October 2007 H-O-T Grade

At the close of every month, LYSAD will be putting out the absolute and final word on what was H-O-T in comics.

1. PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP TRIAL OF COLONEL SWEETO HC (Dark Horse)

2. ESSEX COUNTY VOL 2 GHOST STORIES (Top Shelf)

3. CASANOVA #10 (Image)

4. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #7 (Dark Horse)

5. CROSSING MIDNIGHT #12 (Vertigo)

6. BLACK SUMMER #3 (Avatar)

7. UMBRELLA ACADEMY APOCALYPSE SUITE #2 (Dark Horse)

8. PARADE WITH FIREWORKS #2 (Image)

9. EMPOWERED VOL 2 TP (Dark Horse)

10. RUNAWAYS #28 (Marvel)

October saw Dark Horse seizing the game, and taking home a record 4 spots in the chart, with the excellent webstrips colection from PBF, the still-amazing Umbrella Academy, BKV's Buffy and Adam Warren's ode to T&A, Empowered.

Image, Vertigo and Top Shelf upping their game meant Marvel barely scraped in the Top 10. Gems that almost made it in the list: DCU's only saving graces: Simon Dark and Infinity Inc, Marvel's MODOK's 11 and Image's hot new premieres: The Sword and Suburban Glamour.

Plenty of new titles makingit into the chart, although it was a skip month for Astonishing X-Men, Y the Last Man and the Order. More on those next month!