I've been reading Marvel Comics basically my entire life, starting with the ones my dad would hand me as a young kid in the early '80s. It's been close to 40 years since I fell in love with the House of Ideas, none of which have passed without me devouring as many comics as I could get my hands on – with Marvel perennially at the forefront of my superhero taste. Well, almost none. Then 2025 happened.
I've been just about as "Make Mine Marvel" as it gets. Even my career has largely focused on covering Marvel. But as the year has rolled on, I've found myself less and less engaged with the majority of the publisher's output. You could say I've been disenchanted, disconnected, and just a little tired by Marvel's 2025 comics, to the point that I struggled to find many worthy titles to submit for consideration on our best of the year list.
