Here's the list:
>1. Tongues by Anders Nilsen
>2. Land Of The Lustrous by Haruko Ichikawa
>3. Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson
>4. 3rd Voice by Evan Dahm
>5. Legend Of Kamui by Shirato Sanpei
>6. The Once And Future Riot by Joe Sacco
>7. Drome by Jesse Lonergan
>8. A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori
>9. Daemons Of The Shadow Realm by Hiromu Arakawa
>10. Garden Of Spheres by Linea Sterte
>11. Short Game by Mitsuru Adachi
>12. Insomniacs After School by Makoto Ojiro
>13. Tower Dungeon by Tsutomu Nihei
>14. Human Capital by Moro Rogers
>15. Raised By Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn
>16. Veil by Kotteri!
>17. The Corus Wave by Karenza Sparks
>18. Bones And Berserkers by Nathan Hale
>19. The Princess Beast by Sarah Burgess
>20. Kowloon Generic Romance by Jun Mayuzuki
>21. The Solitary Gourmet by Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi
>22. Zeroed Out by Jim Munroe and Eric Kim
>23. Second Shift by Kit Anderson
>24. Dogsred by Satorou Noda
>25. Akane Banashi by Yuki Suenaga and Takamasa Moue
>26. The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store by Tsuchika Nishimura
>27. Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums (vol 41) by Stan Sakai
>28. They Were 11! by Moto Hagio
>29. Stop!! Hibari-kun! by Hisachi Euguchi
>30. Slices Of Life by Qu
>31. Meat Eaters by Meredith McLaren
>32. Who Killed Nessie? by Paul Cornell and Rachael Margot Smith

>>152373081
>Who Killed Nessie? by Paul Cornell and Rachael Margot Smith
Saw this at a library and it caught my eye
Guess I'm reading it

Secondary thread question: What are your picks for best comics of 2025?

>>152373105
Drome

>>152373081
Where's Batman: Dark Patterns? That one was good.

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>>152373050
Fuck yes. Love this dude's blog.
>>152373105
I liked Heartbreak Hotel.

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>>152373081
Putting manga in there is cheating.

>>152373464
His number one pick is an American comic book.

>>152373549
Dude's just throwing a bone. If he was honest with himself, his whole list would be manga.

>decades old manga counted as 2025 because it got translated
Same shit as every GoodOkBad article.

>>152373105
Dimwood by Richard Corben was outstanding (He’s been dead awhile, but it was published posthumously in June, 2025).
Nothing else stands out, but I mostly read old comics.

>>152373688
Nigga like half his list is Western

>>152373105
Playing by his rules, the top 10 best comics I read in 2025 were
>Tokyo These Days by Taiyo Matsumoto
>Land of the Lustrous by Haruko Ichikawa
>Mage: The Hero Discovered by Matt Wagner
>Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen
>Dungeon Meshi by Ryoko Kui
>Elektra: Assassin by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz
>Marshal Law: Deluxe Edition by Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill
>Zoc by Jade Khoo
>The Great Beyond by Lea Murawiec
>Cutting Season by Bhanu Pratap
I did not enjoy Tongues by Anders Nilsen, Drome by Jesse Lonergan, or any of the superhero stuff I picked up this year except for Dark Patterns a little. I'm still reading Absolute Martian Manhunter, but I haven't caught up and I'm not liking it beyond the art.

>>152373050
Fuck no.

>>152373887
More bones. He's a lot more enthusiastic about manga and tends to add shit he doesn't actually like.

>>152373050
>>152373105
There are almost no comic readers here, guy. This is a fool's errand.

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>>152373050
>renowned comic book review website

Nice thread. If you keep it alive, I'll compile a list.
>>152373453
That looks pretty gay.
What's it about, vaguely?

>>152373050
I have read 17/32 of the titles on the list (53%). Some of those are only partial reads (for instance I'm still waiting to get my hands on the second half of Ginseng Roots) but enough to judge in each instance.

>>152373105
Here's my own top 10 comics I read in 2025. For the record, I didn't find it a particularly good year. Non-2025 releases are marked with a * (to the best of my recollection):
> Tokyo These Days by Taiyo Matsumoto*
> Tongues by Anders Nilsen
> Sunday by Olivier Schrauwen*
> Buff Soul by Moa Romanova
> Blurry by Dash Shaw*
> Tower Dungeon by Tsutomu Nihei
> Spent by Alison Bechdel
> The Solitary Gourmet by Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi
> NOW #13 by Fantagraphics*
> Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol*

Incidentally, thanks for posting this OP. It is extremely based to see others aware of Seth T. Hahne. He and Zainab Akhtar are the only critics I've encountered who read the amount and breadth as I do and appreciate the same things.

Also, I'm confident that >>152373688 is a fool and that Tongues is absolutely Seth's favourite 2025 comic and not just "throwing a bone". I also find differentiating comics and manga in this particular context useless and I've seen many others on this board who agree. You know which ones are comics and which are manga, if you really want to you can separate them yourself.

>>152373105
I would have if you didn't start the thread with such a faggy OP.

>>152373688
He's a pussy who only reads things legally so he only reads manga he can get from the library. Looking at his dreadful top 500 list he prefers western comics of a certain style generally.

