What are your favorite comics from the 2020s?
Is there anything you're looking forward to? Any disappointments?
These are mine. Not a very strong selection, and I haven't gone through all the ones I've wanted to yet, but this is it so far.
Favorite Comics 2020 - 2023
are the wrong earth and second coming from 2020s?
They started at the end of the previous decade, but they both have installments in this decade.
ok but kaijumax for sure has more volumes in 2010s than in 2020s
I enjoyed those 3 series.
Thanks for bringing this up. I’m reading it right now. I read v1 but didn’t realize there was so much of it.
Kaijumax is really good, is a really worthy wild ride I still have to read v6.
I’m wary of Clowes after Patience.
So was I, but I enjoyed Monica a lot more.
The only thing I would have liked is for Clowes to have returned to the crisp art style he was known for.
Nice.
Alex Ross was really in form on that one.
>crisp art style
So do the characters look like the uncomfortable mannequins that we got in Patience?
Similar to Patience, yeah.
I would have liked his old way of doing things, when there was a heavier Krigstein influence.
Damn his art got way worse later. And his sense of humor got neutered completely along the way. I just hate it. Ice haven is good though, I will say.
His art improved for quite some time, but he’s never told a compelling story, imo.
Improved for quite some, before it went to shit.
He’s always been overrated on both accounts
*underrated
No I said what I meant. Clowes has always been remarkably overrated.
remarkably *underrated
Sorry I got it wrong again.
Why continue being a homosexual rather than just disagreeing?
I'm asking you the same question.
What do you want me to say? I’ve always thought he was painfully overrated and you sit here like a fricking homosexual trying to correct my posts, this second time larping as if you’re me.
Are you fricking autistic?
painfully *underrated
You're making me frick up you stupid homosexual.
Autism.
I agree actually. He’s a boring motherfricker.
I think his comics are fun even if he's a boring frick himself.
Wilson and Velvet Glove are fun. That’s as far as I’m willing to go.
I like Ice Haven and Monica the most.
It's a bummer, but it happens a lot. Some of my favorite artists lost their abilities a long time ago.
I think the opposite is true.
Nice lettering.
monica was kino
It was pretty good.
Well yeah if you didn’t like Patience then Monica is definitely a step down and worse. I wouldn’t trust OP on this. I read Monica and holy shit what a waste of paper. Clowes has been coasting for awhile now and he should stop.
>Monica is definitely a step down and worse
Explain.
Waiting for your take.
Full Circle is the only thing that comes to mind.
Yeah I forgot to add that here:
it’s in the loved list
Maybe the best comic I read this year was Blade of the Immortal. In clothes Named Fat was a good one too. I don't think I read any comic actually released this decade. I tried Fables 1001 nights and it was okay, kinda mid which is how I feel about all Fables but the art was great and helped elevate things quite a bit. Peter Pan by Regis Loisel was another memorable mixed bag. I liked parts of it especially the art but it was a very weird darker version of the story with all kinds of weird scenes and tones. Hottest Tinkerbelle I've ever seen though.
I also read the first 200 issues of Amazing Spider-man. Holds up better than I thought, I feel the quality genuinely gets very inconsistent after 60 or so issues and once Conway is gone it was dull as dick though. I do think it's amazing even after 60+ years the Ditko stuff is still that good.
None of that is on-topic
I like Romita Sr. and Kane, but Ditko is the way to go on Spider-Man.
The colors look good.
>Time before time
This one looks interesting.
For me it's Hound's Head
Still have a lot to read though
that one was very good, but I'm waiting for the next parts to give a definitive opinion. Was close to be on my chart
+donjon, les soeurs Grémillet, Laila Starr
Still need to read Blacksad and the Timothée le Boucher ones
is "Adrastea" Bablet's Adrastée ?
also I definitely recommand Le Chateau des Animaux if you haven't read it yet
Le Château des Animaux is great, definitely agree. Just picked up the last Blacksad volume, and every time I keep hoping a new volume of Le Château is out instead
>Timothée le Boucher
my ranking is The Days That Disappear > 47 Strings > The Patient; somehow TP felt weak despite the serial killer topic.
>is "Adrastea" Bablet's Adrastée ?
Yes, that was the French spelling; while the kickstarter English edition spelt it Adrastea.
