Self-Directed Whimsy

I mentioned the other day in passing to a friend about my increasing awareness of a need to spend time by myself. I didn’t mean that in a generic sense — there are plenty of times every week where I’m “by myself” as I work, for example, or moments when I’m the only one watching a TV show or whatever as other people are elsewhere in the house, but that’s not the kind of thing that I mean. Instead, I’m talking about… finding time to intentionally alone, for want of a better way to put it.

For me, it’s going for walks and listening to music. I’ve written before, I’m sure, about my love of the Situationist dérive, the act of wandering with no intent or destination in mind and seeing where you go, and that’s become something akin to a weekly act of self-care to me as I plug myself into my phone and listen to whatever I’ve been obsessing over lately. Occasionally, I tell myself that there’s something about it that’s an exercise routine of sorts, and sure enough I’m getting some exercise, but the true appeal is the space it gives my brain to just… free associate and work through whatever has been lying there ill-considered and needing some time to marinate.

There is always something, somewhere, to take your time and attention if you let it, I’ve come to realize; there’s always a deadline or an obligation or reason to pay attention to something that someone else wants. (I’m speaking not just of work obligations, of which I have so many, you understand, but also family and just, you know, making sure you’re paying the bills and have food and everything else.) Sometimes it feels as if there’s no space to just… be selfish enough to let your mind wander, for want of a better way to put it.

Something I’ve heard a bunch of different people talk about in the last month or so, in a bunch of different circumstances and a bunch of different situations is their desire for “whimsy,” and when I’ve asked them about it, it’s translated into variations on the idea of “I wish I had time and space to be silly and joyful but I don’t.” That’s what these walks are for me; finding that time and space, surrounded by people but still very much for myself and by myself.

Got A Feeling In My Pocket, Going Way Home

I suddenly remembered, the other day, something from 30 years ago. I was in my final year of my Bachelors degree at art school, and nearing the end of the course, and the world was electric. My final year of that degree was a big one for me in all kinds of ways — aside from the stress of will I get my degree or have I screwed up and wasted the last four years of my life?, there were also the facts that I spent much of the year in my first proper extended relationship (which went south before too long for reasons that were as much “I didn’t know what I was doing” than anything else; I was a bad boyfriend), I was slowly beginning to realize that maybe I wanted to be a writer instead of a graphic designer or visual artist, and I was dealing with the fact that, because it was the last year of my degree, I’d soon be saying goodbye to people I’d grown close to over the past four years and didn’t quite know how to deal with any of that.

In the middle of all of this, the music scene of the time was in flux in ways that felt exciting and explosive — part of it was that Britpop was dying although we didn’t necessarily realize it at the time, and the death throes were offering up some of the more interesting music of the movement, but there was also the truth that I was looking outside of my relatively narrow parameters of the previous few years and finding things I’d ignored or never discovered at all years prior. Added up, it felt like the perfect soundtrack to a life that felt perpetually in motion at the time.

The thing I remembered was checking my bank balance in the town center, and seeing that I had, essentially no money. I literally had just over ten pounds and I knew no money would be coming in for at least a couple of weeks, and I needed groceries and, you know, money to just get by. Instead of doing any of those things, I withdrew ten pounds and went to buy an album for myself — Supergrasss In It For The Money, perhaps ironically given the title — entirely secure that I was making the right decision and everything else would fall into place and be fine.

Here’s the thing: I was right. Things did fall into place, and everything was fine. And the opening three songs off that album were exactly what I needed to hear at that point in my life, and I made the right decision, at the time and even looking back now. But when I remembered all of this, the thought came to me not that I was dumb and should’ve bought food or whatever, but that I miss that utter sense of security and belief in the universe that everything would work out. Remember when you could make bargains with life like that and they’d pay off?

Bring Out Yer Dead

A thing that I always promise myself that I’ll do during the holiday break is “tidy up.” Not in terms of the house, because I do that on a regular basis anyway — I get amusingly upset if the kitchen or living room in particular are left in too much of a state for too long; it’s amusing to me, at least, albeit in retrospect — but tidy up my workspace and my laptop, which by the end of each year tends to be crying out in desperation for attention and a little care.

