“What are the best Graphic Novels & Comics of 2017?” We aggregated 27 year-end lists and ranked the 233 unique titles by how many times they appeared in an attempt to answer that very question!
There are thousands of year-end lists released every year and like we do in our weekly Best Book articles, we wanted to see which books appear the most. The top 34 books, all of which appeared on 3 or more best Graphic Novel & Comic lists, are ranked below with images, summaries, and links for more information or to purchase. The remaining 175+ books, as well as the top book lists, are at the bottom of the page.
Make sure to take a look at our other Best of 2017 book lists:
You can also take a look at our Best Graphic Novels & Comics books from last year as well as all the other Best 2016 articles!
Happy Scrolling!
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The Dark Knight has uncovered one of the lost mysteries of the universe…one that could destroy the very fabric of the DC Universe! The dark corners of reality that have never been seen till now! The Dark Multiverse is revealed in all its devastating danger–and the threats it contains are coming for the DC Universe!
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“everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too is the illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, only to meet all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness, all while learning to feel a little better about being an alien—based on the enormously popular Twitter account, @jonnysun.
Here is the unforgettable story of Jomny, a lonely alien who, for the first time ever, finds a home on our planet after learning that earthlings can feel lonely too. Jomny finds friendship in a bear tired of other creatures running away in fear, an egg struggling to decide what to hatch into, an owl working its way to being wise, a tree feeling stuck in one place, a tadpole coming to terms with turning into a frog, a dying ghost, a puppy unable to express itself, and many more.”
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For native Brooklynite Roz Chast, adjusting to life in the suburbs (where people own trees!?) was surreal. But she recognized that for her kids, the reverse was true. On trips into town, they would marvel at the strange world of Manhattan: its gum-wad-dotted sidewalks, honey-combed streets, and “those West Side Story-things” (fire escapes). Their wonder inspired Going into Town, part playful guide, part New York stories, and part love letter to the city, told through Chast’s laugh-out-loud, touching, and true cartoons.
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When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir, she leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash, islands in the Philippines, New York City, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. Along the way, we learn about her family and a rare genetic heart disease that has been passed down through generations, and revisit tragic events in America’s past.
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The team behind the critically-acclaimed revamp of Batgirl returns with an exciting sci-fi action-adventure series! By day, Domino Swift competes for fame & fortune in a worldwide motorcycle racing league. By night, she cracks heads of rival gangs in brutal bike wars to gain possession of a rare, valuable contraband: an engine-boosting “machine narcotic” known as Crush.
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Civil War II is behind her, and a brand new chapter for Kamala Khan is about to begin! But it’s lonely out there for a super hero when her loved ones no longer have her back. It’s time for Kamala to find out exactly who she is when she is on her own. Plus: it’s election time! Kamala gets out the vote!
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Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi’s estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji’s past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and heartbreaking look at the state of a largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it’s been affected by the West, and how the next generation can change the preconceptions about it and prejudices against it.
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“The heart-rending autobiographical manga that’s taken the internet by storm!
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman’s exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both
laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertaining single volume depicts not only the artist’s burgeoning sexuality, but many other personal aspects of her life that will resonate with readers.”
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“When best friends are not forever . . .
Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since they were little. But one day, Adrienne starts hanging out with Jen, the most popular girl in class and the leader of a circle of friends called The Group. Everyone in The Group wants to be Jen’s #1, and some girls would do anything to stay on top . . . even if it means bullying others.
Now every day is like a roller coaster for Shannon. Will she and Adrienne stay friends? Can she stand up for herself? And is she in The Group―or out?”
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A mysterious and bloodthirsty matriarchal force runs the town of Redlands, Florida, and in order to stay on top sacrifices must be made. Someone is intent on removing these women from the top of the food chain, and he’s ready to unleash their darkest secret but has seriously underestimated the lengths the townspeople will go to protect the new order of things.
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Dr. Jane Foster is the Goddess of Thunder -and it’s killing her. Her enemies are many as Asgard descends further into chaos, and unrest threatens to spread throughout the Ten Realms. Yet she wages her greatest battle against a far more personal foe: the cancer killing her mortal form. When Loki steps back into Thor’s life, will it ease her troubles or only add to her pain? There’s no such question about Malekith as he continues to fan the fl ames of a looming War of Realms – when he isn’t wedding planning, that is! And as Asgard is torn apart, the skies will shake in one of the bloodiest battles of all time: It’s Thor vs. Odin like never before!
