Crushing Krisis

it’s weird to be seen

March 24, 2026 by krisis 2 Comments

After taking a few months of enforced downtime from appearing on camera, it was wild to launch the Tigereyes poll on Near Mint Condition and hear that people missed me.

Missed. Me. My face as expertly framed and curated by the hair & makeup team who wake up at 5:45am New Zealand time to get me ready for these streams.

Even in the world of just comic book influencers I am a micro, micro, micro influencer with a tiny amount of name and face recognition. But, it’s still recognition. Perception. Being seen.

And, I have to tell you, that is deeply, deeply strange in ways you don’t think about when you are praying for it as a teenager.

In the first year after I launched CK I was still a teenager and I used money from my first full-time job to buy my own webcam. You have to consider, this was in the beforetimes, when cell phones didn’t even have cameras. The ability to broadcast the inside of my apartment to the internet in real time was groundbreaking technology.

There was no hair and makeup team. At points there was no wardrobe… I made many unplanned appearances in the nude on the internet. And some planned ones. I was totally unfiltered.

Alas, there was no OnlyFans at the time to monetize my hot twink bod. But I digress.

(hear me reading this post)

Not Dead (yet!)

March 20, 2026 by krisis 2 Comments

It is Krisis, fresh from several months of real-life crises to give you a brief proof-of-life post!

After my burst of activity in November, life conspired to throw some fabulous all-new, all-different obstacles in my way to keep me from doing much on Crushing Krisis (or anywhere else). Broken body parts! Computer meltdowns! Visitors from abroad! All-new professional hurdles! My entire house being surrounded by scaffolding for a month! Having to move every single short box of comics out of and back into my garage (while still convalescing from those broken body parts)!

And, of course, all of the terrors being unleashed across this modern world on a daily basis.

Now I’m back with some all-new technology (because it was getting very hard to edit my largest guides), an all-different arm (that’s a very long story), and about to launch this year’s Tigereyes poll!

Please excuse the mess as I catch up on updating a backlog of posts and guides that were meant to publish over the course of the past month to get us back to normalcy (such as it is).

Marvel Anthology, Creator-Centric, & Magazine Omnibus Mapping | 14th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

March 15, 2026 by krisis 1 Comment

Once every year, thousands of Marvel collectors from around the world gather together online to watch Near Mint Condition and vote on their most-wanted omnibus titles. That time approaches – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 14th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every remaining Marvel omnibus map of material that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus – from Silver Age Romance to Magazines to Handbooks to creator-focused anthologies.

As one of the organizers of the poll, I work closely with Tigereyes and a team of Mapping Minties to be sure Marvel’s entire publishing history has been mapped, with every issue fitting somewhere into an omnibus volume to fill your oversize Marvel shelf. Then, we’ll kick off the poll on Near Mint Condition on March 22, 2026.

Read this post and others in the series for a list of titles and omnibus mappings created by a group of the biggest collected edition enthusiasts on the internet. Every map is informed by Crushing Krisis comic guides and over a decade of polling data as explained by yours truly – keeper of the most-definitive guides to Marvel’s collected editions on the planet.

Even if you don’t own a single omnibus, you can use this post to learn about Marvel’s history of material and find great comics to read physically or digitally!

Marvel Licensed Properties Omnibus Mapping | 14th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

March 14, 2026 by krisis 2 Comments

Once every year, thousands of Marvel collectors from around the world gather together online to watch Near Mint Condition and vote on their most-wanted omnibus titles. That time approaches – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 14th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every Marvel Alternate Reality omnibus map of material that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus.

With Marvel printing omnibus volumes like Godzilla, ROM, and Micronauts in the past year, it seems clear that all bets are off in terms of what past licenses they’re willing to pursue for reprint in omnibus form. Note that Indiana Jones & FOX Properties and Star Wars have their own posts.

This post addresses comics that Marvel originally published but does not own the full intellectual property rights to at this time. Could Marvel republish them? Anything is possible with enough demand from fans.

Even if you don’t own a single omnibus, you can use this post to learn about Marvel’s history of material and find great comics to read physically or digitally!

What If & Marvel Multiverse Omnibus Mapping | 14th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

March 13, 2026 by krisis 6 Comments

Once every year, thousands of Marvel collectors from around the world gather together online to watch Near Mint Condition and vote on their most-wanted omnibus titles. That time approaches – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 14th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every Marvel Alternate Reality omnibus map of material that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus.

This post covers Marvel 2099, Marvel’s What If, New Universe, Manga series, animated series adaptions, plus many other one-off imprints and alternate realities. Note that some Spider-Man, Wolverine, & X-Men alternate realities have been addressed separately in their posts.

Even if you don’t own a single omnibus, you can use this post to learn about Marvel’s history of material and find great comics to read physically or digitally!