Didn't someone post a Guide to Comic Book Best Of... lists? Seems like they followed that fairly well here.

Also...seriously, where's Aquaman? New 52 Aquaman is pretty spiffy.

PizzaJedi81: Didn't someone post a Guide to Comic Book Best Of... lists? Seems like they followed that fairly well here.

Also...seriously, where's Aquaman? New 52 Aquaman is pretty spiffy.

Spiffy and also gleefully revels in the meme of Aquaman as "the lamest hero".

"You called Aquaman??!? You're fired."

I'm not a queen like Aquaman. I am Murloch!

ryarger: PizzaJedi81: Didn't someone post a Guide to Comic Book Best Of... lists? Seems like they followed that fairly well here.

Also...seriously, where's Aquaman? New 52 Aquaman is pretty spiffy.

Spiffy and also gleefully revels in the meme of Aquaman as "the lamest hero".

"You called Aquaman??!? You're fired."

LEt's face it...Geoff Johns is pretty much THE go to guy for revamping a stale character.

NeedlesslyCanadian: Presumably, nowhere near any "best of" list. One of the first of the New 52 that I quit reading.

After Hawk & Dove, right?

Where the hell is Batwoman: Elegy?

Willowy: Where the hell is Batwoman: Elegy?

They fulfilled their "Big Two" requirement with Animal man, honestly, so they didn't see the need to add that one.

PizzaJedi81: NeedlesslyCanadian: Presumably, nowhere near any "best of" list. One of the first of the New 52 that I quit reading.

After Hawk & Dove, right?

The Rob Liefeld artwork on that was a dealbreaker for me. My eyeballs were bleeding.

Forbidden Doughnut: PizzaJedi81: NeedlesslyCanadian: Presumably, nowhere near any "best of" list. One of the first of the New 52 that I quit reading.

After Hawk & Dove, right?

The Rob Liefeld artwork on that was a dealbreaker for me. My eyeballs were bleeding.

I refuse to pick that book up again until they replace the team on it. Liefeld is horrible, sure, but the writing was below fanfic, to me.

Aquaman! It has a gripper! A gripper! (new window)

The only one of this list that I've read so far is the delightful Hark! A Vagrant. Troop 142 and Scalped seem interesting, though. Also, I never thought I'd see Harold Bloom quoted in a review of the comics.

I wish there was more crossover between French bandes dessinées and English comics. Although some English comics get translated into French it doesn't often happen the other way around (Persepolis is the only major example I can think of.)

So to add to this list, here's the French comic book critic's association (BDs: serious business) long-list for the best of 2011:

L'Art de voler de Kim et Antonio Altarriba, Denoël Graphic
Atar Gull ou le destin d'un esclave modèle de Brüno et Fabien Nury, Dargaud
Les Autres Gens collectif dirigé par Thomas Cadène, Dupuis
Blast T2 : L'Apocalypse selon Saint Jacky de Manu Larcenet, Dargaud
Habibi de Craig Thompson, Casterman
Les Ignorants. Récit d'une initiation croisée d'Étienne Davodeau, Futuropolis
Lomax : collecteurs de folk songs de Frantz Duchazeau, Dargaud
Julia & Roem d'Enki Bilal, Casterman
Polina de Bastien Vivès, Casterman-KSTR
Portugal de Cyril Pedrosa, Dupuis
Pour en finir avec le cinéma de Blutch, Dargaud
Stalingrad Khronika T1 de Franck Bourgeron et Sylvain Ricard, Dupuis
3'' de Marc-Antoine Mathieu, Delcourt
Trop n'est pas assez de Ulli Lust, çà et là
Un Enchantement de Christian Durieux, Futuropolis - Musée du Louvre

Forbidden Doughnut: PizzaJedi81: NeedlesslyCanadian: Presumably, nowhere near any "best of" list. One of the first of the New 52 that I quit reading.

After Hawk & Dove, right?

The Rob Liefeld artwork on that was a dealbreaker for me. My eyeballs were bleeding.

He is improving. No pouches, the characters have reasonable feet, and Dove's boobs are each smaller than the size of her head.

It's still Liefield, so it's crap, but he is improving...

I'm humored that to find another Big Two comic to include in their Best Of list they hadda go to a collection of stories from the 80s.

And rightly so, Simonson's run on Thor was anything I read from DC/Marvel this year. Yeah, including Animal Man (its good but its not that good).

FirstNationalBastard: big enough to beat a midget to death with.

What about Frog Thor? Could we beat that to death?

"Criminal: The Last of the Innocent" should be on there, as should "Stumptown".

t3knomanser: as should "Stumptown".

That's a re-release, I should add. But worth it.

t3knomanser: "Criminal: The Last of the Innocent" should be on there, as should "Stumptown".

I like Level Up, but that's not an opinion I've seen shared too many places.

Relevant:



By the lovely Kate Beaton: http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=260

/old issue; but the book is still going strong ^_^
//glad it wasn't affected by the 'New 52' nonsense

bobbette: The only one of this list that I've read so far is the delightful Hark! A Vagrant. Troop 142 and Scalped seem interesting, though. Also, I never thought I'd see Harold Bloom quoted in a review of the comics.

I wish there was more crossover between French bandes dessinées and English comics. Although some English comics get translated into French it doesn't often happen the other way around (Persepolis is the only major example I can think of.)

So to add to this list, here's the French comic book critic's association (BDs: serious business) long-list for the best of 2011:

L'Art de voler de Kim et Antonio Altarriba, Denoël Graphic
Atar Gull ou le destin d'un esclave modèle de Brüno et Fabien Nury, Dargaud
Les Autres Gens collectif dirigé par Thomas Cadène, Dupuis
Blast T2 : L'Apocalypse selon Saint Jacky de Manu Larcenet, Dargaud
Habibi de Craig Thompson, Casterman
Les Ignorants. Récit d'une initiation croisée d'Étienne Davodeau, Futuropolis
Lomax : collecteurs de folk songs de Frantz Duchazeau, Dargaud
Julia & Roem d'Enki Bilal, Casterman
Polina de Bastien Vivès, Casterman-KSTR
Portugal de Cyril Pedrosa, Dupuis
Pour en finir avec le cinéma de Blutch, Dargaud
Stalingrad Khronika T1 de Franck Bourgeron et Sylvain Ricard, Dupuis
3' de Marc-Antoine Mathieu, Delcourt
Trop n'est pas assez de Ulli Lust, çà et là
Un Enchantement de Christian Durieux, Futuropolis - Musée du Louvre


I won't trust anything by a French critical panel, they are practically forced by law and custom to pick 51% of French work as finalists. That said, at least they didn't embarrass themselves by putting a decade-old reissue (Blankets) and a critical overview of a classic (Metamaus) on their best-of list.

/co-sign with all the Liefeld-haters, that guy should be banned from working in comics until he takes lessons.

deadsanta: /co-sign with all the Liefeld-haters, that guy should be banned from working in comics until he takes lessons.

He did a book with Robert Kirkman, which I couldn't even pick up, I feared the pouches so much.

I DO give Liefeld some props for coming up with one of my favorite characters, Deadpool.

bobbette: I wish there was more crossover between French bandes dessinées and English comics. Although some English comics get translated into French it doesn't often happen the other way around (Persepolis is the only major example I can think of.)

Blacksad has done reasonably well as a graphic novel series .. and Sky Doll got translated twice (once in Heavy Metal, and in a series/TPB by Marvel Comics).

On the classic BD front, both Tintin and the original Smurfs albums have seen nice english-language TPBs this year .. thanks to their respective film adaptations.

droosan: Tintin

I tried reading some Tintin, but I couldn't get into it. I just have a hard time accessing them for some reason. I get that they're incredibly popular, and I can see some rather innovative narrative techiniques, as well as stories, but...meh. Something about it is just off putting to me.

Numbers two and one were at an expo I went to a couple months back. The lines to get Beaton & Thompson to sign their books were huge. I had been reading Hark! A Vagrant for a long time, but she ran outta stock!

