DCAU Wiki - The DC Animated Universe Wikia. 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. 97 (tie). 97 (tie). 96. 95. 93 (tie). 93 (tie). 92. Top 100 Comic Book Villains - IGN. Top 100 Comic Book Heroes. The world is full of superheroes.
Since the 1930s, comic fans across the globe have read in awe as we’ve watched these men and women clad in tights battle the evil that we couldn’t. From the Nazis to alien races, superheroes have protected the Earth and countless other universes from ultimate destruction time and time again. But who are the best and brightest of these heroes? Much as we did with last year’s Top 100 Comic Book Villains, IGN has pulled together a comprehensive list of the greatest heroes to ever grace the pages of the funny books. Some heroes are flawed, some are ruthless, and some are naively optimistic, but every single character that appears on this list have certainly earned their keep. The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines and Their Liberated Sexuality - ComicsAlliance. Yesterday, two new comic books from the “New 52″ relaunch of DC Comics provoked some online controversy: Catwoman and Red Hood and the Outlaws.
They were controversial in particular because of the way they depicted women, notably with the aggressively fanfictiony on-panel sex between Batman and Catwoman, and Starfire’s transformation into a promiscuous tabula rasa who can’t even remember the names of the men she sleeps with, and seeks out emotionless sex with both of the two male main characters while they essentially high five about it. Since pointing out my issues with Starfire yesterday, I have received numerous e-mails — from men — accusing me of slut-shaming. And that is why books like Catwoman and Red Hood make me so goddamn angry. Let’s start with Catwoman. The money shot that most people have latched onto in Catwoman, however, is the one where Batman and Catwoman have sex on a rooftop. Here’s the question, though: Why? The answer is nothing. But the problem isn’t Star Sapphire.
The 20 Best Comic Books of 2011. Every day between now and New Year’s Eve, we’ll be looking back at the best music and pop culture of 2011.
Today we look at our favorite comics of the year, from high-minded graphic novels to the serialized floppies that got us into the store every Wednesday. We’ve split it into two groups—the 10 best new or ongoing comics of 2011 followed by our 10 favorite collections or reissues released this year. The 10 Best New Comics of 2011 10. Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan McLeod Top Shelf Productions Kagan McLeod’s massive martial-arts pastiche flies by as fast as the fists of the legendary Eight Immortals. 9.
Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman’s Animal Man unites the animal rights activism and domesticity of Grant Morrison’s metafictional early 1990s series with the supernatural horror that defined that book’s later run under the Vertigo label. 8. 7. Jeff Smith’s audacious sci-fi noir RASL proves that his fluid animated style can gloriously tackle any genre he sets his pencil to. 6.