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20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade: 1. Identity Crisis
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: March 16, 2010
Remember in ninth grade, when you were totally into that girl in your Honors English class? She was the only reason you ever feigned interest in the Bouncing Souls and Perks of Being a Wallflower. And then, one day she calls you and is all, “Hey, meet me at the Chinatown Express. We totally need [...]
20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade: 2. New X-Men
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: March 11, 2010
“Thanks to things like ‘Buffy’ and ‘The Matrix’ the entire mainstream is pumped and primed to consume superhero stories.” -Grant Morrison, 2001 There were two versions of X-Men in the 90s. An awesome cartoon that instilled a love of Wolverine and Gambit to the boys and girls of America, and all of the pointless crap [...]
20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade: 3. Fables
Posted by: HavaB on: March 11, 2010
Who says that fairy tales are just for kids? Bill Willingham’s Fables has more than enough intrigue, politics, and drama to fill any number of high-brow literary works. Fables succeeds magnificently at molding the fairy tales you loved as a child into a grown-up saga without ruining your childhood (case in point: Alan Moore’s Lost [...]
20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade: 4. Irredeemable
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: March 9, 2010
What can I say about Mark Waid that I haven’t already said? When he took a job as editor in chief at BOOM! Studios I assumed Mark was settling down after a long career in comics with a fun job that would eventually end in retirement. I knew he was writing stuff like The Incredibles, [...]
20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade: 5. 100 Bullets
Posted by: Brendan K. on: March 8, 2010
The best comics start with a great premise. Brian Azzarello’s 100 Bullets starts with two. The initial hook is all about revenge: Agent Graves can offer you an attaché case containing a gun with one hundred untraceable rounds of ammunition, indisputable proof implicating the person responsible for ruining your life, and the guarantee that you’ll [...]
20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade: 10-6
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: March 7, 2010
10 (tie). Walking Dead – Robert Kirkman I can’t help feeling like this book should probably be #1 on our list. It isn’t (not even in my own personal ranking) because a few others were more popular, had greater impact, etc. But for sheer quality- in both concept and execution- The Walking Dead stood peerless [...]
20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade: 15-11
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: March 4, 2010
15. Blankets – Craig Thompson It’s hard to write an original love story. How does one make the most universal of plotlines fresh and interesting? By re-telling his tortured relationship between his fundamentalist Christian upbringing and his first real love, Thompson gives us a unique twist on the autobiographical love story. Most of Thompson’s childhood [...]
20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade: Hava’s Supplementary List
Posted by: HavaB on: January 15, 2010
A new decade has begun, and with it, High Five! Comics will soon be unveiling our special “20 (Or So) Best Comics of the Decade” event (take THAT, Siege).But before we reveal the big list, we’ll start with a series of supplementary entries from HF!C’s contributing writers about those comics we each individually loved, but [...]
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