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The silent king of the Inhumans stars in his fi rst-ever solo series! But it begins with Black Bolt…imprisoned?! Where exactly is he? Why has he been jailed? And who could be powerful enough to hold the uncanny Black Bolt? The answers to both will shock you -and Black Bolt as well! For if he is to learn the truth, he must first win a fi ght to the death with a fellow inmate -the Absorbing Man! Award-winning science fi ction writer Saladin Ahmed (Throne of the Crescent Moon) crafts a story as trippy as it is action-packed, with truly mind-bending art from the one-and-only Christian Ward (ODY-C)!
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Once they were heroes, but the age of heroes has long since passed. Banished from existence by a multiversal crisis, the old champions of Spiral City–Abraham Slam, Golden Gail, Colonel Weird, Madame Dragonfly, and Barbalien–now lead simple lives in an idyllic, timeless farming village from which there is no escape! But as they employ all of their super abilities to free themselves from this strange purgatory, a mysterious stranger works to bring them back into action for one last adventure!
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A new era for the Black Panther begins as the kingdom of Wakanda enters its final days! Award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates confronts T’Challa with dramatic upheaval in his homeland that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman terrorist group that calls itself The People sparks a violent uprising, the land famed for incredible technology and proud warrior traditions will be thrown into turmoil. As Zenzi, leader of The People, poisons the populace against their king, the former queen Shuri’s spirit makes an uncanny journey through the Djalia, and a new Crew is formed! If Wakanda is to survive, it must adapt – but can its monarch, one of a long line of Black Panthers, survive the necessary change? Heavy lies the head that wears the cowl!
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In the basement, through the appliances and past the veil that separates realities, lies a rainbow-hued world where a group of kids have found retreat from their suburban mundanity with a coterie of iridescent creatures. But in the fraught realm of adolescence, can friendship survive the appeal of the surreal?
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“The spirit of Grant Morrison’s groundbreaking DOOM PATROL is captured in this debut series starring the cult-favorite misfits as a part of Gerard Way’s new Young Animal imprint.
Flex Mentallo, Robotman, Rebis, Crazy Jane, and more are back to twist minds and take control. This new take on a classic embraces and reimagines the Morrison run’s signature surrealism and irreverence. Incorporating bold, experimental art and a brash tone to match a new generation of readers, Gerard Way’s DOOM PATROL establishes radical new beginnings, breaks new ground, and honors the warped team dynamic of the world’s strangest heroes. “
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“SOUTHERN BASTARDS meets American Gods in a high-stakes fantasy series that masterfully blends high-octane action and jaw-dropping worldbuilding.
In GOD COUNTRY, readers meet Emmett Quinlan, an old widower rattled by dementia. Emmett isn’t just a problem for his children—his violent outbursts are more than the local cops can handle. When a tornado levels his home—as well as the surrounding West Texas town—a restored Quinlan rises from the wreckage.
An enchanted sword at the eye of the storm gives him more than a sound mind and body, however. He’s now the only man who can face these otherworldly creatures the sword has drawn down to the Lone Star State… “
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The Eisner-nominated MONSTRESS is back! Maika, Kippa, and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to her past… and discover a new, terrible, threat.
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The Eisner Award-winning “Best New Series” from BRIAN K. VAUGHAN and CLIFF CHIANG continues with a bold new direction, as intrepid young newspaper deliverers Erin, Mac and Tiffany find themselves launched from 1988 to a distant and terrifying future… the year 2016.
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The Surfer and Dawn are back out in space and back in trouble! But at the universe’s slickest space casino, Norrin Radd is going all-in – and the stakes have never been this cosmic! When our heroes are accidentally swallowed by Jumbonox the Giganormous, their only hope is a society of sentient macro-microorganisms…who, by no fault of their own, might just be the deadliest disease in the universe! And on the hauntingly beautiful world of Inkandesha, the spacefaring couple might completely lose themselves! But will they finally be torn apart by the vengeful Warrior Zero – or a certain former master? Because there’s only one reason the Silver Surfer would ever serve Galactus again…if the universe itself hung in the balance! The lives of Norrin and Dawn will never be the same!
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“It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark.
Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again.
She was good. She won. And she hated it.
