§ It seems that 2007 is STILL winding up, as CBR looked at the big trends of last year including crossovers, and Andy Khouri sums things up:

We observed this Crossover Event trend last year, and I think the reason our observations of 2007 are so similar to those of 2006 is because most of the stories began last year really haven’t fucking ended yet.

“The Sinestro Corps War” – did Geoff Johns perfect the Crossover Event in 2007?
That’s pretty much all I have to say about the Crossover Event trend, except to add that the “Sinestro Corps War” situation is incredibly damning for the superhero publishers. Geoff Johns’ storyline achieved in just eleven issues of two existing titles a complete story, a staggeringly high level of reader satisfaction, anticipation for more, and, arguably, a genre-redefining level of creative achievement that “Civil War,” “World War Hulk,” “Countdown,” etc. have never come close to.


§ Part two looks at the Holllywood invasion, the music x-over and other trendlines.

§ Savage Critic link #1: Why everyone loves Jog.

§ Laura Hudson has her mom review Best American Comics 2007:

“You gave me some pretty weird comics to read, Laura.


Former DC EDitor Bob Greenberger’s new political acivities.

§ Believe it or not, someone at CBR is actually going in and counting all the adds and friends on various comics-related MySpace pages Is this actually a satire of some sort? Anyway here’s the Top Comics CReators on MySpace, as ranked by Friends:

TOP CREATORS (Total friends, monthly shift)
1. Tara McPherson: 26,613 (+2,126)
2. Warren Ellis: 19,844 (+413)
3. Jim Lee: 18,200 (+893)
4. Brian K. Vaughan: 16,207 (+227)
5. Roman Dirge: 14,759 (+191)
6. Brian Michael Bendis: 13,524 (+322)
7. Brad Meltzer: 10,820 (+202)
8. Steve Niles: 10,649 (+194)
9. Geoff Johns: 9,829 (+118)
10. Ed Brubaker: 8,582 (+160)

§ Another Savage Critic Link, as Brian Hibbs charts his best selling comics of 2007 from August to December.:

1 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 6
2 Dollar Book
3 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 7
4 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 8
5 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 9
6 ASTONISHING X-MEN 22
7 ALL STAR SUPERMAN 9
8 ASTONISHING X-MEN 23
9 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 5
10 Quarter Book – Single
11 Quarter Book – 10 for a Buck
12 WORLD WAR HULK 4
WORLD WAR HULK 3
14 JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 12
15 ANGEL AFTER THE FALL 1
16 DARK TOWER GUNSLINGER BORN 7
17 NEW AVENGERS 35
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA 8
BRAVE AND THE BOLD 6
20 NEW AVENGERS 34


The book list can be found here.

§ Steve Higgins best of 2007 list.

1 COMMENT

  1. I believe the list from Brian Hibbs is only for August through December 2007, not all of 2007, per the comment on his website.

  2. Yes, thanks for the link!
    And I’m telling everyone I run across that I’ve got a review of Exit Wounds coming up on the site on Friday, and had I read it in time, it surely would have made my top ten. It probably would have been ranked at four and pushed everything else down.