01 Peanuts - 1960s (Schulz)02 Ghost World (Clowes)03 Love and Rockets (Los Bros Hernandez)04 Dirty Plotte (Doucet)05 MAD (Kurtzman et al)06 Uncle Scrooge (Barks)07 Krazy Kat (Herriman)08 Fantastic Four - Lee/Kirby run (Lee/Kirby)09 Master Race (Krigstein/Feldstein)10 The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Gloeckner)11 Art School Confidential (Clowes)12 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Miyazaki)13 Thimble Theatre 1930-1938 (Segar)14 Amazing Spider-Man (Lee/Ditko/Romita)15 Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson)16 Hate (Bagge)17 Pogo (Kelly)18 Tintin (Herge)19 Maus (Spiegelman)20 Groo (Aragones)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 28 November 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)
if i had watchmen wd have swapped places w.dan dare
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 28 November 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 28 November 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 28 November 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)
(And again, I didn't vote for anything I haven't read relatively recently.)
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)
(i will look at the noms in a bit and see if i can reconstruct it "judiciously and unbiasedly") (knowing that i can't)
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)
a) I had only recently finished reading Bone;
b) Spy vs Spy's strengths are not shared by anything else on my ballot, and yet are very comics-specific strengths.)
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)
― DV (dirtyvicar), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)
― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)
No Let Me Drown was at No. 25.
― Vic Fluro, Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)
1. Top 10 (Moore)2. New X-Men (Morrison)3. Fables (Willingham)4. Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits (Ennis)5. Queen & Country (Rucka)6. Powers (Bendis)7. The Invisibles (Morrison)8. Watchmen (Moore)9. Planetary (Ellis)10. Seaguy (Morrison)11. JLA (Morrison)12. Flex Mentallo (Morrison)13. Sandman: A Doll's House (Gaiman)14. Hellboy: A Chained Coffin & Other Tales (Mignola)15. Y: The Last Man (Vaughan)16. League of Extraordinary Gentleman (Moore)17. Uzumaki (Ito)18. Sleeper (Brubaker)
Very contemporary/superhero-centric, but hey, that's how I roll. I wish I had ranked Q&C higher in retrospect, I didn't think it would need that much help for some reason. On the other hand, I'm very gratified by Top 10's relatively high placing.
― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)
I will run the 2004 poll if people want. It'll just be a straight 'send in your top 10' though, none of this fancy stuff.
― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)
jaka's story does duty for cerebus as a "whole" (ie from very start up to halfway through jaka's story when i started to flag)
― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 28 November 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)
The only change I'd make from Nov. 5th, when I voted, would be to bump Nick Fury and put the Fourth World in its place, and to trade places between Maus (16) and Jimmy Corrigan (20).
― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 28 November 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)
My top 4 I'm sure gives me away!
leeeeeway
This is how my legal name is pronounced.
I also wished I put Q&C up higher. I am quite surprised, though, that Cages missed out.
― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 29 November 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)
1. Doom Patrol2. Swamp Thing (Moore run)3. Flex Mentallo4. DC: The New Frontier5. The Fourth World6. Howard the Duck7. Elektra: Assassin8. Doctor Strange9. The Invisibles10. Fantastic Four - Lee/Kirby11. Watchmen12. Nick Fury13. Frank14. Cages15. Batman: Year One16. Fantastic Four - Byrne17. Sandman: Doll's House18. Krazy Kat19. V for Vendetta20. Seaguy
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 29 November 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 29 November 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)
01 Fantastic Four - Lee/Kirby Run (Lee/Kirby)02 Watchmen (Moore/Gibbons)03 Calvin And Hobbes (Watterson)04 Swamp Thing - Moore Run (Moore/Bissette)05 Planetary (Ellis/Cassaday)
06 From Hell (Moore/Cambpell)07 New X-Men - Morrison Run (Morrison/Quitely et al.)08 Amazing Spider-Man 1-50 (Lee/Ditko/Romita)09 Alec (Campbell)10 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Miller)
11 DC: The New Frontier (Cooke)12 JLA - Morrison Run (Morrison/Porter)13 Top 10 (Moore/Ha)14 Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer (Katchor)15 League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1 (Moore/O'Neill)
16 Jimmy Corrigan (Ware)17 V For Vendetta (Moore/Lloyd)18 Howard The Duck (Gerber/various)19 Doom Patrol - Morrison Run (Morrison/Case)20 Fantastic Four 232-260 (Byrne)
Stuff I voted for after somewhat brief exposure: 09, 14, 19
Stuff I haven't read in a looooong time: 02, 08, 16, 19, 20
Stuff I should have voted for, in hindsight: INSERT ANSWER HERE
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)
Krazy Kat, of course!
― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 29 November 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Huk-L, Monday, 29 November 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)
We should find links to now-past solicitations to jog memories, if possible.
― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 29 November 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― H (Heruy), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)
Captain Britain - I'm not very surprised, it does spend a little too long cleaning up the previous dog's dinner of continuity. The main thing that it does well is THE FURY, the unstoppable superhero-killing machine which was terrifying even in absentia. The other thing it does well is the Special Executive, which would be a generic superhero-mercenary team (though this is maybe the genus of them?) if it weren't for the sheer skill that Moore uses to make all the characters at least 2d in the three or four mini-issues that they appear in.
A Life Force - I'm a little surprised at this, though when I went to summarise I realised I'd merged bits of it with Dropsie Avenue. Will Eisner does the opposite to Moore - because they're "real" people, he can use visual and verbal shorthand to caricature them, and so tell a sprawling story in a short form.
Bad Company - U R ALL FULES! BAD COMPANY rOxOrS!
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)
1 Terry And The Pirates (Canniff)2 Thimble Theatre 1930-1938 (Segar)3 Dan Dare: Rogue Planet (Hampson)4 Corto Maltese (Pratt)5 The Spirit (Eisner)6 Tintin (Herge)7 Fantastic Four - Lee/Kirby Run (Lee/Kirby)8 Krazy Kat (Herriman)9 Doctor Strange - Ditko Run (Lee/Ditko)10 Charley's War (Mills/Colquohoun)11 Calvin And Hobbes (Watterson)12 Amazing Spider-Man 1-50 (Lee/Ditko/Romita)13 Alec (Campbell)14 Blueberry (Charlier/Giraud)15 Peanuts - 1960s (Schulz)16 Plastic Man (Cole)17 Uncle Scrooge (Barks)18 The Ballad Of Halo Jones (Moore/Gibson)19 Maus (Spiegelman)20 Promethea (Moore/Williams et al)
― David Simpson (David Simpson), Monday, 29 November 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― David Simpson (David Simpson), Monday, 29 November 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)
AlecMiraclemanCerebus: Jaka's StoryLeague Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 1Sketchbook diaries
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)
I've got to make the switch to gmail but I'm too lazy and fear change.
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)
― droid, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)
1. Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind2. Maus3. Sleeper4. Sandman: Endless Nights5. Bone6. Jimmy Corrigan7. Fables8. Y: The Last Man9. Get Your War On10. Goodbye, Chunky Rice11. Summer Blonde12. Blankets13. Powers
― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 1 December 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)
1. Krazy Kat (Herriman) 2. Peanuts - 1960s (Schulz) 3. Pogo (Kelly) 4. Fantastic Four - Lee/Kirby Run (Lee/Kirby) 5. Maus (Spiegelman)6. Ghost World (Clowes) 7. Little Nemo In Slumberland (McKay)8. Master Race (Krigstein/Feldstein)9. Thimble Theatre 1930-1938 (Segar)10. Jimmy Corrigan (Ware)11. The Spirit (Eisner)12. Uncle Scrooge (Barks)13. Doctor Strange - Ditko Run (Lee/Ditko) 14. Terry And The Pirates (Canniff)15. Fourth World (Kirby/Evanier) 16. Amazing Spider-Man 1-50 (Lee/Ditko/Romita) 17. Plastic Man (Cole)
― Not thaat Chuck, Thursday, 2 December 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)