Top Ten Comic Book Titles To Watch In 2010 (Plus: Is This The Year Batwoman Gets Her Wings?)
According to Newsarama.com, one of the sites that knows about such things, these are the top 10 comic book titles we should be on the lookout for in 2010:
1. “Siege,” by Brian Michael Bendis & Olivier Coipel. “… looks like the former Green Goblin is going to bite off more than he can chew as he takes on the mythical kingdom of Asgard, home of Thor and the Norse Gods…”
2. “Battling Boy,” by Paul Pope. “… centers on the son of a god, whose father pushes him to leave their lofty home to rid a city of a plague of monsters…”
3. “Flash,” by Geoff Johns & Francis Manapul. “… although several men have held the mantle of the Flash, the newly-returned Barry Allen will play the lead in the relaunch of this classic DC title.”
4. “Avengers: Children’s Crusade,” by Allan Heinberg & Jim Cheung. “… the Young Avengers title became a big hit for Marvel beginning in 2005…”
5. “Neonomicon,” by Alan Moore & Jacen Burrows. “… will feature Lovecraftian themes and racial politics….”
6. Batwoman by Greg Rucka & J.H. Williams III. “… chronicling of the new Batwoman from the pages of Detective Comics in this all-new solo series sometime in 2010. Buzz around their issues so far has been enormous, with many critics slotting their run as a shoe in come Eisner awards season. Detective Comics has launched the careers of many characters—Batman being chief amongst them—so this is the test to see if this new red-haired bat has her wings…”
7. “American Vampire,” by Stephen King, Scott Snyder & Rafael Albuquerque. “… writers King and Snyder will each write a story for each issue, with King’s first being that of the very first American vampire in the 1880s…”
8. “Image United.” “… foretold in last year’s Newsarama 9 as a series to watch, Image United has exceeded expectations and word filtering out of Image says that the surprises aren’t over yet…”
9. “Nemesis,” by Mark Millar & Steve McNiven. “The premise is simple: what if Batman were a bad guy?”
10. DC’s Earth One Titles. “… too soon to tell what exactly these will be, but the two launch titles of DC’s just announced ‘Earth One’ line of Batman and Superman could prove to be a whole new playing field and a redefinition of DC’s two main heroes in the modern age…”
Full-blown write-ups and titles that just missed the list here.
Plus: The Barack Obama commemorative issue of “Amazing Spider-Man“ was the comic book ordered most by comics shops in North America this decade.
