In any given year, most of the buzz tends to be with ongoing superhero titles from the Big Two publishers, or at least books like The Walking Dead and Batman which have years of history to fall back on.And it’s for this reason, combined with the fact that last year the Eisner Awards snubbed new titles, that we wanted to take some time out to laud our favorite launches of the year.There are, ironically enough, some mainstream superhero titles on here but we made some rules that kept most Marvel NOW! off the list. That isn’t because All-New X-Men, FF and Deadpool aren’t off to great starts, but it’s because they’ve been around for two months. To recognize all the great work going on in comics this year, we’ve decided that the Marvel NOW! titles will be eligible for discussion next year, while this year we’re sticking to a standard that any given comic has to have at least finished its first story arc to make the list.These are also all ongoing series; we’ll have a separate discussion later for limited series and storylines, but the point here is to say, “What’s a terrific book I can put on my pull list, with a minimum of background needed to get me into it?”And here are our answers; if we forgot yours, let us know in the comments.
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