Episode 264: Our Favorite Comics of 2017

Time Codes:

• 00:00:27 - Introduction
• 00:03:14 - Contexts and caveats
• 00:11:32 - Our favorite comics of 2017
• 02:09:06 - Wrapping up our favorites, and honorable mentions
• 02:13:52 - Contact us

Paul and Derek are back with The Comics Alternative's annual "Favorites" episode. This is where the Two Guys share what they consider to be the best comics of the past year. Usually this year-end show is released as the very last regular review episode of each year, but this time around the guys had to postpone the recording due to family issues. But we're not far from the end of 2017, and Paul and Derek wanted to get the show out in as timely a manner as possible. So here you have it, the Two Guys' 10 favorite titles of 2017:

Paul's Top 10 of 2017

• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir - Thi Bui (Abrams)
• Mech Cadet Yu - Greg Pak and Tak Miyazawa (BOOM! Studios)
• Golden Kamuy - Satoru Noda (VIZ Media)
• Tenements, Towers and Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City - Julia Wertz (Black Dog & Leventhal)
• Lighter Than My Shadow - Katie Green (Lion Forge)
• Pope Hats #5 - Ethan Rilly (Adhouse)
• Spinning - Tillie Walden (First Second)
• Nightlights - Lorena Alvarez (Nobrow Press)
• Eartha - Cathy Malkasian (Fantagraphics)
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters - Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)

Derek's Top 10 of 2017

• Goodnight Punpun, Vols 5-7 - Inio Asano (VIZ Media)
• Doom Patrol - Gerard Way and Nick Derington / Shade, The Changing Girl – Cecil Castellucci and Marley Zarcone (Young Animal - DC Comics)
• Everything Is Flammable - Gabrielle Bell (Uncivilized Books)
• Cartoon Clouds - Joseph Remnant (Fantagraphics)
• Education - John Hankiewicz (Fantagraphics)
• The Abominable Mr. Seabrook – Joe Ollmann (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Uncomfortably Happily - Yeon-sik Hong (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Grass Kings - Matt Kindt and Tyler Jenkins (BOOM! Studios) / Royal City - Jeff Lemire (Image Comics)
• Palookaville 23 - Seth (Drawn and Quarterly)
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters - Emil Ferris (Fantagraphics)

The Honorable Mentions…These Titles Almost, but Just Didn’t Quite, Make It onto Each Guy's List For Paul

• Black - Kwanza Osajyefo, Tim Smith III, Jamal Igle, Khary Randolph and Sarah Litt (Black Mask Comics)
• Motor Girl - Terry Moore (Abstract Studio)
• Rock Candy Mountain - Kyle Starks (Image Comics)
• Mister Miracle - Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC Comics)
• Giant Days - John Allison and Lissa Treiman (BOOM! Box)
• Crickets # 6 - Sammy Harkham (Fantagraphics)
• Boundless - Jillian Tamaki (Drawn and Quarterly)
• House of Women - Sophie Goldstein (Fantagraphics)
• Savage Town - Declan Shalvey and Philip Barrett (Image Comics)
• The Stone Heart - Faith Erin Hicks (First Second)
• Mighty Jack and the Goblin King - Ben Hatke (First Second)
• Uncomfortably Happily - Yeon-Sik Hong (Drawn and Quarterly)

For Derek

• Happy Hour in America #1 - Tim Lane (Fantagraphics)
• Fire!!: The Zora Neal Hurston Story - Peter Bagge (Drawn and Quarterly)
• Her Bark and Her Bite - James Albon (Top Shelf)
• Unreal City - D.J. Bryant (Fantagraphics)
• Time and Vine - Thom Zahler (IDW)
• Resist! - Francoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman
• Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary - Christian Perrissin and Matthieu Blanchin (IDW)
• Lighter Than My Shadow - Katie Green (Lion Forge)