Best Comics of 2010

[Watchman]

It's that time of the year again and everybody likes to make list. So what was your favorite? What were the worst? What are you're most anticipated comics of 2011.

20. Spider-Man: Fever
19. Milligan's Hellblazer
18. Strange Tales II
17. Wilson
16. Deadpool Max
15. Joe the Barbarian
14. Werewolves of Montpellier
13. Afrodisiac
12. Body World
11. It Was the War of the Trenches
10. Chew
9. Scalped
8. Sweet Tooth
7. Bulletproof Coffin
6. Parker: The Outfit
5. Acme Novelty Library 20
4. Morrison's Batman (Most notable Batman and Robin Must Die, Return of Bruce Wayne 6, and Batman INC 1 and 2)
3. Daytripper
2. Alec: The Years Have Pants
1. X'ed Out

Edit: While what I have read a bit of The Wonder Dog I don't think it should be on my list just yet. I really enjoyed the concept and it seems like a wonderful book. I've replaced it with David Hine and Shaky Kane's underrated Bulletproof Coffin.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Here is the other list that CaptainCanada used last year, for those interested in talking about the Best Of.

Best Hero (Male)

Best Hero (Female)

Best Supporting Character (Male)

Best Supporting Character (Female)

Best Villain (Male)

Best Villain (Female)

Best Story

Best Fight

Best Moment

Best Miniseries or One-Shot

Best Ongoing Series

Best Trade

Best Publisher

Best Writer

Best Artist

Breakout Writer

Breakout Artist

 

[Phaedrus45]

It's that time of the year again and everybody likes to make list. So what was your favorite? What were the worst? What are you're most anticipated comics of 2011.

20. Spider-Man: Fever
19. Milligan's Hellblazer
18. Strange Tales II
17. Wilson
16. Deadpool Max
15. Joe the Barbarian
14. Werewolves of Montpellier
13. Afrodisiac
12. Body World
11. It Was the War of the Trenches
10. Chew
9. Scalped
8. Sweet Tooth
7. Parker: The Outfit
6. Acme Novelty Library 20
5. Duncan the Wonder Dog
4. Morrison's Batman (Most notable Batman and Robin Must Die, Return of Bruce Wayne 6, and Batman INC 1 and 2)
3. Daytripper
2. Alec: The Years Have Pants
1. X'ed Out

I have to agree with Daytripper and Sweet Tooth. Those were two of my faves.

 

[runawayboulder]

Best Hero (Male)
Steve Rogers

Best Hero (Female)
Black Widow

Best Supporting Character (Male)
Steve Rogers - He's this years Osborn, popping up in every book now that he's Commander Rogers and is a supporting character in his own book. Who else could pull that off? Maybe a little unfair to other worthy supporting character candidates but 2010 certainly revolved around Rogers, both his return and cool new role in the 616.

Best Supporting Character (Female)
Sharon Carter

Best Villain (Male)
Dr. Doom

Best Villain (Female)
I don't think there was really a prominent break out female villain this past year. My guess is Moonstone was the closest we got.

Best Story
Salvation - Mighty Avengers #35-36. Hank Pym, Jocasta and 2 agents of GRAMPA against Ultron and an army of Jocasta's. Pym came out on top faking out Ultron and blew off Steve Rogers to do it. So many crazy and interesting new elements came out of this finale, including Pym and Jocasta's "relationship" and the truth about Infinite Avengers Mansion.

Honorable mention goes to The Fine Print from Thor #611-614. It was Thor, kicking ass and turning hell on it's ear.

Best Fight
The Avengers vs. Everybody in SIEGE during SIEGE #3.

Best Moment
The reflection of Cap's shield headed toward Osborn's face in SIEGE #2. That for me was the moment of the series/year/past 5yrs

Best Miniseries or One-Shot
Avengers Prime, Steve Rogers: Super Soldier is a close second. It renewed my faith for the possibility of a second Captain America ongoing. But Prime has been solid. I've been able to look past the crappy release schedule to see some of Bendis' better work. Prime should have been the initial Avengers arc instead of the Kang/Ultron/Maestro debacle.

Best Ongoing Series
Avengers Academy - the only Avengers book that doesn't disappoint month in month out.

Best Trade
I didn't really pick up any trades this year, unless you want to count the Marvel and DC Encyclopedia's.

Best Publisher
Marvel - don't read much DC.

Best Writer
Kieron Gillen - his work on Thor was on the road to being legendary if he was given more than 11 issues to put a huge stamp on the franchise. Hopefully he gets back on Thor in a few years but for now I'm really hoping he can save Uncanny X-Men.

Best Artist (tie)
Stuart Immonen and Guisepie Camuncoli. In 2011, Immonen is getting the art duties for Marvel's next big event, "Fear Itself". Now whether or not the idea of another event (or Marvel breaking it's promise of a break from them) makes your wallet groan, Immonen being the artist for this book is the one thing that can definitely get you excited. The guy is not known for being late and that's something that has plagued ALL of the Marvel events for years.

Camuncoli, after years of independent and DC work, started popping up in Marvel mostly on the Wolverine books (while maintaining his run on Hellblazer). He's got nowhere else to go but up and I'm sure in 2011, we will seem him take his career to another level.

Breakout Writer
Jim McCann - Never heard of him prior to Hawkeye/Mockingbird but from now on any time I see his name on the cover of a book, I'm definitely gonna pick it up.

Breakout Artist
Mike McKone - His work on brief work on Avengers Academy was outstanding. I can't wait to see what assignment he gets next. The guy reminds me of Bryan Hitch.....but way better. He could possibly be the best and most well rounded artist Marvel has. Every scene, if it's action or just standing around, he nails it. He makes standing around look interesting, not an easy thing to do.

 

[Watchman]

Before I go talking about some of my more interesting favorites I want to go over my worst comic of 2010. Now what was it? Was it the drug fueled adventures of a deranged Arsenal? No. It's bad but that's a glorious train wreck. Is it JUSTICE! Nope that was hilarious like a bad action movie that you watch with some inebriated friends. Now the award to worst comic of 2010 goes to something that is just plain awful. A story that seeks to belittle readers and to handle serious issues in a ham-fisted way. The entire story is up it's own ass.

My god JMS you are so ****ing subtle!

I find the entire concept ridiculous and JMS is well aware that people do, he spends an ample amount of page time to ridicule his critics using Superman as a mouthpiece. You can reference Thoreau? Gosh you are so much smarter than me. It comes off as asinine and childish on JMS's part. Basically if you do not agree with JMS's view on Superman or this storyline you probably don't have the intelligence to engage this story.

Now the main component to Superman's journey is to reconnect with man, with Earth (by traveling across America...). He does this by tackling important issues like immigration! Child abuse! Detroit! Of course in most cases Superman comes off as a bully. JMS's solutions to these complex problems? Violence...usually either threatening it or burning it to the ground.

I get what JMS is trying to say with this story. Superman will not always be there for us. As humans we must save ourselves. Of course, Morrison did all of this in a one issue and better in every way. Superman does not to reconnect with humanity. He is humanity, all of the very best traits. We need to reconnect with that. JMS's Superman is a very violent, elitist hero. He looks down upon us all and face palms. By trying to reconnect with humanity in Grounded he has alienated Superman even further.

Rant over and I still haven't got to that entire scene with Batman.

 

[Tron Bonne]

I can't speak properly of Grounded, since I decided to sit it out, but I think the one thing that boggled me was the issue where he meets Batman, and gives the whole 'You don't work for the common man anymore' thing, and Batman drives off saying 'That's not our place anymore' or something to that degree. That little sequence alone was so awful and made me glad I didn't pick up Superman with JMS coming on. I mean, seriously, it's like someone (BrainWilly, I think) said, it'd be like telling Blade he doesn't work enough to fight vampires, then having Blade run off saying 'Vampires aren't my problem anymore'. That was beyond awful.

 

[Themanofbat]

I prefered the JMS Grounded storyline back when it was called Midnight Nation...

 

[hippie_hunter]

Before I go talking about some of my more interesting favorites I want to go over my worst comic of 2010. Now what was it? Was it the drug fueled adventures of a deranged Arsenal? No. It's bad but that's a glorious train wreck. Is it JUSTICE! Nope that was hilarious like a bad action movie that you watch with some inebriated friends. Now the award to worst comic of 2010 goes to something that is just plain awful. A story that seeks to belittle readers and to handle serious issues in a ham-fisted way. The entire story is up it's own ass.

My god JMS you are so ****ing subtle!

I find the entire concept ridiculous and JMS is well aware that people do, he spends an ample amount of page time to ridicule his critics using Superman as a mouthpiece. You can reference Thoreau? Gosh you are so much smarter than me. It comes off as asinine and childish on JMS's part. Basically if you do not agree with JMS's view on Superman or this storyline you probably don't have the intelligence to engage this story.

