Between everyone working at Big Planet Comics, we had so many favorites this year! So you should be sure to find something amazing to read from among all these great comics! We divided our lists by graphic novels and comic books. As always, let us know if you want recommendations or if you think of a great one that we missed! Best Graphic Novels of 2024 All of these graphic novels are 20% off throughout December at all of our stores. Stop by and try something new! All Princesses Die Before Dawn – Quentin ZuttionA French slice of life comic that takes place on the day of Princess Diana’s death. Beautiful art and heartfelt writing make...

Void Rivals is a thrilling new scifi series by Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici, and Matheus Lopes. There is a big surprise in issue 1, and Robert Kirkman himself will tell you about it! (Just come and pick up the issue at any of our stores if you want to read it spoiler free!)

ALL manga at our Vienna, Virginia, and Washington DC stores is 20% off throughout December!This is a great chance to catch up on some Japanese comics, or try out something new. We’ll be posting some of our favorites here, but please ask if you want any other recommendations! Blue Period by Tsubasa YamaguchiAn aimless teenager stumbles into his high school art department and commits himself to becoming an artist. It also teaches the reader how to become a better artist, too! Kowloon Generic Romance by Jun MayuzukiReiko Kujirai is a 30-something real estate agent living in Kowloon Walled City. She’s constantly butting heads with...

DC Comics is showing the future of their universe in DC Future State, running in January and February, as a new set of miniseries by a cool group of creators comes out with some of DC’s favorite characters. Since some of these are some of our favorite creators (such as Becky Cloonan, Mariko Tamaki, Gene Luen Yang, Ram V, Christopher Priest, Marguerite Bennett, Dan Mora, Jen Bartel, Leila Del Duca, Joelle Jones, and Steve Pugh!), but all the titles are new Future State versions, we wanted to list all the info here so you can see which ones you are interested in. We attached a PDF you can look over for each title, who is creating it,...

As the year draws to a close, it’s time for our look back at the best selling graphic novels and issues at all of our stores!

Best of 2014 Podcast – Part Two!

We put together our lists of the best of 2014! We have several different categories, and everything on these lists below are the best things that came out this year.

On our podcast we discuss them all to arrive at the top of each category.

Best Writer

Best All-Ages Comic/Graphic Novel

Best Colorist

Best Ongoing Series

Best Book

2014 was a great and interesting year for comics! We’ve compiled all of our records to list Big Planet Comics’ best selling comics and graphic novels of the year. We’ve also listed each of our four store’s best sellers separately too, so you can see the interesting variations from store to store.