Hey, it’s the new year. As I do once every 365 days or so about this time, I thought I’d provide links to some of the highlights from the last year on HU. This is in roughly chronological order, and I tried not to think about it too hard; so if I missed one of your favorites, feel free to link it in comments.

As always, thanks to all of our readers, writers, and commenters for giving your time and energy to HU. Hope you’ll all stick around for 2015!
 

Samantha Meier wrote a series of post on women in underground comics.

Isaac Butler wrote about the inequity of unpaid theater internships, looking particularly at the Flea theater.

Brannon Costello for PencilPanelPage on Christopher Priest’s Black Panther vs. Jack Kirby’s Black Panther.

We had a bunch of posts where people weighed in on the worst movie ever, the most overrated sci-fi and like matters.

Emily Thomas on new trends in video game text adventures.

A roundtable on Bloom County

Kailyn Kent did a series of posts on wine in cinema.

Brian Cremins on Walt Kelly and racism.

Sean Michael Robinson on how not to make a graphic novel.

Patrick Carland explodes into green goo of hate while reading Zen Pencils.

I wrote about romance as criticism and criticism as romance, focusing on the work of Kathleen Gilles Seidel. This may be my favorite thing I wrote all year, fwiw.

Ng Suat Tong on Nijigahara Holograph.

Michael A. Johnson on the ethics of war photography and representation.

Sarah Shoker on fantasy economics and why nerds really like stuff.

Robert Stanley Martin with a massive history of the legal wrangling between Steve Gerber and Marvel over Howard the Duck.

Tom Gill wraps up his series of extensive posts on the work of Yoshiharu Tsuge.

We did a roundtable on the work of Octavia Butler. The post by Alexis Pauline Gumbs is pretty amazing.

I interviewed Kate Pollack about violence in The Boys.

A translation of the classic French superhero comics Atomas, by Alex Buchet, with introduction by Chris Gavaler.

Osvaldo Oyola on Spider-Man’s changing identity (sometimes he’s Doc Ock.)

Vom Marlowe with an intro to Tony/Steve fanfic.

PencilPanelPage did a roundtable on Groensteen and page layout.

Ben Saunders with an anniversary appreciation of Keith Moon.

Roy T. Cook wonders if Spider-Woman was harmed in the making of that Milo Manera cover.

Stacey Donovan, YA author, on becoming a writer.

Kim O’Connor on the response to male vs. female autobio comics.

Kristian Williams on Red Dawn as critique of imperialism.

A massive roundtable on The Best Band No One Has Ever Heard Of. Everything from Rahawa Haile on the music of Eritrea to Dana Schechter on French psychfolk weirdos Natural Snow Building.

Qiana Whitted on how comics represent Ferguson.

Cathy G. Johnson on dynamics of abuse in Michael Dawson’s “Overcompensating.”

Michael Carson on Nightcrawler and war movies.

Adrielle Mitchell on Paul Klee as a comics artist.

An interview with James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook on their graphic memoir The Late Child and Other Animals.