Now the main component to Superman's journey is to reconnect with man, with Earth (by traveling across America...). He does this by tackling important issues like immigration! Child abuse! Detroit! Of course in most cases Superman comes off as a bully. JMS's solutions to these complex problems? Violence...usually either threatening it or burning it to the ground.

I get what JMS is trying to say with this story. Superman will not always be there for us. As humans we must save ourselves. Of course, Morrison did all of this in a one issue and better in every way. Superman does not to reconnect with humanity. He is humanity, all of the very best traits. We need to reconnect with that. JMS's Superman is a very violent, elitist hero. He looks down upon us all and face palms. By trying to reconnect with humanity in Grounded he has alienated Superman even further.

Rant over and I still haven't got to that entire scene with Batman.

Whether or not you liked Grounded, it is nowhere near being the worst. OMIT, Rise of Arsenal, Black Panther: The Man Without Fear, etc. are worse.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Best Hero (Male)
Batman (Bruce Wayne): Year of the Tiger? Please! 2010 is without a doubt the Year of the Bat and once again, a Batman is the best hero of the year. Grant Morrison's Batman epic came into full swing this year with the return of the Bat Family's patriarch Bruce Wayne and he brings some new ideas to the table.

Runners Up
Batman (Dick Grayson)
Steve Rogers

Best Hero (Female)
2010 has been a horrible year for female heroes between Batwoman being dropped from Detective Comics and her ongoing being delayed til 2011, Marvel cancelling Ms. Marvel, Black Widow, and Spider-Woman, and the mess that DC has created with Wonder Woman, there is no award this year for Best Female Hero

Best Supporting Character (Male)
Robin (Damian Wayne): For a second year in a row, Damian Wayne takes the prize for Best Male Supporting Character. With his continued progression as a character within the Batbooks and becoming the Guy Gardner of the Teen Titans with epically awesome results

Runners Up
Amadeus Cho
Aqualad (Jackson Hyde)

Best Supporting Character (Female)
Is it just me or was 2010 just one big **** you to women characters everywhere? Even supporting female characters like Mary Jane Watson were treated like absolute crap this year.

Best Villain (Male)
Doctor Hurt: The immortal leader of the Black Glove who brought Gotham to its knees and delivered the toughest challenge to Dick and Damian in their young careers as Batman and Robin.

Runners Up
Maxwell Lord
Lex Luthor

Best Villain (Female)
Misogyny: With the year that women have had this year in comics, I think that without a doubt we can call misogyny to be the villain for women in 2010 :

Best Story
Batman and Robin Must Die by Grant Morrison (Batman & Robin #13-16)

Runners Up
Jimmy Olsen's Big Week by Nick Spencer & R.B. Silva (Action Comics #893-896)
Chaos War by Fred Van Lente, Greg Pak, and Khoi Pham (Chaos War #1-5)

Best Fight
Batman, Batman, and Robin vs The 99 Fiends (Batman & Robin #16)

Runners Up
Ares vs. the Sentry (Siege #2)
The Spectre vs. The Butcher (Green Lantern #61)

Best Moment
Bruce Wayne reveals his return to Dr. Hurt (Batman & Robin #15): Just pure awesomeness. That's all I can say.

Runners Up
The Death of Ares (Siege #2)
The Resurrection of Aquaman, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, the Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, Osiris, Deadman, Hawk, Maxwell Lord, Professor Zoom, Captain Boomerang, and the ****e (Blackest Night #8)

Best Miniseries or One-Shot
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne by Grant Morrison

Runners Up
Justice League: Generation Lost by Judd Winick
Chaos War by Fred Van Lente, Greg Pak, and Khoi Pham

Best Ongoing Series
Batman & Robin by Grant Morrison

Runners Up
Action Comics by Paul Cornell
Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman

Best Trade
Absolute All Star Superman by Grant Morrison: Best Christmas Present...EVER!

Best Publisher
DC Comics: DC may have had some **** ups this year with the JMS debacle concerning Superman and Wonder Woman and Justice League: Rise of Arsenal, but the quality of the Batman books has really put DC on top this year.

Best Writer
Grant Morrison (Batman & Robin, Batman, Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne, Batman Incorporated, and Batman: The Return)

Runners Up
Paul Cornell (Action Comics, Batman & Robin, Knight & Squire)
Jonathan Hickman (Fantastic Four, S.H.I.E.L.D, Secret Warriors)

Best Artist
Dustin Nguyen (Batman: Streets of Gotham, Detective Comics, Batgirl): Nguyen really solidified himself as the definitive Batman artist of this generation this year

Runners Up
Fraiser Irving (Batman & Robin)
R.B. Silva (Action Comics)

Breakout Writer
Paul Cornell (Action Comics, Batman & Robin, Knight & Squire): Cornell may have been out there for a little while due to his work on Captain Britain and M.I.: 13 and whatnot, but his exclusive contract with DC has really allowed him to shine with Lex Luthor taking over Action Comics (The bastard!) and the awesome wonkiness that is Knight & Squire.

Runners Up
Nick Spencer (Action Comics, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents)

Breakout Artist
Fransesco Francavilla (Detective Comics, Black Panther: The Man Without Fear): The man's work on Black Panther and the Commissoner Gordon Second Feature are absolutely amazing. It's a damn shame he's doing Black Panther because I think that he would be much better suited for the Batbooks.

Runners Up
R.B. Silva (Action Comics)

 

[Drz]

Best Hero (Male)

Dick Grayson. Batman & Robin's consistant greatness despite me disliking the 3rd Batman and Robin arc where Dick wants to desperately resurrect Bruce due to Jason Todd's speech, but Dick's Batman career has been consistently good and now with Bruce back and Dick protecting Gotham, we got new writers to show how Dick is going to handle old classic villains such as Sensei, and still showcasing Dick's detective skills in the pages of Detective comics and Batman and Robin. It's going to be exciting seeing how Snyder, Tomasi, Cornell and Daniel continue the adventures of Dick Grayson.

Best Hero (Female)

I really don't know. Batwoman barely had any issues herself, and i've only read JMS' WW which has been going on for 5 issues + the 600th issue which was a prequel. I guess it's been a lousy year for females in general this year?

Best Supporting Character (Male)

It's a tough choice between Damian Wayne and Ultimate Nick Fury. Both characters are kinda main characters aswell, both have some of the best dialogue out there and both are just hilarious jerks. Tho Damian has progressed more as a character, and Nick Fury's mission takes a full swing in 2011.

Best Supporting Character (Female)

Gosh i really don't know sadly.

Best Villain (Male)

The Joker. Acting as an anti-hero while Bruce was absent, going full force againts the Black Glove while using the new Dynamic Duo as his personal pawns and fooling Dr. Hurt to his own fall was sheer awesomeness, added with Joker laughing himself as a hero, only to be taken out with a single punch by the now returned Bruce Wayne.

Best Villain (Female)

I can't recall any prominent female villain this year sadly.

Best Story

Batman: Must Die! The 4 issue finale arc of Batman & Robin was just fist bumpingly awesome. It was the new Batman with Damian and the Joker himself going againts the final battle againts the Black Glove with the return of Bruce Wayne himself.

Best Fight

Batman, Batman and Robin againts the 99 Fiends.

Best Moment

When Dr. Hurt sees whats inside the casket and Damian and Dick give him the double punch in the face.

Best Miniseries or One-Shot

Batman: the Return by Grant Morrison. You know things are going to be awesome when the chapter is entitled: Planet Gotham, added with perhaps one of the best quotes for Bruce Wayne in a long time: "Starting today, we fight ideas with better ideas. The idea of crime with the idea of Batman. From today on, Batman will be everywhere it's dark, no place to hide."

Best Ongoing Series

Batman and Robin by Grant Morrison.

Best Trade

For me it's going to be 3 trades, the Bendis Daredevil ultimate collections. The Omnibuses are on mental prices, so with 20ish bucks on amazon from each Ultimate collection, this was a great purchase to finally read Bendis' 5 year run on DD. Best of these had to be the 2nd one, with DD defeating Kingpin and the aftermath of that night.

Best Publisher

DC

Best Writer

Grant Morrison.

Best Artist

Dustin Nguyen, while Paul Dini's Batman run for me has been abit on decline, the art is just deliciously beatiful on each issue. Dustin Nguyen's only major flaw was the lack of care when drawing Dick-Batman with the physical body of a Bruce-Batman.