>Francis by Loputyn
added to my reading list, so far I read the first free 12 Italian (easier for me) pages, next I'll slowly plod through the French.
Another that might interest:
The Skull 2023
is Europe comics still publishing or are they officially dead now ?
Still publishing but they don't have a website anymore.
That's bizarre.
How the frick would you get any updates for their latest content ?
Beats me, probably checking out new Kindle releases every week.
I thought they stopped printing.
They never had physical releases, right?
Anyways, the latest comic they released is Blacksad #7 and they seem to put out about 3-5 comics per month.
I don't think so.
They still release digital content - I believe there is no physical stuff.
>never had physical releases
I mean, the original European, untranslated comics can be purchased.
It wouldn't surprise me if they got their funding cut off from the EU.
Yeah, it would need to be some stupidity like that - I mean, the comic pirate groups are still ripping Cinebook and Europe Comics so they are likely getting them from Kindle.
Humanoids is still a thing.
>I mean, the original European, untranslated comics can be purchased.
Sure, I just meant their translations don't have physical releases, at least not from Europe Comics, some get picked up and release by Dark Horse and other publishers.
>It wouldn't surprise me if they got their funding cut off from the EU.
Yeah, that's probably what happened.
https://www.comicsbeat.com/europe-comics-to-shut-down-consumer-facing-operations/
>freckled, "ugly" blue-eyed female knight in plate armor
>black dog on yellow field heraldry
>The Hound
>super strong knight in black
The writer/artist read ASOIAF, didn't he. Seems cool, though.
>blue-eyed
>plate armor
Anon, I think you might be blind.
>super strong knight in black
Black person, that's some Arthurian legend shit, Martin didn't come up with it.
I’m not making some arbitrary 9x9 but
>Time before time
>Batman/Superman which is now Worlds finest and still on the list
>shazam
>ghost cage
>deep cuts
Where as I liked but wouldn’t say loved
>ultramega
>twig
>old dog
>dr strange fall sunrise
>strange skies over east berlin
>xmen legacy
>ronin island
>hitomi
disappointments
>Williamson’s robin and now Batman and robin
>Wolverine Patch
>hick-men, HoXPoX was interesting enough the ongoing immediately shit the bed and the rest were even worse
>dr strange fall sunrise
I should read this now that it's complete.
Monica sux
Pretty much every comic they have there sucks in all honesty. It’s the type of person who feels superior for never entering a comic shop and buys their comics from Barnes and noble (or more aptly on sale from Amazon after browsing at B&N).
I liked it well enough.
I'm a man. I bought some of those in a comic shop.
I went into Monica completely blind and enjoyed it. I really liked this panel, which you shouldn't have a look at if you want to read it blind like I did.
So is Monica a man in a dress?
No, just a homely woman.
Haven't read any yet.
Why not?
I've been enjoying Míriam Bonastre Tur's webtoons
Not a big fan of webtoons.
Just started reading Marionetta and now I'm hooked. Thanks for the cool recommendation.
Are you a chick?
Shit taste.
>I-if I correct him it means clowes is actually the bestest evarrrrr, I-I-I mean I just cant bare to hear any different!
Kys
You ok, dude?
You already posted a Frog in Fall. I love the way the book is presented.
One of the better comics on that chart.
Alone (Seuls) has been running from 2006 to 2021 with volume 14 due in January 2024; picrel is volume 12 The Rebels of Neosalem (2021) (Les Révoltés de Néosalem).
>January 2024
Soon.
miss this guy so much
Why does he wear the mask?
Shit we're finally getting another volume? It's been feeling so slow, can't wait
Burne Out by Bastien Vives, 2022, a short preview storytime, NSFW: https://desuarchive.org/aco/thread/7180051/#7203006 - the cover page is too NSFW for here, so have page 9
It was pretty funny, but very French.
The Court Charade by Flore Vesco and Kerascoet November 23, 2022
Also read and loved this one! Beauté by Kerascoet is great too if you enjoyed it. Love the depiction of faefolk in it
It was okay.
I'm waiting for the scanlation of the latest Obscure Cities volume: The Return of Captain Nemo - Le retour du capitaine Nemo
>In the ruins of Taxandria, where knowledge of the past is forbidden, a boy discovers the events that led to the city's downfall. This is a new version of the 1993 book, entirely redrawn in comic format, now published by Casterman under the Cités obscures branding.
