Since it’s the end of the year, and there’s only so much champagne one can drink while watching Andy Cohen/Anderson Cooper and hoping that 2019 will show 2018 how things should have gone, it’s time to look back at some of the best that the year that was had to offer.

To that end, I contributed some pieces to a few different publications who make a point of cataloging this sort of thing:

• Publishers Weekly: Best Books 2018 – Comics
• PopMatters: The 80 Best Books of 2018
• The Playlist: The 25 Best Films of 2018

Now you’ll have something to do this January besides catch up on new TV shows and ignore your dieting pledges.