When it's all said and done, there's no doubt in my mind that COPRA is going to go down as one of the best self-published comics of all time. This year, Michel Fiffe — who writes, draws, letters, and even ships the book himself — reached 25 issues, and while the book is still an homage to DC's Suicide Squad, it's gone far beyond a bunch of analogue characters with the serial numbers filed off.

There's a craftsmanship at play here that's hard to find elsewhere, a book that's filled with innovative page layouts and narrative tricks like serializing a second story in the last two pages of each issue. Every time a new issue arrives, it brings something that I'm not seeing anyone else doing in superhero comics. But then, that's been the case for as long as COPRA's been coming out. It's as good as it gets, and there's no reason to think it won't stay that way. [Chris Sims]