Top Comics to Buy for November 3, 2021

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By Zack Quaintance — The Top Comics to Buy for November 3, 2021 are a robust and varied list, featuring one of our favorite books of 2021 (The Blue Flame #5), alongside a record four (four!) new series launches…

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Top Comics to Buy for June 23, 2021

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The list of Top Comics to Buy for June 23, 2021 is headlined by a pair of VERY strong entries from indie publisher Vault Comics, with Blue Flame #2 and Wasted Space #21.

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The Love of Letters Reading List: Comics With Great Lettering

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On this list you will find a set of comics from some of the best letterers to ever do it. The criteria Is relatively simple — these are all books with great lettering by great letterers, limited to one book per letterer.

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Best Comics of 2021 - Way Too Early Predictions

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Today I’m doing a Best New Comics of 2021 list, which is a spotlight of books that are relatively new and stand to be very (very!) exciting as they get deeper into their runs in 2021.

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Top Comics to Buy for October 28, 2020

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By Zack Quaintance — Hey kids, high-concept sci-fi comics! Of several different varieties!…that’s basically the tagline for this week’s Top Comics to Buy for October 28, 2020, which features the latest chapter of the startlingly accurate dystopian Lazarus, the tournament getting under way in X of Swords, and the new series that everyone is buzzing about — Giga. It’s a great week for complex sci-fi, and a reminder of what comics has to offer (complicated fantastical ideas with quick(er) turnaround time) that other mediums do not.

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Top Comics to Buy for September 16, 2020

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By Zack Quaintance — I try to limit the number of new #1 comics we put on these weekly lists, but this week’s Top Comics to Buy for September 16 is a rare group that has two of them on there. The reason being is twofold. I typically find that #1 comics sell well enough on their own. They get peak publisher promotion. So much so that many of you out there reading this have probably already made up your mind whether you’re going to buy this week’s new #1s. One issue is also difficult for me to recommend, because how do I know whether it’s worth following long term?

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Top Comics to Buy for August 19, 2020

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By Zack Quaintance — August is an exhausted month, perhaps this August more than any other, with everything that’s been going on in the world. Comics, in fact, had a rough week of its own, with one of the biggest corporate entities in the space — DC Comics and owners WarnerMedia — making known that it would soon be undertaking a restructuring that involves reduced staff. Even if it’s ultimately for the best (which very much remains to be seen), people losing their jobs in comics is no fun. That said, we’ve got a set of vibrant books — especially of the indie variety — arriving this week, and below you can find our picks for the Top Comics to Buy for August 19.

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Top Comics to Buy for July 15, 2020

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By Zack Quaintance — I feel like I keep saying this, but this Top Comics to Buy for July 15 feels like one of the first of these columns that has a full compliment of industry-wide monthly books to choose from. The distribution stoppage feels increasingly behind us after both Marvel and DC took the week before July 4 off, and now we have a great selection of comics from the Big 2, from indie publishers, and also from book publishers, with Tom Scioli’s excellent Jack Kirby book standing out as the cream of that crop.

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