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Intrepid Comics Reporter and VM pal Tom Spurgeon just posted a list of the Top 50 Comics from 2006<\/a>. I’m nowhere near as devoted a comics reader as I used to be, but it’s pretty gratifying to see so many worthy projects out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intrepid Comics Reporter and VM pal Tom Spurgeon just posted a list of the Top 50 Comics from 2006. I’m nowhere near as devoted a comics reader as I used to be, but it’s pretty gratifying to see so many worthy projects out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-mV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18093,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-678-paul-gravett","url_meta":{"origin":1421,"position":0},"title":"Episode 678 – Paul Gravett","author":"Gil","date":"June 6, 2026","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 678: Paul Gravett \"We're so used to organizing society by male\/female and other binaries and age, and so many things that slot you into places, and comics perfectly avoid those things. 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