The problem isn’t that I use it basically every day for hours on end; that’s what laptops are kind of meant for, after all, and I’m happy to report that Apple hasn’t let me down on that front yet. No, the problem is that I don’t empty my digital trash can. This is, in part, by design — more than once in my life, I’ve accidentally deleted a file that I wasn’t actually finished with because I like to try to free up my desktop at the end of each day, and sometimes get a little overzealous in doing so, only to then empty trash and discover the next morning that I’ve deleted something I was 90% done with and needed to complete in the shortest possible time that day. (Yes, I’ve done this more than once. You don’t need to judge me that harshly.)

My solution, I decided the last time I found myself gesturing silently in frustration to the heavens, wasn’t to simply be more careful in what I put into the trash bin. Instead, I decided, what I really needed to do was not empty trash until I could feel confident that I didn’t need anything in there. In theory, this means that I’d check the bin at the end of a week, say, and then empty it after saving anything that had been placed there by accident.

Note that I said, “in theory.” In practice, I went through my trash bin the Monday between Christmas and New Year and realized with no small amount of horror that I hadn’t actually emptied my digital trash since June. The past six-and-a-bit-months of my digital life were remaindered there, from old work stories and images to PDF review copies of things, screenshots of any number of random things I’d sent to friends or family and hundreds of other files. I’m being literal when I say that; there were more than a thousand files in the trash, waiting patiently for me to do something, anything, with them.

When I hit “empty trash,” you could almost hear my laptop breathe a sigh of relief; the available space on my machine went from something like 8GB to 131GB immediately. Maybe I need to get a little better about paying attention to this stuff in the future.

Countdown 2026

The first couple of weeks of 2026 have followed a similar rhythm that, I can only hope, will not be repeated throughout the rest of the year.

If I had to define this rhythm, it’s be that Monday is a day of low dread — a day where what needs to be done for the rest of the week slowly becomes clear and it’s more than I expected, with at least one surprise waiting for me that comes entirely out of left field and leaves me trying to work out what I need to do with it. Tuesday is then a day of feeling of feeling overwhelmed by the weight of expectation and/or deadlines and/or things that simply need to be done, and then Wednesday is that but more so, and with a side order of resentment that it’s quite so much. As I’ve said for the past two weeks, Tuesday evening feels like a Thursday, and Wednesday feels like a Friday is never going to arrive.

Then, on both weeks, Thursday proved to be surprisingly easy — a through line in whatever is lying ahead of me appears, or I figure out a solution to whatever the biggest problem facing me, or something similar. Thursday turned out to be a respite, this odd moment where everything feels better than the last three days and I have a moment at one point of thinking to myself, wow, I can’t believe tomorrow’s Friday, that’s so great, I’m so close to the weekend with no small sense of relief.

Where the two weeks did differ was the Friday. The first week, the Friday followed through on the easy feeling of the day before, and I just slid into the weekend was gratitude and relief. And last week, it was just the opposite: Friday was a fight, and I struggled through the entire day like it was quicksand, wondering if there was something worse waiting for me that I couldn’t see just yet. All things being equal, I preferred the week before.

And yet, the two weeks felt the same, by the time the weekend arrived. The shape of them, the to-and-fro of it all. It felt like something, somewhere, had decided this was the calendar of events and I was just learning about my new schedule. The second week had a surreal Groundhog Day feel to it that made me nervous. Surely, I thought, this isn’t what it’s going to be like the entire time. This can’t be right.

I said something similar at this time last year, that I hoped January didn’t set the tone of the year to follow; in the year’s defense, it didn’t. It was arguably far worse. Here’s hoping that doesn’t repeat itself, either. We’ll see. 50 weeks to go.

The Never-Ending Relax

I’ve been thinking a bunch lately about the concept of a comfort read, in large part because I’m working my way through Superman: The Triangle Era Omnibus Volume 1, which feels like the platonic ideal of a comfort read for me specifically. I don’t mean that purely in the sense of, “I feel nostalgic for these comics, which I first read as they were coming out 35 years ago,” although, yes, there’s obviously the comfort of familiarity and nostalgia at play here.

Even when I was first buying them as a teenager, though, these were comfort reads to me. There were American comics that I bought at the comic store, and ones that I’d buy in the local grocery stores and newsagents; the distinction was that ones from the comic store were (a) two to three months newer than the ones in newsagents, (b) more reliably available, as newsagent hauls were based entirely on what backstock they had available, and (c) twice as expensive, if not more so, if my memory is reliable. That said, the cost was more than worth it for the comics I was truly passionate about, the ones I self-consciously told myself I “collected,” as opposed to the other ones, which I just… read, I guess…?

