With just a few days remaining in 2010, the best-of-the-year lists are springing up like mushrooms after the rain. Here's just a selection of what's appeared this week:

• NPR's Glen Weldon recalls the comics "that got their hooks into me this year," including James Sturm's Market Day, Drew Weing's Set to Sea, Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee's Thor: The Mighty Avenger, and Moto Hagio's A Drunken Dream.

• Deb Aoki surveys more than two dozen year-end lists to arrive at the critics' choice for the best manga of 2010.

• At comiXology, Tucker Stone names the 20 best comics of the year, including Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca's Afrodisiac, Grant Morrison and Frazier Irving's Batman and Robin #13, and Naoki Urasawa's Pluto, Vol. 7.

• Johanna Draper Carlson selects the best manga of 2010, divided into categories like best new manga, best continuing manga and best completed manga.

• Writing for Wired's Underwire blog, Lore Sjöberg spotlights the year's best new webcomics.

• Writing for Jezebel, Kelly Thompson concludes her countdown of the 20 best female creators of 2010, with the Top 10 occupied by the likes of Amanda Conner, Faith Erin Hicks, Becky Cloonan and Kate Beaton.

• At Topless Robot, Jay Barish names the five best and five worst comics of the year.