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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Y'all, re-posts are great, but $5 donations are better! gofund.me/8aa417b95 Here is some of Tom Tenney's work from Force Works (1994) #1-2

Force Works (1994) #1, cover pencils by Tom Tenney

Force Works (1994) #1 interior of Scarlet Witch speaking with Iron Man in her private apartment, pencils by Tom Tenney

Force Works (1994) #1 pin-up of Wonder Man, pencils by Tom Tenney

Force Works (1994) #2 interior of Century and Iron Man, pencils by Tom Tenney

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Coming Friday @6p on @nearmintcon.bsky.social: How to collect X-Men omnibuses! Every. Single. One. Omar and I will attempt to replicate my entire site AND his video reading guides in a single live stream covering 61yrs of flagship X-Men titles. It will be epic or an epic disaster. Don't miss it.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Well, that sucks: Marvel is shuttering their amazing API. Everyone wants a damn walled garden of data.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

It's absolutely wild to finally own the contents of Sandman Mystery Theatre Compendium Two. For a long time it really felt like the back half of Mystery Theatre would NEVER be collected!

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

THE F4 IS BACK BABY! I'm catching up on the comics of July 9th, and Ryan North's new Fantastic Four #1 with Humberto Ramos, Victor Olazaba, Edgar Delgado, & Travis Lanham is peak F4. It started with an old concept and I thought it'd be a retread. Nope. More super-science and super-heart from North

the cover of Fantastic Four (2025) #1, drawn by Humberto Ramos with color from Edgar Delgado

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Marvel's best X-Men team book for most of this year has been Doom's Division. It only has two cast members I'd call X-Men. What it lacks in X-Genes, Yoon Ha Lee & Minkyu Jung make up in a Claremontian ability to juggle a big cast full of international characters with complex motivations and culture

The cover of Doom's Division (2025) #1 by Creees Lee and Sonia Oback

The cover of Doom's Division (2025) #2 by Creees Lee and Sonia Oback

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Y'all MUST read We're Taking Everyone Down With Us. Matthew Rosenberg cooked up a BRILLIANT "Super-Villain v. Spy" concept full of humor, heart, & violence. Stefano Landini's layouts are brilliant. Jason Wordie's colors dictate the mood. Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou's letters are clever and sell the humor

We're Taking Everyone Down With Us (2025) #3, cover by Stefano Landini

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

New evergreen reaction GIF just dropped 😂 (please know I am never the one responsible for these. like, I'm responsible for the behavior, but @james47591.bsky.social sends them to me unprompted)

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This morning I read another two chapters of REVERSAL by Alex di Campi, Skylar Patridge, Kelly Fitzpatrick, & Hassan Ostmane-Elhaou. An absolutely remarkable and heartfelt comic book with outstanding artwork. Highly recommended to fans of FML (no music, but similar family/supernatural vibe).

an interior page from REVERSAL (2025) OGN. An attractive and muscular white man pounds his fist into a table and yells "NOTHING!" An African American boy who has the head and wings of a bird leaves the room, while the white man buries his head in his hands and says "I don't know what you expect of me."

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Absolutely disgusted to have bought Polis #1 from AWA, a comic book about a "Protopia" future where not everything is awful, only to reach the back matter and discover some of the "creators" used generative AI. That might be the last comic I buy from AWA. Surprised Mark Russell would headline this

Polis #1, a comic that uses Generative AI as part of its creative process.

The bio of Arturo Del Razo Montiel, who "creates" "art" by stealing from other creatives through the use of Generative AI.

The bio of Proxima Centauri B, who "creates" "art" by stealing from other creatives through the use of Generative AI.