For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden’s life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of figure skating fit in with the rest of her life, and whether all the work was worth it given the reality: that she, and her friends on the team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she’d outgrown her passion―and she finally needed to find her own voice.”
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Sticks Angelica is, in her own words, “49 years old. Former: Olympian, poet, scholar, sculptor, minister, activist, Governor General, entrepreneur, line cook, headmistress, Mountie, columnist, libertarian, cellist.” After a high-profile family scandal, Sticks escapes to the woods to live in what would be relative isolation were it not for the many animals that surround and inevitably annoy her. Sticks is an arrogant self-obsessed force who wills herself on the flora and fauna. There is a rabbit named Oatmeal who harbors an unrequited love for her, a pair of kissing geese, a cross-dressing moose absurdly named Lisa Hanawalt. When a reporter named, ahem, Michael DeForge shows up to interview Sticks for his biography on her, she quickly slugs him and buries him up to his neck, immobilizing him. Instead, Sticks narrates her way through the forest, recalling formative incidents from her storied past in what becomes a strange sort of autobiography.
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In Gabrielle Bell’s much anticipated graphic memoir, she returns from New York to her childhood town in rural Northern California after her mother’s home is destroyed by a fire. Acknowledging her issues with anxiety, financial hardships, memories of a semi-feral childhood, and a tenuous relationship with her mother, Bell helps her mother put together a new home on top of the ashes. A powerful, sometimes uncomfortable, examination of a mother-daughter relationship and one’s connection to place and sense of self. Spanning a single year, Everything is Flammable unfolds with humor and brutal honesty. Bell’s sharp, digressive style is inimitable.
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“Loma Shade may be from another planet, but she’s still like every other twentysomething who feels that their life is going nowhere fast. Bored out of her mind, her solution is to drop out of school, dump her boyfriend and leave her homeworld of Meta behind—courtesy of the infamous “madness coat” of renegade poet Rac Shade, which is not so much a garment as it is a multidimensional gateway.
After stealing the coat and astrally projecting herself across space, Loma ends up in the body of Megan Boyer, an Earth girl who seems to have it all: youth, beauty and a conveniently damaged brain. Following her “miraculous” recovery, however, Loma finds there’s just one problem with being Megan: Everyone hates her. She was a bully who terrorized her enemies and her friends alike, and now Loma’s stuck with the consequences.
To make matters worse, back on Meta there are dark forces that want Rac’s dangerously valuable coat for their own nefarious purposes, and they’re closing in on Loma’s vulnerable physical body. At the same time, the primal madness that the coat channels is slowly, irresistibly eroding Loma’s equally vulnerable soul.”
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New York Times best-selling writer Greg Rucka continues his return to WONDER WOMAN! The team of Rucka and artist Nicola Scott weave the definitive and shocking tale of Diana’s first year as Earth’s protector. Paradise has been breached, Ares stirs, and the Amazons must answer with a champion of their own…one who is willing to sacrifice her home amongst her sisters to save a world she has never seen. Wonder Woman’s journey begins in this epic origin story!
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In 2016, acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis documented her cross-country bike tour as it happened. The immediacy of Davis’ comics journal makes for an incredible chronicle of human experience on the most efficient and humane form of human transportation.
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From the worldwide bestselling team of FIONA STAPLES and BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, “The War for Phang” is an epic, self-contained SAGA event! Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience.
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“Fred and Barney reunite for Mark Russell’s modern take on Hanna-Barbera’s most famous stone-age family!
Welcome to Bedrock, where Paleolithic humans head to dinner for a taste of artisanal mammoth after shopping at Neandertall & Big Men’s Clothing, where Wilma shows her modern art, and where, if you take a plane, you could end up sitting on the literal tail section. See Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, Dino, Barney, Betty and Bamm-Bamm as you’ve never seen them before in THE FLINTSTONES VOL. 1.”
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What do you do after the most death-defying act of your escape artist career? You go to war, of course! Scott Free has skipped out on his trip to the great beyond and taken a boom tube to New Genesis instead, where he and his wife, Big Barda, take on the invading hordes of Apokolips. Things are a little off, however, and Mister Miracle starts to doubt why he’s fighting when Orion takes over the mantle of Highfather. It’s enough to make a New God miss Granny Goodness’s orphanage!
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“He is Gotham City’s hero, its Dark Knight, its greatest protector. He is Batman. And he is not alone.
