Best Comic Books of 2024

[@edwardbissette6730]

Becoming my favorite comic review channel. Clear, concise, entertaining; without any fake enthusiasm or over the top fluff. Keep up the good work.

[@ComicCulture]

Man I really appreciate the compliment. I didn't get into this to be fake, just trying to be myself and have cool conversations with comic book fans. Thanks for watching and happy reading in 2025!

[@koomer1459]

What a fantastically produced list, very thoughtful and excellent choices with superb reviews for each. Thank you so much.

[@ComicCulture]

Thank you for the kind words!! 🙏

[@sleepyreader666]

Wow, so many great comics this year! Indies have been especially hit this year. I personally would only quibble with 2 of your choices and you have reminded me of a number i need to dig into in trades. Thanks!

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks! Only two though? 😂 I need to try harder next year. Can't wait to see what 2025 brings us! Hope to chat with you soon.

[@drdoomsfanclub]

Unbelievably great list here brother. Fantastic editing my dude❤❤❤❤

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks! I appreciate the support

[@78donjay]

What a great video. Lots of reminders of trades I'll need to pick up. 2024 was pretty awesome. The Power Fantasy, Plastic Man No More and Aliens vs. Avengers have all been great too.

[@ComicCulture]

I appreciate you watching! I need to catch up on plastic man because I hear it's really good.

[@brianvallesteros]

Great list! ❤

[@ComicCulture]

@@brianvallesteros thank you!

[@cmathunder5844]

Awesome video!!! Thanks so much for your work these last couple years, love it!!!! 💥💥💥💥💥💥

[@ComicCulture]

Thank you! I appreciate all the support

[@andrecrispim3209]

I can’t wait for image to have that deluxe treatment on some of this stories!

[@ComicCulture]

A Precious Metal deluxe hardcover has to be in the works!

[@DennyLeLe]

Great list! Goes to show Indies and elseworld tell the best stories.

[@ComicCulture]

💯💯💯

[@heckatron2586]

I'm so glad to see someone else loving Tynion and Simmonds' Dracula. It was the most beautiful book of the year, and a retelling I wouldn't have picked up if not for the duo behind it, but I'm thrilled I did.

[@ComicCulture]

Did you check out Frankenstein? It's amazing too! Thanks for watching..

[@Gorrgrim]

Great video. I only started reading comics halfway through the year, so i only knew about half the books. Really gotta check some of those out. For me when i look back I'd say Ain't No Grave might be among the top of my list. Great art and really deep story. Also really liked anything from ghost machine, Feral, FILOTPTH, Tin Can Society, and Transformers

[@jwstorytelling]

Great Picks! If I had to pick a favorite for the year it'd be Ultimate Spiderman

[@BrianLCS]

Great list. I really enjoyed Avengers Twilight, Frankenstein, and of course Ultimate Spider-Man. Although still in progress Aliens vs. Avengers has the same feel as Twilight.

[@ComicCulture]

Yeah I included aliens versus Avengers because it's been a cool first two issues. Some of those mentions at the end are great starts but we'll see how they can close it out in 2025!

[@iamshields.632]

Definitely some stuff I haven't had a chance to read yet on this list. 100% will check them out. Can't wait to get the video for my list recorded and up in the next week or two! Thanks for another awesome vid!

[@simpleton_dc2149]

A lot of those books are on my list of collected editions to make.

[@ComicCulture]

That's because you have good taste

[@simpleton_dc2149]

@@ComicCulture That or I'm just copying you...

[@ComicCulture]

@simpleton_dc2149 hey man, have at it! Lol

[@daly617]

What an awesome video. excited to read most of the books on this this. what a good year for comics.

[@ComicCulture]

Thank you! I appreciate you watching and it was indeed a great year for comics.

[@ShogunZIlla]

Excellent list!!!

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks!

[@theoriginalpsychocharlie]

Excellent work! Great choices!! My additions to your list, would be: Feral Dark Spaces Dungeon Flash Gordon The Displaced Worldtree Sam and Twitch Phantom Road GI Joe ARAH Honorable Mentions: Dick Tracy, Johnny Quest, Green Lantern, Green Lantern War Journal, Daredevil Keep up the great work!!! See ya in 2025!!

[@ComicCulture]

Nice, everything I'm not reading! 😂 Happy reading in 2025!

[@tykay8030]

Sacraficers has been my favorite book of 2024. Rook has also been great imo. The art is top notch and the story is good but the most intriguing part is the potential Johns has to build this universe. Great list.

[@ComicCulture]

Yeah Rook has been really good. It made my honorable mentions because this video could have been an hour long lol. I have a top 50 post on IG coming on Monday!

