Mike
@mrpsmissives.bsky.social
lifelong fan of geek culture, history & lifelong reader/learner, avid rpg player/DM & collector of things D&D, sword & sorcery, comics, art & vintage paperbacks
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Mike
@mrpsmissives.bsky.social
· Nov 5
I was asked elsewhere what my tastes in comics were-favorites, etc. As usual for me, I was long winded in my response, but here is what I said.. a🧵
I am simply a fan of the medium of comics-the use of words and pictures arranged in panels and pages to tell stories.
I am simply a fan of the medium of comics-the use of words and pictures arranged in panels and pages to tell stories.
Picture of the staff who operate this bluesky account...
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Picture of the staff who operate this bluesky account...
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 22 Misty Knight
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 22 Misty Knight
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 22 Misty Knight
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 22 Misty Knight
#comics #comicbooks #comicsky
Back from the Bell Book and Comics Holiday Warehouse Sale, spent $100 came home with this haul. Also a couple of pics of the hall of the sale itself
Back from the Bell Book and Comics Holiday Warehouse Sale, spent $100 came home with this haul. Also a couple of pics of the hall of the sale itself
December 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
#comics #comicbooks #comicsky
Back from the Bell Book and Comics Holiday Warehouse Sale, spent $100 came home with this haul. Also a couple of pics of the hall of the sale itself
Back from the Bell Book and Comics Holiday Warehouse Sale, spent $100 came home with this haul. Also a couple of pics of the hall of the sale itself
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 21 Zatanna
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 21 Zatanna
December 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 21 Zatanna
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 21 Zatanna
#TopShelfFriday #comicbooks #comics
Top Shelf Friday time 🎉
What's a comic in your collection that you think deserves to be on that top shelf? Whether its a key, rare, or just one you love ❤️
Basically Strange #1 Croben cover. Stories by Toth, Wood, Thorne and others. All a delight!
Top Shelf Friday time 🎉
What's a comic in your collection that you think deserves to be on that top shelf? Whether its a key, rare, or just one you love ❤️
Basically Strange #1 Croben cover. Stories by Toth, Wood, Thorne and others. All a delight!
December 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#TopShelfFriday #comicbooks #comics
Top Shelf Friday time 🎉
What's a comic in your collection that you think deserves to be on that top shelf? Whether its a key, rare, or just one you love ❤️
Basically Strange #1 Croben cover. Stories by Toth, Wood, Thorne and others. All a delight!
Top Shelf Friday time 🎉
What's a comic in your collection that you think deserves to be on that top shelf? Whether its a key, rare, or just one you love ❤️
Basically Strange #1 Croben cover. Stories by Toth, Wood, Thorne and others. All a delight!
Comic Review:
- First comic you read this year (Kirby's Demon)
- Favorite comic of the year (Zub & co.'s Conan)
- Comic that surprised you (Romanis Magicae)
- Comic you liked the least (Absolute Martian Manhunter)
- First comic you read this year (Kirby's Demon)
- Favorite comic of the year (Zub & co.'s Conan)
- Comic that surprised you (Romanis Magicae)
- Comic you liked the least (Absolute Martian Manhunter)
December 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Comic Review:
- First comic you read this year (Kirby's Demon)
- Favorite comic of the year (Zub & co.'s Conan)
- Comic that surprised you (Romanis Magicae)
- Comic you liked the least (Absolute Martian Manhunter)
- First comic you read this year (Kirby's Demon)
- Favorite comic of the year (Zub & co.'s Conan)
- Comic that surprised you (Romanis Magicae)
- Comic you liked the least (Absolute Martian Manhunter)
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 20 Vixen (Mari McCabe)
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 20 Vixen (Mari McCabe)
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 20 Vixen (Mari McCabe)
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 20 Vixen (Mari McCabe)
#NCBD #comicsky
Big day for me @superflycomics.bsky.social Here's what I came home with. Looking forward to diving in to these. New Brubaker/Phillips Criminal is always a plus
Big day for me @superflycomics.bsky.social Here's what I came home with. Looking forward to diving in to these. New Brubaker/Phillips Criminal is always a plus
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
#NCBD #comicsky
Big day for me @superflycomics.bsky.social Here's what I came home with. Looking forward to diving in to these. New Brubaker/Phillips Criminal is always a plus
Big day for me @superflycomics.bsky.social Here's what I came home with. Looking forward to diving in to these. New Brubaker/Phillips Criminal is always a plus
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 19 Hawkwoman
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 19 Hawkwoman
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 19 Hawkwoman
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 19 Hawkwoman
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 18 Princess Aura (Flash Gordon)
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 18 Princess Aura (Flash Gordon)
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 18 Princess Aura (Flash Gordon)
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 18 Princess Aura (Flash Gordon)
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 17 Wanda Maximoff The Scarlet Witch
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 17 Wanda Maximoff The Scarlet Witch
December 2, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 17 Wanda Maximoff The Scarlet Witch
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 17 Wanda Maximoff The Scarlet Witch
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks #Toth
Mail call today-Basically Strange #1 from '82, Corben cover, stories by Alex Toth, Wally Wood and Frank Thorne.
Mail call today-Basically Strange #1 from '82, Corben cover, stories by Alex Toth, Wally Wood and Frank Thorne.
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks #Toth
Mail call today-Basically Strange #1 from '82, Corben cover, stories by Alex Toth, Wally Wood and Frank Thorne.
Mail call today-Basically Strange #1 from '82, Corben cover, stories by Alex Toth, Wally Wood and Frank Thorne.
What have been your #LCS local comic shops over the years?
