Every Day Is Like Wednesday
Bookshelf #23
The Justice Society vs. Hitler and The Spear of Destiny, post-Crisis: On 1988's Secret Origins #31
The Justice Society vs. Hitler and The Spear of Destiny, Round One: On 1977's DC Special #29
Bookshelf #22
Two Justice League stories of note from the pages of Secret Origins
The suspiciously familiar secret origin of Rex the Wonder Dog (From 1990's Secret Origins #48)
Bookshelf #21
One bad thing and one good thing about picture book A True Wonder: The Comic Book Hero Who Changed Everything
Is this the first appearance of the Spear of Destiny in DC Comics? (1977's Weird War Tales #50)
Bookshelf #20
A Month of Wednesdays: February 2026
Isn't this the exact thing people used to argue was necessary in order to save the comics industry...?
Bookshelf #19
Let's all read JLApe: The Complete Collection together, shall we?
Rex and Bobo cameo in 1995's Guy Gardner: Warrior #29...as does seemingly the rest of the DC Universe.
Detective Chimp and Rex the Wonder Dog re-team in 1992's Green Lantern/Flash crossover "Gorilla Warfare"
Bookshelf #18
The Flash, Vixen and Rex the Wonder Dog team-up to take down Gorilla Grodd (1990-1991's Flash #45-47)
Look, it's a gorilla with a machine gun! (The origins of Gorilla City and Congorilla, from 1989's Secret Origins #40)
How Detective Chimp got so smart and solved his first case (at least according to 1989's Secret Origins #40)
Bookshelf #17
Art Adams' Creature Features, a great book you probably won't be able to find.
The first appearance and original origin of Detective Chimp
Some non-comics books I've read recently.
Bookshelf #16
A Month of Wednesdays: January 2026
I don't really want to talk about 2003's JLA/The Spectre: Soul War, but I do want to talk about how Batman and Hal Jordan finally make up
Bookshelf #15
That time Detective Chimp accidentally discovered the Fountain of Youth, in DC Comics Presents #35
On 1999's JLA #35
Bookshelf #14
An extremely belated review of All of The Marvels
John McCrea's Ragman in 1999's Day of Judgment Secret Files and Origins #1
Revisiting 1999's Day of Judgment
Bookshelf #13
An extremely belated book review of Betty and Veronica: The Leading Ladies of Riverdale
The Spectre in the DC Universe Pt. 1
Bookshelf #12
A Month of Wednesdays: December 2025
Bookshelf #11
Revisiting 2005's Day of Vengeance
When Man-Bat met The Demon (On 1978's Batman Family #16)
Booksehlf #10
The first time Batman met Ragman (On 1978's Batman Family #20)
Announcing Giant Monster Movies: 100 Years of Big-Screen Behemoths
Review: 1996's Lobo/Demon: Hellaween #1
Bookshelf #9
On 1998's Batman #551-552, guest-starring Ragman
Another Mothman
The comics that first got me into comics
Bookshelf #8
Review: 1995's Lobo/Deadman: The Brave and The Bald
Bookshelf #7
A Month of Wednesdays: November 2025
Another Mothman
Review: 1997's The Spectre #51
Bookshelf #6
Review: 1997's Batman #540-541
Review: Justice League of America: The Rise of Eclipso
Bookshelf #5
Three out of four Spider-Man manga homage Amazing Fantasy #15's cover
Review: Spider-Man: Octo-Girl Vol 2
Bookshelf #4
Review: Swamp Thing by Len Wein and Kelley Jones: The Deluxe Edition
Review: Spider-Man Kizuna Vol. 1
Bookshelf #3
A Month of Wednesdays: October 2025
Bookshelf #2
I also just recently learned that Alan Moore and Todd McFarlane had actually collaborated on a second issue of Spawn.
If I had read Haikyu!! as a teenager, could it have improved my mental health?
Honestly the only reason EDILW didn't become a Haikyu!! fan blog over the last few months is that my scanner is broken.
Bookshelf #1
No one ever told me that Grant Morrison wrote Spawn.
Godzilla Vs. The Marvel Universe viewing guide
When Batman Met Spawn Pt. 2: On 1994's Spawn/Batman #1
When Batman Met Spawn Pt. 1: On 1994's Batman/Spawn: War Devil #1
Review: Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime: Gallery Edition
A Month of Wednesdays: September 2025
On every Plastic Man team-up ever
On 1993-1994's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Flaming Carrot Crossover
On 1991's Flaming Carrot Comics #25-27, guest-starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
And then what?: Briefly on 2006-2011's Justice League of America
The End of JLA Pt. 7: "World Without a Justice League"
On 2010's The Twelve: Spearhead #1
A Month of Wednesdays: August 2025
On 2023's All-Negro Comics 75th Anniversary Edition
The End of JLA Pt. 6: "Crisis of Conscience"
On 2000's Batman: Gotham Knights #5
The End of JLA Pt. 5: "Syndicate Rules"
Review: Invaders Now!
The End of JLA Pt. 4: "The Pain of the Gods"
On 2017's Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Hearts of Darkness (again, apparently)
The End of JLA Pt. 3: "Elitism"
A Month of Wedesdays: July 2025
The End of JLA Pt. 2: "The Tenth Circle"
On the first 450 pages of Marvel's second Ghost Rider (via 2023's Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Epic Collection: Vengeance Reborn)
Fourth time's a charm...? (A few comments and questions about the Fantastic Four: First Steps movie)
The End of JLA Part 1: "Extinction"
Review: Ghost Rider Team-Up (2007)
The End of JLA
On the new Superman movie: Politics, performances and nitpicks
Credit where credit is due: Who created who in Superman
The origins of Mister Terrific Michael Holt