Best comic books and graphic novels of 2024 and 2025

A goat sniffs a woman holding a baby, then turns around and walks out of the room.

I’m doing two years here since I didn’t do a “best of” last year (Actually, I’ve never done one, but I did write about my two favorite comics of 2023). 2024 My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Feriss It’s about an unsolved murder. It’s about family, chosen and otherwise. It’s about the holocaust. It’s … Read more

Mini-Reviews: Horror/Thriller Webtoons edition

Uriah, Bastard, Counting Sheep You’ve probably heard by now that webtoons are the future of comics. They’re designed to be read easily on mobile phones. Have massive global audiences. The demographics skew young and female. But where should an aging indie comic book fan start with this new-fangled format? The webtoon medium is dominated by … Read more

Mini-reviews: Damn Them All, W0Rldtr33, Lovesick

I spend so much time excavating comics history that I often neglect to follow what’s happening in the present. So this is the first in what will be a series of collections of “mini-reviews” on more current comics. This time around I’m looking at some fairly mainstream “direct market” comics, but I’ll also dive into … Read more

Outlaw Comics Shopping List

So you want to read some Outlaw Comics and don’t know where to start. Don’t worry, your friendly neighborhood Sewer Mutant has you covered. For better or worse, building an Outlaw Comics collection generally means haunting your local quarter bins or shelling out for back issues on sites like Lone Star Comics or eBay. But … Read more