2017 was a fantastic year for comics. It seemed like every week New Comic Book Day had something awesome to offer. We had exciting big events, awesome new titles, talented and vocal creators and new and old characters being brought into the spotlight. In short, abundant and overwhelming.
It was also a busy year for me, so instead of taking the usual ‘Top 10’ approach, I am doing something different. What you have here are five things I LOVED about comics in 2017. I broke it up into six categories (it still HAS to be some kind of a list): Writer, Artist, Character, Title, Publisher, and New Title. Feel free to comment, agree, disagree, or what have you. Enjoy!
3Artist: Greg Capullo
Veteran illustrator Greg Capullo has been in the industry for decades. I can’t say I was always a superfan, but I always enjoyed his work. Granted I had fallen out of comics for a bit when his seminal run on Batman with Scott Snyder was all the talk, so I missed seeing that first hand. However Capullo’s linework and energy on this year’s DC: Metal event series really grabbed my attention. Metal is an insane piece of comic book storytelling and Capullo is able to not only match the energy of the narrative with his pencils but also make it gorgeous, cinematic, modern AND classic. It’s fucking fantastic!