The Bookie E. Htfd CT '84-89
New England Comics Coolidge Corner '89-91
The Eye Opener Newington CT '92-97
Buried Under Books Manchester CT '98-03
Dark Star Books Yellow Springs, OH '03-07
hiatus '07-'12
Main Street Comics Spfd OH '12-16
1/2
The Bookie E. Htfd CT '84-89
New England Comics Coolidge Corner '89-91
The Eye Opener Newington CT '92-97
Buried Under Books Manchester CT '98-03
Dark Star Books Yellow Springs, OH '03-07
hiatus '07-'12
Main Street Comics Spfd OH '12-16
1/2
What have been your #LCS local comic shops over the years? Mine:
Child: Local Newsagent, Wisbech, Cambs & Just Comics mail order
90-92: None
93: comic shop in neighbouring town I can’t remember the name of
94-97: Central City Comics, Ipswich, Suffolk, at college
97-00: various shops
Child: Local Newsagent, Wisbech, Cambs & Just Comics mail order
90-92: None
93: comic shop in neighbouring town I can’t remember the name of
94-97: Central City Comics, Ipswich, Suffolk, at college
97-00: various shops
What have been your #LCS local comic shops over the years? Mine:
Teen/College: Taurus Comics, Marquette, MI
Decades later:
Laughing Ogre, Leesburg, VA (Fairfax, VA location after they closed in Leesburg)
Comic Logic, Ashburn, VA
Teen/College: Taurus Comics, Marquette, MI
Decades later:
Laughing Ogre, Leesburg, VA (Fairfax, VA location after they closed in Leesburg)
Comic Logic, Ashburn, VA
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
What have been your #LCS local comic shops over the years?
The Bookie E. Htfd CT '84-89
New England Comics Coolidge Corner '89-91
The Eye Opener Newington CT '92-97
Buried Under Books Manchester CT '98-03
Dark Star Books Yellow Springs, OH '03-07
hiatus '07-'12
Main Street Comics Spfd OH '12-16
1/2
The Bookie E. Htfd CT '84-89
New England Comics Coolidge Corner '89-91
The Eye Opener Newington CT '92-97
Buried Under Books Manchester CT '98-03
Dark Star Books Yellow Springs, OH '03-07
hiatus '07-'12
Main Street Comics Spfd OH '12-16
1/2
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 16 Black Canary
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 16 Black Canary
December 1, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 16 Black Canary
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 16 Black Canary
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 15 Princess Ariel (the sorceress)
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 15 Princess Ariel (the sorceress)
November 30, 2025 at 5:25 AM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 15 Princess Ariel (the sorceress)
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 15 Princess Ariel (the sorceress)
Was thinking about childhood toys after another discussion elsewhere and kept coming back to one of my favorites-The Mighty Man and Monster Maker from Tomy in 1979. Did anyone else have this?
November 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Was thinking about childhood toys after another discussion elsewhere and kept coming back to one of my favorites-The Mighty Man and Monster Maker from Tomy in 1979. Did anyone else have this?
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 14 Catwoman
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 14 Catwoman
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 14 Catwoman
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 14 Catwoman
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Living Colour
King Crimson
Robert Fripp
Chuck Berry (part of a Rock & Roll Revival Show)
Pink Floyd
Living Colour
King Crimson
Robert Fripp
Chuck Berry (part of a Rock & Roll Revival Show)
Pink Floyd
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Herbert Hancock & Wayne Shorter
Wynton Marsalis
Santana
Bob Dylan
The Mingus Big Band
Herbert Hancock & Wayne Shorter
Wynton Marsalis
Santana
Bob Dylan
The Mingus Big Band
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Hoyt Axton
McCoy Tyner (pianist for the John Coltrane Quartet)
Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit concert ('98 & '99)
Stephen Lynch/Mitch Hedberg
The Linda Lindas
Hoyt Axton
McCoy Tyner (pianist for the John Coltrane Quartet)
Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit concert ('98 & '99)
Stephen Lynch/Mitch Hedberg
The Linda Lindas
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Living Colour
King Crimson
Robert Fripp
Chuck Berry (part of a Rock & Roll Revival Show)
Pink Floyd
Living Colour
King Crimson
Robert Fripp
Chuck Berry (part of a Rock & Roll Revival Show)
Pink Floyd
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 13 Madame Xanadu
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 13 Madame Xanadu
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 AM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 13 Madame Xanadu
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 13 Madame Xanadu
To all who are celebrating, have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
To all who are celebrating, have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 12 Clea
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 12 Clea
November 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 12 Clea
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Day 12 Clea
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Francine Peters
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Francine Peters
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 AM
#comicsky #comics #comicbooks
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Francine Peters
Choose your top 25 favorite female characters. One per day for 25 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews.
Francine Peters
#comics #comicbooks #comicsky #Toth
Mail call, picked up a quartet of comics-Jimmy Wakely #1 low grade but the draw for me is the Toth art inside and that's intact. One more Supergirl to get closer to completing that run and 2 books to fill holes in other runs-GL and Adventurers Book II.
Mail call, picked up a quartet of comics-Jimmy Wakely #1 low grade but the draw for me is the Toth art inside and that's intact. One more Supergirl to get closer to completing that run and 2 books to fill holes in other runs-GL and Adventurers Book II.
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
#comics #comicbooks #comicsky #Toth
Mail call, picked up a quartet of comics-Jimmy Wakely #1 low grade but the draw for me is the Toth art inside and that's intact. One more Supergirl to get closer to completing that run and 2 books to fill holes in other runs-GL and Adventurers Book II.
Mail call, picked up a quartet of comics-Jimmy Wakely #1 low grade but the draw for me is the Toth art inside and that's intact. One more Supergirl to get closer to completing that run and 2 books to fill holes in other runs-GL and Adventurers Book II.
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships