2016.

Woof.

Never in the history of the internet has a four-digit number been associated with so much going so wrong, so quickly. Every other week it seemed like the political cartoons were stocked with beloved musicians, entertainers and other inspiring figures standing at this pearly gate or that.

But it wasn't all bad. In fact, here at GoComics we spent the past year preparing for something quite good: the new GoComics.

On balance, maybe 2016 wasn't the worst year ever? Maybe it was just a memorable one full of highs and lows?

Here's a taste of some of our most-read blog posts of 2016 while we continue working on the new GC. We'll let you be the judge.

January

• Big Nate turned 25

February

• The For Better or For Worse: The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston exhibit began traveling Canada

March

• Real Life Adventures turned 25

April

• F Minus turned 10

May

• CNN's Jake Tapper guest-illustrated Dilbert

• GoComics rocked Planet Comic Con

• Comics lost You Can with Beakman & Jax creator Jok Church

• Jim Benton, Dave Kellett and Michael Ramirez won Reuben awards

June

• Ziggy turned 45

• The Cul de Sac stage play debuted

July

• Comics lost Richard's Poor Almanac and Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson

• Garfield creator Jim Davis won the Inkpot Award

August

• Ted turned 20

September

• Savage Chickens creator Doug Savaged released his original graphic novel Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy

October

• We launched the GoComics Beta

• We went to New York Comic Con

• Some jerk stole Marmaduke

• Doonesbury turned 46

November

• There was an election of some kind and one of the candidates will be an elected official

• Calvin and Hobbes turned 31

December

• Brad and Toni got married in Luann

• Betty turned 25

• We announced a new direction for Comics Sherpa

With so many changes in 2016 -- not all of them particularly welcome -- we aim to make GoComics a bright part of the new year. Stick with us into 2017. The best is yet to come.

- The GoComics Team