This year was particularly difficult to choose the best comic book writers, with great work coming from all major publishers, including Valiant, DC, Marvel, BOOM!, Aftershock, IDW, and Image.

To make this easier on ourselves, we've decided this year to limit our list to writers of serialized comics and not include writers who only released bound books (which we love, by the way; we just had to create some boundaries).

Here we go.