I think the biggest story in comics this past year was the return of writer Brian K. Vaughn. I think that says a lot that the return of a writer is actually a big story. That his and Fiona Staples' new book, Saga, turned out to be incredibly entertaining and fun and weird and gorgeous is almost a given. The other big deal was the fact that so many books I read ended (Scalped, Sweet Tooth, I Zombie, The Boys). Some books kept chugging along; Image published the 100th issue of The Walking Dead (poor Glenn). Image also re-booted a handful of old Rob Liefeld books and, surprise surprise, Glory turned out to be phenomenal. DC had their first full year of their "new 52" and Batman was the star thanks to great art by Greg Capullo and some very dark and interesting stories by Scott Snyder involving The Joker and The Court of Owls. Marvel copied DC and re-started a bunch of titles with new #1's and shuffled the writers/artists around...and Hawkeye turned out to be their book of the year. Oh, and Peter Parker died. Yeah. So it was an eventful year.
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