All of the Superman comics fell into that latter category, but I bought them every month without fail, and read them and re-read them. They were reliably entertaining, if rarely thrilling, with a mix of relatively low-key stakes and soap opera that made them simultaneously essential and inessential reads: something that I wanted to keep up with, without question, but not to the point where I felt like I had to rush the experience or, for that matter, pay extra for it. They were just solid, enjoyable, reads. The very definition of a comfort read, even back then.

I say that not as faint praise, but as praise, entirely: reading the stories today, I’m finding myself charmed by how low intensity they are, but perfect popcorn reading even now. More superhero comics should remember that not every story needs to save the world, and not eery story needs to be top of the stack reading, as long as it’s in the stack somewhere.

The Movies of December 2025

As is traditional, so much of my December 2025 viewing was holiday related, although I snuck in a couple of movies that people were talking about in “Best of the Year” terms, just because; of those, F1 felt like the ideal Dad Movie — leaning into every single cliche and relying on the allure of “cars go fast, broom broom” to win the audience over… and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t work; I was less won over by One Battle After Another, which felt too cartoonish and weightless to land with me, while Die My Love — a Christmas Day watch, inexplicably! — was harrowing and beautiful in all the right ways. What lies ahead for movies in 2026? Well, more of them, I’m sure… beyond that, I’m not even going to pretend to predict anything.

The Comics of December 2025

Yes, we’re doing this later than usual. I wanted to complain about Stranger Things, so sue me.

Anyway, by the time the end of December has rolled around, I’d finished the collected works of Milestone Media, which felt like something of an accomplishment — and, by the end of the month, also started on the first of the Superman Triangle Era omnibii, because I am reliving some kind of nostalgia, it seems. (I’ll come back to that at some point, I feel.)

Perhaps the most notable thing of my month’s reading was (again!) the Spirit Christmas stories, and in particular the ones from 1946 and 1947, which felt so particularly evocative of post-WWII trauma and optimism that I was stopped short in my tracks upon reading. It made me wonder what Will Eisner would be doing were he working today, and also what comics we’ll get when we eventually leave the current fascist dystopia. (Sooner rather than later on that last one, I hope.)

Anyway: here’s what I read in the last month of 2025.

