Best Single Issues of 2021: Wonder Woman Historia, a surprising annual, and more

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What were the Best Single Issues of 2021? We look at some of our favorites, from a very poignant set of Man of Steel stories to an excellently-absurd Marvel Comics annual. Check it out!

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Best New Comics of 2021: Human Target, Radio Apocalypse, and more

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The list of best new comics for 2021 features a host of young books that are all worthy of recognition. This list, I should note, is also an early preview of candidates for the best comics of 2022…enjoy!

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Best Comics of 2021 - Comics Bookcase Staff Picks

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Check out our Best Comics of 2021, as chosen by the good folks who have written for Comics Bookcase over the past 12 months. We have a whopping 52 selections this year!

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Hellboy Reading Order (by publication): Every last issue

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By d. emerson eddy & Zack Quaintance — So, we recently read Hellboy. All of it. Every single issue within the Mignola-verse, as it were, including Hellboy (obviously), the many (many) B.P.R.D comics, and all the auxiliary books that really flesh out the main continuity, including Abe Sapien, Witchfinder, Lobster Johnson, Crimson Lotus, Koschei the Deathless, Rasputin, and The Visitor (and maybe more that I’m forgetting, too). You can follow our escapades with all of this on Twitter, although the best resource is easily this page.

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Comic of the Week: Hellboy and the BPRD - The Beast of Vargu is a new beginning

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By d. emerson eddy — Hellboy and the BPRD: The Beast of Vargu is kind of a new beginning for the title. It does not follow the previous yearly format, and it is not the expected “#26 in a series”, as it essentially becomes the new heart of the Hellboy universe since BPRD itself has now finished. And it does so with the creative team responsible for some of my personal favorite Hellboy stories in the Wild Hunt Arthurian trilogy and The Midnight Circus. It's an interesting and welcome choice to start off this new era with a one-shot tale from Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo, Dave Stewart, and Clem Robins, offering an easily accessible tale for new…

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Comic of the Week: B.P.R.D. Devil You Know #15 is the end of an epic

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By d. emerson eddy — Hellboy celebrated its 25th anniversary just last month. Honouring the plucky little creation of Mike Mignola that began in 1994 featuring a red demon with a funny hand, a pyrokinetic, and a fish guy in a bad disguise searching out frog monsters and a Russian madman. That initial series, Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, planted a figurative seed in the imagination of the world and it would bloom into a multimedia juggernaut. Bearing fruit in the form of Sir Edward Grey: Witchfinder, Lobster Johnson, Abe Sapien, and others, as well as…

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