Best of 2016

    The number of comics I read went up again in 2016, but did the number of Strongly Recommended things go up? Let's see!

Other Media     Mostly movies and TV shows, but really anything I felt like reviewing that was at least kind of related to comics but wasn't static images. Also includes print novels, sometimes. Yeah, there's some vague boundaries here. And I didn't always review TV shows or movies, especially movies that came out near the start of the month. Lego DC Comics Super Heroes Justice League: Gotham City Breakout Digital Content     Primarily or initially delivered online, but not counting things like Netflix's Daredevil or Jessica Jones (like I said, vague boundaries). Two of the things listed here got print editions as well (although despite ordering all four volumes of Gronk through my shop, Diamond has yet to deliver any). Nothing, but I got very few digital comics in 2016.

Trades and Collections     While my local shop is pretty good, I got all of these online, still not wanting to trust Diamond. The Imitation Game - Abrams ComicArts (Ottaviani and Purvis) The Drawing Lesson: A Graphic Novel That Teaches You To Draw - Watson-Guptill Publishing (Mark Crilley) Steven Universe the Answer - Cartoon Network Books (Sugar and Michalka) Rejected Princesses vol 1 - Harper Collins (Porath) Floppies     Traditional comic book format. Yeah, I was pretty down on floppies this year. Bought more, was enthusiastic about fewer. Disclaimer on Deathstroke, I was marginally involved in working out some of the plot device stuff in the series, so I'm not exactly unbiased. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic #43 - IDW (Cook and Price) Deathstroke Rebirth One-Shot, Deathstroke #1 - DC (Priest and various) The Transformers Revolution One-Shot - IDW (Barber and Griffith) The Four Color Comic Book History of Comics #1 - IDW (Van Lente and Dunleavy, colorized reissue of the 2008-2011 series "Comic Book Comics")