Comics are a medium that can tell basically any kind of story imaginable. How could you possibly pick which one’s the best? You can’t but that didn’t stop us from trying!
Here are our favorite comics we read in 2019. Do you agree or disagree with our picks?
If you’re into Star Trek and/or horror this book is for you, just like it was perfect for me. The story is sci-fi/supernatural with spaceships that’s warp drives run on the gods of forgotten cultures and worlds. Where engineers are just as needed as necromancers. It’s an amazing nod to Star Trek with a whole issue dedicated to a haunted house in space, and has some amazingly illustrated gore and horror to keep you coming back. The writing it great, the art is above and beyond and I just REALLY can not stress how much i love this book.
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Let’s start by giving IDW Publishing’s licensing team a ton of credit. They’ve had some great crossovers over the years, but I’m still stunned to see the Ghostbusters/Transformers yanked out of the IDW toy box and smashed together for a comic series published in 2019. My inner 10-year-old is jumping for joy as this series introduced the best new comics character of the year in ECTOTRON - the transformed version of the Ghostbusters’ main ride, the Ecto-1. Ectotron is such a cool concept that he even has his own action figure! Maybe we’ll see Ectotron on the big screen in Ghostbusters: Afterlife in 2020 in some weird Michael Bay explosion-filled multiverse crossover! Hey, a boy can dream!
Paper Girls is a series that I recently read and it did not disappoint. I am a big fan of the very 80s “kids on bikes” genre. This series captures that perfectly. If you like the show Stranger Things or the movie, The Goonies, then you will really enjoy this fun mystery.
Quite possibly my favorite story from Marvel comics in some time. Spidey is my favorite character and giving him the chance to tell his story in real time, allowed Chip Zdarsky to give more weight to the adventures he’s had in his long career. It was also great to see how the Marvel universe would grow and change if it was allowed to do so these past few decades.
I always had a soft spot for Golden Age heroes, and with Freedom fighters they are all back with a few changes. Imagine a world where the outcome of WW2 was totally different. That is the world of Earth X and the Freedom Fighters. Gives you something to think about?
