Some really good reads came out this year
(1) Avengers Vs. X-Men
The Phoenix Force is returning to Earth, targeting a young mutant named Hope. The X-Men sees the Phoenix as a savior while the Avengers fear its destructive power. With the Phoenix approaching a war breaks out for Hope’s fate, and the fate of the world.
Written by by Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Hickman and Matt Fraction. It’s illustrated by John Romita Jr., Olivier Coipel and Adam Kubert., and published by Marvel Comics.
(2) Happy! (Issues 1-2)
Nick Sax, a corrupt, ex-cop turned hitman, finds himself in a bad situation with a hit gone wrong, the cops and the mob on his tail, and a child killer in a Santa suit on the loose, Nick’s only help is a tiny blue horse called Happy!
Written by Grant Morrison, illustrated by Darick Robertson, and published by Image Comics.
(3) God Save the Queen (The Immortal Empire #1)
Xandra Vardan is a member of the elite Royal Guard, and it is her duty to protect the Aristocracy. But when her sister goes missing, Xandra will set out on a path that undermines everything she believed in and uncover a conspiracy that threatens to topple the empire. And she is the key — the prize — in a very dangerous struggle.
Written by Kate Locke.
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(4) The Fault in Our Stars
Hazel is a teenager with terminal cancer, who’d resigned herself to her diagnosis. Upon meeting a young man named Augustus Waters at Cancer Kid Support Group, she finds meaning in her life. Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam.
Written by John Green.
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(5) Resident Evil: Retribution – The Official Movie Novelization
Alice fights alongside a resistance movement to regain her freedom from an Umbrella Corporation testing facility.
Written by John Shirley.
Professor Doug Wright and his nephew Ricky find themselves caught up in a deadly and growing tragedy at the Marhawa High School where a student suffers a horrifying transformation. As things get rapidly out of hand, Chris Redfield and his team from the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance arrive on the scene, while behind it all a mysterious figure looms.
Written and illustrated by Naoki Serizawa.
(7) Saga (Issues 1-6) Volume 1
When two soldiers, Alana, a Landfallian, and Marko, a Wreather, from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe.
Written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Fiona Staples, and published by Image Comics.
(8) The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury (The Walking Dead #2)
The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, and Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But with the Walkers multiplying, Lilly seeks refuge in a walled-in town once known as Woodbury, Georgia. At first, Woodbury seems like a perfect sanctuary, but Lilly begins to suspect the town’s self-proclaimed leader named Philip Blake, who has recently begun to call himself The Governor, who has disturbing ideas about law and order.
Written by Robert Kirkman.
(9) The Dark Knight Rises: The Official Novelization
Eight years after the Joker’s reign of anarchy, Batman, with the help of the enigmatic Catwoman, is forced from his exile to save Gotham City from the brutal guerrilla terrorist Bane.
Written by Greg Cox.
(10) Primordium (Halo #2)
The novel follows the journey of the humans Chakas and Morning Riser, former companions of Bornstellar-Makes-Eternal-Lasting. After crash-landing on the Halo ring during Mendicant Bias’ assault on the capital, they discover they have become both research animals and strategic pawns in a cosmic game whose madness knows no end—a game of ancient vengeance between the powers who seeded the galaxy with life, and the Forerunners who expect to inherit their sacred Mantle of Responsibility to all living things.
Written by Greg Bear.
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