AV Club Presents Its Two Best-Of Comics Lists For 2014

The AV Club has their two posts up for the year in comics, best-ofs sub-division. It's an expansive, positive list that reflect the time of its publication very well: there are a number of pretty good to really good comics out there right now. AV Club splits theirs into ongoing/special vs. gns/archival. Their choices this year are as follows. Follow through to the original link for critical-survey details on each choice.

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Ongoing And Special Series

* Action Comics, Greg Pak And Aaron Kuder (DC)
* Adventure Time, Ryan North And I'm Guessing An Army Of Collaborators (Boom)
* Alex + Ada, Jonathan Luna And Sarah Vaughn (Image)
* Astro City, Kurt Busiek And Brent Anderson And Alex Ross (Vertigo)
* Bad Machinery, John Allison (Online/collected by Oni Press)
* Copra, Michel Fiffe (Bergen Street)
* D4VE, Ryan Ferrier And Valentin Ramon (Monkeybrain)
* Flash Gordon, Jeff Parker And Doc Shaner And Jordie Bellaire (Dynamite)
* Hip Hop Family Tree, Ed Piskor (Online/collected by Fantagraphics)
* Manifest Destiny, Chris Dingess And Matthew Roberts And Owen Gieni (Image)
* Megg, Mogg, & Owl, Simon Hanselmann (Online/Fantagraphics)
* Mind MGMT, Matt Kindt (Dark Horse)
* Moon Knight, Warren Ellis And Declan Shalvey And Jordie Bellaire (Marvel)
* Ms. Marvel, G. Willow Wilson And Adrian Alphona (Marvel)
* The Multiversity, Grant Morrison And Various Esteemed Artists (DC)
* Saga, Brian K. Vaughan And Fiona Staples (Image)
* Savage Dragon, Erik Larsen (Image)
* Sex Criminals, Matt Fraction And Chip Zdarsky (Image)
* She-Hulk, Charles Soule And Various, Particularly Javier Pulido And Muntsa Vicente (Marvel)
* Shutter, Joe Keatinge And Leila De Duca And Owen Gieni (Image)
* Southern Bastards, Jason Aaron And Jason Latour (Image)
* Swamp Thing, Charles Soule and Various (DC)
* Transformers Vs. G.I. Joe, Tom Scioli (IDW)
* The Wicked + The Divine, Kieron Gillen And Jamie McKelvie (Image)
* Zero, Ales Kot And Tom Muller And Jordie Bellaire (Image)

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Graphic Novels And Archival Editions

* aama, Frederik Peeters (SelfMadeHero)
* Ant Colony, Michael DeForge (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Beautiful Darkness, Fabien Vehlmann And Kerascoet (Drawn And Quarterly)
* Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast (Bloomsbury USA)
* Forming II, Jesse Moynihan (Nobrow)
* The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, Stephen Collins (Picador)
* Hey, Mister: Come Hell Or Highwater Pants, Pete Sickman-Garner (Top Shelf)
* How To Be Happy, Eleanor Davis (Fantagraphics)
* Jim, Jim Woodring (Fantagraphics)
* Kill My Mother, Jules Feiffer (Liveright)
* Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel, Anya Ulinich (Penguin)
* Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, Winsor McCay (Locust Moon Press)
* Nijigahara Holograph, Inio Asana (Drawn & Quarterly)
* RAV, Mickey Z (Youth In Decline)
* Safari Honeymoon, Jesse Jacobs (Koyama)
* Seconds, Bryan Lee O'Malley (Ballantine)
* SHOWA 1939-1944: A History Of Japan, Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quarterly)
* Sugar Skull, Charles Burns (Pantheon)
* Syllabus, Lynda Barry (Drawn & Quarterly)
* The Hospital Suite, John Porcellino (Drawn & Quarterly)
* The Love Bunglers, Jaime Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
* The Wrenchies, Farel Dalrymple (First Second)
* This One Summer, Jillian Tamaki And Mariko Tamaki (First Second)
* Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge And Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library, Don Rosa (Fantagraphics)
* Wicked Chicken Queen, Sam Alden (Retrofit)

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