There are two new heroes in town—a pair of masked metahumans with the powers of Superman and a devotion to preserving all that is good about this twisted city. Calling themselves Gotham and Gotham Girl, they’ve saved Batman’s life, fought by his side and learned from his example.
But what happens if Gotham’s new guardians go bad? What if they blame the Dark Knight for the darkness that threatens to drown their city?
When sinister forces are unleashed that can warp the minds of men and make heroes into monsters, the time will come for Batman and his allies to decide once and for all: Is Gotham a force for good…or an engine of evil?”
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“In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle (Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles) recounts André’s harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man’s determination in the face of a hopeless situation.
Marking a departure from the author’s celebrated first-person travelogues, Delisle tells the story through the perspective of the titular captive, who strives to keep his mind alert as desperation starts to set in. Working in a pared down style with muted color washes, Delisle conveys the psychological effects of solitary confinement, compelling us to ask ourselves some difficult questions regarding the repercussions of negotiating with kidnappers and what it really means to be free. Thoughtful, intense, and moving, Hostage takes a profound look at what drives our will to survive in the darkest of moments.”
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“Jenny becomes obsessed with a strange “”mirror Facebook,”” which presents an alternate, possibly better, version of herself. Helen finds her clothes growing baggy, her shoes looser, and as she shrinks away to nothingness, the world around her recedes as well. The animals of the city briefly open their minds to us, and we see the world as they do. A mysterious music file surfaces on the internet and forms the basis of a utopian society–or is it a cult?
Boundless is at once fantastical and realist, playfully hinting at possible transcendence: from one’s culture, one’s relationship, oneself. This collection of short stories is a showcase for the masterful blend of emotion and humour of award-winning cartoonist Jillian Tamaki.”
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“This beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves.
At the heart of Bui’s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent—the endless sacrifices, the unnoticed gestures, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child, Bui pushes through. With haunting, poetic writing and breathtaking art, she examines the strength of family, the importance of identity, and the meaning of home.”
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Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
| # | Books | Authors | Lists |
| (Titles Appear On 2 Lists Each) | |||
| 35 | A.D. After Death | Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire | Barnes & Noble |
| NPR Books | |||
| 36 | Aliens: Dead Orbit | James Stokoe | Paste |
| Critical Hit | |||
| 37 | Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch | Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro | Amazon |
| Barnes & Noble | |||
| 38 | Bloodshot: Salvation | JEFF LEMIRE and various artists | Berkeley Place Blog |
| EW | |||
| 39 | Bottled | Chris Gooch | Entropy |
| Readings | |||
| 40 | Deathstroke | AV Club | |
| EW | |||
| 41 | Extremity | Daniel Warren Johnson | AV Club |
| Paste | |||
| 42 | Giant Days | AV Club | |
| Critical Hit | |||
| 43 | House Of Women | Sophie Goldstein | NPR Books |
| Paste | |||
| 44 | Infamous Iron Man | BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS and ALEX MALEEV | Berkeley Place Blog |
| Critical Hit | |||
| 45 | Kaijumax | Zander Cannon | Inverse |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 46 | Kill or Be Killed, Vol. 1 | Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Elizabeth Breitweiser | Barnes & Noble |
