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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Digressions, On The Whole: Providence #11, by @deathchrist2000.bsky.social 🚨
How do you write about a comic like Providence without getting sidetracked? Well… maybe the tangents we take are the whole point? shelfdust.com/2026/03/18/d...
It took me six months and two radically different drafts, but here it is. I’m sure I’ll write a book on this one of these days…
I just finished Providence a few weeks ago, and have been sort of wondering how Moore's most expansive and ambitious project since League of Extraordinary Gentlemen hasn't had anything like that series's sort of impact. The depths one can plumb even of a single issue speaks to my bafflement there.
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🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! An Iron Soldier Rides Away: Iron Man’s War in Vietnam, by Hank Kennedy🚨
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By Sean Dillon The problem with writing about any single issue of Providence is that, inevitably, you end up writing about the entirety of Providence. It’s not simply because this was Alan Moore’s …
By Hank Kennedy Despite what Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez’s History of the Marvel Universe will tell you, Iron Man was born in the jungles of Vietnam. The character’s origin in 1962’s Tales of Su…
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By Hank Kennedy Despite what Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez’s History of the Marvel Universe will tell you, Iron Man was born in the jungles of Vietnam. The character’s origin in 1962’s Tales of Su…
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! An Iron Soldier Rides Away: Iron Man’s War in Vietnam, by Hank Kennedy🚨
Iron Man was originally a pro-war kind of hero, until Marvel realised the Vietnam War... wasn't popular. Today on the site Hank writes about their attempt to pivot: shelfdust.com/2026/03/25/a...
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Digressions, On The Whole: Providence #11, by @deathchrist2000.bsky.social 🚨
How do you write about a comic like Providence without getting sidetracked? Well… maybe the tangents we take are the whole point? shelfdust.com/2026/03/18/d...
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Digressions, On The Whole: Providence #11, by @deathchrist2000.bsky.social 🚨
How do you write about a comic like Providence without getting sidetracked? Well… maybe the tangents we take are the whole point? shelfdust.com/2026/03/18/d...
🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Digressions, On The Whole: Providence #11, by @deathchrist2000.bsky.social 🚨
How do you write about a comic like Providence without getting sidetracked? Well… maybe the tangents we take are the whole point? shelfdust.com/2026/03/18/d...
By Hank Kennedy Despite what Mark Waid and Javier Rodriguez’s History of the Marvel Universe will tell you, Iron Man was born in the jungles of Vietnam. The character’s origin in 1962’s Tales of Su…
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By Sean Dillon The problem with writing about any single issue of Providence is that, inevitably, you end up writing about the entirety of Providence. It’s not simply because this was Alan Moore’s …
By Sean Dillon The problem with writing about any single issue of Providence is that, inevitably, you end up writing about the entirety of Providence. It’s not simply because this was Alan Moore’s …
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By Sean Dillon The problem with writing about any single issue of Providence is that, inevitably, you end up writing about the entirety of Providence. It’s not simply because this was Alan Moore’s …