CBR’S TOP 100 COMICS OF 2016: #25 – #11

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100. Empress (Mark Millar/Stuart Immonen)
099. Prophet: Earth War (Brandon Graham, Simon Roy/Various)
098. The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks (Igort)
097. Tetris (Box Brown)
096. Black (Kwanza Osajyefo/Various)
095. Paul Up North (Michel Rabagliati)
094. Lucifer (Holly Black/Various)
093. Spell on Wheels (Kate Leth/Megan Levens)
092. Ghosts (Raina Telgemeier)
091. The Fade Out (Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips)
090. Detective Comics (James Tynion IV/Various)
089. Jonesy (Sam Humphries/Caitlin Rose Boyle)
088. Hellboy in Hell (Mike Mignola)
087. Plutona (Jeff Lemire & Emi Lenox)
086. No Mercy (Alex de Campi/Carla Speed McNeil)
085. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (Amy Reeder & Brandon Montclare/Various)
084. East of West (Jonathan Hickman/Nick Dragotta)
083. Copra (Michel Fiffe)
082. Big Kids (Michael DeForge)
081. Karnak (Warren Ellis/Various)
080. Snotgirl (Bryan Lee O'Malley/Leslie Hung)
079. Han Solo (Marjorie Liu/Mark Brooks)
078. Romulus (Bryan Edward Hill/Nelson Blake II)
077. "Secret Wars" #9 (Jonathan Hickman/Esad Ribic)
076. Lumberjanes (Kat Leyh, Shannon Watters/Various)

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075. The Goddamned (Jason Aaron/R.M. Guera)
074. A.D.: After Death (Scott Snyder/Jeff Lemire)
073. Nailbiter (Joshua Williamson/Mike Henderson)
072. Living Level 3: Iraq (Joshua Dysart/Alberto Ponticelli)
071. Legend (Samuel Sattin/Chris Koehler)
070. Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (Kyle Higgins, Steve Orlando/Various)
069. Moon Knight (Jeff Lemire/Various)
068. Tomboy (M. Goodwin)
067. Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq (Sarah Glidden)
066. Giant Days (John Allison/Max Sarin)
065. Chew (John Layman/Rob Guillory)
064. Red Team (Garth Ennis/Craig Cermak)
063. Criminal: 10th Anniversary Special (Ed Brubaker/Sean Philips)
062. Angel City (Janet Harvey/Megan Levens)
061. Daredevil (Charles Soule/Various)
060. Wonder Woman: The True Amazon (Jill Thompson)
059. Equinoxes (Cyril Pedrosa)
058. Nod Away (Joshua Cotter)
057. Midnighter and Apollo (Steve Orlando/Fernando Blanco)
056. Animosity (Marguerite Bennett/Rafael de Latorre)
055. A City Inside (Tillie Walden)
054. Doom Patrol (Gerard Way/Nick Derington)
053. Goldie Vance (Hope Larson/Brittney Williams)
052. Archie (Mark Waid, Lori Matsumoto/Various)
051. Star Wars (Jason Aaron/Various)

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050. Darth Vader (Kieron Gillen/Salvador Larroca)
049. I Hate Fairyland (Skottie Young)
048. Paracuellos (Carlos Gimenez)
047. Star Trek/Star Trek: Boldly Go (Mike Johnson/Tony Shasteen)
046. Doctor Strange (Jason Aaron/Various)
045. Southern Cross (Becky Cloonan/Andy Belanger)
044. Wonder Woman: Earth One (Grant Morrison/Yanick Paquette)
043. Action Comics (Dan Jurgens/Various)
042. Wonder Woman (Greg Rucka/Various)
041. Captain America: Steve Rogers/Captain America: Sam Wilson (Nick Spencer/Various)
040. Black Hammer (Jeff Lemire/Dean Ormston)
039. 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank (Matthew Rosenberg/Tyler Boss)
038. Howard the Duck (Chip Zdarsky/Various)
037. Superman (Peter Tomasi/Various)
036. DC Comics: Bombshells (Marguerite Bennett/Various)
035. Power Man and Iron Fist (David F. Walker/Sanford Greene, Flaviano Armentaro)
034. Ms. Marvel (G. Willow Wilson/Various)
033. The Walking Dead (Robert Kirkman/Charlie Adlard)
032. Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! (Kate Leth/Brittney L. Williams, Natasha Allegri)
031. Black Dog: The Dreams of Paul Nash (Dave McKean)
030. Southern Bastards (Jason Aaron/Jason Latour)
029. Sunstone (Stjepan Sejic)
028. Sheriff of Babylon (Tom King/Mitch Gerads)
027. Future Quest (Jeff Parker/Various)
026. Black Widow (Mark Waid & Chris Samnee/Chris Samnee)

>mockingbird that high
I knew it and the worst thing is that i liked the first issues

>>88908661
I haven't a clue how they seriously considered placing it and "Faith" over "Omega Men".
At least they placed "The Flintstones" higher up.

