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I’m David Harth. I’m old and I love comics. I’ve written for CBR and now write for ComicBook.com. I also have a Substack, Crusty Old Fan. I was main character of Comics Twitter one time and AnneLovesComics’ fans spent two days sending me death threats.

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Unfortunately, this is completely on-brand for these fascist monsters - doing something stupid to make themselves look strong to the ignorant that will damage the lives of normal Americans.

30.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@tombrevoort.bsky.social thank you very much for your time and I look forward to hearing from anyone, even if it’s just telling me no. At least that way, I’ll have the address to send the next one too. I’m not giving up.

Thank you again and have a good day.

17.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@tombrevoort.bsky.social but like I said - I don’t know any other way to go about it.

I can be reached here or at my email address - davidharth420@gmail.com. I just want a chance, sir, to prove I can do it. I understand you are all busy, but I’ll be repeating this until someone tells me to stop.

17.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@tombrevoort.bsky.social it’s basically a Marvel Unlimited webcomic. Something quick and digestible but with a little bit of depth to it. I have never written a comic professionally in my life - I’ve practiced scripting, and I have it down. I know this isn’t the way you usually go about things

17.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@tombrevoort.bsky.social, I have a pitch for a twelve-panel, three page comic about Wolverine and Captain America fighting Hydra. It’s just a simple little piece that deals with something that I’ve never seen dealt with before between the two of them. It is part of an idea I first had years ago.

17.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@tombrevoort.bsky.social I have a pitch for your office and I don’t have a way to do it, so I’m trying this. I get that this isn’t the way you go about things, but this has been the thing I wanted to do for years now and I’m finally at a place where I feel confident to shoot my shot. So, here it is-

17.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@tombrevoort.bsky.social (to make sure you get all of them), I know Marvel doesn’t take unsolicited pitches, but I figured I would try because I don’t know any other way to do this. I’ve talked to other writers you’ve given a chance and they told me that you’re very upfront, so I’m being upfront.

17.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@tombrevoort.bsky.social, my name is David Harth and I write for ComicBook. I have been writing professionally about comics for six years now. I have written reviews, news, features, and listicles. Editors have told me I have a “fan base” or consistent readers. So, I’m not some geek off the street

17.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wow, Marvel is getting bodied this NYCC.

12.10.2025 03:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

DC ate with DC K.O. #1, folks.

Fantastic writing, fantastic art, and a compelling event that I want them to hook into my vein. @ssnyder1835.bsky.social, @javifernandez.bsky.social, and @xermanico.bsky.social are dropping something special on that ass.

09.10.2025 01:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No wonder you’re doing so well; it’s in you know.

03.10.2025 21:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You really are. You’ve nailed the Uncanny formula in a way no one else has in a long time and you’re doing it in new and wonderful ways. Uncanny is best when it’s a superhero soap opera. And you’re bringing that flavor.

Thank you for this.

03.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Pots are the best place to hide cigarettes.

03.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I remember hearing about it for years, but I never knew what it was about until this video.

I’m going to have to rent it on Prime or AppleTV+.

01.10.2025 16:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Kiss of the Spider Woman: Pleasure & purpose in prison
Kiss of the Spider Woman was one of the biggest surprise hits of its time -- in part because its heroes are a Marxist revolutionary and a queer window dresser, at a time when the US was gripped by… Kiss of the Spider Woman: Pleasure & purpose in prison

Everyone in Hollywood was convinced KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN would be the biggest flop of 1984. So how did this little film about a queer window dresser and Marxist revolutionary prove them all wrong? My new video is available now:

01.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 57    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 0

After watching this video, I want to watch this movie so badly!

Thank you for all your amazing work. You’ve led me to so many great works and gave me new ways of looking at old ones!

01.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Happy birthday @javifernandez.bsky.social!
I can’t wait for next week!

01.10.2025 15:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is the best explanation.

28.09.2025 23:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dude, his shit is the worst. It’s over-rendered to hell.

28.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

lol, that’s a good one!

28.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’re my fucking hero.

All I did was talk about how bad his work was in articles I wrote and then went after him and the other ComicsGaters on Twitter.

Bounding Into Comics wrote about me. It was great, lol.

28.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh most definitely. He blocked me personally on Twitter years ago and I wore that like a badge of honor.

28.09.2025 16:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Does Ethan Van Sciver know that Cyberfrog is gay? Has he gone woke?

28.09.2025 16:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Forever terrible.

28.09.2025 15:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Fox and the Hound.

28.09.2025 15:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was.

28.09.2025 14:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t know about anyone else, but since I have daughters, I buy twice the girl superhero books as I used to. Like, I get them all for myself and then I usually buy an extra copy for my daughters.

I guess children do change your comic buying habits.

22.09.2025 01:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Finally picked this up from the LCS. The second issue is better condition than the first, but it doesn’t matter either way, because now I own “Parable”.

20.09.2025 21:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve never been a Gambit fan, but you’ve definitely made the character better to read.

17.09.2025 14:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’re gonna need a better picture than this. Also, I’ve read your work - you should charge more, maybe change the name to “fantasy meat”.

I think you can get a lot of interest with your fantasy meat.

(Oh God, I hope this lands and I don’t look stupid. Wait. Too late)

17.09.2025 13:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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