Breakout Writer

Paul Cornell. Lex Luthor in action comics has been amazingly hilarious, heart warming and awesome. Luthor's perspective and inner thoughts are always a pleasure to read, also he was called in to do a 3-issue arc for Batman and Robin to helpout Peter J Tomasi, and that has been (2 out of 3 released) pretty decent, which is good since he and the artist really *had* to rush things in, so bravo for that. 2011 will be a great year to see how he takes on the greatest superhero ever created, the man of steel himself: Superman.

Breakout Artist

Leinil Francis Yu. His 3 issues of Superior and Ultimate Avengers 2 have shown how incredibly amazing his pencils are packed with great inkers and colorists. He does draw alot of boob-cheese cake tho at times, especially on Superior #3 but the way he does the atmosphere, character faces and most importantly: Action scenes is just superb. Cameron Stewart also showed a big promise with his Batman stuff and the Assasin's creed comic!

 

[Watchman]

Whether or not you liked Grounded, it is nowhere near being the worst. OMIT, Rise of Arsenal, Black Panther: The Man Without Fear, etc. are worse.

Never read any of those beside the Rise issue with the cat and I don't plan on reading any of them. There are poorly written comics and then there are ego-driven, self-important, demeaning stories where the character spouts out hammy, non-sequitur, pretentious arguments through poorly, stilted dialogue. All with the writing sensibilities of a PSA. Yes I will take the drug fueled madness romp any day. Super dickery is back in full force except it isn't funny anymore, it's just sad.

 

[runawayboulder]

Yeah, 2010 was a real bad year for females in comics. Ms. Marvel, Spider-Woman, Maria Hill, Victoria Hand, Moonstone, Elektra, Emma Frost, ect all took a big step backwards this year from non use. The only one's that got good exposure were Black Widow, Mockingbird and Hope Summers and most people don't even care for Hope that much. Second Coming didn't deliver on many questions about her, they were more or less ignored.

I really think Marvel dropped the ball with Hill, Hand and Carter. There was solid mini series in the making there that could have been similar to what Danger Girl was years back.

 

[runawayboulder]

Whether or not you liked Grounded, it is nowhere near being the worst. OMIT, Rise of Arsenal, Black Panther: The Man Without Fear, etc. are worse.

OMIT is high and above the worst out of all of them. Grounded wins more of the "Disappointment of the Year" award. There was a lot of mainstream attention around it and JMS quit on it before it had time to get going. He's not that impressive to me as a writer anymore. Midnight Nation was decent to me nothing more, his first half of his ASM run was great but ended poorly and his Thor was a sign of things to come with Superman. He's obviously taking the Jeph Loeb career path through comics.

And Black Panther:TMWF is just gonna go down in history as largely ignored due to the absolute absurdity of it.

 

[El Bastardo]

To list a few: Morrison's continuing Batman work - any and all of it - and, perhaps more notably, Joe the Barbarian.

Any and all issues of The Unwritten, especially that beauty that was a Choose Your Own Adventure book in comics form.

 

[Dread]

Best Hero (Male)

Richard Rider/Nova. While his own series came to an end in the first quarter of 2010, he ended it by not only taking down his oldest and most powerful enemy, but shattering that whole space/time continuum baloney to bring Namorita back to life, in manly Capt. Kirk style. He led a team of space bad-asses to defend the universe from tentacle monsters, and ended THANOS IMPERATIVE having a Butch & Sundance finale moment with Star-Lord/Peter Quill against Thanos the mad Titan. All that's left is for him to return from the dead, just like Steve Rogers did.

Best Hero (Female)

Tigra. She resisted the urge to kill the Hood when she had the chance, deciding to choose the life of her son over revenge. I could argue even deciding to "have" the child which was, basically, the result of alien date-rape is itself an incredible decision. A heroine who usually was "furry fetish fuel" has continued to be portrayed as a strong and experienced figure by Christos Gage.

Best Supporting Character (Male)

Steve Rogers; he's been the coolest "guy who runs everything and appears everywhere" figure in years. Unlike Osborn or Stark, I didn't get tired of him.

Best Supporting Character (Female)

Ko-Rel/Worldmind. She's such a card. She was able to frazzle Spider-Man just on an initial meeting.

Best Villain (Male)

Taskmaster, hands down. He's had an incredible year. He was a working class "professional" in AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE, and one of the few figures of Osborn's cabinet to escape the Siege. He may or may not have a daughter in Finesse of the Avengers Academy. But what earns him the spot on this is his recently completed four issue mini, which finally revealed his origin and the state of affairs in his life, from the bizarre to the tragic. Besides, he's even rumored to be in the MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3 game, an honor that's so far been bestowed to MODOK, Magneto, Dr. Doom, and Super-Skrull.

