J. Caleb Mozzocco
@jcaleb.bsky.social
Library clerk by day, semi-professional comic book critic and comics blogger by later in the day, asleep by night.
Wait, shouldn't that be "jackasses", plural...?
November 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Wait, shouldn't that be "jackasses", plural...?
I was just writing about the 1997 Batman/Spectre story from BATMAN #540 and 541 for Thursday's blog post, and I couldn't find a logical place to use this panel by Kelley Jones and John Beatty, so I'll just post it here. Isn't it awesome...?
November 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I was just writing about the 1997 Batman/Spectre story from BATMAN #540 and 541 for Thursday's blog post, and I couldn't find a logical place to use this panel by Kelley Jones and John Beatty, so I'll just post it here. Isn't it awesome...?
I love the 1995-1998 Doug Moench/Kelley Jones/John Beatty BATMAN run so much. Like, any random panel of it. This one, for example, features a great Moench sound effect lettered by Todd Klein, while Jones draws Batman leaping through a window with a batarang in his clenched teeth for some reason.
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I love the 1995-1998 Doug Moench/Kelley Jones/John Beatty BATMAN run so much. Like, any random panel of it. This one, for example, features a great Moench sound effect lettered by Todd Klein, while Jones draws Batman leaping through a window with a batarang in his clenched teeth for some reason.
Let's journey back to the distant year 2011, for the final Justice League comics before the New 52 reboot, collected in the trade paperback JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: RISE OF ECLIPSO:
Review: <i>Justice League of America: The Rise of Eclipso</i>
The 2012 Justice League of America: The Rise of Eclipso trade paperback collection is a complete mess, which probably shouldn't be surprisi...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Let's journey back to the distant year 2011, for the final Justice League comics before the New 52 reboot, collected in the trade paperback JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: RISE OF ECLIPSO:
Reposting as a public service announcement:
Our Early Cyber Monday sale is on and we're offering 40% off just about everything on our website + free media mail shipping on orders of $75 and more--yes, that includes our Carl Barks library! Stock up at https://ow.ly/6fRk50XuWZG 🎁
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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This week's bookshelf: Some DC manga and kids' comics, and some DRAGON BALL and EVANGELION-related manga:
Bookshelf #5
Continuing with our tour of my bookshelves, we now move into the master bedroom, where I have three big shelving units from Ikea (two of whi...
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November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This week's bookshelf: Some DC manga and kids' comics, and some DRAGON BALL and EVANGELION-related manga:
(Just deleted a couple of posts, as I realized I didn’t actually want to post a whole thread pointing out all the poor art from a 15-year-old comic book, as I had started to do. I will review it in my blog later this week or so, though.)
November 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
(Just deleted a couple of posts, as I realized I didn’t actually want to post a whole thread pointing out all the poor art from a 15-year-old comic book, as I had started to do. I will review it in my blog later this week or so, though.)
It’s weird to run across scenes like this, in which Alan Scott expresses discomfort with talking about gay stuff with his son, now that Alan has been retconned into being a gay man himself. (This is a panel from 2010’s JSoA #43, written by James Robinson, of all people.)
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It’s weird to run across scenes like this, in which Alan Scott expresses discomfort with talking about gay stuff with his son, now that Alan has been retconned into being a gay man himself. (This is a panel from 2010’s JSoA #43, written by James Robinson, of all people.)
One of the characters in Kenny Ruiz’s STAR WARS: PATH OF THE LIGHTSABER is apparently an Endor truther, insisting Luke Skywalker beat the Empire, not the Ewoks.
Note a) how cute Ruiz’s Ewoks are and b) the face on the AT-ST:
Note a) how cute Ruiz’s Ewoks are and b) the face on the AT-ST:
November 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
One of the characters in Kenny Ruiz’s STAR WARS: PATH OF THE LIGHTSABER is apparently an Endor truther, insisting Luke Skywalker beat the Empire, not the Ewoks.
Note a) how cute Ruiz’s Ewoks are and b) the face on the AT-ST:
Note a) how cute Ruiz’s Ewoks are and b) the face on the AT-ST:
This is a good comic.
Steve Bissette’s lost 90s classic Tyrant is coming back in a deluxe edition from new imprint Lighthouse Press. My latest at @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Lighthouse Brings ‘Tyrant’ Back in Deluxe Edition
Comics veteran Chris Stevens’s Lighthouse Press will launch a crowdfunding campaign in the new year to reissue Steve Bissette’s lost classic in trade and oversize “original art edition” formats.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is a good comic.
I finished THE SPECTRE OMNIBUS BY JOHN OSTRANDER AND TOM MANDRAKE last night/this morning at, um, 3 AM. Based on the talent of those two gentlemen and the handful of issues I had previously read, I was expecting it to be pretty great.
I was still surprised at how great it was, though...
I was still surprised at how great it was, though...
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I finished THE SPECTRE OMNIBUS BY JOHN OSTRANDER AND TOM MANDRAKE last night/this morning at, um, 3 AM. Based on the talent of those two gentlemen and the handful of issues I had previously read, I was expecting it to be pretty great.
I was still surprised at how great it was, though...
I was still surprised at how great it was, though...