| Berkeley Place Blog | |||
| 47 | Legend of Korra: Turf Wars | io9 | |
| Valley Courier | |||
| 48 | Love is Love | Marc Andreyko and Sarah Gaydos | Amazon |
| Barnes & Noble | |||
| 49 | Monograph | Sarah Glidden | Readings |
| The Guardian | |||
| 50 | Moon Knight | JEFF LEMIRE and GREG SMALLWOOD | Berkeley Place Blog |
| Watch Mojo | |||
| 51 | Moonshine, Vol. 1 | Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso | Barnes & Noble |
| EW | |||
| 52 | Motor Girl | TERRY MOORE | Berkeley Place Blog |
| io9 | |||
| 53 | Poppies of Iraq | Brigitte Findakly and Lewis Trondheim | Forbes |
| The Guardian | |||
| 54 | Pretending is Lying | Dominique Goblet, translated by Sophie Yanow | NPR Books |
| The Globe | |||
| 55 | Punisher: The Platoon | GARTH ENNIS and GORAN PARLOV | Berkeley Place Blog |
| Watch Mojo | |||
| 56 | Songy of Paradise | Gary Panter | Paste |
| The Globe | |||
| 57 | Spill Zone | Scott Westerfeld, illustrated | Boston Globe |
| Chacago Public Library | |||
| 58 | Spy Seal | Rich Tomasso | io9 |
| Paste | |||
| 59 | Tenements, Towers and Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History Of New York City | Julia Wertz | AV Club |
| NPR Books | |||
| 60 | The Abominable Mr. Seabrook | Joe Ollmann | Booklist Online |
| Paste | |||
| 61 | The Backstagers Volume 1 | James Tynion | Chacago Public Library |
| NPR Books | |||
| 62 | The Old Guard | GREG RUCKA and LEANDRO FERNANDEZ | AV Club |
| Berkeley Place Blog | |||
| 63 | The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl beats up the Marvel Universe! | Ryan North and Erica Henderson | AV Club |
| Multnomah County | |||
| 64 | The Unquotable Trump | R. Sikoryak | Boston Globe |
| The Guardian | |||
| 65 | X-O MANOWAR | MATT KINDT and THOMAS GIORELLO | Berkeley Place Blog |
| Critical Hit | |||
| (Titles Appear On 1 Lists Each) | |||
| 66 | 2000AD | Critical Hit | |
| 67 | 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank | Matthew Rosenberg | Paste |
| 68 | 5 Worlds: The Sand Warrior | Mark Siegel, et al | Multnomah County |
| 69 | A Castle in England | Jamie Rhodes and various illustrators | Boston Globe |
| 70 | A Land Called Tarot | Gael Bertrand | Boston Globe |
| 71 | A Thousand Coloured Castles | Gareth Brookes | NPR Books |
| 72 | All-New Wolverine | Tom Taylor, David Navarrot, David Lopez | Denton Record-Chronicle |
| 73 | All-Star Batman | AV Club | |
| 74 | All’s Faire in Middle School | Victoria Jamieson | Multnomah County |
| 75 | America Chavez | EW | |
| 76 | America, Vol. 1: The Life and Times of America Chavez | Gabby Rivera, Joe Quinones, and Ramon Villalobos | Barnes & Noble |
| 77 | Andromeda – Bugonia | Ze’ Burnay | Entropy |
| 78 | Animal Noir | Izar Lunaček and Nejc Juren | Entropy |
| 79 | Another Castle: Grimoire | Andrew Wheeler | Multnomah County |
| 80 | Anti-Gone | AV Club | |
| 81 | Aquaman | Critical Hit | |
| 82 | Autobiographical comics from Kevin Budnik | Kevin Budnik | Inverse |
| 83 | Awkward | Svetlana Chmakova | Readings |
| 84 | Baking With Kafka | Tom Gauld | NPR Books |
| 85 | Bandette. [Volume three], In the house of the green mask | Paul Tobin and Coleen Coover | Multnomah County |
| 86 | Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection Of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated | Shea Serrano, illustrated | NPR Books |
| 87 | Beowolf | AV Club | |
| 88 | Big Mushy Happy Lump (Sarah’s Scribbles, #2) | Sarah Andersen | Goodreads |
| 89 | Black | io9 | |
| 90 | BLACK WIDOW | MARK WAID AND CHRIS SAMNEE | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 91 | BLACK, Vol. 1 | by Kwanza Osajyefo, Jamal Igle, Robin Riggs, Tim Smith III, Derwin Roberson, and Khary Randolph | Barnes & Noble |
| 92 | BlittOct 24, 2017 | Barry Blitt | Amazon |
| 93 | Brave | Svetlana Chmakova | Amazon |
| 94 | Calexit | io9 | |
| 95 | Centipede | io9 | |
| 96 | Champions, Vol. 1: Change the World | Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos | Barnes & Noble |
