#271 - Our Review & Best Of 2023

X-Band: The Phantom Podcast

We try and review 2023 in two hours. We go over the tale of the tape, highlighting every comic and merchandise released around the world in 2023 and then go over our favs. We have regular contributors joining us in Ankit, Christian , Seuj, Mikael, Duncan and Christopher and giving their input as well.

We also go over the Frew best cover, best issue and best story as voted by you, the phans. Towards the end of the podcast we draw the winners for the 5 prizes.

First up, we go over the comics and stories published from around the world, the collectables and the newspaper stories that were published or released in 2023. Then we go over our "best of's". The topics we cover are:

• Best non-Frew/Fantomen/Indian cover
• Best Frew cover
• Best Frew cover chosen by the phans
• Best Fantomen cover
• Best Indian cover
• Best German cover
• Best writer
• Best story artist
• Best story published by Frew
• Best Frew story chosen by the phans
• Best Fantomen best story
• Best Fantomen issue
• Best Regal/Shatki story
• Best Regal/Shatki issue
• Best German story
• Best German issue
• Best Frew issue
• Best Frew issue chosen by the phans
• Best merchandise new in 2023
• Best Chronicle Chamber moment
• Overall reflection on 2023
• What will be the big news of 2024?

We choose from the total comics from around the world:

• 10 countries
• 105 comics (most since the early 1990’s).
• 35 brand new stories (not reprints or seen before in any language).

If you feel we have missed something in our reviews of 2023 and or do not agree with our votes, please let us know. We would love to know your opinions on the best of 2023. You can email us at [e-mail] or chat with us via our social media profiles with your feedback at Facebook, Twitter and or Instagram.

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