Thousands of Minnesotans gathered last night to honor Renee Nicole Good. We will never accept that a single federal agent can be judge, jury, and executioner in our streets. ICE needs to get out of Minneapolis.

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Catching up on comics this weekend 1/2

Last year we visited 51 Comic Book Stores across the USA. Here's a thread of all of them⬇️

Says the man whose company agreed to pay the USA $631 million in civil penalties and damages arising from false claims the government alleged it submitted to Medicare and other federal health programs. www.justice.gov/archive/opa/... GTFOH Rick.

Seasons of Ranma: Exploring the "Ranma ½" Fanfiction of the 1990s: Adam Wescott explores the history and legacy of the Ranma 1/2 fanfic community, the scene's exploration of topics like gender and character, and how it's evolved since the '90s. #ranma #fanfiction #anime

Ten movie scenes I loved in 2025 in no order. 1. FF fight the Silver Surfer with a black hole in Fantastic Four: First Steps

Comic Book Club is tomorrow at 3:30 PM at Meanwhile...Coffee in Herndon, Virginia. We're discussing DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN by Miller & Mazzucchelli. Join us for coffee, conversation, and FREE COMIC BOOK CLUB BUTTONS!

As I’m stuck once again working New Year’s Day, I’m gonna manifest in 2026 that I’m not working for this godawful company that keeps finding new and exciting ways to undervalue its employees.

Kicking 2026 with a long overdue rewatch

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025?

Just a reminder that if you enjoy Off Panel and want to support it — while getting fun perks like early access episodes, like next week's look at my favorite comics of the year, which just went up! — back the show on Patreon. My comics work is entirely crowdfunded, and your support helps a ton!

Excited for the slate of Graphic Novels I’ve picked to discuss for the graphic novel club at my LCS’ Blackbird Comics and Coffee next year. We’re kicking the year off with Jen Wang’s excellent The Prince and the Dressmaker.

one of my holiday break reading projects is catching up on this stack of trades from Mad Cave Studios…who imo has done an admirable job of putting out weirdo original comics within the direct market at a time when many publishers have cut way back on that

🦇Billy Bat is almost here! If you want to read Billy Bat before its release, we are doing a galley giveaway! Go to our giveaway post on our instagram for more information! www.instagram.com/kanamanga_us/ 📚Billy Bat Volume 1 will be out June 2, 2026! #BillyBat #Manga #Translation #Kana

Some close ups, the kaiser roll with an egg is my personal favorite moment

Got to interview @nickcagnetti.bsky.social about his new book Spirits of the Shadow Realm. Love Cagnetti’s approach to cape comics and Spirits is no different. Definitely pick this up when it comes out in January.

With the final volume of “Search & Destroy” by Atsushi Kanekonow out from @mangasplaining.bsky.social / @fantagraphics.bsky.social , now’s a great time to binge-read all 3 volumes — or give all 3 as a gift! www.fantagraphics.com/products/sea...

Great list of manga and manwha here!

Off-beat comic hero Michael Kupperman delivers laugh after laugh in his signature style in his new Patreon-only zine.

MARTY SUPREME is arthouse KINGPIN.

Porco Rosso deserves to stand taller in the Studio Ghibli canon, not least because it's among the great antifascist films. Here's my case regarding why:

Cheap. Affordable. Expensive. The CBCC Comic Book Holiday Gift Guide: www.comicbookcouplescounseling.com/post/comic-b...

My first review as KComics Beat’s film critic is of course one by Park Chan-wook. Darkly comedic, no one else makes movies like Park.

Once again contributed to this massive, wonderfully diverse list. Lots of great books on here.

Check out my new interview with the one and only @jesselonergan.bsky.social !

One of my favorite pages from the new Toxic Avenger comic that I made with the mighty @mattbors.bsky.social

I made my debut at K-Comics Beat with this look at the Golden Globes, the history being made and a surprising revelation from Park Chan-wook.

My one complaint of the new Park Chan-wook movie No Other Choice is that I won’t get to talk to #1 Donald Westlake fan, the late great Patrick Dean, about it. I would have loved to hear what he thought of it.

Not too shabby for ye olde D&Q: In 2025, we released not just one, but two (!!) volumes of Shirato Sanpei's groundbreaking alt-manga epic THE LEGEND OF KAMUI Translated by Richard Rubinger with Noriko Rubinger, it is the first time Shirato's magum opus has been made available in English!

oh my god Book of the New Sun had Amano covers in Japan and they're fucking crazy

Buy Bulgihan Books!

In less than a week, MICE returns to BU's Fuller Building and we'll be there at Table 47B! We'll have our entire available catalog along with our brand new titles: Slices of Life and Testament! See you there 😁 @massmice.bsky.social

Doing a Grendel read through and I forgot what a truly foundational book this was for me in high school. @mattwagnercomics.bsky.social experiments with form in Devil by the Deed fundamentally changed the way that I understood comics.

For Crunchyroll News, I wrote about 10 great anime endings. Can you guess which ones? www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...

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BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.

Paging @burgersama.bsky.social

I aspire to be at @illusclaire.bsky.social’s level of comics criticism www.tcj.com/the-silent-r...

Happy 71st birthday to Dexter Weaver.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you attended - The Body/Sumac/Brothers of the Sonic Cloth/Neurosis - Melt-Banana - Boris/Earth - Japanese Breakfast - Liars/Deerhunter (Deerhunter performed a set so bad, years later Bradford Cox publicly apologized for it)

My variant cover for Absolute Batman Ark-M1 Special! #absolutebatman #dccomics

As @wendeego.bsky.social says, I’m not dicking around this week

I loved Keeper, Osgood Perkins not so subtle nod to David Lynch www.comicsbeat.com/horror-beat-...

BOSTON! I’m doing a comics and storytelling workshop this coming Tuesday. Come through and get some stories out of your system.

Did I hallucinate that there was a storyline in the Spider-Man newspaper strip where he spends most of it under a blanket?

Wishing a joyous 83rd birthday to the legendary Martin Scorsese!

My fave Marty’s for his birthday 1. After Hours 2. Raging Bull 3. Age of Innocence 4. Taxi Driver 5. Wolf of Wall Street Also gonna shout out Bringing Out The Dead which is a phenomenal piece of filmmaking.