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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe

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(he/him) | Friend of Jughead | Professional DC Comics Expert, host of Insert Credit, Action Button producer. Never stop reading comics. | https://ko-fi.com/alexjaffe

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 25m

Probably not best to specify in public

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 3h

I now have 7 active job applications with DC. Let's see if I get one

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 4h

146/680: AQUAMAN: YO-HO-HOLD ONTO YOUR HOOK! #15 (2025)

As typical, much clever reinterpretation here of classic DC iconography (red skies, the Psycho-Pirate) for maritime lore. Best vertical scrolling trick: the flashes of Psycho-Pirate’s mask, dictating the changing mood of the scene.

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 4h

145/680: STRAY TOASTERS #3 (1988)

For what is essentially an intently broad artistic piece drawing a sketch of a sequential story about the misogynistic explosion of a domestic partnership expressed through violence, there sure is a lot of nonsense stream-of-consciousness dialogue on every page.

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 4h

We all know she's more impressed by Superman anyway.

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 5h

Well, I wouldn’t assume Kate was pregnant if she threw up either

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 5h

For double credit make it Sasha Bordeaux

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 5h

Just like you can always tell a woman is pregnant in a story if she throws up, you can always tell a woman is going to sleep with a man if she ever calls him “impressive”

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 10h

We are not adults and you know that

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 10h

This is still less embarrassing than when you were scrambling for a Raya from Raya and the Last Dragon card

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 11h

book bindings on both sides. people keep prying them open from the right side and snooping around. mind your own business

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 11h

I’ll be at this. Talk to me about Comics

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 12h

We’re throwin’ a show. Good DJs (Alien D did the Highlight Reel intro music). I’ll be there. I’ll probably be able to walk!

The aftermath party poster, October 28th at TV Eye. 10 for subscribers, 12 otherwise. Sounds by Janus Rose, Alien D, Actuator.

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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 17h

I make my triumphant return to The @insertcredit.com Show... as host!? Highlights include actual coin-flipping and bending the show’s format to my evil whims by making the panel design games based on the names of Motern Media films. Listen now:

The Insert Credit Show #410: Games Somerton - exp.

I make my triumphant return to the Insert Credit Show... as host!?

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 13h

Oh yeah, she ditched that in 2006

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t know if I’d describe any of her costumes as bondage gear but I don’t know a lot about that culture

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 13h

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 14h

“Wow, he got old”

Me, whenever I look at someone I knew about 20 years ago, except for some reason Weird Al Yankovic

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 14h

Sorry Meg, I like READING comics

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 14h

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 15h

I keep looking at this number go up like “Okay, Starman”

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 15h

This G Willow Wilson run on Poison Ivy just keeps on going, luxuriating in multi-year long-form storytelling about a B-tier DC Comics character despite the fact that it’s not the 1990s anymore. It’s the world of possibilities I want to live in

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 15h

We rise, we fall, we rise again.

POISON IVY Annual 2025, an oversized issue with story by me, art by MARK EFFING BUCKINGHAM, colors by Lee Loughridge, and letters by Tom Napolitano. Final order cutoff is Oct 20, so tell your local comics shop to order a copy just for you!

A woman's hand reaching out of a body of water, holding a sword, with bursts of pink light in the background.

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 15h

People get so upset when I tell them I haven’t seen the Watchmen show

Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes you don’t read a comic just so you don’t have to talk about that comic

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 15h

I love that this movie just has The Scarecrow from Batman in it as a character. Like the actual guy, Jonathan Crane. Batman himself never shows up. More stuff should just be in the DC universe for no reason like this

𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryprotocol.bsky.social · 2d

The animated horror comedy ‘Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!’ featuring the voice talents of Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Cassandra Peterson, Dwight Schultz, and Bill Nye was released direct-to-DVD in the US five years ago this week. 🎃 🐾 🔎 #OTD

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Alex Jaffe “Alex Jaffe” Alex Jaffe @alexjaffe.bsky.social · 1d

Promised my dad I would tell him about what happened in Toy Story when I went to see it in 1995, but I had to take a bathroom break and missed a scene, and was extremely anxious through the rest of the movie and all the way home that I wouldn’t be able to relate the full story

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