They tell the Christmas story very differently in Hickman's Marvel

NBA 3s or nothing era is worse for basketball stats than steroids were for baseball

The MCU, confused what went wrong the past 5 years

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

Sketchbooks for everyone! I’ve been reading a lot of Lynda Barry lately and her ethos feels like a wonderful antidote to a world of dehumanization drawnandquarterly.com/books/making...

The Avengers Doomsday approach apparently speed running Marvel Comics longheld fascination with "Back to Basics" got me thinking how historically this approach almost never resonates long term. Exceptions would be early 2000s Astonishing X-Men and Waid/Wieringo Fantastic Four.

Reasons I like Caleb Williams as Iceman 1) Cold 2) Underrated 3) So much potential 4) There's a weird obsession on Insta with Caleb being closeted and Bendis will probably have Jean Grey out him sometime around the Super Bowl but good for him that's my QB1

BEARS

I see The Beat is getting hammered for running w/ Mike Deodato's denial that he used AI significantly in a recent comics project My main takeaway is empathy for an un/barely paid writer badly prepared to call B.S. on a professional artist. I've been there. You're not expecting the need to Woodward.

Uh oh my god?

Gambit walks into the Age of Apocalypse: 'Dis Topia, "Chère!'

Professor X by Ian Bertram

Batman and Swamp Thing by Ian Bertram

i think i have a pretty good Last Temptation of Christ poster in me if anyone's paying for one

The Beat’s Best Kids Comics of 2025 Welcome to The Beat's first official shot at a Year's Best list dedicated to the under-18 crowd: The Beat's Best Kids Comics of 2025. In any year there is a deluge of great comics and it can be bewildering to filter through them all, then narrow those titles…

“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there

Very much enjoy living in a world where The Beat has damn good taste in comics. Great team of editors and curators and reviewers here!

Absolute Nightmare

Every parent after watching an episode of Bluey with their kids: "God, I wish this would autoplay into a 30 second fan-made video of racist Darth Vader"

Love it when a movie trailer encourages people to read comics.

I haven't read a comic in a week Relatedly, when I close my eyes, I see Silksong

Man, this is a great list and really emphasizes what a great year this has been for comics, despite the many, MANY ways the world is finding ways to destroy us. And selfishly, YAY RED SHIRTS. But also, man, so of many of my friends are on here with richly deserved kudos.

I must admit I almost passed this up, for some reason I missed on the first pass that this is the guy who drew 20th Century Men … and, friends. this looks good. this looks so good. it’s got ambition. you probably want to mosey down to the store to get this yourself post haste.

Are you a comics critic? Have you published two pieces over the past year? If so, please apply to this year's Comics Criticism Mini Grant! The application takes only minutes to fill out! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It occurred to me for the first time since I interviewed him this year about his "Big Comeback" to see if Donny Cates ever announced anything this year... And there's no announcement but instead I got sucked into an absolute rumor mill tornado

Fieldmouse Press is kickstarting an edition of The Cannibals, by Tinguu, a queer yuri vampire body horror romance. Physical & digital tiers. Really neat-looking art in this one, striking use of color in the preview pages. the blue is almost radioactive, it's great www.kickstarter.com/projects/fie...

This whole thread is fun, but this right here is a good ass reading list

Nothing beats snowball fights with the kids

Wife now asking me questions like "if you were to take a male lover, would it be Ben Johnson" Go Bears

Feeling pretty good about the Netflix takeover of DC Comics

(to the tune of eleanor rigby) eleanor rigby

This is a GREAT list.

Congratulations everybody, my 50 favorite comics of 2025 are officially locked in! www.comicbookherald.com/the-best-com...

If you take a shot every time I mention playing basketball or Elden Ring in my best comics of 2025 write-ups, you'll be dead before you get to the 40th of 50 selected comics.

Son's been shouting "Queso!" after any made shot for a couple weeks. He claimed that's what the kids say when they shoot something into a garbage can at school or whatever. I haven't seen this in basketball circles so I'm a lil skeptical. But hey, I'm an older kid. Kobe. They've been saying Kobe.

Basketball texts. At 27: ah, hit my wrist on the rim too many times dunking lol need a day off At 37: rolled my ankle shoveling driveway on way to gym. Still sitting in snow. See yall on the court again in 3-4 weeks.

I have room for 2 more comics on CBH's best comics of 2025 to put the list at a nice 50. I already have 2 in mind, but speak now or forever hold your comics! The list: www.comicbookherald.com/the-best-com...

YOOOOOOOOOOO www.kickstarter.com/projects/com...

Listen, obviously every norm and standard known to man has been broken, but sometimes it really just knocks me flat on my back that the President of the United States cosplays as Frank Miller's Nuke for his online avatar, and has done this for years.

indie comics vs cape comics vs trad published GNs vs zines vs whatever is stupid. all kinds of comics can be bad. free yourself

Evergreen, weekly

Since everyone loves hearing someone brag about their kids, it is very funny hearing other parents' thinly veiled shock at learning my kids school testing scores are off the charts for reading... on a pure diet of comics! It's almost like reading comics obsessively... is still reading!

This past month, over 1,000 sweet summer children searched CBH for "all marvel comics in order pdf" That must be one chonky pdf

Good for Stephanie Phillips, and good for Marvel hiring a woman to write a Daredevil run for the first time in ~40 years. Now, do Spider-Man!

New rule, every physical graphic novel should come with trading cards of the creators

i feel so bad for artists who now have to deal with accusations that their work is ai Its so demeaning to the life of work they put into their art, and it must suck to have to argue that your work is in fact your own. If you can draw, that's really cool, I think you are great.

I think my least favorite AI thing so far is when I open a digital comic to download and there's an unrequested story summary on the cover. Bro, I did not ask.