| 97 | Chew: Sour Grapes | John Layman, Rob Guillory | Multnomah County |
| 98 | DAREDEVIL | CHARLES SOULE and RON GARNEY | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 99 | Dept. H Volume 1: Murder Six Miles Deep | Matt Kindt | Multnomah County |
| 100 | Descender. Book four, Orbital mechanics | Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen | Multnomah County |
| 101 | Detective Comics | EW | |
| 102 | Dinosaur Empire: Earth Before Us | AV Club | |
| 103 | DIVINITY III | MATT KINDT and TREVOR HARISINE | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 104 | Driving Short Distances | The Guardian | |
| 105 | Earth Girl Made Easy | Cecil Castellucci | Chacago Public Library |
| 106 | Eartha | Cathy Malkasian | NPR Books |
| 107 | Erased | Kei Sanbe | Chacago Public Library |
| 108 | Everything Is Teeth | Evie Wyld | Booklist Online |
| 109 | Eyes Too Dry: A Graphic Memoir About Heavy Feelings | Alice Chipkin, Jessica Tavassoli | Readings |
| 110 | Fante Bukowski Two | Noah Van Sciver | Entropy |
| 111 | Father and Son | EO Plauen | The Guardian |
| 112 | Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me HomeJul 18, 2017 | Nicole J. Georges | Amazon |
| 113 | FILTHYRATBAG | Celeste Mountjoy | Entropy |
| 114 | Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story | Peter Bagge | NPR Books |
| 115 | Flying Machines: How the Wright Brothers Soared | Alison Wilgus | Multnomah County |
| 116 | FOOLKILLER | MAX BEMIS AND DALIBOR TALAJIC | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 117 | Gauguin: The Other World | Library Journal | |
| 118 | Ghosts of Seattle Past: An Anthology of Lost Seattle Places | Jaimee Garbacik | Multnomah County |
| 119 | Glitterbomb, Vol. 1: Red Carpet | Jim Zub, Djibril Morissette-Phan, K. Michael Russell, and Marshall Dillon | Barnes & Noble |
| 120 | Golgo 13 – Hammer Price | Takao Saito | Entropy |
| 121 | Golgo 13, #187 – Far North Road | Lied Corporation | Entropy |
| 122 | Grandville Force Majeure | The Guardian | |
| 123 | Graphic Science: Seven Journeys of Discovery | The Guardian | |
| 124 | Hawkeye: Kate Bishop, Vol. 1 | Kelly Thompson, Leonardo Romero, Michael Walsh, and Jordie Bellaire | Barnes & Noble |
| 125 | Heavenly Blues | Scout Comics | Entropy |
| 126 | Helena Crash | Fabian Rangel Jr and Warwick Johnson-Cadwell | Entropy |
| 127 | I Am Alfonso Jones | Tony Medina | Forbes |
| 128 | I Hear the Sunspot | Yuki Fumino | Chacago Public Library |
| 129 | Iceland | AV Club | |
| 130 | Injustice 2 | Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Juan Albarran | Denton Record-Chronicle |
| 131 | Invader Zim | Critical Hit | |
| 132 | Invincible | Critical Hit | |
| 133 | Jean Grey | io9 | |
| 134 | JESSICA JONES | BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS and MICHAEL GAYDOS | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 135 | Johnny Appleseed | Paul Buhle and Noah Van Sciver | Boston Globe |
| 136 | Kid Lobotomy | Peter Milligan and Tess Fowler | Entropy |
| 137 | Kim & Kim, Vol. 1: This Glamorous, High-Flying Rock Star Life | Magdalene Visaggio, Matt Pizzolo, Katy Rex, Eva Cabrera, and Claudia Aguirre | Barnes & Noble |
| 138 | Kim Reaper | EW | |
| 139 | KINGPIN | MATTHEW ROSENBERG AND MARC LAMING | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 140 | LADY KILLER 2 | JOELLE JONES | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 141 | Language Barrier | AV Club | |
| 142 | Letters For Lucardo | AV Club | |
| 143 | Lighter Than My ShadowOct 3, 2017 | Katie Green | Amazon |
| 144 | Lint Boy | Aileen Liejta | Multnomah County |
| 145 | MADE MEN | PAUL TOBIN and ARJUNA SUSINIA | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 146 | Magritte: This Is Not a Biography | The Guardian | |
| 147 | Mangasia | The Guardian | |
| 148 | MIDNIGHTER AND APOLLO | STEVE ORLANDO and FERNANDO BLANCO | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 149 | Mighty Thor, Vol. 3: The Asgard/Shi’ar War | Jason Aaron et al. (Marvel) | The Washington Post |
