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50 Best Comics of the Decade (2010-2015) Thus Far: Part 3 (#40-36)

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DC Comics 40. The Multiversity (DC, 2014-2015) Writer - Grant Morrison Illustrators - Ivan Reis ( The Multiversity #1, The Multiversity #2 ), Chris Sprouse ( The Society of Super-Heroes ), Ben Oliver ( The Just ), Frank Quitely ( Pax Americana ), Cameron Stewart ( Thunderworld Adventures ), Paulo Siqueira ( Guidebook ), Marcus To ( Guidebook ), Various Artists ( Guidebook ), Jim Lee (Mastermen) , Doug Mahnke (Ultra Comics) Colourists - Nei Ruffino ( The Multiversity #1 ), Dave McCaig ( The Society of Super-Heroes, ( Guidebook ), Dan Brown ( The Just, The Multiversity #2 ), Nathan Fairbairn ( Pax Americana , Thunderworld Adventures ), Hi-Fi ( Guidebook ), Alex Sinclair (Mastermen) , Jeromy Cox (Mastermen) , David Baron ( Ultra Comics ), Gabe Eltaeb ( Ultra Comics ), Blond ( The Multiversity #2) Letterers - Todd Klein ( The Multiversity #1 , The Multiversity #2 ), Carlos M. Mangual ( The Society of Super-Heroes ), Clem Robbins ( The Just ), Rob Leigh ( Pax Americana , (Maste...

50 Best Comics of the Decade (2010-2015) Thus Far: Part 2 (#45-41)

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Valiant   45. The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage (Valiant, 2014-2015) Writer - Jen Van Meter Illustrator - Roberto De La Torre Colourist - David Baron Letterer - Dave Lanphear The always reader-friendly Valiant offer up a slightly more challenging story in their five issue miniseries The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage from late 2014. This emotional and spiritual journey penned by Jen Van Meter, follows Dr. Shan Fong (Doctor Mirage), a parapsychologist and supernatural investigator gifted with the ability to speak to the dead. All the dead, except her own late husband, whose recent passing still looms over the grief-stricken Fong. The character previously appeared in several issues of Shadowman but those are not required reading to get into this miniseries, which serves as a solid introduction to her character and backstory. The art seen throughout is a little outside the norm for the Valiant Universe, with frayed sketchwork pencils, with colouring that goes over the lines in...

50 Best Comics of the Decade (2010-2015) Thus Far: Part 1 (#50-46)

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Because everybody loves lists! This was supposed to be a Top 100 of my favourite comics of all time but I crumbled under such a daunting task. Mostly, it had to do with me not actually having finished all of the long running comic series that I love so much (for example, the Stan Lee/Steve Ditko/John Romita run on Amazing Spider-Man is one of my all-time favourite comics, but I've still only read half of those 100 issues). Perhaps I'll take a crack at that All-Time list another day. But for now, here's a something a little easier. My 50 favourite comics from 2010 to now. I didn't get into buying and reading comics via single issue until the end of 2011, and I probably didn't have a decent-to-large pull list until 2013 or so, so the list will be geared more-so towards the last couple years, this I admit. And there's still dozens of comics on my imaginary Must Read list that were published this decade. Some of this decade's noteworthy comics that I haven...