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Tom Spurgeon offers a late wrapup of the best comics of 2005<\/a>. I feel pretty good about owning\/reading 4 of the top 5 (haven’t gotten around to that Frank Kelly book yet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Spurgeon offers a late wrapup of the best comics of 2005. 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