The bio of Lynn Cole, who "creates" "art" by stealing from other creatives through the use of Generative AI.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

not trying to pit any comics against any other comics, but month after month the best Batgirl scenes are in Birds of Prey

an excerpt from Birds of Prey (2023) #20 - Sin surprises Batgirl with a tender hug from behind

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I wanted to have my Absolute Martian Manhunter song ready for the weekly stream in 10hrs but the bridge is just not there yet. I used to throw demos of things out willy nilly, but the internet is forever and I want to get this right. Perhaps for issue #2. (but the lyrics are SO MUCH about #1 😭)

A panel from Absolute Martian Manhunter (2025) #1. A man with his head bandaged, including a patch over one eye. He is smoking. He says "Then where the hell is all this smoke coming from?" backed by a cloud of greens, pinks, and blues. Script Deniz Camp, art Javier Rodriguez, letters Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING! DC is finishing collecting the run of Sandman Midnight Theatre in a single format!

Sandman Mystery Theatre Compendium Two
Author: Matt Wagner
Illustrated by Guy Davis
Paperback
$59.99
DC Comics
[information about trim size]
On sale Aug 26, 2025, 888 Pages

[image of book cover on the left - a man wearing a gas mask juxtaposed with an image in a man in a brimmed hat]

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The thing about Mattia De Iluis is that even his linework and flats are stunning. It'd be just as wild for his art even without the stunning rendering and lighting. Here's a before/after from his Insta of his variant cover of WE'RE TAKING EVERYONE DOWN WITH US. www.instagram.com/p/DFdcgP3OXe...

Mattia de Iulis's cover process for a variant of WE'RE TAKING EVERYONE DOWN WITH US. In this shot, a blonde girl stares at us while a robot behind her rests one hand on her shoulder, gripping it slightly. The colors are flat with no shading or gradients.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I strongly suggest going into Absolute Martian Manhunter totally cold, with no one else's reactions or opinions looming over your read.

A panel excerpted from Absolute Martian Manhunter (2025) #1, art by Javier Rodriguez. A strange, green, one-eyed humanoid approaches us with arms stretched wide. His hands are red.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I know I've already been raving about him for MONTHS now, but I think Farid Karami's just-wrapped arc of Avengers was like a thunderclap announcing not just the arrival of an industry heavyweight, but his evolution. (Also, some of Federico Blee's all-time best color work on these issues!)

A full page splash from Avengers (2024). The Avengers are contained in a force bubble as tendrils of power snake out from Scarlet Witch to encase alien civllians floating around the team.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Brevoort: "If 10 issues isn’t long enough for you to feel comfortable, how many would? … The truth of the matter is that most series that are launched … aren’t going to command enough of the audience to reach those digits. We can pretend that the situation is otherwise, but it simply isn’t so" Me:

Lying Cat snaps to attention, as drawn by Fiona Staples in Saga (2012) #61

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Just binged all of Tynion, Hixson, & Otsmane-Elhaou's DEVIANT. Perhaps the best queer horror story I've ever read. A total sucker punch with a perfect finale.

the cover of The Deviant (2023) #1. A figure who is too tall and slender to be a Santa Claus is dressed as Santa in the middle of a snow, desolate intersection.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

That... makes an amount of sense. (from Saga (2012) #59, Staples & Vaughan)

A man with antlers wearing a bandana saying "Silly goose. If every drug deal ended bad, nobody would ever be on drugs."

(from Saga (2012) #59, Staples & Vaughan)

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I have always loved this weirdass comic so damn much. (from Saga (2012) #56, Staples & Vaughan)

A rotund make with a large flatscreen television for a head, from Saga (2012) #56, Staples & Vaughan.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I want to be Samantha's friend. Is she on here? (from the letters page of X-Men (2024) #13, which was actually amazing)

An excerpt from the letters page of X-Men (2024) #13:

The Krakoa era of the X-books was the single best thing to ever happen to the characters and the franchise, and it's been replaced by some of the most painfully generic, worthless and awful content ever to be churned out by Marvel.

I won't be bothering with anything that is to come.

Samantha Roberts

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

One of these months I'm going to be frustrated enough by the script in Spawn that I go in and re-write every caption box and dialog balloon myself, as if I'm bootleg translating a manga. I swear there is a good comic in there.

A panel from Spawn (1993) #362. Spawn's arms are spread, flinging his cape out wide.

The caption reads: "The symbiote's crimson flesh flares like a dragon with a dozen wings, effectively blotting out any light thus creating its own massive shadowed base."