>>152373453
Hi Seth

Seth "Bendis Lover" Hahne is a pretty useful idiot. Found a lot of good comics from his blog.
>>152373081
If these I've read.
>>2. Land Of The Lustrous by Haruko Ichikawa
>>6. The Once And Future Riot by Joe Sacco
>>7. Drome by Jesse Lonergan
>>8. A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori
>>10. Garden Of Spheres by Linea Sterte
>>18. Bones And Berserkers by Nathan Hale
>>26. The Concierge at Hokkyoku Department Store by Tsuchika Nishimura
>>28. They Were 11! by Moto Hagio
I'll get to around to Tongues and Ginger Roots eventually but I haven't really liked what I've read from thos artists. Linea Sterte is probably top 10 currently working artists in comics. Daemons is much more bland then Arakawa's previous work and I already found FMA very middling but Seth only likes select action series. Haven't read anything by Dahm in awhile so that intrigues me a lot.

>>152373050
I don't know who this is or why you think his opinion matters

>>152377888
If you're interested in comics, you should know.

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>>152373050
>that immigration comic

>>152378403
Which one?

>>152378332
I'm interested in COMICS not internet faggots

>>152378543
I don't see you talking comics, only internet faggots.

>>152379004
Bit ironic for you to say this.

>>152379034
No, it's not. I already talked comics in this thread. Anon is complaining about the thread that was made for us to talk comics because it's attached to some literal who, but not actually talking comics.

>>152378514
Open Borders

>>152379096
>because it's attached to some literal who
And then you got booty blasted because he didn't know the literal who. Be better, stop with these internet celebrity worshipings.

>>152373081
Tongues also topped the 2025 list of the autist who concatenates everybody else's Best Comics lists. Here's his top ten:

>1. Tongues - Anders Nilsen
>2. Absolute Martian Manhunter - Deniz Camp & Javier Rodriguez
>3. Absolute Batman - Scott Snyder & Nick Dragotta
>4. Absolute Wonder Woman - Kelly Thompson & Hayden Sherman
>5. The Power Fantasy - Kieron Gillen & Caspar Wijngaard
>6. Spent - Alison Bechdel
>7. The Once and Future Riot - Joe Sacco
>8. Assorted Crisis Events - Deniz Camp & Eric Zawadzki
>9. Drome - Jesse Lonergan
>10. Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me - Mimi Pond

>>152379143
Oh yeah.

>>152379425
I'm butthurt about the squandered opportunity, if anything. I don't care about that faggot. Too many fellow comic readers turn up their noses at most comic threads and then tell you about it. So many comic threads with potential for discussion die like this. Meanwhile, we're getting drowned the fuck out by effortless spam. Stop letting the cartoonfags walk all over you.

>>152373081
>>152379484
I found Tongues to be middling. Hahne also fellates Duncan the Wonder Dog constantly, which is similarly middling.

>>152373050
I don't care.

>>152381871
But you do, or else you wouldn't have replied.

>>152382134
Nah, I did it just to mock you.

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>>152373050
>>152373081
>4. 3rd Voice by Evan Dahm
>27. Usagi Yojimbo: Ten Thousand Plums (vol 41) by Stan Sakai
>>152373105
Of the other ones I read in 2025, from any publication year, Sea of Love was the best. Full list:
>Rosalie Lightning 2016 - early infant death - https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/151900867
>Wake/Sillage Tome 23 - Immersion - German https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/151871060 - script and art by Philippe Buchet;
>Sea of Love 2018 by Wilfrid Lupano and Grégory Panaccione wordless https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/151597016
>Over the Garden Wall Part 4 - Distillatoria 2018 https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/151504138
>Over the Garden Wall part 2 https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/151476088
>Brickman 1986 - not for me https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/151477712
>Anne of Green Gables 2017 - nice story - https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/151394871
>Crécy by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Raulo Cáceres 2007 - messy, violent - https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/150289909
>I am their Silence by Jordi Lafebre 2024 - schizo-psychiatrist-investigator - https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/150279801
>Les Contes de la Pieuvre - Fannie the Renewer - Tales of the Octopus - https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/149581993
>Gérard - Five Years with Depardieu 2017 - interesting, I learnt what a jerk he was - https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/148362620
>Cici's Journal 2017 - cute abandoned zoo story - https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/149980729
>Cici's Journal second volume https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/149998502
>Eye Lie Popeye #1 - anime style interesting - https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/147415666
>Thieves & Kings Book 1 - b/w half comic half illustrated novel - gave up after 20 pages - https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/146997259

>>152382563
This is a mess of a post.

>>152373100
>>152373453
>>152373870
>>152382563
>Sea of Love
I'll pick these up. Thanks, guys.

Read.

>>152383337
no thanks

>>152383337
What do I read?

>>152384270
The Swindling Indies
The Marquis
Alex Alice Siegfried

>>152373688
>>152374569
Nah, he likes indie shit. He just doesn't like superheroes. The superheroes he does like are incredibly gay (a lot of Bendis).

>>152373050
>according renowned
lel

>>152385717
I dont get it

>>152373050
>>152373081
None. I never heard of these

>>152386728
You never heard of Usagi Yojimbo? I highly doubt that.

>>152373105
To be honest, I haven't read a single book published in 2025. Of what I did read in 2025, I think I probably most enjoyed the Motherless Oven trilogy.

Where are all the cape comic enthusiasts? The licensed comic readers? The Image fans?

>>152387694
They are busy in their own threads having autistic discussions about Peter Parker's love life and whatever the equivalent topics are for other franchises.

>>152387694
They're shy.