At that expo I also randomly fell onto one of the best comic books I've ever read, Any Empire by Nate Powell. It's brilliant.

Interesting list and a few things that definitively will check out soon...

/Animal was great, but not my favorite from the "New 52"
//Kyle Rayner fanboy...

DarkPascual: //Kyle Rayner fanboy...

Wish I liked New Guardians more, though. It's not bad, mind, but...meh.

Wow! They managed to stretch it across 4 click-generating pages! Oh boy!

/Pass.
//Just say no to slide shows.

Honest Bender: Wow! They managed to stretch it across 4 click-generating pages! Oh boy!

/Pass.
//Just say no to slide shows.

Hey...they could have stretched it to 20, so be thankful.

Aquaman knows what to do.

the opposite of charity is justice: I'm humored that to find another Big Two comic to include in their Best Of list they hadda go to a collection of stories from the 80s.

And rightly so, Simonson's run on Thor was anything I read from DC/Marvel this year. Yeah, including Animal Man (its good but its not that good).

Y'know Scalped, We3 and Daytripper are all published by DC right?

bobbette: The only one of this list that I've read so far is the delightful Hark! A Vagrant. Troop 142 and Scalped seem interesting, though. Also, I never thought I'd see Harold Bloom quoted in a review of the comics.

I wish there was more crossover between French bandes dessinées and English comics. Although some English comics get translated into French it doesn't often happen the other way around (Persepolis is the only major example I can think of.)


All of Jodorowski's The Metabarons saga comics are available in English.

And Marvel has been publishing the Soleil comics for some time now.

PizzaJedi81: DarkPascual: //Kyle Rayner fanboy...

Wish I liked New Guardians more, though. It's not bad, mind, but...meh.

New Guardians was probably the biggest disappointment to me along with Grant Morrison's Superman (Action Comics).

DarkPascual: Grant Morrison's Superman (Action Comics).

See, I don't like Morrison much, and this run has started to change my mind. I just hope that he doesn't negate all of the story in the last 2 issues of his run.

This is timely. I've been looking to get into getting into a new comic book series. Any great sci-fi comic recommendations?

I'm a fan of ghost in the shell btw

No mention of "Neonomicon"? I'm disappointed.
/Go get 'em, Nyarlathotep!

Just finished the first two collections of American Vampire. I will probably start picking up the monthlies now. Good stuff.

droosan: [yafh.com image 400x613]

/old issue; but the book is still going strong ^_^
//glad it wasn't affected by the 'New 52' nonsense

Aw yeah!

Also, glad to see the reissue of WE3 in the second list. God, that's a great book.

FirstNationalBastard: deadsanta:

I won't trust anything by a French critical panel, they are practically forced by law and custom to pick 51% of French work as finalists. That said, at least they didn't embarrass themselves by putting a decade-old reissue (Blankets) and a critical overview of a classic (Metamaus) on their best-of list.



You do realize that the second 10 were the best collections and reissues of 2011, right? So, a reissue of a decade-old book is exactly the kind of thing that would go there?


Now I do. Before, I was actually relying on the submittard and skimming the article for the titles. I didn't even notice the countdown went from 10-1, twice.

/blames the paginations!

rocky_howard: the opposite of charity is justice: I'm humored that to find another Big Two comic to include in their Best Of list they hadda go to a collection of stories from the 80s.

And rightly so, Simonson's run on Thor was anything I read from DC/Marvel this year. Yeah, including Animal Man (its good but its not that good).

Y'know Scalped, We3 and Daytripper are all published by DC right?

I'd read We3 and Daytripper, out of those two my opinion stand. Will check out Scalped to see if its three for three.

ryarger: PizzaJedi81: Didn't someone post a Guide to Comic Book Best Of... lists? Seems like they followed that fairly well here.

Also...seriously, where's Aquaman? New 52 Aquaman is pretty spiffy.

Spiffy and also gleefully revels in the meme of Aquaman as "the lamest hero".

"You called Aquaman??!? You're fired."



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