Comics of the last ten years

[andrewducker]

Over here you can find a discussion of what comics of the last ten years you'd recommend to people.  Top ten only.  I thought of ten I loved - and then stopped.  I'm sure that I've missed out a lot of marvellous comics - but I'd have real problems dropping any of these.

Powers
Lucifer
Box Office Poison
Fun Home
Barry Ween: Boy Genius
The X-Men runs of Grant Morrison and Joss Whedon (in that order - they follow on from each other)
The Authority (complete Warren Ellis and Mark Millar runs, then stop)
The Ultimates volumes 1 and 2 (and then stop)
Fantastic Four (Mark Waid's run on it is magnificent)
Transmetropolitan (well, half of it was in the last ten years)

I've missed lots of good things off of there (LOEG, Promethea, Top Ten, just to name Alan Moore books) - anyone care to tell me what I _should_ have picked up?

Comments

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

There was another writer between GM and JW runs of the X-Men (possibly Chuck Austin). The GM and JW years are reasonably independant and the JW run should come with an additional warning that it was so decompressed it was essentially telling it's own story set apart from the rest of the X-Men universe (never mind the MU, a criticism often leveled, rightly, at the X-Men).

Personally X-Force/X-Statix blew everything else out of the water when it was at the top of its game.

[andrewducker]

Chuck Austen was writing Uncanny X-Men at the same time as GM was writing New X-Men, and there was pretty much no cross-over between them.

Whedon follows on from the end of GMs run with Astonishing X-Men, at least character-wise - and did avoid any crossovers. Which was nice, because it meant I could understand what the hell was going on :->

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

No, there were issues between GM's New X-Men ending and Astonishing beginning which dealt with the aftermath of the Xorn/Magneto nonsense. I may still have them. I don't presently recall the writer but it wasn't Morrison or Whedon.

I did like that JW did not immediately hit the reset button, but it did not take long for Marvel to completely get rid of most of the things that GM introduced during his run. Mutants as celebrities/socially acceptable homosexuals moved things so far forward it was painful to return to the days of old.

[andrewducker]

sorry, yes - I know that GMs stuff was picked up on - I just rmember picking up a Chuck Austen issue around the same time as New X-Men was ongoing and there seemed to be absolutely no relation between plots.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Are those X-men runs available in collection/"graphic novel" form?

[andrewducker]

Want me to hand them to you on Thursday?

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Yes, please!

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Other possibilities

Scott Pilgrim
We3
Gotham Central
All Star Superman
Queen & Country

As for your suggestions, I dropped Powers not long after the monkeyfucking arc and Lucifer I just gradually lost interest in. Morrison's X-Men suffers from wild variations in the art quality, while Astonishing's problem was more in the writing.

[andrewducker]

We3 and All Star Superman were both great. And I liked the first book of Queen and Country.

Scott Pilgrim was ok, but I'm going to wait until it's all done before I dive into it - it didn't set me on fire.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Pilgrim really ramps up in quality as it goes along. The first volume is okay but 4 & 5 are great pieces of work.

Man, I wish there was more Barry Ween.

[andrewducker]

God Yes - I'd kill for it.

[0olong.livejournal.com]

Goddamn, I haven't read any of those at all, barring one or two issues of Lucifer.

I should do some catching up one of these days...