The Beat Staff list their best comics of 2016, Also the best films, and games.
Vox lists their best comics of 2016.
ComicsAlliance lists their best comics of 2016.
ComicsAlliance remembers the people in comics who died in 2016.
Sean T. Collins on the Fascism of The Walking Dead.
Remember that infamous American Sailor Moon adaptation? Rich Johnston does.
Tom Spurgeon and Michael Dean present an excerpt (Pt 1, 2) of We Told You So: Comics as Art. That Gary Groth, what a scamp.
Sean T. Collins lists The 50 Greatest Star Wars Moments. Did you know that Star Wars continuity is a complete mess like any other longstanding franchise? And its politics are pretty extreme, to say the least.
Rogue One introduced the Guardians of the Whills, recalling one of the more obscure pieces of Lucas lore. But even more interesting is that these characters were played by Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen. Apparently, Chirrut Imwe and Baze Malbus are the new Finn/Poe? Makes sense to me.
But the most unfortunate news of all was the death of Carrie Fisher (October 21, 1956 – December 27, 2016), followed a day later by her mother Debbie Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016), which I covered here.
Mark Peters dredges up the old debate of Jack Kirby's possible influence on the Star Wars franchise.
Beethoven!
Elle Collins on the repercussions faced by creators working on corporate properties when they express dissenting opinions.
R.I.P. George Michael (25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016). This year has been kicking our ass.
Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner blame Poe's Law for making 2016 such a terrible year.
