MATT LOWDER'S 2020 Year In Review, Best Of

Guest column by RUN THE COMICS 5K's Matt Lowder . . . . .

 

MATT'S 2020 END OF YEAR LIST-O-RAMA

Hi Everyone! I've gone completely overboard as usual, but as many of you know, I'm in a unique situation at my job, experiencing free time that shouldn't be possible, plus I'm no longer in grad school. So, yeah, a Fall and Winter where I've been very active here. Additionally, and my wife and I are expecting our second child in April! My weird covid-19-pocket-of-reading-time is ticking down like a bomb. But I've certainly caught up after 5-6 years of reading nothing at all.

Happy Holidays! "Hallelujah Holy Shit Where's the Tylenol!" - (Clark Griswold) 


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10 BEST COMICS I READ THIS YEAR
(PUBLISHED 2019 OR EARLIER)
Saga
Black Science

Animosity

Oblivion Song
God Country
Invincible
Paper Girls
Unnatural
Extremity
The Walking Dead

8 BEST 2020 LIMITED SERIES COMICS I READ
No One’s Rose (vault)
The Fearsome Doctor Fang (TKO)
Lonesome Days, Savage Nights (TKO)
Alienated (Boom)
Rogue Planet (Oni)
Artemis & The Assassin (Aftershock)
Undone by Blood (Aftershock)
The Plunge (DC Black Label)


3 BEST “ONGOING” NEW COMICS THAT BEGAN IN 2020
7 Secrets
Stillwater
We Only Find Them When They’re Dead

3 BEST “ONGOING” COMICS THAT STARTED IN 2019
Once and Future
The Plot
Something is Killing the Children

TOO EARLY TO TELL, BUT HIGH HOPE FOR THIS ONGING SERIES
Cross Over

6 MOST MEMORABLE FIRST ISSUES THAT CAPTURED MY IMAGINATION
Extremity #1
7 Secrets #1
Animosity #1
The Resistance #1
Die #1
Harrow County #1

10 LET DOWNS AND WHIFFS
Ghosted
It Eats What Feeds It
Piecemeal
Spy Island
Sentient
Coffin Bound
Giga
Electric Black
Hidden Society
Sympathy For No Devils

MY 3 FAVORITE PUBLISHERS OF THE YEAR
Image : https://bleedingcool.com/.../how-2020-became-image.../
Boom! Studios : https://www.boom-studios.com/wordpress/boom-news/
Aftershock https://money.yahoo.com/rive-gauche-aftershock-comics...

NEW 2020 PUBLISHER TO PAY ATTENTION TO NEXT YEAR
AWA Upshot (launched March 2020) https://screenrant.com/awa-studios-upshot-comics.../

BOOKS ON MY TO-READ LIST FOR 2021

A Walk Through Hell (awaiting second edition reprint)
Birthright vol 1
Bone Parish vol 2
Infinite Crisis vol 1 
Fire Power Prelude vol 1
Mera: Queen of Atlantis
Planet of the Apes Omnibus (Boom! 2018)
Shazam and the Seven Magic Lands
Daredevil (never read anything, so, I'm pumped)
Red Mother vol 1
X-Force vol 1, Benjamin Percy
X-Men by Jonathan Hickman (2020) vol 2
Wonder Woman Rebirth (continuation from issue #15)
Red Sonja vol 5 (2019)
Vampirella dynamite years omnibus 2, (2018)
Bad Reception vol 1 
Deep Beyond (new series)
The Beyonders vol 1 
Death Bed vol 1
Last Space Race vol 1
Dreaming Eagles (hardcover 2021 reprint)
10 Unique “Future State” runs by DC
Iron Fist: Heart of the Dragon 6-issue mini-series (new series)
Out of the Blue by Garth Ennis (Aftershock)