On this week's Comics Syllabus, Paul (@twoplai) shares his favorite comic books series of 2019, recommendations for the holiday season and for all your year-end reading. His top ten series list includes:
"Giant Days" by John Allison and Max Sarin (BOOM!)
"Paper Girls" by Brian K. Vaughn, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson, Jared K. Fletcher (Image)
"Black Panther" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Kev Walker, Daniel Acuña, Jen Bartel and others (Marvel)
"Batman Universe" by Brian Michael Bendis and Nick Derington (DC)
"Fairlady" by Brian Schirmer, Claudia Balboni, and Marissa Louise (Image)
"Criminal" by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Jacob Phillips (Image)
"Isola" by Brenden Fletcher, Karl Kerschl, MSASSYK, and Aditya Bidikar (Image)
"Sea of Stars" by Jason Aaron, Dennis Hallum, Stephen Green, and Rico Renzi (Image)
"Invisible Kingdom" by G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward (Dark Horse; Berger Books)
"Red Sonja" by Mark Russell and Bob Q (Dynamite)
with special honorable mentions to:
"House of X" and "Powers of X" by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, RB Silva, and others (Marvel), "Ironheart" by Eve Ewing and others (Marvel), "Unbeatable Squirrel Girl" by Ryan North, Derek Charm, Erica Henderson and others (Marvel)
"Doom Patrol: Weight of the World" by Gerard Way, Jeremy Lambert, and James Harvey (DC/Young Animal), "Batman: Creature of the Night" by Kurt Busiek and John Paul Leon and others (DC), "Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen" by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber (DC), "Superman Smashes the Klan" by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru (DC), "Far Sector" by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell (DC)
"Sera and the Royal Stars" by Jon Tsuie and Audrey Mok (Vault)
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