Best Scifi Novels/Comics of the past year?

[V]

Hey I'm going to a scifi meetup/conference discussion and they said the topic of discussion was the best scifi books/comics of the last year;

I've been actually using this year as a catchup for past years because it was such a letdown.

So what were the best novels? Or comics?

It's hard to keep track of the one-shot comics.

DC is going nuts as usual, and Marvel seems to be playing The Rise And Fall of Galactic Empires on us.

It's hard to think that "M-day" was years ago, or that the godawful Grant Morrison years are over.

But why do I act like there was a shining golden age just before that? The 1990's were infamously the years of "lets make as many spinoffs as possible" and sales went through the basement.

So the only really "Great" X-Men storarcs were written when I wasn't even born yet?

 

[Mistral]

Hmm..your comments do not synch with your topic. All you mention is comics-which, from your own words I apparently quit reading before you were born. So far, the best scifi novel I can think of from the last year would be Birmingham's Without Warning. It's pretty good, but not on a par with Vinge's Rainbow's End from a few years back. I think there is way too much focus on "franchise" writing, video-game tie-ins, and that beaten-to-death forgotten realms series, leaving little room on the shelves(or in publishers' minds) for original work.

 

[V]

well then what's happening in Marvelverse lately?

 

[miraclefan]

(^to the above posts)Untill either MARVEL or DC comics gets the rights to publish MIRACLEMAN, I dont know what's going on in those worlds, nor do I care to! Why don't you look at some ''INDY'' publishers?

 

[V]

(^to the above posts)Untill either MARVEL or DC comics gets the rights to publish MIRACLEMAN, I dont know what's going on in those worlds, nor do I care to! Why don't you look at some ''INDY'' publishers?

to clarify; the point of this thread is I'm asking for good recommendations of just that

 

[miraclefan]

Sorry my mistake, you sais in the last year right? can't help you there! unless it's indy superheroes then maybe I could make some recomendations!

 

[Mistral]

I made a suggestion-it's up to you to follow through and read it.