The best comics of the ’00s | Books | Comics Panel. The ’00s were a turbulent time for the comic-book business, as mainstream publishers like DC and Marvel suffered the sales declines affecting nearly all print-purveyors, while publishers of what used to be known as “alternative” comics saw some of their products hitting bestseller lists and turning up on the front page of The New York Times Book Review. Superheroes were more popular at the multiplex, but in terms of readership and buzz, the story of the decade was how a handful of high-profile non-genre books helped advance the medium’s standing in literary society.
And there were other big stories over the past 10 years: the inroads made by online comics, the ascendancy of writers at “the big two,” the proliferation of outstanding archival collections of classic comics, and so on. Below, The A.V. Club’s regular Comics Panel team tries to touch on all the above, via our picks for the 25 best comics of the decade and the five best archival projects. The Top 25 [pagebreak] The Archives. The Top 100 Comic Book Runs Master List. Folks have been asking to see all the Top 100 runs (as voted on by about 700 Comics Should Be Good readers, who each ranked their ten favorite runs from an ongoing comic book series from #1-10, with each ranking given a different point total – #1=10 points, #2=9 points, etc., I then counted up all the points and presented them all as a countdown) as one master list, so, well, here ya go!
100 (tie). Doug Moench’s Master of Kung Fu – 95 points 100 (tie). Jack Cole’s Plastic Man – 95 points (1 first place vote) 99. Terry Moore’s Strangers in Paradise – 96 points (2 first place votes) 97 (tie). 97 (tie). 96. 95. 93 (tie). 93 (tie). 92. Small Press Comics Collection Part 14. Graphic Novels Book Lists. Cover Browser.