Now that's something to look forward to.
I read it in French, it's fine but certainly not one of my favourite Obscure Cities books. The drawings are lovely but it's really more of an illustrated book than an actual comic imho. I probably won't bother doing a scanlation, but hopefully fylgja will scan the English edition if he's done the kickstarter too.
Slava: After the Fall by Pierre-Henry Gomont 2023, storytime https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/135616056/
NSFW sample page crop:
You mean comics released in 2020 or comics that I’ve read in 2030-2023?
OP is asking what are your favorite comics from 2020-2023
Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika series.
(More) NSFW version only available in Italy: Hot Paprika:
>2020
Post Americana
The Transporter
>2021
A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance
Ultramega
>2022
Do A PowerBomb
>2023
Mister Mammoth
>hons
Sgt. Rock - The Army of the Dead (2022)
The Jurassic League (2022)
>special mention
Orphan and the Five Beasts (2021) I really like Stokoe, but c'mon don't Orc Stain me again man
>Orphan and the Five Beasts (2021) I really like Stokoe, but c'mon don't Orc Stain me again man
i am beyond wanting works from him because i don't believe anything of his that isn't at most 5 issues, will ever have an end.
A 4x4 WIP, some on my toread list:
47 strings by Timothe Le Boucher
adrastea by Mathieu Bablet
blacksad 006 - they all fall down 001
blacksad 007 - they all fall down 002
djeliya by juni ba 2020
donjon pourfendeurs de demons
herakles 3
hoka hey
julien neel - lou ! sonata - tome 01
mirka andolfo's sweet paprika 006
slava after the fall-001
the court charade
the gremillet sisters 003 - lucille's treasure
the gremillet sisters 02 - cassiopeia's summer of love
the many deaths of laila starr
the return of captain nemo
I'm pretty wary of Ram V after reading Blue in Green and Swamp Thing. Is Laila Starr a lot better?
Euro comics usually feel like something's missing, but I'll look into these.
Not that I wanna discourage kerascoet praise, but court charade is sone of their weakest, beautiful darkness and beauty are my votes
>Lol, aren't children cruel?
>They have no concept of death!
>Society will always favor bullies, and self sufficiency is the only way!
I was so angry by the end of it, the finale wasn't even satisfying.
It is angering when you don't understand shit.
I agree. It isn't as strong as their previous work. Light-hearted is fine, but it needed more gravitas.
The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco and Milo Manara, NSFW storytime: https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/140211906/ :
picrel censored for blue board
I still hate the fact that tasteful nudity is not allowed, but people get away with posting porn all the time.
>no bush
No buy
Beneath the Trees (Where Nobody Sees) 2023 - storytime https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/140102690
A tale of your friendly neighborhood serial killer
Is there a second issue yet?
>Beneath the Trees (Where Nobody Sees)
>a second issue yet?
Publication date : December 6, 2023
And Amazon's earliest delivery date is December 13.
>I'm pretty wary of Ram V after reading Blue in Green and Swamp Thing. Is Laila Starr a lot better?
Not having read any superhero stuff: no idea. I liked the art style and basic premise, but felt it was too light on actual Indian mythology/cosmology, and maybe too easy a resolution.
Then I'd suggest Manara Maestro dell'eros 003 - I Classici a fumetti (Corriere della Sera) NSFW:
picunrel another recent comic I liked, Ion Mud.
>interracial
What am I a cuck? Frick you.
It's an Italian with a tan.
>Ion Mud
Looks cool.
Reminds me of Blame!
Nice to see Hass on a lot of new books.
I'm trying to go down a mental list to figure out exactly WHAT from 2020s.
Off top of my head You Hear What Eddie Gien Done.
Basket Full of Heads.
Karmen.
Stray Dogs
Blue and Gold
Immortal Hulk (did that start before 20?)
FF Full Circle
Mr Invincible
maybe Dragon Hoops
Old Head
>Immortal Hulk
Issue 26 was published in January 2020.
I don't recall seeing many cape comic readers in these threads too often. There are storytimes going right now with people giving feedback, and hardly see them post in here, if ever.
Could be shills.
That’s clearly what most of these ITT are. It happens every Christmas season. Thinly veiled “g-go buy my book!” threads.
