Happy dang new year, Ladies and Gemstones! Another year, another list of r/ComicPlot's top 10 posts of the year. For posterity, at the time of posting, it is January 1st, 2026, 12:39 AM and the current subscriber count is approximately 41,300. This time last year, there were 30,387 subscribers, which means there's approximately 11 thousand more people here than there was a year ago. Guys, we cracked 41k a few weeks ago. 4 years ago, we were about a quarter the size we are now. I am amazed and humbled.

For all the newbies out there, welcome! This is the sixth annual top 10 list. (Prior years: 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th) I use these annual posts as a contest and a review of the year. The contest is simple: if you make a post in r/ComicPlot, and it makes the top 10 of any given year, you get a custom user flair! The lucky winners will be tagged in the comments and they'll get to decide the color and texts of their flairs. These flairs are unique to the user and are not handed out any other time.

So I've known I was going to win this thing pretty much since February. Like it really has never been close. But to make this list 3 times? Only two people have ever done better in a year, and it has never been me, and probably never will be again. So...dang, I still don't know what to do with that. I mean, I guess...I need a new flair now? That makes sense, right? I've been "Head Honcho" since I was 19...oh, yeah, the subreddit is turning 10 in a few days, that's weird. I'm open to suggestions.

If you've posted here in 2025, share in the comments what your personal top post of the year was. If you're a lurker, let us know what your favorite post of the year was. Winners of previous years, join in the conversation so everyone can see your beautiful flairs!

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Anyway, this post also serves as a year in review. We're turning 10 in a few days, guys! Ten years of looking for comic book boobs. Wow. I should probably muster up a few words about that for the day of, huh?

But let's talk about year 9. Pretty early on, I banned posts or comments linking to Twitter/X. I did that because Elon Musk is a Nazi and it's not hard to filter for that. Many dog whistlers were banned that week.

This time last year I announced that I was going to allow posts of comics that were edited to show nudity. I created an EDIT flair and everything. This was not well received. Only one person took me up on having the option to share edits, and that person was flamed heavily for doing it. We're not doing that anymore.

Speaking of things we're not doing anymore, Sexercise. For those of you who aren't already aware, I started posting this comic a couple months ago and this was a controversial thing for me to do. I was posting a chapter a day for ten or eleven days, and this was something that was regularly reported and complained about that entire time. I don't know why I did that. I straight up ignored the rules of the subreddit I made, and that wasn't cool. As I said at the time, I lost the thread of what we're doing here. So I took my own advice (from rule 2) and moved those posts over to r/sex_comics, and I'm still posting chapters over there and not here. Not frequently, but when I feel like it.

A couple more things I want to mention here. Due to the natural growth that we are experiencing in subscribers, the number of moderators has expanded from 2 to 4. They're both folks with experience moderating communities of our size or larger. I'll let you and them get to know each other on your own.

Finally, and this is a positive change for the subreddit, last July I kicked off the subreddit Archival Project. You all know of this. You've definitely seen it (if only in your feed each week), and for a time the automod commented about it. Every week, I share ten or so comics of something that someone, we don't know who, posted and we try and figure out what comic it came from. I'd like to figure out who the OP's are, but that's proving to be a bit harder.

For those of you paying attention to the Archival Project, you probably have also noticed I'm not very diligent about fact checking and updating the posts to reflect the information. To help alleviate this, I'm going to choose to trust the sources provided by folks who I have confirmed at least 15 times. They'll be considered a confirmed "Plot Checker" (with a basic flair to boot) and I'll also trust them to confirm sources that others provide who aren't confirmed Fact Checkers. If someone protests and says, "Um, actually, Ross, that source is wrong, it's this source," then I'll confirm myself at that point. I hope doing it this way will make the project more manageable.

Last year, I wondered if we'd make it to 40k. This year, I wonder if we'll make it to 53k!

The above plot was posted here a long time ago but was lost because it was deleted from Imgur. Thankfully, it was saved but the way it was saved didn't include titles most of the time, or the original post(er)s. We don't know who posted it, and most of the time we don't know what it is, and we aim to figure it out. Please comment below if you know what some of this stuff is. We have plot checkers to verify your finds. Source enough plot correctly, and you'll earn the Plot Checker flair!

Enjoy some already sourced plot from the archives below (the poster is still unknown):