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Today at Good Comics for Kids, @jcaleb.bsky.social reviewed Go-Man, a new, Japanese-inspired but very American, graphic novel for kids by @hamishsteele.bsky.social
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Go-Man: Champion of Earth | Review
In cartoonist Hamish Steele's new book, lonely little boy Tobi becomes a giant, kaiju-fighting superhero. In addition to being a lot of fun, this is also a metaphor.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Today at Good Comics for Kids, @jcaleb.bsky.social reviewed Go-Man, a new, Japanese-inspired but very American, graphic novel for kids by @hamishsteele.bsky.social
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Which artist has the best take on Jack Kirby’s Demon? My favorites have always been Norm Breyfogle, John McCrea and Stephen Bissette, but reading these issues of THE SPECTRE from the ‘90s, I think Tom Mandrake’s Etrigan is definitely a contender. Behold his version of The Demon:
November 19, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Which artist has the best take on Jack Kirby’s Demon? My favorites have always been Norm Breyfogle, John McCrea and Stephen Bissette, but reading these issues of THE SPECTRE from the ‘90s, I think Tom Mandrake’s Etrigan is definitely a contender. Behold his version of The Demon:
Look what came in the mail today! Between that huge SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES collection, the unexpected Jones inking of Jim Aparo in THE SPECTRE OMNIBUS (plus a Jones cover) and now DRACULA BOOK TWO: THE BRIDES, this has been a hell of a month to be a Kelley Jones fan...!
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Look what came in the mail today! Between that huge SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES collection, the unexpected Jones inking of Jim Aparo in THE SPECTRE OMNIBUS (plus a Jones cover) and now DRACULA BOOK TWO: THE BRIDES, this has been a hell of a month to be a Kelley Jones fan...!
These two lines from near the climax of Mark Waid, Christopher Cantwell and company's WE ARE YESTERDAY are a perfect encapsulation of the precise balance between awesome and dumb that I so enjoy in mainstream super-comics:
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
These two lines from near the climax of Mark Waid, Christopher Cantwell and company's WE ARE YESTERDAY are a perfect encapsulation of the precise balance between awesome and dumb that I so enjoy in mainstream super-comics:
I read this a few weeks ago, and just finished writing about it. It’s really great. As a comics reader who is also interested in cryptids and American monster folklore, I found it damn near perfect.
November 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I read this a few weeks ago, and just finished writing about it. It’s really great. As a comics reader who is also interested in cryptids and American monster folklore, I found it damn near perfect.
I've been enjoying this series of fight analysis on the DC VERSUS MARVEL crossover's matchups. And I'm glad to see that I'm not the ONLY one who still annoyed by the Lobo/Wolverine fight, almost 30 years later.
Wolverine vs. Lobo Fight Analysis
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November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I've been enjoying this series of fight analysis on the DC VERSUS MARVEL crossover's matchups. And I'm glad to see that I'm not the ONLY one who still annoyed by the Lobo/Wolverine fight, almost 30 years later.
Bad news on what the afterlife holds for critics from Etrigan:
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Bad news on what the afterlife holds for critics from Etrigan:
Saying “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman” sure sounds like justifying Khashoggi’s murder. This is maybe the most vile, disgusting thing Trump has said, in a life time of saying vile, disgusting things…
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Saying “A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman” sure sounds like justifying Khashoggi’s murder. This is maybe the most vile, disgusting thing Trump has said, in a life time of saying vile, disgusting things…
I've been fairly flying through THE SPECTRE BY JOHN OSTRANDER AND TOM MANDRAKE OMNIBUS, which collects the first half of the series, and I just hit 1994's #16, which was a revelation. Its guest artists are a pair I know quite well but working in a combination I have never seen (nor imagined)...
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I've been fairly flying through THE SPECTRE BY JOHN OSTRANDER AND TOM MANDRAKE OMNIBUS, which collects the first half of the series, and I just hit 1994's #16, which was a revelation. Its guest artists are a pair I know quite well but working in a combination I have never seen (nor imagined)...
I run into Stephen Bissette in the strangest places…!
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I run into Stephen Bissette in the strangest places…!
On SPIDER-MAN: OCTO-GIRL Vol. 2:
Review: <i>Spider-Man: Octo-Girl Vol 2</i>
Just as reading and reviewing the Spider-Man: Shadow Warrior manga led to my seeking out Spider-Man Kizuna , it also reminded me of the m...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
On SPIDER-MAN: OCTO-GIRL Vol. 2:
This week's bookshelf:
Bookshelf #4
Finally, we come to the bottom shelf of the first of my bookshelves. To the left are various Top Shelf books, all acquired during my time i...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This week's bookshelf:
The Superior Octopus, master of disguise.
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The Superior Octopus, master of disguise.
Sorry, this is much later in the day than I like to post things, but here's Thursday's post on EDILW, a feature-by-feature examination of the contents of SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES: THE DELUXE EDITION:
Review: <i>Swamp Thing by Len Wein and Kelley Jones: The Deluxe Edition</i>
I actually bought this 430-ish page hardcover collection when it was released last month, but I didn't get a chance to read it before Novemb...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Sorry, this is much later in the day than I like to post things, but here's Thursday's post on EDILW, a feature-by-feature examination of the contents of SWAMP THING BY LEN WEIN AND KELLEY JONES: THE DELUXE EDITION: