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     CommentAuthorOK Comics
   • CommentTimeOct 29th 2010

    
   Oliver and I are about to compile a list of all the great graphic novels of the year.
   What's your favourite book of 2010 so far?
2. • CommentAuthorIan T.
   • CommentTimeOct 29th 2010

    
   Unsurprisingly I'd give it to 'The Outfit' but that is a huge personal bias on my part. Other then that I'd suggest that 'American Vampire' is as strong a start to anything else that made it out this year. Oh & 'Beasts of Burden' is a great book.
3. • CommentAuthorLee
   • CommentTimeOct 29th 2010

    
   Dunno about graphic novels but Scalped, Powers, Invincible Iron Man and The Boys are all great.
4. •  
     CommentAuthorOK Comics
   • CommentTimeOct 29th 2010

    
   I agree. Outfit and American Vampire are probably going to make our Top 10.
5. • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
   • CommentTimeOct 30th 2010 edited

    
   I second Beasts of Burden...
6. • CommentAuthorLamont Cranston
   • CommentTimeNov 1st 2010

    
   My Top Ten Graphic Novels/OGNs/TPBs/spined shelf-ready comics for 2010 A.D. presented for your consideration are:
   
   Wilson by Daniel Clowes
   Acme Novelty Library #20 by Chris Ware
   The Outfit by Darwyn Cooke
   Love And Rockets New Stories #3 by Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez
   Mome (Whatever the latest one is) by diverse hands
   Marvel Masterworks: Deathlok The Demolisher by Rich Buckler et al.
   Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. by Steranko
   The Creeper by Mr. Steve Ditko
   X-Ed Out Vol.1 by Charles Burns
   Dong-Xoai, Vietnam 1965 by Mr. Joe Kubert
   
   One of them hasn’t been published yet, and several (okay, most)I have yet to purchase but I have no doubt that these are the books that will reward my attentions sufficiently to define the year of 2010 for me in a sequential graphic narrative sense. Homina! Homina! Boo-ya! Comics!
7. •  
     CommentAuthorOK Comics
   • CommentTimeNov 2nd 2010

    
   How was Acme Novelty Library 20? Did you like it?
8. • CommentAuthorLamont Cranston
   • CommentTimeNov 2nd 2010

    
   Actually I haven't read it. In fact I should come clean and reveal that I haven't actually read a comic for 30 years.
9. •  
     CommentAuthorOK Comics
   • CommentTimeNov 6th 2010

    
   Acme's not even out and It's on my list!
   We've got a short list of 25ish books. In no particular order they are...
   
   Wilson
   - New Graphic Novel by Dan 'Eightball' Clowes
   
   Other Lives
   - New Modern book by Peter 'Hate' Bagge
   
   Blacksad
   - Anthropomorphic crime with awesome art, hopefully back in print soon
   
   Weathercraft
   - New book by Jim 'Frank' Woodring
   
   XIII
   - French espionage drama
   
   Chimpanzee Complex
   - Franco Belgian Science Fiction
   
   Siege
   - Marvel Superhero over the top nonsense
   
   Market Day
   - James Sturm's fantastic comment on modern society, told through a carpet maker
   
   Mercury
   - Hope Larson's story of two girls living in the same town in two different time periods
   
   Scott Pilgrim Six
   - Final chapter of the feel good epic
   
   Werewolves of Montpelier
   - Burglar dresses as werewolf to fool his victims, while a relationship devolves, by Jason
   
   Mass Effect
   - Game Tie In, Space Opera
   
   Losers
   - Upbeat, good fun, well written A-Team for the naughties
   
   Batman and Robin
   - Bonkers and Awesome
   
   Revolver
   - Man switches daily between real world and apocalypse world, but which is best?
   
   Dark Rain
   - Set in New Orleans durin Katrina, two guys try to rob a bank and help survivors
   
   Hellblazer Pandemonium
   - Good looking, well written, John Constantine called out to Afghanistan vs occult stuff
   
   Mezolith
   - So well illustrated it's allmost unbeleivable, Stone age coming of age story with added horror
   
   X'ed Out
   - First chapter in Charles 'Black Hole' Burns's mental new series
   
   Palookavile
   - Seth's Clyde Fans continues
   
   War of the Trenches
   - Pretty awesome tres French WW1 stories
   
   Parker: The Outfit
   - Darwyn Cooke's adaption of classic crime book
   
   Wolverine Weapon X: Tomorrow Dies Today
   - Logan vs Terminator
   
   Heart of Darkness
   - Oppressive story and artwork, adaptation of classic novel
   
   Mountains of Madness
   - Adaptation of Lovecraft novel, in a Tintin style
   
   American Vampire
   - 20th Century History of America told through Horror Western Action Adventure
   
   Meanwhile
   - Choose your own adventure
   
   Stephen King's N
   - Genuinely scary modern horror, with great Alex Maleev art
   
   Acme Novelty Library
   - not out yet, but probably awesome
   
   What's your favourite?
10. • CommentAuthorLamont Cranston
    • CommentTimeNov 9th 2010

     
    I have read these:
    
    X'ed Out Vol. 1 (of 3)
    Charles Burns does his wicked groove thang of disaffected young adults soaking up nightmarish horror like self absorbed blotter paper. I like the Dad myself. Yeah, sad Dad smoking his way to death while weeping fat tears of loss rocks my world. Don’t worry, kids, you won’t end up like that! Hah! Also features - juxtaposition of the clinical sterility of Tin-Tin against Burns’ rather more scabby and pustulant visions. Or summat. It is a handsomely produced book as well and I like the colours too. It’s Charles Burns’ X-ed Out Vol.1 (of 3). It’s awesome but not for children.
    
    Wolverine Weapon X: Tomorrow Dies Today
    Fun Fact: in The Future you will be dead. Deathlok lacks patience. Deathlok is going to help The Future along. Deathlok is The Future and The Future hates you! Nothing can stop Deathlok! Nothing can stop The Future! Unless…unless...
    Wait, am I saying Wolverine Weapon X: Tomorrow Dies Today is awesome?
    I am.
    
    Meanwhile by Jason Shiga
    This deserves special mention due to the sheer technical virtuosity and scary intelligence required to bring something so simple sounding as “A Choose Your Own Adventure Book” to such elegantly executed life. An awesome feat and an awesome object that will reward the purchaser with much fun. It’s awesome too.
11. • CommentAuthorThe Kalamity Kid
    • CommentTimeNov 14th 2010

     
    So many great books mentioned that I definitely agree with. Can't help but think there's something that's missing that I can't put my finger on though.
12. •  
      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeNov 15th 2010

     
    Talking of 'technical virtuosity and scary intelligence', I'm halfway through Acme Novelty Library 20: Lint. Chris Ware has gone and done it again... The book's about a man called Lint, but that's kind of irrelevant, he's doing things that other graphic novelists don't do, he's using the form of comics in a way other people don't; layout, colour, story structure, all loads more interesting than anything else out there... RECOMMENDED.