| 150 | Mirror, Mirror II | AV Club | |
| 151 | MIS(H)ADRA | Iasmin Omar Ata | Inverse |
| 152 | Moby Dick | Chaboute | Multnomah County |
| 153 | Mystik U | io9 | |
| 154 | Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea (Narwhal and Jelly Book 1) | Ben Clanton | Readings |
| 155 | Ninjak | Critical Hit | |
| 156 | Not Drunk Enough | AV Club | |
| 157 | NOW | ERIC REYNOLDS | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 158 | One More Year | Simon Hanselmann | Entropy |
| 159 | Opposite Land | Charlotte Rose Hamlyn | Readings |
| 160 | Overwatch: Anthology, Vol. 1 | Matt Burns, Roberts Brooks, Andrew Robinson, Micky Neilson, and James Waugh | Barnes & Noble |
| 161 | Pashmina | Nidhi Chanani | Multnomah County |
| 162 | Patience | Daniel Clowes | Booklist Online |
| 163 | Perfect Hair | Tommi Parrish | Readings |
| 164 | PORT OF EARTH | ZACK KAPLAN and ANDREA MUTTI | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 165 | Portugal | Cyril Pedrosa. Translated by Montana Kane (NBM) | The Washington Post |
| 166 | Power Rangers | Critical Hit | |
| 167 | Rat queens. Volume four, High fantasies | Kurtis J. Wiebe and Owen Gieni | Multnomah County |
| 168 | REDNECK | DANNY CATES and DEE CUNNIFFE | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 169 | Robert Capa | The Guardian | |
| 170 | Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq | Sarah Glidden | Readings |
| 171 | ROUGHNECK | JEFF LEMIRE | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 172 | Royal City Volume 1: Next Of Kin | Jeff Lemire | NPR Books |
| 173 | Run For It: Stories Of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom | Marcelo D’Salete | NPR Books |
| 174 | Saigon Calling: London 1963-75 | Marcelino Truong | The Guardian |
| 175 | Satani-Kill | Andrew Buck | Entropy |
| 176 | Savage Dragon | Erik Larsen | Inverse |
| 177 | Sex Fantasy | Sophia Foster-Dimino | Publishers Weekly |
| 178 | Shaman | Ben Kahn and Bruno Hidalgo | Entropy |
| 179 | Shaolin Cowboy: Who’ll Stop the Reign? | EW | |
| 180 | Shipwreck | AV Club | |
| 181 | Shutter Volume 5: So Far Beyond | Joe Keatinge, illustrated | NPR Books |
| 182 | SIF: JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY–THE COMPLETE COLLECTION | KELLY SUE DECONNICK, KATHRYN IMMONEN, and RYAN STEGMAN | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 183 | SIXPACK AND DOGWELDER: HARD TRAVELIN’ HEROZ | GARTH ENNIS and RUSS BRAUN | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 184 | Snotgirl, Vol. 1: Green Hair Don’t Care | Bryan Lee O’Malley, Leslie Hung, Mickey Quinn, and Maré Odomo | Barnes & Noble |
| 185 | Solid State | Matt Fraction and Jonathan Coulton, illustrated | NPR Books |
| 186 | Spencer and Locke | Critical Hit | |
| 187 | Star Scouts | Mike Lawrence | Multnomah County |
| 188 | Stone Heart: The Nameless City | Faith Erin Hicks | Forbes |
| 189 | Sunburning | Keiler Roberts | Readings |
| 190 | Sunstone | Critical Hit | |
| 191 | The Arab of the Future 2: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1984–1985 | Riad Sattouf | Booklist Online |
| 192 | The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye | Sonny Liew | Booklist Online |
| 193 | The Belfry | Gabriel Hardman | Entropy |
| 194 | The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 1 | Jonathan Hickman, Tomm Coker, Michael Garland, and Rus Wooton | Barnes & Noble |
| 195 | The Customer is Always WrongAug 8, 2017 | Mimi Pond | Amazon |
| 196 | The Dark Knight: Master Race | Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert, Klaus Janson, Brad Anderson, and Alex Sinclair | Barnes & Noble |
| 197 | The Death of Stalin | Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin | Entropy |
| 198 | The Defenders | Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez | Denton Record-Chronicle |
| 199 | The Dregs | Zac Thompson & Lonnie Nadler, Eric Zawadzki, Dee Cunniffe | Inverse |
| 200 | THE FIX | NICK SPENCER and STEVE LIEBER | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 201 | The Flamingo Diamond | Marc Pearson | Entropy |
