Top Shelf Friday time, what's a comic in your collection that you love? ❤️ This week, showing off a big one, Iron Man #55 signed by Jim Starlin #TopShelfFriday #comicbooks #comics

Starting to see Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) events pop up in my data feeds. If you're a store hosting an event, please send us a DM with details - we'd like to get it listed in the Fresh Comics apps and website. If you're a creator making an appearance, DM us! Glad to see the tradition continue!

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

Channeling the spirit of Jack "The King" Kirby.

Happy to second this recommendation!

This won't be the X-Men's first trip to a large multiverse-ending event.

Looking forward to the Thorsdóttir to break out her own distinct can of Whoop Ass. #Doomsday #Thor

Looks like a lot of fun. #Supergirl

I'm doing some data entry for upcoming 2026 conventions and it's extremely heartening to see more and more conventions adopting Bluesky as a social media channel.

Only from @thirdeyecomics.bsky.social, first 75 peeps to buy $75 of Hero merch get FREE Howard Chaykin original art! Randomly selected from a variety of works! No promo code needed; buy $75 in Hero swag, get FREE art in your package! Limited time, go NOW: shop.thirdeyecomics.com/collections/...

Overhauled the data ingestion system and we should be good for the next two weeks. Over the next week or so, I'll be ingesting the next two MONTHS' of data, so this past week's data gap should be an entry in the back issue bin.

Due to a computer crash, the release information for November and December will be showing up later this week. Mac OS X decided to crash on me and wipe out a weekend's worth of data entry as I was exporting the data to be sent to the server...

Just did a big data update to bring in the October issues for DC, Image, and Titan issue into the database. Refresh your app if those issues are not appearing.

If you see a promotion for The Ramble while browsing the site this week, this is THE Geeks' Guide to Pop Culture and a hilarious podcast by comedians @eddiepence.bsky.social & @jerryrochacomedy.com. Click through to visit their YouTube page and subscribe in your favorite podcasting app.

On this day in 1987, the Batman: Son of the Demon graphic novel went on sale, and included the brief appearance of the unnamed son of Batman and Talia al Ghul. It would be just short of 20 years before that son - Damian - would be seen again, eventually meeting his father and becoming the 5th Robin.

I have declared it is Magneto Monday! Post your favorite art of Magneto from any comic, cartoon, video game, or other piece of media! I’ll post mine first!

40 years ago today, I walked into the offices of Marvel Comics for my first day of work, nervous, but hopeful that I would eventually make my mark on the company and the industry. It's been an incredible ride so far!

Oof. This is getting UGLY. #ImageComics #DiamondBankruptcy #ComicBooks

Comic book bliss at House of Secrets in Burbank.

#JeffLemire #EssexCounty

I came for Krypto. I stayed for Mr. Terrific. #Superman #MrTerrific #Krypto

I came of age after Shooter's tenure at Marvel, but in addition to the superhero comics work, I'm also thankful for him getting the right people working on other properties like Transformers (Bob Budiansky) and G.I. Joe (Larry Hama) back when those properties needed proper mythos built.

THAT TIME I INKED RAMONA FRADON! I'd completely forgotten about this page until asked if I had the original art (which I don't) to sell (which I wouldn't). A great honor & joy to work with Ramona, even just this once… and on METAMORPHO, even— soon to steal every scene in the upcoming SUPERMAN movie!

a sketch of Raphael from tonight's live stream.

In the middle of getting caught up on data updates. Shops are updated, conventions as well. Just pulled in the (semi) raw data for the past couple of weeks of Diamond. As recently as a month ago, I'd be cataloging 10x the number of issues from Diamond. It's the end of an era, folks.

WOW. Given that @titanbooks.bsky.social is on this list, it looks like Diamond is burning every relationship they have, including with the publishers that might have stuck around.

My plan isn't to treat this as a software engineering thread, but for folks wondering how (re)populating shared collaboration graph is going, here's a thread on that. At the rate this is going, I should have a pretty good picture of who all has worked with whom since 2011.

With the new website launch, I'm also planning on pushing the sponsorships more. If you have a new comic shop, Kickstarter, convention, signing event, or anything else that would be relevant to comic fans, get in touch.

