The Aughts

Over the recent holiday weekend, we had occasion to spend a fair bit of time going through posts from the Old Beat, clearing out some spam and trying to clean up the database for various purposes. Along the way we were forced to violently relive the last few years of the last decade. It all seemed so simple once. So many news stories that never went anywhere -- a few we jotted down for future investigation, but there were also things like this fellow who spent money in 2007 to announce his new blog. Now it's only a reseller placeholder. They had such big dreams, but those big dreams crawled under a rock to die.

Blogger Hunter Phillips has assembled a "Definitive" Best of the '00s comics list by toting up the published "Best of" lists: THE DETAILS: • Compiled from over 60 “Best of the Decade” lists. • Only...

WOW, lots of reading to do to get yourself ready for the new year! § You will be dumbfounded with amazement at Douglas Wolk's list of exciting books coming out in 2010 like (above)...

Graeme McMillan rounds up 100 Amazing Comic Covers From The Last Ten Years. Was this the Greatest Decade in Comics History or not?

Star Trek: The Mad Generation via Derek Kirk Kim. This could sum up either the '00s, the '80s, the '60s, or the 24th century.

We're about to get out of town and looks like most everyone else has, but there are a couple of good links to keep you going over the holidays. Tom Spurgeon is running a...

"Best of" lists are coming at us thick and fast! Catch 'em all! And then complain! • Whitney Matheson has her best of the year list, and we guarantee it is unlike any other list...

Time's nerd site, Techland has named its top ten comics of the decade,, or at least contributor Mike Williams has, and it's pretty depressing. 1. The Ultimates 2. 100 Bullets 3. Planetary 4. All Star Superman 5. The...

To celebrate their 20th anniversary, film magazine Empire recently commissioned a photo gallery of stars reprising their iconic roles. Although it's been 10 years since they made the LORD OF THE RINGS films --...

If you thought yesterday's A.V. Club Best Comics of the Aughts list was going to tiptoe by unnoticed and uncommented on, you were wide of the mark by a fair bit. Sean T....

The A.V. Club's Onion's month-long series of looks back gets to comics with 25 Best Comics and 5 Best Archival editions. As the first official, thought out "Best of" for the Aughts of...