I shudder to think what they're going to put in the top ten. My money is on a straight run of Marvel in the Top Three.

>>88908751
Nah, Saga will be in top 3, I guarantee it.

>>88908836
At least it's not capeshit

It's nice to see King's batman get a high place on the list. Though I wouldn't like it to be THAT high.

>>88908836
As usual. Last year's winner was Ms Marvel, right?

>>88908751
>I haven't a clue how they seriously considered placing it
Because there was a big story about it and everyone acted like losing the comic was some crime

>>88908836
Wouldn't be surprised.

>>88908873
Last year's Top Ten:
>Saga
>Ms. Marvel
>March: Book Two
>Star Wars
>Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
>Paper Girls
>Step Aside, Pops
>The Omega Men
>Bitch Planet
>The Fade Out

Champions going to be in top 10 right?
Fuck

>>88908903
At this point it might as well be.
What other comics are probably going to end up in the Top Ten as well?

>>88908836
>>88908873
>>88908900
I just looked it up, and Saga has been in the Top Three since 2012.
>#1 in 2012
>#2 in 2013 (behind Hawkeye)
>#2 in 2014 (behind Ms. Marvel)
>#1 in 2015

>024. Spider-Woman (Dennis Hopeless/Various)
I wasn't aware that anyone whatsoever liked this.02

>>88909409
That surprised me too.
Sometimes lists like these make me wonder if people are just stretching for titles to add.

>>88909279
Vision, Saga, March Book 3, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

>>88908616
Check it out, they actually remembered that Tomboy exists!

>Jem and the Holograms is going to be a top 10 comic

>>88908589
>Mockingbird #18
Are you fucking kidding me? I even liked the book well enough (other than 3 and 8) and I don't think it deserves to rate at all let alone in the top fucking 20 of the year.

>>88909826
Weird, I think issue 3 was the best of the lot. Those mystery box issues (1 and 5) were terrible, and probably the worst way to start a comic I ever saw. But what on earth is wrong with the last issue?

>>88909279
Vision, March and Panther are locks, they've been on every sites top ten

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>>88908634
>043. Action Comics (Dan Jurgens/Various)

why.jpg

>>88908589
>018. Mockingbird (Chelsea Cain/Kate Niemczyk, Ibrahim Moustafa)

>>88910039
Black Panther is #16.

>>88910060
I question Faith at #20.

>>88910075
Panther by Brecht Evens

>>88908589
How is Omega men below shit like Batman, Descender, Huck, Thor and Black Panther?

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>>88910093

>>88910099
Define "shit".

>>88908589
>The true life story about how cartoonists Tom Hart and Leela Corman’s daughter Rosalie Lightning unexpectedly died shortly before her second birthday, this exploration of grief, community and the struggle to survive both financially and emotionally is gripping.
So it's the That Dragon, Cancer of comics?

Saga
Paper Girls
Monstress
March Book 3
Kill or Be Killed (?)

What else is left?

>>88910197
really really bad comics

>>88910269
>Squirrel girl

>>88910269
Vision
Squirrel Girl
Dark Knight a True Batman Story

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Fuck You, I liked it

>>88908597
This one has the most good comics.

>>88908589
The Vision will be in the top 5.

I'm sure of it.

>Faith at 20
>Omega Men at 21
Are they even trying?

>>88909951
A retcon that drastically alters the character's history and morality for no other reason than to appeal to the writer's ideology. Barring that, it was below mediocre at best.

>>88908634
>Hellcat over Tomasi's superman, Morrison's Wonder Woman, Spencer's Cap, etc.
>Hellcat over anything

WHY???

>>88910358
>Dark Knight a True Batman Story
I hate all the acclaim this comic has gotten honestly. It isn't a bad comic but it is nowhere near one of the best of the year.

>>88910269
providence?

>>88911035
Too bad; it's probably in the Top Ten.

>>88910099
Descender is in no way bad. The art alone is amazing. I agree that it's not nearly as goodf as Omega Men but still. But OM below the likes of Thor, Black Panther, Vision, Batman, Faith, Legends of Wonder Woman, Saga or especially Mockingbirld and Squirrel girl is absolutely moronic.

>>88912278
And it'll probably be the best out of the top ten too.

So when does the top 10 list come out?

>>88912506
It should be out already. Dunno where it is.

