Crushing Comics LIVE: January 8 2025 Pull List + What’s Wrong with the X-Men?

Crushing Comics is back on my own YouTube channel for the first time in nearly five years!

After a test-run last week, today I launched the first episode of my new weekly live stream show, The Pull List – where I’ll discuss every new comic out on the American direct market and review as many of them as I have time to read! Can I review each one in 60 seconds or less? There’s an an screen countdown so you can watch me race the clock to give you my thoughts on each issue.

This week on The Pull List, I read 37 comics from my January 8 2025 pull list, but on the show I cover every issue out on the American direct market this week. You can check out my full posts previewing new releases from Marvel, DC, and Image, but on the show I also talk about comics from Dark Horse, IDW, Boom, Mad Cave, and many more!

Plus: A “Moment of Krisis” monologue about what is wrong with X-Men’s From the Ashes era, my Top 10 comics of 2025 so far, a scroll through my new Patrons-Only Guide to Red Hulk, an AMA with the chat, and the first live music from me in years with a performance of my song “Better.”

Issues I cover in this episode:

• 2000 AD
• Absolute Batman (2024) #4
• All-New Venom (2024) #2
• Alligator Loki Infinity Comic (2022) #43
• Altered States: Purgatori
• Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #65
• Aquaman (2025) #1
• Astonishing X-Men Infinity Comic (2024) #6
• Avengers Academy: Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2024) #29
• Batman and Robin (2023) #17
• Batman: Dark Patterns (2024) #2
• The Carlyle School for Kings (2024) #3
• Christmas 365 (2024) #2
• Copra (2012) #46 / Death of Copra #1
• Cruel Kingdom (2025) #1
• Daredevil: Unleash Hell (2025) #1
• Deliver Us from Evil (2024) #3
• Geiger (2024) #10
• Green Hornet / Miss Fury (2025) #1
• Grimm Fairy Tales (2016) #91
• Hell Heist (2024) #2
• Jim Henson Presents (2025) #1
• Juvenile (2024) #2
• Kaya (2024) #24
• Kill All Immortals (2024) #5
• Living Hell (2024) #2
• The Lucky Devils (2025) #1
• Magik (2025) #1
• Marvel Rivals Infinity Comic (2024) #4
• Moon Man (2024) #6
• Namor (2024) #6
• New Champions (2025) #1
• Nexus: Scourge (2024) #2
• NYX (2024) #7
• Parliament of Rooks (2024) #2
• Planetary Expansion (2025) #1
• Red Sonja (2023) #17
• Sentinels (2024) #4
• The Serpent in the Garden: Ed Grey and the Last Battle for England (2024) #2
• Shadowman: Soul Eaters (2024) #4
• Star Wars: Battle of Jakku – Last Stand (2024) #2
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Nation (2024) #3
• Those Not Afraid (2025) #1
• Ultimate Black Panther (2024) #12
• Uncanny X-Men (2024) #8
• Welcome to the Maynard (2024) #2
• Where Monsters Lie: Cull-De-Sac (2024) #3
• Wolverine (2024) #5