Holiday Roundtable: Creators' Best of 2007

Which stories and titles stand out as your favourite from 2007?

Jason Aaron: THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST, DMZ, CRIMINAL, CASANOVA, ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, FEAR AGENT, SENTENCES: THE LIFE OF M.F. GRIMM, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN: THE BLACK DOSSIER.



Cecil Castellucci: I loved ALL-STAR SUPERMAN. DMZ. Y THE LAST MAN. ASTONISHING X-MEN. THE ARRIVAL. ROBOT DREAMS. CURSES.






Cliff Chiang: SCALPED, DMZ, GREEN LANTERN, any of the SHOWCASE editions





Paul Cornell: This year I particularly liked: The AVENGERSs titles; CAPTAIN AMERICA; Gail Simone's ATOM (and all her work); Morrison and Dini's BATMAN books; 52; DAN DARE.




Nate Cosby: Hrmmmmm…hang on, I gotta check what came out this year. SPIDERMAN FAMILY #7 was really good (Chris Eliopoulos' Frog Thor!). Everything Jeff Parker did (X-MEN FIRST CLASS, his issues MARVEL ADVENTURES AVENGERS), everything Fred Van Lente did (MARVEL ADVENTURES IRON MAN - FANTASTIC FOUR - SPIDER-MAN, SUPER-VILLAIN TEAM-UP, FANTASTIC FOUR/POWER PACK). THE SPIRIT was REALLY good. Hmmmm…oh! ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN keeps being good.





Christos Gage: I'll mention five that I really enjoy and think should be getting more attention: I think CROSSING MIDNIGHT from Vertigo is an extremely well done horror/fantasy book that should be on more peoples' radar. JONAH HEX continues to be top-notch, as it has been since it began. WELCOME TO TRANQUILITY is something every fan of Gail Simone should check out; it's up there with her best stuff, and you don't need to follow any other books to enjoy it. Ed Brubaker's CRIMINAL is bringing hard-boiled crime back to comics in a brilliant way. And Oni's RESURRECTION is off to a very promising start. There are many more, but I've only got so much space!






Nicola Scott: Gail's start on WONDER WOMAN and Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory, particularly the ZATANNA and KLARION stories lines.






Mike Carey: I got a lot of pleasure out of CIVIL WAR. If you're going to do big event comics, then you should do them like this: really huge and epic, and with a real-world significance hiding behind the super-heroics.

I was blown away - as most long-term BUFFY fans were - by Joss Whedon's triumphant continuation of the Vampire Slayer's story in season eight.

I read a weird, haunting, silly but poignant manga called THE CLARENCE PRINCIPLE that I liked a lot. And I loved the first volume of the re-released Parasyte.


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November 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. SCOTT PILGRIM VOL 4 SCOTT PILGRIM GETS IT TOGETHER GN (Oni Press)

2. Y THE LAST MAN #59 (Vertigo)

3. ASTONISHING X-MEN #23 (Marvel)

4. GIRLS COMPLETE COLLECTION Deluxe HC (Image)

5. WONDER WOMAN #14 (DCU)

6. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #8 (Dark Horse)

7. CASANOVA #11 (Image)

8. SUPER VILLAIN TEAM UP: MODOKS 11 #5 (Marvel)

9. THE ORDER #4 (Marvel)

10. IMMORTAL IRON FIST #10 (Marvel)
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