sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I'd been meaning to check out the Milligan run for a while. Milligan's Batman stories are mainly self contained, but I see them as connected through themes of diaspora, ethnic identity, and American colonialism in a way that seems to build with each arc. Generational work. 000
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I think king believes his work fits within a grand tradition of American comic books, but fails to engage with any critique of American interventionism or understand what can make the medium a vessel for fascist ideology. 010
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 06/03/2026even within the comics space, this was his process. the 'comic book' elements only exist superficially as a top coat of paint over his jingoism. 010
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026took me a while to get back into swamp thing after finishing the moore/totleben run but i’m slowly growing to appreciate veitch’s different tone 100
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 23/02/2026local shop had a bunch of leo fox comics so i’ve been catching up on his work outside of boy island. greatly enjoyed this 100
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026the Loeb/Sale color collection are also great self contained arcs 010
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Alan Moore's (uncredited) miracle man series is a great proto-watchmen that better showcases his love for pulp than most of his later work, infinity gauntlet is surprisingly self contained and solid, and of course anything by Kirby needs a shoutout. 100
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026found a facsimile edition and finally read in the original colors, still not my favorite Batman story and far from my favorite Moore, but few writers accomplish in an entire run what Moore does in one issue. 100
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026i am one of the few people that can claim megalopolis in imax with the live actor segment on opening night 000
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026this would go so hard if knightfall mattered at all to the status quo 001
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026knightfall is an underwhelming slog but at least you get the occasional masterfully composed page 120
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Mignola is such a master of the medium and I'm kicking myself for putting this series off for so long. Bought all volumes as a box set, digging into the rest of them shortly. 210
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 27/01/2026first time reading something from ram v and i understand all the decompression complaints now. will something happen in this story? maybe by the next volume. 100
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026finally catching up on some black casebook canon. in a league of its own. 100
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026for the past few weeks i’ve been on what i call “lawyerquest” where i keep liking ads for personal injury lawyers to see how esoteric i can get. this is the current state of affairs. 000
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 13/05/2025using youtube audiobooks of hp lovecraft stories to sleep lately and i keep waking up in cold sweats with this on my phone screen 010
sears @normaltakeguy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024at the awesome clinic getting medical care epic style 020
