Who became evil because he blamed Superboy for making him loose his hair.

Have they done any print retconning to align themselves with Smallville, or has it been kept pretty AU separate?

I'm not sure... I'm 3 years out of reading my last DC comic that Neil Gaiman didn't write, and never paid much attention to Smallville in the first place. The comics were definitely influenced by the big reveal/wedding in Lois & Clark back in the 90s.

The Onion, which has been putting up a bunch of best of the decade lists, put up their best comics list. I don't have much to quibble with, except that putting reprints on the list is cheating, and the lack of Scott Pilgrim.

As far as indy comics are concerned, I think the 00s were pretty boring, compared to the anarchic experimentation of the 80s and the newfound maturity of the 90s. (Mirroring the trends in music, I guess).

I can't shake the feeling, though, that the best comics of the decade are off on some obscure web site that I haven't discovered yet.

Yay for Criminal, at least.

And trying to load page 2 consistently crashed IE so, fuck it. Can someone tell me what the last few things on the list are? I got as far as Tales Designed to Thrizzle. Which I picked up a while back based on the hubbub about it. I have no idea why it’s a big deal. It’s not that it’s terrible. It’s amusing. But if anyone wants a copy, I’d sell it cheap.

I dunno. I felt the same way about Jimmy Corrigan. “Well. That was... fine, I guess. Time to plan a trip to the used bookstore.”

• Achewood, Chris Onstad
• The Acme Novelty Library, Chris Ware
• All-Star Superman, Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
• American Elf, James Kochalka
• Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli
• Black Hole
• Blankets, Craig Thompson
• Box Office Poison, Alex Robinson
• Criminal, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
• Daredevil, Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev
• DC: The New Frontier, Darwyn Cooke
• Eightball #23 (“The Death Ray”), Daniel Clowes
• Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechde
• George Sprott, 1894-1975, Seth
• The Golem’s Mighty Swing, James Sturm
• The Goon, Eric Powell
• Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography, Chester Brown
• The Mystery Of Mary Rogers, Rick Geary
• One Hundred Demons, Lynda Barry
• Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
• Promethea, Alan Moore & J.H. Williams III
• Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea, Guy Delisle
• Tales Designed To Thrizzle, Michael Kupperman
• Why Are You Doing This?, Jason
• Y: The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan

The Archives:

• Bone one-volume edition, Jeff Smith
• The Complete Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz
• The EC Archives, various
• Krazy & Ignatz, George Herriman
• Sundays With Walt & Skeezix, Frank King

Yeah, I thought that Thrizzle wore thin pretty quickly, and I'm ambiguous at best about Clowes and Burns. Ware I can only appreciate on a visual level.

I don't see how you can leave the Locas reprint off the archival list. And both Hernandez Bros. have done work this decade worthy of inclusion.

Still, while reading that list I was appreciating how much in-depth and thoughtful coverage The Onion gives to comics. It has to be the broadest platform for comics coverage in the country.

Ooh, thanks! Interesting that they went for Promethea out of Moore's work. Outside Criminal and Thrizzle, I haven't read anything on there. Now I'm trying to work out what my personal list would have.

The Nightly News, for sure. That's one I half-expected to see in their list. And probably Casanova, DMZ, Gotham Central, Lucifer, Planetary...hm.

All-Star Superman, Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely

I did enjoy this. I don't read a lot of Superman, but this was fun, and I loved that even though it was ostensibly episodic, there was actually an undercurrent of an arc all along, like in Doctor Who. And issue #10 is AWESOME.

Black Hole

I've been wanting to read this.

Blankets, Craig Thompson

Will read!

Criminal, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

So this is good, eh?

Daredevil, Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev

So happy to see this on the list! This is what got me hooked on Daredevil. Some of the best superhero storytelling I've ever seen.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel

Three thumbs up!

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

Meh.

Promethea, Alan Moore & J.H. Williams III

A guy at my comic book store just recommended this! I didn't know much about it.

Y: The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan

Love.

Bone one-volume edition, Jeff Smith

I own it and will read it when I can set aside the time to forge through it.

No Scott Pilgrim, indeed! What's up with that? Also, no 100 Bullets ? Really? Was it ineligible because it debuted in 1999? Maybe. Because if they're lauding Criminal for being a great crime story, I don't see why 100 Bullets wouldn't make the list. No Fables or Powers, either.

Black Hole

I've been wanting to read this.

It's great. Recommended. It's been optioned to be a movie and it does work like a particularly good David Lynch or David Cronenberg film.