So why don't those shills come shill in here?
Nice charts. What program did you use to make them?
On the contents of the charts, I've read relatively few, but I see some iffy recommendations (e.g. Dog Biscuits), and other comics I will probably never pick up (e.g. the adaptations of celebrated novels).
Photopea.
Dog Biscuits nominated LA Times Book Prize, won Cartoonist Studio Prize, good reviews. So some like it.
>Photopea
Thanks.
>Dog Biscuits nominated LA Times Book Prize, won Cartoonist Studio Prize, good reviews.
That's fine. It's still one of the ugliest, most mind-numbingly dull comics I've ever come across.
Some of them, such as Fante Bukowski, are collections of previously released material that came out before 2020 as well.
That's fine. I try to categorize by the year it was published, in any language, for the first time, but others are free to do as they wish.
>Paul at Home
I have loved every installment of the 'Paul' series and reread most of them ever few years
but I never want to experience that book again
A good read but it's the 1st time the reality of what the author is saying is too much for me to deal with
the fact that it's a loose autobiography just makes it worse
Too close to home?
>The Shadow of a Man (The Obscure Cities) English language release date: 2021
Huh, I'd just finished struggling through the original French without realising Philly had a scanlation since 2013!
But I just noticed there's at least this page
missing from the English between SoaM018 and SoaM019, picrel.
Frick's sake.
I love how all of these Obscure Cities stories have full frontal female nudity at some point.
It's not missing, they're different editions. The scanlation is from the German version of the original 1999 edition, in 2009 Schuiten and Peeters revised the album, adding that page and changing the ending. The IDW edition that fylgja scanned is based on the new edition.
>The Shadow of a Man - The Obscure Cities Vol. 7 (2021) (c2c) (fylgja)
Thanks for the explanation.
updating: fully read all of these except:
Donjon - on my list
Dune - got bored after 20 pages
Francis - first 8 pages in Italian, on my list
Herakles - to read
Hunger and The Dusk - got bored again
Capitaine Nemo - waiting
Upside Dawn - still reading
Wow look at all that shit nobody reads
Thanks OP I care immensely
What are your favorite comics from the 2020s?
Is there anything you're looking forward to? Any disappointments?
Could it be that Manga is more popular because is more accecible and easy to pirate? I love this indie?) comics? their color palets are nice, the art is different but when I tried to pirate them (third world poorgay yadda yadda) I almost enever found the,
My only option is way 20 years amass some money and buy it once I go to europe one day...
It is a little more difficult to find comics, but you can find them with some effort. Hang around the Win-O threads. Euro comics also seem to have less scanlators.
I think he’s talking about buying them moron. Anybody here can find free comics
That’s because clowes is massively overrated.
and no I didn’t mean underrated
>I think
When you call someone a moron, you have to be sure, and you have to check that you're not wrong yourself.
Almost never? Are you looking for really obscure stuff?
Manga isn’t more accessible outside of the SJ/Viz titles if you actually pay for it. Most of you losers pirate manga and act like you’re part of the sales figures.
Any manga that’s on the literary level with most of what’s posted ITT is the same price if not more and not even translated yet if ever. It’s shonen/battle-manga that’s accessible and even then mostly digitally.
>jason Upside Dawn
Nice
WuT
I would definitely put Keeping Two on a 2022 list.
NTA, and I didn't think it was that great, but I agree.
thanks
Nice.
I'm reading Cankor right now. It's alright so far. I thought it was going to be different.
Finished it. The art is good, but I didn't care for the comic overall.
What did you guys think?
Yeah, I didn't really like it all that much either. I'm not a fan of changing art styles throughout the comic.
>changing art styles
I like it if it's the same artist. My problem was the subject matter.
Dire thread. No wonder comics are dying.
What's so dire about it? The fact that it's kind of slow and empty, or is it the selection?
>is it the selection
Yes
It is significantly weaker than the last decade, though we're only a third of the way.
Not enough cape
That's a good thing
The dozens of other threads aren’t enough huh
So let people post capes here. No one's stopping them.
NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO
NO
NO
NO
Y E S
Capegays don’t even like cape comics right now.
>Dozens
This isn’t 2016, this is a cartoon board now. Huh.
>Capegays don’t even like cape comics right now.