Best Villain (Female)

White Tiger, probably.

Best Story

A tougher call than it seems. THANOS IMPERATIVE was cool, but so was TASKMASTER, the finale of AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE and MIGHTY AVENGERS. HEROIC AGE: PRINCE OF POWER was hilarious.

Best Fight

Hercules vs. Typhon at the end of INCREDIBLE HERCULES.

Best Moment

If I can double dip, Nova and Star-Lord having their Butch & Sundance finale moment against Thanos. If not, Iron Fist landing the final blow against the Beast-possessed Daredevil in the climax to SHADOWLAND. I mean, when was the last time Iron Fist did ANYTHING important in ANY major comic event? It was years before he said six lines in NEW AVENGERS.

Best Miniseries or One-Shot

TASKMASTER #1-4, although ANT-MAN & WASP has been pretty good. SHADOWLAND: POWER MAN #1-4 is a very, very close second.

Best Ongoing Series

AVENGERS ACADEMY, easily.

Best Trade

Didn't buy one this year.

Best Publisher

Marvel, by virtue of me buying at least 95% of my comics from them.

Best Writer

Tough call. Both Christos Gage and Fred Van Lente have been exceptionally solid. Jeff Parker, Dan Slott, "DnA" all deserve mention.

Best Artist

Mahmud Asrar has actually had a solid year at Marvel this year. Gabriel Hardman's art for ATLAS always rocked.

Breakout Writer

For me, it was Kieron Gillen. He really was the best writer on this volume of THOR by a country mile.

Breakout Artist

I'd never heard of David Baldeon before YOUNG ALLIES (or NOMAD: GIRL WITHOUT A WORLD), but he was pretty solid on it. Mahmud Asrar has also had a great time since he left DYNAMO 5 to do Marvel work.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

In regards to Best Publisher; DC seems to have dominated the top ten lists throughout 2010.

Considering how Joey Q used to crow about how Marvel was owning in sales prior to this past year (and he's been unusually quiet about sales lately, hasnt he? ), i think DC should get it, by virtue of their perservearance.

 

[HighFivingMF]

Best Hero (Male)
Dick Grayson or Rick Grimes

Best Hero (Female)
Batwoman? Were her stories in 2010? I'm not sure.

Best Supporting Character (Male)
Damian Wayne

Best Supporting Character (Female)
Michoone (The Walking Dead)

Best Villain (Male)
Simon Hurt

Best Villain (Female)
Does Death in Action Comics count? Can't remember any standouts.

Best Story
Batman and Robin Must Die

Best Fight
Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Damian Wayne, and The Joker vs. Simon Hurt.

Best Moment
"It's All Over"

Best Miniseries or One-Shot
Batman: The Return.

Best Ongoing Series
Batman and Robin

Best Trade
Walking Dead Vol. 11

Best Publisher
DC Comics

Best Writer
Grant Morrison

Best Artist
Charlie Adlard

Breakout Writer
Paul Cornell

Breakout Artist
Francis Manapul

 

[roach]

in 2010 I discover Invincible and it regained my faith in comics

 

[Tron Bonne]

Wow, really? Or do you just mean superhero comics?

 

[roach]

Wow, really? Or do you just mean superhero comics?

yeah after the BS with Marvel and OMD and the militarization of the X-men I had quit comics...there is a comic shop across the street from my school and I walked in and they had Invincible #1 for a free comic giveaway. I got it and loved it. I bought all the trades and got caught up in about a week.

 

[Dread]

In regards to Best Publisher; DC seems to have dominated the top ten lists throughout 2010.

Considering how Joey Q used to crow about how Marvel was owning in sales prior to this past year (and he's been unusually quiet about sales lately, hasnt he? ), i think DC should get it, by virtue of their perservearance.

If we're going by "best publisher that never once pissed me off in 2010", I'd have to go with Image Comics, to be honest.

I also wrote my own "Best Of 2010" article at Examiner here - http://www.examiner.com/comic-books...ings-of-2010-because-everyone-is-doing-a-list

 

[hippie_hunter]

Marvel just flat out pissed me off this year with OMIT, having Black Panther take over Daredevil, announcing Fear Itself while saying that they will have a "bevy of tie-ins", over doing the $3.99 price point, oversaturating the market with books that no one wanted, and their piss poor $2.99 price point.