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I don't understand putting a Gary Frank cover on an issue with Elena Casagrande interiors. They're both masterful and Frank draws an awe-inspiring Fin Fang Foom, but it's a complete style mismatch and Casagrande's art is its own best advertisement.

the cover of Nick Fury vs. Fin Fang Foom (2025) #1 by Gary Frank

an interior spread of Nick Fury vs. Fin Fang Foom (2025) #1 by Elena Casagrande, showing Fin Fang Foom attacking a WW2 era plane

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Every day this week I have seen/heard more people who are excited about The Tin Can Society. It really feels like it hit a tipping point after last week's issue #6 of 9 with sustained word of mouth about it across several communities where I hang out (only a fraction of which was my doing 😈 ).

the cover of The Tin Can Society (2024) #6

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I swear I could give up my entire pull and just re-read Nice House on the Lake / by the Sea over and over again every week. (Lazarus is another comic that makes me feel this way.)

cover of The Nice House by the Sea (2024) #6

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Might have to drop Batgirl, each issue is pushing me farther into the "irrational anger about shitty scripts wasting a great character and legendary artist" zone. Might make for some entertaining yelling on the pulls show, though.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

*heavy breathing of both Transformers fans and reading order nerds intensifies*

Excerpted from a promotional email from Skybound Entertainment:

The war for Cybertron is upon us! Mark your calendars for April 8th, 2025 at 6:00am PT / 9:00am ET when we launch THE TRANSFORMERS Compendium Set Kickstarter. Your participation is vital.

Skybound, Image and Hasbro proudly present all of the original THE TRANSFORMERS US and THE TRANSFORMERS UK comics in magnificent hardcover collections, as well as the THE TRANSFORMERS: Til All Are One box set, which weaves the US and UK series together using the UK edits to the US stories, resulting in the most seamless and comprehensive reading experience ever.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Freaking loved Jumpscare (2025) #1 from Cullen Bunn, Danny Luckert, & Joshua Reed. Bunn merged his horror mastery with cheeky superheroism and intriguing worldbuilding, and every damn panel of it works thanks to Luckert & Reed making it delightfully binge-able.

the cover of Jumpscare (2025) #1, illustrated by Danny Luckert

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

FML (2024) by Kelly Sue DeConnick, David López, Chris Peter, & Clayton Cowles is a comic unlike any other. It speaks directly to my heart and my soul (and also wherever deep, irrepressible peals of laughter emerge from).

A panel from FML (2024) by Kelly Sue DeConnick, David López, Chris Peter, & Clayton Cowles.

A lovable monster character sketched in pencil on lined paper starts to say "...it can't get worse..." while his small but fearsome human mother drawn in the style of hyper-detailed anime howls "It can ALWAYS get worse!!! Have I taught you nothing?!"

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Thinking about sorting all of the pages of Power Fantasy into a chronological story order. You know, with all my free time.

The first interior page of The Power Fantasy (2024) #1, by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, & Clayton Cowles. A full page showing a vibrant street corner in 1966 NYC.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

NYX really lost its way (and its fan support) after issue #3. In hindsight it seems clear the title never had a strong brand other than as a potential Ms. Marvel + Wolverine team-up book. It still managed to turn out an awesome Wolverine solo issue this week, mining plenty of plots from 15yrs ago.

cover of NYX (2024) #8, Laura Kinney as Wolverine holding her claws to the neck of Hellion.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Ben Percy making subtext about Pansexual Deadpool into clearly-stated on-panel canon. #xspoilers #spoilers

Two panels from Deadpool/Wolverine (2025) #2

Panel One: Wolverine slashing at part of a giant beast. Dialog: "Wade?! Are you straight?"

Panel Two: Close-up on Deadpool, looking somewhat confused. Dialog: "My turn-ons include anything with skin. Also fruits. Sea anemones. And the Washington Monument."

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Also, loved Sarah H. Cho's end note explaining how this story was personal and specific to her own experience. It was incredible how CAMGIRL dealt with weighty themes of mental illness, self-harm, substance abuse, & Asian fetishization all in under 50 pages while telling a complete thriller story.

