Can’t stop thinking about this Jim Shooter bit about DC editor Mort Weisinger.
05.03.2026 20:04
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Can’t stop thinking about this Jim Shooter bit about DC editor Mort Weisinger.
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So good to hear, had to get it all out of my system at all costs!
Might have to do a follow-up episode one day if I ever come across the few *deeply impossible to find* items (Mike Danger)
So glad publications like this still exist, thoughtful passion projects that celebrate our comic book obsessions. Thanks to Colin Blanchette & the rest of the Canon crew for thinking of COPRA. It’s an honor to breathe the same oxygen as some of my favorites. (gunning for your top spot tho, Watchmen)
Ha! Owning those thick Previews for a handful of pages is not the greatest (imagining a perfect world where a Complete Trencher collection exists)
Yup, found the rest after I recorded these a while back. Oh well!
MAGIKs
FIFFE FILES 5: Keith Giffen’s Independent Years! From his iconic stint at Image to unearthed collaborations, we track his post-DC journey during turbulent times in comics. Not to mention super rare projects, smut, and trading cards; this one’s got something for everybody youtu.be/m5KGQqmR44s
The entire thing is getting the Master treatment 🕺
COPRA Master Collection 2 is coming May 20th! This deluxe hardcover collects issues 13-25, Copra Versus 1 & 2, plus tons of extras. It’s been a long time coming, so I’m stoked to have these stories presented in this awesome format. Over 400 pages of psychedelic revenge comics, TELL YOUR STORES ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Hell yeah, the fever spreads…
It’s a pretty but rarely talked about era. He added subtlety and restraint to his tool box.
I’ve abused this trait to the best of my ability
Fiffe Files thumbnail for the 4th episode of a Keith Giffen video retrospective serialized on YouTube. The thumbnail art features Chameleon Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes, as the episode focuses on that series’ “Five Years Later” arc.
FIFFE FILES • Part 4 • This is the big one, the visual identity of Five Years Later examined. It’s entirely possible that this video project was an excuse for me to discuss and give context to this exact period of Keith Giffen’s career: youtu.be/X9mT9ras6y0?...
HULK 199 / 200 reprints from Spain
Hulk 199 / 200 reprints from Spain
Childhood comics inspired by Spectacular Spider-Man 158
Avengers reprint / splash page
From learning storytelling fundamentals thru Spanish reprints to finding inspiration as a student of comics, Sal Buscema has always been a staple in my appreciation of the art form. Here are some of my favorites, a humble fraction of an immense career. The Silver Age curtains are drawing close. RIP
Our overseas distributor’s contact info is in the listing, they take care of UK orders: holyinkcomics [at] gmail [dot] com
Finally
CREATING COPRA by @michelfiffe.bsky.social . In it he shares his process behind his self-published comic series Copra, which he launched over 10 years ago. Michel started out with a monthly schedule and maintained it every since. No small feat considering he was producing a colored comic.
Fiffe Files thumbnail, featuring Darksied, for the first episode of a multi-part Keith Giffen video retrospective.
Fiffe Files thumbnail, featuring Ambush Bug, for the second episode of a multi-part Keith Giffen video retrospective.
Fiffe Files thumbnail, featuring Batman, for the third episode of a multi-part Keith Giffen video retrospective.
I’m at the halfway mark of my massive Keith Giffen video retrospective! It’s a thorough, casual, chronological flip-thru of every last bit of artwork he drew, from the mega hits to the rare & obscure. 5 decades in 6 episodes LET’S GO:
youtube.com/@michelfiffe...
Update ‘26
Killer comics list at the @nytimes.com — thanks for the nod @samthielman.com
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They ship worldwide last I heard.
Or have your LCS try to order it.
Or wait until you come across it in the dollar bins one day
Check with Floating World in Portland, fairly positive they’ll be carrying it.
Tetsuo Shima from Katsuhiro Otomo’s AKIRA
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Annihilator by Josh Simmons. Great writing and art, fully realized settings, confident pacing, vibrant colors balancing its grim core.
Heavy duty cartooning, proving that a blood-soaked vigilante story doesn’t have to be boring, homogenous dogshit.
Nicely printed by Mansion Press.
Recommended.
This was a fun panel — I recall covering tons of stuff that I’ve never discussed… pre-COPRA dreams and beefs and highs and lows. Glad it was recorded!
Thank you, John! 🙏
