Some comics worthy of consideration for 2015

[womzilla]

I am hurrying to get my Hugo nominations in (deadline is March 31!) and made up this list of the f/sf comics stories that came out/wrapped up in 2015:

Bitch Planet Book One (issues 1-5), Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro
Bizzaro (issues 1-6), Heath Corson, Gustavo Duarte, et al
Book of Death: Fall of Harbinger, Joshua Dysart, Kano, et

Comments

[stevendj]

Some overlap between your picks and mine: Sandman: Overture, The Wicked + The Divine vol. 2: Fandemonium (which I preferred a bit to the subsequent volume), Widdershins: Green-Eyed Lady, The Sculptor, and Astro City: Lovers Quarrel.

[womzilla]

Though I have several volumes of Widdershins in electronic format (thanks, Kickstarter!), I still haven't read them. I wasn't crazy about "Lover's Quarrel"--I thought this was a good year for Astro City, but not a great one. (Now that I think of it, the issue told in random chronological order was pretty darn good.)

[stevendj]

Widdershins is really, really good. The sixth arc, which fills in a lot of the backstory, just wrapped up, so it's a good time to catch up.

I was disappointed with the end of Lovers Quarrel (no apostrophe), and I certainly wouldn't say it's one of the best arcs ever, but for at least the first three issues I thought it was well above average, a nice character study of aging and how one particular "odd couple" relationship endures. Plus I have a soft spot for Crackerjack, and it was nice to have an arc which spotlighted him a bit.