J. Caleb Mozzocco
@jcaleb.bsky.social
Library clerk by day, semi-professional comic book critic and comics blogger by later in the day, asleep by night. Author of the upcoming book "Giant Monster Movies: 100 Years of Big-Screen Behemoths" from McFarland.
Today on the blog, it's another origin of Detective Chimp, this one by Mark Badge and Andy Helfer (and Mark Waid and Dan Raspler):
How Detective Chimp got so smart and solved his first case (at least according to 1989's <i>Secret Origins #40</i>)
In a previous post about Detective Chimp, we learned how it was that he and his fellow 1950s animal hero Rex the Wonder Dog gained their re...
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February 16, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Today on the blog, it's another origin of Detective Chimp, this one by Mark Badge and Andy Helfer (and Mark Waid and Dan Raspler):
This week's bookshelf, upon which sit Drawn and Quarterly books of a certain size and comic strip-related books...plus a few randos:
Bookshelf #17
We finally come to the very last set of bookshelves that I have in the downstairs of my house. Again, these contain my most recent comics co...
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February 15, 2026 at 3:16 PM
This week's bookshelf, upon which sit Drawn and Quarterly books of a certain size and comic strip-related books...plus a few randos:
Well, it took me a little while to get used to the change in visual style, but I am now used to it.
I like Caroline Cash's NANCY a lot.
I like Caroline Cash's NANCY a lot.
February 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Well, it took me a little while to get used to the change in visual style, but I am now used to it.
I like Caroline Cash's NANCY a lot.
I like Caroline Cash's NANCY a lot.
What do Godzilla and the Creature from the Black Lagoon have in common? Well, probably a whole bunch of things, but, for the purpose of this post, they were both in comics drawn by Arthur Adams for Dark Horse in the '90s:
<i>Art Adams' Creature Features</i>, a great book you probably won't be able to find.
I had read most of the contents of this 1996 trade paperback collection before, having found the 1993 Arthur Adams-drawn Creature from the B...
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February 12, 2026 at 3:59 PM
What do Godzilla and the Creature from the Black Lagoon have in common? Well, probably a whole bunch of things, but, for the purpose of this post, they were both in comics drawn by Arthur Adams for Dark Horse in the '90s:
I have a lot of respect for this spokesman, but I am afraid I have no interest in this particular product.
February 11, 2026 at 9:13 PM
I have a lot of respect for this spokesman, but I am afraid I have no interest in this particular product.
I'm really excited for all the readers who might be encountering this book for the first time with this release. This is one of the earliest comics I read, and it helped me become a fan of Batman. And Simon Bisley. And Alan Grant. And John Wagner. And The Scarecrow.
Announcing The Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgement on Gotham Anniversary Edition
One of the bestselling Judge Dredd comics of all time, this new edition of the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Judgement on Gotham by John Wagner (A History of Violence), Alan Grant (Detective ...
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February 11, 2026 at 6:01 PM
I'm really excited for all the readers who might be encountering this book for the first time with this release. This is one of the earliest comics I read, and it helped me become a fan of Batman. And Simon Bisley. And Alan Grant. And John Wagner. And The Scarecrow.
Meet Detective Chimp! I wrote about the first appearance (and original origin) of the world's greatest chimpanzee detective on my blog today:
The first appearance and original origin of Detective Chimp
Detective Chimp first appeared in a seven-and-a-half-page back-up strip in 1952's The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #4 , the work of writ...
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February 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Meet Detective Chimp! I wrote about the first appearance (and original origin) of the world's greatest chimpanzee detective on my blog today:
I'm enjoying this book so much that it's starting to cut into my productivity. Like, instead of sitting down to write, I just want to keep reading about the history of Bigfoot and the Yeti and their ilk.
February 11, 2026 at 3:41 AM
I'm enjoying this book so much that it's starting to cut into my productivity. Like, instead of sitting down to write, I just want to keep reading about the history of Bigfoot and the Yeti and their ilk.
Wait, why is Elmo still posting on the bad site…? Is that even a safe place for a three-and-half-year-old monster, what with all the Nazis and bots there…? Come to Bluesky, Elmo…!
February 10, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Wait, why is Elmo still posting on the bad site…? Is that even a safe place for a three-and-half-year-old monster, what with all the Nazis and bots there…? Come to Bluesky, Elmo…!
When I saw the title of this post, I was sure it was about GOBLIN SLAYER. It is not.
The only good goblin is a dead goblin ⋆ Atomic Junk Shop
Comics nerds like us have generated endless discussion — spoken, print, online — about the decision to kill Gwen Stacey. Who came up with it? Why? What did her co-creator, …
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February 9, 2026 at 4:32 PM
When I saw the title of this post, I was sure it was about GOBLIN SLAYER. It is not.
Having recently read and wrote about NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE, I enjoyed reading someone else’s take, especially one as knowledgeable and well-written as this:
Review: New History of the DC Universe hardcover (DC Comics)
Review: New History of the DC Universe. Mark Waid pens a DC Comics history that integrates Crisis, Flashpoint, the New 52, DC All In, and more.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Having recently read and wrote about NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE, I enjoyed reading someone else’s take, especially one as knowledgeable and well-written as this:
I do have interests other than comic books. Like the Marx Brothers, dinosaurs and the paranormal, the subjects of these four books I've read recently that have (almost) nothing to do with comic books (There IS a surprise introduction from a famous comic artist to one of them, though):
Some non-comics books I've read recently.
Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel: The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show (Pantheon Books; 1988) What an unexpected treasure this book was. I fo...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
I do have interests other than comic books. Like the Marx Brothers, dinosaurs and the paranormal, the subjects of these four books I've read recently that have (almost) nothing to do with comic books (There IS a surprise introduction from a famous comic artist to one of them, though):
This week's bookshelf, another one filled with DC comics:
Bookshelf #16
This week's bookshelf is the last of my bookshelves on the first floor to be filled with DC Comics collections, all of which I would have ac...
