn’t simply mock him, he makes it so that even when Reed wins he loses. It’s beautiful. #fantasticfour #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I talked about that recently - the fact that Reed doesn’t understand art and that affects his empathy. I also said that he’s unkind and he continues to be that way. This just proves that. Yeah, North is trying to clean up Reed’s image really hard but the character is fighting back. #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It’s not just that Doom is winning it’s that Reed is losing! 🥹 #comics #fantasticfour

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

North’s run feels very retro in its structure. It’s shorter stories with the villain of the week and it’s fun but there’s not enough depth. I see the attempt to reinvent the characters and I’ll take it for all of them except Reed. You can’t pretend he’s suddenly not morally bankrupt. #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Doom is creative. He takes something Reed doesn’t understand and uses it to mess with him. Doom has always had less villain potential than Reed: he’s smart, artistic, desires to learn, accepts deviations from his beliefs. It’s almost ironic that Reed keeps ending up on the good side. #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

🚀How to write a FF story 1/2 🔹Reed does something bad years ago; 🔹He then covers it up and hides it in the BB basement; 🔹It causes a disaster; 🔹The kids are sent away; 🔹Reed lies; 🔹Reed lies more; 🔹The disaster becomes a catastrophe; 🔹Reed confesses; 🔹Everyone hates Reed; 🔹Sue says “family”;

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A little something about the characters in Dan Slott’s Fantastic Four. I wanted to talk specifically about the people in the story and their actions without focusing on what Reed’s done wrong. That didn’t work. #comicsky

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Fantastic Drama.

I know I say it every time, but Dan Slott’s Fantastic Four is my favorite run by far. Apparently, it’s not the most popular one, and yeah, I get why. It crosses paths with several events (Empyre, Kin…

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The omniscient version of Reed knows he’s gonna do some shit before the day is over. And Sur, he’s done the exact same thing before. Slott’s run is finished and now we’re getting to the newest one. What a journey! #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I can’t prove it yet, but wanna bet Reed in the trailer is straight up lying when he says they do family dinner every week? Great start, Richards. #FantasticFourFirstSteps

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Today is the day so many of you are thinking “Hey, that Reed is looking great! He can’t be all that bad!” Well let me stop you right there and remind you: that’s what Reed wants you to think. Don’t falls for his schemes. Instead, remember how he turned his own kid into a vegetable! #FantasticFour

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

And that concludes Dan Slott’s run of the Fantastic Four. My favorite run so far and one that’s given me some things to write about. Always a pleasure to see Reed being called a simpleton. #comicsky #fantasticfour

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I know Johnny tasted a little FAFO medicine, but Ben is definitely the worst person to vouch for Reed fixing anyone. When’s you next human week again, Ben? And how well did the previous two go? Exactly. #comicsky #fantasticfour

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Inviting both Namor and Challa is bad enough, but throw in the FF and you get drama. Namor’s gonna hit on Sue, Reed will be mad because no way he could pull off the same look, and no way old royal bs won’t come up again. His bride having slept with Johnny probably saved the whole event. #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

🚨 Reed is lying again. Whenever he promises to keep no secrets, it’s just another lie he’ll try to cover up later. He also endangers everyone (again!) by keeping smth dangerous in his basement. And Johnny… sigh. He and Matt should start a club & it ain’t a good one. #comicsky #fantasticgour

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Oh the “I don’t trust my wife” thing too. Shut up Reed, I hope your real soulmate is a skrull. 🙄 #comicsky #fantasticfour

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I have a very difficult mission. Every day, out of dozens of panels, I have to choose one that best shows how awful Reed Richards is. Today’s pick is special: look at Reed willingly endangering residents of the whole street. #comicsky #fantasticfour

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I like the Sue that’s about to get a divorce. #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I watched Kraven so you didn’t have to. And now you really don’t have to. #movies #marvel #sony

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Here’s something we figured out today. In those good old days, all Doom really needed to do to defeat Reed is wait. All that asbestos woulda killed him eventually anyway. And for a brilliant scientist Reed sure took his time figuring out it’s dangerous 🙄 #comicsky #fantasticfour

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I’m with Emma on this. I’m almost done with the tie-ins, have a few more to go through before returning to the Four. But I’m gonna be thinking about how Doom had the chance to buikd a true Utopia and still failed. Anyone would’ve failed, really. I’d say he tried his best. #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Nice to know that there’s an AU where Magneto finally admits that Lorna is his favorite kid. #comicsky #marvel

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

At some point, traveling through all the Battleworld domains, I started seriously missing Fantastic Four 🥲. Gotta say, Doom had really put some work into his world. It’s falling apart quickly and everywhereis a mess. #comicsky #marvel #secretwars

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

My #MarvelRivals results for today: 1. Played the new mode got MVP, no clue how. I scored one goal and pressed all buttons randomly. 2. Got Sue to knight, slowly getting used to her. 3. Got her great Anti-Reed sprays.

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Yay it finally happened! There was no Reed to kill but I brought my squids nonetheless! 🦑 #MarvelRivals

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Had to go through many Reeds to get here. #MarvelRivals

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Another favorite short from Secret Wars. Stories like this have nothing to do with 616 except one thing — everyone stays in character. Poisoning Elektra is something that could’ve easily came out of Matt’s mind, and Sinister — well, clone-and-replace is one of his classics. #comicsky #marvel

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Inhumans: Attilan Rising mini is an alternative take on Inhumans that, in a Star Wars manner, plays around with ideas of resistance to Doom. Does it well too, especially by locking the story into a loop. There may be some nihilism in there, but it makes the story all the more meaningful. #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

These tie-ins with different Battleworld domains were always my favorite part of the event. Sorta like What If stories or alternate realities mixed together. Fun stories that mostly rely on what you, as a reader, already know. There was no way I was gonna skip them. #comicsky #marvel

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

And now I’m ready to start rereading Secret Wars. I probably should say something clever here but what can you say? I was supposed to be sleeping 😁 #comicsky

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Got my Namor to Centurion in #MarvelRivals “I came here to drop squids and kill Reeds. And I’m all outta squids.”

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Namor really has a thing for laughing at the most inappropriate moments. Meanwhile I’m almost halfway through my reread of both Avengers and New Avengers and both have some of the best character development, especially in terms of facing defeat. #comicsky #marvel

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Namor over there really hoping it’s Reed who doesn’t come back. #comicsky #marvel #avengers

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

And the Secret Wats reread begins with Hickman’s Avengers. It’s all coming back. But it definitely reads better as a binge. This way, I feel like while the bigger story is unraveling in an exciting manner, there’s still room for some character moments. #comicsky #comics #marvel

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Polly @co-mixed.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

If any of you are on fanbase, you know the drill #comicsky

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