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.

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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.”

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• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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well, it's a start

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Did you mean to post that in this thread, Toddson?

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Achewood, Chris Onstad

Is honest to doggy my favourite thing ever.

All-Star Superman, Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely

Yeah, okay, don't know if it would be on any top ten type lists of mine.

Black Hole

I bought this for a friend's birthday, read it quickly before I wrapped it, and should probably go back and read it again. Also, be a less crappy present giver.

Blankets, Craig Thompson

And apparently that's a a habit of mine because I did exactly the same thing with this. Oops. Also on I should read again.

DC: The New Frontier, Darwyn Cooke

I really enjoyed this.

Eightball #23 (“The Death Ray”), Daniel Clowes

Yup.

The Goon, Eric Powell

Meh.

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

I was put off reading this for ages because of all the hype, but I loved it. I've read it four or five times in the last few months. Still haven't watched the film though.

Promethea, Alan Moore & J.H. Williams III

I really was not a huge fan of this. If they wanted an Alan Moore on the list why not The Black Dossier?

Y: The Last Man, Brian K. Vaughan

I was so invested in this that I'm still dealing with the trauma of the ending.

The others I haven't read, but I'm totes putting them on my Christmas list.

Like P-C, the absence of Powers seems weird to me.

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