Best Graphic Novels of 2020 (So Far)

This marks the halfway point for a very difficult year, but the good news is that there have still been plenty of excellent graphic novels — and here we run through some of our favorites (so far!).

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Best Comics of 2020 (So Far): Marvel Comics

By Zack Quaintance — Now that we’re roughly a quarter of the way into 2020, we thought it’d be fun to start taking a look at the best comics of 2020 so far, starting with far and away the most prolific comics publisher — Marvel Comics.  To that end, below you will find a list of the best comics of 2020 from Marvel so far, with extra attention given to whether a series is easy for new or lapsed readers to hop onto, pick-up, or just generally understand.

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Hellboy Reading Order (by publication): Every last issue

By d. emerson eddy & Zack Quaintance — So, we recently read Hellboy. All of it. Every single issue within the Mignola-verse, as it were, including Hellboy (obviously), the many (many) B.P.R.D comics, and all the auxiliary books that really flesh out the main continuity, including Abe Sapien, Witchfinder, Lobster Johnson, Crimson Lotus, Koschei the Deathless, Rasputin, and The Visitor (and maybe more that I’m forgetting, too). You can follow our escapades with all of this on Twitter, although the best resource is easily this page.

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Top Comics to Buy for December 18, 2019: Black Stars Above, King Thor, Safe SFSX, and more!

By Zack Quaintance — In any given week, I usually try to check out about 30 comics before I write this piece, give or take a few. This week, however, is somewhat of a monster. The reason is that Christmas is on a Tuesday this year, which makes that Wednesday a less than ideal day to put new comics into the world. So, many publishers have an outsized set of releases this week, especially the Big 2, Marvel and DC.

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