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It was another great year for comics. Here are our top 20 favorite comics of 2015, divided into two separate lists of 10 titles each by our two comic reviewers.

We’re about two weeks away from what is arguably Canada’s biggest comic show: Fan Expo. Many of the artists and writers I’ll mention in past postings have been there. I usually hope to run into one or two, look at their work or show my appreciation. For example, Stuart Immonen, …

'Swamp Thing: The Root of All Evil' recollects a classic story arc by Mark Millar and Grant Morrison previously unavailable as a trade until now. Any fan of Swamp Thing, Millar or Morrison would do well to pick up a copy.

Star Wars: Darth Vader #1 is a comic I’ve been looking forward to and it is indeed a great book. It reminds us why Vader is the embodiment of the Dark Side.

For our Best Comics of 2014 post, we wanted to wait until the end of Jan. 2015 before choosing our picks so as to allow ample time for reflection.

Yes… yes! I have waited a long time for this. As a friend of mine said: the Marvel era of Star Wars has begun …again.

Busy day today … get ready for work, take care of the kids, make supper, correct homework, take out the garbage and fix something wrong with the house. The usual stuff. Except today is Wednesday… and Wednesday is new comic day. Both the wife and girls know that this is …

Some crops are bad. Ask any produce grower – sometimes you get bad harvests and that’s just a fact of life. As in life so too with comics.

Variety… it might be cliché but it’s what makes life truly interesting, isn’t it? And that’s the great thing about comics: it’s a medium of great flexibility.

Wytches #1 was an awesome introductory story. You get a full story being told to you while leaving you with a sense of wanting more. Plus, Snyder really taps into some real issues that give the comic a strong sense of validity.

Rucka and Lark's tale of a corporate family-dominated world in the future is simply the most creatively-detailed story in comic-dom.

Outside of Marvel and DC there are plenty of superhero titles right now that are virtually tailor made for jaded readers like you and me. And in this post I list twelve of them, twelve superhero comics that I’ve read to various degrees in a recent binge attempting to find ones that I found interesting.

Lazarus is a completely unique story. The post-apocalyptic setting is completely acceptable; the characters are not only compelling but also amazingly detailed. In fact, everything about this comic is fully detailed, even down to the fake product ads inside or sometimes on the exterior of the comic.

Red City is a simple crime noir piece set in the future. It’s direct, easy to understand and completely believable. I had a lot of fun with this comic.

Moon Knight is an amazing book. It doesn’t try to lift itself to lofty heights and doesn’t try to impress its readers with some pretentious grand quest. In this day and age of grand publishing events, a series of encapsulated adventures are just what’s needed for us to remember what good comic story telling is.