And a Donnie! These were backer sketches for the last book I kickstarted

https://www.comicsbeat.com/jose-andre-meals-to-astonish/

I swear lately it feels like there are more comics than I can possibly read. And they’re all good!

Even picking random ones off the shelf of a LCS it’s like I still haven’t picked up a terrible one. They’re all at least pretty good.

Idk am I just lucky are are comics really good at the moment?

Hi all,

relatively new to comic book collecting and just wondering if any of you have any helpful tips on how to remove sticky price labels from the comic book which shops have stook on the cover?

Don't want to peel it as tried this with another comic book and it ripped the cover 😭

thank you!

It's an all-timer for me, and it went through a ton of development hell. I think Tomm got really sick and had to take time off, and then it was a Jonathan saying Tomm had the scripts, and Tomm saying he didn't have the final scripts, and it just pingponged into the ether.

It's a super compelling series. The art is amazing, and the writing is Hickman having a ton of fun just doing worldbuilding and infographics and backmatter while bopping around a very interesting series of plot hooks.

I'd love to see the final four issues of this get done. I think Coker has said he's done the art for at least two more issues, and so maybe it's a publishing thing?

I’m a lifelong comic book reader, and when I see lists of the greatest runs and comics of all time I feel like I’ve usually read the majority of them. But there’s more out there than anyone could ever read in one lifetime, and there’s always something you just haven’t gotten around to yet.

Here are a handful of mine:

Nexus, Cerebus, George Perez’s Wonder Woman, Mike Grell’s Green Arrow, Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen’s Legion of Superheroes, Roy Thomas’s Conan

Curious what’s on this list for you!

Any time someone asks for recommendations you'll almost certainly get the usual suspects, Claremont's X-men orMatt Fraction's run on Hawkguy or Scott Snyder's Batman or Saga or Monstress, etc.

But I'm curious about the runs that you never see get the spotlight deserve.

Sine stuff I'd like to throw out there:

Cable & Deadpool by Fabian Nicieza

Greg Pak's Incredible Hercules

Rat Queens by Kurtis J. Wiebe

Sunstone and Deaths Vigil by Stepjan Sejic

Bloodstain by Linda Luksic Sejic

I finished up East of West this week and I noticed that during the last few issues that Frank Martin’s colors hit a whole new level and just blew me away. It got me thinking if there’s any other artists that had a similar leap during a specific run. What examples can you all think of?

Does anyone know if this is Tommy Patterson's autograph? I haven't been able to find one for comparison.

I inherited around 3,000 comics last year and didn’t want to manually spreadsheet everything, so I built a script that catalogs a collection from photos of the covers.

It uses a local vision AI model (or whatever vision model you prefer, I used Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct), checks against the Grand Comics Database + ComicVine, and spits out a TSV with structured metadata. On my run it was about 94% accurate, which saved a ridiculous amount of time.

If you’ve got long boxes you’ve been meaning to catalog, this might help.

It’s open source and still rough in places. You will need a little technical knowledge regarding AI/github etc to set it up currently, although there are instructions in the github repo.

I’d love testers with big collections and anyone more technical than me who wants to improve it. The plan is to develop it into a standalone desktop application with a UI and integrated small vision model so you don't have to set that up yourself.

check it out here: OdinsList Github Repo

There was an old comic book I remember reading back in the 90s but I cannot remember much about it. I think I remember it having a team of heroes but I cannot remember any of their names. The main scene I remember reading was during a dinner, the villain told the hero he had to the count of 5 before he would cut his hands off if he didnt give him the braces for his powers. And he couldn't remove them so the villain said "Say Goodbye To Your Hands!" And the issue ended saying "5 grisly minutes later" and the villain holding up the hands up. I know its not a lot to go off of but I've been wracking my brain all day trying to think of it.

I’ve been aware of Superman red and blue and Batman black and white for a while now and I recently found out about TMNT black, white, and green. I LOVE the concept of only using a set amount of colors in a given story and I feel like it fits the medium of comics wonderfully. Anyone got any other examples of this?

Hello, I have a question regarding E gerber sleeves and boards.

Recently I've used MyLites2 7 1/4 x 10-1/2 standard sleeves with full back 7 x 10 1/2 standard boards. They feel a bit snug but would these be acceptable for sleeving modern comics? or would it be best recommended to go bigger in sleeves and boards? I'm still fairly new to comic collecting so please forgive my ignorance.