Favorite Comic Book Surprise of 2010
As 2010 comes to a close we take a look back at some of our favorites from the year; there will be many more categories to come, each author getting one pick. And after reading our favorites from the last year we want to hear yours!
Favorite Surprise of 2010
Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes! Geoff Arbuckle
Disney XD’s animated series of the Avengers shocked me with how faithful the series remained to the source material. It seemed almost too easy to try to slap the most popular characters together to get the ball rolling, but instead, the writers and producers of this fantastic animated series decided to keep it real by having the team start with it’s actual original five Avengers – Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, and the Wasp. For months, I worried that it would be another disaster like the Avengers cartoon of the late 90s. The moment the micro-series began, I realized this was going to be something special. Then the series proper premiered and everything I could have ever hoped for came true with glorious writing and awesome action.
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DC Comics Going Back To $2.99 John Barringer
Lowering the price of your best selling product isn’t just something that doesn’t happen in comics, it barley happens anywhere. Whens the last time industry leaders such as Apple, Ford or Coca-Cola dropped the price of their new bestselling products by 25%? It doesn’t happen. So to hear that DC was dropping the price of all their $3.99 comics back to $2.99 was not only a shocker in the comic community but a break away from traditional business practices. Course, their is an underlying and unpleasant motivation for the move — comics aren’t selling — but you have to respect the move nonetheless, which whether or not motivated solely by the consumer, “gives back” a little. My checking account owes DC a cold one.
Jonah Hex movie Tom Parry
It’s sad enough that the 10 minute animated feature was better than this full length film, but its really pathetic that it managed to be worse than 2004′s epic fail that was Catwoman. While I don’t think anyone was expecting a masterpiece (especially with someone like Megan Fox in the flick), it was still truly surprising to me how bad this film was, and it saddens me that its failure could mean that other minor DC characters may not get their shot at the big screen.
Justice League: Cry For Justice Wayland
What was at one point being billed as a spinoff JLA book became the miniseries of mass destruction. Massively out of character moments, pointless deaths, implausible fight scenes, the incredible destruction wrought on Star City, the maiming of Roy Harper, the death of Lian Harper, and Ollie turning murderer; I found all of that surprising. Not pleasing, but surprising. James Robinson has gone from one of the more talented comic writers around to the touch of death for so many characters and teams. He did succeed in getting people talking about his work.
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Dude, Wayland… if you think Ollie killing someone was out of character, you’re not familiar with the man AT ALL… thats the whole reason he was happy being dead in Quiver, he didn’t like his life because he had become a killer. He’s an emotional guy… him hunting down Prometheus upon the death of his supposed granddaughter and the maiming of his supposed son couldn’t be more IN CHARACTER. As for Hal Jordan, Robinson managed to display Hal as Hal… this must be confusing for modern DC fans who only know Geoff Johns’ shell that goes by the name, but Hal Jordan was always this kind of man. That Robinson was able to display Hal Jordan as himself in this day and age was astonishing. I don’t know who else you think was out of character, but those were the two key roles in Cry for Justice and they were both spot on. As for the death of Lian and maiming of Roy… I didn’t like it either… and I actually cried when Lian died… and then it pissed me off. Roy is my favorite character and Lian an amazing extension of that… but it was done, and what followed has been some of the most REALISTIC takes on a character in recent comic history (whether people like it or not). So yeah… sorry, bro, but I have to completely disagree with your whole stance against Cry For Justice.