[@Ace_of_The_Reckoning]

Great video!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🔥thanks for your insight!

[@ComicCulture]

Absolutely, my pleasure. Thank you for your support

[@maxgees99]

Great production. Appreciate your efforts.

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks for watching!

[@phable_one_collection_down]

Great picks and great stuff! You continue to improve and evolve with every video 💯 Proud of you brother 🫡 Keep killin em! 🖐🏼

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks bro!

[@joseruiz5206]

Agreed with all 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@ComicCulture]

Well it looks like my job is done here!! Lol Thanks for watching and for all the support

[@thebilldozer7970]

Im getting Conan, Wonder Woman was my favorite comic run this year.

[@culturefan]

Great list and video you made Nick recapping the best of 2024. There were so many good books this year. My fave might have been Traveling to Mars, tho Avengers: Twilight was very good too, among so many others. I read a few graphic novels too that were above the norm: Barry Windsor Smith's Monsters, Blankets by Craig Thompson, and Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy.

[@ComicCulture]

Great mentions! I actually just got blankets in the mail yesterday! How crazy is that. Thanks for watching and for the support

[@TheCasualCurator]

Great video and awesome-awesome list. Sharing a couple of my personal FAVS from 2024: The Forged, AVA, SIKTC (had its ups and downs), The Moon is Follwoing us, The Last Mermaid, The One Hand / Six Fingers, W0rldtr33, Pine and Merrimac, Dawnrunner, The Madness (2023-24), The Bone Orchard Mythos: Tenement, and Swan Songs, just to name a few 😜

[@ComicCulture]

@@TheCasualCurator thanks for watching and great list!! I need to reread one hand stuff fingers again all at once now knowing what I know

[@Elricsedric]

Very interesting picks I haven't heard about before. Very cool

[@ComicCulture]

Glad to be able to put some new things on your radar!

[@Elricsedric]

@ComicCulture and please keep doing it sir!

[@twinzcomics5105]

Great list🔥

[@ComicCulture]

@@twinzcomics5105 thank you!

[@grios5530]

Good list

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks for watching!

[@9PanelGrid]

Fantastic list and breakdowns! 2024 had some bangers

[@ComicCulture]

Hell yeah it did!

[@HellBoy-id6ss]

Local Man and Constantine: Dead in America were great surprises for me..

[@ComicCulture]

Constantine made my top 50!

[@svaughn82]

Great video man. Very well made. I need lessons from u. Lol

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks man! I'm still learning myself.

[@johnjennings5675]

this was great! just subscribed !!

[@ComicCulture]

Thank you! Happy reading

[@robertweikel5796]

Dude, do watch me read comics through my window? These were all my favorites this year. Eccept Kaya... just enough to throw me off your peepin ways. Pretty sneaky, sis

[@ComicCulture]

@@robertweikel5796 shhhhhh. 😂

[@jarrettreynolds4560]

I’ve heard nothing but the absolute best about the Conan comics. Jim Zub wrote Samurai Jack and now Conan and it’s just great storyline and characters. I love Conan now.

[@ComicCulture]

Hell yeah!

[@modokmike3601]

Geiger, Transformers, Venom War, Red Coat, Ultimate Spider-Man, & X-Men in that order for best of 2024.

[@Taqi616b]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@nicholasrapp6385]

Def surprised to see both DWJ’s books in the ignoble hon. mentions list, alongside Ram V’s stunning run on Tec. Although I appreciate that we may have separate taste, I come back for your thoughtful commentary. Btw, have you been reading The Power Fantasy?

[@ComicCulture]

@@nicholasrapp6385 transformers has been great but I feel like if you weren't raised on it or are familiar with the characters and the backstories, you're missing a little bit of the magic of that series. With that said the art is incredible and it's a thoughtful story. Moon is following us only has a couple issues out, which have been great which is why it made the honorable mention but not book of the year just based on quantity. I read the first two issues of power fantasy and couldn't get into it. Ram has a couple books on my top 50 so he's doing just fine lol

[@russellsmith1605]

Very nice video! Subscribed.

[@ComicCulture]

@@russellsmith1605 Welcome!

[@DaVeO52]

I can't wait for the Universal Monsters series to be collected. I'm still loving Conan and Transformers and enjoyed the recently wrapped Joshua Williamson Green Arrow. Aliens / Avengers is much better then I thought it would be with surprisingly a good grasp of Alien lore. The Absolute line is off to a very promising start. Babs by Garth Ennis is the perfect sword & sorcery satire. A much more toned down story then his usual fare, I will finally finish a Ennis book for the first time ever. 😅 Loved the Duke and Cobra Commander minis.

