Best of 2021 - Graphic Novels

I bought 31 graphic novels this year and I've read 20 of them so far, so I'm doing the same as I did last year keeping up. I still have 16 left unread from 2019-2020. All in all, I read about 42 graphic novels this year, most of them bigger hardcovers. I'm going to try to read more in the next year, but I read less this year, so I don't know how realistic that is.

If you wanted to get a sense of what I think was the best of 2021, and you're only buying graphic novels, here are my recommendations, broken down by creative team a bit:

1. Tom Taylor: DCeased (Available in two trades and two hardcovers), Nightwing Leaping Into Light Vol 1 HC, Suicide Squad Bad Blood HC, Seven Secrets (2 trades)
2. Ed Brubaker (Reckless by Brubaker & Phillips (two volumes out this year, plus the one that came out last year, crime fiction at its finest)
3. Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky (One more volume came out this year, for 6 trades, and two hardcovers, with more on the way)
4. James Tynion (Batman (3 trades or hardcovers, with the last two coming in hardcover and maybe trade next year), The Joker (1 hardcover), Something Is Killing the Children (3 trades or 1 hardcover)
5. Savage Avengers (A couple more trades, with the final one coming in 2022)
6. Immortal Hulk (Almost done, with 10 trades out and 4 hardcovers, final volumes of both should come out in 2022)
7. Shadecraft (1 trade, but if you haven't read their other work, Skyward, I recommend that too, either in one hardcover or three trades)
8. Junji Ito (This year's were Lovesickness, Sensor, and Deserter)
9. Stray Dogs (1 trade from Image)

My Favorite Graphic Novels of 2021:
(Published in 2021)

1. Nightwing Vol 1: Leaping Into Light HC
2. Reckless: Destroy All Monsters HC
3. Reckless: Friend of the Devil HC
4. DCeased Hope at World's End HC
5. DCeased Unkillables HC
6. DCeased Dead Planet HC
7. Friday Vol 1 TP
8. Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky Vol 1 HC
9. Immortal Hulk Vol 3-4 HC
10. Skyward HC
11. Something is Killing the Children Vol 1 HC
12. Gideon Falls Vol 1 HC
13. Lovesickeness HC
14. Grendel Devil's Odyssey HC
15. Fantastic Four Fate of the Four HC
16. Magic Vol 1 HC
17. Swing Vol 4 GN
18. The Good Asian Vol 1 TP
19. The Silver Coin Vol 1 TP

Graphic Novels I Read This Year:

All My Little Demons HC

Alpha Flight by John Byrne Omnibus HC

Analog Vol 2-4 TP

DCeased Dead Planet HC

DCeased Hope at World's End HC

DCeased Unkillables HC

Daredevil by Chip Zdarsky Vol 1 HC

Family Tree Vol 1-2 TP

Fantastic Four Fate of the Four HC

Friday Vol 1 TP

Gideon Falls Vol 1 HC

Grendel Devil's Odyssey HC

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 The Final Gauntlet

Immortal Hulk Vol 3-4 HC

Klaus Life & Times of Santa Claus HC

Lovesickeness HC

Magic Vol 1 HC

Marvels Snapshots HC

Middlewest Book 1 TP

Nightwing Vol 1: Leaping Into Light HC

Once and Future Vol 1 HC

Rat Queens Vol 8 TP

Reckless: Destroy All Monsters HC

Reckless: Friend of the Devil

Royalboiler Art of Brandon Graham TP

SFSX Vol 1 TP

Seven Secrets Vol 1-2 TP

Sex Criminals Vol 3 HC

Skyward HC

Something is Killing the Children Vol 1 HC

Suicide Squad Bad Blood HC

Swing Vol 4 GN

The Good Asian Vol 1 TP

The Silver Coin Vol 1 TP

We Only Find Them When They're Dead Vol 1 TP

Wonder Woman Earth One Vol 1-3 HC

World of Black Hammer Library Vol 1 HC

Write It In Blood TP