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General Comics Chat: The Decade's Top Ten

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    Peeps, I've kicked off my own comics blog with a look back at the top 10 comic book creators of the decade.

    Check it out.

    http://givemecomicsorgivemedeath.blogspot.com/
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    Happy bloggage to you!

    Nice move with the list - always guaranteed to get the party started. See, I'd say Mignola is a great writer just more sedate and less showy than most and Darwyn Cooke's (very fine)The Spirit is too reverent to beat Miller's bold new imagining. And Jeff "Bone" Smith? See- lists! They do it every time! Which is the point, yes? Shutting up now, nice one, sir.
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2010
     
    A very thoughtful and insightful read, Mike! Smashing :) I'd agree with Lamont about Mignola's writing, however, I can see where you're coming from. Since Hellboy quit the BPRD, his title took a long while to find its feet again whilst BPRD went from strength to strength, almost to the point of eclipsing the parent title. The Hellboy stories I've always enjoyed the most are the shorter ones based around folklore from around the world - they are great.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2010
     
    No Mark Millar? No Jeph Loeb?
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    Mark Millar was a close call - but I just felt that purely for his comic work (rather than the movies based on them) he was just below the big hitters, and that whilst he really did help reinvigorate the super-hero genre it was more a supporting role to Bendis.

    Loeb. No. Likewise Geoff Johns. He's nothing special is he, really?

    I was torn between Vaughan and Warren Ellis for the last entry - I think Ellis is much the superior writer but he seems to have got a bit off radar over the past few years (which is good in many ways, it just reduces his influence which is what the list was supposed to reflect).
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2010
     
    Ellis has been too busy playing in Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (!). And possibly writing columns for SFX :)
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeMay 19th 2010
     
    Ellis should've been in there, in my never very humble opinion. Loeb shouldn't, obviously.

    As to women writers, I find it unlikely that they'd not get jobs if they were writing stuff that'd sell (as Marjorie Liu and Gail Simone and others would no doubt agree). It's a male dominated industry, but it is a male dominated market. I suspect nothing sinister is at work.
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2010
     
    i am following your blog! i am having stalking fun :)
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeMay 24th 2010
     
    Awesome stuff.
    I wouldn't put Ellis on the list. He writes some amazing stuff, but for every good comic he writes there are three or four rubbish ones...

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