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Buyouts, bankruptcies, and best-ofs close out 2025.

Were you thinking that 2025 was done with its offering of big comics-related news stories? Oh my sweet summer child.

If you press your ear firmly to the ground, you may yet hear the thundering hooves of 2025’s best of the year lists drawing close.

Enjoy this week’s roundup of comics news, as it’s the last one you get this month! (Don’t worry, Clark will return in December.)

Moving towards the end of the year and walking in the cold November rain, just as Guns n’ Roses prophesied.

A special spooky edition of Clark’s column awaits you. Boo!

Life imitates art imitates nature imitates the algorithm running the simulation we possibly inhabit.

Lots of big news from France coming at you this week. Hon hon hon.

New York Comic Con weekend arrives, as it inevitably does, which, in the esoteric calendar of this week’s links, below, means we’ve hit the part of the year marked “if it isn’t done by now then it ain’t getting done, chalk it up as a loss and try again in 2026.”

As the nights draw in, gentle rappings can be heard at one’s chamber door. But it’s only this week’s links!

Let’s bask in the pumpkin spice ignorance of what the future holds, solemnly observe another national comic book day (???), and enjoy some more of this week’s links.

Wishing a fond fare-thee-well to short-sleeved flannel shirt weather, and warmly opening the door to long-sleeved flannel shirt weather, as the cosmic ballet goes on and on and on, here at this week’s links.

Run, don’t walk, to your nearest internet cafe, in order to get the latest edition of this week’s links.

Time to welcome in new school supplies, the changing colours of the leaves, plastic Hallowe’en tat, pumpkin spiced everything, and, of course, this week’s links.

A Deftones-themed end to this week’s links’ summer, as a new LP arrives, right as preparations are made to go Back to School.

A classic return-from-vacation edition of this week’s links as covid riddles the household.

An international edition of this week’s links, hailing from Europe, as Belgium is explored, bringing with it murals of Tintin and the Smurfs and copies of Spirou.

Another relatively quiet week, news-wise, as things slowly get back to normal following this year’s comics gathering in San Diego.

It’s that point in the dog days of summer where the vast majority of news outlets have a quick gander over at the winners of the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, and this week’s links is no exception

The links will continue until morale improves.