The Enigma of Amigara Walt

NEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...

Is it too late to have an opinion on the Elizabeth Holmes movie

King’s Lovecraft riffs—especially the ones with explicit shout-outs to the Cthulhu mythos—tend to be duds. By keeping the big picture stuff vague and the horror immediate, Pet Sematary is far and away his most effective evocation of an indifferent cosmos that bends toward chaos and cruelty.

The Black Casebook is a counteroffensive against the psychic warfare of short-form video

Witness, if you dare, the terrifying origin of Clayface II:

Happy 85th, Diana

People complain about the Mass Effect ending choices because they fear the godlike power and responsibility presented by Control ending. I do not have this problem

FYI. Don’t know if it’s conceptually possible to do a Kether episode, but maybe I’ll figure it out someday.

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING (dir. Fielder and Oppenheim, 2026)

Years ago, in the Orient...

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The news is out! I'll be taking over writing the daily and Sunday strips for The Phantom, with amazing artists @drawmanley.bsky.social and @jeffweigel.bsky.social.

I'm very pleased by the excited reactions to this, but sadly this also confirms that not every single one of you has set aside five hours to listen all the way through the Dark Knight Returns episode. This is the worst betrayal a guy in his thirties has ever suffered at the hands of his disciples.

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry began on October 16, 1859.

By What Means Walt Acquired the Style and Title of Walt Casebook

When I hear there's a new movie starring my friends Basil Karlo, Matt Hagen, Preston Payne, and/or Sondra Fuller:

BATMAN SOMMELIER: Year One by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli. Pairs with: Apologies to the Queen Mary by Wolf Parade and an old fashioned.

Any enemy of Alex Jaffe is an enemy of mine.

In case you missed it: I'm The Black Casebook.

(Carla Gugino as a newly widowed Ellen Brody) Honey, I'm starting to think our unresolved family trauma is a lot like that damn shark. We may not be able to see it beneath those cold black waves, but we can see the things it touches—and tears apart. Webster's Dictionary defines 'grief' as

The Sadness felt like little more than an audition to direct a Crossed adaptation, and I'll be damned if it didn't work

ALL THE GODZILLA(S)!!!

The Website Where They Still Call Him Drumpf

for @thebaffler.com: I wrote about Chris Hansen, TO CATCH A PREDATOR, and PRIMETIME as a definitive post-9/11 document. thebaffler.com/latest/pedog...

In addition to turning Capri into the Little St. James of the ancient world, Emperor Tiberius is also responsible for inspiring two of the greatest characters of all time: Tony Soprano and Stannis Baratheon