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\"GONZO:\u00a0\"Heartless\"\u00a0\">Drawn<\/p>\n

\"The\u00a0\"Building\u00a0\"Saga,<\/p>\n

\"Cleveland\"\u00a0\"Unterzakhn\"\u00a0\"The<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Mark and I unveiled the second half of the annual\u00a0Nexus Graphica best graphic novels of the year<\/a>. I\u2019m not going to reveal all the books here (though astute readers may glean the selections from the images above), so you best visit\u00a0the column<\/a> for the full skinny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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