Posted By Dan Greenfield on May 31, 2015 | 5 comments

Now that everyone’s whipped into an (in)appropriate frenzy over the Twix ad, I hereby bring you the 13 BEST ADS EVER (with a little help from the great Ann Nocenti and friends).

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UPDATED 1/26/17: The funny thing about writing about comics daily for a few years — often many times a day — is that sometimes you forget what you’ve written. As it happens, I stumbled upon this quite accidentally and decided to share it again just for the fun of it. The “controversy” I’m referencing is a couple years old. But the ads? They’re timeless. Dig it.

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If you’re just joining us, read this. Get into a high state of dudgeon, make your position known on social media, and come back for this unassailable list of brilliant comic-book ads:

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1. The GREATEST EVER:

2. From Ann Nocenti, on Facebook:

3. From Ben Herman, on Facebook:

4. From Miguelangel Ruiz, on Facebook:

5. I think I’m going to be Count Dante for Halloween this year:

6. From my good friend Scott Jolley, on Facebook:

7. From Ann Nocenti, on Facebook:

8. Start your home arsenal with this bad boy:

9. But make sure you also have a strong ground attack:

10. And never go into battle unarmed:

11. From Ann Nocenti, on Facebook:

12. THIS:

13. And no list would be complete without one of these. GREAT CHEOPS!