>>88912506
http://www.cbr.com/cbr-top-100-comics-of-2016-10-1/

10. Bitch Planet
9. Monstress
8. DC Universe: Rebirth
7. Dark Night: A True Batman Story
6. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

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>>88912506

it is. /co/ gonna be mad.

it's a solid, understandable, mainstream list though

>10. Bitch Planet
>9. Monstress
>8. DC Universe: Rebirth
>7. Dark Night: A True Batman Story
>6. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
>5. Saga
>4. The Wicked + The Divine
>3. Paper Girls
>2. March: Book Three
>1. The Vision

>>88912881
5. Saga
4. The Wicked + The Divine
3. Paper Girls
2. March: Book Three
1. Vision

>>88912906
I don't have much problem with Unbeatable Squirrel Girl but I definitely wouldn't have ranked it in the Top 10.

>>88912913
>The Vision
Based.

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010. Bitch Planet (Kelly Sue Deconnick/Valentine de Landro, Taki Soma)
009. Monstress (Marjorie Liu/Sana Takeda)
008. DC Universe: Rebirth (Geoff Johns/Various)
007. Dark Knight: A True Batman Story (Phil Dini/Eduardo Risso)
006. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Ryan North/Erica Henderson)
005. Saga (Brian K. Vaughan/Fiona Staples)
004. The Wicked + The Divine (Kieron Gillen/Jamie McKelvie, Stephanie Hans)
003. Paper Girls (Brian K. Vaughan/Cliff Chiang)
002. March: Book Three (Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin/Nate Powell)
001. The Vision (Tom King/Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Michael Walsh)

>>88912910
Well at least they gave the right comic #1.

>>88912913
>The vision

I ain't even mad, I loved it.

There were some big names missing, though. Providence, Panther, Ultimates (maybe not in the top 10 but it was such a good read, specially if you consider that much less interesting books got such high positions).

>Squirrel girls
This has to stop

>No champions on the list

And all is good with the world

>>88912910
And I was right, Dark Knight is the best one in the op 10...

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>>88912881
>>88912910
>>88912994
>6. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl

I truly can not understand how people think this is even on the same level as other books that high up.

>>88913792
It ranked #5 in 2015:
>It’s a series so full of humor, the jokes spill out of the panels and onto the bottom of every page. It’s a big ol’ high five to just how fun and funny superhero comics can be.
>Every issue of this series has been a sheer delight, filled with good-natured laughs, meta-humor, potshots at Marvel’s own dour disposition, friendship, and fuzzy tails.
>It takes quite a bit of skill to execute the mixture of character development and next level wackadooness present in every issue.

And from 2016:
>“Squirrel Girl” remains both extremely funny, and an excellent superhero comic. Like every major superhero, Squirrel Girl’s main power is inspiration.
>No comic being published today is as gleefully silly or subversively smart as “The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.”
>Consistently the funniest of the Marvel all-ages titles.

So the gist of it is that it's funny.

>>88908589
>024. Spider-Woman (Dennis Hopeless/Various)
>020. Faith (Jody Houser/Various)
>018. Mockingbird (Chelsea Cain/Kate Niemczyk, Ibrahim Moustafa)
Yeah, no. These books are not top 25-tier. They shouldn't even be on this.

>>88908597
>088. Hellboy in Hell

Fuck this. HiH is Mignola at the top of his game, the fact that a master at work is this low while crap that'll be forgotten by the summer like Mockingbird is so high is criminal.

>>88913967
But...it's not. I read the title up to it's, like, sixth issue since it began on January 2015. I didn't laugh. The art is atrocious. It's not the worst thing in the world but the amount of praise that it has gotten is just baffling.

>>88908589
>The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye (Sonny Liew)
nice

>>88912910
>WicDiv
>Bitch Planet
How could anyone still be reading these comics in 2016 without realizing they're utter dogshit?

This top ten in painfully mediocre

>>88908589
reminder that Omega Men was #8 on CBR's list last year for 2015. So it made their list twice despite being a 12 issue series, which is pretty good.

>>88912994
>bitch planet
literally had 4 issues this year, which they even say in the editorial comments. why?
>monstress
it didn't have many issues either, but the first issue was oversized and its first arc was largely good.
>Rebith
not surprised. even if you didn't like it for whatever reason, it's still a hugely important event that has made DC books into top sellers within a few months.
>Dark Knight True Story
didn't read it yet, but it's paul dini so im sure it deserves its spot.
>unbeatable squirrel girl
ah yes, here is the pandering slot they always give to at least one bad book.
>Saga
has not nearly been as good as it used to be.
>Wicked + Divine
honestly I would agree if not for the fact that Commercial Suicide came out this year. That arc was really not well done due to all the rotating artists, some of them just not being very good.
>Paper Girls
Only redeeming quality is the art, because the story makes even less sense than Saga.
>March
This is fair. It's actually pretty good if you're not a /pol/ moron who gets triggered by any mention of black people having civil rights.
>Vision
Accurate.