The new website is officially live! Updates: * Improved UI for desktop and mobile. * The return of search! * Misc. security updates and performance enhancements. * Geographically-targeted sponsorships. * Deeper Bluesky and YouTube integration. * Access to lists and events from your mobile device.

The @freshcomics.us redesign is finished. I'll be rolling it out tomorrow so that I can watch for any new server weirdness. Even managed to pull some neglected features back into action, which is cool.

Forgot to turn on the new "Shared Issues" feature! With that change, the creator page is basically finished. Next: conventions, then the front page.

Creator pages are updated. I kept the same primary table view of works that was in the last version, but added a new section with social media links to follow the creator, as well as some embedded Bluesky posts, if I have the creator's handle. Using @ffrancavilla.bsky.social as the test for this.

The shop listing page is pretty much finished. In its past incarnation, it was a basic map and that was it. The new version keeps a smaller version of the map, but uses the browser location to do a more localized search. There's also a text search to find any shop in the database now.

I have the @freshcomics.us shop page template finished. It's been reorganized to better reflect the importance of various details, and I've added the ability to pull in the latest Bluesky post when shops have accounts here. (I'll be reusing this on creator pages, too!) It's better on mobile too.

VERY happy to see the old Comixology guys back in the digital comics game. They introduced me to a TON of indie titles back in the day, and I miss that. As much as I love physical comics, I only have limited space, which 60+ years of X-Men issues have claimed. Digital is a great way to explore.

Finally getting around to a site update and overhaul. Here are some screenshots of what the new Fresh Comics will be looking like on the web. Work's gone pretty quickly once I got the underlying platforms updated.

Lend a helping hand if you can. I read quite a bit of classic literature through these folks and their wonderful work.

Fantagraphics is having a warehouse sale, with 60% off a small number of items. For everything not on sale, they are offering 10% off using the code 'TAKETEN', which I have to check to see if you can use the Fantabucks that we have accrued. www.fantagraphics.com/collections/...

This weekend's data updates include DC and Image issues from the Lunar catalog for the month of July. Transformers and G.I. Joe return to Fresh Comics, after a rough couple of months. Other than the indies left at Diamond, we should be in pretty good shape data-wise now. Next up: website updates!

Was a little bit late pushing this week's content update to apps, but it's available now. This incorporates the new PRH data (through August) as well as new data pulls doe Image, so Transformers and G.I. Joe are showing up again. I need to address some duplicate items, so stay tuned.

Starts TOMORROW! May 31-June 1, Hero Initiative is at the Big Lick Comic Con NoVa just outside Washington DC! And artist Matthew Clark is our special guest! AND you can get your Superman 100 Project book signed by Matthw, plus Darryl Banks and Rick Leonardi! Get you here! Tix and info: blccnova.com

One of the projects for the summer is to replace the Twitter/X links on the site and in the app with links to other social networks: TikTok, YouTube, etc. If you're a comic shop, and are interested in having those links included, leave a reply with your shop name and your links. #LocalComicShop

Imported the first pass of the PRH data overnight and I'm now doing my human "clean-up" pass through three months of releases. I still have quite a ways to go, but I'm going through this data at roughly twice the rate as the old Diamond data.

Let’s open some cards! Marvel Universe Series 3 #comicsky #cardsky #packbreak #tradingcards #marvel #spiderman

Been drafting a "this is going away" letter for those who have stuck with us this past decade and a half. The chaos in the comics distribution market has threatened to take away my main data source (Diamond). Looked at the stats last night and they are strong. Going to give it one more summer.

Looking forward to hooking up to the Bluesky firehose with this list and seeing if I can get more store events into the Fresh Comics site and apps. Thanks for this, @seanvongorman.bsky.social!

Note that I'm also looking to follow conventions. Let me know if your convention is missing from my calendar. We have some big plans for the site and app in '25, but want to reconnect with all our folks here first. #ComicConventions #PopCultureConventions #ComicCon #C2E2 #NYCC

Fresh Comics will be entering its 15th year of operation next year. I'm looking to recreate the network of comic shops that we used to follow elsewhere, so if you know any local comic shops, send them my way! And if you're a local shop, let me know if we're up-to-date on our map. #LocalComicShops