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She/her. Formerly senior entertainment writer and editor at Polygon. Founded The Mary Sue Dot Com way back in 2011. Writer/editor. For contact and more, check out: https://susanapolo.com/

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I hope you're exited to read some comics reviews this fall (Kickstarter in April) because I'm gonna be writing some!

13.02.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hell yeah!!

06.02.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A three-panel meme of Ebeneezer Scrooge in Muppet Christmas Carol shouting from his window at Bean Bunny: "You there, boy! What day is it!" The second panel has been edited to have Bean say: "Why, it's Threshold Day" "Then I haven't missed it!" Scrooge cries happily in the third panel.

A three-panel meme of Ebeneezer Scrooge in Muppet Christmas Carol shouting from his window at Bean Bunny: "You there, boy! What day is it!" The second panel has been edited to have Bean say: "Why, it's Threshold Day" "Then I haven't missed it!" Scrooge cries happily in the third panel.

Happy 30th anniversary www.polygon.com/star-trek/52...

30.01.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dragon Age games lack agency, and that's the whole point All that matters is who you love, and how you do it

My first piece for @mothership.blog! www.mothership.blog/dragon-age-g...

I pitched this back when Veilguard was coming out but we ran out of time and Maddy's been hounding me for it ever since. I'm very excited to have it up and on MADDY's NEW SITE

which you should sub to

28.01.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 152 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

We created a Starter Pack so you can follow all of our contributors at once! If you see a name in here that isn't on the site yet, stay tuned... their stories will be going live in the coming days! go.bsky.app/GUEXLYQ

27.01.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 119 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh in a nutshell I think the ending of the War Plotline completely undercuts all the good work the movie is otherwise doing. It's still imperialism if superheroes do it instead of a government. Maybe all that's set up for an Authority movie or something but if so it's not worth it bc previous

26.01.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We'd never have low-rez comic art in Doom's America

26.01.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Off Panel #536: Damned If You Doom with Susana Polo - SKTCHD Journalist Susana Polo joins the show to talk about her interesting year and a bevy of subjects we didn’t get to highlight from the wider world of comics in 2025. Polo discusses post-Polygon living, t...

Journalist @susanapolo.bsky.social joined Off Panel to discuss post-Polygon living and comic topics we wished we could have written about/seen more discussion of, like: Reversed comic movie energies! The muted comics conversation! Worldcon! Crossover mania! Expanding genres! More!

26.01.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I will think of this comic every time the Bronze Age Collapse comes up for the rest of my life which granted is not usually that frequent but my statement stands regardless

22.01.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would be remiss not to say that I got my pattern at this Etsy shop, which has more than two dozen cross stitch transit maps patterns from around the world: www.etsy.com/shop/PlanetR...

17.01.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The lack of shock on my face when the 8 Billion Genies writer told me he used to be in contract law.

14.01.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Charles Soule Is Dancing with Devils In his two forthcoming trade releases, Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell (Marvel, Feb.) and The Lucky Devils (Image, July), Charles Soule explores morality and ethical conundrums.

New from me on PW! I chatted with @charlessoule.bsky.social about Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell, Lucky Devils, morality, good and evil, and rules lawyering. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

14.01.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

It's not done, next washing it to get the grid lines out and then to backstitching in all the station names etc but that is an infinitely preferable activity to 44,703 stitches of the same color in a solid block

13.01.2026 02:16 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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It took two years (with other projects in between) but I've finished 44,703 stitches of DMC 162 β€” Very Light Blue that make up all the waterways on my 20-inch wide cross stitch map of the NYC subway system.

If I never touch another skein of 162 again it'll be too soon

13.01.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 231 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

ZoΓ« don't make me emotional

09.01.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

VERY excited to be writing a piece on Dragon Age and the emotional value of restricting player agency that's been percolating in the back of my head for a decade plus β€” and for the debut of a VERY COOL BLOG!!!

09.01.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

09.01.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 1679 πŸ” 587 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 31

Deleted old reply cause I mistook which post you were replying to. Legit crit, but as I'm not a big webcomics reader nor the sole contributor to this list β€” can't really answer that question for ya.

That said, I came across Runaway to the Stars this year and now I love it to death.

05.01.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Runners up include

Absolute Batman
Assorted Crisis Events
Batman
Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League
Harley & Ivy: Life and Crimes
Kaya
The New Gods
Ultimate Spider-Man

05.01.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My personal idiosyncratic top ten of the comics I read this year?

The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
Absolute Martian Manhunter
FML
Absolute Wonder Woman
Witch Hat Atelier
Assorted Crisis Events
Aliens Vs. Avengers
Runaway to the Stars
Batman: Dark Patterns
The Power Fantasy

05.01.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The 25 Best Comics of 2025 From superheroes to superb art and writing, GamesRadar+ picks the best comics of the year

Catch me and my blurbs contributing to GamesRadar's best comics of the year list! www.gamesradar.com/comics/the-2...

05.01.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

This is honestly all it takes to get me to write for you: just show up in my inbox. Ya girl has basically never not been on staff and so does not have strong freelance pitching muscles!

05.01.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Absolute Martian Manhunter isn't just the best superhero comic of 2025 – it pushes into the wild spaces of the form itself Year in Review 2025 | The absolute best of DC's astonishing Absolute line

New from me; my buddy @rollinbishop.com offered me a home for some end of year comics takes and so I blabbed about Absolute Martian Manhunter, a comic that's knocked my socks off every issue. www.gamesradar.com/comics/dc-co...

05.01.2026 16:47 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm gonna be honest with you I forgot there was another one until after I hit post

25.12.2025 17:24 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's not that my dad doesn't watch TV, he watches sports and classic film CONSTANTLY. This machine longs for death.

Someday he will finally go on a camping trip at a time when I have money and I am going to home invasion him with a new flatscreen that costs 40% of what this thing did in 2004.

25.12.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Panasonic so old it's got a front facing VGA port. Also front panel ports for SD cards and PC cards.

The back has one (1) HDMI port.

25.12.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No worries about motion smoothing at the Polo homestead, but only because my father hasn't bought a new television since George Bush was president.

25.12.2025 16:54 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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I applaud the true absurdist who asked themselves "Is the Grinch nude?" and answered "NO, but he wears pants that make him APPEAR nude."

[Seasonal replatforming of a classic Susana Tweet]

24.12.2025 17:37 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A few years ago I told a friend that Love, Actually is the modern medieval nativity play and they've never forgiven me for being so correct

20.12.2025 21:58 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Go Big: PW Talks to Adam Rose In the LA-based comics writer and film script consultant’s newest graphic novel, Huge Detective (Titan Comics), Australia gets reimagined as a realm of giants, renamed as the sovereign nation of Brobd...

New from me! I chatted with writer @adamhrose.bsky.social e on he and @magentaking.bsky.social's trippy series Huge Detective for PW: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Imagine True Detective, but one of the buddy cops is the size of a skyscraper and knows the taste of human flesh.

09.12.2025 16:39 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2