J. Caleb Mozzocco

A Month of Wednesdays: February 2026 BOUGHT: Mothra: Queen of the Monsters (IDW Publishing) If I didn't already know that Sophie Campbell was a kaiju fan from her past social m...

This month's reviews of recent-ish comics include MOTHRA: QUEEN OF THE MONSTERS, RUNAWAYS: THINK OF THE CHILDREN and SPIDER-MAN & WOLVERINE Vol. 1:

Hmm… Well, thanks for the input, everyone! I am curious about some of the fights, but what I saw about the ending (talk of the Multiverse, re-making the world, etc) kinda scared me, given how many such “crisis” comics I’be read at this point.

"Underneath the circumstances"...? Is that the term? Huh. Well, dude has a way with words, anyway...

Quick question for DC fans: Do I NEED to read DC K.O., or can I just skip that trade when it comes out? I've kept an eye on reviews of it and its tie-ins, but the consensus seems to be that it was a) not very good and b) not very consequential...?

Or have I just been reading the wrong reviews...?

Come to think of it, I haven’t seen Phil Fumble in a while… 🤔

Wait, did Fritzi just come out…?

I’d buy it.

I always thought this would have made for a very interesting Justice League line-up. (Although I guess some 2/3rds of these guys ended up in the new Justice League following the event, even if some of them only very briefly.)

Crazed American Fundamentalist Leaders Chant 'Death To Iran,' Launch Holy War Launching Armageddon to bring about the return of Christ is not subject to the War Powers Act.

Personally, I’d prefer that those yearning for Armageddon and the end of the world and American military leaders not have any overlap at all, what with the existence of nuclear weapons.

America’s civilian leadership being completely unable to get their story straight about why we attacked Iran days ago doesn’t exactly inspire confidence when it comes to their ability to prosecute the war and manage its aftermath.

The cover of The Demon #11, featuring the words, "A Monster is Loose in the City! He belongs to Baron Von Evilstein!"

"Baron Von Evilstein!" Thanks to the recent DC FINEST collection, I am finally making my way through Jack Kirby's THE DEMON, and one thing I love about it is just how completely free of subtlety the whole series is.

Isn't this the exact thing people used to argue was necessary in order to save the comics industry...? I've been blogging about comics here at Every Day Is Like Wednesday for about 20 years now but even before that I used to read about and ve...

I saw a magazine at the grocery store and then came home and wrote a bunch of words about it:

Bookshelf #19 This week's bookshelf is the second-to-last one on this particular shelving unit—an Ikea one that I built all by myself last year—which is t...

This week's bookshelf:

Yesterday it was reported that one part of the U.S. government mistakenly used a laser weapon to shoot down a drone launched by another part of the U.S. government, here in the U.S.

Today we’re at war with another country, a war that no one has bothered to explain or justify.

It’s going to be bad.

If he were still around, I wonder what he might say in, I don’t know, six months. Would he ask if I wanted to watch the far right Republican news or the Republican news…? The MAGA news or the Republican news…?

CNN To Go MAGA, Just Like Practically Every Other Television News Outlet Yep, it's just MSNOW, now.

When I used to visit my late grandfather near the end of his life, he always had the news on as background noise. He would pick up the remote and switch back and forth between Fox and CNN, and laughingly ask if I wanted the Republican news or the Democratic news.

Um, our current president actually IS a convicted felon, though, right? Presumably you can't get any closer to a convicted felon that than, right?

I miss the days when I only had to panic about one national crisis per day.

AI Death Machines. No Human Oversight. What Could Go Wrong? Pete Hegseth is trying to bully Anthropic out of objecting to “lethal autonomous weapons systems” and mass surveillance.

Here’s a short article on the same subject, sans dick jokes:

Is it maybe too much to ask the legislative branch to do a little legislation on this matter, rather than leaving it up the personal morality of the leaders of an AI company, and let them decide whether or not we build autonomous killing machines…?

We Need To Talk About Pete Hegseth’s Pervert Boner AI Mass Surveillance Killer Robot Fantasies Welcome to dystopia.

What a weird way to find out that Pete Hegseth has never seen TERMINATOR.

Or…DID he see it and maybe he just didn’t understand it? Did he think the killer AI and the army of skull-faced robots were the good guys…?

Let's all read <i>JLApe: The Complete Collection</i> together, shall we? The 1999 storyline JLApe: Gorilla Warfare asked a question I don't think had even occurred to most people previously: What if the heroes of...

Gorilla City launches an all-out war on humanity, employing weaponry that turns people into gorillas. Can the JLA save the day, when they themselves have been turned into gorilla? Let's find out, as we read—well, in my case RE-read—1999's JLAPE:

Two panels featuring Batman and Superman in conversation from 1997's JLA #1, drawn by Howard Porter and John Dell.

Also from JLA #1; is this the very first instance of Batman saying some variation of "HH"...?

(Also, I kind of wanted to post that panel here to see if Bluesky attaches a content warning to it, as they did when I had previously posted an Ian Churchill-drawn panel of Lois Lane in her underwear)

Panels from 1997's JLA #1, penciled by Howard Porter and inked by John Dell.

I just re-read 1997's JLA #1 for a blog post I was working on, and I completely forgot about this image of Ice Maiden by Howard Porter. I think it's a technically accurate costume design, just significantly smaller than other artists drew it? And maybe the pose just accentuates its skimpy nature?

I know Alf had his own Marvel comic for a while (Wow, it looks like 50 issues!). Are their collectors out there who want every Alf comic book appearance...? If so, they may want to check out A KID LIKE ME, if only for this page:

A Kid Like Me | Review In Norm Feuti's new graphic novel, middle-schooler Ethan struggles to fit in, a challenge made more difficult still by his insecurity about his economic status.

I wrote this review:

To be fair, it's a really fun comic! Phil Jimenez draws it, it features a whole crisis worth of guest-stars and cameos and today it reads like a pretty perfect time capsule of DC Comics circa 1995.

Rex and Bobo cameo in 1995's <i>Guy Gardner: Warrior #29</i>...as does seemingly the rest of the DC Universe. Detective Chimp and Rex the Wonder Dog next appeared in 1995's Guy Gardner: Warrior #29 , and they were hardly alone. This is the issue that...

How far down the Rex/Bobo rabbit hole have I fallen...? Well, here's a whole post about 1995's GUY GARDNER: WARRIOR #29, in which the pair appear in only a single panel:

YES.