Steve Baxi

I am doing my part to keep the company safe from surveys

IT: report suspicious emails

Me: ok

IT: here is a fake suspicious email, you better report it!

Me: *reported*

IT: here is a survey about how we're doing :)

Me: ....looks suspicious, *reported*

Feels like cheating because I didn't play Silent Hill 2 until recently but the rest were all very informative in my taste lol

Me when I go back to edit a review I'm working on

Hey! Anyone want to read about the time Batman fell in love with a ghost?

This is a great read! I actually have a poster of this cover in my office. Its so wonderfully moody

Caught In A Bat-Romance: Gothic Love in Batman #227 By Lillian Hochwender We all have our own personal Batman: for some, it’s the mascara-smeared Robert Pattinson; for others, it’s Frank Miller’s blocky brute. But over the decades, the specifics of …

🚨 NEW on Shelfdust today! Caught In A Bat-Romance: Gothic Love in Batman #227, by @ligerlillie.bsky.social 🚨

Batman was inspired by pulp heroes, but also by gothic romance - today we take a look at one of The Dark Knight's most fantastical adventures! shelfdust.com/2026/03/11/c...

Okay, I gotta read some ABC Warriors soon

Completely disagree, obviously. Michael Mann is one of the best American directors ever and Thief is a classic. But I do love the way Kael wrote this. She definitely gets the movie, and its funny to read her critical description when those are all the best things about the movie

I'm a simple man. I see dinosaur, I am intrigued 🦖

French fry loosies

From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched To better understand what exactly we’re looking at in this dystopian surveillance hellscape, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox joined Reddit's r/technology for an Ask Me Anything session.

From Flock's nationwide surveillance to ICE tools, we are being watched. Is there anyway to go back now?

"Police love telling each other about the new capabilities and tools that they've acquired, so this tech can spread from city to city very quickly."

A 404 Media guide to surveillance in 2026:

Gundam treats its leads like a lost generation, Evangelion treats them like real kids

Shinji is also an interesting contrast to Gundam protags like Amuro. For Amuro, the trauma of being a child soldier has to do primarily with death, war, and political responsibility for the future. But for Shinji, that trauma is an inward foreclosure to grew and learning how to be yourself

There is also a powerful coupling of coming of age and body dysphoria in a way that's extremely unique for mecha anime, and I'm very much here for it. Wish I saw this when I was much younger. But maybe I wouldn't have appreciated it as much

Its a very pretty show, in a way that most anime never allow themselves to be. There's no AoT exaggeration or over stimulation. It let's the episodes be quiet and thoughtful in between the action

I'm only 5 episodes in but one of the best animes I've ever seen in terms of episode by episode cliffhangers, allowing slow moments to linger, creating unique compositions that the episodes will simply hold on. Its so cinematic

Shock, awe, surprise, hot take, unpopular opinion, or whatever else

Evangelion is really good

I demand the folks over at 2000AD make Joe Saturday, ChronoCop an ongoing series

Omg that art! And that premise!

Where does one go to read more Joe Pineapples, @stevewmorris.bsky.social

I love Joe Pineapples

Am I in this? Yes

Do I quote a John Mulaney standup bit in it? Also yes

Watchmen issue #1

Discussion of Watchmen is dominated by the thoughts and feelings of male writers, so @shelfdust.bsky.social paid 12 female and non-binary writers to talk about each issue of the serial instead: shelfdust.com/tag/we-watch...

Out Dark is incredible, one of my favorites by McCarthy, but it always surprises me how much he evolves from Orchard Keeper to Outer Dark, from discount Faulkner to the core of his identity almost fully formed

a tan long-haired dachshund with incredibly floofy ears sits with his front paws on a window sill and his nose pressed up against the window. he's accompanied by his stuffed squirrel friend. their reflections stares back at them. Stevie the dachshund does not see the irony in watching for squirrels with his squirrel friend. he's too busy being locked in on the happenings outside his window.

This is Stevie. He's on squirrel watch. His stuffed friend is also a squirrel, but he's one of the good ones. 14/10 (IG: longdogstevie)

The Good Asian #1

Ten writers, ten issues: @shelfdust.bsky.social hits the streets with The Good Asian as we cover the entire run of the acclaimed noir series: shelfdust.com/category/the...

Comics Shop Tok Comics retailers are stepping out from behind the counter and in front of the camera as business booms

I wrote a piece for @publisherswkly.bsky.social about how comics retailers have turned into influencers and YouTubers to promote comics, their shops and community

super fun diving into the creative ways retailers get noticed online, including Bruce the Muppet from @thegeekerynj.bsky.social !!!

At some point I need to start Evangelion. Given how much I did not like G-Witch, I might just abandon the last couple episodes and start EVA instead

Muck Madness is here for March as we look at McFarlane, Holguin, Capullo & Co.'s version of the first mud-encrusted muck monster in The Heap.