Rolling Blackouts — ConSequential

Hot dang folks, it's the end of the year, and that means Best Of lists. We're no exception to this cheap and easy content format, but we will at least give some lucky scamp a prize of each of our picks for the best comics this year.

Our spoilery results way below, hidden beneath this very professional advert for affordable bookkeeping:

(Not an official Problem Chimp Enterprises advert, but I do work in marketing, so, y'know. Sorry.)

Each of Our Top Three Books:

AD: After Death #1 - Scott Snyder and Jeff lemire
For The Love Of God, Marie - Jade Sarson
The Nameless City - Faith Erin Hicks and Jordie Bellaire
Rolling Blackouts - Sarah Glidden
Unsounded - Ashley Cope
March #3 - John Lewis, Nate Powell, Andrew Aydin
Vision - Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta, Jordie Bellaire
Plutona - Jeff Lemire, Emi Lennox, Jordie Bellaire
5000 KM Per Second - Manuele Fior

Still Good:

Saga - Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Paper Girls - Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matt Wilson
Trees - Warren Ellis and Jason Howard
Southern Bastards - Jason Aaron and Jason Latour
Empty Zone - Jason Shawn Alexander
Doctor Fate - Paul Levitz and Sonny Liew
Giant Days - John Allison, Lissa Treiman, Max Sarin
Harrow County - Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook
Sixth Gun - Cullen Bunn and Bryan Hurtt
Squirrel Girl - Ryan North and Erica Henderson
Doctor Strange - Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo
Injection - Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, Jordie Bellaire
Monstress - Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
Check Please - Ngozi Ukazu

And also:

Broken Frontier Anthology - Various
The Spire - Simon Spurrier, Jeff Stokely, André May
The Can Opener’s Daughter - Rob Williams

We're back from Thought Bubble and here to tell you about the exciting things we picked up - including several hideous diseases! But more than that we got some great new comics and interviewed some interesting creators. Let us tell you what you would have bought if only you had our impeccable taste.

Also we're sorry about how wet this all sounds. Sorry. About. The. Wet.

We talked to:

15:20 - Tab Kimpton, Discord Comics
21:30 - Harry Bentley & Michael Barr of Dragonhide Studios (and Dragonhoard Publishing)
38:20 - Jade Sarson, For the Love of God Marie, Cafe Suada
48:00 - Faye Simms, The Foldings
52:40 - David Hine, Cowboys and Insects
57:15 - James McKay, Dream of a Low Carbon Future

We read:

For the Love of God, Marie - Jade Sarson
Shoplifter - Michael Cho
Damaris - Sarah Peploe
Get Your Man - Kami D (via Dragonhoard)
The Foldings - Faye Simms
Cowboys and Insects - David Hine and Shaky Kane
March - John Lewis/Andrew Aydin/Nate Powell
Old Person Whisperer
The Auntie - Alyssa Wong and Wendy Xu
Rolling Blackouts - Sarah Glidden
Where Were You? - Tetley Clarke (It's not on his shop right now, maybe it will be soon?)
Butt Ghosts - Silvia Carrus
Feminist Cat - Silvia Carrus
Social Justice Penguin - Silvia Carrus
Wired Up Wrong - Rachael Smith
Cogs - Lorenzo Fruzza (Jinku Comics)
Fantasy Sports Number 2 - Sam Bosma

Not enough? Roger rounded up his favourite picks from Thought Bubble's Rainbow Road.