In my first post I introduced you to the gang. That gang, being a quartet of comic fanboys that gather nearly every Saturday at Comic Masters in Whitehall, PA. The roll call includes: Dom, Ken, Robert, and John (hey, that’s me). Now, like any good team, we have a guest star or two (Marty, I’m talking about you). However, this is the core group (meaning the guys that have so little to do on a beautiful morning that they burn away their time talking all things pop culture).
In looking for content for my fledging blog, I asked them to try and distill some of our marathon conversations (this writer is awesome, that guy sucks, Blackest Night rules, what the hell is Morrison smoking, etc.) into simple entries I could use. Leaving creativity for actual comic writers, I came up with the idea of Top Ten (sometimes longer) lists. Yeah, real original. But, the other guys took to it, and we’ve been going non-stop for weeks.
To kick it off (with the last decade just ended) we talked about our Ten Best Comics of the last Ten Years. I will be posting these, along with our other lists, for a few reasons. One, I have time on my hands. Two, the guys were kind enough to humor me. Three, I think it might be interesting for other Comic Masters shoppers to see what some of your fellow customers are digging (or not). So, tell others about the blog.
John’s Top Ten Comics of the Decade (2000-2009)
1) Green Lantern (everything Geoff Johns has written- Rebirth, Ongoing, Sinestro Corps, Blackest Night)
2) DC: The New Frontier (every page is bursting with the heroic ideal)
3) JLA/Avengers (the greatest company crossover EVER)
4) The Work of Brian K Vaughn (I couldn’t decide between Y, Ex Machina, Pride of Baghdad, Runaways, Mystique, The Escapists, etc. Plus, he wrote for Lost)
5) Ed Brubaker’s Captain America (in a word- BUCKY)
6) JSA/Justice Society of America (Geoff Johns made this the finest team book for years)
7) Geoff Johns’ The Flash (all of it: his long run on Wally’s title, Rogues’ Revenge, Rebirth, Blackest Night: Flash, Iron Heights)
8) Gotham Central (the greatest TV cop show ever put to paper)
9) Mark Waid’s Fantastic Four (after Lee & Kirby and Byrne, this is the best of the FF)
10) Marvel Cosmic (not a single title, but a singular experience- huge intergalactic wars spread over multiple ongoings and minis. DnA are killing it, and Nova has never been better)
Ken’s Top Ten Comics of the Decade (2000-2009)
1) Green Lantern (Like your humble host he includes it all, plus the ongoing Green Lantern Corps title)
2) Geoff John’s The Flash
3) JLA/Avengers
4) JSA/Justice Society of America (Geoff Johns style)
5) Ed Brubaker’s Captain America
6) Star Wars: Legacy (a title that would be eleventh on my list)
7) Nova
8) Invincible
9) Justice (the Alex Ross mini)
10) Powers
Robert’s Top Ten Comics of the Decade (2000-2009)
1) Secret Six
2) Green Lantern (Geoff Johns)
3) Birds of Prey (Gail Simone flavored only please)
4) Green Lantern Corps
5) JSA/Justice Society of America (Geoff Johns)
6) Irredeemable
7) Paul Dini’s Detective Comics
8) JLA/Avengers
9) IDW’s G.I. Joe Titles
10) Ed Brubaker’s Captain America
Dom’s Top Ten Comics of the Decade (2000-2009)
1) JSA/Justice Society of America (Geoff Johns)
2) JLA/Avengers
3) Green Lantern: Rebirth
4) Green Lantern (ongoing)
5) Starman (the tail end of the James Robinson era)
6) Nightwing (by the short lived combo of Marv Wolfman & Jamal Igle)
7) The Flash (Geoff Johns)
8) Superman Books (Post One Year Later)
9) Project: Super Powers
10) Daredevil (Ed Brubaker & Michael Lark)
As you can see, we have quite a few titles in common (a trend that extends to our other lists). If I cross-reference our choices, our joint top five would be:
1) Green Lantern (Johns)
2) JLA/Avengers
3) JSA/Justice Society of America (Johns)
4) The Flash (Johns)
5) Captain America (Brubaker)
I feel that’s a pretty fair assessment of mainstream taste. That is to say- Geoff Johns is THE MAN!
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