A panel from CAMGIRL (2025)#1. A Korean woman with long dark hair cascading over her shoulders, she has looked down at her phone off-panel and then pressed her eyes shut. Caption: "I guess this is really the only way I can make money..."

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Absolutely floored by the CAMGIRL one-shot from AWA by Sarah H Cho, CP Smith, & Steve Wands. I've never read another comic quite like it. It's a grounded story about sex work that's NOT about titillation. It's a character study and a mystery. It's gorgeous. Smart. Had me guessing and turning pages

the cover of CamGirl (2025) #1, an Asian woman in jeans and a bikini top posting in front of a wall of screens with her image on them.

an interior page from CamGirl (2025) #1

Panel 1, full width, top third of the page: a woman sitting on a bed, seen from high behind her so we mostly see the emptiness of the floor surrounding her. Caption: "Don't you just love Mondays?"

Two panels, side by side. Panel 2: A mouse cursor clicking "LIVE." Panel 3: A finger clicking a trackpad. Caption: "That was sarcasm, FYI."

Panel 4, bottom half of the page: a selfie style image of a woman looking into a laptop camera and smiling. Dialog: "Guys, I'm so happy you came to see me. I was soooooooo worried that no one would show up." Caption: "Welcome to my office..."

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Event comics can be amazing. (It helps if they're written by Ryan North and involve lots of characters excited about killing Nazis.) (Also, it's great if they are drawn by RB Silva with David Curiel colors and a cover by Ben Harvey.) (Okay, so, I'm talking about One World Under Doom in specific.)

the cover of One World Under Doom (2025) #1

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

After reading this week's issue of Batman & Robin, I humbly submit that the BatFam title PKJ should be writing isn't R&B, it's Red Hood.

Red Hood looking down on a criminal while also speaking on comms to Batman.

Red Hood: Leave the guns. They're MINE now. Freight elevator, end of the hall, get to the loading dock and out the back. MOVE. [Unintelligible curse].

Batman [voice only]: What's a "Harvey Night"?

Red Hood: That's NIGHTWING's name for it. Something real bad that happens on the job real young... something that shakes us. Maybe permanently. The Batgirls, all the Robins... every single one of us had a Harvey night at some point. So, assuming Oracle DOES know everything... how bad wa sit? Bad enough the kid might quit?"

Batman [voice only]: He can't. MOMENTO is in Gotham.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I really wanted to read Eye Lie Popeye (2024) and Memoirs from the 20th Century (2025) this week for my pulls stream, but to the best of my ability to discern neither of them are for sale digitally (though maybe they were in the past).

Memoirs from the Twentieth Century (2024) #3

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

No artist at Marvel right now excites me quite as much as Farid Karami. To be THIS GOOD before you're a widely-known name to superhero comic fans is wild. It's not gonna be long. (from Avengers (2023) #23, script Jed MacKay, colors Frederico Blee, letters Cory Petit)

In an excerpt from Avengers (2023) #23, Kang visits Black Cat in her luxurious apartment. She pours herself a glass of champagne, because... why not? Script Jed MacKay, art Farid Karami, colors Frederico Blee, letters Cory Petit.

In an excerpt from Avengers (2023) #23, Scarlet Witch flies through the air as she powers up and Gatecrasher is suitable alarmed by the "Living Darkhold" flying towards her and scatterbrain. Script Jed MacKay, art Farid Karami, colors Frederico Blee, letters Cory Petit.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Why thank you, perhaps I WILL play Madonna's I'M BREATHLESS while I read some comics.

Two panels from Dick Tracy (2024) #7

First Panel. Dick Tracy and his retinue are being hustled out of a jazz club.

Dick Tracy: I'll be back, Fangs... and we'll have words. You can bank on it.
Caption: Dick Tracy is a stoic man but he understands anger. He understands rage.

Second Panel. Tight on the singer as she looks down the microphone at Dick.
Caption: He understands the PASSION that comes with the job.
Breathless Mahoney: Can I bank on it, Dick?