That would explain their absence.
>this is a cartoon board now
Should have never been lumped together.
recently published comis i've read:
-Magic Fish
-Monstress
-Star Trek: Defiant
-Yoda
-The Forged
-Blacksad
hard to find eurocomics the sweaty u.s. and sometimes i feel like i should just learn french because i know there's decent stuff but it will probably never be translated. i've only seen Wika translated in print, i think skydolls was storytimed with a translation. i would love to have a translated version of Sha in print or the Vampire Chevalier one
New Europe comics just dropped
Thanks.
So many cape crabs lurking in here just give their oh so original hot take that having your own voice means no one wants to read your comics. Buncha insecure homosexuals.
I want to see them post their favorites. Enough of this coyness.
Really enjoyed Le Spectateur. But kind of in a way that it spoke to me personally, but I'm not sure most people would give it much mind. Does that make sense?
thanks
>What are your favorite comics from the 2020s?
So far, absolutely nothing.
Any disappointments?
Same here
NTA but I made the mistake of thinking one of the four comics my girl Cass was in would turn out good by sheer chance (Batgirls, BoP, Spirit World, Tec). I was wrong, they were all awful. Four swings and four misses. Should never make the mistake of having hope, it only hurts.
Why do people still charactergay in this day and age? They will take turns ruining your favorite character, and people still read all of it. Everyone should have realized by now.
You don't get to choose when you fall in love or when it ends, it's not a rational process.
Nonsense.
Bump
This.
NUTS!
I've enjoyed
>47 Strings
>Copra
>2000AD
>Priest's Vampirella
>Hellboy titles written by Mignola
>Groo
>Love and Rockets
>Miracleman
>The Misfit Girls Club
>Motorossa
>Pink Lemonade
>Ribbon Queen
>Usagi Yojimbo
>Superman Lost
>The Bone Orchard Mythos
>The Extraordinary Part
>The Name of the Rose
>Waller Vs Wildstorm
>Werewolf Jones
>X-Cellent
Love and Rockets still going strong? It seemed to be petering out after The Love Bunglers.
I count less than 20 contributors despite 45 posters. Come on, guys.
>reply with anything thats not either capeshit or avant garde pretentiousness
>reported and banned
too bad the only answer is princess highground
Surprised this is still going. It was trash back when I first heard about it about 10 years ago.
Does anyone know how many volumes Alone will go on for?
When it started, they said it was supposed to be 22 volumes, the first and fifth cycles being 5 volumes each, and cycles 2, 3 and 4 being 4 volumes each. Not sure if they've said any differently in recent years.
>2011
is not 2024
What?
I’ve heard Josh Bayer's Unended is the best graphic novel of the year
Heard from who?
The art looks pretty crappy.
Is there any preview for this somewhere?
I managed to find a preview page.
>Josh Bayer's Unended is probably the best comic released this year. You can read it in a few hours, but the complexity of the drawings give weight to the reading experience, making it a graphic novel that actually feels novelistic rather than...a stack of pages imitating depth.
>any anxiety that heavy influence (or positive appraisal) of bronze age comics might inhibit someone from drawing a truly innovative and mature comic can be laid to rest with a reading of this book.
https://twitter.com/DominoComics/status/1730075098739093705
I'll check it out.
That was a bust.
I wonder if things will ever become good again
They're pretty good if you actually read comics.
Please don't pretend your low expectations are a virtue. They're not.
I never did. I said I actually read comics and you don't.
If you think current comics are entertaining your standards are far too low. And you're acting like a smug shithead about it too.
We can't have a debate if you haven't read any of the recs posted ITT. I can't argue with your imagination.
When I make my comic.
When you make your comic.
Vinyl from 2021 was a blast. One of the only graphic novels I've actually bought since 2020.
Also, just recently read Do a Powerbomb from 2022 when trying to learn more about the new Transformers and it was just mind blowing.
One last one. Local Man has been a blast. It's young and an ongoing so I do have worries it may shit the bed. I feel like it's always one or two steps away from just going DUR HUR ANY CITY THAT ISN'T AN OVERPOPULATED HELLHOLE OF DIVERSITY IS BAD like the major comics can't stop doing, but it hasn't gone there yet.
The art is interesting, but the story is whatever.
How come you guys actually read comics?