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Bleeding Cool's Best Comic Panels of 2014

This is certainly a Bleeding Cool tradition worth upholding, bringing together the chosen best comics panels of the year from our site writers. From the just plain bizarre to the hilarious and emotive, this year had it all and some of the finest creators working in the medium really shine even brighter when you take a close-up look at what moments they manage to create in single panels. Contributors to this list include Rich Johnston, Hannah Means-Shannon, Christine Marie, Josh Hechinger, Buzz Tippett, Christopher Helton, and Nikolai Fomich.

Here are Bleeding Cool's Best Comic Panels of 2014:

Rich Johnston's choices are:

Afterlife With Archie #6 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacassa and Francesco Francavilla

Multiversity #1 by Grant Morrison, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado

Avengers: AI. #6 by Sam Humphries and Valerio Schiti

Cryptozoic Man #3 by Walter Flanagan and Bryan Johnson

Hawkeye #16 by Matt Fraction and Annie Wu

New 52: Futures End #0 by Brian Azzarello and Ethan Van Sciver

Chew #39 by John Layman and Rob Guillory

Superior Foes Of Spider-Man #6 by Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber

The Bunker #1 by Joshua Fialkov and Joe Infurnari

Harley Quinn #3 by Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti and Chad Hardin

Batwoman #28 by Marc Andreyko and Jeremy Haun

Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight #8 by Alex de Campi and Gary Erskine

Forever Evil #6 by Geoff Johns and David Finch

Young Avengers #15 by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

All-New Doop #1 by Peter Milligan and David Lafuente

Kick Ass 3 #7 by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.

Invincible #110 by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley

New Avengers #17 by Jonathan Hickman and Rags Morales

Batman #28 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs

Earth 2 #23 by Tom Taylor, Nicola and Trevor Scott

Revenge #1 by Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill

Crossed Badlands #68  by David Lapham and Francisco Manna

Guardians Of The Galaxy #22 by Brian Bendis and Valerio Schiti

Justice League 3000 #11 by Keith Giffen, JM DeMatteis and Howard Porter

Batman Beyond Universe #13 by Kyle Higgins, Phil Hester, Tony Silas and Eric Wight

Original Sin #5.3: Thor & Loki: The Tenth Realm by Jason Aaron, Al Ewing and Simone Bianchi

Life With Archie #36 by Paul Kupperberg, Pat Kennedy, Tim Kennedy and Jim Amash

Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #1 by Brian Bendis and David Marquez

Trees #1 by Warren Ellis and Josh Howard

Forever Evil #7 by Geoff Johns and David Finch

Batman #29 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs

Judge Dredd Megazine #345 by Alan Grant and Michael Dowling

Have that Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad playing while you put it up…

Ms. Marvel #2 by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona

Saga #19 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Uncanny X-Men #23 by Brian Bendis and Kris Anka

Amazing Spider-Man #7 by Dan Slott and Giuseppe Camuncoli

Grayson #1 by Tim Seeley and Mikel Janin

Dicks: End Of Time #1 by Garth Ennis and John McCrea

Stray Bullets: KIllers #5 by David Lapham

Original Sin #4 by Jason Aaron and Mike Deodato

All-New Captain America #2 by Rick Remender and Stuart Immonen

Letter 44 #4 by Charles Soule and Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque

Sandman Overture #4 by Neil Gaiman and J.H. Williams III

Hannah Means-Shannon's choices are:

The Cigar That Fell In Love With A Pipe, by David Camus and Nick Abadzis

Fear, My Dear: A Billy Dogma Experience, by Dean Haspiel

Schmuck: Discotheque, by Seth Kushner and George Jurard

 Buzz Tippett's choice is:

  Savage Dragon #199 by Erik Larsen

Every page was a double page spread! The panels are all pretty glorious but the image of Malcolm punching his way out of the belly of the beast!

Christopher Helton's choices are:

Gotham Academy #1, by Becky Cloonan, Brenden Fletcher, and Karl Kerschl

Nikolai Fomich's choice is:

Thomas Alsop #2 by Chris Miskiewicz and Palle Schmidt

Josh Hechinger's choices are:

From "The Artist is Going to Hell" by Jemma Salume

Christine Marie's choices are:

Oddly Normal #3 written and Illustrated by Otis Frampton

Oddly finally finds her place amongst other creative characters in Fignation.

Thanks for another great year to all our readers, and all the hard-working comics creators and publishers who have given us so much to think about, experience, and enjoy in 2014!

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