The Comeback Kid is the fifth studio album by American musician Marnie Stern, released on November 3, 2023, through Joyful Noise Recordings.

The always unstable elements that make up Stern's sound are still potent and volatile, but gone is any dread or confusion that may have pushed her music forward in the past, replaced by a sense of triumph and euphoric self-acceptance.

"[3]Uncut remarked that the album "whizzes by in a 28-minute blur of finger-tapped melodies, lopsided time signatures and arrangements that, on tracks like 'Earth Eater' and 'Believing Is Seeing', whip from jazz to glitter to metal with neck-snapping precision".

Gray of Paste called it "as urgent and electrifying as anything she's managed in the 16 years since her disarming debut" as well as "a heady mix of restless riffs and nervy rhythms that reveal the steady strokes of a seasoned songwriter".

Some will be ecstatic that a master of her craft is back without missing a single beat [while] other listeners will wonder how a decade of playing in a very different musical context could have possibly resulted in a collection of songs that would hardly sound amiss on any previous Marnie Stern record".