“The best of.” Oh, really? The implied lie behind almost any collection advertised as “the best of” is that the curation is more than a highly subjective sampling. We know the game going in: “The best” sounds so much sexier than “quite eminent” or “highly notable.” Which makes “best of” sound rather like a come-on, as if to say: “Come on — get beneath this hardcover and feast your eyes on this superior body of work!” Yet in the new “Best American Comics 2014” — the latest release from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s anthology series-by-the-subject-matter — guest editor Scott McCloud has found several clever ways to infuse the brash advertising with honesty.