Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand
It’s Sunday, and that means it’s time for a Krisis on YouTube! Except… my intrepid, never-nominated, rarely-rewarded hair and makeup team were not available this morning in New Zealand. So, enjoy me running through dozens of new comics that have arrived in my house over the past four months while wearing a Luchador mask and Wigs by Vanity wig.
(No, I am not joking.)
I’ve spent the last few weeks sharing the maps of over 600 potential Marvel Omnibus maps for the Tigereyes 14th Annual Marvel Most-Wanted Omnibus Poll. Now, it’s time to share my picks – not just my personal Top 10 votes, but an entire Top 60 of my most-wanted Marvel omnis I’m ready to buy right now!
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)
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).
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!