>Mockingbird higher than Omega Men

so this list is trash then

>>88912910

>Not even top 50.

>Didn't read.

>MAYBE top 50.

>Top 25, 20.

>Didn't read.

>Good start, gradually went down in quality till I dropped much like a lot of Vaughn's other books. Might've picked up. Top 50.

>Good art, mediocre/bad story. Top 75.

>Didn't read.

>Didn't read.

>Deserved a top 10. Not sure #1, but certainly a top ten.


Didn't read 4/10, but bear with me.

Reading:
>>88908597
6/25
>>88908616
5/25
>>88908634
6/25
>>88908589
2/15
>>88912994
4/10

>>88908597
>099. Prophet: Earth War (Brandon Graham, Simon Roy/Various)
>088. Hellboy in Hell (Mike Mignola)

Fuck you, 2016. These should be in the Top 10.

What's your top 10, /co?

My shamefully pleb one is:

>Providence
>Omega Men
>Vision
>BK: True Story
>Ultimates
>Hellboy In Hell
>Flintstones
>Sheriff Of Babylon
>Prophet
>Chew

In no particular order.

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>>88908634
>036. DC Comics: Bombshells (Marguerite Bennett/Various)
What?

>032. Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! (Kate Leth/Brittney L. Williams, Natasha Allegri)
WHAT?

>018. Mockingbird (Chelsea Cain/Kate Niemczyk, Ibrahim Moustafa)
WHAT WHAT WHAT?

>Squirrel Girl, Hellcat and Mockingbird are in the top 100

Legit surprised

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>>88912994
>monstress

jesus fuck, what is it with people jerking themselves off over this book?

sure the art's pretty but the writing is remarkably terrible

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>>88918752
Hellboy in Hell/B.P.R.D./Abe Sapien
Astro City
Invincible
Invisible Republic
Revival
Kaijumax
Stray Bullets
Birthright
The Woods
The Sixth Gun
Honorable Mention: Robyn Hood

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>>88918752
Posted this a few times before but it won't be relevant for long at this point, some honorable mentions would be Blammo #9, Vision, Black Hammer and Ghosts. Didn't read a lot of marvel or DC this year, burned myself out on long running comics last year when I read a ton of bronze age stuff, although even then not a lot interested me from the big two outside of YA and Dr Fate when I found out McCarthy did art for it but I have yet to read those.

>>88919224
sell me on Robyn Hood she's a cute

>>88919322
Puke Force is stupid
what about Mooncop

>>88919414
Didn't buy it, never read anything from Girard despite knowing about him for awhile

>>88918752
10. Tetris
9. Doom Patrol
8. The Vision
7. Dark Night: A True Batman Story
6. Hellboy in Hell
5. Six Pack and Dog Welder
4. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
3. Sheriff of Babylon
2. The Flintstones
1. The Omega Men

Per my pleb opinion.

>>88919414
Without making my explanation too confusing, she's basically a Rule 63 Robin Hood who is set up as a private investigator in modern day New York. Sometimes she has to go into the world of Robin Hood to fight bad guys there, since she is seen as a hero to the citizens there just like Robin Hood was in the book. The art in the first arc really sucks but as she got more popular Zenescope started giving her better artists.

It is not really a great comic but it is fun if you like antiheroines and justice. The justice she doles out is really cathartic and feels awesome and empowering to read, it captures that feel of her being a champion of the little guy just like Robin Hood.

>>88912994
Thing I have read:
>The Vision
>Saga
>DC Universe: Rebirth
>Omega Men

Thing I have no idea what they are:
>March: Book Three
>Paper Girls
>The Wicked + The Divine
>Monstress
>Bitch Planet
>Patience
>Descender, Faith, The FIx, etc etc

Things I would not touch even with a shited stick
>The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
>Black Panther
>Mockingbird
>Spider-Woman

>>88908589
>Faith
I actually like this comic a lot, because it is a faithful rendition of one of my favorite Valiant characters growing up. She was the heart and soul of Harbinger, her pure, nerdy love of her powers and what she was doing was so infectious and fun, and the current writer just nails it perfectly.

But I feel like the reasons it made the list instead of any other Valiant book are the same reasons /co/ hates it: because it is lumped in as an 'important' comic that tackles 'social issues'. That isn't really Faith at all though.