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Will tariffs help US businesses? Fantagraphics VP Eric Reynolds: “It's not like there are paper mills and printing presses just waiting to have the lights turned back on. Even if the tariffs spurred a long term investment ... it would take years and a lot of publishers may well go out of business”

$And it’s not just costs, quality, and options that are a challenge when using U.S. printers. If the country’s graphic novel publishers were to start exclusively printing in the U.S., would domestic printers be able to keep up with the potential influx of titles? If the idea behind tariffs is to protect and build local industry, would U.S. printers be able to reap the benefits from an increased tariff rate on books imported from China? “I just know for our odd business, there's no manufacturing capacity to do books like these in America, and that capacity could not be easily rebuilt. It's less about labor costs than the machines and expertise just not existing to do high end book publishing,” said Josh O’Neill, publisher of Beehive Books. “I read somewhere that there hasn't been a new paper mill built in the U.S. in something like 35 years, and that the number of existing paper mills is a small fraction of U.S. printing's 20th-century heyday. I wish there was an infrastructure here that tariffs would kickstart, but there just isn't,” Reynolds said. “It's not like there are paper mills and printing presses just waiting to have the lights turned back on. Even if the tariffs spurred a long term investment in paper and printing, with new mills and presses being built, it would take years and a lot of publishers may well go out of business before that bears fruit. It could be quite disastrous.”$

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This quote from Vault Comics publisher Damien Wassel really puts things in perspective: “Print costs are extremely scale sensitive. Publishers who are producing work with larger print runs will still be able to find margin ... Smaller publishers simply will not have that luxury.”

THE COMICS JOURNAL

Leyla Aker, Director of Publishing at Square Enix Manga and Books, agreed “Aside from tariffs on finished books printed in other countries, the other area of concern would be tariffs on paper, which would have the potential to affect titles printed in the U.S. as well.”

“While this environment may benefit American printers, it will harm smaller American publishers disproportionately in relation to larger publishers,” Damien Wassel, Publisher of Vault Comics, said. “Print costs are extremely scale sensitive. Publishers who are producing work with larger print runs will still be able to find margin without making significant changes to their publishing operations or strategies. Smaller publishers simply will not have that luxury.”

"Maybe there's some post-globalist future in which American manufacturing has been rebuilt, but in the near term I expect this will just make most products far more expensive and less profitable,” Beehive's O’Neill said.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Finally read Local Man (2023) #25 and was utterly crushed to learn it is the end of the series for the foreseeable future, as the book simply wasn't selling enough to break even. As a lover of all things 90s Image (as well as most things from Seeley & Fleecs), Local Man was like a dream come true.

The cover of Local Man (2023) #25, published by Image Comics.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

What's that you say? A brand new X-MEN READING ORDER for Patrons of Crushing Krisis???

An excerpt of the variant cover of Magik (2025) #1 by David Nakayama Variant. Illyana Rasputin kneels beside her glowing sword with her hands flowing behind her.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I dropped Void Rivals for being too boring and decompressed. Then I saw this cover. That sound you hear is the heavy breathing of a fan of 1980s GI Joe fan who never got to own a Pythona toy because HASBRO WOULDN'T MAKE ONE SO I COULD HAVE A PROPER FIGHT BETWEEN HER AND JINX. a-hem I'm excited.

Cover of Void Rivals (2023), showing Pythona leading a pack of Cobra-La Royal Guard. The entire image is awash in pinks and purples.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Caught up on pulls. Storm is Marvel's best comic right now. I don't know if it can possibly keep this up, but it's pretty damn thrilling while it lasts. DC has a handful of in-continuity books playing with form and tone in this way right now. They're all great. Marvel needs to do more of it.

The cover of Storm (2024) #4. Doctor Doom looms above Storm, reaching for her (or to contain her). Where their hands nearly meet, there is a sphere of light sending out peals of lightning in every direction.

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Crushing Comics (aka @krisis) @crushingcomics.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

deeply emotional about how fucking amazing FML is

the cover of FML (2024) #3. A death metal band with a trombonist rocks in a found space as the crowd thrashes; their bassist is a giant fuzzy monster.

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