At least when DC pissed me off, they at least know they're pissing their fans off and they do something to try and fix it like replacing Felicia Henderson with J.T. Krul on Teen Titans, or cutting the JMS storylines on Superman and Wonder Woman short because JMS flat out left, or completely getting rid of the $3.99 price point on regular comics.

With Marvel, they say **** you to your face, laugh, and continue on their way. DC on the other hand will at least realise that the ****ed something up, apologize, and then at least try to fix it (not always successful, but they at least you know....TRY!). Along with the fact that DC put out the better content this year with the Batman and Green Lantern books, Action Comics, Flash, and Secret Six gives DC the top spot this year.

 

[Dread]

It just felt a bit dishonest for me to not claim Marvel in my list, since most of my comics are from them. I mean, in 2010 I can count the Image books I bought on one hand (and that's counting ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN, which ended this year), and the DC books on two fingers. Even though Marvel can piss me off to no end, I'm a fan. I care about their universe and characters 90% more than Image or DC. I'm stuck. I just try to limit myself to buying their good content, of which they do have plenty despite high prices and huckster sales pitches.

I don't have any genuine interest in a lot of DC stuff, to be quite honest. And even if I did, I am not often in the mood to need to spend 17 hours doing Wikipedia research to understand BATMAN INC. #1 or whatever. I couldn't even name any of the new Red/Purple/Blue/Pink/Polka Dot/Sepia Lanterns.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Best Comic: I don't know, really, it's always hard for me to judge these things, but I would have to go with Daytripper. I do tend to fall a bit beyond in the indie scene, though, so there might have been something else out there I would put up there.

Worst Comic: I don't know; I do a good enough job of avoiding ****. Maybe the end of Simone's WW run? I read the first issue of Flash Rebirth, and it was fairly awful.

Biggest Surprises: Mark Millar's Superior. It's only about halfway done (and I'm sure Millar plans to do the whole volume thing from now and forever), but it's been a very good, heartfelt story on something that I had pretty much zero hope in. It's a shame that it hasn't sold like the rest of his stuff, since this is the Millar that I want to see in comparison to all the other 'stuff' he pumps out.

Nick Spencer's Jimmy Olsen story in Action Comics. Though I had high hopes for Cornell's run on the main title I had no clue at all how well that story would end up being.

Alan Moore's Neonomicon. I mean this is the most literal sense, because I did not know of its existence until it popped up on the Diamond List one week

Biggest Disappointments: I hate to give it to something by a writer I really enjoy and admire, but I'll have to say that Joe the Barbarian is on the top of this list. The art is gorgeous, but the story is just so damn...dull. The characters all seem fairly forgettable, and the whole fantasy element feels very by the numbers, outside Joe being in both worlds at the same time, but there's been almost no exploration of that. It's not even really a bad story, just kind of...average, if not a little below. Of course, it's not done as of yet, but with only one issue left Morrison would have to seriously turn a dozy for me to think this is anything but just decent. But, of all the writers out there, Morrison could do it, but this really felt short from what I hoped.

JMS' Wonder Woman 'run'. When I heard JMS was going to take over the title, I was intrigued. I become a little worried when not a peep from either him or DC came about the project for a long time. Then, instead of a peep, we got a shout of all the new direction and 'blah blah'. So, yeah, it should go without saying I just shook my head at the whole thing, but kept an open mind. But even when it came time, the four and a third issues we got were less than good, and sure didn't give me much faith in the run. Then, of course, he dropped out (or DC asked him to, whichever happened), and left the whole stupid mess for someone else to clean up. Maybe that, in and of itself wasn't so bad, but the fact that he went out of his way to make some of the most nasty stink about his bold new take (including being rather condescending to previous writers on the character) makes the whole situation nothing more than somewhat creative, but still oh so passing and unpleasant, fart to my ears.

 

[Themanofbat]

In regards to Best Publisher; DC seems to have dominated the top ten lists throughout 2010.

"Seems" is the operative word...

During the first 10 months of 2010, on three occasions, Marvel had a 6-4 edge on DC in the top Ten, on three other occasions, DC had a 6-4 edge on Marvel in the top Ten, and on four separate occasions, Marvel % DC were teid 5-5 in the top Ten...

Only in November, DC had a commanding 8-2 domination in the Top Ten... largely in part of all the Batman: Return one shots...

Hardly "seems" like a domination of the Top Ten...