The Aughts

Funnybook Babylon has an interesting charticle looking at the runs of various Vertigo ongoing series over the years, following some speculation that books were being canceled there because of increased scrutiny from DC's new management. Chris Eckert suggests this is not the case, or at least not the only factor, by showing that the lowest selling titles are always canceled, although nowadays the best selling title is something that would have been canceled a decade ago. Eckert also runs a chart showing relative Amazon rankings for various Vertigo trades, a weak metric but all we have to go on.

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...

WOW, lots of reading to do to get yourself ready for the new year! § You will be dumbfounded with amazement at Douglas Wolk's...

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...

"Best of" lists are coming at us thick and fast! Catch 'em all! And then complain! • Whitney Matheson has her best of the year...

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....

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...

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...

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...