There’s nothing like being fashionably late, is there? Last year was probably my biggest in a very long time, if not ever. Probably at least 50 different titles sampled, with about 30 or so of them regularly read as series and collected.
So here I present, without any further ridiculous delay, my personal Comics List of 2016.
Top 30 Series
| TITLE | PRIMARY WRITER | PRIMARY ARTIST | |
| 1 | Paper Girls | Brian K. Vaughan | Cliff Chiang |
| 2 | Kill or Be Killed | Ed Brubaker | Sean Phillips |
| 3 | Saga | Brian K. Vaughan | Fiona Staples |
| 4 | Lazarus | Greg Rucka | Michael Lark |
| 5 | Rough Riders | Adam Glass | Patrick Olliffe |
| 6 | Velvet | Ed Brubaker | Steve Epting |
| 7 | Southern Bastards | Jason Aaron | Jason Latour |
| 8 | Superman | Peter J. Tomasi | Patrick Gleason |
| 9 | Birthright | Joshua Williamson | Andrei Bressen |
| 10 | Faster Than Light | Brian Haberlain | Brian Haberlain |
| 11 | Frostbite | Joshua Williamson | Jason Shawn Alexander |
| 12 | The Fix | Nick Spencer | Steve Lieber |
| 13 | Wonder Woman | Greg Rucka | Liam Sharp |
| 14 | The Black Monday Murders | Jonathan Hickman | Tomm Coker |
| 15 | Green Valley | Max Landis | Giuseppe Camuncoli |
| 16 | Jessica Jones | Brian Michael Bendis | Michael Gaydos |
| 17 | Satellite Falling | Steve Horton | Stephen Thompson |
| 18 | Animosity | Marguerite Bennett | Rafael De Latorre |
| 19 | Shaft: Imitation of Life | David F. Walker | Dietrich Smith |
| 20 | Jackpot! | Ray Fawkes | Marco Failla |
| 21 | Black Magic | Greg Rucka | Nicola Scott |
| 22 | Savage | B. Clay Moore | Clayton Henry |
| 23 | The Dark and Bloody | Shawn Aldridge | Stephen Godelewski |
| 24 | Plutona | Jeff Lemire | Emi Lenox |
| 25 | Seven to Eternity | Rick Remender | Jerome Opena |
| 26 | Black-Eyed Kids | Joe Pruett | Szymon Kudranski |
| 27 | The Violent | Ed Brisson | Adam Gorham |
| 28 | American Monster | Brian Azzarello | Juan Doe |
| 29 | Moonshine | Brian Azzarello | Eduardo Risso |
| 30 | Rat Queens | Kurtis J. Wiebe | Tess Fowler |
* NOTE: Paper Girls is the dual winner of both Eisner and Harvey Awards for 2016 Best New Series.
Honorable Mention Series
| TITLE | PRIMARY WRITER | PRIMARY ARTIST |
| The Hunt | Colin Lorimer | Colin Lorimer |
| 4 Kids Walk into a Bank | Matthew Rosenberg | Tyler Boss |
| Shipwreck | Warren Ellis | Phil Hester |
| Briggs Land | Brian Wood | Mack Chater |
| Black Hammer | Jeff Lemire | Dean Ormston |
| The Discipline | Peter Milligan | Leandro Fernandez |
Top 10 Oneshots, Specials, Annuals, Single Issue Reads
| TITLE | PRIMARY WRITER | PRIMARY ARTIST | |
| 1 | Criminal: 10th Anniversary | Ed Brubaker | Sean Phillips |
| 2 | DC Universe: Rebirth #1 | Geoff Johns | Various |
| 3 | Superman: Rebirth #1 | Peter J. Tomasi | Patrick Gleason |
| 4 | Grave Lillies #1 | Cullen Bunn | George Kambadais |
| 5 | The Thirteenth Artifact #1 | Amit Chauhan | Eli Powell |
| 6 | Love and Rockets #1 | Hernandez Bros. | Hernandez Bros. |
| 7 | Justice League: Rebirth #1 | Bryan Hitch | Bryan Hitch |
| 8 | Trinity #1 | Francis Manapul | Francis Manapul |
| 9 | ReincarNATE #1 | Michael Moreci | Keith Burns |
| 10 | Squarriors #1 | Ashley Witter | Ash Maczko |
Honorable Mention Oneshots
| TITLE | PRIMARY WRITER | PRIMARY ARTIST |
| AfterShock: Genesis #1 | Various | Various |
| Hadrian’s Wall #1 | Kyle Higgins | Rod Reis |
| Spawn Kills Everybody #1 | Todd McFarlane | J.J. Kirby |
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