  1. Kobalt #s 3-6
  2. Hardware (1993) #25
  3. Deathwish #s 1-4
  4. Batman (2016) #136
  5. Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War – Battle Lines #1
  6. Hardware (1993) #s 26-28
  7. Static (1993) #21
  8. X-Men (2024) #1
  9. Static (1993) #s 22-24
  10. Shadow Cabinet (1994) #s 11-12
  11. Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #87
  12. Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #s 20-22
  13. Batman (2016) #s 137-138
  14. Catwoman (2018) #s 57-58
  15. Batman/Catwoman: The Gotham War – Scorched Earth #1
  16. Shadow Cabinet (1994) #13
  17. DC K.O. #2
  18. Blood Syndicate (1993) #s 24-25
  19. G.I. Joe (1982) #s 81-82
  20. Batman and Robin: Year One #9
  21. Batman (2016) #139
  22. Batman: The Knight #1
  23. The Thing (2025) #1
  24. Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool #s 3-4
  25. Justice League of America (2006) #s 27-30
  26. G.I. Joe (1982) #s 83-86
  27. DC K.O.: Red Hood vs. The Joker #1
  28. Hardware (2021) #s 3-6
  29. Icon and Rocket: Season One #s 3-6
  30. Ultimate Universe: Two Years In #1
  31. Fantastic Four (2025) #6
  32. Blood Syndicate (1993) #s 26-27
  33. Static (1993) #25
  34. Kobalt #s 7-14
  35. DC K.O.: Batman – Knightfight #2
  36. Batman (2025) #4
  37. Batman: The Knight #2
  38. Batman (2016) #140
  39. Batman and Robin: Year One #10
  40. Blood Syndicate: Season One #s 1-4
  41. Icon (1993) #s 22-24
  42. Blood Syndicate: Season One #s 5-6
  43. Icon vs. Hardware #s 1-2
  44. Milestone 30th Anniversary Special #1 (Blood Syndicate epilogue story)
  45. Icon vs. Hardware #3
  46. Batman (2016) #141
  47. Batman: The Knight #3
  48. Icon (1993) #s 25-26
  49. Amazing X-Men (2025) #3
  50. Batman and Robin: Year One #s 11-12
  51. Steel (1994) #48
  52. G.I. Joe (1982) #s 87-88
  53. Icon (1993) #27
  54. Venom (2025) #252
  55. My Name is Holocaust #s 1-2
  56. Phoenix (2024) #1
  57. Immortal X-Men #1
  58. Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League #6
  59. DC K.O.: Batman – Knightfight #3
  60. G.I. Joe (1982) #s 89-90
  61. Batman (2025) #5
  62. Absolute Green Lantern #s 9-10
  63. JSA (2024) #s 13-15
  64. G.I. Joe (1982) #s 91-92
  65. G.I. Joe Special Missions #s 10-12
  66. Steel (1994) #s 49-50
  67. X-Men (2024) #s 2-3
  68. My Name is Holocaust #s 3-4
  69. Transformers (2023) #27
  70. Judge Dredd Megazine #487 (Christmas issue)
  71. X-Men (2024) #4
  72. New Warriors (1990) #1
  73. Nova (1976) #1
  74. My Name is Holocaust #5
  75. Shadow Cabinet (1994) #14
  76. Blood Syndicate (1993) #28
  77. Hardware (1993) #29
  78. Icon vs. Hardware #s 4-5
  79. Milestone Universe: Shadow Cabinet #1
  80. The Long, Hot Summer #1
  81. Icon (1993) #28
  82. Milestone Universe: Shadow Cabinet #2
  83. The Long, Hot Summer #2
  84. Static (1993) #26
  85. Milestone Universe: Shadow Cabinet #s 3-4
  86. Steel (1994) #s 51-52
  87. X-Men (2024) #s 5-6
  88. X-Men Red (2022) #1
  89. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #1
  90. Mr. & Mrs. X #1
  91. Rogue & Gambit #s 1-3
  92. Hardware (1993) #30
  93. Ultimate Spider-Man (2024) #23
  94. Hardware (1993) #31
  95. Blood Syndicate (1993) #29
  96. 2000 AD Prog 44 (Judge Dredd story only)
  97. Batman: The Knight #4
  98. G.I. Joe (1982) #93
  99. Rogue & Gambit #4
  100. X-Men (2024) #7
  101. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #2
  102. Batman: The Knight #5
  103. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #3
  104. G.I. Joe (1982) #94
  105. G.I. Joe Special Missions #13
  106. Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight #1
  107. Blood Syndicate (1993) #30
  108. Static (1993) #27
  109. Rogue & Gambit #5
  110. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #s 4-5
  111. Xombi (1994) #12
  112. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #6
  113. X-Men (2024) #8
  114. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #7
  115. X-Men (2024) #9
  116. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #8
  117. X-Men (2024) #10
  118. Wolverine (2024) #s 1-2
