Best of 2010

Jim Woodring, Weathercraft: at last, comics free of bland words.

Brendan McCarthy, Spider-Man: Fever: could have been another Weathercraft.

Naoki Urasawa, Pluto volumes 1-8: the simple question of robot or human? robot or human or robot or human orobotorhumanorobotor...

James Sturm, Market Day: best two pages all year.

Grant Morrison, Batman & Robin 13-16, Return of Bruce Wayne 5-6, and Batman, Inc 1: Morrison as Descartes, breaking down all that's false and building up what's clear and distinct.

Dimension

(From Urasawa's Pluto Vol. 1.) Reading right to left, of course, we see ears behind the panel's frame. We skip panels with an ear still under and confront an amazing nose that comes close to breaking the frame. Ear and nose relative to the same y-intercept! Gesicht's nose approaches the asymptote of the frame. From now on I need to think about the coordinates of separate characters.

VRE E N

Two marvelous sound effects from Urasawa's Pluto Vol. 1. The top: scribbly and disconnected. The bottom: a surfboard of motion. Elevators get the praise they deserve.