Welcome to the next installment of our Saturday Morning Panels special editions, our chance to pay tribute to those series that have had lasting impact on our staff as they reach important milestones.

Today, it’s a look back at some of the best moments from Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s “The Wicked + The Divine,” which concluded this week. If you have a series you’d like us to spotlight for a Saturday Morning Panels special edition later this year, make your case in the comments! Check back at the end of October for our special edition tribute to John Allison’s “Giant Days” (which also had its final regular issue drop this week)

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: This was basically me when I saw Neutral Milk Hotel live. – Vince Ostrowski: And my axe! – Matthew Meylikhov: For what it’s worth, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie have a keener sense of the Internet Age and the Millennial than anyone else in comics. – Vince Ostrowski: This happens to me all the time when browsing the internet on my phone.Matthew Meylikhov: Oh gods no. – Matthew Meylikhov: SHE SAID “DON’T,” DAMMIT, WHY DID YOU! – Matthew Meylikhov: The big plot twist reveal is so expertly rendered from McKelvie and Wilson. It’s breathless and anxious and just superbly executed. – Matt Garcia: Yo Prismo, where’s the hot tub? – Matt Garcia: GPOY. – Matthew Meylikhov: Let’s take a moment and pay attention to Matt Wilson’s work here. That portal is the brightest and most vibrant thing in this entire issue and it’s completely amazing. – Matt Garcia: This is essentially how it feels for me at any convention. – Matt Garcia: Remember how WicDic predicted the resurgence of Krakoa in 2015? Actually though, calling anything ‘the something that walks like a man’ gets me every time. – Jake Hill: How do you stop a moving object? With a douche. – Matt Garcia: I want that T-shirt. – Matt Garcia: There are so many fantasy stories that feature this image, but my mind immediately went to “Buffy.” So. – Matt Garcia: Take me to church. – Matt Garcia: This fish is up to no good. Big bad of the series? I’m thinking so.- Matt Garcia: The life of a documentary filmmaker. –Matt Garcia: If you wanted a summary of this series… –Matt Garcia: It’s like choosing the records for the saddest set you can think of. – Matt Garcia: I’m not sure how I felt about the overall message of this issue, and the idea of “cultural appropriation” gives me some mega-mixed reactions, but no doubt these panels are impressive. – Matt Garcia: Still can’t believe they went for this. But I think they pulled it off. – Jake Hill: Goth icons. Legends. – Jake Hill: Cats DGAF. – Jake Hill: Not for the first time or the last time, but this panel took my breath away. – Jake Hill: Everyone has a friend like Hazel, and you should treasure them. The aren’t very bright. – Jake Hill: Having such a critical plot point hinge on an unexplained joke about Warhammer is pretty ballsy. – Jake Hill: Falling for the last time. – Jake Hill: When pop met art. – Jake Hill: I am vengeance! I am the night! I’m! Not! Kanye! – Jake Hill: I’ll have what they’re having. – Jake HillThis whole sequence was a master class in storytelling through art and coloring. – Justin Beeson: Cue My Chemical Romance – Elias Rosner: Never forget how good the design in this series was. – Jake Hill: Don’t take the brilliance of this phone effect for granted . – Jake Hill: A masterclass in comic book layouts. This sequence should be taught in schools – Jake Hill: This effect uses the talents of every creator on the team, and is a perfect distillation of everything they’ve worked for in this series. – Jake Hill: The moment my heart broke beyond repair. After this page, nothing could hurt me. – Jake Hill: Luci has more game as a mutilated head than I do with a relatively able body. – Jake Hill: These looks are so sexy, the should be illegal. Actually! A godsdamn felony. – Jake Hill

“The Wicked + The Divine” #41: “God, how we get our fingers in each other’s clay. That’s friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.” Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury – Elias Rosner

: Minerva made a mess. – Jake Hill: Sacrifice! Sacrifice! – Elias Rosner: I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 1000 times, Jamie McKelvie draws the best phones in the comics biz. – Jake Hill: Couldn’t have said it better myself, narrative captions. – Elias Rosner: I mean, there is still one more issue to go but I guess this story is over and I’m trying very hard not to pick any big spoilers but like every panel kinda is one at this point and thinking about that and this issue is making me sad and GOD DAMMIT KIERON, MCKELVIE, WILSON and COWLES YOU’RE MAKING ME CRY AGAIN. – Elias Rosner

We can’t forget our favorites from the various specials and one-shots

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: To steal the line from Kieron’s newsletter which he, in turn, found on the internet: Nun More Goth. – Elias Rosner: A reminder, at the end, that, in the issue that is all sexy times, Kris Anka drew sexy WicDiv and I cannot show you all the dong but there is all the dong and Kris Anka is a legend. – Elias Rosner: To steal the line from Kieron’s newsletter which he, in turn, found on the internet: Nun More Goth. – Elias Rosner: A magazine special is such a cool idea and every series should do one every year. – Jake Hill: This outfit horrifies me, but I can’t lie, I want those pajamas. – Jake Hill: This is the funniest 3 panels of a comic I have ever read. – Jake Hill: I’m not giving you context. Just go read it and cry.- Ken Godberson III: Who’s the true evil? Who is it? That’s right! You are! You are! Yesss, Ananke is. – Elias Rosner: I bet this is how Fraction got Zdarsky onto “Sex Criminals.” – Elias Rosner

And finally, some of our favorite moments from the finale:

: Never did I expect to hear those two words out of Elanor’s mouth. Clearly the years have been kind to her and her killer sense of fashion. – Elias Rosner: McKelvie’s subtle facial acting is just. . .just so good. . .I’m not crying, you’re crying! – Elias Rosner: Part of me wants to be mad that this is how the crew decided to end things. But I’m not. At all. That’s all, folks. – Gregory Ellner

“The Wicked & The Divine” #45: IS A WHAT LAURA? A PEACH? AN EXISTENTIAL NIGHTMARE? A VOID? A. . .Ohhhhhh. – Elias Rosner

“The Wicked + The Divine” #45: I’m delighted that Kieron decided to end the series on a pun, and I’m even more delighted that he got to hand the honor of delivering the final punch line to Jamie and Matt. Classic. – Jake Hill