10 Best Comic Books Of 2017

7. My Favourite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris' My Favourite Thing is Monsters is stunning. There's no two ways around it.

Set in the tumultuous backdrop of 1968 Chicago, Ferris work is meticulous in its command of history and breathtaking in its delivery. It's a tense read too, focussing on 10 year-old Karen Reyes as she works to solve the murder of her older German neighbour, a former citizen of the Weimar Republic and a Holocaust survivor too. Not only that, but Ferris makes an effort of bringing the past back to the present, granting the first and second volumes of the text a salience other books sorely lack.

There really isn't a comic like it out there, and while there's plenty for students of the sixties to take away from the read, cinephiles and purveyors of pulp horror will undoubtedly enjoy it too.

It's totally absorbing, and while there have been plenty of murder mysteries in the medium this year, none hold a candle to Ferris' work, which roots itself squarely in an almost timeless zeitgeist - one that reiterates that the nightmares of the past, no matter how much we may like to believe otherwise, aren't over yet.