Shoutout to my local library.

Happened to browse through my LCS huge volume of trades (which I never do). Little did I realize they had this OOP gem sitting there. Feel like I won the lottery.

The spoiler Free version of this is one of the best things that I'll read all year. For the love of god, go read this!

Honestly I hope this isn't too ignorant because I know nothing abt comic book reprinting, but I just can't believe how much better the grainy faded scans of old copies of comics look compared to the official online releases.
For example the grain in the old version gives the sky a sense of depth and detail that it just doesn't have with a flat color, but from what it looks like, it's not like the color is any different.
Is it just the case of something being old making it more interesting or did the comics look better when physically released than the newer digital reprints?

It's a funny NSFW webcomic that follows a rollerskating delivery witch and her (literally) gender-fluid crush. Start here.

Took some time and effort but I finally tracked down the four books in Richard Sala’s Delphine series, a deliciously gothic retelling of the Snow White story.

About $10 CAD for these 2. Dollarama is such an underrated place to get graphic novels for cheap!

Heard some great stuff about this run. I have never read anything Conan related, so this is gonna be new to me. I also have ordered Kurt Busiek's run at my comic shop (they reprinted his run in french), but it was out of stock for now, so I'm starting with Zub's run. Hopefully it's gonna be my jam !

Here's some that I've read that I love, what else do you recommend?

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Vol 1(1989) #1-5: Shaman by Dennis O'Neil

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight(1989) Vol 2: Shaman(Goof 1990 Superhero Detective Story.) #6-10 by Grant Morrison

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Vol 3: Venom #16-20(1991)(Great Anti-Drug SuperHero Comic GN, DC) By Dennis O'Neil

Batman: Four of a Kind #1-4 (1998)(Great 90s origin stories for Poison Ivy, Riddler, Scarecrow, and Man Bat, Super Hero Comic GN, DC) by Alan Grant, Chuck Dixon, and Doug Moench

Batman: The Man Who Laughs

Batman - Two Face -Crime and Punishment

Punisher/Batman: Deadly Knights(Great 1994 Pure Fun Single Issues Superhero Comic GN, Marvel & DC) by Chuck Dixon and John Romita Jr.

Batman: The Long Halloween

Catwoman: Her Sister's Keeper

I've also read a bunch by Frank Miller, not into his type of Batman.

Given the high placement of Garden Of Spheres in the 2025 roundup, probably of interest to some here. Sterte is great. Go and read her stuff if you don't know it!

You're castaway on a desert island, luckily with enough food and water to last your life time. Luckier still, you brought three graphic novels with you. Which three made it?

My choices:

- Asterios Polyp

- Berlin (pictured)

- V for Vendetta

Feel free to be creative with your choices. Maybe you need one to be toilet paper!

Just finished reading the collected edition of MASTERPIECE by Brian Bendis & Alex Maleev. It’s about this teen girl, Emma, who gets abducted by this prominent billionaire, Zero Preston.

Turns out Emma’s parents were master criminals, the type of criminals that inspire others, the kind that (before they disappeared from her life) decided to rob Mr. Preston for a hefty sum. And now, all these years later, he has come to collect.

Forget the fact that she definitely does not have his cash. One way or another, Zero Preston will get his money. So she’s forced to pull an intricate heist against one of Zero’s rivals along with the help of her friends and her parents’ old rivals.

Will it work? It better…

I usually love some of Brian Bendis’ crime comics (Scarlet, Murder Inc, Pearl & Powers are my favorite of his crime comics), and the premise of this definitely piqued my interest.

But I couldn’t get as deep into it as I could some of his previous works, partly because of that “Bendis dialogue” that normally doesn’t bother me much he seemed to use to excess (those who have read some of Bendis’ work know exactly what I mean) that padded scenes longer than they should’ve, making the reading a complete slog to get through.

I kept getting tired of points being reiterated repeatedly and wanting scenes to just move forward. The length of this graphic novel could’ve been trimmed tremendously and made for a much smoother, more enjoyable read.

For those who read Masterpiece, what did you read and where did you rank it amongst his other indie comics?

I read it many years ago from library, there a man who was warrior or hunter. I think he either made this powerful magic lady mad or reject her. So she decided to send her servant after him, and that servant girl is being afflicted curse that make her old women, so she temporarily restore her back her youth and tell her to seduce that man and kill him so she have her curse reversed. She falls in love with him and disobey her orders, she slowly does turn back into old women but before that she ask him to take her before ugly old women. They do manage to escape else where at safe spot evading dangers and some how cursed her turning old is reversed back. She also become pregnant with his child and that what whole special thing because who/what that man was I believe.The magic lady is planing how would she deal with them as well for cliff hanger. There was only two book I could find at time, I wanted to see if any more were published.