>>88912994
>Squirrel Girl
>better than Dark Night and Rebirth

What an absolute joke, and honestly insulting. Dark Night should be #2 behind Vision.

>>88922107
Valiant fucking is the worst

Really happy to see Nod Away on this list. Never saw anyone else post it in the shelf/buyfag threads. But the omission of Sir Alfred #3 by Tim Hensley, Crickets #5, Sick by Gabby Schulz and Time Clock by Leslie Stein make this list a genre/capestuff-weighted bust when so many good alt/"artcomics" came out last year. Mind you it's CBR so whaddya expect.
Patience is the second worst thing Clowes has fucking done, I bet all the 16 year olds getting into "unorthodox" comics are peeing their panties over it. Buy the Complete Eightball when your first pube comes in, or something, ya wankers

>>88908616
Left of Archie. Where's he from? I dig the line-art.

>>88926393
Chew

>I dig the line-art
Daily reminder to all Vertigo fans that Vertigo rejected Chew because of the art.

>>88917648
Yeah its nice to see a comic from my home country (and also about my country) make it so well overseas

>>88912910
>6. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
How? Why?

In what warped fucking world is this shit better than stuff like The Flintstones, Omega Men or literally every Rebirth title (including DC Universe Rebirth#1)

What fucking hack wrote this shit?

>>88918752
>10. Superman American Alien
>9. Doom Patrol
>8. Deathstroke
>7. Green Arrow
>6. Hal Jordan and the GLC
>5. Omega Men
>4. Vision
>3. The Flintstones
>2. Superman
>1. DC Universe Rebirth #1
Objectively best comics of 2016

>>88926433
Modern Vertigo is garbage

>>88927256
what was their last good book? American Vampire?

>>88927881
I think Clean Room is pretty good actually. It's super Vertigo though.

>>88927881
>Clean Room
>Sheriff of Babylon
>Unfollow
Their anthologies are pretty good too. They need to print them more often.

>>88927881
The Paul Dini Batman book

>>88926844
>What fucking hack wrote this shit?
CBR reviewers came to a consensus

>>88928001
My apologies.

Hacks*

>>88912994
What's the 4th from the left?

>>88908900
wow all just liberal / feminist dog shit

no wonder nobody is buying comics anymore

>>88928335
Monstress
>>88928385
But they do

>>88928434
200.000 are terrible numbers for franchises that everybody on this planet knows and that make millions in the cinema with their original white male protagonists

>>88908589
>Whor over Flintstones

literally how

>>88928476
No they aren't.

>>88908751
All Marvel for top ten.

>>88910039
BP has a movie so they have to shill him.

>>88912994
>all this SoL 20-something girl garbage

Comics are over.

>>88928509
and Trump isn´t President right ;-)

>>88918752
Astro City
Vision
The Ultimates
Flintstones
Chew
Black Panther
The Autumnlands: Tooth and Claw
Invincible
Future Quest

I know it's 9 but I can't think of another comic that I read that is good enough to be in a Top 10 list

>>88928434
Thanks. Hopefully it's decent enough for the art since I clearly can't trust the reviews to be any accurate.

>>88910099
Fuck you, Descender is awesome.

King's Batman is way too high on that list, though.

>>88920324
Spider-woman has actually been pretty good since Jess (and Hopeless) had the kid.

>>88919224
Oh yeah, Astro City would definitely be my Honorable mention. Completely forgot about it.

>>88919322
Goddammit, I gotta read Cinema Purgatorio. Completely forgot that existed.

>>88919612
Doom Patrol had style but not much substance, I found, but only read the first issue. Six Pack and Dog Welder was the typical Ennis fun but I wouldn't place it in my top 10, didn't read JoJo. Will start watching the anime soon, though

>>88926921
American Alien shattered my expectations. I wouldn't put it top 10, but it's not very far behind.

Deathstroke is GREAT, best DC book out imho. Priest's convoluted and mindtwisting storytelling (in a positive way) fits the character perfectly. Honourable mention.

Didn't read Green Arrow. Saw some panels though, liked the art. Didn't read Hal Jordan & GLC, but then again I never got into the Lanterns in general.

>>88928710
Autumnlands...it was put on my "to check out" list quite some time ago. Never got into Invincible, didn't like Black Panther (writing didn't grip me enough), didn't read Future Quest.

I'm>>88918752

>>88929345
...yeah.

I'm a Kingfag as you can see by the three books of his in my top 10, but his Batman's been mediocre at best. It's like 1/10th the quality of his other books. Dunno if he just put way less effort into it, if he can't write Batman for some reason, if editorial's fucking with hin or what.