  119. Exceptional X-Men #1
  120. Batman (2016) #158 (H2SH part 1)
  121. DC Special Series (1977) #21
  122. Batman (2016) #142
  123. Xombi (1994) #s 13-15
  124. Dan Dare Annual 1980 (Judge Dredd story only)
  125. Xombi (1994) #16
  126. Battleworld (2025) #1
  127. Sinister’s Six #1
  128. World of Revelation #1
  129. X-Men: Age of Revelation – Overture #1
  130. X-Men: Book of Revelation #1
  131. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #9
  132. Exceptional X-Men #s 2-3
  133. The New Warriors (1990) #2
  134. 2000 AD Prog 2464 (Judge Dredd story only)
  135. The Power Fantasy #14
  136. Shadow Cabinet (1994) #s 15-16
  137. Icon (1993) #29
  138. Kobalt #s 15-16
  139. The Long, Hot Summer #3
  140. Hardware (1993) #32
  141. Icon (1993) #30
  142. Exceptional X-Men #s 4-6
  143. X-Men (2024) #s 11-12
  144. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #10
  145. X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #1
  146. Batman (2016) #s 143-144
  147. Batman: The Knight #s 6-7
  148. Teen Titans (1966) #13
  149. Jonah Hex (2006) #s 1-3
  150. Shadow Cabinet (1994) #17
  151. Swamp Thing Winter Special #1
  152. DC Universe Holiday Special ‘09 #1
  153. DC Universe Holiday Special 2010 #1
  154. DC World’s Greatest Super-Heroes Holiday Special #1
  155. DC Rebirth Holiday Special #1
  156. Xombi (1994) #s 17-19
  157. G.I. Joe (2024) #16
  158. Xombi (1994) #s 20-21
  159. Exceptional X-Men #s 7-10
  160. Jonah Hex (2006) #s 4-6
  161. Icon (1993) #s 31-37
  162. Batman: The Knight #8
  163. Jonah Hex (2006) #7
  164. Exceptional X-Men #11
  165. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #11
  166. NYX (2024) #9
  167. Storm (2024) #6
  168. X-Men (2024) #13
  169. X-Factor (2024) #8
  170. X-Force (2024) #9
  171. Blood Syndicate (1993) #31
  172. Avengers (2023) #33
  173. Black Panther: Intergalactic #1
  174. The Mortal Thor #5
  175. Blood Syndicate (1993) #32
  176. Static (1993) #28
  177. X-Manhunt #1
  178. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #12
  179. X-Men (2024) #14
  180. G.I. Joe (1982) #95
  181. Planet She-Hulk #2
  182. Static (1993) #29
  183. 2000 AD Prog 144 (Judge Dredd story only), 450 (Judge Dredd story only)
  184. Static (1993) #30
  185. Exceptional X-Men #12
  186. Static (1993) #31
  187. Exceptional X-Men #13
  188. X-Men (2024) #s 15-18
  189. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #13
  190. X-Men: Heir of Apocalypse #2
  191. G.I. Joe (1982) #96
  192. Jonah Hex (2006) #s 8-9
  193. 2000 AD Prog 502 (Judge Dredd story only)
  194. Spider-Man Holiday Spectacular (2025) #1
  195. Nova: Centurion #1
  196. Hardware (1993) #33 
  197. G.I. Joe (1982) #97
  198. Superman Unlimited #8
  199. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #14
  200. X-Men (2024) #19
  201. Solo Avengers (1987) #s 1-2 (Hawkeye stories only)
  202. The Mighty Thor (1966) #383
  203. Battleworld (2025) #2
  204. X-Men: Book of Revelation #2
  205. Amazing X-Men (2025) #s 1-3
  206. Binary (2025) #s 1-3
  207. Iron & Frost #s 1-3
  208. Unbreakable X-Men #s 1-3
  209. Sinister’s Six #2
  210. X-Men: Book of Revelation #3
  211. Hardware (1993) #34
  212. The Mighty Thor (1966) #384
  213. Solo Avengers (1987) #3 (Hawkeye story only)
  214. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #15
  215. 2000 AD Prog 658 (Judge Dredd story only)
  216. 2000 AD Winter Special 1989 (Judge Dredd story only)
  217. G.I. Joe (1982) #98
  218. Archie’s Christmas Spectacular 2025 #1
  219. Battleworld (2025) #3
  220. X-Factor (1986) #6
  221. Hardware (1993) #35
  222. Wrestle Heist #1
  223. Hardware (1993) #s 36-38
  224. The Christmas Spirit of 1940: Black Henry and Simple Simon
  225. DC K.O.: Green Lantern Galactic Slam #1
  226. Titans (2023) #31
  227. The Flash (2023) #29
  228. Superman (2023) #34
  229. DC K.O.: The Kids Are All Fight #1
  230. Justice League Unlimited (2024) #15
  231. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #16
  232. X-Men: Hellfire Vigil #1
  233. The Mighty Thor (1966) #386
