Best Comics of 2020 - #16 to #25 - Zack's Picks

It’s been a long year already somehow, and my own Top Comics of 2020 has been delayed, but today I have my picks for #16 to #25, including Dept. of Truth, Sex Criminals, and more.

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Comic of the Week: The Plot #3, more excellent family drama in a top-tier horror story

By d. emerson eddy — Vault is one of the most consistent publishers in comics today. For the past few years they have been publishing some of the most unique and innovative stories, all of which feel like something wholly new. They've fostered a creative vision for their publishing platform that seems to allow their creators to take ideas that might appear old and subsequently transform them into something new, or just outright create things that we've never really seen before. From Heathen to These Savage Shores, Relics of Youth to Vagrant Queen, Friendo to Wasted Space, these books run the gamut of genres as their creators consistently manage to elevate the medium. Now they're doing it again as The Plot thickens.

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Top Comics to Buy for November 27, 2019: Batman Creature of the Night, Ascender, and more!

By Zack Quaintance — Sorry for the delay this week, but it’s actually kind of fitting because our comic of the week is Batman Creature of the Night #4. So, why does that make it kind of fitting? Well, because two years have elapsed between the release of Batman Creature of the Night #1 and this week’s finale.

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REVIEW: The Plot #2 is more of the same high-quality storytelling from the debut

By Zack Quaintance — If you haven’t read my review of The Plot #1, allow me for a moment to summarize in brief: I thought it was one of the best creator-owned debut issues of the year (in a top-tier that now also includes Undiscovered Country). Basically, that first dropped readers into a full-formed world, which is impressive enough but the creator-owned ecosystem of late has gotten really good at that. What set The Plot #1 aside, was that it also seamlessly doled out the necessary bits of a complex family backstory/dynamic while establishing itself as a character-driven drama about two young, orphaned siblings.

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