Favorite Single Issue(s) Of The Currently Ending Decade, Whatever The Hell We're Calling It

There's gotta be a decent term for this time period we're up to our chinny-chin-chin in - the few I've heard have been crap. And writing "the 00s" can't help but impart a sense of defeat, that whatever effort we've attempted to inscribe upon this decade (racing to its conclusion) is almost instantly rendered null, as would anything associated with those damn zeroes (two of 'em, as if to mock). All that angst and joy can't help but come to nothing (NOTHING) within that semantic context.

Of course, you could say that those numbers are redolent of possiblity, ready to be added onto, but that's probably more appropriate at the onset, when we're all holding our breath before eternity's clock, ready to turn over and usher in tomorrow.

WAIT , FUCK - IGNORE ALL THAT. COMICS?

ANYWAY:

A TIE!

LOVE & ROCKETS VOL. 2 #10 (which is alot like that issue of ANIMAL MAN where Buddy was adrift in time and found himself haunting his own house)

and

SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY #1 (which is not unlike WIGWAM BAM (THINK ABOUT IT)

SOME OTHERS, ALL VERY GOOD (AND PERHAPS BETTER) BUT NOT QUITE AS "FAVORITE" AS ABOVE:
SOLO #12
HOURMAN #21
ALL STAR SUPERMAN #10
CASANOVA #2
THE INTIMATES #6
PUNISHER MAX: THE END
and probably a few others too!

I think some of the rucka/jhw detective issues are contenders on the hero tip

I haven't read a lot of single issues of anything, but ALL-STAR SUPERMAN #10 sticks in my head, so that's as good an answer as any.

which was the Luthor In Prison issue of ASS? That'd be my nom from the series.

Eightball #22
Manhattan Guardian #3

Luthor in prison was #5. Also excellent.

Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #2 (though really the whole thing should've been one giant-sized issue as it was planned originally, but if i've gotta pick one it's the second)

Final Crisis #7. The appearance of Captain Carrot and the Zoo Crew should have been ridiculous, and probably would've been in other hands, but it was pretty much completely awesome.

This is pretty much going to turn into 'Favorite Morrison Single Issues Of The '00s', isn't it?

we're so predictable

How about GANGES #2?

Also:
ALIAS #1
MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS #5 (or whatever that single-panel issue is)
OMEGA THE UNKNOWN #7 (the Gary Panter issue)
PLASTIC MAN #9 (the "Abraham Lincoln Must Die!" issue
BATMAN: GOTHAM ADVENTURES #56 (for sheer WTF factor; this is the one whose plot revolves around Batman never having seen "In the Realm of the Senses")
PROMETHEA #32

And all the Morrison stuff, of course.

I am right there with you on SOLO #12.

I think I always want to be more amazed with Huizenga's stuff than I actually am. I think he is building towards some amazing stuff, though, for sure.

Worn Tuff Elbow #1

Also, I just want to correct and comment quickly on a previous selection: I feel that Manhattan Guardian #4 (which is what I meant when I said Manhattan Guardian #3) is maybe the best synthesis of story and art I've seen in a mainstream comic in a long time. Morrison and Stewart just work really well together in general (possibly better than Morrison and Quitely, even? </challops>), but this issue really stands out to me for some reason. The scene in Slaughter Swamp and the bits that show the slow encroachment of the Sheeda, in particular, are electrifying and scary and cinematic and jump off the page like very little else in comics does. As much as I love Morrison's work in general, he has really been bringing it in the last half of this decade.

BATMAN: GOTHAM ADVENTURES #56 (for sheer WTF factor; this is the one whose plot revolves around Batman never having seen "In the Realm of the Senses")

WHA???????????????????? Time to scour those back issue bins!

[it'll be fun seein' this issue in the bibliography of some Oshima essay.]

Bear #1 - by the second issue it was just okay and I couldn't even make it though the TBP but the first one is just the pure amazing blast of "I have been saving this madness up for years"