  234. Solo Avengers (1987) #s 4-5 (Hawkeye stories only)
  235. Blood Syndicate (1993) #33
  236. Icon (1993) #38
  237. Static (1993) #32
  238. Blood Syndicate (1993) #s 34-35 (Series cancelled)
  239. Static (1993) #s 33-34
  240. Daredevil (2011) #7
  241. Green Lantern: Larfleeze Christmas Special #1
  242. Power Man and Iron Fist: Sweet Christmas Annual #1
  243. Moon Knight: Silent Knight #1
  244. Avengers Annual (2013) #1
  245. Hero for Hire (1972) #7
  246. Daredevil (1964) #241
  247. Action Comics (1938) #93
  248. The Christmas Spirit of 1941: A Trilogy
  249. Static (1993) #s 35-36
  250. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #17
  251. Solo Avengers (1987) #6
  252. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #18
  253. Static (1993) #s 37-39
  254. Valor #s 17-19
  255. The Christmas Spirit of 1945: Horton J. Winklenod
  256. Legionnaires #17
  257. Valor #s 20-22
  258. Legion of Super-Heroes (1989) #60
  259. Hardware (1993) #39
  260. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #19
  261. 2000 AD Winter Special 1990 (Judge Dredd story only)
  262. The New Gods (2024) #12
  263. Superman’s Christmas Adventure #1
  264. DC Comics Presents (1978) #67
  265. The Christmas Spirit of 1946: A Fable
  266. The Christmas Spirit of 1947: Joy
  267. 2000 AD Prog 271 (Tharg’s Future Shocks story only)
  268. Monster Fun (2022) #5
  269. Uncanny X-Men (2024) #s 20-21
  270. X-Men (2024) #s 20-21
  271. Legionnaires #18
  272. Valor #23
  273. Legion of Super-Heroes (1989) #61
  274. Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight #2
  275. Comic Cavalcade #9
  276. Icon (1993) #s 39-42 (Series cancelled)
  277. Static (1993) #s 37-42
  278. Hardware (1993) #40
  279. Heroes (1996) #s 1-2
  280. Superman Unlimited #10
  281. G.I. Joe (1982) #s 99-100
  282. The Christmas Spirit of 1948: Basher Bains
  283. The Christmas Spirit of 1949: S. Kringle Klaus
  284. The Christmas Spirit of 1950: Darling’s First Christmas
  285. Static (1993) #s 43-45 (Series cancelled)
  286. G.I. Joe (1982) #s 101-103
  287. The Mighty Thor (1966) #387
  288. Solo Avengers (1987) #s 7-9
  289. Hardware (1993) #41
  290. G.I. Joe (1982) #s 104-106
  291. Hardware (1993) #s 42-44
  292. Solo Avengers (1987) #10
  293. Batman: The Knight #s 9-10
  294. Superman (1986) #165
  295. Batman: Gotham Nights #22
  296. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (1989) #79
  297. Supergirl (2025) #8
  298. Red Hood and the Outlaws Annual (2013) #2
  299. Green Arrow Annual (2017) #1
  300. Hardware (1993) #45
  301. Justice League Red #6
  302. The Christmas Spirit of 1951: Joe Fix
  303. Solo Avengers (1987) #s 11-13
  304. The Will of Doom #1
  305. Expatriate X-Men #s 1-3
  306. The Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #18
  307. X-Men (2024) #22
  308. Hardware (1993) #s 46-47
  309. G.I. Joe (1982) #107
  310. Batman (1940) #247
  311. G.I. Joe (1982) #s 108-110
  312. Hardware (1993) #s 48-50 (Series cancelled)
  313. X-Terminators (2022) #1
  314. Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool #s 1-4
  315. Milestone Forever #s 1-2
  316. Static Shock Special (2011) #1
  317. Static Shock (2011) #s 1-2
  318. G.I. Joe (1982) #s 111-112
  319. End of Life #1
  320. New History of the DC Universe #1
  321. Solo Avengers (1987) #s 14-16
  322. X-Terminators (2022) #2
  323. The Brave and the Bold (2007) #s 27-30
  324. Black Cat (2025) #s 1-4
  325. Doctor Strange (2025) #1
  326. The End 2099 #1
  327. Longshots #3
  328. Wha… Huh? #1 
  329. Tyranny Rex: Deus Ex Machina Vol. 1
  330. 2000 AD Progs 1395-1396 (Tyranny Rex stories only)
  331. New History of the DC Universe #s 2-4
  332. Batman (2016) #s 145-149
  333. Solo Avengers (1987) #s 17-20
  334. Avengers Spotlight (1989) #s 21-25
  335. Indestructible Hulk #s 1-2
  336. SHIELD (2015) #1
  337. Static Shock (2011) #3
  338. Avengers Spotlight (1989) #s 26-29
  339. Indestructible Hulk #3
  340. Brightest Day #0
  341. SHIELD (2015) #2
  342. Avengers Spotlight (1989) #s 26-36
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