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February 8, 2026 at 2:53 PM
This week's bookshelf, another one filled with DC comics:
Well, I thought this exchange was funny:
February 7, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Well, I thought this exchange was funny:
I haven’t read a Marvel comic in quite some time now (and the last ones I did starred Uncle Scrooge and Godzilla).
So I think I’m going to try this one.
Is this a good one…?
People really like these two characters still, don’t they…?
So I think I’m going to try this one.
Is this a good one…?
People really like these two characters still, don’t they…?
February 6, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I haven’t read a Marvel comic in quite some time now (and the last ones I did starred Uncle Scrooge and Godzilla).
So I think I’m going to try this one.
Is this a good one…?
People really like these two characters still, don’t they…?
So I think I’m going to try this one.
Is this a good one…?
People really like these two characters still, don’t they…?
I think NOT denouncing such a post by the leader of your party suggests that either you don't mind the sentiments being expresses, or, worse, that you agree with them.
If I were a Republican, I wouldn't be able to get to a keyboard fast enough to denounce that post.
If I were a Republican, I wouldn't be able to get to a keyboard fast enough to denounce that post.
i get the cynicism that outrage over Trump's racist post will change minds but the breadth of the GOP criticism is significant -- Collins, Curtis, Wicker, and Scott (among others) are out with statements unequivocally denouncing it. It's a step in the right direction from "I haven't see the tweet."
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I think NOT denouncing such a post by the leader of your party suggests that either you don't mind the sentiments being expresses, or, worse, that you agree with them.
If I were a Republican, I wouldn't be able to get to a keyboard fast enough to denounce that post.
If I were a Republican, I wouldn't be able to get to a keyboard fast enough to denounce that post.
Do you ever wonder how it was that Mr. Sputter managed to land Mrs. Sputter…?
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
February 06,1948
February 06,1948
February 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Do you ever wonder how it was that Mr. Sputter managed to land Mrs. Sputter…?
It's the sixth of the month, which means it's time for A Month of Wednesdays, my column reviewing all the new-ish comics I read during the previous month. Here that means NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE, BATMAN-SANTA CLAUS: THE SILENT KNIGHT RETURNS, TITANS Vol. 4 and KOMI CAN'T COMMUNICATE Vol. 36.
A Month of Wednesdays: January 2026
BOUGHT: New History of the DC Universe (DC Comics) After Marv Wolfman and George Perez completed their 1985-1986 Crisis on Infinite Earth...
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February 6, 2026 at 4:22 PM
It's the sixth of the month, which means it's time for A Month of Wednesdays, my column reviewing all the new-ish comics I read during the previous month. Here that means NEW HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE, BATMAN-SANTA CLAUS: THE SILENT KNIGHT RETURNS, TITANS Vol. 4 and KOMI CAN'T COMMUNICATE Vol. 36.
My review of Noah Van Sciver's CALAMITY BEFORE JANE went up on Good Comics for Kids today, if you would like to read it:
Calamity Before Jane | Review
Noah Van Sciver dissects another American legend in an insightful new graphic novel about the Wild West heroine he know as Calamity Jane.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:13 PM
My review of Noah Van Sciver's CALAMITY BEFORE JANE went up on Good Comics for Kids today, if you would like to read it:
Do you ever think about how these two characters are both anthropomorphized from the same animal species...?
February 6, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Do you ever think about how these two characters are both anthropomorphized from the same animal species...?
I love this image so much.
Art from a contemporary promotion for "THE LOST WORLD" (1925).
#kaiju #Sizesky #fantasy #silentmovie #dinosaur #movieposter
#kaiju #Sizesky #fantasy #silentmovie #dinosaur #movieposter
February 4, 2026 at 12:20 AM
I love this image so much.
This obviously isn’t her most talked about look last night, but this is my favorite Chappell Roan outfit from the Grammys, as it makes her look like she’s about to lead a battle against the galactic Empire:
February 2, 2026 at 6:19 PM
This obviously isn’t her most talked about look last night, but this is my favorite Chappell Roan outfit from the Grammys, as it makes her look like she’s about to lead a battle against the galactic Empire:
“We would like to kill more people, but we’ve already killed so many people that we’ve run out of people to kill” is a weird thing to say.
Hegseth: "I don't know if you've noticed, but there haven't been boats sunk recently because we can't find any boats to sink"
February 2, 2026 at 6:13 PM
“We would like to kill more people, but we’ve already killed so many people that we’ve run out of people to kill” is a weird thing to say.
Here are some images of Kelley Jones and John Beatty's Etrigan, The Demon that I scanned from a 1997 BATMAN comic for a review I ended up not writing:
February 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Here are some images of Kelley Jones and John Beatty's Etrigan, The Demon that I scanned from a 1997 BATMAN comic for a review I ended up not writing:
The Spectre Hal Jordan re-teams with the JLA to fend off a very weird kind of alien invasion in JLA/THE SPECTRE: SOUL WAR, during which Batman and Hal finally make up:
I don't really want to talk about 2003's <i>JLA/The Spectre: Soul War</i>, but I <i>do</i> want to talk about how Batman and Hal Jordan finally make-up
I was such a fan of Grant Morrison, Howard Porter and John Dell's JLA that I continued to read the series long after their run concluded (I ...
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February 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
The Spectre Hal Jordan re-teams with the JLA to fend off a very weird kind of alien invasion in JLA/THE SPECTRE: SOUL WAR, during which Batman and Hal finally make up: