Dean's Best of 2010 in Comics

Over at WCBR, we recently crowned out "Best of 2010". Of course, our winners came at the end of an exhaustive series of nominations from everyone on the WCBR staff which we then narrowed down via a few rounds of voting.

I just thought people might be interested in what my top candidates were. I read a lot of off the wall stuff and sometimes that gets squeezed during voting because not everyone is familiar with the subject matter.

One area that was confusing was "best artist" and determining how to credit an artist who did a few stellar issues versus artists who were putting out monthly books. While I LOVE many of those awesome artists who show up here and there, I think to be the "Best" you need to be coming pretty close to cranking out a monthly comic book.

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Ongoing Series:
1) The Walking Dead
2) Scalped
3) Amazing Spider-Man
4) Irredeemable
5) American Vampire

Honorable mention: 28 Days Later, Batgirl, Batman & Robin, Detective
Comics, PunisherMax, Red Robin, Secret Six, Thunderbolts, Wolverine
Weapon X

New Series
1) American Vampire
2) SHIELD
3) Morning Glories
4) Scarlet
5) Orc Stain

Honorable mention: I, Zombie

Limited Series (ending in 2010)

1) Daytripper
2) Criminal: The Sinners
3) Siege
4) Blackest Night
5) Last Days of American Crime

Honorable mention: Atlas, Forgetless, Hack/Slash: My First Maniac, Taskmaster

Writer
1) Jason Aaron: Scalped, Wolverine Weapon X, Astonishing Spider-Man &
Wolverine, PunisherMax
2) Jeff Parker: Atlas, Thunderbolts, Hulk
3) Fred Van Lente: Hercules, Taskmaster, Iron Man Legacy, Amazing
Spider-Man, Chaos War
4) Robert Kirkman: The Walking Dead, Haunt, Invincible
5) Scott Snyder: American Vampire, Detective Comics

Honorable mention: Mark Waid, Nick Spencer, Jonathan Hickman, Brian Michael
Bendis

Artist
1) Gabriel Hardman: Atlas, Hulk
2) Rafael Albuquerque: American Vampire
3) Gabriel Ba/Fabio Moon: Daytripper
4) Sean Phillips: Criminal: The Sinners, Incognito: Bad Influences
5) Ivan Reis: Blackest Night

Honorable mention: Cameron Stewart, JH Williams, III, Chris Bachalo, Dustin
Weaver, Alex Maleev, Marcus To, Frazier Irving

OGN
1) Afrodesiac
2) Parker: The Outfit
3) Cuba: My Revolution
4) Duncan the Wonderdog
5) Area 10

Character
1) Dick Grayson: Batman comics
2) Carl Grimes: The Walking Dead
3) Bras: Daytripper
4) Damian Wayne: Batman comics
5) Stephanie Brown: Batgirl

Honorable mention: Peter Parker, Skinner Sweet

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So, enjoy that for whatever it is worth. All told I read over 700 new comics last year and while I do miss a good chuck of the DC universe, I think I've read most of the really good stuff. Of course, everyone thinks that. :)

- Dean Stell