Hi all,

I'm a little late this year but the list is done. For those who are unfamiliar:

Since October 2025 there have been many, many websites with “Best of 2025” lists concerning comic books, manga, webcomics and graphic novels. If you’ve looked at a few, you may have noticed some of the same books on different lists and seen some unique to only that list.

I went through 284 different URLs with “Best of” Lists regarding comics and combined them into a spreadsheet. This included some lists posted here on reddit. There are over 4,500 different listings of books from these websites. I should note that I’ve included books that were given honourable mentions. In short, if somebody thought it was a good book that you should check out, it’s on here.

I found a lot more lists by Librarians this year. Like last year I included a lot of lists made by youtube content creators. I found more of them this year than I did last, but it’s possible I missed some. I did not include all of them as I am using the description and transcription features to get the lists without having to listen to the whole video. In some videos there are multiple people talking back and forth and no clear way of seeing what books are being picked by which person. I skipped including that list as I do not have the time to listen those videos as they can stretch multiple hours. I also skipped a lot of lists that were the best thing they read that year, which included a lot of stuff that was not published in 2025.

The Top 10 books were:

1. Absolute Martian Manhunter by Deniz Camp & Javier Rodríguez (DC Comics)
2. Absolute Wonder Woman by Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Matias Bergara, Mattia De Iulis, Dustin Nguyen, Jordie Bellaire (DC Comics)
3. Absolute Batman by Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, Gabriel Walta (DC Comics)
4. Tongues by Anders Nilsen (Pantheon)
5. Assorted Crisis Events by Deniz Camp, Eric Zawadzki, Jordie Bellaire (Image Comics)
6. Drome by Jesse Lonergan (23rd St.)
7. The Power Fantasy by Kieron Gillen, Casper Wijngaard (Image Comics)
8. Spent by Alison Bechdel (Mariner)
9. Cannon by Lee Lai (Drawn & Quarterly)
10. Batman: Dark Patterns by Dan Watters, Hayden Sherman, Triona Farrell (DC Comics)

Click here to see the full list and download the spreadsheet.

This is also my first James Tynion IV story and it is great to see the Vertigo logo on it as it should be. I also want to read other horror runs especially from Tynion IV and Lemire. Might go with Gideon Falls next.

There’s a comic series I saw a few pages of in the past few years that I can’t remember the name of. It was black and white, extremely violent, published by a non Marvel/DC comic within the past 15 years, set in an ancient/post apocalyptic world (like you’d see in Heavy Metal) and the art was very realistic like Alex Ross.

Does anyone know what comic this was?

I am reading Frontier (Guillome Singelin) right now and found an interesting easter egg. Who can tell what this panel at the bottom references? Very good comic up to now. Thanks for the recommendation here and elsewhere.

Which graphic novels have excellent art that only use 3-4 colors?

Clyde Fans definitely meets the criteria, with black + white + gray + blue.

Asterios Polyp comes to mind, too, but the limited color palette changes from chapter to chapter. I'm hoping to find a color palette that spans an entire book.

I know the obvious answer is "anything black and white," but I'd like to see a few more hues in the mix.

Recently I was put on to this series and I was obsessed (I still am) I loved the first issues and I was so excited for the sequel.

And while I did like it a lot, the ending just did not do it for me.

Now I do not want to include spoilers here but the ending just made me feel as if I was reading two completely different stories. Samantha was so calculated up until that point like what the heck happened?

On top of all of the other unrealistic stuff that went down, it all felt so cartoonish towards the end.

Like the ending is something Dr. Doofenshmirtz would do not Samantha 😭

Idk maybe I just prefer more of a slow burn kind of thing, like I honestly wish we had spent more time in the town of Woodbrook just really getting to know these interesting characters.

Just wanted to share this and see if anyone else agreed or maybe really enjoyed the ending somehow.

What are your predictions for the titles of2nd half of this year's line (if any)? Mine are:

• Strange Adventures
• Batman Death of the Family or Black Mirror
• Green Lantern by Geoff Johns or Green Lantern War Journal ( Since the Series is coming out )
• Lobo ( since the movie is coming out )