The Best Comic Books Dave Read In 2000

    This page collects all of the books I gave a rating of "Strongly Recommended" or better to during 2000. Books which I Strongly Recommended to limited groups are generally not included, but those with mature readers caveats are. You may notice some "Best Book" winners aren't mentioned here, because they were simply the best of a weak week.

    So, here it is, broken down by month. Books which got ratings better than "Strongly Recommended" will be in boldface. Books in (parentheses) were Strongly Recommended, but only to a particular readership. Be warned that this reflects my reading habits, there may well have been some excellent titles out there I didn't read for whatever reason.

  • January
    • Stupid, Stupid Rat-tails #3 (of 3): Cartoon Books, Jeff Smith
    • Avengers United They Stand #5: Marvel, Tom Peyer
  • February
    • Transmetropolitan #32: DC, Warren Ellis
    • Deadpool #39: Marvel, Priest
  • March
    • Black Panther v2 #17: Marvel, Priest
    • Buck Godot: Zap Gun For Hire TPB: Studio Foglio (reprint)
    • Transmetropolitan #33: DC, Ellis
    • Thunderbolts #38: Marvel, Nicieza
    • Dirty Pair: Run From The Future #3: Dark Horse, Adam Warren
    • (Desert Peach #29: A Fine Line, Barr)
  • April
    • ShockRockets #1: Gorilla, Busiek
    • Transmetropolitan: I Hate It Here: DC, Ellis
    • Akiko on the Planet Smoo Hardcover Novel: Delacorte Press, Crilley
    • Dirty Pair: Run From The Future #4: Dark Horse, Warren
  • May
    • Black Panther v2 #20: Marvel, Priest
    • I Feel Sick #2: Slave Labor, Jhonen Vasquez
    • Sushi Girl TPB: Mixx, Tavicat*
  • June
    • Akiko #39: Sirius, Crilley
    • (What's New v3: Studio Foglio)
    • Reinventing Comics: DC, Scott McCloud
    • Titans #18: DC, Devin Grayson and Jay Faerber
    • Rumble Girls #2: Image, Lea Hernandez
* Came out before May, but that's when I found it.
  • July
    • Transmetropolitan #36: DC, Ellis
    • Black Panther v2 #22: Marvel, Priest
    • Titans #19: DC, Grayson & Faerber
    • Astounding Space Thrills #2: Image, Steve Conley
    • Deadpool #44: Marvel, Priest
    • Planetary #11: Wildstorm, Ellis
  • August
    • Legends of the DC Universe #32: DC, Priest
    • Rumble Girls #3: Image, Hernandez
    • Gon On Safari: DC
    • Black Panther v2 #23: Marvel, Priest
    • Deadpool #45: Marvel, Priest
  • September
    • Transmetropolitan #38: DC, Ellis
    • Star Trek: New Frontier "Double Time": Wildstorm, Peter David
  • October**
    • Batman: the Doom that Came to Gotham #1: DC, Mike Mignola
    • (Arsenic Lullaby #10: A Silent Comics, Paskiewicz)
    • Harley Quinn #1: DC, Karl Kesel
  • November
    • Superman and Batman: World's Funniest: DC, Evan Dorkin
    • Dork! #8: Slave Labor, Dorkin
  • December**
    • Black Panther v2 #27: Marvel, Priest
    • Superboy 383: DC, Joe Kelly
    • Gen 13 #60: Wildstorm, Adam Warren
    • The Griffin TPB: Slave Labor, Dan Vado
** Also includes wrapup batch stuff, so the months may not accurately reflect when the title came out.
    Well, time to do some totting up. No book really sent me into convulsions of joy this year, but a decent amount were good. I cut back on my comics a lot during this year, as part of preparations to move to Michigan. Priest came out the best of the lot, with eight. On the strength of his writing, Marvel also did well overall, although DC and its various properties (including Wildstorm and Vertigo) powered through to the most Strongly Recommended titles in my pull, with 17 books.
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