[@ComicCulture]

Oh thanks to the reminder to check out Babs! Thanks for watching

[@koomer1459]

Nick, would you consider doing some retro shows in 2025 looking back on classic comics runs and how they affected modern characters/stories?

[@ComicCulture]

Potentially? The weekly comic game take a lot of time. I do the key comic flip throughs already, o have a playlist for that

[@kevinkelley3906]

You forgot The Cabinet by David Ebeltoft

[@ComicCulture]

Never heard of it. I'll try to check it out. Thanks!

[@RawB_P]

The Last Mermaid was one of my favorites this year. Sad it didnt make the list

[@ComicCulture]

Yeah it was good. There were shipping issues that caused me to miss a few issues and I fell off. Need to catch back up. Thanks!

[@geoffadavis]

I just picked up the One Hand and the Six Fingers on trade, kind of bummed it didn't make the list.

[@ComicCulture]

Yeah honestly that one slipped my memory. That was brilliantly done. Would have made the top 21 to 50 for sure.

[@k777-]

Wow 🎉

[@ComicCulture]

Thanks!

[@arthurcurry2003]

Ultimate Spider-Man is very overrated. I don’t agree. FRANKENSTEIN is wonderful. I’m in full agreement there. TRANSFORMERS is outstanding! It should have been one of your top titles. SHAZAM 1-9 written by Mark Waid and illustrated by Dan Mora is superb! Too bad Waid took on other projects and his run in Shazam was cut short. I highly recommend those issues. DUKE. Nuff said. Excellent mini. WORLD’S FINEST: again ( Mark Waid and Dan Mora) it has been consistently excellent for over two years now!!

[@FilmNoir79]

Final Cut by Charles Burns?

[@ComicCulture]

Still reading it! I'm about halfway through and loving it so far.

[@jojojo3521]

If those are among the best comics, imagine the worst.

[@ComicCulture]

Lol, what's your favs?

[@rickymcn1]

Have to disagree with the notion of doing away with continuity. It's antithetical to creating investment and lifelong fans. A good writer who's confident in their ability will see it as tool they can draw from and not a hinderance. The reason you see so many showing open disdain for continuity today is because they don't have the same love for the medium as the giants who's shoulders they're standing on.

[@ComicCulture]

@@rickymcn1 I'm just imagining a situation where whenever creative talent is hired, they're able to tell the story they've always wanted to tell, the way they wanted to tell it. Not being bogged down by making sure characters start at a certain place and end in another. Deadlines that force art teams to shift mid-Arc wouldn't be a thing. Having to create three or four issues of filler between events wouldn't be a thing. It would just be in theory distilled great stories that still can play off of each other but aren't bogged down by specific timelines or editorial expectations

[@ComicCulture]

@@rickymcn1 I read some of these books and I can't help but think that there's no way the writer was dying to tell THAT story. Some of these folks have been waiting their whole life for an opportunity to write for the big two or whoever, and they're not able to tell the story they want because of the continuity shackles. But maybe I'm way off. I love the conversation so thank you for bringing it up!!

[@rickymcn1]

@@ComicCulture I sincerely believe it's just a talent issue. If there's a story a writer wants to tell they shouldn't ham-fist it into a book who's decades of continuity would conflict with it or they should tweak it to work. Those 3-4 issues between events would be a great place for single issue stories that we'd get in the old days!. Once again though that's a talent issue. Better yet, write it for an original character at a "smaller" publisher. I put "smaller" in quotations because most of the legit talent and best books haven't been at the big 2 in some time. To be clear though, you aren't way off at all. We've seen the benefits of writing outside of continuity with elseworlds, What If and the Ultimate Universe (Millar's one. I'm not too keen on the new one.) It's just that the cons outweigh the pros for me. Think of it this way, every single great Marvel event has had decades of continuity to deal with but the the talent pool was way deeper. This. isthe great thing about comics though. As long as you're willing to invest a little time we'll always have something to read and entertain us. Oh, great list by the way.

[@FollowSmoke]

"There's never been a comic like Ice Cream Man". Bro's never read a single issue of Creepy or Eerie Magazine? Or literally any of the EC Comics run. Ice Cream Man is a cookie cutter re-creation of all that stuff.

[@ComicCulture]

I hear this guy doesn't even read comics. It's all AI. Comment for the algorithm

[@FollowSmoke]

@ComicCulture Don't be sore. Be better. Good video outside of the silly Ice Cream Man comment.

[@ShogunZIlla]

Having read all of Ice Cream Man this year I think it has deeply personal, emotional & philosophical components that a lot of other horror comics are missing, for better or worse.

[@ComicCulture]

@ShogunZIlla 👍