| 202 | The Girl From the Other Side | Nagabe | Chacago Public Library |
| 203 | THE HARD PLACE | DOUG WAGNER and NIC RUMMEL | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 204 | The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry | David Carlson, illus. by Landis Blair | Publishers Weekly |
| 205 | The Invisible War: A Tale on Two Scales | Ailsa Wild, Ben Hutchings, Briony Barr, Gregory Crocetti, Jeremy Barr | Readings |
| 206 | The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars | EW | |
| 207 | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Vol. 1Mar 14, 2017 | Akira Himekawa | Amazon |
| 208 | The Shaolin Cowboy: Who’ll Stop the Reign? | Geof Darrow | Entropy |
| 209 | The Smell of Starving Boys | The Guardian | |
| 210 | The Sound of the World by Heart | Giacomo Bevilacqua | Forbes |
| 211 | The Stone Heart: The Nameless City | Faith Erin Hicks and Jordie Bellaire (First Second) | The Washington Post |
| 212 | The Tea Dragon SocietyOct 31, 2017 | Katie O’Neill | Amazon |
| 213 | THE UNSOUND | CULLEN BUNN and JACK COLE | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 214 | The Unstoppable Wasp | Jeremy Whitley | Chacago Public Library |
| 215 | THE WILD STORM | WARREN ELLIS and JON DAVIS-HUNT | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 216 | Thornhill | Pam Smy | Multnomah County |
| 217 | Threads: From the Refugee Crisis | Kate Evans | Boston Globe |
| 218 | To your Eternity | Yoshitoki Ōima | Chacago Public Library |
| 219 | Travels with my Sketchbook | Chris Riddell | Readings |
| 220 | Trust No Aunty | Maria Qamar | NPR Books |
| 221 | Tunnel to Hell: The Lake Erie Tunnel Disasters: Tale of Heroism and Tragedy | Scott MacGregor, illustrated | Boston Globe |
| 222 | Turn Loose our Death Rays and Kill them All!: The complete works of Fletcher Hanks | Fletcher Hanks | Multnomah County |
| 223 | Uber: Invasion | Critical Hit | |
| 224 | Uncomfortably Happily | Yeon-sik Hong | The Guardian |
| 225 | URL Ugly Real Life | Nicky Minus | Entropy |
| 226 | Voices in the Dark | The Guardian | |
| 227 | Whip | various authors | Entropy |
| 228 | Who Was the Somerton Man? | Jess Parker | Entropy |
| 229 | Wilde Life | AV Club | |
| 230 | Wires and Nerve, Volume 1 (Wires and Nerves, #1) | Marissa Meyer | Goodreads |
| 231 | WONDER WOMAN/CONAN | Gail Simone and Aaron Lopresti | Berkeley Place Blog |
| 232 | Zodiac Starforce | io9 | |
| 233 | Zonzo | AV Club | |
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| Amazon | Best comics and graphic novels of 2017 |
| AV Club | The best comics of 2017 |
| Barnes & Noble | The Best Comics & Graphic Novels of 2017 |
| Berkeley Place Blog | THE TOP 40 COMIC BOOKS OF 2017 |
| Book Riot | THEFOLLOWINGAREBOOKRIOT’SBESTBOOKSOF2017. |
| Booklist Online | Top 10 Graphic Novels: 2017 |
| Boston Globe | The best books of 2017 |
| Chacago Public Library | Best Teen Graphic Novels and Manga of 2017 |
| Critical Hit | The 20 best comic books of 2017 |
| Denton Record-Chronicle | Perfect Panels: The 10 best comic books of 2017 |
| Entropy | BEST OF 2017: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS |
| EW | The best comics of 2017 |
| Forbes | The 10 Best Graphic Novels Of 2017 |
| Goodreads | Best Graphic Novels & Comics |
| Inverse | The 6 Best Comics of 2017, According to 6 Comic Book Writers |
| io9 | The 15 Best Comics of 2017 |
| Library Journal | BEST GRAPHIC NOVELS |
| Multnomah County | The Best Books of 2017 |
| NPR Books | NPR’s Book Concierge Our Guide To 2017’s Great Reads |
| Paste | The 25 Best Comic Books of 2017 |
| Publishers Weekly | Comics |
| Readings | Graphic novels & comics we loved in 2017 |
| The Globe | The Globe 100 |
| The Guardian | Rachel Cooke’s best graphic novels of 2017 |
| The Washington Post | The 10 best graphic novels of 2017 |
| Valley Courier | Geiger’s Culture Counter: Holiday Gift Guide 2017 — Comics |
| Watch Mojo | Top 10 Comic Books of 2017 |
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