Marvel Winter Break Special (2025) #1

by Tony Fleecs, Nick Bradshaw (Artist), Tim Seeley

FROM SWIMSUITS TO THE SAUNA! You asked for more Swimsuit Special, and you've got it - sort of! Hit the slopes with YOUR favorite Marvel heroes this winter, with the help of a team of superstar artists - and then warm up in the hot tub…hot springs…hot yoga…lots of places that start with "hot"! FRET NOT, True Believers, we've got equal parts action AND relaxation for your money in this one-shot!

Genres: Comics, Marvel

Kindle Edition

Published December 24, 2025

About the author

Tony Fleecs is the writer and artist of In My Lifetime, an autobiographical comic book. First published in 2006, ‘Lifetime was an immediate critical success, featured twice in Wizard Magazine, in the Comic Buyer’s Guide and on the Ain’t-It-Cool-News.

Fleecs has since been a contributor to anthologies including; Postcards: True Stories that Never Happened (nominated for the 2008 Eisner and Harvey awards for best anthology), Boom Studios’ Pulp Tales and C.B. Cebulski’s Wonderlost. He and writer, Josh Fialkov, provided the Li’l FireBreather backup stories for Phil Hester’s 2nd FireBreather series at Image Comics. Last year saw his first work for hire writing work when he scripted the comic book adaptation of the classic John Holmes film, Tell Them Johnny Wadd Is Here, widely regarded as the first comic book based on a porno to not be completely awful.

This year, Tony will co-write and illustrate the graphic novel Jeff Steinberg: Champion of Earth (again with Fialkov) for Oni Press.

His company Fleecs Design (who’s talent roster includes only himself) has a client list that features Disney, 20th Century Fox, Bongo Comics, Marvel/Rittenhouse, The Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinatti Bengals, Pittsburgh Steelers, Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment, The Weinstein Company, Monster Garage, Taco John’s, major hospitals, insurance providers and banks.

His comics have been published by Random House (Villard), Image Comics, Silent Devil Productions, Boom!, IDW and Terminal Press.

Reviews

[Molly™☺ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty much what you'd expect from something like this. It's a nonsensical, half-arsed story intercut with splash pages of varying quality. Nothing special, yet nothing egregious. I picked this up and read it because Emma is on the front, but have since learned that the cover is the best part...

actual rating: 2.5 stars

[Bokvandraren · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ahmm... min första Marvel. Jag tänkte, den här är säkert gjord med lite humor och inget behov av att veta något om någon i Marvel, meeeen där tog jag nog fel, för jag fattar ingenting av det som hände 😆

Förutom att Gambit i Roxxon (en tidning?) bad om ursäkt för alla reaktioner från Summer swim suite 2025 issuen och att Gwenpool ville fotografera alla och göra en artikel (och svarar på en Q&A i slutet av tidningen), så tror jag också det handlar om att superhjältarna tillsammans vill stoppa klimatförändringarna som Roxxon (?) ligger bakom (?).

Men bortsett från det så var bilder, färg och layout en fröjd för ögat och det är ju det som är så härligt med comics!
Min favorit pin-up är på killen i gula byxor och klor. Kan han tillhöra "Wolverine" tro?

[Snow · Rating 2 out of 5]

near incomprehensible nonsense. the art was fun, though. the photo of all of them in battle left out johnny storm which irritated me ngl

[Craig Schorling · Rating 3 out of 5]

Deadpool provided a couple good chuckles but overall the story was nothing special. The full page spreads were a mix of really good and just average.

[Norrin Shearer · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story is ridiculous, but that is 100% the point. I didn’t need it to be anything more than it was narratively. Anyone pretending they picked this issue up for the story is lying through their teeth lol. We’re all here for the pinups, don’t kid yourself. And the pinups certainly delivered, the art was great in this issue! It’s so cool to see this many different artists contribute, this issue definitely felt like a celebration of everything Marvel!

[Brittany Blair · Rating 2 out of 5]

No Doctor Strange…again :(

[maehmae · Rating 3 out of 5]

Holy beans. 🙈

[Sofi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hubiera sido genial que Doctor Strange estuviera incluido en esto.

[sam banach · Rating 2 out of 5]

too horny

[wellreadkait · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun, silly comic that honestly deserves 3 stars but the pin up of Johnny needs a star itself so…

[Ex Libris Animus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Story was unnecessary . Where was Emma Frost? Art was entertaining

[Leslie Carnahan · Rating 3 out of 5]

this wasn't great... but the "pin up pages" were fun. And having them be "taken" by Gwenpool was a fun plot point.