Shelfbound

We now present a selection of covers that we judged books by: — In all honesty the title is the selling point.  What if you got someone’s voice mail and heard that phrase emitting from the static? What if you heard Art Bell’s voice emerging from beyond the grave to intone that at 1 a.m. [...]

Lights up. Center stage is a large, four-poster bed with mounds of pillows and drapery, basically a bed straight out of pre-war Gone With The Wind, covered by a white bedsheet. A man and woman, as SOOKIE and BILL, stand on the bed facing each other. SOOKIE holds a ketchup squeeze bottle upside down in [...]

In honor of our recent meditation on nostalgia, we present out-of-context panels to provide comfort and succor: — If Batman is worried, you should be worried. — It’s fun to scream this after delivering a toast at a wedding. — Superman puts on sunglasses– YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! — Man, who were Prisoners 0000001-0034136? — What if- and [...]

Sir Ian McKellen invites you to join him as he makes faces at the camera! Bonus Jimmy McNulty Smirk! Richard III ends with McNulty and Gandalf fighting each other with tank-mounted machine guns. This is what Branagh’s Hamlet was missing. You can find more smirking here.

DOGBERT VS. WOLVERINE “Logan, I’ve called you into my office today to talk about your job performance…” “Perhaps you have the wrong idea.  Let’s try to focus on your strengths.” “I’m not telling you that you can’t do that, but I’m not telling you that you can.” “Look, I’m not going to care more about [...]

Congratulations to Ben and Kelly Wilson on the birth of their daughter Amelia!  Hopefully this won’t lead to Ben and I fighting for control of the X-Men (yeah it’s weird that I’m Storm in this scenario), and hopefully Amelia won’t be transported into the far future to become a cyborg. Shelfbound wishes the best of [...]

Back in 1992, Shelfbound was a four-page fanzine typed up, stapled, and distributed by hand each week to tens of comic book fans on Saturday afternoons. Smitty and Dixon–back then signing as N.W. Smith and HmD–were already hard at work bringing you witty, cogent dissections of new releases and old favorites. To celebrate the upcoming [...]

THE INVISIBLES VS. THE UNCANNY X-MEN When clubbing  you must locate an appropriate venue: Dane and Lord Fanny begin their evening at a fetish club.  There is nudity and cursing.  The Invisibles are in their element. Jean Grey and Scott Summers go to a disco.  There is partial nudity and implied drug abuse.  The X-Men [...]

So um … Wolverine! Discuss. Due to weddings, travel, illness, and over-exertion, the Shelfbound crew has gotten a bit behind on deadlines. But we are … wait for it … Not Dead Yet, and will be coming back strong and back on track in the next couple of days. Until then, please enjoy your favorite [...]

While Dixon and Smitty are off to attend Dixon’s little sis’ wedding, various comics power couples have taken over the site to wish the newlyweds well. Normal posts will resume tomorrow. Katy and Ron: You crazy kids finally tied the knot! It’s nice to see that even the most complicated relationships can make it. Katy, [...]