This page collects all of the books I gave a rating of "Strongly Recommended" or better to come out during 2008. Books which I Strongly Recommended to limited groups are generally not included, but those with mature readers caveats are. You may notice some "Books of Note" aren't mentioned here, because they were notable for reasons other than necessarily being really good (i.e. an intriguing idea with iffy execution). Boldfaced books got a rating higher than Strongly Recommended.
So, here it is, broken down by month. Be warned that this reflects my reading habits, there may well have been some excellent titles out there I didn't read for whatever reason. Sometimes I forgot to note the artist, and didn't really feel like digging it up. :) In those cases, I'll say "and ??", otherwise it's a single creator doing writing and art.
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All told, 44 pieces of new work (including one novel and five "large" new works), four new collections of older work (although two included work that came out in 2008) and three collections of old work. Of the new pieces, six were intentionally one-shots, sixteen are part of planned limited serieses (that assumes that both Empowered and Tifanny & Charlotte will not end, although both have been mentioned as at least starting as limited series ideas), two were from series cancelled in 2008 (Cable & Deadpool, Shadowpact) and four were issues of Blue Beetle (which is cancelled in 2009). I think Brave and the Bold is "cancelled" in 2009 too, although I'm told it'll continue as a non-continuity book despite the new "Batman: the Brave and the Bold" comic coming in 2009. Going through the rest, and considering a few titles that are known to be sold in repeated miniseries (i.e. Atomic Robo), there's not a whole lot of books I'm looking forward to seeing continued greatness from: